US07808171B2
An image display device includes a front plate and a rear plate opposing the front plate, the front plate being provided with phosphor film segments, resistance layers provided between the phosphor film segments, metal back layer segments provided on the phosphor film segments and the resistance layers, and high-voltage applying means which applies a high voltage to the metal back layer segments, the metal back layer segments being obtained by dividing a metal back layer along a first axis X with gaps Gx therebetween and along a second axis Y with gaps Gy (Gy>Gx) therebetween, the rear plate being provided with a plurality of electron emission elements. Those of the resistance layers which are provided in areas existing between the gaps Gy include first resistance layer segments adjacent to the phosphor film segments, and second resistance layer segments adjacent to the first resistance layer segments.
US07808147B2
A rotor (3) for a permanent magnet motor has a is rotatable around an axis of rotation (A) and has a plurality of axially extending permanent magnets (6) which are offset circumferentially in a symmetrical manner and arranged, respectively, in receptacles (16) of a yoke (7) which is assembled from axially stacked sheet lamellas (10), with the sheet lamellas (10) each having a coaxial inner hole (9), at least a first recess (8a) which is open toward the inner hole (9), and one second recess (8b) which is closed toward the inner hole (9), and with the lamellas being formed in a rotationally symmetrical manner so as to be offset at least by a phase angle, with at least two sheet lamellas (10) being oriented so as to be offset relative to one another by half of the phase angle.
US07808145B2
An armature where at least one of a first winding wire and a second winding wire is wound around slots that are opposed to all magnetic poles serving as a same magnetic pole in a predetermined winding direction so as to correspond to a predetermined winding number as a total winding number between respective slots, so that the plurality of coils are formed, and a slot from which the first winding wire is led out and a slot into which the second winding wire is led are located circumferentially at both sides of commutator segments with which the first winding wire and the second winding wire are conductive.
US07808143B2
A permanent magnet motor includes stator, rotor, and shaft; multiple rotor magnetic poles are disposed on the rotor; each rotor magnetic pole contains an arc surface and a first inclined section and a second inclined section extending respectively from both sides of the arc surface; a trap is formed between two second inclined section of two abutted rotor magnetic poles connected by a tangent section; multiple magnets are respectively disposed in each rotor magnetic pole; both ends of each magnet being disposed at where close to two second inclined sections; and a central portion of each magnet is indented inwardly towards a center of the rotor to effectively upgrade performance efficiency of the motor.
US07808142B2
A generator device for generating electrical energy includes a rotor having a first set of even-numbered of magnetic sources distributed along a first radius of the rotor, and a first pair of stators, each having a first set of odd-numbered coil members distributed along a first radius of the stator, the stators disposed adjacent to opposing side portions of the rotor, wherein each coil member includes a core portion having an amorphous structure. In addition, a generator device for generating electrical energy includes interchangeable rotor and stator pairs to provide variable voltage/current/frequency outputs.
US07808140B2
A submersible pump motor having an electroless nickel-boron coating applied to the sleeve and/or bearing.
US07808139B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a magnetic disk drive having improved vibration characteristics and a reduced size. In one embodiment, a magnetic disk drive comprises: a motor shaft for rotating a magnetic disk; a sleeve for rotatably supporting the motor shaft; and a motor hub into which the motor shaft is press fit. The motor hub supports the magnetic disk and includes a projection portion having an inner surface and an outer surface. The inner surface is in contact with the press-fit motor shaft in directions perpendicular to the rotational axis of the motor shaft. The outer surface faces the sleeve.
US07808136B2
The invention relates to a cooling device for an electric machine, in particular, for an electric motor comprising a stator (2) and a rotor. According to the invention, axial channeled recesses (6) are provided on the outside of the stators (2), in which a cooling tube or cooling hose may be introduced and/or which may be sealed by means of a cover (10) to give a cooling air channel, an electric motor with such a cooling device and a core sheet (4) for a lamination bundle of a stator (2), the core sheet (4) comprising amongst other things a number of stator grooves (5). The core sheet (4) comprises recesses (6) with a channel cross-section on the outer edge thereof. The invention further relates to an electric machine the stator (2) of which has a lamination bundle made up of a plurality of such core sheets (4). The invention also relates to a production method for such electric machines. The cooling tubes or cooling hoses can be simply inserted in the half-open channeled recesses from without for cooling.
US07808127B2
The disclosed apparatus and systems are adapted to implement dynamic power control in order to condition and store, and/or immediately utilize, energy from one or more available power inputs, whether the inputs are constantly, regularly, or intermittently available, singly or in various combinations. Power control circuits according to the invention provide means for dynamically responding to input availability and output requirements in order to prioritize input energy selection, input signal conditioning, and output power delivery adapted to the application and operating environment.
US07808120B2
A method and apparatus for generating electric energy from the motion of the waves. The apparatus comprises at least one member which is moved by the motion of the waves. The apparatus also comprises an energy transfer mechanism coupled to the or each member. The energy transfer mechanism converts the kinetic energy from movement of the or each member to potential energy by pressurization of a fluid. The apparatus further comprises a first chamber, arranged to store the pressurized fluid and a conversion means for converting the potential energy stored in the pressurized fluid into electric energy. The apparatus can be arranged such that any substantially vertical displacement of the or each member causes actuation of the or each corresponding energy transfer mechanism.
US07808113B2
A semiconductor device assembly (200) includes a workpiece (205) having a surface including a die attach region corresponding to regions under an integrated circuit (IC) die 210. The die attach region of workpiece (205) includes non-noble metal surfaces (215) and a plurality of flip chip (PC) pads at pad locations (214). A solder mask layer (207) is on a surface of the workpiece (205) outside the die attach region. The non-noble metal surfaces (215) in the die attach region include an adhesion promoter layer (221), wherein the adhesion promoter layer 221 is absent from the plurality of PC pads (214). An integrated circuit (IC) die (210) having a plurality of bumps (211) bonded in a flip chip arrangement to the workpiece (205). An underfill material (232) fills a space between the bumped IC die (210) and the workpiece (205).
US07808106B1
A plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD)-grown mixed-phase/nano-laminate barrier having the robust barrier properties of TaN with direct plate characteristics of Ru. Ru:TaN layers as thin as 5 nm act both as robust copper barrier and as a copper direct plating layer. Direct plated copper films exhibit preferred (111) orientation with the use of medium acid level electrolyte (0.8M H2SO4) and higher plating current density (10 mA/cm2) during the copper electrochemical deposition process. (111) texture in the direct plated copper films improves as Ru content in the mixed-phase barrier is increased. Direct plated copper films possess larger grain size characteristics as compared to copper electroplated on PVD copper seed. The filling characteristics in sub-65 nm features are equivalent for seeded copper and Ru:TaN barrier films without a seed layer.
US07808103B2
Provided is a semiconductor package, and in particular a semiconductor package which is capable of electrically connecting to the outside without a lead. The leadless package includes a plurality of lower conducting layer patterns disposed separately from one another; an insulating layer pattern on the lower conducting layer patterns; a plurality of upper conducting layer patterns disposed separately from one another, on the insulating layer pattern; at least one semiconductor chip disposed on the upper conducting layer patterns; hole patterns formed through the upper conducting layer patterns and the insulating layer pattern, so that a part of the top surface of the lower conducting layer patterns are exposed; and electrical connectors electrically connecting: the at least one semiconductor chip and the upper conducting layer patterns; the upper conducting layer patterns and the lower conducting layer patterns exposed by the hole patterns; and the at least one semiconductor chip and the lower conducting layer patterns exposed by the hole patterns.
US07808092B2
A multi-chip module (MCM) with a plurality of ground planes/layers is provided. Each integrated circuit (IC) chip of the MCM has its own ground plane on a substrate in the MCM. This MCM structure may facilitate separate testing of each IC chip without affecting other chips and without being affected by other chips. This MCM structure also may facilitate testing of interconnects/connections between two or more chips.
US07808087B2
Methods and apparatus for improved thermal performance and electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding in integrated circuit (IC) packages is described. A die-up or die-down package includes first and second caps defining a cavity, an IC die, and a leadframe. The leadframe includes a centrally located die attach pad, a plurality of leads, and a plurality of tie bars that couple the die attach pad to the leads. The IC die is mounted to the die attach pad. Planar rim portions of the first and second caps that surround the cavity are coupled to the leadframe. The first and second caps and the leadframe form an enclosure structure that substantially encloses the IC die, and shields EMI emanating from and radiating towards the IC die. The enclosure structure also dissipates heat generated by the IC die during operation.
US07808085B2
A semiconductor device includes a pair of power chips, an IC chip, a plurality of leads one of which having a die pad on which the power chips are mounted and another one having a die attach portion on which the IC chip is mounted, a resin sheet firmly adhered to one side of the die pad, and a resin casing made by molding operation to encapsulate the power chips, the IC chip and the resin sheet by a resin in such a manner that one surface of the resin sheet opposite the die pad is exposed to the exterior of the resin casing. The resin casing has a groove formed in one surface opposite the exposed surface of the resin sheet, the groove extending parallel to the resin sheet and perpendicular to a runner through which the resin was supplied in the molding operation.
US07808082B2
The present invention provides structures and methods for providing facets with different crystallographic orientations than what a semiconductor substrate normally provides. By masking a portion of a semiconductor surface and exposing the rest to an anisotripic etch process that preferentially etches a set of crystallographic planes faster than others, new facets with different surface orientations than the substrate orientation are formed on the semiconductor substrate. Alternatively, selective epitaxy may be utilized to generate new facets. The facets thus formed are joined to form a lambda shaped profile in a cross-section. The electrical properties of the new facets, specifically, the enhanced carrier mobility, are utilized to enhance the performance of transistors. In a transistor with a channel on the facets that are joined to form a lambda shaped profile, the current flows in the direction of the ridge joining the facets avoiding any inflection in the direction of the current.
US07808076B2
The semiconductor device which has an electric straight line-like fuse with a small occupying area is offered.A plurality of projecting portions 10f are formed in the position shifted from the middle position of electric fuse part 10a, and, more concretely, are formed in the position distant from via 10e and near via 10d. A plurality of projecting portions 20f are formed in the position shifted from the middle position of electric fuse part 20a, and, more concretely, are formed in the position distant from via 20d and near 20e. That is, projecting portions 10f and projecting portions 20f are arranged in the shape of zigzag.
US07808074B2
A leadframe includes at least one lead extending from an integrated circuit and terminating at a connector pin. The lead includes multiple predefined bases to connect to one or more components external to the integrated circuit.
US07808062B2
A signal isolator for providing at an output thereof representations of input currents from a source provided in an input conductor supported on a substrate having a bridge circuit suited for electrical connection to a source of electrical energization with a pair of series circuit members electrically connected in parallel with one another supported on a substrate with each series circuit member having a magnetoresistive member electrically connected in series with a current value controller, controlled at a controller terminal, at an output terminal of that controller. Each magnetoresistive members is electrically isolated from the input conductor and has a resistance versus applied external magnetic field characteristic that is substantially linear for at least relatively small externally applied magnetic fields. The signal isolator further has a differential input amplifier connected at its inputs to both the magnetoresistive member and the current value controller in a corresponding one of the bridge circuit series circuit members, and has outputs connected to the controller control terminals which can be made through a lowpass filter. A signal monitor arrangement can be provided to have a constant representation value on the isolator output if magnetoresistive members cease to be in those magnetic fields arising from the input currents for a selected time duration.
US07808054B2
An OTP memory cell according to the present invention includes: a semiconductor substrate including a lower electrode forming region having a lower electrode formed therein, a diffusion layer forming region having a source and a drain formed therein, a first trench-type insulating region, and a second trench-type insulating region; an upper electrode being in contact with the first trench-type insulating region and formed on the lower electrode with the first insulating film interposed therebetween; and a gate electrode being in contact with the second trench-type insulating region and formed on a channel region with the second insulating film interposed therebetween, in which a shape of at least a part of an end of the lower electrode forming region in contact with the first insulating film is sharper than a shape of an end of the channel region in contact with the second insulating film.
US07808050B2
A semiconductor device includes at least one active component (18) having a p-n junction (26) on the semiconductor substrate in an active region (19) of the semiconductor substrate (4). A shallow trench isolation pattern is used to form a plurality of longitudinally extending shallow trenches (12) containing insulator (14). These trenches define a plurality of longitudinal active stripes (10) between the shallow trenches (12). The shallow trench isolation depth (dsπ) is greater than the junction depth (dsO of the longitudinal active stripes and the width (wsO of the active stripes (10) is less than the depletion length (ldepi) of the p-n junction.
US07808049B2
In a semiconductor device, a transistor in an N-type logic region NL is covered with a tensile stress applying film and a transistor in a P-type logic region PL is covered with a compressive stress applying film. Transistors in a P-type SRAM region PS and an N-type SRAM region NS are covered with an insulating film which applies lower stress than the stresses applied by the above-described two films.
US07808048B1
A buried thin film resistor having end caps defined by a dielectric mask is disclosed. A thin film resistor is formed on an integrated circuit substrate. A resistor protect layer is formed over the thin film resistor. A layer of dielectric material is formed over the resistor protect layer. The dielectric material is masked and dry etched to leave a first portion of dielectric material over a first end of the thin film resistor and a second portion of dielectric material over a second end of the thin film resistor. The resistor protect layer is then wet etched using the first and second portions of the dielectric material as a hard mask. Then a second dielectric layer is deposited and vias are etched down to the underlying portions of the resistor protect layer.
US07808047B1
A trigger circuit is provided for a pull-down device by connecting a diode between the I/O pad and the body of the pull-down device. In one embodiment, the pull-down device is formed as a plurality of discrete transistors in a single well. The drain of each transistor is connected through a ballast resistor to the I/O pad; and the source of each transistor is connected through a ballast resistor to ground. The trigger circuit is a diode formed in a different well from that of the transistors. The cathode of the diode is connected to the I/O pad and the anode is connected to the transistor well through a center tap located between the transistors. Preferably, the transistors are NMOS transistors formed in a P-well. Advantageously, the diode is an N+/PLDD diode. Alternatively, the diode is an N+/P diode where the P region is formed by an ESD implant. In other embodiments the diode is formed in the same well as the transistors. In these embodiments, either an N+/PLDD diode or an implanted diode is formed in place of one of the transistors.
US07808046B2
The electrostatic protection device includes a semiconductor substrate having a well formed therein. At least two sets of transistor fingers, for example the NMOS type, are spaced apart from each other. Each set of the MOS fingers includes multiple gates arranged in parallel to each other in one direction, and sources and drains alternately arranged at both sides of the gates in the semiconductor substrate. A well pickup surrounding every set of the transistor fingers and extending between any two set of the fingers is formed. Metal wires are connected to at least two portions of each of the drains and are also connected to an input/output pad to which Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) excessive current is introduced.
US07808042B2
Disclosed are methods, systems and devices, including a device having a digit line and a plurality of transistors each having one terminal connected to the digit line and another terminal disposed on alternating sides of the digit line. In some embodiments, each transistor among the plurality of transistors comprises a fin.
US07808039B2
A semiconductor-on-insulator transistor device includes a source region, a drain region, a body region, and a source-side lateral bipolar transistor. The source region has a first conductivity type. The body region has a second conductivity type and is positioned between the source region and the drain region. The source-side lateral bipolar transistor includes a base, a collector, and an emitter. A silicide region connects the base to the collector. The emitter is the body region. The collector has the second conductivity type, and the base is the source region and is positioned between the emitter and the collector.
US07808035B2
A semiconductor memory has a gate electrode and a pair of multilayer memory elements formed on side surfaces of the gate electrode. Each multilayer memory element includes, in sequence from the gate electrode outward, a first silicon oxide layer, a charge trapping silicon nitride layer, a second silicon oxide layer, all with L-shaped cross sections, and a protective silicon nitride layer with an approximately rectangular cross section seated in the L-shape of the second silicon oxide layer. The protective silicon nitride layer protects the charge trapping silicon nitride layer from etching damage during the formation of contact holes without adding to the area occupied by the memory cell.
US07808032B2
A floating gate memory cell's channel region (104) is at least partially located in a fin-like protrusion (110P) of a semiconductor substrate. The floating gate's top surface may come down along at least two sides of the protrusion to a level below the top (110P-T) of the protrusion. The control gate's bottom surface may also comes down to a level below the top of the protrusion. The floating gate's bottom surface may comes down to a level below the top of the protrusion by at least 50% of the protrusion's height. The dielectric (120) separating the floating gate from the protrusion can be at least as thick at the top of the protrusion as at a level (L2) which is below the top of the protrusion by at least 50% of the protrusion's height. A very narrow fin or other narrow feature in memory and non-memory integrated circuits can be formed by providing a first layer (320) and then forming spacers (330) from a second layer without photolithography on sidewalls of features made from the first layer. The narrow fin or other feature are then formed without further photolithography in areas between the adjacent spacers. More particularly, a third layer (340) is formed in these areas, and the first layer and the spacers are removed selectively to the third layer. The third layer is used as a mask to form the narrow features.
US07808020B2
A semiconductor structure is provided that includes a spacer directly abutting a topographic edge of at least one patterned material layer. The spacer is a non-removable polymeric block component of a self-assembled block copolymer. A method of forming such a semiconductor structure including the inventive spacer is also provided that utilizes self-assembled block copolymer technology.
US07808019B2
A gate structure includes a substrate, a gate dielectric layer, a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, a cap layer and a first insulating spacer. The gate dielectric layer is disposed on the substrate. The first conductive layer is disposed on the gate dielectric layer and has an opening. A part of the second conductive layer is disposed in the opening. The second conductive layer has an extrusion that protrudes above the opening of the first conductive layer. The extrusion has a cross-sectional width less than the width of the second conductive layer inside the opening. The cap layer is disposed on the extrusion. The first insulating spacer is disposed on a part of the first conductive layer and covers the sidewalls of the extrusion. The inclusion of the extrusion in the second conductive layer decreases the resistance of the gate structure and promotes the efficiency of the device.
US07808016B2
A transistor heterogeneously integrating a power amplifier or switch with a low-noise amplifier having a substrate wafer selected from a group consisting of Gallium Arsenide (GaAs), Indium Phosphate (InP) and Gallium Antimonide (GaSb), the substrate wafer having a first end and a second end, a conducting layer above the first end of the substrate wafer, an isolation implant providing lateral isolation in the conducting layer, a first active layer deposited above the conducting layer and configured for the low-noise amplifier, and a buffer layer deposited above the conducting layer and configured for the low-noise amplifier.
US07808015B2
Avalanche photodiodes are provided, wherein the APDs provide both high optical coupling efficiency and low dark count rate. The APDs are formed such that their cap layer has an active region of sufficient width to enable high optical coupling efficiency but the APD still exhibits a low dark count rate. These cap layers have a device area with an active region and an edge region, wherein the size of the active region is substantially matched to the mode-field diameter of an optical beam, and wherein the size of the edge region is made small so as to reduce the number of defects included. These APD designs maintain a substantially uniform gain and breakdown voltage, as necessary for practical use.
US07808014B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer including a base region of a second conductive type formed in a first surface of the semiconductor layer, an emitter region of the first conductive type formed in the base region, a buffer layer of the first conductive type formed on a second surface of the semiconductor layer, and a collector layer of the second conductive type formed on the buffer layer. The buffer layer has a maximal concentration of the first conductive type impurity of approximately 5 ×1015 cm−3 or less, and the collector layer has a maximal concentration of the second conductive type impurity of approximately 1×1017 cm−3 or more. The ratio of the maximal concentration of the collector layer to that of the buffer layer is greater than 100. The collector layer has a thickness of approximately 1 μm or more.
US07808012B2
A group of phosphor particles for a light-emitting device contains a plurality of types of phosphor particles having different emission peak wavelengths, while phosphor particles of a type having a relatively longer emission peak wavelength have a relatively larger median diameter as compared with phosphor particles of a type having a relatively shorter emission peak wavelength.
US07808005B1
Various aspects of the present invention are directed to light-emitting devices including a photonic grating configured to extract spontaneous emission of electromagnetic radiation from a light-emitting structure. In one aspect of the present invention, a light-emitting device includes a light-emitting structure having an active region designed to emit electromagnetic radiation with a selected frequency. The light-emitting device further includes a photonic grating spaced from the active region of the light-emitting structure. The photonic grating is capable of supporting a leaky guided mode that extends within the active region of the light-emitting structure. The leaky guided mode has a mode frequency approximately equal to the selected frequency emitted by the active region and a mode wavevector that is approximately equal to a reciprocal lattice vector of the photonic grating.
US07808003B2
A silicon carbide semiconductor device is disclosed. The silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a substrate; a drift layer having a first conductivity type and located on a first surface of the substrate; and a vertical type semiconductor element. The vertical type semiconductor element includes: an impurity layer having a second conductivity type, and located in a surface portion of the drift layer; and a first conductivity type region located in the drift layer, spaced away from the impurity layer, located closer to the substrate than the impurity layer, and having an impurity concentration higher than the drift layer.
US07808002B2
A light emitting device is provided which can prevent a change in gate voltage due to leakage or other causes and at the same time can prevent the aperture ratio from lowering. A capacitor storage is formed from a connection wiring line, an insulating film, and a capacitance wiring line. The connection wiring line is formed over a gate electrode and an active layer of a TFT of a pixel, and is connected to the active layer. The insulating film is formed on the connection wiring line. The capacitance wiring line is formed on the insulating film. This structure enables the capacitor storage to overlap the TFT, thereby increasing the capacity of the capacitor storage while keeping the aperture ratio from lowering. Accordingly, a change in gate voltage due to leakage or other causes can be avoided to prevent a change in luminance of an OLED and flickering of screen in analog driving.
US07808000B2
A thin film transistor with excellent electric characteristics, a display device having the thin film transistor, and a method for manufacturing the thin film transistor and the display device are proposed. The thin film transistor includes a gate insulating film formed over a gate electrode, a microcrystalline semiconductor film formed over the gate insulating film, a buffer layer formed over the microcrystalline semiconductor film, a pair of semiconductor films to which an impurity element imparting one conductivity type is added and which are formed over the buffer layer, and wirings formed over the pair of semiconductor films to which the impurity element imparting one conductivity type is added. A part of the gate insulating film or the entire gate insulating film, and/or a part of the microcrystalline semiconductor or the entire microcrystalline semiconductor includes an impurity element which serves as a donor.
US07807991B2
A switching element with bistable characteristics which has switching characteristics stabilized by raising transition probability. The switching element has an organic bistable material layer between at least two electrodes. The organic bistable material layer contains an organic bistable compound having two stable resistance values to an applied voltage, wherein the switching element has thin films of a first electrode layer, a metal microparticle-containing layer, the organic bistable material layer, and a second electrode layer, formed on a substrate in this order, and the metal microparticle-containing layer contains metal microparticle and the organic bistable compound.
US07807986B1
An ion implanter and method for adjusting the shape of an ion beam are disclosed. After an ion beam is outputted from an analyzer magnet unit, at least one set of bar magnets is used to adjust the shape of the ion beam when the ion beam passes through a space enclosed by the bar magnets. The set of bar magnets can apply a multi-stage magnetic field on the ion beam. Hence, different portions of the ion beam will have different deformations or alterations, because the multi-stage magnetic field will apply a non-uniform force to change the trajectory of ions. Moreover, each bar magnet of the set is powered by one and only one power source, such that the set of bar magnets essentially only can adjust the magnitude of the multi-stage magnetic field. Particular structures and techniques for achieving the multi-stage magnetic field are not limited.
US07807985B2
The central axis of a source head and an extraction electrode is aligned on a line, and confirmed by a laser beam whether the line is coaxial with the ion beam axis. Thus, a light emitting unit that emits the laser beam on the ion beam axis is fitted to a housing instead of the source head, and a reflector that reflects the laser beam is fitted to the extraction electrode. A light emitting apparatus also has a function of detecting the laser beam to detect the laser beam that is reflected by the reflector, and sends the intensity of the detected laser beam to a control unit. The extraction electrode is positionally adjusted so that the intensity of the laser beam becomes maximum, whereby the ion beam axis can coincide with the central axes of the ion source and the extraction electrode.
US07807982B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a charged particle beam extraction method and particle beam irradiation system that make it possible to exercise intensity control over an extracted ion beam while a simple device configuration is employed. To accomplish the above object, there is provided a particle beam irradiation system comprising: a synchrotron for accelerating and extracting an charged particle beam; an irradiation apparatus for extracting the charged particle beam that is extracted from the synchrotron; first beam intensity modulation means for controlling the beam intensity of the charged particle beam extracted from the synchrotron during an extraction control period of an operation cycle of the synchrotron; and second beam intensity modulation means for controlling the beam intensity during each of a plurality of irradiation periods contained in the extraction control period of the operation cycle.
US07807978B2
The present invention provides a method for implanting charged particles in a substrate and a method for manufacturing an integrated circuit. The method for implanting charged particles in a substrate, among other steps, includes projecting a beam of charged particles (320) to a substrate (330), the beam of charged particles (320) having a given beam divergence; and forming a diverged beam of charged particles (360) by subjecting the beam of charged particles (320) to an energy field (350), thereby causing the beam of charged particles (320) to have a larger beam divergence. The method then desires implanting the diverged beam of charged particles (360) into the substrate (330).
US07807973B2
A method of detecting a pileup in an energy-dispersive radiation spectrometry system, wherein a filter of the system generates a first pulse in response to a preamplifier signal, and wherein the system has one or more fast channels having an energy of full efficiency wherein substantially all photons received having at least the full efficiency energy are detected. The method includes measuring an above threshold time duration of the filter, determining that the fast channels have not made any detections while the first pulse is above the minimum detectable threshold energy of the filter, in response thereto, declaring a pileup if the above threshold time duration exceeds a longest expected pulse duration that is a duration of a second pulse that would be output by the filter in response to a single photon having an energy equal to the energy of full efficiency being received by the system.
US07807971B2
A method of determining moisture content of a composite material includes providing composite material standards with moisture content, collecting infrared spectra on the composite material standards, calibrating the infrared spectra to the moisture content, providing a composite material and predicting moisture content of the composite material based on the infrared spectra and the composite material standards.
US07807963B1
An apparatus including a plurality of electrodes defining a trapping chamber of an ion trap, wherein at least one of the electrodes is a transparent electrode having at least a portion that is both optically transparent and electrically conductive; a controller connected to the plurality of electrodes, wherein the controller includes a memory containing computer readable instructions which, when executed, cause the controller to send control signals to the plurality of electrodes so that: the plurality of electrodes produce and maintain a trapping field in the trapping chamber, and the plurality of electrodes change the trapping field so that ions of a predetermined mass in the trapping chamber are selectively moved; and an optical detector oriented so that the portion of the transparent electrode that is both optically transparent and electrically conductive is between the optical detector and the trapping chamber.
US07807962B2
Apparatus and methods for determining one or more fluid parameters of interest by irradiating fluid with a source of nuclear electromagnetic radiation and subsequently measuring attenuation and absorption properties of the fluid from which parameters of interest are determined. Measurements are made with a formation tester tool comprising preferably two functionally configured flow lines. The source simultaneously irradiates fluid contained in opposing irradiation sections that can be integral sections of each of the two flow lines. A radiation detector is dedicated to each irradiation section and measures radiation attenuation and absorption properties fluid contained within each flow line section. Absolute and relative fluid parameters of interest are determined from the responses of the two radiation detectors.
US07807959B2
A screen includes a screen main body that has a diffusion layer, a frame that is provided along the circumference of the screen main body, and to which the diffusion layer is attached through supporting members to rock, and a driving unit that is mounted on the diffusion layer and moves the diffusion layer in parallel to a surface of the diffusion layer.
US07807953B2
There is provided a solid-state imaging device, including: a semiconductor substrate having a plurality of pixels, each having a photoelectric conversion portion, formed therein; and a laminated film formed on said semiconductor substrate; wherein said laminated film includes a hydrogen desorbing film for desorbing hydrogen, and a hydrogen blocking-off film disposed so as to overlie said hydrogen desorbing film.
US07807940B2
A laser processing apparatus, in accordance with at least one exemplary embodiment, is configured to contemporaneously perform the functions of observing a surface of a substrate and concentrating laser light to a given position inside the substrate. The laser processing apparatus can include an optical system having an afocal optical subsystem configured to concentrate laser light inside the substrate. Adjustment of the position of a laser light concentrating point can be achieved independent of adjustment of a focal point by the automatic focusing mechanism to observe the surface of the substrate irradiated with laser light.
US07807939B2
A YAG pulse laser oscillator 10 oscillates/outputs pulse width-variable YAG fundamental pulse laser light LB, and a YAG pulse laser oscillator 12 oscillates/outputs pulse width-variable YAG second harmonic pulse laser light SHG. An emission unit 20 superposes the pulse laser light LB and the pulse laser light SHG on the same optical axis and focuses, and irradiates a welding point K on welding pieces (W1 and W2) with, the pulse laser light LB and the pulse laser light SHG. A control unit 18 controls the laser oscillation operation of the laser oscillators 10 and 12 so that the point in time when the laser output of the YAG second harmonic pulse laser light SHG reaches its peak is slightly earlier than the point in time when the laser output of the YAG fundamental pulse laser light LB reaches its peak.
US07807938B2
Mastering tools and systems and methods for forming a plurality of cells on the mastering tools are provided. In particular, the systems vary the geometry of the cells or the placement of the cells, or both, for forming a textured surface on a mastering tool.
US07807935B2
High frequency signals and power carried in a main cable delivering the same to a device are insured continuance flow within the main cable through use of a shorting bypass bar assembly in the device that is activated to electrically connect input and output ports of the device whenever the cover of the device is removed for servicing, for insuring continuity of the signal and power flow through the main cable. The shorting bypass bar itself is electrically connected to ground whenever the cover of the device is installed and the shorting bypass bar is disabled. Also, printed circuit board connectors for coupling to the input and output ports of the device to conduct signals from the input port into a PCB board for processing, and for delivering signals and power back into the main cable from another PCB board connector, include RF shielding, and the minimization of the size of the electrically interconnecting components both on the PCB connectors, and on the shorting bypass bar for maintaining a 75 ohm impedance at all times for electrical signals having frequencies ranging from less than to at least 3 GHz.
US07807932B2
An embodiment of a printed circuit board according to the present invention is provided with an insulating layer, a conductive layer that is laminated on the insulating layer and that has a connecting portion and a circuit pattern portion formed connected to the connecting portion, and a film cover layer that covers the insulating layer and the conductive layer via an adhesive layer and that has an opening for connecting a mounted component to the connecting portion. The circuit pattern portion is provided with a recessed portion that is concave with respect to the connecting portion.
US07807927B2
A transmission line including a flexible flat cable, an insulating layer and a metal layer, wherein the insulating layer and the metal layer are formed sequentially on a surface of the flexible flat cable to change the thickness of the insulating layer, in order to change the characteristic impedance (Z0) of the flexible flat cable. Particularly, the insulating layer is made of a woven fabric material, a foam material or a net material.
US07807921B2
A multijunction solar cell includes a first photoactive subcell layer having a first-subcell lattice parameter and a composition including (a) at least one Group III element, at least one Group V element other than (nitrogen, phosphorus), and (nitrogen, phosphorus), or (b) a material selected from the group including GaInAsBi, GaInAsSb, GaInAsP, ZnGeAs2, or BGaInAs. The multijunction solar cell also has a substrate having a substrate lattice parameter different from the first-subcell lattice parameter, and a composition-graded buffer layer between the first photoactive subcell layer and the substrate and having a buffer-layer lattice parameter graded between the first-subcell lattice parameter and the substrate lattice parameter. The substrate may be a second photoactive subcell layer having a second-subcell lattice parameter different from the first-subcell lattice parameter and sensitive to a second-photoactive-subcell-layer wavelength, and the buffer layer is transparent to the second-photoactive-subcell-layer wavelength.
US07807920B2
A solar photovoltaic module containing a housing that supports an array of photovoltaic cells and corresponding light guides. The housing includes a base member having a generally planar support surface and two side walls projecting from the support surface. Two side panels detachably connect to the side walls, and a top panel detachably connects to the side panels. The top panel includes a plurality of concentrating lenses that focus incident solar radiation into the inside of the housing towards the light guide. The light guides are disposed between the corresponding concentrating lenses and photovoltaic cells such that the concentrating lenses and light guides work together to direct light onto the photovoltaic cells. At least one retaining member interfaces to the light guides and applies a downward force that biases the respective light guides toward the corresponding photovoltaic cells.
US07807916B2
Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing music are provided, particularly systems and methods employing a top-down process, where the user is provided with a musical composition that may be modified and interacted with and played and/or stored (for later play). The system preferably is provided in a handheld form factor, and a graphical display is provided to display status information, graphical representations of musical lanes or components which preferably vary in shape as musical parameters and the like are changed for particular instruments or musical components such as a microphone input or audio samples. An interactive auto-composition process preferably is utilized that employs musical rules and preferably a pseudo random number generator, which may also incorporate randomness introduced by timing of user input or the like, the user may then quickly begin creating desirable music in accordance with one or a variety of musical styles, with the user modifying the auto-composed (or previously created) musical composition, either for a real time performance and/or for storing and subsequent playback. The graphic information preferably is customizable by a user, such as by way of a companion software program, which preferably runs on a PC and is coupled to the system via an interface such as a USB port. A modified MIDI representation of music is employed, preferably, for example, in which musical rule information is embedded in MIDI pitch data, and in which sound samples may be synchronized with MIDI events in a desirable and more optimum manner. The system architecture preferably includes a microprocessor for controlling the overall system operation. A synthesizer/DSP preferably is provided in order to generate audio streams. Non-volatile memory preferably is provided for storing sound banks. Preferably removable non-volatile storage/memory is provided to store configuration files, song lists and samples, and optionally sound bank optimization or sound bank data. A codec preferably is provided for receiving microphone input and for providing audio output. A radio tuner preferably is provided so that output from the radio tuner may be mixed, for example, with auto-composed songs created by the system, which preferably includes a virtual radio mode of operation.
US07807914B2
This disclosure describes techniques that make use of a waveform fetch unit that operates to retrieve waveform samples on behalf of each of a plurality of hardware processing elements that operate simultaneously to service various audio synthesis parameters generated from one or more audio files, such as musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) files. In one example, a method comprises receiving a request for a waveform sample from an audio processing element, and servicing the request by calculating a waveform sample number for the requested waveform sample based on a phase increment contained in the request and an audio synthesis parameter control word associated with the requested waveform sample, retrieving the waveform sample from a local cache using the waveform sample number, and sending the retrieved waveform sample to the requesting audio processing element.
US07807913B2
A motion-based sound setting apparatus and method and motion-based sound generating apparatus and method. The motion-based sound setting apparatus includes a mode selection recognizing unit, a motion sensing unit, a motion pattern recognizing unit, and a sound signal setting controlling unit. The mode selection recognizing unit recognizes a user's action with respect to a sound setting mode or a sound generating mode. The motion sensing unit senses a motion of a predetermined device and outputting a result of the sensing as a sensing signal. The motion pattern recognizing unit recognizes a motion pattern of the predetermined device, which corresponds to the sensing signal, in response to a result of the recognition made by the mode selection recognizing unit. The sound signal setting controlling unit sets a sound signal corresponding to the motion pattern recognized by the motion pattern recognizing unit.
US07807911B2
Keys of an acoustic piano require balancers for cancellation of a part of self weight of the action units/hammers; however, the balancers are liable to be dropped off due to the aged deterioration of the wooden bars; in order to keep the balancers stable in the keys against the aged deterioration, the balancer is plastically deformed so as to bite into the wooden bar, the balancer, which is formed with thorns, is rotated so as to make the thorns bite into the wooden bar, the balancer is shaped into a configuration different from the holes so as to exert resilient force on the inner surface in a direction in parallel to the grain of wood, or the balancer is inserted into a constricted hole so as to strongly exert the resilient force on the inner surface, thereby being prevented from the dropping off from the keys.
US07807907B2
A grand piano has action units for driving hammers to rotate toward strings, and each action unit is equipped with a repetition mechanism; the repetition mechanism has an elastic guide plate instead of a repetition lever and a repetition spring; and the elastic guide plate per se is deformed after contact with a drop screw, and returns to the initial position for permitting a pianist to play a music tune through repetition of key when the pianist releases the depressed key, whereby the action unit becomes simpler in structure than the conventional action unit.
US07807904B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH744092. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH744092, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH744092 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH744092.
US07807899B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH720554. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH720554, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH720554 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH720554.
US07807894B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV723111. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV723111, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV723111 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV723111 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV723111.
US07807889B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV719396. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV719396, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV719396 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV719396 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV719396.
US07807880B2
DNA constructs comprising a first DNA segment that corresponds to at least a portion of a gene in the monolignol biosynthetic pathway, a spacer DNA segment, and a second DNA segment that is complementary to the first DNA segment can be used to reduce or modulate the lignin content in plants. In some embodiments, DNA constructs comprise at least a portion of a gene for 4CL, C3H, CCR, C4H or CCoAOMT. Vascular-preferred and constitutive promoters can be used to drive expression of the constructs.
US07807875B2
Transformed plants and/or plant cells having increased tolerance to high light, drought, water-deficit, and/or other stress-inducing conditions are provided. Plants and plant cells expressing or over-expressing an exogenous nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide involved in a CET pathway, including but not limited to, a PGR5 polypeptide, and methods of making the transformed plants and plant cells are also provided.
US07807871B2
The present invention relates to a method for increasing the storage carbohydrate content of sugarcane plants.
US07807864B2
Disclosed is a transgenic non-human animal with broad or cell type-specific ectopic expression of fra-2 that manifests itself in a fibrotic disease, methods for obtaining such animal and their use. Fra-2 transgenic animals, in particular mice, are useful as model systems for human fibrotic disease, e.g. lung scleroderma and pulmonary fibrosis. Cells obtained from the animal are useful for the analysis of fibrotic disease and for testing compounds useful in the therapy of fibrotic disease.
US07807851B2
The invention relates to a new, advantageous method for the preparation of dialkyl α-fluoromalonates.
US07807850B2
The present invention provides a new process for the preparation of 2R,3S-N-isobutyl-N-(2-hydroxy-3-amino-4-phenylbuty1)-p-nitrobenzenesulfonylamide hydrochloride, wherein this compound is prepared directly from the chloromethylalcohol. Importantly, the process of the present invention results in higher yields of 2R,3S-N-isobutyl-N-(2-hydroxy-3-amino-4-phenylbutyl)-p-nitrobenzenesulfonylamide hydrochloride without sacrificing its purity. The processes of the present invention can be used to prepare not only the 2R,3S-derivative, but also the 2S,3S-, 2S,2R- and the 2R,3R-derivatives.
US07807847B2
Novel synthetic routes, which are highly applicable for industrial preparation of therapeutically beneficial oxidized phospholipids are disclosed. Particularly, novel methods for efficiently preparing compounds having a glycerolic backbone and one or more oxidized moieties attached to the glycerolic backbone, which are devoid of column chromatography are disclosed. Further disclosed are novel methods of introducing phosphorous-containing moieties such as phosphate moieties to compounds having glycerolic backbone and intermediates formed thereby.
US07807842B2
The tetracycline class of antibiotics has played a major role in the treatment of infectious diseases for the past 50 years. However, the increased use of the tetracyclines in human and veterinary medicine has led to resistance among many organisms previously susceptible to tetracycline antibiotics. The modular synthesis of tetracyclines and tetracycline analogs described provides an efficient and enantioselective route to a variety of tetracycline analogs and polycyclines previously inaccessible via earlier tetracycline syntheses and semi-synthetic methods. These analogs may be used as anti-microbial agents or anti-proliferative agents in the treatment of diseases of humans or other animals.
US07807839B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide an organometallic complex that can emit phosphorescence. In the following general formula (G1), X represents —O— or —N(R10)—. R1 to R9 each represent any of hydrogen, an alkyl group or a cycloalkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an alkoxycarbonyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an acyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an acyloxy group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a halogen group, a haloalkyl group, and an aryl group having 6 to 12 carbon atoms. In addition, R10 represents any of an alkyl group or a cycloalkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an acyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an aryl group having 6 to 12 carbon atoms, and a heteroaryl group having 4 to 10 carbon atoms. Moreover, M represents an element belonging to Group 9 or 10.
US07807837B2
Imidazole derivatives, compositions containing them, methods of preparing them, including regioselective scale-up synthetic methods, and methods of using them.
US07807833B2
An intermediate compound for total synthesis of ecteinascidins comprising, a compound represented by general formula 2 having thioether group at C4 site, and the substituent R2 of N12 site is trichloroethoxicarbonyl (Troc) to which various substituents can be introduced by mild condition, further having 10 members ring structure which can be converted to a ring of other numbered members.
US07807832B2
This invention relates to methods of making pyrimidinyl-substituted imidazole compounds by sequential substitution of the 4- and 2-chloro groups of 2,4-dichloropyrimidine, nucleophilic substitution to form pyrimidinylalkyne derivatives, oxidation to the corresponding 1,2-diketones, and cyclocondensation reactions.
US07807826B2
The present invention provides a method for purifying laurolactam from a crude lactam mixture. In the method of the present invention, laurolactam is selectively crystallized by melt crystallization with controlled cooling of the crude lactam mixture.
US07807823B2
A process for forming polysaccharide structures such as beads, gel films and porous coatings on porous substrates by forming a room temperature gel-inhibited solution of a polysaccharide, one or more gel-inhibiting agent(s) and a solvent such as water, heating the mixture until all the components are dissolved, cooling the mixture as a solution to about room temperature, forming a three dimensional structure with the solution and adding the structure to a gelling agent to form a polysaccharide gel. Optionally, the solution can be added to a porous structure such as a non-woven fabric or a porous membrane and the solution is allowed to dry before being subjected to the gelling agent. Porous structures having a polysaccharide coating and being capable of convective flow through the pores of the structure and diffusive flow through the coating can be formed.
US07807821B1
A phosphoramidite method for the synthesis of a nucleic acid oligomer without protecting the base moiety characterized in that a 3′ or 5′ hydroxyl group of a nucleotide is reacted with a nucleoside phosphoramidite, a cyclonucleoside phosphoramidite, a 2′-substituted nucleoside phosphoramidite, a 4′-substituted nucleoside phosphoramidite, or a 2′,4′-di-substituted nucleoside phosphoramidite to produce a phosphodiester linkage. The phosphoramidite is contacted with an activator containing both a) hydroxybenzotriazole-1-ol (HOBt), a mono-substituted HOBt, a di-substituted HOBt, or a di-substituted phenol and b) imidazole, tetrazole, benzimidazoletriflate (BIT), 4-ethylthiotetrazole, imidazolium triflate(trifluoromethane sulfonate) or 4,5-dicyanoimidazole.
US07807814B2
A desired physiological state can be induced by altering the amount of gene products in target cells of a subject. The target cells are treated with at least one compound designed to reduce expression of at least one first gene by RNAi, and with at least one compound designed to increase expression from at least one second gene. The reduced expression of the first gene and the increased expression from the second gene in the target cells induces the desired physiological state in the subject. By altering target cell gene expression in this way, conditions such as angiogenesis or tumor growth and metastasis can be inhibited.
US07807804B2
Nucleic acid molecules modified to enhance recombinant protein, e.g., antibody, expression and/or reduce or eliminate mis-spliced and/or intron read-through (IRT) by-products are disclosed. The invention also provides methods for producing proteins devoid of mis-spliced and/or intron read-through by-products by the use of such vectors in host cells under cell culture conditions suitable for recombinant protein expression.
US07807801B2
A method of inhibiting replication of a flavivirus in animal cells, and an oligonucleotide compound for use in the method are disclosed. The oligonucleotide analog (i) has a nuclease-resistant backbone, (ii) is capable of uptake by the cells, (iii) contains between 8-40 nucleotide bases, and (iv) has a sequence of at least 8 bases complementary to a region of the virus' positive strand RNA genome that includes at least a portion of SEQ ID NOS:1-4. Exposure of cells infected with a flavivirus to the analog is effective to form within the cells, a heteroduplex structure composed of the virus ssRNA and the oligonucleotide, characterized by a Tm of dissociation of at least 45° C., and having disrupted base pairing between the virus' 5′ and 3′ cyclization sequences.
US07807799B2
A method for reducing leaching of protein A during protein A affinity chromatography is described which involves reducing temperature or pH of, or by adding one or more protease inhibitors to, a composition that is subjected to protein A affinity chromatography.
US07807778B2
The present invention is directed to a biological conjugate, comprising: (a) a targeting moiety comprising a polypeptide having an amino acid sequence comprising the polypeptide sequence of SEQ ID NO:2 and the polypeptide sequence of a selected targeting protein; and (b) a binding moiety bound to the targeting moiety; the biological conjugate having a covalent bond between the thiol group of SEQ ID NO:2 and a functional group in the binding moiety. The present invention is directed to a biological conjugate, comprising: (a) a targeting moiety comprising a polypeptide having an amino acid sequence comprising the polypeptide sequence of SEQ ID NO:2 and the polypeptide sequence of a selected targeting protein; and (b) a binding moiety that comprises an adapter protein, the adapter protein having a thiol group; the biological conjugate having a disulfide bond between the thiol group of SEQ ID NO:2 and the thiol group of the adapter protein. The present invention is also directed to biological sequences employed in the above biological conjugates, as well as pharmaceutical preparations and methods using the above biological conjugates.
US07807774B2
Described are vending machine display panels comprising polyester compositions comprising polyesters which comprise (a) a dicarboxylic acid component having terephthalic acid residues; optionally, aromatic dicarboxylic acid residues or aliphatic dicarboxylic acid residues or ester residues thereof; 2,2,4,4-tetramethyl-1,3-cyclobutanediol residues; and 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol residues.
US07807770B2
Drawn tape, fiber or filament including a multimodal resin having a density of at least 940 kg/m3, a melt index MI5 of 0.05 to 5 g/10 min, and a molecular weight distribution of the resin being less than 40.
US07807759B2
The present invention relates to a branched and sulphonated multi block copolymer and an electrolyte membrane using the same, more precisely, a branched and sulphonated multi block copolymer composed of the repeating unit represented by formula 1 and a preparation method thereof, a hydrogenated branched and sulphonated multi block copolymer, a branched and sulphonated multi block copolymer electrolyte membrane and a fuel cell to which the branched and sulphonated multi block copolymer electrolyte membrane is applied. The electrolyte membrane of the present invention has high proton conductivity and excellent mechanical properties as well as chemical stability, so it can be effectively used for the production of thin film without the decrease of membrane properties according to the increase of sulfonic acid group since it enables the regulation of the distribution, the location and the number of sulfonic acid group in polymer backbone.
US07807754B2
An adhesive composition includes a blend of a pressure sensitive adhesive and an additive. The pressure sensitive adhesive includes a (meth)acrylate polymer. The additive includes a copolymer with a vinyl polymeric backbone that includes at least one free radically polymerizable vinyl monomer A and at least one reinforcing comonomer B, wherein B is present at 0 to about 20% by weight of the copolymer, and a pendant polysiloxane monomer grafted to the backbone. The adhesive composition may optionally be crosslinked. The adhesive composition may be applied to a film to form a graphic article. These graphic articles may be applied to a substrate without liquid application aids.
US07807749B2
A formaldehyde-free curable aqueous composition containing a hydroxy-containing polymer, a multi-functional crosslinking agent, and, optionally, a catalyst. The composition is used as a binder for lignocellulosic materials such as plywood, fiber particleboard, medium density fiberboard and oriented strand board.
US07807747B2
A conjugated diene polymer is provided that contains a conjugated diene-based monomer unit and a group represented by Formula (I) below, at least peaks H, M, and L below being present in a molecular weight distribution curve obtained by gel permeation chromatography measurement, and when the total area of the molecular weight distribution curve is 100%, the total peak area of peak H is 3% to 30%, the total peak area of peak M is 5% to 45%, and the total peak area of peak L is 40% to 80% (in Formula (I), R1 and R2 independently denote a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, a hydrocarbonoxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, a hydroxy group, or a polymer chain containing a conjugated diene-based monomer unit, m denotes an integer of 0 to 10, and A1 denotes a polar functional group that does not have an active hydrogen) Peak H: a peak for which the molecular weight at the peak top is higher than the molecular weight at the peak top of peak M Peak M: a peak for which, when the molecular weight at the peak top of peak H is MH, the molecular weight at the peak top is 0.6×MH to 0.8×MH Peak L: a peak for which, when the molecular weight at the peak top of peak H is MH, the molecular weight at the peak top is 0.2×MH to 0.4×MH.
US07807740B2
A two-component reaction resin includes a resin component (A), which contains, as curable constituent (a), at least one free radical-curable, ethylenically unsaturated compound, an agent (b) for adjusting the reactivity and the gel time and at least one comonomer (c) and a curing component (B), which is disposed separate therefrom to inhibit any reaction and is a curing agent for the resin of the resin component (A) and which, as agent (b) for adjusting the reactivity and the gel time, contains a pyrocatechol derivative of the general Formula (I):
US07807734B2
Provided is a low friction type anti-fouling paint. The anti-fouling paint includes prepolymer fluid formed of 10% to 30% NCO mythylene diisocyanate of 100 wt %; and resin fluid formed of polyoxylpropylenediamine of about 42 wt % to 48 wt % for adjusting an elongation and a tensile strength of a paint film, polyethertriamine of about 8 wt % to 10 wt % having a molecular weight of 5,000 for adjusting a curing time, polydiphenyltriamine of about 15 wt % to 20 wt % for adjusting a curing physical property and increasing the elongation, a modified silicone fluid of about 8 wt % to 12 wt % for increasing a slip and an anti fouling property, a filler of about 5 wt % to 9 wt % for increasing an abrasion resistance, an adhesion promoter of about 1 wt % to 2 wt %, and a pigment of about 1 wt % to 2 wt %.
US07807729B2
A production process for heat-expanded microspheres includes the step of providing a gaseous fluid containing heat-expandable microspheres, which includes a shell of thermoplastic resin and a blowing agent encapsulated therein having a boiling point not higher than the softening point of the thermoplastic resin and have an average particle size from 1 to 100 μm. The gaseous fluid is fed through a gas-introducing tube having a dispersion nozzle on its outlet that is fixed inside a conduit having a hot gas flow flowing therethrough. A jet of the gaseous fluid is emitted through the dispersion nozzle. Further, the gaseous fluid is collided on a collision plate fixed under the dispersion nozzle so as to disperse the heat-expandable microspheres in the hot gas flow. The dispersed heat-expandable microspheres are heated in the hot gas flow at a temperature not lower than their expansion initiating temperature and thus expanded.
US07807717B2
A method for the control of insects breeding on water surfaces and particularly mosquitoes, comprising blending in a high shear mixer water, the ester of a fatty acid of 10 to 25 carbon atoms and a low molecular weight alcohol, such as methanol or ethanol, an emulsifying agent and a thickener until an emulsion containing the ester with droplet sizes ranging from 1 to 20 microns in diameter is obtained and applying such to the surface of insect infested water in sufficiently diluted form, to break the emulsion and form a thin continuous film.
US07807700B2
The present invention relates to compounds with the formula (I), (II), (III) or (IV): wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, X and Z are as defined herein, and also to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, as well as methods of use of the compounds for treatment of disorders associated with human 11-β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 enzyme and for the preparation of a medicament which acts on the human 11-β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 enzyme.
US07807691B2
The present invention provides a compound of the Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; pharmaceutical compositions comprising an effective amount of a compound of Formula (I) in combination with a suitable carrier, diluent, or excipient; and methods for treating physiological disorders, particularly frailty, osteoporosis, osteopenia, and male and female sexual dysfunction comprising administering to a patient in need thereof an effective amount of a compound of Formula (I).
US07807689B2
The present invention provides a compound of the formula: or stereoisomers or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, articles of manufacture comprising the same, and methods of using the same.
US07807688B2
Tri-heterocyclic compound of formula (I) wherein each of W, X and Y is carbon or nitrogen; each of U and Z is CR2, NR13, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur etc.; A ring is carbocyclic ring, heterocyclic ring; R1 is alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, NR4R5, OR6 etc.; R3 is carbocyclic ring, heterocyclic ring; and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a process for the preparation thereof, a pharmaceutical comprising them as an active ingredient. A compound of formula (I) is useful, in order to possess corticotropin releasing factor receptor antagonistic activity, for the prevention and/or treatment of depression, anxiety, eating disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, peptic ulcer, irritable bowl syndrome, Alzheimer's disease, drug addiction or alcohol dependence syndrome etc.
US07807682B2
Compounds according to formula I wherein R1 represents hydrogen, halogen or one or more straight or branched, saturated or unsaturated C1-6 hydrocarbon radical, optionally substituted with halogen, hydroxy, cyano, nitro, carboxy, alkoxy, alkoxycarbonyl, alkylcarbonyl, formyl, amino, aminoalkyl, aminocarbonyl, alkylcarbonylamino, sulfo, aminosulfonyl, alkylsulfonylamino, hydroxysulfonyloxy, dihydroxyphosphinoyloxy or phosphono; X represents a straight or branched, saturated or unsaturated C1-12 hydrocarbon diradical, optionaly substituted with halogen, hydroxy, cyano, nitro, carboxy, alkoxy, alkoxycarbonyl, alkylcarbonyl, formyl, amino, aminoalkyl, aminocarbonyl, alkylcarbonylamino, sulfo, aminosulfonyl, alkylsulfonylamino, hydroxysulfonyloxy, dihydroxyphosphinoyloxy or phosphono; Y represents a bond, 0, C(O), S, S(O), S(0)2, C(O)O, NH, C(O)NH, OC(O) or NHC(O); Z represents an aromatic or non-aromatic heterocyclic radical with 5-12 ring atoms, optionally substituted with halogen, hydroxy, cyano, nitro, alkoxy, alkoxycarbonyl, alkylcarbonyl, formyl, aminoalkyl or straight or branched, saturated or unsaturated C1-4 hydrocarbon radical, optionally substituted with halogen, hydroxy, cyano, nitro, alkoxy, alkoxycarbonyl, alkylcarbonyl, formyl or aminoalkyl; provided that R1 is not attached to the nitrogen-atom in the pyridyl ring; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates, N-oxides and prodrugs thereof are disclosed. The compounds are useful in therapy.
US07807678B2
The invention relates to a method of deriving a peptidomimetic of a biologically active metallopeptide, wherein the peptidomimetic includes at least one non-peptide ring structure defining a template space superimposable on a corresponding defined template space of the metallopeptide, and where the peptidomimetic further includes at least two elements independently including an amino acid residue, amino acid side chain moiety or derivative thereof, the elements defining and occupying a similar descriptor space as corresponding elements of the metallopeptide. The invention further relates to peptidomimetics with a template space heterocyclic ring structure, including 5-, 6- and 8-membered and 5-5- and 6-5-bicyclic fused ring structure melanocortin receptor-specific peptidomimetics.
US07807671B2
This disclosure provides compounds having drug and bio-affecting properties, their pharmaceutical compositions and method of use. In particular, the disclosure is concerned with diketo piperazine and piperadine derivatives that possess unique antiviral activity useful for the treatment of HIV and AIDS. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to compounds of Formula I, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein: A is selected from the group consisting of:
US07807664B2
A novel 4,4-difluoro-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-5H-1-benzazepine derivative or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, which is useful as an agent for treating or preventing nocturia and/or diabetes insipidus, is provided.
US07807660B2
Methods and compositions for treating Cryptosporidium parvum related disorders in a mammal are discussed. Several novel tetracycline compounds useful for treating Cryptosporidium parvum related disorders are also included.
US07807657B2
A separate type medical material containing a hyaluronic acid ester derivative, which satisfies the storage stability of a hyaluronic acid ester derivative and avoidance of irritation and pain at the time of injecting a therapeutic agent for joints, is provided. A separate type medical material comprising liquid (A) which is an aqueous solution containing a hyaluronic acid ester derivative and buffered to a pH of from 4.5 to 6.5, and liquid (B) which is an aqueous solution having such a buffering power that when it is mixed with the liquid (A), the mixed liquid has a pH within a range of from 6.8 to 7.8, kept separately from each other.
US07807646B1
A method of increasing megakaryocytes and platelet numbers in a patient comprising the step of inhibiting SHIP expression, including SHIP's enzymatic activity and signaling functions, whereby normal blood clotting is induced.
US07807644B2
Chimeric proteins comprising soluble Tissue Factor (sTF) and another subunit (e.g., annexin V) are described. The proteins promote blood clotting and/or inhibit cancer by targeting sTF to specific receptors such as phosphatidylserine (PS) on activated cells. These chimeric proteins are useful in treating patients with excessive bleeding due to inborn problems, drug therapy, trauma or surgery and/or as an anti-cancer therapy, for example by causing blood vessels feeding cancers to become clotted, thereby preventing adequate flow of blood to a tumor, which in turn will lead to tumor inhibition and death or may be used in a therapy to cause clotting within blood vessels that pose a threat in the subject in non-cancerous conditions.
US07807637B2
The present invention relates to a polymyxin derivative wherein R1, R2 and R3 are optional and R1, R2, R3, R5, R8 and R9 are cationic or neutral amino acid residues selected so that the total number of positive charges at physiological pH is at least two but no more than three; and to a combination product comprising at least two such derivatives. The invention further relates to a method for treating, alleviating or ameliorating an infection in a subject, caused by a Gram-negative bacterium by administering a therapeutically effective amount of a derivative according to the present invention to said subject; to a method for sensitizing Gram-negative bacteria to an antibacterial agent by administering, simultaneously or sequentially in any order a therapeutically effective amount of said antibacterial agent and a derivative according to the present invention to said subject; to methods for developing novel antibiotics; for reducing the nephrotoxicity, for improving the pharmacokinetic properties of natural polymyxins and octapeptins; and for sensitizing clinically important bacteria to a host defence mechanism complement present in serum. Finally, the invention relates to a process for preparing such polymyxin derivatives.
US07807635B1
A method of inhibiting protein kinases by administering polypeptides derived from alpha-neurotoxin, and inhibiting protein kinases. Diseases treated thereby include cancer, influenza, Tourette's syndrome, pain, and neurological deficits.
US07807634B2
Disclosed herein are immunogenic compositions comprising a multilayer film comprising two or more layers of polyelectrolytes, wherein adjacent layers comprise oppositely charged polyelectrolytes. A first layer polyelectrolyte comprises an antigenic polypeptide comprising one or more surface adsorption regions covalently linked to one or more antigenic determinant regions, wherein the antigenic polypeptide and the one or more surface adsorption regions have the same polarity. The immunogenic compositions may be employed in methods of eliciting an immune response in a vertebrate organism.
US07807632B2
Disclosed herein are immunogenic compositions comprising a multilayer film comprising two or more layers of polyelectrolytes, wherein adjacent layers comprise oppositely charged polyelectrolytes. A first layer polyelectrolyte comprises an antigenic polypeptide comprising one or more surface adsorption regions covalently linked to one or more antigenic determinant regions, wherein the antigenic polypeptide and the one or more surface adsorption regions have the same polarity. The immunogenic compositions may be employed in methods of eliciting an immune response in a vertebrate organism.
US07807629B1
The invention provides methods for treating and/or preventing ocular disorders associated with increased intraocular pressure comprising administering a bradykinin B2 receptor agonist to a patient in need thereof.
US07807626B2
The invention provides a method for suppressing tumor cell growth in a patient, comprising: administering to the patient an effective amount of an expression vector including a polynucleotide encoding a tumor suppressor protein having SEQ ID NO: 1 under conditions wherein the expression vector incorporates itself into the tumor cell genome and inhibits cell proliferation or induces cell death.The invention further provides a method for a method for inhibiting tumor cell proliferation in a tumor cell population comprising: administering to the tumor cell population an amount of a composition comprising a tumor suppressor protein having SEQ ID NO: 1 effective to inhibit tumor cell proliferation therein.
US07807625B2
A composition is disclosed for treating the skin comprising an acylated short chain bioactive peptide and Lycium barbarum extract product. Also disclosed is a method for topically administering the composition in an amount therapeutically effective to reduce wrinkles by building the dermal fibroblast matrix. The composition may contain dimethylisosorbide or ethoxydiglycol as solubilizing and penetration enhancers for the hydrophobically modified peptide.
US07807623B2
This invention pertains to the discovery administration of a CCK receptor agonist can increase urinary sodium excretion and/or free water excretion in a mammal. CCK receptor agonist can thereby be used in the treatment of conditions such high blood pressure, fluid retention associated with heart failure, fluid retention associated with acute or chronic kidney failure, fluid retention associated with cirrhosis, fluid retention associated with liver failure, calcium kidney stones, nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, and renal tubular acidosis.
US07807621B2
A peptide compound having the sequence Lys-Pro-Ser-Ser-Pro-Pro-Glu-Glu [SEQ ID NO:2] or a substitution variant, addition variant or other chemical derivative thereof inhibits cell invasion, endothelial tube formation or angiogenesis in vitro. A number of substitution variants and addition variants of this peptide, preferably capped at the N- and C-termini, as well as peptidomimetic derivatives, are useful for treating diseases and conditions mediated by undesired and uncontrolled cell invasion and/or angiogenesis. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the above peptides and derivatives are administered to subjects in need of such treatment in a dosage sufficient to inhibit invasion and/or angiogenesis. The disclosed compositions and methods are particularly useful for suppressing the growth and metastasis of tumors.
US07807619B2
The present invention provides modified cycloalkyne compounds; and method of use of such compounds in modifying biomolecules. The present invention features a cycloaddition reaction that can be carried out under physiological conditions. In general, the invention involves reacting a modified cycloalkyne with an azide moiety on a target biomolecule, generating a covalently modified biomolecule. The selectivity of the reaction and its compatibility with aqueous environments provide for its application in vivo (e.g., on the cell surface or intracellularly) and in vitro (e.g., synthesis of peptides and other polymers, production of modified (e.g., labeled) amino acids).
US07807611B2
Formulations using tartaric compounds of the present invention in a low sulfur, low ash and low phosphorous lubricant lower wear, and friction and improves fuel economy.
US07807610B2
An automotive lubricating oil composition containing: (A) an oil of lubricating viscosity in a major amount; and (B) as an additive component in a minor amount, an oil-soluble or oil-dispersible 4-oxobutanoic acid having the moiety —CO(CH2)COOH bonded to (i) a group OR1 where R1 is hydrocarbyl group having 10 to 30 carbon atoms; or (ii) a group X being an aromatic group substituted with at least one hydrocarbyl group having 10 to 30 carbon atoms; or (iii) a group NR2R3 where one or both of R2 and R3 is hydrocarbyl group having from 10 to 30 carbon atoms and one but not both of R2 and R3 may be a hydrogen atom, or a salt thereof.
US07807603B2
The invention relates to a catalyst provided in the form of an extrudate, which contains 5 to 85% by weight of copper oxide and comprises, in the active material and as binders, the same oxidic carrier material. The invention also relates to the use of the catalyst for hydrogenating carbonyl compounds.
US07807602B2
A method for the preparation of a catalyst or catalyst precursor comprising: (a) admixing a carrier material, a homogeneous crystalline solid solution of a cobalt compound and one or more d-metal compounds and/or one or more co-catalysts or precursors thereof, and optionally a liquid; (b) forming the mixture of step (a); and (c) optionally drying and/or calcining the product of step (b).
US07807599B2
A process for making a catalyst precursor is disclosed. In one embodiment, the process comprises co-precipitating at reaction conditions forming a precipitate or cogel: at least a promoter metal compounds selected from Group VIII, Group IIB, Group IIA, Group IVA and combinations thereof, at least one of Group VIB metal compounds, at least an organic oxygen-containing ligand L. The precursor is represented by the formula Av[(MP) (OH)x(L)ny]z(MVIBO4), wherein A comprises an alkali metal cation, an ammonium, an organic ammonium or a phosphonium cation, MP is at least one of Group VIII, Group IIB, Group IIA, Group IVA and combinations thereof, L is the organic, oxygen-containing co-ordinating ligand, MVIB is at least one of Group VIB metals, and the atomic ratio of MP:MVIB is between 100:1 and 1:100.
US07807587B2
The present invention is a substrate processing apparatus including: a holder that holds substrates in a tier-like manner; a processing container that contains the holder and that conducts a predetermined thermal process to the substrates in a process-gas atmosphere under a predetermined temperature and pressure; a gas-introducing part that introduces a process gas into the processing container; a gas-discharging part that discharges a gas from the processing container to create a predetermined vacuum pressure therein; and a heating part that heats the processing container; wherein the holder is provided with baffle plates each of which forms a processing space for each substrate when the holder is contained in the processing container; the gas-introducing part is provided with gas introduction holes disposed at one lateral side of the respective processing spaces; and the gas-discharging part is provided with gas discharge holes disposed at the other lateral side of the respective processing spaces, oppositely to the gas introduction holes.
US07807585B2
A dielectric insulating film including HfO or the like is formed by: cleaning a surface of a semiconductor substrate by exposing the substrate surface to a fluorine radical; performing hydrogen termination processing with a fluorine radical or a hydride (SiH4 or the like); sputtering Hf or the like; and then performing oxidation/nitridation. These steps are carried out without exposing the substrate to atmosphere, thereby making it possible to obtain a C-V curve with less hysteresis and realize a MOS-FET having favorable device characteristics.
US07807583B2
A method for patterning high aspect ratio vias is provided. More specifically a dry etching method is provided for patterning deep vias or vias with high aspects ratios thereby eliminating the hard mask undercut. A method is provided to create (pattern) deep vias in a substrate for use in three dimensional stacked semiconductor devices and/or structures. More specifically, a method is provided for patterning deep vias with an aspect ratio up to 10 into a Si substrate with smooth via sidewalls and sufficient slope to enable metallization.
US07807580B2
A method of replacing a top oxide around a storage element of a memory device is provided. The method can involve removing a core first poly and core first top oxide in a core region while not removing a periphery first poly in a periphery region on a semiconductor substrate; forming a second top oxide around a storage element in the core region and on the periphery first poly in the periphery region; forming a second poly over the semiconductor substrate in both the core and periphery regions; removing the second poly and second top oxide in the periphery region; and forming a third poly on the semiconductor substrate in both the core and periphery regions.
US07807577B2
After forming a stack of layers (130, 140, 310) for a transistor or a charge-trapping memory over an active area (110), and before etching isolation trenches (160) in the semiconductor substrate (120) with the stack as a mask, spacers (610) are formed on the stack's sidewalls. The trench etch may include a lateral component, so the top edges of the trenches may be laterally recessed to a position under the spacers or the stack. After the etch, the spacers are removed to facilitate filling the trenches with the dielectric (to eliminate voids at the recessed top edges of the trenches). Other embodiments are also provided.
US07807566B2
A method for determining conditions for forming a dielectric SiOCH film, includes: (i) forming a dielectric SiOCH film on a substrate under conditions; (ii) evaluating the conditions using a ratio of Si—CH3 bonding strength to Si—O bonding strength of the film as formed in step (i); (iii) if the ratio is 2.50 % or higher, confirming the conditions, and if the ratio is less than 2.50 %, changing the conditions by changing at least one of the susceptor temperature, the distance between upper and lower electrodes, the RF power, and the curing time; and (iv) repeating steps (i) to (iii) until the ratio is 2.50 % or higher.
US07807564B2
An integrated circuit interconnect structure. The structure includes a substrate and a layer of transistor elements overlying the substrate. A first interlayer dielectric layer is formed overlying the layer of transistor elements. An etch stop layer is formed overlying the first interlayer dielectric layer. A contact structure including metallization is within the first interlayer dielectric layer and a metal layer is coupled to the contact structure. A passivation layer is formed overlying the metal layer. Preferably, an air gap layer is coupled between the passivation layer and the metal layer, the air gap layer allowing a portion of the metal layer to be free standing. Depending upon the embodiment, a portion of the air gap layer may be filled with silicon bearing nanoparticles, which may be oxidized at low temperatures. This oxidized layer provides mechanical support and low k dielectric characteristics. Preferably, a portion of the air gap layer is filled with a low k dielectric material as well.
US07807563B2
In a method for manufacturing a layer arrangement, a plurality of electrically conductive structures are embedded in a substrate. Material of the substrate is removed at least between adjacent electrically conductive structures. An interlayer is formed on at least one portion of sidewalls of each of the electrically conductive structures. A first layer is formed on the interlayer where an upper partial region of the interlayer remaining free of a covering with the first layer. An electrically insulating second layer is formed selectively on that partial region of the interlayer which is free of the first layer, in such a way that the electrically insulating second layer bridges adjacent electrically conductive structures such that air gaps are formed between adjacent electrically conductive structures.
US07807562B2
A circuit is provided which prevents dendrite formation on interconnects during semiconductor device processing due to a dendrite-forming current. The circuit includes a switch located in at least one of the dendrite-forming current paths. The switch is configured to be open or in the “off” state during processing, and is configured to be closed or in the “on” state after processing to allow proper functioning of the semiconductor device. The switch may include an nFET or pFET, depending on the environment in which it is used to control or prevent dendrite formation. The switch may be configured to change to the “closed” state when an input signal is provided during operation of the fabricated semiconductor device.
US07807561B2
After plural semiconductor elements are stacked to form a stacked body P, side wirings are formed on the side surface of the stacked body P, thereby manufacturing a semiconductor apparatus in which the respective semiconductor elements are electrically connected to one another. In this case, as the semiconductor element, a semiconductor element 10 is employed in which a gold wire 16 with its one end connected to an electrode terminal of the semiconductor element is extended out to the side surface. A conductive paste 36 containing conductive particles applied over a predetermined length of a transferring wire 30 is transferred to the side surface of the stacked body P so that the gold wires 16 extended out to the side surfaces of the semiconductor elements 10, 10, 10 are connected, thereby forming the side wirings.
US07807536B2
A trench gate field effect transistor is formed as follows. A trench is formed in a semiconductor region, followed by a dielectric layer lining sidewalls and bottom of the trench and extending over mesa regions adjacent the trench. A conductive seed layer is formed in a bottom portion of the trench over the dielectric layer. A low resistance material is grown over the conductive seed layer, wherein the low resistance material is selective to the conductive seed layer.
US07807529B2
Lithographically-defined spacing is used to define feature sizes during fabrication of semiconductor-based memory devices. Sacrificial features are formed over a substrate at a specified pitch having a line size and a space size defined by a photolithography pattern. Charge storage regions for storage elements are formed in the spaces between adjacent sacrificial features using the lithographically-defined spacing to fix a gate length or dimension of the charge storage regions in a column direction. Unequal line and space sizes at the specified pitch can be used to form feature sizes at less than the minimally resolvable feature size associated with the photolithography process. Larger line sizes can improve line-edge roughness while decreasing the dimension of the charge storage regions in the column direction. Additional charge storage regions for the storage elements can be formed over the charge storage regions so defined, such as by depositing and etching a second charge storage layer to form second charge storage regions having a dimension in the column direction that is less than the gate length of the first charge storage regions.
US07807528B1
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) transistor structure includes a self-aligned outrigger less than 0.4 microns from a gate electrode that is 50 microns wide. The outrigger is fabricated on ordinary logic transistors of an integrated circuit without severely affecting the performance of the transistors. The outrigger is used as an implant blocking structure to form first and second drain regions on either side of a lightly doped region that underlies the outrigger. The self-aligned outrigger and the lightly doped region beneath it are used to move the location of avalanche breakdown upon an ESD event away from the channel region. Durability is extended when fewer “hot carrier” electrons accumulate in the gate oxide. A current of at least 100 milliamperes can flow into the drain and then through the ESD transistor structure for a period of more than 30 seconds without causing a catastrophic failure of the ESD transistor structure.
US07807525B2
FET device structures are disclosed with the PFET and NFET devices having high-k dielectric gate insulators, metal containing gates, and threshold adjusting cap layers. The NFET gate stack and the PFET gate stack each has a portion which is identical in the NFET device and in the PFET device. This identical portion contains at least a gate metal layer and a cap layer. Due to the identical portion, device fabrication is simplified, requiring a reduced number of masks. Furthermore, as a consequence of using a single layer of metal for the gates of both type of devices, the terminal electrodes of NFETs and PFETs can be butted with each other in direct physical contact. Device thresholds are further adjusted by oxygen exposure of the high-k dielectric. Threshold values are aimed for low power consumption device operation.
US07807524B2
A semiconductor device has: a semiconductor substrate made of a first semiconductor material; an n-channel field effect transistor formed in the semiconductor substrate and having n-type source/drain regions made of a second semiconductor material different from the first semiconductor material; and a p-channel field effect transistor formed in the semiconductor substrate and having p-type source/drain regions made of a third semiconductor material different from the first semiconductor material, wherein the second and third semiconductor materials are different materials. The semiconductor device having n- and p-channel transistors has improved performance by utilizing stress.
US07807521B2
A nitride semiconductor light emitting device and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The nitride semiconductor light emitting device comprises an n-type nitride semiconductor layer formed on a substrate, an active layer formed on the n-type nitride semiconductor layer, a p-type nitride semiconductor layer formed on the active layer, an undoped GaN layer formed on the p-type nitride semiconductor layer, an AlGaN layer formed on the undoped GaN layer to form a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) layer at a bonding interface between the AlGaN layer and the undoped GaN layer, and an n-side electrode and a p-side electrode respectively formed on the n-type nitride semiconductor layer and the AlGaN layer to be connected to each other. As a hetero-junction structure of GaN/AlGaN is formed on the p-type nitride semiconductor layer, contact resistance between the p-type nitride semiconductor layer and the p-side electrode is enhanced by virtue of tunneling effect through the 2DEG layer.
US07807517B2
Provided are methods for fabricating semiconductor devices incorporating a fin-FET structure that provides body-bias control, exhibits some characteristic advantages associated with SOI structures, provides increased operating current and/or reduced contact resistance. The methods for fabricating semiconductor devices include forming insulating spacers on the sidewalls of a protruding portion of a first insulation film; forming a second trench by removing exposed regions of the semiconductor substrate using the insulating spacers as an etch mask, and thus forming fins in contact with and supported by the first insulation film. After forming the fins, a third insulation film is formed to fill the second trench and support the fins. A portion of the first insulation film is then removed to open a space between the fins in which additional structures including gate dielectrics, gate electrodes and additional contact, insulating and storage node structures may be formed.
US07807514B2
A method of forming a charge-coupled device including the steps of forming well or substrate of a first conductivity type; a buried channel of a second conductivity type; a plurality of first gate electrodes; partially coating the first gate electrodes with a mask substantially aligned to an edge of the first gate electrodes; implanting ions of the first conductivity type of sufficient energy to penetrate the first gates and into the buried channel; and a plurality of second gate electrodes covering regions each over the buried channel between the first gate electrodes.
US07807513B1
Methods for manufacturing a semiconductor device are provided that reduces the thickness of an oxide layer formed on a polysilicon layer for bit line contacts. A reduced thickness oxide layer can prevent short circuits between adjoining bit lines. A reduced thickness oxide layer can also eliminate the need for overetching in a subsequent etching process, thereby preventing loss of an isolation layer in a peripheral region.
US07807511B2
Forming a packaged device having a semiconductor device having a first major surface and a second major surface includes forming an encapsulating layer over the second major surface of the semiconductor device and around sides of the semiconductor device and leaving the first major surface of the first semiconductor device exposed. A first insulating layer is formed over the first major surface. A plurality of vias are formed in the first insulating layer. A plurality of contacts are formed to the semiconductor device through the first plurality of vias, wherein each of the plurality of contacts has a surface above the first insulating layer. A supporting layer is formed over the first insulating layer leaving an opening over the first plurality of contacts wherein the opening has a sidewall surrounding the plurality of contacts.
US07807501B1
An integrated circuit package is disclosed. The integrated circuit package comprises an integrated circuit die having a plurality of solder bumps; and a substrate comprising a first plurality of contact pads on a first surface and a second plurality of contact pads on a second surface. The plurality of solder bumps on the integrated circuit die is coupled to the first plurality of contact pads on the first surface of the substrate, wherein at least one edge of the substrate is formed after the integrated circuit die is attached to the substrate. According to one embodiment of the invention, the at least one edge of the substrate is formed after excess substrate material is detached at designated areas. According to another aspect of the invention, an assembly fixture is disclosed. An apparatus and method for assembling an integrated circuit package are also disclosed.
US07807495B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor film capable of suppressing difficulty in temperature control of a catalytic wire is obtained. This method of manufacturing a semiconductor film includes steps of heating a catalytic wire to at least a prescribed temperature and forming a semiconductor film by introducing source gas for a semiconductor and decomposing the source gas with the heated catalytic wire after heating the catalytic wire to at least the prescribed temperature.
US07807488B2
Optical filter functionality is incorporated into a substrate of a display element thereby decreasing the need for a separate thin film filter and, accordingly, reducing a total thickness of a filtered display element. Filter functionality may be provided by any filter material, such as pigment materials, photoluminescent materials, and opaque material, for example. The filter material may be incorporated in the substrate at the time of creating the substrate or may be selectively diffused in the substrate through a process of masking the substrate, exposing the substrate to the filter material, and heating the substrate in order to diffuse the filter material in the substrate.
US07807486B2
A method of fabricating an LCD device includes forming a gate line, a gate electrode, a gate pad electrode at an end of the gate line, and a common line on a substrate; forming a gate insulating layer on the gate electrode; forming an active layer on the gate insulating layer; forming an etch stopper on the active layer; forming first and second ohmic contact layers spaced apart from each other on the active layer and an impurity-doped amorphous silicon pattern contacting the gate insulating layer therebelow, outer sides of the first and second ohmic contact layers being outside the active layer; forming a data line crossing the gate line to define a pixel region, a data pad electrode at an end of the data line, and source and drain electrodes on the first and second ohmic contact layers, respectively; forming a pixel electrode and a common electrode in the pixel region to induce an in-plane electric field; and forming a gate pad terminal electrode on the gate pad electrode. At least one of the data line, the pixel electrode and the common electrode contacts the impurity-doped amorphous silicon pattern therebelow.
US07807476B2
A vial-based system and method for handling and processing specimens of particulate matter-containing liquid directly in the vial. A processing assembly, which includes a stirrer and a particulate matter separation chamber, is releasably coupled to the inside of the vial cover. The processing assembly remains with the cover when the vial is opened to insert a specimen therein. Application of a particular external force to the closed vial detaches the processing assembly from the cover so that it remains in the vial, for access by automated or manual laboratory equipment, when the cover is subsequently removed.
US07807465B2
The present invention provides methods of identifying a subject having an increased or decreased risk of developing cardiovascular disease, comprising: a) correlating the presence of one or more genetic markers in chromosome 3q13.31 with an increased or decreased risk of developing cardiovascular disease; and b) detecting the one or more genetic markers of step (a) in the subject, thereby identifying the subject as having an increased or decreased risk of developing cardiovascular disease. Also provided are methods of identifying subjects with cardiovascular disease as having a good or poor prognosis, as well as methods of identifying effective treatment regimens for cardiovascular disease, based on correlation with genetic markers in chromosome 3q13.31.
US07807464B2
Methods and kits for propagating hematopoietic stem cells are provided. The methods comprise culturing cells in medium comprising one or more angiopoietin-like proteins, under conditions sufficient for expansion of HSCs. Angiopoietin-like proteins include angiopoietin-like protein 2, angiopoietin-like protein 3, angiopoietin-like protein 4, angiopoietin-like protein 5, angiopoietin-like protein 7, and microfibrillar-associated glycoprotein (Mfap4). Methods for identifying hematopoietic stem cells are provided and isolated hematopoietic stem cells are also provided.
US07807457B2
The present invention encompasses a modified human urokinase plasminogen activator (“huPA”) gene, which was inserted in the adenoviral vector (pAd-.DELTA.huPA), which is not secreted and does not provoke hypercoagulation or spontaneous internal bleeding. It has been discovered that huPa induced a dramatic fibrosis reduction (85%) on day 10 of vector administration, compared to control cirrhotic rats and 55% hepatocyte proliferation increase. Liver function tests (ALT, AST, alkaline phosphatase and bilirubin) dropped to nearly normal levels and hepatocyte proliferation was observed. The invention also encompasses gene therapy with modified huPA to treat disorders in patients. In a particular embodiment, the invention encompasses a treatment for patients with liver cirrhosis.
US07807454B2
A microfluidic device may employ one or more sorting stations for separating target species from other species in a sample. The separation is driven by magnetophoresis. A sorting station generally includes separate buffer and sample streams. A magnetic field gradient applied to the sorting station deflects the flow path of magnetic particles (which selectively label the target species) from a sample stream into a buffer stream. The buffer stream leaving the sorting station is used to detect or further process purified target species labeled with the magnetic particles.
US07807453B2
Device for the in vitro culture of cells comprising: a planar deformable substrate (3) with a culture surface (4), substrate deforming means for modifying the size of said culture surface (4), characterized by the fact that it furthermore comprises: substrate holding elements (5) which are located near the periphery of said culture surface (4), a frame (6,8) surrounding and directly or indirectly fixing said substrate holding elements (5), in such a way as to allow microscope viewing of the culture surface (4) and to avoid mechanical parts directly above or below the culture surface (4), said frame (6,8) being adapted to move said substrate holding elements (5) away from the center of said culture surface (4).
US07807449B2
An instrument for conducting nucleic acid amplification reactions in a disposable test device. The test device includes a first reaction chamber containing a first nucleic acid amplification reagent (e.g., primers and nucleotides) and a second reaction chamber either containing, or in fluid communication, with a second nucleic acid amplification reagent (e.g., an amplification enzyme such as RT). The instrument includes a support structure receiving the test device. A temperature control system maintains the first reaction chamber at a first elevated temperature but simultaneously maintains the second nucleic acid amplification reagent at a second temperature lower than the first temperature so as to preserve the second nucleic acid amplification reagent. An actuator operates on a fluid conduit in the test device to place the first and second reaction chambers in fluid communication with each other after a reaction has occurred in the first reaction chamber at the first temperature. A pneumatic system is also provided that assists in fluid transfer of a reaction solution from the first chamber to the second chamber.
US07807445B2
Fermentation of a nutrient medium with a eubacterium Streptomyces sp. yields a novel antibacterial compound of structural formula (I).
US07807444B2
A circular DNA molecule, useful for gene therapy, comprising at least one nucleic acid sequence of interest, characterised in that the region allowing the replication thereof has an origin of replication with a functionality in a host cell that requires the presence of at least one specific protein foreign to said host cell. A method for preparing same, cells incorporating said DNA molecules and uses thereof in gene therapy are also described.
US07807443B2
The invention relates to five or four novel genes and the gene products thereof from Bacillus licheniformis and sufficiently similar genes and proteins which are involved in vivo in the formation of polyamino acids. The gene in question is ywsC, ywsC′, ywtA, ywtB and ywtD or proteins coded thereby. The gene ywsC, ywsC′, ywtA and ywtB can be used to improve biotechnological production methods by microorganisms, wherein they are functionally inactivated; the gene ywtD which codes for a peptide decomposing poly-gamma glutamate can, inversely, contribute to the improvement of biotechnological production methods by increased expression. Said genes can be used positively, preferably to result in a modification or decomposition of poly-gamma glutamate.
US07807434B2
The present invention provides a novel endoglucanase nucleic acid sequence, designated egl6, and the corresponding EGVI amino acid sequence. The invention also provides expression vectors and host cells comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding EGVI, recombinant EGVI proteins and methods for producing the same.
US07807428B2
A method for producing an immobilized enzyme which includes the steps of immobilizing an enzyme used for hydrolyzing fats and oils on a immobilization carrier by adsorption, bringing the immobilized enzyme into contact with an organic solvent in which fat-soluble fatty acids or the derivatives thereof have been dissolved, and adjusting the moisture content of the immobilized enzyme from 1 to 20% by weight based on the weight of the carrier.
US07807424B2
The present invention comprises crystalline polyketide synthases, isolated non-native polyketide synthases having the structural coordinates of said crystalline polyketide synthases, and nucleic acid encoding such non-native polyketide synthases. Also disclosed are methods of producing mutant polyketide synthases, and methods of altering the activity and/or substrate specificity of putative polyketide synthases.
US07807423B2
The present invention provides methods and compositions for preparing 4-substituted 3-hydroxybutyric acid derivatives by halohydrin dehalogenase-catalyzed conversion of 4-halo-3-hydroxybutyric acid derivatives. The present invention further provides methods and compositions for preparing 4-halo-3-hydroxybutyric acid derivatives by ketoreductase-catalyzed conversion of 4-halo-3-ketobutyric acid derivatives The present invention also provides methods and compositions for preparing vicinal cyano, hydroxyl substituted carboxylic acid esters.
US07807416B2
Antibodies and methods for generating genetically altered antibodies with enhanced effector function
Dominant negative alleles of human mismatch repair genes can be used to generate hypermutable cells and organisms. By introducing these genes into cells and transgenic animals, new cell lines and animal varieties with novel and useful properties can be prepared more efficiently than by relying on the natural rate of mutation. These methods are useful for generating genetic diversity within immunoglobulin genes directed against an antigen of interest to produce altered antibodies with enhanced biochemical activity. Moreover, these methods are useful for generating antibody-producing cells with increased level of antibody production. The invention also provides methods for increasing the effector function of monoclonal antibodies and monoclonal antibodies with increased effector function.
US07807413B2
A method is provided for introducing a GAG binding site into a protein comprising the steps: identifying a region in a protein which is not essential for structure maintenance introducing at least one basic amino acid into said site and/or deleting at least one bulky and/or acidic amino acid in said site, whereby said GAG binding site has a GAG binding affinity of Kd≦10 μM, preferably ≦1 μM, still preferred ≦0.1 μM, as well as modified GAG binding proteins.
US07807411B2
The invention relates to orthogonal pairs of tRNAs and aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases that can incorporate the coumarin unnatural amino acid L-(7-hydroxycoumarin-4-yl) ethylglycine into proteins produced in eubacterial host cells such as E. coli. The invention provides, for example but not limited to, novel orthogonal synthetases, methods for identifying and making the novel synthetases, methods for producing proteins containing the unnatural amino acid L-(7-hydroxycoumarin-4-yl)ethylglycine and related translation systems.
US07807408B2
Disclosed is a method of altering a nucleic acid such as RNA or DNA. The method comprises fragmenting a parent nucleic acid strand to generate nucleic acid fragments. At least a subset of the fragments are ligated to generate shuffled nucleic acid strands. A selected strand is identified from the shuffled nucleic acid strands for a criterion. The methods of the invention can also be used to diversify proteins.
US07807399B2
Disclosed are methods for detecting thiol-containing nucleotide diphosphates. The methods utilize thiol-reactive fluorescent reagents.
US07807395B2
A method for the laboratory determination of prosthetic infections is described. This method, performed on biological fluids isolated from patients, is based on the detection of antibodies specific for the polysaccharides produced by bacteria colonizing prosthetic devices.
US07807385B2
The present invention is directed to novel polypeptides and to nucleic acid molecules encoding those polypeptides. Also provided herein are vectors and host cells comprising those nucleic acid sequences, chimeric polypeptide molecules comprising the polypeptides of the present invention fused to heterologous polypeptide sequences, antibodies which bind to the polypeptides of the present invention and to methods for producing the polypeptides of the present invention.
US07807384B2
Isolated polynucleotides encoding novel polypeptides which are capable of binding to native and methylated LDL (low density lipoprotein), the isolated polypeptides, called LBPs (LDL binding proteins), and biologically active fragments and analogs thereof, are described. Also described are methods for determining if an animal is at risk for atherosclerosis, methods for evaluating an agent for use in treating atherosclerosis, methods for treating atherosclerosis, and methods for treating a cell having an abnormality in structure or metabolism of LBP. Pharmaceutical compositions and vaccine compositions are also provided.
US07807377B2
The present invention concerns artificial antigen presenting cells (aAPCs) and methods of making and using the same, for example, to isolate, identify, and expand T cell populations specifically reactive against a disease-associated antigenic peptide, as well as to modulate responses of antigen-specific T cells both in vivo, ex vivo, and in vitro. Accordingly, the aAPCs of the invention can be used to treat conditions that would benefit from modulation of a T cell response, for example, autoimmune disorders, allergies, cancers, viral infections, and graft rejection. In certain preferred embodiments, the aAPCs are liposomes comprised of MHC:peptide complexes and accessory molecules. Other molecules, such as co-stimulatory molecules and adhesion molecules, can also be included in the compositions of the invention. In other embodiments, the aAPCs are comprised of a scaffold to which a plurality of MHC:peptide complexes and accessory molecules (as well as other molecules) can be attached at high density.
US07807376B2
Disclosed, among other things, are primers containing certain modified nucleobases in the 3′ terminal region of the primers that provide reduced formation of primer-dimers during amplification reactions, and various methods of use thereof.
US07807375B2
The present invention provides a method for determining nucleic acid sequences of a template nucleic acid that requires no prior knowledge of the nucleic acid sequence present in the template nucleic acid. The method is based on combining information about the mass of a fragment, the mass of any one nucleotide and the combinations thereof, and the sequence specificity of a nucleotide cutter, either enzymatic or chemical cutter, to determine a sequence of a nucleic acid fragment. This method allows for de novo detection of sequences in a target nucleic acid without requiring any prior sequence information. This method is called Partial Sequencing by Fragmentation (PSBF) and it works by fragmenting a target into oligo- or polynucleotides whose masses or lengths are uniquely associated with known sequences. The identities of these sequences are determined solely by the specific fragmentation method used, and are always independent of the target. PSBF can be implemented using electrophoresis, mass spectrometry or any other method that can be used to distinguish the size of the cut nucleic acid sequence fragments.
US07807370B2
Animals with mutations in SILV present with the merle coat color pattern phenotype. Methods for the identification of animals that harbor a mutation in the SILV gene are described. Mutations in the SILV gene can be identified from any biological sample such as a cell or tissue that contains genomic DNA. A microsatellite marker identified using linkage disequilibrium mapping that segregates with merle is also described.
US07807369B2
The current invention provides improved methods and means for the treatment of virally induced intraepithelial neoplasias of the ano-genital tract, such as HPV induced vulvar-, cervical-, vaginal-, penile- and anal intraepithelial neoplasias (VIN, CIN, VAIN, PIN and AIN). The invention provides a method of treatment of a subject suffering from an anogenital intraepithelial neoplasia comprising at least the steps of first determining whether the subject has a T-cell reactivity for viral early antigens, in particular high risk type HPV antigens; and subsequently a local treatment of the neoplasia with immune modulating compounds eliciting local inflammation if the subject scores positive for the T-cell reactivity, preferably a CD4+response against HPV early antigens. The invention also comprises methods and means to induce or further stimulate a cellular immune response against HPV antigens, prior to or during treatment with the immune modulating compound capable of eliciting a local inflammatory response.
US07807365B2
The invention relates to compositions and methods of generating a signal indicative of the presence of a target nucleic acid in a sample, where the method includes forming a cleavage structure by incubating a sample comprising a target nucleic acid with a probe. The invention also includes the steps of cleaving the cleavage structure with a nuclease to release a nucleic acid fragment to generate a signal, wherein generation of the signal is indicative of the presence of a target nucleic acid in a sample.
US07807347B2
The present invention is related to an immuno-PCR method for detecting nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) and kit thereof, especially related to an immuno-PCR method for detecting markers of early stage NPC and kit thereof. The present invention includes providing a substrate whereon protein markers immobilized; applying a patient's specimen to the substrate; adding a solution which has biotinylated anti-human IgA secondary antibody and incubating the solution; adding a solution with a linker and biotinylated target DNA; proceeding a polymerase chain reaction; and finally, detecting the target DNA fragments via electrophoresis.
US07807335B2
A method of forming an image in a photoresist layer. The method includes, providing a substrate; forming the photoresist layer over the substrate; forming a contamination gettering topcoat layer over the photoresist layer, the contamination gettering topcoat layer including one or more polymers and one or more cation complexing agents; exposing the photoresist layer to actinic radiation through a photomask having opaque and clear regions, the opaque regions blocking the actinic radiation and the clear regions being transparent to the actinic radiation, the actinic radiation changing the chemical composition of regions of the photoresist layer exposed to the radiation forming exposed and unexposed regions in the photoresist layer; and removing either the exposed regions of the photoresist layer or the unexposed regions of the photoresist layer. The contamination gettering topcoat layer includes one or more polymers, one or more cation complexing agents and a casting solvent.
US07807331B2
Resist compositions comprising a hydrogenated ring-opening metathesis polymer bearing an alicyclic structure in its backbone and comprising structural units having an oxygen atom incorporated as part of the cyclic structure exhibit a high resolution and minimal proximity bias upon ArF excimer laser lithography and have high etching resistance.
US07807330B2
A heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet provided with at least one receptor layer on a support, wherein the receptor layer has a polymer containing a repeating unit derived from a monomer represented by formula (1); and a coating composition for forming the heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet: wherein, R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or a methyl group; L1 represents a divalent linking group; R2 represents an alkylene group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms which may be further substituted; n represents an integer of 1 to 40; Z1 represents a hydrogen atom or a linear, branched or cyclic aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms which may be further substituted; and when n is 2 or more, R2s may be the same or different.
US07807324B2
An imaging member containing an optional supporting substrate, a photogenerating layer, a charge transport layer, and an overcoat layer comprised, for example, of a phenolic resin containing a phenolic charge transport component.
US07807317B2
Anode electrodes for direct oxidation fuel cells and systems operating with concentrated liquid fuel
An anode electrode for use in a fuel cell comprises a stacked structure including, in sequence: a catalyst layer, a hydrophobic, microporous layer (“MPL”), a porous gas diffusion layer (“GDL”), and an anode plate with at least one recessed fuel supply-fuel/gas exhaust channel formed in a surface thereof facing the GDL, wherein the stacked structure further comprises at least one hydrophobic region aligned with the at least one recessed channel. The electrode is useful in direct oxidation fuel cells and systems, such as direct methanol fuel cells operating with highly concentrated liquid fuel.
US07807312B2
The invention relates to a portable electrical energy generator, its components, and manufacture of the components and generator. The generator includes a bi-polar plate stack, which is well suited for use in a fuel cell. The stack may include at least one spacer that limits compression of a membrane electrode assembly in the fuel cell. The stack may also include a polymer binder that holds the stack together and/or maintains a compression force on the membrane electrode assembly. An open cathode manifold may also provided to ease oxygen movement. High throughput and low cost manufacture of bi-polar plates is also described herein.
US07807309B2
A fuel cell stack configuration and method of removing gas from the coolant flow path within a fuel cell stack is provided. The fuel cell stack has an internal vent passageway that communicates with the coolant supply header to enable gas entrapped therein to be vented from the fuel cell stack. The vent passageway can be formed by a plurality of apertures in the components that comprise the fuel cell stack and run parallel and adjacent to the coolant supply header. Alternatively, a vent line can be connected to the coolant supply header with a valve therein to selectively vent gas from the coolant supply header.
US07807297B2
Alkaline batteries are provided, including an anode, a cathode, and a separator disposed between the anode and cathode. The cathode porosity is selected to optimize performance characteristics of the battery. In one aspect, an alkaline cell is provided that includes (a) an anode, (b) a cathode, comprising a cathode active material, wherein the cathode has a porosity of from about 25% to about 30%, and (c) a separator disposed between the cathode and the anode.
US07807295B2
Bipolar batteries configured to minimize the introduction of gas bubbles and methods of manufacturing such batteries are taught herein. One bipolar battery includes an electrolyte layer, which includes a plurality of separators having permeability such that the electrolytes can penetrate therein, in a bipolar electrode wherein a cathode is formed at one side of a collector and an anode is formed at another side of the collector. A stack is formed by stacking the electrolyte layers upon one another. The electrolyte layer of the stack has a layer of overlayed separators.
US07807285B1
An energy storage device, such as an electrical storage battery, having a unique terminal structure and sealing arrangement. The battery generally includes a case in which an electrode assembly is disposed, and a cover provided with a fill hole and fill plug, and a terminal structure that forms a battery terminal. Both the positive and negative electrode tabs are compressed by a fastener that seals the battery and forms a battery terminal. The battery case can be positive, negative, or neutral.
US07807278B2
A perpendicular magnetic recording medium, including a soft-magnetic backing layer; and a recording layer provided over the oft-magnetic backing layer. There is provided a magnetic flux slit layer between the soft-magnetic backing layer and the recording layer. The magnetic flux slit layer includes a soft-magnetic layer having a generally columnar structure generally isolated magnetically in an in-plane direction. The magnetic flux slit layer contains at least one selected from the group consisting of Co, Fe, Ni, a Co alloy, a Fe alloy, and a Ni alloy, as a major component, and the magnetic flux slit layer further contains any one selected from the group consisting of Ta, Cu, Pb, Cr, and Re.
US07807277B2
The present invention provides an amine compound useful for an organic light-emitting device capable of realizing extremely high luminous efficiency and having a light output with a long lifetime can be formed. The amine compound is represented by the following general formula (1): wherein Ar1 to Ar8 each represent an aryl group or a heterocyclic group, R1 to R6 each represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, or the like, and X represents a biphenylene group, a fluorenylene group, or the like.
US07807272B2
A coating solution comprising: a first solvent; 0.1 to 30 parts by weight of a polycarboxylic acid-based polymer relative to 100 parts by weight of the solvent; and 0.05 to 0.25 chemical equivalent of a zinc compound relative to an amount of carboxyl group in the polycarboxylic acid-based polymer, wherein a number average molecular weight of the polycarboxylic acid-based polymer is in a range of 40,000 to 10,000,000.
US07807264B2
An electromagnetic wave absorption material and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. Mix 40% to 70% weight percent liquid resin with 30% to 60% weight percent bamboo charcoal evenly. After cooling, pour the mixture into a mold for curing to produce sheet product. The microwave absorption material of the present invention meets environmental requirements.
US07807249B2
A composite article comprises a plurality of reinforcing fibers embedded in a matrix. The fibers have a fiber orientation of ±α with respect to an axis of loading, where α=2 to 8 degrees to suppress or delay ply splitting.
US07807247B1
Flexlock non-textile fabrics use intimately linked elements that are formed from formable, preferably solid phase forgeable materials into generally triangular shapes with hinging connection features along edges of a generally triangular overall shape. These hinging connection portions permit other elements to rotate about axes that intersect at intersections. Buttressing portions are located near these intersections and include cylindrical or conical shapes that abut the buttressing portions of adjacent formed elements. This abutting can occur even when adjacent elements are rotated or twisted out of a common plane. Connection portions include direct formed engagements with knuckles of the other elements. These connection portions and the engaged knuckles can include headed pintles, axles, or oppositely facing conical protrusions, and may be configured to permit the non-textile fabric to bend on itself within its own thickness without undue strain on the connection features.
US07807246B2
This disclosed invention relates to a dry paint transfer laminate, comprising: a dry paint film layer comprising a binder and a pigment, the dry paint film layer having an upper surface and a lower surface; an adhesive layer overlying the upper surface of the dry paint film layer; and a release liner overlying the lower surface of the dry paint film layer. Methods of making and using the laminate are disclosed.
US07807240B2
A multilayer white polymeric film having a core layer with an optical transmission density greater than 2.0, a white polyester outer layer on either side of the core layer and an ink receptive layer on the outer surface of the white polyester layers.
US07807225B2
A high-density plasma method is provided for forming a SiOXNY thin-film. The method provides a substrate and introduces a silicon (Si) precursor. A thin-film is deposited overlying the substrate, using a high density (HD) plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) process. As a result, a SiOXNY thin-film is formed, where (X+Y<2 and Y>0). The SiOXNY thin-film can be stoichiometric or non-stoichiometric. The SiOXNY thin-film can be graded, meaning the values of X and Y vary with the thickness of the SiOXNY thin-film. Further, the process enables the in-situ deposition of a SiOXNY thin-film multilayer structure, where the different layers may be stoichiometric, non-stoichiometric, graded, and combinations of the above-mentioned types of SiOXNY thin-films.
US07807224B2
A process for treatment of wood susceptible to damage and having a length that is over the critical length with a fluid under high pressure is disclosed. The process is conducted in a way so that the fluid is not allowed to enter into the liquid form inside the wood. In one embodiment the process is performed in a way so the temperature during the pressurizing is not allowed to exceed the plastification temperature of the wood. In this embodiment the rate of damages of the wood is even further reduced.
US07807212B2
A biomedical material is prepared through a plasma method. The material is a film containing titanium oxide onto polymer sheet. The film is hydrophilic, bacterial inactivated and biocompatible. The present invention can be applied to artificial guiding tube and wound dressing material.
US07807211B2
A method of manufacturing an implantable medical device, such as a drug eluting stent, is disclosed. The method includes subjecting an implantable medical device that includes a polymer to a thermal condition. The thermal condition can result in reduction of the rate of release of an active agent from the device subsequent to the implantation of the device and/or improve the mechanical properties of a polymeric coating on the device.
US07807209B1
A composition comprising a watermelon juice includes the following colorimeter values, an L value of about 19 or greater, an A value of about 32 or greater, a B value of about 24 or greater. Watermelon juice extract is typically free of any added, artificial colorants or sweeteners. The present invention also generally includes a food composition that utilizes a clarified watermelon juice or a cloudy watermelon juice, where the cloudy watermelon juice has the following colorimeter values, an L value of about 19 or greater, an A value of about 32 or greater, a B value of about 24 or greater, and the clarified watermelon juice is derived from the cloudy watermelon juice. The food compositions incorporating the watermelon juice are usually a beverage, a sorbet, a yogurt, a sauce, a salad dressing, a fruit salad, a dessert, a bakery filling, a candy, or a bar mix.
US07807206B2
Sweeteners on the basis of a simultaneously transglucosylated sweet glycoside mixture of Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni are prepared. The transglycosylation was developed in the presence of starch under the action of cyclodextrin glucanotransferase. The remaining maltodextrins are transferred to the fructose-terminated oligosaccharides. The sweeteners are purified to not less than 98% content of sweet glycosides and derivatives. The preparations are almost non-caloric, non-cariogenic, non-bitter, non-lingering sweeteners, which may be advantageously applied in foods, beverages, cosmetics and milk products.
US07807205B2
Methods are provided for isolating a nutrient from coffee cherries or for producing a food product that comprises a coffee cherry or portion thereof (FIG. 3). It is particularly preferred that coffee cherries will have an extremely low concentration of mycotoxins, including various aflatoxins, fumonisins, ochratoxins, and/or vomitoxin (DON, deoxynivalenol).
US07807199B2
An antimicrobial composition comprising metal particles that may be silver, copper, or gold together with a surfactant such as benzalkonium chloride in a liquid medium, which is preferably deionized water, that will not react with the other constituents of the antimicrobial composition. Preferably, the composition also comprises a source of iodine, such as poly(vinyl pyrrolidone)-iodine complex. And a substrate carrier having the same type of metal as the particles deposited onto it may also be introduced into the liquid medium. The metal particles are preferably nanoparticles but may be in the micron size, in the submicron size, or bulk particles.
US07807188B2
A composition and a method of producing a composition which simulates hydration, cleansing and other properties of native vernix. The composition contains hydrated synthetic cells in a lipid matrix to provide rheological properties which are substantially similar to those of native vernix, and may also contain proteins. In one embodiment, the composition contains cubosomes/water with up to 30% protein and about 5% lipid to about 30% lipid. The composition may be used to cleanse newborn skin, compromised skin surfaces, as well as normal skin, to provide hydration/barrier function, and other applications.
US07807186B2
The present invention relates to tumor cell-based vaccines and methods of using same, wherein the vaccines are based on naturally immune privileged tumor cells that have been genetically modified to express MHC-II restricted peptides derived from endogenously encoded tumor antigens, activate CD4+ T-lymphocytes, provide an array of antigens to which the host is not tolerized and/or induce immunity against the originating tumor cells as well as against metastatic tumor cells.
US07807182B2
A number of protein and glycoprotein antigens secreted by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) have been identified as “early” Mtb antigens on the basis early antibodies present in subjects infected with Mtb prior to the development of detectable clinical disease. Epitope-bearing peptide fragments of these early Mtb antigens, in particular of an 88 kDa secreted protein, GlcB (SEQ ID NO:106) and of Mtb antigen MPT51 (SEQ ID NO:107) have been identified. These peptides, variants thereof, peptide multimers thereof that include two or more repeats of one or more of the peptides, and fusion polypeptides that include early Mtb antigenic proteins, peptides or both, are useful in immunoassay methods for early, rapid detection of TB in a subject. Preferred immunoassays detect the antibodies in the subject's urine. Also provided are antigenic compositions, kits and methods to useful for detecting an early Mtb antibodies. The antigenic proteins and peptides are also used in vaccine compositions.
US07807179B2
The present invention relates to hyperproliferative diseases. Specifically, the present invention encompasses pharmaceutical compositions comprising a modified Reoviridae virus, wherein the Reoviridae virus is conjugated to a hydroxylated hydrocarbon or a polycationic polymer to reduce the clearance of the composition and reduce the immunogenicity of the composition. Yet further, the invention relates to methods of treating a hyperproliferative disease by administering to a patient an effective amount of the modified Reoviridae virus.
US07807176B2
It is intended to provide a novel polypeptide having an activity of growing vascular endothelial cells, an activity of promoting transcription form c-fos promoter, an activity of promoting transciption from VEGF promoter and/or an angiogenic activity; a polynucleotide encoding this polypeptide; the above polypeptide and/or a pharmaceutical composition containing the polypeptide for treating a disease selected from the group consisting of obstructive arteriosclerosis, Buerger's disease, peripheral vascular disorder, angina, myocardial infraction, brain infarction, ischemic heart disease and ischemic brain disease; a method of treating these diseases; and an antibacterial composition. The above problems can be solved by isolating a novel peptide having the above-described activities and a nucleotide encoding this peptide.
US07807175B2
The present invention is related to methods and compositions for the therapeutic and diagnostic use in the treatment of diseases and disorders which are caused by or associated with amyloid or amyloid-like proteins including amyloidosis.In particular, the present invention provides novel methods and compositions for eliciting a highly specific and highly effective immune response in an organism, but particularly within an animal, particularly a mammal or a human, which is capable of preventing or alleviating amyloidosis, or the symptoms associated with amyloidosis, a group of diseases and disorders associated with amyloid plaque formation including secondary amyloidosis and age-related amyloidosis including, but not limited to, neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's Disease (AD), including diseases or conditions characterized by a loss of cognitive memory capacity such as, for example, mild cognitive impairment (MCI).
US07807174B2
The present invention provides new compositions and methods for preventing and treating pathogen infection. In particular, the present invention provides compounds having an anchoring domain that anchors the compound to the surface of a target cell, and a therapeutic domain that can act extracellularly to prevent infection of a target cell by a pathogen, such as a virus. The present invention also comprises therapeutic compositions having sialidase activity, including protein-based compounds having sialidase catalytic domains. Compounds of the invention can be used for treating or preventing pathogen infection, and for treating and reducing allergic and inflammatory responses. The invention also provides compositions and methods for enhancing transduction of target cells by recombinant viruses. Such compositions and methods can be used in gene therapy.
US07807169B2
A composition comprising at least one antigenic medium and at least one adjuvant, wherein the at least one antigenic medium and the at least one adjuvant each comprise one or more phases which are distinct from each other when the composition is in a solid state, and the composition is in the liquid state when its temperature is greater than or equal to 4° C.
US07807168B2
The invention relates to antibodies which bind to tumor necrosis factor α (TNFα) and uses thereof, in particular in the diagnosis and treatment of autoimmune diseases, e.g. rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Specific human monoclonal antibodies which inhibit TNFα-mediated signalling pathways, and variants, fragments, and derivatives thereof are provided. Also provided are specific human monoclonal antibodies which block the ability of TNFα to bind to its receptor, as well as fragments, variants and derivatives of such antibodies. The invention also includes polynucleotides encoding the above antibodies or fragments, variants or derivatives thereof, as well as vectors and host cells comprising such polynucleotides. The invention further includes methods of diagnosing and treating autoimmune diseases, e.g. rheumatoid arthritis (RA), using antibodies of the invention.
US07807166B2
Antibodies, and particularly human antibodies, are disclosed that demonstrate activity in the treatment of demyelinating diseases as well as other diseases of the central nervous system that are of viral, bacterial or idiopathic origin, including neural dysfunction caused by spinal cord injury. Neuromodulatory agents are set forth that include and comprise a material selected from the group consisting of an antibody capable of binding structures or cells in the central nervous system, a peptide analog, a hapten, active fragments thereof, agonists thereof, mimics thereof, monomers thereof and combinations thereof. The neuromodulatory agent has one or more of the following characteristics: it is capable of inducing remyelination; binding to neural tissue; promoting Ca−− signaling with oligodendrocytes; and promoting cellular proliferation of glial cells. Amino acid and DNA sequences of exemplary antibodies are disclosed. Methods are described for treating demyelinating diseases, and diseases of the central nervous system of humans and domestic animals, using polyclonal IgM antibodies and human monoclonal antibodies sHIgm22 (LYM 22), sHIgm46 (LYM46) ebvHIgM MSI19D10, CB2bG8, AKJR4, CB2iE12, CB2iE7, MSI19E5 and MSI10E10, active fragments thereof and the like. The invention also extends to the use of human antibodies, fragments, peptide derivatives and like materials, and their use in diagnostic and therapeutic applications, including screening assays for the discovery of additional antibodies that bind to cells of the nervous system, particularly oligodendrocytes.
US07807161B2
The present invention provides a humanized anti-human osteopontin antibody having better activities (antigen binding activity, leukocyte migration inhibitory activity and the like) and/or stability (resistance to heat, low-pH conditions, denaturants and the like) than those of conventional anti-human osteopontin antibodies.
US07807149B2
The present invention relates in its broadest aspect to combined phage/antibiotic therapy. More particularly, it relates to use of (i) one or more bacteriophages and (ii) one or more antibiotics in the manufacture of a combined product for simultaneous, separate or sequential administration of (i) and (ii) to treat a bacterial infection characterized by biofilm formation, for example an infection comprising or consisting of P. aeruginosa. Treatment in this context may be either therapeutic or prophylactic treatment. Also provided are deposited bacteriophages each exhibiting different strain specificity against P. aeruginosa and combinations of such bacteriophages, e.g. a panel of six deposited bacteriophages which was found to be effective against a high percentage of clinical isolates of P. aeruginosa from canine ear infections.
US07807148B2
The present invention relates to in vitro cultured skin tissue, and in particular to cultured skin tissue comprising exogenous genes encoding angiogenic growth factors. In some embodiments, the keratinocytes express exogenous angiopoietin-1, HIF-1α, or a member of the VEGF family, preferably VEGF-A. In particularly preferred embodiments, the keratinocytes are incorporated into cultured skin tissue.
US07807145B2
The present invention relates to methods of inducing neuronal production in the brain, recruiting neurons to the brain, and treating a neurodegenerative condition by providing a nucleic acid construct encoding a neurotrophic factor, and injecting the nucleic acid construct intraventricularly into a subject's brain.
US07807142B2
Stabilized liquid polypeptide-containing pharmaceutical compositions are provided. The compositions comprise an amino acid base, which serves as the primary stabilizing agent of the polypeptide, and an acid and/or its salt form to buffer the solution within an acceptable pH range for stability of the polypeptide. Methods for increasing stability of a polypeptide in a liquid pharmaceutical composition and for increasing storage stability of such a pharmaceutical composition are also provided.
US07807134B2
Described is a multi drug multiligand conjugate for targeted drug delivery. The MDML conjugate contains a plurality of tripartite molecules linked to a central scaffold moiety, with each tripartite molecule comprising a targeting molecule, a therapeutic agent and a scaffold binding element. The MDML conjugate allows for more efficient delivery of therapeutic agents to the cells resulting in enhanced therapeutic efficiency. A model MDL conjugate is disclosed as well as method for the synthesis of the model conjugate.
US07807132B2
A quantity of solution sufficient to dissolve a pH controlling substance and/or substantially dissolve a surfactant without substantial excess solution is controlled under a set of time and temperature conditions to transform an inorganic material having long-range crystallinity to a mesostructure having long-range crystallinity. The method employs concentrated conditions that have a consistency similar to a thick slurry. The economic viability of scaling up such thick slurry methods is improved relative to prior more dilute methods of transforming an inorganic material to a mesostructure.
US07807131B2
A hydrogen producing fuel comprises a chemical hydride and metal hydride. In one embodiment the chemical hydride evolves hydrogen spontaneously upon exposure to water vapor, and the metal hydride reversibly absorbs/desorbs hydrogen based on temperature and pressure. The hydrogen producing substance may be formed in the shape of a pellet and may be contained within a hydrogen and water vapor permeable, liquid water impermeable membrane.
US07807128B2
Multimetallic anionic clays (MACs) are prepared using economical raw materials or reactants and a procedure for obtaining a series of multimetallic mixed oxides derived from the thermal decomposition of the MACs which comprises: (1) dissolving water-soluble bimetallic and/or trimetallic sources in water, (2) dispersing and homogenizing separate water-insoluble divalent and/or trivalent metal precursors with a high-speed stirrer in order to obtain small and reactive particles; depending on the nature of the water-insoluble divalent and/or trivalent metal precursors, this process can be adjusted to a desired pH, (3) adding the suspension obtained in (2) to solution (1) with the reaction medium still dispersed to facilitate solid particle's reduction/dissociation, and (4) afterwards the slurry is aged for several hours and finally dried. This process enables raw materials or reactants to be easily handled, and eliminates unit operations involving product washing and/or purification steps.
US07807124B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing carbon nitride material wherein organic rodanide is simply pyrolyzed to give carbon nitride material in an efficient, economical, and ecologically friendly manner. The present invention accomplishes preparation of graphitic carbon nitride materials having a carbon to nitrogen molar ratio of about 3:4. The employed starting materials are cheap and can be easily removed and/or washed away.
US07807114B2
The present invention provides a reactor system having: (1) a plurality of reactors connected in fluid flow communication and having at least one pair of reactors separated by an interstage position; (2) a line for supplying a reactant feed stream separately to an inlet of more than one of the plurality of reactors; and (3) a diverter in fluid communication with the interstage position and capable of directing a first portion of a product stream exiting one reactor in said pair of reactors to a first location and a second portion of the product flow stream to an inlet of another reactor in said pair of reactors.
US07807113B2
The present invention includes a removable microchannel unit including an inlet orifice and an outlet orifice in fluid communication with a plurality of microchannels distributed throughout the removable microchannel unit, and a pressurized vessel adapted have the removable microchannel unit mounted thereto, the pressurized vessel adapted to contain a pressurized fluid exerting a positive gauge pressure upon at least a portion of the exterior of the removable microchannel unit. The invention also includes a microchannel unit assembly comprising a microchannel unit operation carried out within a pressurized vessel, where pressurized vessel includes a pressurized fluid exerting a positive gauge pressure upon an exterior of the microchannel unit operation, and where the microchannel unit operation includes an outlet orifice in fluid communication with an interior of the pressurized vessel.
US07807096B2
A method of preparing a single layer hollow packaging by injection blow moulding, using a metallocene-produced polyethylene and produced by injection blow moulding, characterized in that said hollow packaging has an external and internal gloss of at least 30 and said metallocene-produced polyethylene has a density of from 0.910 up to 0.966 g/cm3 or up to homopolymer densities and a melt index MI2 of from 0.5 to 2.5 g/10 min. An article produced by such method is also disclosed.
US07807095B2
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing an air mat that reduces the number of manufacturing processes by means of rotational molding, while preventing the generation of defective products, to a device for molding an air mat, and to an air mat manufactured and molded by the method and device. In a method for manufacturing an air mat formed in such a manner as to integrally couple a cushion part having a plurality of air bags arranged therein for containing air at the insides thereof with a plate-shaped lower sheet disposed on the lower surface of the cushion part, the method includes the steps of: preparing a lower mold having a plurality of air bag molding recesses having given depths arranged at given intervals thereon, for molding the cushion part of the air mat.
US07807093B2
A method for arranging a thermoplastic insert unit (2) in a thermoplastic sandwich product (1) having at least one planar or virtually planar section by the application of ultrasonic energy (6, 8). A thermoplastic sandwich product (1) comprises at least one fiber-reinforced thermoplastic covering layer (7) and a thermoplastic core which is not completely solid (8). Examples of thermoplastic sandwich products include: a flat plate, a slightly curved product, a folded product, etc. The production of a recess in the surface of the thermoplastic sandwich product, with the plastic insert unit being welded into the recess.
US07807091B2
A method and plant for the introduction of a liquid into a molten mass under pressure. Such a method and plant are particularly, but not exclusively, suitable for the formation of a coating layer on a cable element having at least one conductor, the layer having an extruded thermoplastic polymer forming a continuous phase incorporating a dielectric liquid, and are useful, for example, in the production of an electric cable for the transportation and/or distribution of electrical power. The method includes the steps of bringing the liquid to a predetermined pressure greater than the pressure of the molten mass; feeding the liquid into a plurality of storage tanks, and injecting the liquid into the molten mass at an injection pressure equal to the above-mentioned predetermined pressure by means of a plurality of injectors in respective fluid communication with the plurality of storage tanks. Advantageously, this allows a substantial continuity of delivery of the liquid in a technologically simple way and at low cost, while ensuring a dispersion as uniform as possible of the liquid within the molten mass.
US07807089B2
The invention relates to a method for manufacturing ground slabs from a cement-bonded material or concrete, with a facing made of fine-grade or facing concrete forming the top surface of the respective slab and with a core made of core concrete forming the bottom surface by means of pressing in a mold cavity of a press mold.
US07807082B2
An apparatus for fabricating a flat panel display device including a preparation unit to form a thin film layer and a etch-resist on a substrate and a hard mold to mold the etch-resist, the hard mold including a back plate and a molding pattern.
US07807067B2
The treatment of textiles by a fluoropolymer-branched silicone polyether composition is disclosed. The fluoropolymer-branched silicone polyether compositions are prepared by combining a fluoropolymer and a branched silicone polyether. The resulting compositions improve the hand or feel of the fabric without significantly diminishing oil repellency nor the stain release properties associated with fluoropolymers. The branched silicone polyethers can be used alone to improve the feel of fabrics, without diminishing the hydrophilicity of the fabric.
US07807060B2
The invention relates to a method for extracting solids (23; 123) from a suspension (22; 122) containing the solids (23; 123) and suspension liquid (32; 132) in a continuously or virtually continuously operating filter device (10; 110) using a filtering material (26; 126), on the one side of which, the high-pressure side (30; 130), a higher pressure prevails than on its other side, the low-pressure side (42; 142), and which passes successively through a plurality of working zones (I-V; I-IV) of the filter device (10; 110) in a working direction (U), the suspension (22; 122) being supplied to the filtering material (26; 126) on its high-pressure side (30; 130) in a first working zone (I) and being filtered, the suspension liquid (22; 122) flowing through the filtering material (26; 126) on account of the difference in pressure between the high-pressure side (30; 130) and the low-pressure side (42; 142) while at least some of the solids (23; 123) are deposited on the filtering material (26; 126). As claimed in the invention, the solids (23; 123) which are deposited on the filtering material (26; 126) are resuspended in a washing liquid (50; 150), and the new suspension (resuspension) (53; 153) thus formed is filtered again in a second working zone (II) of the filter device (10; 110), which zone is arranged downstream of the first working zone (I) in the working direction (U).
US07807047B2
A process treats a fluid stream of used fracturing fluid containing contaminants and forms a reconditioned fluid stream. Contaminants are removed by the combination of distillation, electrostatic agglomeration, decanting, and filtration. Optionally, the filtered fluid stream is treated in a clay tower to remove residual contaminants.
US07807046B2
Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude feed has a total content of alkali metal, and alkaline-earth metal in metal salts of organic acids of at least 0.00001 grams per gram of crude feed. At least one of the catalysts has a pore size distribution of at least 230 Å. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. The crude product has a total content of alkali metal, and alkaline-earth metal in metal salts of organic acids of at most 90% of the total content of alkali metal, and alkaline-earth metal in metal salts of organic acids of the crude feed. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.
US07807040B2
The present invention provides a process for the recovery of radiolabelled isotopes from organic substances labelled or contaminated with one or more radiolabelled isotopes, which process comprises: i) adding organic substances labelled or contaminated with a radiolabelled isotope to an acidic aqueous electrolyte containing silver ions as an electrochemically regenerable primary oxidising species; ii) subjecting the acidic aqueous electrolyte to an electric potential; and iii) recovering the radiolabelled isotope from the products of the electrochemical process resulting from the application of the electric potential; wherein the process is carried out at a slight pressure depression.
US07807038B2
The present invention provides a method of electrochemical polishing of a workpiece using a polishing pad having a cellular polymeric layer overlying a conductive substrate, the cellular polymeric layer having a thickness less than 1.5 mm; wherein the cellular polymeric layer comprises a plurality of pores that extend through the thickness of the cellular polymeric layer from a polishing surface of the cellular polymeric layer to the conductive substrate; and wherein the plurality of pores exhibit a diameter that is smaller at the polishing surface than at the conductive substrate.
US07807037B2
A method for removing a metal layer comprising the steps of providing a part having a slot, providing a porous metallic cathode comprising a recess bounded by a wall having an outer surface corresponding to the slot, inserting the porous metallic cathode into the slot, introducing an electrolyte into the recess of the porous metallic cathode, and removing a portion of an inner surface of the slot by flowing an electric current between the part and the porous metallic cathode.
US07807030B2
A small magnet assembly having a magnet assembly of area less than 10% of the target area, is scanned in a retrograde planetary or epicyclic path about the back of a target being plasma sputtered including an orbital rotation about the center axis of the target and a planetary rotation about another axis rotating about the target center axis. The magnet assembly passes through the target center, thus allowing full target coverage. A properly chosen ratio of the two rotations about respective axes produces a much slower magnet velocity near the target periphery than at the target center. A geared planetary mechanism includes a rotating drive plate, a fixed center gear, and an idler and a follower gear rotatably supported in the drive plane supporting a cantilevered magnet assembly on the side of the drive plate facing the target.
US07807024B2
A system and method for transferring a continuously advancing paper web from a dryer to a reel section is provided. The system includes a first fabric defining a first moving conveyor. The first fabric may be a permeable fabric, which is positioned downstream from the dryer. A second fabric, which may also be permeable and defines a second moving conveyor, is also included. The first moving conveyor overlaps the second moving conveyor for a predetermined distance, and the first and second moving conveyors are configured to receive the paper web between the conveyors. A vacuum device is rotatably disposed against the first moving conveyor, and the dryer and the vacuum device are disposed relative to each other to form an open draw. The vacuum device is configured to produce a vacuum to attract the web to the first fabric for transferring the advancing web into the predetermined distance where the first and second conveyors overlap.
US07807022B2
A method of making soft, strong, high bulk tissue is disclosed. The method includes pre-conditioning a wet web by straining the wet web in the cross-machine direction prior to transferring the wet web to a through drying fabric. The pre-conditioned web provides improved sheet softness and conforms more readily to the surface contour of the through drying fabric, thereby creating greater caliper (bulk) in the resulting dried sheet. The bulk is maintained during a subsequent creping step by maintaining the dried sheet in registration with the through drying fabric when the dried sheet is applied to the surface of the creping cylinder.
US07807017B2
An etching apparatus for substrates includes an etching tank including an etching solution, a cassette having a plurality of substrates mounted therein and which is installed inside the etching tank, a porous plate installed on a lower surface of the cassette and a plurality of discharge sections provided in the porous plate corresponding to the substrates and each of the discharge sections having a plurality of discharge ports. The etching apparatus further includes a plurality of first lines connected to the discharge ports respectively, and supplied with a gas to provide bubbles to the substrates through the discharge ports. The first lines are divided into a plurality of groups, and at least one group is supplied with a gas having a pressure different from a pressure of a gas supplied to other groups.
US07807014B2
A thermosetting solution composition composed of a biphenyltetracarboxylic acid compound containing a partial lower aliphatic alkyl ester of 2,3,3′,4′-biphenyltetracarboxylic acid and/or a partial lower aliphatic alkyl ester of 2,2′,3,3′-biphenyltetracarboxylic acid, an aromatic diamine compound in a molar amount larger than a molar amount of the biphenyltetracarboxylic acid compound, a partial lower aliphatic alkyl ester of 4-(2-phenylethynyl)phthalic acid compound in a molar amount as much as 1.8-2.2 times a molar amount corresponding to a difference between the molar amount of the aromatic diamine compound and the molar amount of the biphenyltetracarboxylic acid compound, and an organic solvent composed of a lower aliphatic alcohol is of value for manufacture of a prepreg.
US07807004B2
This invention is directed to a method for joining an adhesive tape having the steps (1) separating, from a first adhesion face of a double-sided adhesive tape having first and second separators attached to front and back adhesion faces thereof, the first separator, and joining the double-sided adhesive tape to a surface of a substrate; (2) joining the double-sided adhesive tape to the substrate while a joining roller provided in a tape joining unit presses the second separator with rolling, and taking up the second separator wound and turned around by the joining roller and separated from a second adhesion face of the double-sided adhesive tape in a second separator collecting unit provided in the tape joining unit while rolling the joining roller synchronously; and (3) cutting the double-sided adhesive tape joined to the substrate with the adhesion faces thereof being exposed along with a contour of the substrate.
US07807003B2
A method for assembling insulating glass panes from two or more glass sheets filled with a gas other than air, two plates facing each other, arranged parallel to each other vertically to inclined with adjustable mutual distance, a horizontal conveyor arranged near the lower edge of the plates, a first sealing device and a second sealing device, positioned at the protruding edges of both the plates or near these edges or between the plates and can extend between the horizontal conveyor and a point lying above the horizontal conveyor, and having means for feeding a gas other than air into a chamber, delimited on both the sides by the two plates and by the two sealing devices. For assembling overlong insulating glass panes, the glass sheets, at one of which a frame-like spacer is attached on both the sides, are positioned between the plates an the plates opposite each other.
US07807001B2
An apparatus and related method for laminating a masking film onto a pre-press flexographic printing plate to place the plate in optical contact with the film by applying a balanced, non-distorting force to the flexographic printing plate and masking film. This method includes laminating the pre-press flexographic printing plate with the film mask by applying an optimized lamination force to achieve optical contact while minimizing lateral film distortion.
US07806999B2
This invention relates to granules comprising a homogenous mixture of metal flakes and/or metal powder and metal oxide powder, and a binder. The invention also relates to a process for producing such granules. The process includes the step of forming a mixture of metal flakes and/or metal powder and metal oxide powder, forming the mixture into a homogenous blend, adding the blend, together with a binder, to a granulator to form granules, and drying the granules. Granules so formed containing aluminum, aluminum oxide and iron oxide find particular use as sensitizers and energizers in explosives compositions.
US07806997B2
Amorphous Fe-based metal foams and methods of preparing the same are provided. The Fe-based foams are prepared from Fe-based metal alloys of low hydrogen solubility having an atomic fraction of Fe greater than or equal to the atomic fraction of each other alloying element. A method for producing the Fe-based foams includes the in situ decomposition of a hydride in a molten Fe-based alloy.
US07806996B2
A copper-based alloy essentially includes 5.0 to 10.0 wt % of Zn, 2.8 to 5.0 wt % of Sn, 0.4 to 3.0 wt % of Bi, 0
US07806995B2
A Mo—Si—B alloy has a matrix of Mo or a Mo solid solution, wherein 25% by volume to 90% by volume of molybdenum silicide and molybdenum boron silicide, optionally together with molybdenum boride, are incorporated. The alloy also contains 0.1-5% by volume of one or more oxides or mixed oxides with a vapor pressure at 1500° C. of <5×10−2 bar in finely dispersed form. The oxide addition not only improves the hot strength but also greatly improves the ductility.
US07806985B2
An improvement has been made in contact states between a rotating electrode arranged inside a vacuum chamber and a power supply mechanism which touches the rotating electrode to supply electric power thereto. A vacuum device is provided with a vacuum chamber, a rotating electrode arranged inside and electrically insulated from the vacuum chamber, and a power supply mechanism which touches the rotating electrode to supply electric power thereto, wherein the rotating electrode has an annular shape and horizontally rotates with respect to the center axis of the annular shape, and the power supply mechanism is composed of electrode members, and the electrode member and the rotating electrode come into contact with each other at at least one contact surface.
US07806982B2
The apparatus for fabricating an organic electroluminescent device which can distribute stress applied to the mask uniformly to form precise and reliable light emitting layers is disclosed. The apparatus for fabricating an electroluminescent device according to the present invention comprises a plurality of grippers disposed in a zigzag state at a periphery of a mask for clamping the mask, a plurality of jaws formed on each gripper and contacting with the mask, and power supplying units for supplying power to the grippers to stretch the mask. Each of the grippers is divided into a connecting section connected to the power supplying unit and a head section integrated into the connecting section, and a plurality of jaws are formed on the head section of each gripper, and odd (or even)-numbered grippers disposed at each side of the mask are disposed in a more forward position than even (or odd)-numbered grippers. Accordingly, the head section of each even (or odd)-numbered gripper is placed between the connection sections of two adjacent odd (or even)-numbered grippers. The head sections of even-numbered grippers and the head sections of odd-numbered grippers are arranged alternatively in two different imaginary lines. Also, the jaws are arranged in a line on the head section of each gripper or are arranged in a zigzag state on the head section of each gripper. At this time, the jaws are arranged by equal distance from each other.
US07806980B2
An inhibitor bound form of human beta secretase, also known as memapsin 2 and BACE, particularly in a glycosylated form as expressed in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO), HEK293 cells, or in insect cells as part of a Baculovirus expression system has been crystallized, and the three dimensional x-ray crystal structure has been solved to 3.2 Å resolution. The x-ray crystal structure is useful for solving the structure of other molecules or molecular complexes, and designing inhibitors of human beta secretase activity.
US07806978B2
The present invention relates to a kaolin composition having improved physical properties, for example, for use in the production of paper products. The composition can comprise kaolin having a shape factor of at least about 20. The kaolin can have a particle size distribution such that at least about 94% by weight of the kaolin can have an esd of less than about 2 μm and/or at least about 80% by weight of the kaolin can have an esd of less than 1 μm. The amount of the kaolin having an esd of less than about 0.25 μm can range from about 25% to about 60% by weight. The Hercules viscosity of the kaolin product is less than 4000 rpm at 18 dynes at 63% solids and less than 1500 rpm at 18 dynes at 69% solids when measured using the “A” bob. The present invention also relates to an improved method for making the kaolin product from sedimentary kaolin.
US07806972B2
The object of the invention is to provide an oil ink set capable of obtaining images having high color reproduction capabilities and high color saturation in particular. The oil ink set of the invention comprises a firsts a second, and a third oil ink having a wavelength region in which the reflectivity of each oil ink on a recording medium changes from 80% to 5% in the wavelength range of 400 nm to 700 nm. In this wavelength region, the reflectivity of the first oil ink is continuously higher than that of the first oil ink, and in the wavelength in which the reflectivity of the second oil ink changes from 80% to 5%, the reflectivity of the third oil ink is continuously higher than that of the second oil ink. Moreover, the coloring materials in the first, the second and the third oil inks are all different.
US07806964B2
The system and method for recycling the compress heat generated at a bio-gas treatment plant that includes the assembly of a heat exchanger at each stage of compression designed to utilizing all of the gas flow and to harvest the heat in gas delivered to the air exchangers. After the heat is harvested, it is then conveyed either as hot air, or as a hot liquid, to a jacketed vessel containing media that requires regeneration or stripping of harmful VOCs picked up during the purification of contaminated landfill or municipal digester gas. The harvesting and conveyance of the heat of compression of the gases to a jacket around the vessel interior (indirect contact) and simultaneously heating the vessel interior containing the spent media through hot gas from another source (direct contact), reduces the heat-up time. This also reduces the overall the cycle time between the contaminant pick-up step and contaminant stripping step in regenerable treatment systems.
US07806961B2
A variable speed fan device includes a housing, a motor, a fan blade, a controller, and a first plurality of discrete light sources. The motor is maintained by the housing and the fan blade is connected to the motor. The controller is electronically coupled to the motor and manages an operational status of the variable speed fan device. The light sources are adapted to emit light from the display panel along a discontinuous perimeter at the exterior face. In an activated state, the light emitted by each light source is visually perceptible an exterior face of the display panel. The controller is programmed to individually activate and deactivate the light sources in a predetermined pattern creating a perception of movement of light about the discontinuous perimeter at the exterior face of the display panel corresponding with an operational status of the variable speed fan device.
US07806960B2
A method and apparatus for treating a fluid is provided and includes a fluid storage tank for partially containing a fluid and a gas, wherein the fluid storage tank includes a fluid inlet pipe and a fluid outlet pipe. The fluid treatment apparatus also includes a first aeration device, wherein the first aeration device is configured to be in flow communication with the fluid inlet pipe and the fluid portion of the tank cavity. The fluid treatment apparatus further includes a pumping device, wherein the pumping device is configured to cause the fluid portion of the tank cavity to flow through the fluid outlet pipe and a second aeration device, wherein the second aeration device is configured to be in flow communication with the fluid outlet pipe and the fluid portion of the tank cavity.
US07806958B2
The present invention relates to a plant nutrition formulation and method thereof, and more particularly to a plant nutrition formulated by recovery filtrate from non-woody fiber plant biopulping and method thereof. The present invention provides a plant nutrition formulation including steps of providing a culture solution containing a culture medium, a non-woody fiber plant material and microbial suspension, fermenting the culture solution for preparing a biopulping solution, filtrating the biopulping solution for preparing a filtrate, and formulating the filtrate for preparing a plant nutrition.
US07806956B2
Modified exhaust aftertreatment filters for filtering engine exhaust are provided as are methods of design and manufacturing modified exhaust aftertreatment filters. The modified filters are subject to reduced back pressure and reduced thermal gradients experienced during regeneration as compared to unmodified filters. The modified filters include flow-through channels obtained by unplugging channels which normally are plugged in an unmodified filter.
US07806954B2
A gas generator 10 contains a baffle assembly for cooling of gases. An imperforate housing 46 is contained within the gas generator 10. A perforate housing 30 is contained within the imperforate housing 46. At least one orifice 70/72 is formed within the baffle assembly, where the orifice 70/72 is formed at the juncture 57 of the baffle assembly 12 and the perforate housing 30, at a second end of the perforate housing 30. Upon activation of the gas generator 10, gases produced are shunted through the orifice 70/72 and into the baffle assembly 12 for cooling and filtration thereof.
US07806951B2
The present invention is a mobile air contaminant control system that includes a filter assembly enclosed by a mobile outer chamber. The filter assembly is tapered to create a large volume air way downstream from the filter assembly that enables more even air flow and filter loading. One or more exhaust fans pull the air through the filter assembly and exhaust it to the exterior of the chamber. The system is functionally attached to an exterior structure having at least one air intake and housing a work piece. As airborne contaminants are generated from the work piece(s), the control system exhausts them from the exterior structure through the filter assembly and into the external environment.
US07806950B2
A dust separating apparatus of a vacuum cleaner includes cyclone units connected such that air passes from one cyclone unit to another cyclone unit in sequence. Each of the cyclone units receives air, swirl the air, and separate dust from the air. The cyclone units are placed within another cyclone unit from which it receives the air.
US07806949B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide low-profile surface mount filters. One embodiment of the present invention includes a filter housing adapted to mount on a substrate block having a plurality of flow paths and a filter cavity defined therein. The filter cavity is defined to extend in a generally horizontal direction when the low-profile filter is in use. A first flow passage is defined to connect an inlet of the filter housing to a first section of the filter cavity and a second flow passage is defined to connect a second section of the filter cavity to an outlet of the filter housing. A filter assembly is disposed in the filter cavity and sealed to the surface of the filter cavity separating the filter cavity into adjacent sections including the first section of the filter cavity and second section of the filter cavity.
US07806947B2
A methane-containing gas such as natural gas is converted to a clean-burning hydrocarbon liquid fuel in a process wherein the gas is fed to a reaction vessel to contact a metallic catalyst grid that is formed from windings of a transition metal supported on an iron frame immersed in a liquid petroleum fraction, in such a manner that a voltage is generated in the grid between the windings and the frame. Product gas in the vapor phase is drawn from the head space above the liquid level and condensed to form the product fuel.
US07806929B2
Intraocular devices for use in and attached to the natural lens capsule of an eye are provided. The lens capsule may be maintained in a configuration to avoid post-operative changes that are deleterious to vision. Single or dual optic systems are provided, which may be accommodating. Combinations of devices to obtain dual optic systems are disclosed.
US07806928B2
A diagnostic device for determining the amount of change required in a coronary sinus to reduce valve regurgitation. The device includes a distal tube having a distal anchor at a distal end portion of the distal tube, a proximal tube having a proximal anchor at a distal end portion of the proximal tube, and an adjustor to move the distal tube relative to the proximal tube. The proximal tube and the distal tube together form a telescoping elongate body adapted to fit within the coronary sinus, and the device includes a scale to measure the movement of the distal anchor relative to the proximal anchor.
US07806921B2
The disclosure relates to implantable prosthetic valves comprising support frames. The support frames may include a plurality of symmetrically arrayed interconnected U-shaped member structures. Preferred support frames are tubular structures enclosing a longitudinal axis and including a plurality of U-shaped member structures facing a distal or a proximal end of the support frame. Each U-shaped member structure may be connected to a single longitudinally adjacent U-shaped member facing in an opposite longitudinal direction, as well as two laterally adjacent U-shaped members.
US07806910B2
A suture clamping system, including a plurality of elements positioned together in a row, wherein at least one of the elements is flexible, the plurality of elements each being dimensioned such that an opening slot is formed through the row of elements when the at least one flexible element is biased into a first position, and wherein a tortuous path is formed through the row of elements when the elements are not biased. A method of clamping a suture pair, including biasing a row of adjacent flexible elements to a first position in which an opening slot is formed there along; receiving the suture pair into the opening slot; and removing the biasing such that the adjacent flexible elements move to positions which hold the suture pair in a tortuous path.
US07806908B2
A barbed bodily tissue connector for insertion into tissue comprises an elongated body having a substantially polygonal periphery in cross-section including at least three sides. Each side meets an adjacent side at an edge of the elongated body. A plurality of barbs project from the edges of the body. The barbs are configured such that they are yieldable in a direction toward the body and resist retraction from tissue in an opposite direction.
US07806896B1
An improved method of performing surgery on a joint in a patient's body, such as a knee, includes making an incision in a knee portion of one leg while a lower portion of the one leg is extending downward from an upper portion of the one leg and while a foot connected with the lower portion of the one leg is below a support surface on which the patient is disposed. The incision is relatively short, for example, between seven and thirteen centimeters. A patella may be offset from its normal position with an inner side of the patella facing inward during cutting of a bone with a cutting tool. During cutting of the bone, one or more guide members having opposite ends which are spaced apart by a distance less than the width of an implant may be utilized to guide movement of a cutting tool.
US07806888B2
A system of rotate-to-advance medical devices including catheters, dilators, occluders, stents, suprapubic catheters and camera introducers configured with external screw threads and depending substantially on rotation for means of advancement and emplacement in mammalian genitourinary and gastrointestinal passages and organs.
US07806884B2
A pant type absorbent article such as a pant diaper, a sanitary pant or incontinence pant, the article having a core region including an absorbent core and a chassis region surrounding the core region. The article, at least in part of the chassis region, has a outer coversheet in the form of an elastic laminate having puncture resistance of at least 15N, wherein the laminate includes first and second layers of fibrous material and an elastic film layer located between the first and second fibrous layers and in which at least one of the layers of fibrous material has an elongation at maximum load greater than the elasticity of the elastic laminate.
US07806882B1
A tampon that has a sensor and a signal line that peripherally connects the sensor with a peripheral signal processor. The sensor provides a blood wetting signal in response to a progressing blood saturation boundary in the tampon. The signal may be resistive, capacitive or optic. The simple sensor has two proximal signal terminals separated by a fluid responsive medium in wetting communication with the tampon's body. The tampon may be removed by use of the signal line. From signal timing and/or signal gradient the processor may predict when the tampon needs to be changed.
US07806871B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, a medical device is provided, which comprises the following: (a) a hollow elongate body (e.g., a elongate cylinder, such as a needle) having distal and proximal ends; and (b) a rotatable member comprising a tissue morselizer and an elongate shaft (e.g., an auger-like tissue-drilling bit). The device (i) advances material (e.g., morselated tissue) toward the proximal end of the hollow elongate body when the shaft is rotated in a first direction, and (ii) advances material (e.g., a therapeutic agent and/or a bulking agent) toward the distal end of the hollow elongate body when the shaft is rotated in a second direction that is opposite the first direction. The invention also provides a method of treatment for morselizing and removing tissue from within the patient and creating a void within the patient and introducing a therapeutic agent and/or a bulking agent into the void.
US07806853B2
The invention concerns an array and a method for dosing a hormone regulating the blood glucose, especially insulin, of a diabetic patient. In order to improve the administration of the hormone, the invention provides the following characteristic combination: a first sensor for measuring tissue glucose level; a controller having as an input the measured tissue glucose level from the first sensor, the controller having a control algorithm to determine an amount of hormone to be dosed based upon the measured tissue glucose level; a hormone dosing unit connected to the controller and automatically administering a hormone dose based upon a signal received from the controller; a second sensor for measuring an influencing patient variable; a pilot control device connected to the second sensor, the pilot control device connected to and forming a circuit with the controller, the pilot control device acting on the controller in accordance with the influencing patient variable that is measured by the second sensor, whereby the pilot control device reduces dead time of the controller.
US07806849B2
A catheter assembly is provided which provides a flexible catheter tube having one end provided with a catheter hub. A hollow needle having a needle hub on its end is installed in the catheter tube with its sharp end extending out from one end of the catheter tube and a portion of the needle extending through the catheter hub. A needle shield, which is on the needle within the interior of the catheter hub, is biased axially within the catheter hub with its ends being fixed to prevent axial expansion.
US07806841B2
A non-ambulatory thermotherapy device for contacting and applying hot or cold therapy to a treatment area of a user of the non-ambulatory thermotherapy device. The device has at least one pad made of a pliable single piece of gel material for contacting a part of the user's treatment area and for undergoing selective heating or cooling to specific temperatures to selectively apply hot or cold therapy, respectively, to the part of the user's treatment area. The pad has opposite main surfaces and a plurality of bumps extending from one of the main surfaces for increasing a surface contact between the gel material and irregularly shaped contours of the part of the user's treatment area during application of hot or cold therapy to the part of the user's treatment area.
US07806838B2
An image analysis method for abnormal hip structures. A plurality of transverse sections of a bone structure are provided. Structural features on the transverse sections are obtained. Abnormities of the structural features of the bone structure are recognized. Structural and feature properties of the bone structure are estimated according to recognition results, and corresponding structural parameters relating to the bond structure are obtained accordingly.
US07806831B2
Method and apparatus for monitoring the sleep state condition of an individual by using an external probe applied to a peripheral body location, such as the individual's finger or toe, for detecting changes in the peripheral vascular bed volume of the individual. A predetermined pressure field is applied to the distal end of the peripheral body location, including its distal-most extremity, to prevent the occurrence of venous pooling within and distal to the peripheral body location. The probe produces an output corresponding to changes in the peripheral arterial bed volume at the peripheral body location, which output provides an indication of the sleep state condition of the individual. Such information is useful in diagnosing and/or in treating, a number of sleep disorders as well as other conditions, such as impotence, diabetes, and various disorders in children.
US07806812B2
Disclosed is a foldable exercise device comprising a seat with a front and rear portion. The front portion is pivotably attached to at least one support member. The rear portion includes an intermediate pivotably lateral support member attached between first and second vertical support members. Each of the first and second vertical support members includes top and bottom ends. The seat is configured to pivot to at least two positions including an open position and a folded position. A back support is pivotably secured to the intermediate pivotable lateral support member. The back support is configured to pivot to at least two positions including an open position and a folded position. A resistance apparatus is secured between the first and second vertical support members. The resistance apparatus is configured to supply a variable resistive force when at least one connector coupled to the resistance apparatus is pulled by a user.
US07806807B2
An exercise device for improving balance, comprising a platform; a balancing element mounted to the platform so as to permit angular displacement of the balancing element relative to the platform; an adjustable angular displacement limiter for determining a limit of the angular displacement of the balancing element relative to the platform; and an adjustment access path to provide adjustment access to the limiter while the balancing element is operably mounted to the platform.
US07806803B2
A method for controlling a transmission in a motor vehicle includes determining a temperature of a fluid in the transmission, determining whether the torque converter lockup clutch is applied, and determining an engine torque of the motor vehicle. Then, the torque converter lockup clutch is applied and the transmission is prohibited from up-shifting if the temperature of the fluid exceeds a threshold, the torque converter lockup clutch is not applied, and the engine torque exceeds a second threshold. Next, a tractive effort of the motor vehicle is determined and the torque converter lockup clutch is deactivated when the temperature of the fluid is less than a third threshold, the tractive effort is less than a fourth threshold, or the engine torque is less than the second threshold.
US07806795B2
A hybrid vehicle 20 of the invention is equipped with a power distribution integration mechanism 40 and a transmission 60. The power distribution integration mechanism 40 is a double pinion planetary gear mechanism constructed to include a carrier 45 connecting with a motor MG2, a sun gear 41 connecting with a motor MG1, and a ring gear 42 connecting with an engine 22 and to have a gear ratio of approximately 0.5. The transmission 60 includes a three element-type first change speed planetary gear mechanism PG1, a three element-type second change speed planetary gear mechanism PG2, a brake clutch BC1 configured to fix a ring gear 62 of the first change speed planetary gear mechanism PG1 in a non-rotatable manner and release the ring gear 62 in a rotatable manner, and a brake clutch BC2 configured to enable and disable power transmission via the second change speed planetary gear mechanism PG2.
US07806794B2
A power transmission chain includes a plurality of links, a plurality of pins, and a plurality of interpieces. By pressing upper and lower edges of the pin into upper and lower edges of a through hole, the pin is connected to the link. The end of the pin which is located at a front end side when the pin is pressed is formed in a shape into which the upper and lower edges of the pin are pressed at the same time.
US07806793B2
A continuously variable belt drive transmission, including input and output pulleys each having axially opposed tapered surfaces, and an endless belt including a plurality of metal elements each having opposed side faces contacted with the respective tapered surfaces of the input and output pulleys. Each of the opposed side faces is formed with a plurality of microscopic projections and recesses arranged along a radial direction of the input and output pulleys upon being in contact with the respective tapered surfaces of the input and output pulleys. The tapered surfaces of at least the input pulley are formed with microgrooves that are radially spaced from one another and have a pitch not more than a width of each of the microscopic projections on the side faces of the metal element.
US07806790B2
A slippage detection system for a continuously variable transmission capable of continuously changing a ratio between a speed of rotation of an input member and a speed of rotation of an output member is provided. The slippage detection system calculates a correlation coefficient relating to the input rotation speed and the output rotation speed, based on a plurality of measurement values of the input rotation speed and a plurality of measurement values of the output rotation speed, and determines slippage of the torque transmitting member in the continuously variable transmission based on the calculated correlation coefficient.
US07806774B2
A mechanical transmission system for a rotorcraft, including a supercritical transmission shaft and an active magnetic damper secured to the structure of the rotorcraft via a mechanical damper is provided.
US07806772B2
A homokinetic displacement joint for longitudinal shafts of motor vehicles, has an outer and inner joint body having ball raceways, a cage between the joint bodies, and balls provided in the individual pairs of ball raceways. The balls are guided in the cage and the ball raceways are provided in alternating sequence, alternately rising to the right and left, to form slanted, spatially arranged ball raceways in the assembled state of the joint bodies. The individual ball raceways possess a track slant angle β 8 and an incline angle β′ 9 that are determined, relative to one another, by the ratio β:β′=5:3.
US07806769B2
A touchscreen amusement device includes a display housing, a touchscreen display disposed within the display housing and an amusement device controller disposed within the display housing. The amusement device controller is coupled to the touchscreen display and is configured to display and control at least one of electronic games, music, video or multi-media applications using the touchscreen display. The touchscreen amusement device also includes a rear-mounted support stand configured to receive and support the display housing.
US07806766B1
A gaming system and method of playing a gaming device by a user. The method includes inserting a voucher having a voucher value into the gaming device and accessing a database having voucher data associated with the voucher. The voucher value is verified. The user is queried for a credit value of a base wagering denomination. Calculations of full game credits and partial game credits are performed based upon the voucher value and the credit value. The full game credits, the partial game credits, and the voucher value are displayed on a game display. The method allows partial or all credits to be played at any time. The method provides for recording of game events to a database. The method also allows for the user to change the base wagering denomination during game play.
US07806761B2
In accordance with some embodiments, a plurality of outcomes are generated and used to create a video presentation of representative outcomes. The video presentation is recorded onto a tangible medium (e.g., DVD or CD-ROM) or otherwise provided to a player (e.g., player may access the video presentation online). This allows a player to purchase a video presentation of (e.g., predetermined) outcomes in a jurisdiction in which gambling is legal yet view the presentation at the player's convenience (e.g., from any jurisdiction and at any time). A player who purchases such a video presentation may subsequently redeem it for a redemption value associated therewith.
US07806754B2
An apparatus for flattening one or more cuts of poultry to prepare at least one of the cuts to be cooked may have at least one roller turner, one or more roller supports, a first roller mounted on at least one of the roller supports and adapted to be turned by the roller turner and a second roller mounted on at least one of the other roller supports. The second roller may be disposed substantially parallel to the first roller such that the distance between the first roller and the second roller is less than the size of an unflattened cut of poultry, such that the poultry is flattened when fed between the rollers with the roller turner. Various configurations of the rollers, methods of using the apparatus, and automated embodiments provide advantages for food preparation.
US07806753B2
A method for the skin-on deboning of a ham prior to processing in a conventional skinner. The ham is deboned and the inside musculature, outside musculature, knuckle musculature and inner shank musculature are removed prior to the removal of skin and fat from the various cuts.
US07806752B2
The present invention relates to a profile strip (1), preferably for a cylinder drum (5) comprising a bottom strip (3) which is designed for replaceable retention of a bottom profile (2) comprising a number of brushes (6) and a number of grinding elements (8) and where the grinding element (8) along the length of a side edge (10) is provided with an edge zone (13) without grinding effect.
US07806751B2
A method of manufacturing a disk substrate includes a disk substrate forming step of forming a disk substrate; and an outer chamfering step of chamfering an outer edge of the disk substrate. The outer chamfering step includes chamfering the outer edge by bringing an end surface of a cylindrical-shaped outer chamfering grindstone having a hollow portion on its end into contact with the outer edge such that the hollow portion faces the outer edge while rotating each of the outer chamfering grindstone and the disk substrate.
US07806747B2
A toy lawn mower includes a chassis having a first end and a second end and supported by a plurality of rotatable wheels, an animated figure or body section mounted to the chassis and arranged to shift between an unshifted position in which the animated figure is disposed toward the first end and a first shifted position in which the animated figure is rotated and shifted toward the second end, and a drive train operatively coupling the animated figure to at least one of the wheels such that the animated figure is movable between the unshifted position and the first shifted position in response to rotation of the at least one wheel.
US07806744B2
The display panel of this invention includes a pair of glass substrates each with a thickness not less than 0.15 mm and not more than 0.3 mm and a sealing material for bonding the pair of glass substrates to each other. A resin layer is formed on the outer face of at least one of the pair of glass substrates.
US07806735B1
A crosstalk-eliminating connector has an insulative body, multiple terminals and a metal shell. The terminals are mounted in the insulative body and some of the terminals are pairs of signal transmission terminals. The metal shell has at least one crosstalk-eliminating slot and each crosstalk-eliminating slot is located between two adjacent pairs of the signal transmission terminals when observed from the rear end of the insulative body. The at least one crosstalk-eliminating slot efficiently eliminates the crosstalk between adjacent pairs of the signal transmission terminals.
US07806732B1
A connector assembly includes a socket connector and a signal output connector. The socket connector is configured for connection with an external electronic device, such as a computer or a mobile phone. The signal output connector is assembled with the socket connector. Terminals configured for multiple transmission functions are compactly standby-provided in the connector assembly to enable the connector assembly to be connected to various multi-functional interfaces.
US07806723B2
Embodiments of electrical grommet devices, and methods of use and manufacture are generally described herein. In one exemplary embodiment, an electrical device comprises a casing comprising: a grommet comprising one or more first apertures and an insertion portion; and a connection mechanism capable of being coupled to the grommet. The electrical device further comprises one or more electrical components located at least partially within the casing, and one or more electrical connectors located at least partially within the casing and coupled to the one or more electrical components. The insertion portion of the grommet can be removably placed in a grommet hole from a first side of the grommet hole, and the grommet can be removably coupled to the connection mechanism at a second side of the grommet hole opposite the first side.
US07806712B2
An electric compressor having a compression mechanism, an electric motor for driving the compression mechanism, and a housing for containing the compression mechanism and the electric motor. An opening formed in the housing is closed with a lid member to which a sealed terminal is attached, and an electroconductive pin of the sealed terminal is fitted into a socket connected to a lead wire of the electric motor. The socket is embedded in an insulative member, and the electroconductive pin of the sealed terminal is inserted into a hole formed in the insulative member and is fitted into the socket. An insulation section that surrounds the base portion of the electroconductive pin and the insulative member hold a ring member that is formed from an insulative elastic material and surrounds the electroconductive pin, and this portion held is sealed and insulated by elastic deformation of the ring member. Injection and curing of resin for insulation, which have been carried out for a conventional structure, are not necessary, so that the electric compressor has high assembling efficiency and whose sealed terminal can be reused.
US07806698B2
A surface mount connector for high speed data transfer application has an insulative housing with a vertically-oriented circuit card-receiving slot disposed along a front face thereof. A plurality of conductive terminals are supported by the housing so that contact portions of the terminals extend into the card slot. The terminals are formed with a thin configuration to reduce the overall capacitance of the terminals as a group as a means of regulating the impedance thereof. The terminals are supported on opposing sidewalls of the connector housing and each of the terminals includes a tail portion, a contact portion and a retention portion that engages the connector housing so that the contact portions are cantilevered in their extent within the housing.
US07806691B2
A removable denture system comprising a support beam fixedly attached to the individual's alveolar ridge above the mucous membrane by a plurality of dental implants, and a denture generally conforming with the dental parameters of the individual and integrated with a super-structure. The super-structure comprises at least a portion shaped in confirmation with the support beam, and a denture locking arrangement for removably though fixedly articulating the denture to the support beam preventing unintentional disengagement of the denture.
US07806690B2
An endodontic instrument adapted for use in performing root canal therapy. The instrument includes a holder with a grip sized to be gripped by a hand of a user. An arm extends from the grip and has a length sufficient to permit a free end portion to reach into a patient's mouth while the grip remains outside the mouth. An elongate rod with a working portion having cutting portions thereon extends along the length of the arm of the holder such that a proximal end of the rod is adjacent the grip of the holder and the distal end of the rod with the working portion thereon extends from the free end portion of the arm, such that the working portion may be used to treat a root canal in a patient's mouth by a dentist manipulating the holder outside the mouth of the patient.
US07806681B2
An injection molding apparatus includes a manifold having a manifold channel for receiving a melt stream of moldable material and delivering the melt stream to a mold cavity through a nozzle channel of a nozzle and a mold gate. A heater is coupled to the manifold. The heater includes a heater plate that is formed by an extrusion process and at least one channel for receiving a heating element.
US07806677B2
This invention relates to molding apparatus and related systems and methods. In one aspect of the invention, a mold roll, assembly includes an inner member and multiple molding tools disposed about a circumference of the inner member, each molding tool including at least one molding plate that at least partially defines a molding cavity.
US07806674B2
An air ring with increased-control over the gauge uniformity of blown plastic film in a film extrusion device. The air ring includes a generally annular plenum, an annular orifice for discharging cooling air against an extruded plastic tube passing through the air ring, and a flow path for cooling air between the plenum and the annular orifice. The air flow path is segmented along a circumference of the annular plenum, the segments including a material with high heat conductivity and guiding the air from the annular plenum to the orifice. Heating elements are provided for individually and selectively heating the segments of the air flow path such that the temperature of the cooling air discharge against the extruded plastic tube can be locally varied.
US07806664B2
A bilge pump having a mounting member adapted to be mounted to a vessel and a base movably engageable with the mounting member and positionable in at least two positions relative to the mounting member. A housing is releasably coupled to the base and defines a cavity for receiving a motor. A locking ring is engageable with the motor and the housing to secure the motor in the cavity while allowing the motor to be movable with respect to the housing. The cavity in the housing communicates with an outlet portion defining a socket. An outlet nozzle having an outlet end is movably received in the socket so that the outlet end can be moved relative to the housing. These features can be employed individually or in combination to make the bilge pump highly adaptable, thereby facilitating installation.
US07806660B2
The invention concerns a wind power installation, in particular a wind power installation for the offshore region. The object of the invention is to overcome the previous difficulties and avoid disadvantages, in particular also to allow people to be constantly landed on the installation even when weather is so bad that flying by means of helicopters is no longer possible. A wind power installation comprising an entry and a space in the interior of the wind power installation, in which electrical or electronic components of the wind power installation are disposed, characterized in that provided between the entry of the wind power installation and the internal space in which the electronic components are disposed is a lock which prevents water that enters through the entry and/or salt-bearing or moist air which enters when the entry is opened from passing into the internal space of the installation.
US07806659B1
A first stage turbine blade for an industrial gas turbine engine, the blade includes a row of exit slots along the trailing edge region of the blade to provide cooling. The exit slots are separated by ribs that also form diffusers in the slots. Each slot includes a constant metering inlet section followed by a diffuser section. The top most exit slot adjacent to the blade tip includes a rib angled at around 20 degrees toward the tip. The slots below the top most slot have ribs that are angled at around 15 degrees, then 10 degrees, and then 5 degrees before ending with the last slot in the group with a rib angled at zero degrees. The remaining exit slots below the tip group have ribs with ends that taper at from 3 degrees to about 7 degrees to form the diffusers.
US07806658B2
A cooling system for a turbine airfoil of a turbine engine having an inflow mid-chord feed channel and a trailing edge feed channel that are separated by an equalizer rib having a plurality of supply holes. The supply holes enable cooling fluids to be supplied to the trailing edge from the mid-chord feed channel to satisfy the cooling requirements of the entire trailing edge, which is greater than the mid-chord region. A crossover hole may be positioned in the equalizer rib at the tip section to enable the cooling fluids to pass between the mid-chord feed channel and a trailing edge feed channel. The crossover hole may enable cooling fluids to pass from the trailing edge feed channel into the mid-chord feed channel along the tip section to reduce stagnation in the outboard turn of the mid-chord serpentine channel.
US07806652B2
A turbine engine variable stator vane includes a platform having a circumference adjoining opposing surfaces. A trunnion extends from one of the opposing surfaces. An airfoil is supported on the other of the opposing surfaces opposite the trunnion. The airfoil includes leading and trailing edges. An overhanging portion of the airfoil, which includes the trailing edge, extends beyond the circumference. A fillet joins the airfoil and the other opposing surface and extends along the other opposing surface in a lateral direction beyond the circumference toward the trailing edge. In one example, the fillet is provided about the entire perimeter of the airfoil. The airfoil includes pressure and suction sides. The circumference includes a relief cut extending from the suction side and adjoining a notch in the circumference to form an apex overlying the end surface.
US07806645B2
A refuse collection cart lifter is provided with a lock/release mechanism that prevents relative movement between the upper and lower hooks when the lifter is in the inverted position, but permits such relative movement when released so as to permit the lifter to have a an adaptable or “breakaway” feature This allows the lifter to be mounted on vertical surfaces that may prevent the lifter from retracting to a recessed position when in the lowered or retracted position, but still permit the first actuator arms supporting the lower hook to pivot freely with respect to the lift arms should an obstacle be engaged.
US07806636B2
A power driver may include a housing, a tool chuck and a sleeve. The tool chuck may have a chuck body mounted for rotation on the housing and supporting threadless chuck jaws, and a chuck drive shaft mounted for rotation on the chuck body. The sleeve may be mounted on the tool chuck for adjustment into a DRILL DRIVE MODE to rotationally lock together the chuck body and the chuck drive shaft, and a CHUCK MODE to rotationally lock together the chuck body and the housing.
US07806634B2
A cutting insert for milling operations, such as, face milling, slot milling, plunge milling, and ramping operations. The cutting insert exhibits a combination of favorable cutting edge strength, and unique cutting edge geometry, thus, allowing milling operations at relatively high feed rates. The cutting insert includes at least four cutting edges, wherein at least one of the cutting edges is a convex cutting edge. Certain embodiments of square cutting inserts will have four convex cutting edges which may be connected by nose corners. The convex cutting edge may comprise at least one of a circular arc, a portion of an ellipse, a portion of a parabola, a multi-segment spline curve, a straight line, or combinations of these. Wherein the convex cutting edge comprises a circular arc, the circular arc may have a radius greater than or equal to two times a radius of the largest circle that may be inscribed on the top surface.
US07806628B2
This invention relates to apparatus and methods for laying of elongate articles from a vessel. The vessel includes a tower (2), on which is supported tensioning means (20,21), straightening means (19), and a hold-off clamp (14). The hold-off clamp (14) is mounted independently of the tower on a trolley (13) which can be moved into and out of alignment with the laying axis of the tower while supporting the elongate article under laying tension. This enables the pipe string to be moved out of the line of the tower (2) for the fitting of equipment such as mid-line connectors and PLETs. Methods are disclosed for using the apparatus for fitting a connection to the elongate article being laid using cranes etc provided on the vessel to move the trolley (13) and hold the laid pipe string or connection.
US07806618B2
In a frictional rotary connector having a tapered ring arrangement (3) to be placed onto a shaft and having at least one tapered ring section (e.g. 4a) with an inner surface for abutting the shaft, and with an oblique outer surface (e.g. 5a), at least one tensioning ring element (e.g. 6a) with an oblique inner surface, which element slides between a starting position and a clamping position on the oblique outer surface (e.g. 5a) of the tapered ring section (e.g. 4a), and a tensioning ring for moving the tensioning ring element (e.g. 6a) in order to lock the tensioning ring element (e.g. 6a) in the clamping position at least one retaining element (8) is provided which is arranged to be guided in a radial direction from a free position to a clamping position, wherein the retaining element (8) axially locks the tensioning ring element (e.g. 6a) in the clamping position.
US07806616B2
A writing instrument barrel, comprising a body portion, which is generally tubular, and which has a hollow channel extending therethrough. It includes an inner surface, including a paint-adhering material applied to the inner surface for enabling paint to adhere thereto, and paint applied to the paint-adhering material on at least a portion of the inner surface of the body portion to form a painted inner surface. The hollow channel includes opposed ends and openings at the opposed ends thereof. The paint is able to be applied by a brush with paint on the tip thereof, which is able to be extended through the openings in the body portion.
US07806613B2
A drywall compound dispensing system for applying drywall compound to a wallboard has a delivery tube for delivering drywall compound entirely therethrough provided with a supply end connected to a source of pressurized drywall compound, and a dispenser end opposite to the supply end connected for pivotal movement with a drywall compound dispensing head. A tandem control lever arrangement is located at the supply end of the delivery tube and is engaged by one hand of the user for supplying manual or continuous flow of drywall compound through the delivery tube, and disabling pivotal movement of the dispensing head.
US07806600B2
An improved, reversibly terminable fiber stub connector assembly is provided that can be readily and positively terminated in the field using simple termination tools. This allows repositioning or replacement of fiber optic cable field fibers if termination is not acceptable in performance. The tool may be a hand-held tool, or used in conjunction with a connector support structure to provide simplified and expeditious field termination of fiber optic cables. The cam tool can include a throughbore that enables connection of a patchcord to the stub fiber of the connector during or shortly after termination without removal of the termination tool. Accordingly, field testing of the connection can be made at the site of termination.
US07806598B2
A method of enhancing the operating life of roller bearings assemblies (B) subject to oil-out conditions is disclosed. The method comprises applying a tribological metal carbide reinforced amorphous hydrocarbon coating layer (16) over either the sliding surfaces (SS) or the rolling surfaces (RS) of the bearing assembly rolling elements (RE), but is preferably applied at least to the sliding surfaces of the rolling element. The coating has a thickness determined according to the equation: Formula (I), where d=coating thickness P=is the ratio of force applied to the rollers/contact area; n=the number of rollers; (t−t0)=the desired operating time after oil-out condition starts; and K′ is the Archard constant. d K ′ = Pv n ( t - t 0 ) , ( 1 )
US07806596B2
A rotary bearing system that supports a shaft for rotating machinery in a housing comprises: at least one stationary rotary bearing mounted in the housing for supporting a respective journal of the shaft in a desired axial and radial alignment; at least one slidable rotary bearing, with an outer surface mounted within a respective inner support surface of the housing to form a respective linear bearing such that each slidable bearing may slide axially along the inner support surface of the housing, for supporting another respective journal of the shaft with the desired radial alignment; and at least one layer of a crystalline material that exhibits a high degree of basal cleavage bonded to at least one of the linear bearing surfaces; wherein each layer of crystalline material allows each slidable rotary bearing to slide axially along each respective linear bearing to compensate for differences in the coefficient of expansion of the housing and the shaft so as to prevent the bearing system from binding due to extreme environmental conditions.
US07806593B2
A lawn refuse bag is provided that includes a tubular container having a first side surface, a second side surface, a third side surface, a fourth side surface, and a fifth side surface. The tubular container further includes an open end for receiving compressible contents therein. A plurality of perforations are selectively disposed on at least one side surface of the tubular container adapted to discharge air from the tubular container away from a user compressing the contents therein.
US07806589B2
A high-speed biplane radiography system for in-vivo assessment of joint function is provided. The system can acquire stereo-pair radiographic images at rates from 30-4000 frames per second of nearly any motion or joint. The radiographic equipment can be mounted in a gantry system that provides sufficient positioning flexibility for imaging different joints of a subject's body, along with an imaging area large enough for a variety of dynamic activities (e.g., walking, running, jumping, throwing, etc.). Three-dimensional (3D) bone positions can be determined using software for matching the bones in each X-ray image with 3D models developed from subject-specific CT (computed tomography) scans. This system can provide accurate (e.g., ±0.1 mm) assessment and direct 3D visualization of dynamic joint function, and can overcome limitations of conventional gate or motion analysis.
US07806588B2
In the acquisition of an image series with an x-ray image acquisition that has an x-ray C-arm rotatable around a center point, movement of the patient table is updated so that table is brought into a specific position calculated relative to the angle position of the x-ray C-arm. This position of the patient table is determined as follows. An envelope is established and a point is established that is the center point of a region of interest. In each position of the patient table that matches the position of the x-ray C-arm, the flat panel detector is perpendicular to a line emanating from the point and simultaneously contacts (is tangent to) the envelope. The region of interest is thereby optimally imaged in the image series so that a good 3D reconstruction can be obtained.
US07806579B2
A luminaire includes a waveguide having first and second opposing ends and first and second opposing sides between the first and second ends. The waveguide is configured to totally internally reflect light propagating through the waveguide in a first direction and direct light propagating through the waveguide in a second direction through at least one of the first and second sides. A reflective body is coupled to the second end of the waveguide and configured to reflect light propagating towards the second end of the waveguide such that the light propagates towards the first end of the waveguide.
US07806578B2
The illumination device is provided with a plurality of light guide bodies, the bottom face of which is given light reflection/scattering treatment, light sources individually connected to the end portions of a plurality of the light guide bodies to radiate the bottom faces of a plurality of the light guide bodies, and a control unit for changing the intensity of light made incident from the light sources to a plurality of the light guide bodies. A plurality of the light guide bodies are laminated so as to be at least partially overlapped at the respective light emitting regions of the light guide bodies, and the control unit allows the intensity of light made incident from the light sources to the light guide bodies to change with the lapse of time.
US07806570B2
An elongated indirect lighting fixture having a upwardly directed shallow concave sheet element suspended at its ends with spars interconnected along the outer marginal edges of the reflector element. The spars are preformed in an upward and inward direction to resist sagging both in a downward direction and an outward direction so that the lighting fixture, as represented by the sheet element, is substantially linear.
US07806565B2
A safe light emitting device includes a reflective housing with an open end, a support coupled to the reflective housing, a holder, and a lamp. The holder is positioned on the support and is remote from the open end of the reflective housing. The lamp includes a bulb and a connector connecting the bulb to the holder. The bulb defines a concavity in an outer surface thereof.
US07806562B2
A lighting device includes at least one light-emitting diode and a cooling aggregate (400) for cooling the at least one light-emitting diode, wherein the at least one light-emitting diode is arranged on the cooling aggregate (400) and the cooling aggregate (400) is provided with at least one recess in which a mounting plate (408) equipped with electrical components is located. Also described is a vehicle headlight including at least one lighting device of the aforementioned kind.
US07806560B2
An illumination assembly includes a compliant substrate comprising a first and second electrically conductive foil separated by an electrically insulating layer. The insulating layer includes a polymer material loaded with particles that enhance thermal conductivity of the insulating layer. A plurality of LED dies are disposed on the first conductive foil.
US07806558B2
A projection lighting fixture includes multiple LED packages (e.g., chip-on-board or surface mount LED assemblies including one or more LED junctions) disposed on a common mounting board or substrate. Each LED package is associated with a corresponding collimator. The common mounting board on which the multiple LED package/collimator pairs are disposed includes a reference axis in the plane of the board (e.g., a vertical or horizontal axis of the board). One or more of the LED packages are disposed on the common mounting board such that they are rotated clockwise or counter-clockwise with respect to the reference axis, so that at least two of the LED packages have different rotations. The light projected from the respective collimators associated with the multiple LED packages at least partially overlaps in a target illumination field, and the different rotations of at least two of the LED packages facilitates substantially uniform illumination in the target illumination field.
US07806557B2
An assembly of a lighting unit and a receptacle unit includes at least one receptacle unit and at least one lighting unit. The receptacle unit has an outer housing provided with at least one first connection portion and at least one second connection portion electrically connected to the first connection portion in the outer housing. The lighting unit is electrically connected to one of the first and second connection portions of the receptacle unit, so that the lighting unit and the receptacle unit can be independently rotated in relation to each other along a connection axis thereof.
US07806554B2
The present invention provides a LED direct-plugging type multi-chip high power light source, comprising a heat dissipating substrate, a protective rubber ring mounted at the front side of the heat dissipating substrate, LEDs fixed on the heat dissipating substrate and in the protective rubber ring, the heat dissipating substrate being provided with two through holes penetrating its front side and rear side, in each of the two through holes separately provided with a pin connected to the LEDs, one end of the pin inserted into the through hole and the other end of the pin led out from the rear side of the heat dissipating substrate to the outside of the heat dissipating substrate, and the part of the pins inserted in the through holes being separated from the heat dissipating substrate by a insulator. The heat dissipating substrate is made of high heat conduction metal. In the present invention, the heat dissipating substrate is made of high heat conduction metal, and the heat conducting pole is abolished. Comparing with the conventional art, the present invention decreases the heat dissipating path, increases the sectional area, and eliminates the intermediate link of high thermal resistance. The present invention increases the power of a single light source, decreases the attenuation of light greatly, and increases the useful life greatly.
US07806553B1
An illuminable cosmetic carrying bag includes a body with a plurality of walls arranged in such a manner to create a storage chamber therein. One of such walls is transparent and situated along an entire anterior side of the body, and the body further has a protective flap pivotally coupled to a bottom edge of the transparent wall. Such a protective flap covers an entire surface area of the transparent wall when articulated to a closed position. The device further includes a mechanism for removably displaying the cosmetic items on an interior face of the protective flap, and a mechanism for illuminating the storage chamber and the protective flap so that the cosmetic items are illuminated while displayed on the interior face of the protective flap.
US07806551B1
An apparatus comprising a bowl having an opening. The opening includes a plurality of movable members movable between a first position and a second position. The first position is a closed position in which the movable members are connected and support items in the bowl. The second position is an open position and allows a hand to enter the opening. The apparatus includes a circuit that includes a switch operably connected to said moveable members such that a light turns on upon said moveable members being in a second position.
US07806544B2
A backlight assembly includes a plurality of lamps, a receiving container and a conductive member. Each of the lamps includes a lamp body, a first electrode part disposed at a first end portion of the lamp body and a second electrode part disposed at a second end portion of the lamp body, the second end portion being opposite to the first end portion. The receiving container includes a bottom plate on which the lamps are disposed and a sidewall disposed at edge portions of the bottom plate to define a receiving space. The receiving container has a plurality of grounding portions formed on the bottom plate or the sidewalls. The conductive member electrically connects the second electrode part to one of the grounding portions.
US07806534B2
A projector for automatically adjusting images projected onto a screen includes a detecting module for detecting a propagation time for projected ultrasonic waves sent by the projector to be echoed back by the screen and received by the projector, a processing module for calculating a projection distance between the projector and the screen based on the propagation time, and outputting a focal length signal corresponding to the projection distance, an optical module, and an adjusting module for adjusting a local length of the optical module according to the focal length signal. A related method is also provided.
US07806532B2
A projector includes a light source; a light modulating device that modulates the flux of light emitted from the light source on the basis of image information to form an optical image; a projection optical system that projects the formed optical image; and an exterior housing that accommodates the light source, the light modulating device, and the projection optical system. An opening that introduces air from the outside of the exterior housing into the inside thereof is formed in the exterior housing. An object to be cooled, a duct connecting the opening to the objects to be cooled, and a filter purifying the air introduced from the opening are provided inside the exterior housing. A cooling fan that sucks the air having been purified through the filter and sends the air to the object to be cooled are provided in the duct.
US07806528B2
Provided herein are methods and systems to screen for subjects at risk for retinal-associated eye diseases or to monitor the progression/regression thereof. Generally, the method comprises simultaneously or sequentially displaying to a potentially at-risk individual targets of parallel and nonparallel lines, obtaining an orientation discrimination threshold based on the subject's selections and correlating an increase in the threshold compared to that of a normal control or to a previous threshold measured for the subject as indicative of risk for a retinal-associated eye disease or a progression of the eye disease. Also provided are program storage devices and computer program products effective to store instructions or source code to perform the methods.
US07806520B2
An ink supply apparatus for supplying ink from an ink tank to a recording head includes an atmosphere communication chamber that is connected to the ink tank, a first hollow tube that connects the atmosphere communication chamber to the outside air wherein one end is extended into the atmosphere communication chamber, and a second hollow tube that connects the atmosphere communication chamber to the outside air wherein one end is extended into the atmosphere communication chamber. The length of extension of the second hollow tube is different from the length of extension of the first hollow tube.
US07806508B2
An ink-jet recording method for forming an image by discharging a liquid functional material onto a recording medium by a full-line type ink-jet head having discharge nozzles arranged in a widthwise direction substantially perpendicular to a transporting direction of the recording medium, includes: determining a range free of image recording between images recorded intermittently on the recording medium; effecting discharge or pressurization purge of the liquid functional material in the range free of image recording on the recording medium; and lowering a fluidity of the liquid functional material discharged.
US07806497B2
A printing method etc. capable of suppressing degradation in image quality of border sections between regions respectively printed by a plurality of nozzle rows that eject ink droplets is achieved. The printing method includes a step of setting, when at least two print heads that move in a movement direction intersecting a carrying direction and that include a plurality of nozzle rows each including a plurality of nozzles arranged in the carrying direction are moved in the movement direction, one ejecting method, of among a plurality of ejecting methods in which the nozzles for actually ejecting ink droplets are appropriately changed between an upstream-side nozzle and a downstream-side nozzle, for each of a plurality of aligned nozzle sections that are arranged such that the downstream-side nozzle of one print head and the upstream-side nozzle of the other print head, of the nozzle rows provided in different print heads, are aligned in the movement direction; and a step of ejecting ink droplets from the aligned nozzle sections according to the one ejecting method that has been set.
US07806493B2
The invention relates to a robot for large-format, three-dimensional printing on a fixed surface, using five powered spindles. The inventive robot comprises an inkjet printing block, means for moving and orienting said printing assembly along several axes, at least one unit for controlling said means and a device for drying the ink sprayed onto the surface. According to the invention, the aforementioned movement and orientation means comprise: a support having three degrees of freedom in translation, which is used to position the printing assembly by enabling translational movements along horizontal, vertical and depth axes; and a wrist having two degrees of freedom in rotation, which is used to position and orient the printing assembly by enabling same to rotate in relation to two perpendicular axes. The invention also relates to a method of using said robot.
US07806489B2
Latch systems for a drive cage assembly are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, the latch system may be operated by moving a hinge bracket in a first direction to slide at least one latch on the hinge bracket into an open position. Then receiving a peripheral device in the drive cage assembly in either a tower orientation or a rack orientation when the at least one latch is in the open position. Then moving the hinge bracket in a second direction to slide the at least one latch into a closed position and secure the peripheral device in the drive cage assembly.
US07806486B2
The present invention makes an improved braking system available. This comprises a brake pedal and/or a servo unit and also incorporates a hydraulic unit including an integrated electronic controller (for short: EBS) and a hydraulically actuated wheel brake associated with each wheel. Hereby, the wheel brakes are connected hydraulically to the electronic hydraulic unit as is also the brake pedal/servo unit. A brake cylinder for the wheel brake is arranged to be prefilled by means of a “prefill” function in order to at least partly reduce the clearance gap. For the first time hereby, the braking system is provided with a switching device by means of which the “prefill” function is arranged to be switched on or off in dependence on a selectable operating mode. Moreover, the invention proposes a method for electronically regulating the brakes utilizing such a braking system.
US07806476B2
A seat, especially an airplane or vehicle seat, has a seat part placed on the stand-type seat structure (12) in relation to a base and provided with a bearing part (18) on its front side. The bearing part (18) is embodied in a flexible manner and can move in the direction of the seat structure (12) when a predefined seating load is exerted on it. When the load is discharged, it can move back into its initial position in the opposite direction from the seat structure (12). This arrangement creates a seat whose front part is maintained in a flexible manner such that the front area of the seat part yields according to the seating load exerted by the seat user. The pressure forces are limited to the lower side of the upper thighs of the seat user. As a result, the cross-sections of the veins in that region are not reduced, but are maintained such that the circulation of the blood is not impeded, significantly reducing the risk of thrombosis.
US07806457B2
A lift and pivot hinge mechanism that can be installed upon a conventional pick up truck bed in conjunction with a conventional box type cargo topper. The lift and pivot mechanism opens the topper in a clamshell manner whereby the rear of the topper is elevated in relation to the truck bed, thereby providing greater access to the cargo area. The opening process is accomplished in two stages. The topper is first slightly lifted diagonally, further defined as horizontally relative to the truck bed and rearward in relation to the passenger cab. By performing this first step the necessary clearance is provided to perform the second step, which is pivoting the rear of the topper upward in relation to the truck bed thereby providing greater access to the truck's cargo area. Alignment guides are utilized to assure consistent placement of the topper in relation to the truck bed. The hinge mechanism may be utilized with conventional (non-purpose built) truck toppers, does not occupy precious cargo area within the truck bed and can be fitted to all presently known pick up truck beds. One or more linear power assist mechanisms are utilized to assist in the opening and closing process.
US07806456B1
Method and apparatus are provided for limiting vehicle selector lever operation during fueling. The apparatus comprises, two levers for detecting whether (i) the vehicle selector lever is in the park position, and (ii) a cap is on the vehicle fuel filler pipe, two locking keys coupled to the levers receiving information therefrom to enable or disable the vehicle selector lever and fuel filler lid depending upon the lever outputs, thereby, disabling the vehicle fuel filler lid when the vehicle selector lever is not in park position and disabling the vehicle selector lever when a cap is not on the vehicle fuel filler pipe.
US07806453B2
A cargo storage and support system and method is provided for use in a vehicle which includes a substantially planar storage body made of a collapsible material and having a first edge and a second edge substantially parallel to the first edge, at least one collapsible storage area formed within the substantially planar storage body and at least one attachment structure formed adjacent the first edge and the second edge of the storage body for attachment to a vehicle body. The storage body is maintained in tension when in use so that it can carry a load. The storage areas are formed within the storage body and can be accessed from a top surface of the storage body and are collapsible. The storage body can also be removed from the vehicle for pre-loading or if it is not being used. Attachment structures formed adjacent the storage body mate with receiving structures formed on a vehicle so that the storage body is maintained in tension.
US07806450B2
A method for forming a component (210) for a vehicle includes providing a substrate (230) that includes a relatively rigid material and providing a skin (222) adjacent at least a portion of the substrate such that a cavity is formed between the substrate and the skin. The method also includes coupling at least a portion of the skin to the substrate and introducing a material (240) into the cavity after securing at least a portion of the skin to the substrate. The skin and the material introduced into the cavity form a cushioned region for the vehicle component.
US07806445B2
A spigot-and-socket joint for connecting two pipes, comprising a socket end assigned to one pipe and into which a spigot end of the other pipe, which has a support strip, can be inserted and which has a radially inward-protruding edge with at least one ring segment-shaped recess, and a locking device for locking the spigot end in the socket end. The support strip rests against the locking device and the locking device rests against the edge. The locking device comprises at least two ring segment-shaped locking elements. At least four recesses are provided and are arranged with uniform spacing circumferentially, and the two locking elements each have two ring segment-shaped locking parts which are joined together via a respective web. The spacing between the two locking parts of a locking element corresponds to the spacing between two recesses.
US07806442B2
A hose coupling for use in vehicle air conditioning (“A/C”) systems comprises a nipple at the end of a metal tube, a tubular seal insert, and a crimp collar. The seal insert includes a tubular retainer and at least one annular sealing element made of elastomeric material integrally joined to the retainer. The sealing element protrudes radially inwardly from an inner diameter surface of the retainer such that when the sealing element is telescoped over the nipple, the sealing element will effect a seal with an outer diameter surface of the nipple. The sealing element also protrudes radially outwardly from an outer diameter surface of the retainer such that when an end portion of a hose is telescoped thereover, the sealing element will effect a seal with an inner diameter surface of the hose end portion.
US07806441B2
A Snowboard Support System capable of relieving the load placed on the snowboarder's bound downhill foot and leg while riding on a chair lift. This invention is lightweight, compact, self retractable and safe. Most notably, the Snowboard Support System comprises a hooking mechanism that attaches to the chair lift, has an emergency releasable buckle, and an adjustment mechanism to change the length of the webbing to suit each snowboarder's height. The hooking mechanism is self retracted into an outer structure via a spring mechanism. The outer structure is fixed to the snowboard via U brackets and threaded inserts.
US07806439B2
A motor vehicle seat belt system having an active system for avoiding bunching of webbing in a D-ring during a rapid deceleration event. The system includes a controlled locking mechanism engageable with a rotatably mounted D-ring to restrict backward rotation of the D-ring.
US07806434B2
An airbag gas flow apparatus for a steering wheel includes a housing and a rotatable gas guide positioned within the housing. The housing includes a base and a diffuser, the diffuser comprising at least one opening. The rotatable gas guide includes at least one open portion and a closed portion. A weight is added to the gas guide and is positioned diametrically opposite the closed portion. The weight remains substantially at the 6 o'clock position and the closed portion is positioned substantially at the 12 o'clock position regardless of the rotational position of the steering wheel. As the steering wheel is rotated, the gas guide rotates relative to the housing and readjusts within the apparatus such that the weight remains positioned substantially at the 6 o'clock position and the closed portion remains positioned substantially at the 12 o'clock position.
US07806432B2
An airbag system for protecting a passenger in a motor vehicle including an ejection mitigation device configured to substantially cover an inside surface of the motor vehicle such as the rear window or the front windshield. The ejection mitigation device may be attached to one or more deployment guides which can then be attached to a driver or passenger side inflatable airbag. The deployment guides may be configured to guide the deployment of the ejection mitigation device during inflation of the driver and passenger side inflatable airbags.
US07806431B2
An airbag for a front passenger's seat includes a left outer panel, right outer panel, left inner panel and right inner panel. The left and right outer panels are prepared as laterally symmetrical separate entities. Each of the left and right inner panels includes at the upper front end at full inflation a crossing edge that extends in a transverse direction on the airbag at full inflation. Each of the left and right outer panels includes at the upper periphery a central extended region that includes a joint edge for joint with the crossing edge of each of the inner panels. The central extended regions of the left and right outer panels are coupled together at their circumferences except the joint edges.
US07806428B2
A technology is provided effective for suppressing a load received by an airbag housed in a motor vehicle seat with an airbag module having a construction in which the airbag is developed and expanded from a down side to an upside of a seat cushion against movement of a motor vehicle occupant toward a front side of a motor vehicle, which is in a condition seated in the motor vehicle seat when in occurrence of an accident. In one form, the motor vehicle seat according to the present invention is constructed to house an airbag module in a housing portion provided in a seat pan, and to be provided with an airbag cover that intercepts a housing opening of the housing portion and that covers a housing opening side of the airbag. The airbag cover is joined to a joining surface of the seat pan in a surface contact manner.
US07806424B2
A fifth wheel hitch for towing a trailer behind a motor vehicle is adjustable between a forward position and a rearward position. The fifth wheel hitch includes a base assembly for mounting to the motor vehicle, head assembly for engaging the trailer and at least one pivoting arm coupled between the base assembly and the head assembly. The head assembly moves in an arcuate path between the forward position and the rearward position as the pivoting arm articulates relative to the base assembly. Once positioned in the forward or rearward position, the head assembly is locked relative to the base assembly so as to prevent further movement.
US07806406B1
The present invention features a board game comprising a game board, action cards, and playing pieces. The present invention also features methods of playing a board game wherein the object of the game is to move all of a player's pieces from a start position to a home position.
US07806393B2
A clamp apparatus is equipped with a cylinder mechanism having a piston. A driving force of the cylinder mechanism is transmitted to a clamp arm, which is retained on a housing through a block body and a link pin that make up a driving force transmitting mechanism, the clamp arm being rotated through a predetermined angle. The block body includes a rotatably supported roller. The block body is guided along an axial direction by displacement of the roller, while the roller is rotated along a guide member of the housing.
US07806386B2
A braking device for a winch comprises a braking bush, a brake driving shaft having one end connected to an output shaft of the motor and another end of the brake driving shaft having a first axial protrusion. A brake driven shaft defines an end rotatably disposed in the braking bush and having a second axial protrusion opposed to the first axial protrusion. A brake shoe is disposed between the first axial protrusion and the second axial protrusion. An elastic member is connected to the second axial protrusion and the brake shoe and normally urges the brake shoe toward the first axial protrusion. A winch having the braking device is also disclosed.
US07806379B1
A holder for a liquid container includes a frame body and a resilient holding ring. The frame body includes a container-holder having a substantially C-shaped surrounding wall that defines a container-receiving space and that has inner and outer surfaces, and two spaced-apart free ends. The resilient holding ring is molded over the frame body, and includes an inner lining layer covering the inner surface of the surrounding wall and extending from one of the free ends to the other one of the free ends, and a bridge portion bridging the free ends of the surrounding wall, being stretchable between the free ends, and directly connected to the inner lining layer. The bridge portion and the inner lining layer form a ring.
US07806378B2
A tilter assembly is provided for positioning an electronic device such as a flat panel display. The tilter assembly includes a tilter shaft holder having an opening aligned along an axis and a shaft received within the opening. The shaft is rotatable about the axis, and may be coupled to a support. The tilter shaft holder is coupled to the electronic device. The tilter assembly also includes a torsion spring device in operative association with the shaft to provide a bias or counterbalance to the electronic device, thereby preventing undesired rotation about the axis.
US07806377B2
A mounting system for frameless solar panels having a plurality of base mounting members and a plurality mounting brackets. Each of the mounting brackets include one or more elongated bars having a center portion, a flat top plane and a flat bottom plane, wherein each of the elongated bars includes slotted holes formed on either end of the elongated bars, whereby the mounting brackets are fastened to the base mounting members through the slotted holes.
US07806375B1
A clamp assembly including a C-type clamp having an anvil, an opposed screw and a body therebetween is employed in securing a load to a flange of a structural beam. A plate includes a first portion having a locking texture on each side and a second portion offset from the first portion and having a mounting hole therethrough. The mounting hole receives the body of the C-type clamp with a clearance fit and with the locking texture in juxtaposition with the anvil of the C-type clamp. This plate provides a retaining key of hard steel to engage the anvil of the C-type clamp and the flange of a beam structure to enhance retention of the C-type clamp on the beam flange.
US07806363B2
An engine mounting assembly for an engine, e.g. a gas turbine engine comprises a plurality of carrying arrangements. Each carrying arrangement comprises a rear load absorbing assembly. Each load absorbing assembly provides a rear mounting point for an engine carrier. Each carrying arrangement further comprises first and second stabilising members extending forwardly from the rear mounting point of the rear load absorbing assembly to first and second spaced forward mounting points for an engine carrier.
US07806362B2
A vehicle including a fuselage having a longitudinal axis and a transverse axis, two Ducted Fan lift-producing propellers carried by the fuselage on each side of the transverse axis, and a body formed in the fuselage between the lift-producing propellers. Many variations are described enabling deflection and affection of flow streams and reduction of drag and momentum drag which improve speed and forward flight of the vehicle. Also described are unique features applicable in any single or multiple ducted fans and VTOL vehicles.
US07806361B2
Disclosed is a printer including a paper feeder for accommodating a rolled paper to be pulled out and recorded thereon. The feeder has a container section to set the roll, in which first and second support walls are arranged to rotatably support the roll. While paper from the roll is taken out, a contact force produced by the roll against the first support wall is kept larger than that in a stationary state, and a contact force produced by the roll against second support wall is kept smaller than that in the stationary state. A friction coefficient between the second support wall and the roll is larger than one between first support wall and the roll, the roll being in slidable contact with the first and second support walls. Therefore, when the recording is started, an impact force to the roll can be alleviated, resulting in reducing unevenness in image in a feeding direction of the paper.
US07806360B2
A creel magazine for continuously delivering packaged stranded material to a manufacturing process. A plurality of magazines linearly disposed in substantially parallel alignment are alternately supplied stranded materials fed to the manufacturing process from movable magazine cartridges supporting packages of stranded materials form either side of the magazine frame. The apparatus and method provide for sequential delivery of stranded materials from packages supported by cartridges at the sides of the magazines, intermediate replenishment of the depleted cartridges with cartridges loaded with replenished packages.
US07806345B2
In an in-wall heater, in which control equipment 11, 12 is disposed in a side space 10 on one lateral side of a combustion housing 2 within an outer case 1 and an exhaust duct 15 is disposed in a side space 13 on the other lateral side of the combustion housing 2, the cooling performance of each of the side spaces is increased and noise due to a sucked-in sound of room air can be reduced. In a side plate portion of the outer case 1 on both lateral sides, an air intake opening 7, which is vertically long, is provided in a position in a front side portion exposed to a front of a room wall. Each side space 10, 13 within the outer case 1 is formed in a ventilation flue on the suction side where the room air from each of the air intake openings 7 is conducted into the warm air fan 9.
US07806344B2
A dust-cleaning device for a computer and a method using the same that utilizes a computer fan are disclosed. The computer is a laptop computer, a desktop computer, or a server. The method comprises: determining if a temperature of an electronic component is higher than a specific temperature; and if so, then reversing the computer fan for a specific amount of time as indicated by a timer.
US07806336B2
A laser beam generation system having an integrated coherence reduction mechanism. The system includes: a flexible circuit having a first end portion and a second end portion; a laser diode mounted on the first end portion of the flexible circuit, for producing a laser beam having a central characteristic wavelength; diode current drive circuitry for producing a diode drive current to drive the laser diode and produce said laser beam; and high frequency modulation (HFM) circuitry also mounted on the first end portion of the flexible circuit, for modulating the diode drive current at a sufficiently high frequency to cause the laser diode to produce a laser beam having a spectral side-band components about the central characteristic wavelength, and thereby reducing the coherence as well as coherence length of the laser beam.
US07806335B2
A digital image capturing and processing system for automatically recognizing objects in a POS environment. The system includes a system housing having an imaging window; illumination and imaging stations for generating and projecting illumination and imaging planes or zones through the imaging window, and into a 3D imaging volume definable relative to the imaging window, for digital imaging an object passing through the 3D imaging volume, and generating digital linear images of the object as the object intersects the illumination and imaging planes or zones during system operation. A digital image processor processes the digital images and automatically recognizes the object, such as produce and fruit, graphically represented by the digital images.
US07806327B2
A system includes a client that obtains a code included in an image, and sends out the code and identification information of the client, and a server that obtains content address information based on a frequency of access, the code and the identification information received from the client, from a table stored in the server provides the content address information to the client whereby the client is enabled to obtain content information by using the content address information.
US07806324B1
By decreasing the amount of card substrate required in a memory card to support the actual memory unit, the test interface of the card, which is usually removed before final assembly of the card, can be brought within the allowable length of the finished card and can, therefore, remain on the card permanently. Consequently, in the event of a field failure, the test interface remains available for testing the card and diagnosing the location and cause of the failure.
US07806323B2
Apparatus and method for indirectly determining activation status of newly issued financial presentation devices that replace existing financial presentation devices such as credit cards that are about to expire. The apparatus includes a computer device having an account update module that receives an account identifier for an existing credit card, determines a new expiration date associated with a newly issued credit card that replaces the existing credit card, retrieves transaction data associated with the new credit card and examines the expiration date of the retrieved data. If the expiration date associated with the retrieved transaction data matches the new expiration date, then the account update module determines that the newly issued card has been activated.
US07806321B1
System and methods for transaction processing using a rewards account are described. The method may include: receiving a transaction containing a transaction type, formatting a message based on the transaction type and sending the message. The method may alternately include, receiving a transaction message and processing a transaction based on a transaction type contained within the transaction message. The system may include one or more software modules performing the following functions: receiving module to receive transactions, transaction processing module to parse the transaction and determine a transaction type, message processing module to format a transaction message based on the transaction type, and a user interface module to provide a user interface to a customer.
US07806316B1
An integrated surveillance and transaction record system is used to monitor a bank and to save records of transactions. The integrated system includes a central database and server. When a teller executes a transaction, an interface detects relevant transaction data and communicates this with the central database and server. An image of the customer is also captured. The transaction data and customer image are saved as a record in a database. In a drive-in system, a teller identification module obtains a teller identifier and corresponding lane number. This permits the central database and server to match a transaction record with an image of a customer at one of multiple drive-in lanes.
US07806314B2
A carton for containing a plurality of articles. The carton has a plurality of panels that extend at least partially around an interior of the carton. End flaps are respectively foldably attached to panels of the plurality of panels. The end flaps are overlapped with respect to one another and thereby at least partially form a closed end of the carton. A dispenser has a tear line and at least one dispenser section foldably attached to the carton for at least partially defining an opening in the carton for accessing the containers. A gusset connects the end flaps, wherein the gusset can be unfolded to allow relative movement between the end flaps and to allow the dispenser section to pivot outwardly to enlarge the opening.
US07806311B2
A method of manufacturing a ceramic/metal composite structure includes the steps of: performing a multi-stage pre-oxidizing process on the copper sheet; placing the copper sheet on a ceramic substrate; and heating the copper sheet and the ceramic substrate to a joining temperature to join the copper sheet and the ceramic substrate together to enhance interface strength between the copper sheet and the ceramic substrate according to the multi-stage pre-oxidizing process. The multi-stage pre-oxidizing process includes a first stage of pre-oxidizing process and a second stage of pre-oxidizing process, and the first and second stages of pre-oxidizing processes are performed in atmospheres with different oxygen partial pressures and at different temperatures.
US07806308B2
A quick connection and release assembly for releasably mounting a bicycle rack on the bumper of a motor vehicle. The assembly includes a bumper plate structure adapted to be fixedly secured to the bumper by fasteners and defining at least one tongue extending upwardly from an upper edge thereof and a bicycle rack plate structure adapted to be fixedly secured to a rear face of the bike rack base plate by fasteners and including an aperture proximate an upper edge thereof sized to receive the tongue and retractable pins proximate lower side edges thereof for positioning behind a lower edge portion of the bumper plate structure.
US07806306B2
A system and method for forming a vehicle article carrier having a single side release crossbar assembly. The crossbar assembly includes a trigger style, horizontally arranged actuating lever that simultaneously locks and unlocks a pair of locking pins at opposite ends of the crossbar assembly from their respective support rails. The support rails are fixedly secured to an outer body surface of a vehicle such that the crossbar assembly is supported above the outer body surface. The single side release feature eliminates the need for the operator to walk back and forth to both sides of the vehicle to unlock and lock the crossbar assembly when the crossbar assembly needs to be repositioned on the support rails.
US07806291B2
According to one exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a center-pull bottom feed dispenser includes a housing defining a compartment and including a center-pull bottom feed arrangement for dispensing a sheet material that is in the form of a roll of the sheet material. The sheet material can be a pre-moistened airlaid web. The dispenser also includes a tray that supports the airlaid web roll and includes an outlet opening through which the airlaid web is fed to be accessible to a user. The tray includes a moisture retaining feature that directs fluid from the pre-moistened air-laid web away from the outlet opening and toward an outer peripheral edge of the roll.
US07806279B2
A first engagement part 4 removably engaged with an engagement part 1c of a panel 1 is disposed at an upper end of a main body part 3 of a engagement member 2. A second engagement part 5 is disposed at a lower end of the main body part 3. An elastic element part 5b is engaged with the engagement part 1c by its own elasticity, thereby the second engagement part 5 is removably engaged with the engagement part 1c. A control part 3c extending downwardly is disposed at the lower end of the main body part 3. For removing the engagement member 2 from the panel 1, the lower end of the main body part 3 is moved in a direction away from the panel 1 by hooking a finger on the control part 3c.
US07806278B2
A bottle storage device, particularly a bottle rack, is provided for at least one double row (7) including a first row (2) and a second row (3) of bottles (1) and resting on a support assembly (11), with each support assembly (11) having a first support assembly part (6) and a second support assembly part (10) for supporting the lateral surfaces (5) of the bottles (1), and a third support assembly part (8) is arranged between them for supporting the bottle necks (4) of the bottles (1), with the support assembly parts (6, 8, 10) each being spaced apart from each other. The third support assembly part (8) projects freely from a rear side of the bottle storage device, opposite the removal side, extending towards the removal side. Stops (14) are provided for the lateral surfaces (5) of the rearmost bottle (1) of the first and the second row (2, 3), which are off-set in reference to each other in a direction of the rows (2, 3).
US07806276B2
A separator that uses centrifugation to fractionate a suspension such as blood comprises a separation container and a buoy. The buoy is carried in the separation container and has a tuned density that is configured to reach an equilibrium position in a suspension. The guide surface is carried on the buoy upper surface and is inclined to an accumulation position near a buoy perimeter. The buoy suspension fractionation system can be used in a method of isolating a fraction from a suspension, and in a method for re-suspending particulates for withdrawal.
US07806268B2
A sheet of material is divided into front and rear panels and folds over on itself to a folded position. The front panel has flaps and immediately adjacent hanger openings formed in it. When the flaps are pivoted outward, the spaces they vacated define flap openings. Hangers project from the rear panel and align with their corresponding hanger openings. To assemble the display, the flaps are pivoted outward to their open positions and the sheet is folded to the folded position. As the sheet is being folded, the hangers swingingly extend through the hanger and flap openings, which together form a single continuous opening. Once in the folded position, the flaps are then pivoted back to their closed positions with the hangers extending through and interlocked with the hanger openings.
US07806265B2
An apparatus for preparing a pharmaceutical for transient application includes a tray having a sealed compartment, a vial of an ophthalmic formulation of mitomycin-C, a diluent carrier containing sterilized water, and a syringe that are all contained together in a single package. The component parts of the apparatus are used together to reconstitute the contents of the vial with the water in the diluent carrier, and then draw the reconstituted drug into the sealed compartment of the tray by a suction force produced by the syringe. In the tray compartment, the reconstituted drug is absorbed in an absorbent pad. The tray is opened to remove the pad and the absorbed drug from the tray compartment for use of the pad in transient application of the drug.
US07806262B2
A package has a rectangular parallelepiped container including vertical front and rear panel sections connected by a pair of vertical side panel sections, a top wall connected to the upper edge of the rear panel section and a bottom wall connected to the at least one of the lower edges of the vertical panels and a top cushion panel disposed beneath the top wall and rotatably connected to at least one upper edge of the side panel sections. A holder is disposed, in the container, for holding a plurality of glass syringes each of which is sealingly contained in a plastic bag.
US07806260B2
A display apparatus for displaying a portable electronic device comprises a curved shell, a gravity base, a seat and a transparent cover that covers the curved shell and the seat. The gravity base is formed on the bottom of the curved shell. The seat is lodged in the curved shell and the seat has interior space having a shape matching the predetermined shape of a portable electronic device. The assembled gravity base and the curved shell are integrally formed as a tumbler structure for keeping balance while facing external forces.
US07806253B2
An apparatus for steering a belt includes a steering roller supporting the belt, a rotatable element and a transmission. The steering roller is rotatable about a first axis and pivotable about a second axis, the second axis being substantial perpendicular to the first axis. The rotatable element is rotatable about a third axis, the third axis being parallel to the first axis. The transmission is arranged for converting a rotational motion of the rotatable element about the third axis into a pivoting motion of the steering roller about the second axis. The rotatable element is rotatable by a frictional force between a side portion of the belt and the rotatable element. A method for steering a belt in a steering mechanism includes such an apparatus.
US07806250B2
A packaging system utilizes two sides of a loading carousel, which reduces both the height and footprint of the packaging system. Mass and inertia are also reduced, allowing higher operational speeds. The loading carousel receives opened cartons on a first side and lowers them over product groups on a second side.
US07806245B2
A clutch system selectively transmitting torque in an automatic transmission according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may include: a rotation axis rotated by the torque; at least one plate disposed at an exterior of the rotation axis and moved along an axial direction of the rotation axis; at least one disk alternately disposed with the plate and moved along the axial direction of the rotation axis, the disk having at least one wave along a radial direction thereof; and a piston applying force to the disk and the plate along the axial direction of the rotation axis such that a frictional force is generated between the plate and the disk. Therefore, the clutch system of this invention has advantages of enhanced durability and operability.
US07806243B2
Vehicular brake rotor formed by powder metallurgy including metals such as titanium powder.
US07806239B2
An actuating system 1 for a wheel brake system of a motor vehicle, wherein the braking action is obtained by means of a rotatable cam element 2 fixed to the motor shaft 8 of an electric motor, with said rotatable cam element 2 abutting against an actuating member 4, so as to laterally displace said actuating member 4, resulting in the braking pads 5 being pressed against the friction element or brake disk. Recovery or adjustment of the backlash or gap arising due to the wear of the brake pads. The motor-cam group or assembly is displaced so as to keep the brake pads 5 in light contact with the friction element or disk but without exerting any unwanted braking action.
US07806232B2
A roof perimeter cable guard system has a main stanchion member supported at its lower end by an anchor bracket screwed to the roof perimeter. A main brace member extends outward and downward from the upper end portion of the main stanchion member and curves around and under the perimeter feature. The main brace has a lower sleeve receiving an adjustable wall-engaging member to provide bracing against the wall of the structure. In one configuration the wall-engaging member has an additional supporting extender member, which allows the wall-engaging member to engage the soffit of an overhang. An inward extender member and parapet engagement bracket allow for position attachment to a parapet feature. Pairs of barrier cable engagement brackets having barrier cable receiving slots are spaced along the inner side of the stanchion vertical members for easy insertion or removal of an equal number of barrier cables, normally three.
US07806224B2
A vehicle steering apparatus includes a steering member for rotational operation, and a support mechanism that supports the steering member so as to be movable between a housing position where the steering member is housed in a fixed frame of an instrument panel and a projection position where the steering member projects to an outside of the fixed frame. The steering member includes a main body supported by the support mechanism, a pair of grip sections which are movable between the housing position and the projection position together with the main body, and which are supported so as to be movable between a nonoperating position and an operating position by the main body, and a grip section drive actuator which is supported by the main body, and drives the pair of grip sections to the nonoperating position and the operating position.
US07806218B2
A running vehicle has front and rear driving wheels, and a sensor for measuring the acceleration of the running vehicle. The vehicle determines a distribution rate of torque to each of the driving wheels in accordance with the found acceleration, and changes driving torque to each of the front and rear driving wheels based on the found distribution rate to control driving motors.
US07806217B2
A motorcycle includes a front part having a steering mechanism with which a front wheel is steered based on the manipulation of the steering of a steering handle, and a swing mechanism extending from either a body frame and an engine for vertically movably supporting the steering mechanism. The steering mechanism is connected to the swing mechanism via a lower spherical bearing and an upper spherical bearing.
US07806210B2
A method of controlling a hybrid propulsion system of a vehicle, the hybrid propulsion system including an internal combustion engine and an alternate powertrain torque source capable of propelling the vehicle while the engine is turned off, the method comprising of detecting congestion by receiving and analyzing data that is external to the vehicle, and controlling a transition of the hybrid propulsion system between a first propulsion mode and a second propulsion mode based on said detecting of congestion.
US07806207B1
A method for transporting and relocating heavy equipment using a fluid to lift heavy equipment with a lift assembly with a rotatable motion gear assembly. The method can include disengaging a rod one of four walking assemblies secured to the lift assembly and extending a push pull travelling system to move equipment in a first direction using roller treads. The method can include raising one of the four walking assemblies with the lift assembly and pivoting one walking assembly in an opposite direction. The method can include retracting the push pull travelling system and rotating the walking assembly to orient in a second direction.
US07806197B2
A strip tillage implement includes a single, center-mounted arm located directly above the row area of a strip-till berm. Basket halves are rotatably connected to opposite sides of the arm in cantilever fashion to eliminate outer support arms. Residue flow encounters rolling baskets rather than fixed arms so that catching, flipping and twisting of residue is minimized and plugging in high residue conditions is reduced. A single, center-mounted bearing and simplified basket halves reduce the cost and complexity of the implement.
US07806191B2
A drill pipe includes a pin end connector, a box end connector, a first communication connector having a plurality of first communication contacts and a second communication connector having a plurality of second communication contacts. The pin end connector is received by the box end connector to join sections of a drill pipe together. When the drill pipe sections are joined by the pin end and box end connectors, a plurality of isolated communication connections is formed between the first communication contacts and the second communication contacts.
US07806190B2
A technique that prevents the tangling of communication lines routed along a contraction joint. The technique enables deployment of a well completion having a contraction joint with a plurality of communication lines routed along the contraction joint. A communication line organizer is positioned along the contraction joint to prevent tangling of the plurality of communication lines while enabling sufficient movement of the communication lines to accommodate expansion and contraction of the contraction joint.
US07806185B2
Methods comprising: providing an aqueous treatment fluid comprising an aqueous fluid, a friction reducing polymer, and an antiflocculation additive; and introducing the treatment fluid into a subterranean formation. Methods of fracturing a subterranean formation comprising: providing an aqueous treatment fluid comprising an aqueous fluid, a friction reducing polymer, and an antiflocculation additive; and introducing the treatment fluid into a well bore penetrating the subterranean formation at rate in the range of from about 30 barrels to about 250 barrels per minute so as to create or enhance one or more fractures in the subterranean formation. Aqueous treatment fluids comprising: an aqueous fluid, a friction reducing polymer in an amount sufficient to reduce friction without forming a gel, and an antiflocculation additive.
US07806180B2
Methods and systems are described for communicating with downhole locations and transmitting power to downhole locations. Use is made of a cable passing someway down into the well. This cable may be connected to a downhole sensor and may be used primarily for communicating with that sensor, but also used in the current techniques described herein. Electrical connection is achieved between the cable and the metallic structure of the well to allow signals to be transferred between the communications tool and the surface via the cable.
US07806179B2
Two subs are held in a fixed position relative to each other when assembled to a string and run into a wellbore. A reservoir of fluid is defined in a wall between the subs. The reservoir has one or more outlets connected by a short jumper line to an adjacent tool to be operated. At the appropriate time, set down weight breaks a shear pin to reduce the reservoir volume and create pressure in the exit lines. The exit lines can be connected to operating pistons in adjacent tools to actuate them or to perform other desired functions using a stream of pressurized fluid. The device can be set for one time or multiple cycles where fluid in the reservoir can be replenished and re-pressurized for multiple cycles of operation.
US07806173B2
A downhole tool configured for conveyance within a wellbore extending into a subterranean formation, the tool comprising an electronics system and a heat-dissipating apparatus. The electronics system includes a controller, a memory, and surface communicating means, at least one of which is a heat-generating source. The heat-dissipating apparatus includes: a chassis engaging the heat-generating source and having a fluid passageway allowing fluid flow therethrough; a radiator for further heat dissipation; a pump; sensors to measure temperature of the chassis and the wellbore; and a compensator to regulate the pressure of fluid in the passageway.
US07806168B2
A device, method, and system for a fluid cooled micro-scaled heat exchanger is disclosed. The fluid cooled micro-scaled heat exchanger utilizes a micro-scaled region and a spreader region with a highly thermally conductive material and sized to yield high heat dissipation and transfer area per unit volume from a heat source. The micro-scaled region preferably comprises microchannels.
US07806159B2
A window covering having a flexible panel and a first lift cord for raising the flexible panel. A second panel is at least partially coextensive with the flexible panel and a second lift cord is provided for raising the second panel. The flexible panel may have an upper edge and a lower edge where the upper edge is connected to a head rail and the lower edge is disposed below the head rail. The second lift cord may raise the upper edge of the second panel. In one embodiment a third panel at least partially coextensive with a portion of the flexible panel and a third lift cord for raising the top edge of the third panel are provided. The light blocking characteristic of the blind is changed by the placement of the panels.
US07806149B2
In order to make a small space requirement, a low energy requirement and therefore an increased weaving frequency possible in a shedding apparatus, a spring drive is proposed which is connected to magnetically acting holding means. The holding means are capable of holding the heddle frame in an upper shed position and in a lower shed position counter to the spring force. Furthermore, the heddle frame is connected to a linear motor. A heddle movement can be initiated by said linear motor. According to the invention, the spring drive is configured as a tension/compression spring which is designed in such a way that, during operation of the heddle frame at the resonant frequency of the spring drive the greater part of the kinetic energy can be obtained from the spring drive.
US07806145B1
There is provided a housing for a flow conditioner. The housing comprises a body having first and second pipe connections, a flow passage between the pipe connections, a carrier receiving cavity within the flow passage, and an opening corresponding to the carrier receiving cavity. A plate carrier has a sealing portion and a flow conditioner carrying portion. The sealing portion has a sealing surface for sealing the opening corresponding to the carrier receiving cavity, and the flow conditioner carrying portion depends from the sealing portion. The flow conditioner carrying portion is sized to be inserted through the opening and into the carrier receiving cavity, and has a plurality of set screw receiving apertures or a retaining lip for securing the flow conditioner. There is a connector for securing the plate carrier within the body such that the sealing surface seals against the body.
US07806139B2
The present invention is a fluid conduit coupling assembly for coupling a first fluid conduit to a second fluid conduit. The fluid conduit coupling assembly comprises a first coupler and a second coupler. The first coupler is for connecting to the first fluid conduit and comprises a first housing and a first valve. The first valve comprises a first lever arm. The second coupler is for connecting to the second fluid conduit and comprises a second housing and a second valve. The second valve comprises a second lever arm. When a force is applied to couple together the couplers, at least a portion of said force is communicated to each lever arm, thereby causing each valve to pivot from a closed position to an open position. The first valve and first lever arm are contained within the first housing, and the second valve and second lever arm are contained within the second housing.
US07806137B2
The present invention provides devices and methods for micro-scale simulated moving bed chromatography (SMB) for continuous preparation of analytic quantities of highly pure fractions of target molecules. The present apparatus and method of the invention is adapted in a preferred embodiment to separations by affinity chromatography involving three discontinuous liquid flow loops. An alternative embodiment of affinity chromatography utilizes standard SMB operating under isocratic conditions.
US07806129B2
The present invention is a device for cleaning a soiled paint roller. The device comprises a housing supported by at least two leg members. The housing includes an opened top, a plurality of sidewalls and a bottom wall. A spindle is interiorly mounted to the bottom wall of the container at a predetermined height, the spindle having means for circumferentially engaging the paint roller. An inlet port is mounted to a side wall and in fluid communication with a cleaning fluid source. At least one stationary sprayer is interiorly mounted to the bottom wall at a predetermined height and a predetermined distance from an end of the spindle. The at least one stationary sprayer is operationally coupled to the inlet port and is in fluid communication with the inlet port for providing a continuous stream of water directly onto the paint roller. At least one pivoting sprayer is interiorly mounted to the bottom portion at a predetermined height and a predetermined distance from the spindle. The at least one pivoting sprayer is in fluid communication with the inlet port for providing a continuous stream of water directly onto the paint roller. A control valve operationally connected to the inlet port. The control valve allows the user to selectively initiate and terminate the flow of cleaning fluid between the at least one stationary sprayer and the at least one pivoting sprayer. In an alternative embodiment, the device can be adapted with a reservoir for providing the cleaning fluid into the housing.
US07806124B2
A heatable hair curler includes an elongate casing, an interior cavity, and a heat absorbent material. The elongate casing is made of a flexible material and has an axial length of at least about 7.5 inches and a width of at least about 1.25 inches. The casing has opposite first and second ends that are attachable to each other. The interior cavity is located between the first and second ends and is separated from the first and second ends by first and second seams, respectively. The heat absorbent material substantially fills the cavity.
US07806105B2
When it is determined that an engine speed NE rapidly decreases (positive outcome at S210), a throttle increase amount TAu and a valve lift increase amount VLu are computed based on a decrease rate NEd of the engine speed NE (S220). Then, a target throttle opening degree TAt of a throttle valve and a target maximum valve lift VLt of an intake valve are increased by using the throttle increase amount TAu and the valve lift increase amount VLu (S230). As a result, a drop in the engine speed during idling is reliably suppressed.
US07806104B2
An engine ECU executes a program including the steps of: detecting an engine speed NE, engine load, and engine coolant temperature (S100, S110, S115); when determination is made of being in an idle region (YES at S120), determining whether in a cold idle region, a transitional region, or a warm idle region (S130); injecting fuel from an intake manifold injector alone when in the cold idle region (S140); injecting fuel from the intake manifold injector and injecting fuel from an in-cylinder injector at the feed pressure when in the transitional region (S150); and injecting fuel from the in-cylinder injector at the feed pressure when in the warm idle region (S160).
US07806094B2
An apparatus is provided for the ignition of a fuel/air mixture in the combustion chamber of a combustion machine, wherein the combustion chamber has at least one inlet valve and at least one outlet valve. There are further provided a laser light generating device for giving off laser light and a combustion chamber window for coupling the laser light into a combustion chamber of the combustion machine. There is provided at least one fluid feed means which is separate from the inlet valve or valves and with which a fluid can be caused to flow at least on to regions of the surface of the combustion chamber window or between the combustion chamber window and the focal point of the laser light.
US07806070B2
A vehicle direction indicator system is designed to alert surrounding drivers of the intentions of the vehicle operator to continue in a forward direction. The indicator system has a plurality of indicator light end points and each end point is powered by the vehicle's electrical system and includes a housing, a light source holder and a lens attached to the front portion of the housing, and a vibration feedback element to indicate to the driver when the signal is activated. The end points may be positioned in various locations such as the grill, spoiler, side markers and the like and may simultaneously emit a color when the vehicle driver actuates the indicator system within the vehicle. The system is preferably mounted onto the front portion of the vehicle and is capable of signaling to other drivers at a four way intersection an intention to continue in a straight direction.
US07806069B2
A system for securing a flexible cover to a boat is described. The system includes a flexible cover defining a peripheral edge and a flexible member attached to the flexible cover adjacent to the peripheral edge. An edge clip is adjustably disposed on the flexible member. The edge clip includes a body defining an inlet and an outlet. The flexible member extends from the inlet to the outlet. A retaining element is disposed within the body to discourage movement of the flexible member with respect to the inlet and the outlet. The system also includes a hook, connectible between the edge clip and the boat for securing the edge clip to the boat, thereby securing the flexible cover to the boat via the flexible member.
US07806065B1
A modular removable externally mountable diesel electric thruster system using azimuthing thrusters and a dynamic positioning system for positioning floating semi-submersible vessels with a ballasted waterline and at least one submerged pontoon.
US07806050B2
The invention provides an ink composition which includes a polymerization initiator, a polymerizable compound, a colorant, and a high molecular compound having a repeating unit represented by the following formula (I). In formula (I), n represents an integer of from 1 to 5.
US07806041B2
A cylinder body includes a first guide surface made up from first guide grooves and a first bulging portion, wherein a slide table is displaceably supported on the first guide surface via a guide mechanism. Additionally, guide members of a guide block that constitutes the guide mechanism are inserted into and fixed within the first guide grooves. Further, the cylinder body is equipped with a second guide surface, which is formed with substantially the same shape as the first guide surface. In the event that the first guide surface is oriented upwardly and the slide table is installed thereon, the second guide surface acts as a mounting surface, whereas, in the event that the second guide surface is oriented upwardly and the slide table is installed thereon, the first guide surface acts as the mounting surface.
US07806039B1
A firearm has a frame with a barrel connected to the frame and defining a barrel axis. The barrel has a rear end defining a chamber, and a bolt assembly reciprocates with respect to the chamber between a closed position adjacent the chamber, and an open position away from the chamber. A fire control assembly includes a trigger and a selector switch with a semi-automatic position and a fully-automatic position. The fire control assembly includes a bolt assembly sear operably engaging the bolt. The fire control assembly operates when the selector switch is in the semi-automatic position in response to pulling the trigger to discharge the firearm, to load a cartridge, and to position the bolt in the closed position. The fire control assembly operates when the selector switch is in the fully-automatic position in response to pulling the trigger to discharge the firearm, and to hold the bolt in the open position. The fire control may include a sub-frame connected to the frame and to the bolt assembly sear, and may include a safety sear that prevents firing out of battery when in either full-auto or semi-auto modes. The fire control system may include a facility that momentarily maintains the trigger in a firing position when it is released while the bolt is moving forward from the open position.
US07806033B2
A sabre saw blade, in particular for metal applications, with a serration that has at least one first tooth spacing and one second tooth spacing, characterized in that in at least a partial region with three first and three second tooth spacings which are always disposed in a directly alternating sequence, the serration has at least two tooth shapes, and at least one tooth is embodied as a roof-shaped tooth having a first tooth back portion with a first clearance angle and a second tooth back portion with a second clearance angle with said tooth back portions being arranged at an obtuse angle and one behind the other in a cutting movement direction, and at least one tooth is embodied as a standard tooth with a straight tooth back, arranged alternatingly, wherein the first tooth spacing is between 10% and 30% shorter and the second tooth spacing is between 10% and 30% wider than 1.81 mm.
US07806022B2
A bicycle component actuating device is provided with a base member, a first user operating member, a locking member and a second user operating member. The first user operating member rotates between first and second operating positions about a rotational axis in a first operating plane that intersects with the rotational axis. The locking member is moves between a locking position to lock the first user operating member in the second operating position and a releasing position to release the first operating member from the second operating position. The second user operating member moves from a non-releasing position to a releasing position for releasing the first user operating member. One of the locking member and the second user operating member is movably along an operating path that intersects with the first operating plane of the first user operating member.
US07806012B2
A drive unit includes a gear set driving a drive pulley that in turn drives a flexible drive member which is attached to a driven member by an attachment assembly that travels in a channel. The attachment assembly is attached to the flexible drive member by a coupler that has teeth that extend through respective windows of the flexible drive member. The coupler is disposed between side walls of a yoke and attached to a bridge wall of the yoke. An outer shoe engages each side wall of the yoke. The attachment assembly includes an optional spring to tension the flexible drive member and the shoes have optional flexible tapered fingers to stabilize the drive pulley. The flexible drive member and the spring are trapped between the coupler and the bridge wall of the yoke. In an alternate arrangement, the flexible drive member is trapped between the coupler and fingers of the shoes that extend behind the flexible drive member and through spaces between adjacent teeth of the coupler and into sockets of the other shoe. The flexible drive member may be a drive chain or a drive belt having spaced windows.
US07806008B2
A method and apparatus for analysis of a sample. The method includes an accessing operation for accessing a region of the sample via a tip of at least one probe mounted on a cantilever. A removing operation removes a sample material from the region that is accessed by the tip of the at least one probe mounted on the cantilever. A sensing operation senses a parameter associated to the removal of the sample material in the removing operation. The accessing, removing, and sensing operations are repeated to facilitate removal of at least one layer of the sample.
US07806007B2
A method and apparatus is provided for determining seat belt tension in a seat belt system. The apparatus includes webbing and a motor coupled to the webbing for retracting the webbing and generating a seat belt tension. When the seat belt apparatus is deployed to restrain an occupant, the tension on the seatbelt is monitored by applying a voltage to the motor to retract the webbing, measuring an electrical current during the application of the voltage, determining a maximum value of the electrical current and determining the seat belt tension based upon the maximum value.
US07806001B1
The present invention relates to a pressure sensor comprising multiple flexible diaphragms to which are affixed, within which are embedded, or which themselves constitute part of transducer elements that are connected together electrically, providing greater sensitivity and allowing the diaphragms to be made smaller, thereby increasing burst pressure to operating pressure ratio. This multi-diaphragm pressure sensor can therefore be used to accurately measure small changes in dynamic pressure in a fluid of overall high static pressure, for example, in a flow inventory control system as may be used in a fire suppression system, or for control of nuclear reactor systems.
US07805996B2
In a servo accelerometer, a support rod is formed integrally with a pole piece bottom, which is disposed between a magnetic yoke and a magnet. The support rod is extended to penetrate to the outside through a through-hole formed in a closure plate portion of the magnetic yokes. The sensing mechanism is connected via the support rod to a housing by fixing the support rod at the extended end thereof to the housing. The support rod may be formed integrally with the closure plate portion of the magnetic yoke, rather than the pole piece bottom.
US07805995B2
A vibrating gyroscope includes a tuning-fork vibrator having a base and legs. The vibrator is joined to a support plate by conductive adhesive members. The support plate includes an outer frame portion in which a joining portion is provided at a location near a longitudinal end of the outer frame portion. The joining portion is supported by a first support portion in the air gap portion. The width of the first support portion is less than the width of the joining portion. The vibrator is joined to the joining portion of the support plate.
US07805991B2
A liquid sensing apparatus includes a liquid sensing chamber 33 having a liquid inlet port that is in communication with an external liquid container in which a liquid is reserved, and a liquid outlet port that is in communication with a liquid consuming apparatus, a movable member 34 movable depending on a liquid level in the liquid sensing chamber 33, a recess portion 33b, 41a for cooperating with a wall surface of the movable member 34 to form a closed space when the movable member 34 is moved to a predetermined position depending the liquid level, and a piezoelectric sensing means 40 for applying a vibration to the recess portion and sensing a state of a free vibration following upon the vibration.
US07805984B2
A method of diagnosing a malfunction of a tuning valve of an intake manifold coupled to an internal combustion engine is provided. The method includes: commanding the tuning valve to at least one of a closed and an opened position; computing an average deviation of manifold absolute pressure; determining an average deviation threshold using fuzzy logic based on engine speed and airflow per cylinder; comparing the average deviation to the average deviation threshold; and diagnosing a malfunction of the tuning valve based on a comparison of the average deviation and the average deviation threshold.
US07805979B2
A method of estimating contamination of oil based mud filtrate in a hydrocarbon sample. The method comprising the steps of obtaining a hydrocarbon sample contaminated with oil based mud filtrate, then analyzing the contaminated hydrocarbon sample using two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC). The method further comprises identifying one or more unique component or tracer in the oil based mud filtrate in the contaminated hydrocarbon sample. Finally, the method comprises of summing the peak volumes of the one or more unique component or tracer, relative to the peak volumes of a clean hydrocarbon sample.
US07805974B2
Method, apparatus, and system are utilized for testing the performance of a gas monitor against predetermined monitor characteristics to determine if performance of the gas monitor is validated in a manner whereby testing gas is directly delivered to the gas sensor.
US07805972B2
A method and an apparatus for performing the method of inducing compressive residual stress in blading members integrally formed with a rotor. The method includes using a caliper-type burnishing tool such that the caliper arms of the tool are contoured and oriented for placing the burnishing elements on opposite sides of the blading member to be treated. The blading member is burnished to introduce a pre-determined pattern of residual compressive stresses in a selected area of the blade.
US07805966B1
A vehicle security system for securing a vehicle against theft. One system comprises a driving function disablement component having a first portion configured to substantially permanently affix to a moveable vehicle component, and a second component configured to removably attach to the first portion and disable the movable vehicle component.
US07805964B2
In a detergent supply apparatus of a drum-type washing machine according to the present invention, detergent supplying units and a softener supplying unit are partitioned and provided in a detergent box and the softener supplying unit is provided with a siphon tube, a siphon cap having an outlet path formed between the siphon tube and the siphon cap is provided with a softener supplying unit, and the softener injecting unit 286 is opened and closed by a softener lid, making it possible to prevent detergent from infiltrating into the inside of the softener supplying unit through the softener supplying unit.
US07805962B2
A device and a method for thermal pre-stressing lengthy hollow objects, in particular glass tubes, are disclosed. The device comprises a heating device, a fixture for receiving an object, and a coolant feed device comprising an outer coolant feed unit with a plurality of nozzles for feeding coolant against an outer surface of the object, and further comprising an inner coolant feed device for feeding coolant against an inner surface of the object.
US07805961B2
A supercooling apparatus of a simultaneous cooling and heating type multiple air conditioner comprises a liquid pipe header connected to outdoor heat exchangers, a plurality of branch liquid pipes branched from the liquid pipe header and connected to a plurality of indoor heat exchangers, respectively, and a supercooling mechanism mounted at least one of the branch liquid pipes for cooling refrigerant flowing to the indoor heat exchangers. The liquid refrigerant discharged from the heating-side indoor heat exchangers is supercooled by supercooling heat exchangers, and is then introduced into the cooling-side indoor heat exchangers. Consequently, noise generated from the cooling-side heat exchangers during the simultaneous cooling and heating operation is reduced, and cooling capacity of the multi air conditioner is improved.
US07805952B1
An apparatus for optimizing an efficiency of a refrigeration system, comprising means for measuring a refrigeration efficiency of an operating refrigeration system; means for altering a process variable of the refrigeration system during efficiency measurement; and a processor for calculating a process variable level which achieves an optimum efficiency. The process variables may include refrigerant charge and refrigerant oil concentration in evaporator.
US07805950B2
A thermal transfer device having a first substrate layer, a second substrate layer and first and second electrodes disposed between the first substrate layer and the second substrate layer. The thermal transfer device also includes a release layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and an actuator disposed adjacent the first and second electrodes. The actuator is adapted to separate the first and second electrodes from the release layer to open a thermotunneling gap between the first and second electrodes, and wherein the actuator is adapted to actively control the thermotunneling gap.
US07805946B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to a combustor flow sleeve for a turbine engine. According to aspects of the invention, the flow sleeve can be attached to one of the components in the combustor head-end by a plurality of fasteners. In one embodiment, the flow sleeve can be attached directly to the combustor head-end component by a plurality of bolts. The bolted flow sleeve can reduce the time to install or remove the flow sleeve. In certain areas, it may not be possible to directly attach the flow sleeve to the combustor component. A flow sleeve according to aspects of the invention can be adapted to facilitate indirect attachment to the combustor head-end component. The flow sleeve can further be adapted to include thermal relief slots to accommodate any differential thermal expansion or contraction between the flow sleeve and the component to which the flow sleeve is attached.
US07805944B2
A combustor assembly comprising a combustor liner having an opening and a combustor chute, which is formed of a sheet material which is bent to form the desired chute. The chute allows the passage of cooling and dilution air into the combustor.
US07805942B2
This disclosure relates to a improved thermodynamic cycle with power unit and venturi, a method of producing a useful effect therewith using a greater pressure gradient created locally in a fluid using the venturi, and more particularly, the use of a first portion of the fluid in the thermodynamic cycle as driving force for a venturi, and the placement of the venturi nozzle in an exhaust area of the power unit to create a greater pressure gradient locally and collect a second portion of the fluid in the thermodynamic cycle.
US07805936B2
To provide a thermo-element having a simple structure, an improved durability and a good response characteristic, by improving heat conduction of wax and by improving a diaphragm. The wax is blended with small pieces of metal, and a low-melting point alloy having a melting point equal to or higher than a melting point of the wax, which are melted and mixed together in the wax, so as to improve the heat conduction and thus response characteristic of the wax. A thick sealing member comprises a piston insertion bore formed in a central portion thereof, a thick portion between the piston insertion bore and a sealing portion in an outer peripheral region the thick portion being easily deformable. The thick sealing member operates both as a diaphragm and as a gummy fluid in a prior art thermo-element. A thermo-element has a small number of components, a simple structure.
US07805933B2
The invention relates to a throttle arrangement for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine having a throttle valve for throttling a stream of exhaust gas flowing through a pipe and having a restoring spring which prestresses the throttle valve into a closed position. The throttle valve is pivotable about a pivot axis in the pipe between the closed position [and the open position] and the restoring spring is supported on the valve end on a lever fixedly connected to the throttle valve and is supported at the pipe end on a bearing for accommodating a shaft extending coaxially with the pivot axis. The restoring spring is adapted to support the spring forces on the pipe end in an essentially symmetrical manner with respect to a plane of symmetry that extends perpendicular to the pivot axis and is in the area of the support on the valve end.
US07805924B2
The present invention provides a mixer assembly including a mixer and a plurality of scoops attached around a circumference of the mixer element via a combination of sliding brackets and fixed brackets. The sliding brackets provide attachment and allow relative movement between the plurality of scoops and the mixer element while the fixed brackets provide only attachment between the mixer element and the plurality of scoops. The first sliding bracket includes a first flange that is fixedly mounted to the mixer element and a second flange that is biased against a surface of the scoop. A second sliding bracket is fixedly mounted to the mixer element and adjustably mounted to the scoop. The second sliding bracket includes an attachment hole and the scoop includes an adjustment slot. A fastener assembly including a spacer is received within the adjustment hole and the adjustment slot to allow relative movement between the mixer element and the scoop.
US07805919B2
A compact epicyclic drive includes a pinion rotatable about a ring gear and an eccentric element fixedly connected to the pinion so as to be rotated thereby, a knife head bearing supported on and extending around the eccentric element, and a knife head assembly connected to a sickle knife assembly. The knife head assembly is configured so as to translate rotation of the eccentric element into sideward reciprocating movements of the sickle knife assembly, and to transfer forces resulting from the movements to a housing supporting the drive. Two of the drives can be utilized for reciprocatingly driving two of the sickle knife assemblies in opposite directions, such that the transferred forces will at least partially cancel one another.
US07805915B2
A picker spindle bar includes spindles oriented on the bar to offset the spindle picking ends relative to each other. In an exemplary embodiment, adjacent spindle axes are rotated six degrees relative to each other about the upright spindle drive shaft axis so that the picking ends of adjacent spindles are offset and enter the doffing zone at different times to reduce peak loads on the harvester row unit. The angled spindle configurations also space picking ends fore-and-aft in the picking zone and improve harvesting efficiency, especially where green bolls are present. The staggered spindle ends reduces cotton pinching in the picking, doffing and spindle wiping areas to thereby reduce row unit plugging.
US07805909B2
A roofing shingle has low density granules adhered to at least a headlap region on a front surface of the roof shingle.
US07805906B2
An insulating concrete block adapted to be interlocked with other insulating concrete blocks to form an insulating concrete form for casting concrete. The insulating concrete block including a first foam panel and a second foam panel arranged in a spaced apart, parallel relationship to form a concrete receiving cavity. At least two web structures extending between the first foam panel and the second foam panel. Each web structure includes a pair of elongated end plates joined by a pair of web members. One of the end plates is embedded in the first foam panel and the other end plate is embedded in the second foam panel. Each of the end plates has at least one attachment element formed by providing a thickened area on the end plates.
US07805904B2
A suspended ceiling fixture for hanging items from a suspended ceiling that is adjustable in multiple degrees of freedom includes a body spanning a distance between adjacent frame members of a suspended ceiling. The fixture also includes brackets for hanging the body from the adjacent frame members. Additionally included is a hanger assembly for hanging an item from the fixture, where the hanger assembly is adjustable along the body of the fixture.
US07805897B2
A storm panel of high strength fabric is constructed, reinforced, and installed in such a way as to comply with the building codes as a large missile impact system. The panel includes a zippered opening for access through the panel when in use. When not in use, the fabric can be rolled and stored and placed in an attractive cover without disassembly.
US07805889B2
Apparatus and method for controlling flow of water from a roof valley into guttering comprising: a generally rectangular, generally planar piece of stock material having two substantially parallel side edges, a back end edge and a right-angle V-shaped front edge, an area of the material that is perforated with a plurality of open slots for allowing rainwater but not debris therethrough; and a front wall that extends downward at the front edge. Sidewalls with vertical slits extend downward at the side edges for raising the stock material above the roof surfaces. Pleats in the front wall enable a preferred installation method that laterally curves the stock material, depressing a longitudinal centerline below the side edges. The method further includes trimming the sidewalls to decrease in height front to back to allow inserting the back end under singles, and securing the front wall within an outward wall of the guttering.
US07805886B2
Plant pot arrangement comprising an over pot, an insert container positioned in the over pot and removable therefrom, for receiving a plant, the insert container defining a space for a plant, and being open at an upper container edge, and at least one handle being movable in a guided manner in a handle guide in a pull-out direction and being positioned in the region of the container edge (16; 16a), for removing the insert container from the over pot.
US07805885B2
A roof planter comprising a body capable of placement upon a roof, a pad in association with the body, growth medium, and vegetation in association with the growth medium. The pad is composed of a material that is compatible with the surface of the roof, and is positioned between the body and the roof, the body retaining the growth medium when the roof planter is placed upon a roof. The roof planters are configured so as to enable the nesting of one roof planter within another.
US07805881B2
A device made of a thermoplastic material having two portions connected together with a web or hinge. A first portion forms a main body and the second portion forms a lid or cover. When the lid is aligned and closed onto the main body, the shape of the unitary device may be spherical, elliptical or another shape. The main body allows for one or more lines or strings to rest within a channel formed in the main body parallel to a pivot axis of the hinge so that when the lid is closed into the main body the strings are trapped within the channel of the main body by the lid.
US07805876B1
The present invention overcomes the limitations of the prior art by providing a sighting device for a firearm having a handgrip with a front strap, a back strap, and a free end. The sighting device has a body including a sleeve defining a bore sized to closely encircle at least a portion of the handgrip. The sleeve has a front portion configured to wrap about at least a forward front strap portion of the firearm, and has a rear portion configured to wrap about at least a rear back strap portion of the firearm. A laser device is connected to the body. The body may be an integral element, and may have a switch on the front span. The body may have a removable lock device that engages an upper rear protrusion of the frame, and the device may attach to the firearm without any fasteners engaging the firearm.
US07805875B1
A device for holding a plurality of firearm magazines is disclosed. The device includes an upper plate, a lower plate, and a securing member. The upper plate is rotationally positioned about the securing member, and the lower plate is rotationally mounted to the securing member below the upper plate. Firearm magazines are placed between the upper plate and the lower plate, which together securely engage the magazines when tightened with the securing member. Multidirectional movements of the upper plate and the lower plate facilitate placement and securing of the magazines.
US07805873B2
A modular cheek rest assembly for a gunstock. The major members of the assembly are a low level cheek rest, a high level cheek rest, a storage container, a shotgun shell holder and a magazine holder. The low level cheek rest is the principal member that has engagement structure adjacent the bottom ends of its side walls for detachably securing the low level cheek rest to the butt stock of a firearm. There are attachment structure on the outer surface of the side walls of the low level cheek rest for disengageably attaching the other members. There is the ability to attach these members on either the right or left side depending on the preference of the user. If the high level cheek rest is needed, it nests over the top of the low level cheek rest.
US07805866B1
A float mechanism for movably attaching an implement to a vehicle has a mounting frame that connects onto the vehicle and a fixed frame that affixes to the implement. A pivot bracket pivotally attaches to one of the frames and is slidably connected to the other to accommodate a limited degree of translational motion. The pivot bracket can slidably connect to the frame by a pair of guides in combination with a pair of sleeves. Rotational motion between the fixed frame and the mounting frame can be limited by slots in one of the frames that are slidably engaged by a stabilizing element on the other frame. When the stabilizing element is a horizontal bar, it can engage a pair of vertical slots. To optionally eliminate the free motion between the frames, movable blocks can be employed to limit the motion of each stabilizing element in its slot.
US07805858B2
An insole is described that can be placed with an insole receiving area of a slipper. The insole can be prepared by compression molding a structure comprising a foam layer having a first foam side and a second foam side. The insole includes a heel region, an arch region, and a toe region. The heel region includes a heel cushioning portion and a heel perimeter portion. The heel perimeter portion includes a retaining wall that extends above the top surface of the heel cushioning portion. The arch region includes an arch cushioning portion and an arch perimeter portion. The arch perimeter portion includes an arch support that extends above the top surface of the arch cushioning portion. The toe region includes a toe cushioning portion and a toe perimeter portion. A slipper and a method for manufacturing a slipper are described.
US07805856B2
A device for drying laundry by means of a current of air includes a drum to accommodate the laundry and a ducting system to direct the current of air. The ducting system has a section arranged downstream of the drum in which a filter is arranged to capture lint from the current of air. A scraper is movably mounted over the filter. This filter is a channel arranged in an approximately horizontal manner and in the form of an inverted arch. The scraper has a foil resting on the filter in a sprung manner, the scraper being curved in accordance with the shape of the channel. Moving the scraper along the longitudinal axis of the filter scrapes lint off the filter and into a collection reservoir.
US07805851B2
The invention relates to a coordinate measuring machine (CMM) for determining a measuring position of a probe. The CMM comprises an articulated arm having first and second ends and at least one joint between the first and the second end, the first end forming a base being positionable on a supporting surface, the second end being movable relative to the first end and having attached the probe. Further exists at least one sensing unit for measurement of an actual relative setting of said at least one joint and at least one computing unit for calculating a measuring position of the probe relative to the base, as well as for referencing the measuring position in an external coordinate system by using a provided base-position in the external coordinate system.
US07805849B1
A device and a method that aids in the leveling of intra-vascular catheters from the transducer to the patient for medical procedures takes the form of a small housing which encloses a strong resilient filament which is dispensed therefrom. A bubble level vial is fixedly mounted thereupon the housing. The device thereby provides a means to acquire the desired leveling pressure readings of the intra-vascular catheter with minimal amount of effort by attaching one (1) end of the filament there to the patient and the opposing end to the transducer. When finished, the filament is retracted and stored.
US07805846B2
A retractable razor assembly includes a foldable blade support for mounting a razor blade or cartridge, and a mounting assembly connected to the blade support that can extend and retract the blade support from a handle and can stabilize the foldable blade support when extended. The adjustment assembly, when extended from the handle, remains substantially stationary to promote stability of the blade or cartridge, and to thereby promote comfort and safety during use of the razor assembly. A packaging system for containing and for displaying operation of the retractable razor includes at least a portion that provides visual inspection of the razor assembly. The packaging system further enables a consumer to physically interact with the razor assembly while contained therein. The packaging system permits a consumer to actuate the adjustment assembly to display its extension and retraction, and to provide a demonstration of the different operating states of the razor assembly.
US07805843B2
A utensil for a manually impaired user includes a utensil insert, such as a fork, spoon, knife, tool or other object, and a handle for receiving the utensil insert so that a portion of the utensil insert extends outwardly from the handle. The handle has first and second handle sections that are removably connected together. The first handle section includes a first receptacle and a first projection spaced from the first receptacle while the second handle section includes a second receptacle and a second projection spaced from the second receptacle. The first receptacle is adapted to receive the second projection and the second receptacle is adapted to receive the first projection when the first and second handle sections are connected together.
US07805826B1
A method for fabricating a nanometer slot waveguide comprises applying a spacer layer to a first waveguide structure, wherein the first waveguide structure includes a waveguide layer and a substrate layer and the waveguide layer has a refractive index greater than the substrate layer. A second waveguide structure is applied to the spacer layer, wherein the second waveguide structure includes a waveguide layer and a substrate layer, and the waveguide layer has a refractive index greater than the substrate layer. The substrate layer of the second waveguide structure is removed to create an intermediate waveguide structure and portions of the intermediate waveguide structure are removed to create a nanometer slot waveguide structure.
US07805825B2
Method and apparatus for forming motor winding conductors rectangular conductor wire. The method comprises populating with hairpin shaped conductors, most of a forming fixture having a plurality of pockets distributed in equal number in one or more pairs of adjacent circles, each concentric with a center of the forming fixture, at least one member defining each of the pockets in one of each pair of adjacent circles being rotatable, at least through a limited angle, with respect to a member defining the pockets in the other of the respective pair of adjacent circles, the hairpin conductors each having first and second legs integrally joined by a loop at one end thereof, with one leg of each hairpin conductor in a respective one of the pockets in a pair of adjacent circles, and rotating in a first direction, relative to each other, the members defining the pockets in each pair of circles through a predetermined angle, to permanently separate the two legs of each hairpin conductor without substantial rotation of each leg of the hairpin conductors relative to its respective pocket. Various additional features are disclosed.
US07805819B2
A steamatory is used to prepare a body for burial. A stainless steel cylindrical vessel is supported by a brace, and has a door at a first end of the cylinder for entry and exit of the body. The vessel includes a chamber having dimensions of four feet in diameter by ten feet in length to accommodate a body weight up to 400 lbs. A plurality of wire mesh layers provide a support structure of the body. The plurality of wire mesh layers is disposed on rollers and capable of sliding independently in and out of the chamber through the door. The plurality of wire mesh layers has graduating sizes of mesh openings from 0.5 inches to 0.125 inches and 2.0 inches of clearance between each of the plurality of wire mesh layers.
US07805815B2
The present invention discloses a clip for attaching an object to a sheet having an aperture spaced apart from a leading edge of the sheet. The clip includes a base with a generally planar lower member, the lower member having a leading edge and a trailing edge. The base also has a generally planar upper member extending across the lower member, the upper member also having a leading edge, a trailing edge and an opening between the upper member leading edge and trailing edge. The trailing edge of the upper member is attached to and extends from the base proximate the trailing edge of the lower member. The upper member also includes a spring located proximate to the trailing edge of the upper member and extending into the opening in a generally leading edge direction. The finger spring is operable to apply a force in a generally leading edge direction onto a sheet edge of a sheet inserted and located between the lower member and the upper member. The upper member can include a catch stem located proximate to the leading edge of the upper member yet oppositely disposed across from the opening from the finger spring. The catch stem extends into the opening in a generally trailing edge direction and is operable to catch a sheet edge of the sheet bounding the aperture spaced apart from the leading edge of the sheet and thereby preventing removal of the clip from the sheet.
US07805814B2
Cable support hanger insulators are provided herein that generally have a ratchet locking mechanism to secure an electrical conductor to the insulator. Cable support hanger insulators are provided that have an insulator body, a locking base connected to the insulator body, and a retaining clamp pivotally connected to the insulator body. The insulator body has a seat adapted to receive a conductor cable, a front end, a back end, a first side, and a second side. The locking base has a front plate having a plurality of ratchet teeth. The retaining clamp comprising a first retaining arm, a second retaining arm, and a locking blade.
US07805813B1
A grip for use with a bail coupled to a container and including an elongate tubular body for extending along a portion of the bail. The body has first and second opposite end portions and a central portion. The central portion can be grasped by a human hand and has a diameter of at least one inch. The first and second end portions have respective first and second engagement surfaces for contacting the bail in spaced-apart positions. The bail extends free of the body between the first and second engagement surfaces.
US07805812B2
A grip body including a mounting portion, an inner piece supported by the mounting portion and at least a resin communication passage therebetween. The inner piece includes inner and outer surfaces, and a resin layer is integrally formed on the inner and outer surfaces of the inner piece by resin extending therebetween through the resin communication passage. The grip body also includes at least one plate having an insertion rod formed thereon, the plate being fixed to the inner piece by insertion engagement of the insertion rod into the resin communication passage. The plate is heated by providing a heating member attached at a position where the heating of temperature of a resin surface portion of the grip body is desired.
US07805811B2
A vehicle hinge assembly (10) for hanging a vehicle door on a vehicle body. The assembly (10) comprises a first hinge leaf (12) hingedly connected to a second hinge leaf (14) by a pivot pin (15). The pivot pin (15) is immovably mounted in one hinge leaf (14) and is rotatably mounted in, and axially withdrawable from, the other hinge leaf (12). Hinge pin retention means (35) is associated with the other hinge leaf (12) for preventing axial withdrawal of the hinge pin (15) therefrom. The hinge pin retention means (35) having hinge pin engagement means (38) movably mounted between first and second positions. The engagement means (38) in its first position engages with the hinge pin (15) to permit rotation of the hinge pin (15) but prevent its axial movement relative to the other hinge leaf (12). The engagement means (38) in its second position is spaced from the hinge pin (15) to permit its axial withdrawal from the other hinge leaf (12).
US07805808B2
A door assembly for pivotally securing a door to an animal enclosure or other enclosure. The door assembly comprises a pivot pin assembly integrally formed with the door and a hinge secured to the enclosure adjacent the opening. The pivot pin assembly preferably comprises a vertically oriented pivot pin integrally formed with upper and lower horizontal support members extending from upper and lower ends of the pivot pin across a portion of the door. The pivot pin is fitted within a hinge barrel formed within the hinge in a manner to permit the pivot pin to rotate within the barrel such that the door may be pivoted from an open to a closed position.
US07805807B2
An upright vacuum cleaner having dual cleaning motor and fan units is provided having a cleaning head engagable with a floor and a suction nozzle and a brush roller rotatably mounted therein. A first motor and fan unit is mounted in the vacuum cleaner for producing suction in the suction nozzle and is operatively connected to the brush roller for rotating it. An upright housing is connected to the cleaning head, the housing having a handle for moving the vacuum cleaner along the floor during floor cleaning use. Contained in the housing are a dirt storage container, a passageway leading from the suction nozzle in the cleaning head to the storage container and a second motor and fan unit operatively associate with the storage container for drawing dirt laden air from the cleaning head through the passageway and into the storage container simultaneously with operation of the first motor and fan unit.
US07805804B2
A steerable upright vacuum cleaner includes an upright section including a dirt collecting portion, a collar on which the upright section is mounted and base section to which the collar is attached. The upright section is mounted on the collar such that the upright section pivots around a first axis with respect to the collar. The base section is attached to the collar such that the collar pivots around a second axis with respect to the base section. The second axis is approximately perpendicular to the first axis. The base section includes a nozzle that communicates with the dirt collecting portion.
US07805802B2
A debris collection system for a floor cleaning machine includes a motorized cleaning head attached to a frame of the floor cleaning machine, a carriage attached to the frame, a debris tray, and a de-watering system. The debris tray is removably receivable within the carriage and is positioned to receive debris thrown from the motorized cleaning head. The de-watering system includes a liquid extracting component, a tray tubing section, a main tubing section, a waste recovery tank supported on the frame and a vacuum in vacuum communication with the main tubing section. The liquid extracting component is attached to the debris tray and is configured to extract liquid from within the debris tray. The tray tubing section has a first end that is coupled to the liquid extracting component and a second end that is mounted in fixed relation to the debris tray. The a main tubing section has a first end that is connected to the waste collection tank and a second end that is positioned to automatically couple to the second end of the tray tubing section upon installation of the debris tray.
US07805800B2
A wiper blade (10) comprising a rubber elastic wiper strip (12) into whose lateral longitudinal grooves resilient rails (18, 20) are inserted as support elements and laterally protrude from the longitudinal grooves, wherein the resilient rails (18, 20) are held together at their ends and are fixed relative to the wiper strip (12) in the longitudinal direction and support a terminal cap (24). It is proposed that the terminal caps (24) have detachable fixing means (34) that engage in a top strip (16) of the wiper strip (12), wherein the axial movability of the resilient rails (18, 20) relative to the wiper strip (24) is limited by the terminal caps.
US07805796B2
A manual toothbrush with a handle and a toothbrush head mounted on the handle. A pivot bearing for pivoting the toothbrush head relative to the handle is arranged between the toothbrush head and the handle.
US07805795B2
A brush roll is rotatably supported by bearings in a housing of a cleaning brush tool. One of the bearings is incorporated in a removable bearing arrangement that can be rotationally fastened and removed as needed on a cylindrical end of the housing. Preferably collar elements protruding cylindrically from the removable bearing arrangement form bayonet-type catch hooks that selectively engage with bayonet-type catch elements protruding radially outwardly from the cylindrical end sleeve of the housing. A detent on the housing engages a securing element on the removable bearing arrangement to secure the engaged bayonet-type fastening arrangement against rotational release thereof.
US07805790B2
A dual spring support structure for mattresses or other reflexive support structures employs a foam spring in combination with an innerspring or foam core, to provide a multi-mode and multi-structural support surface with a multiple, constant, or complimentary spring rate and support characteristics. Foam springs have geometric cross-sectional configurations with mechanical spring properties which work in concert with the spring properties of foam. Foam springs are used in one embodiment about the perimeter of a wire form innerspring or about the perimeter of a foam core. The foam springs may have a spring rate that is complimentary to, greater than or less than the spring rate of the innerspring or core. Foam springs of different configurations and spring rates can be combined with different types of cores, or used alone to provide a spring or cushioning structure.
US07805770B2
A nursing cover including a sheet with a stiffener pocket, a first strap, and a second strap disposed along the top edge of the sheet. The first strap and second strap are configured to detachably couple together. A stiffener comprised of a shape memory material comprising a material memory is housed within the stiffener pocket. The stiffener has a first end and a second end being formed as part of the stiffener. The first end and the second end have a substantially smooth surface to prevent abrading the stiffener pocket. The material memory in the stiffener assumes a pre-determined shape when force is not applied to the stiffener, temporarily deforms without breaking the stiffener when force is applied to the stiffener, and reassumes the pre-determined shape when force is removed from the stiffener.
US07805769B2
Disposable clothing articles for hunting and other outdoor activities are made of a low-cost, lightweight, breathable material, preferably a non-woven with particle barrier properties, and preferably include cinching elements for cinching closed with a good seal the hand and foot openings of the clothing to prevent the escape of human odors. The clothing articles are treated with one or more odor-reducing agents to absorb the human odors that pass through the clothing material. In an example method of making the clothing articles, a liquid odor-reducing agent is sprayed onto the clothing, one or two powder odor-reducing agents are sprinkled onto the inside and outside surfaces of the clothing, and the treated clothing article is stored in a sealable bag or other container.
US07810146B2
There are provided a secure device, a gate device, and a device providing a secure device such as an IC card capable of limiting an area where the card application function and the device function are realized. The secure device (20) includes: an authentication application (24) for performing authentication of a gate device (40); a terminal application/setting instruction (26) and a terminal application (27) installed in a mobile telephone (10) as a terminal; and a CPU (23) as control means for installing the terminal application specified by the gate device (40) in the mobile telephone (10) when authentication application (24) has successfully authenticated the gate device (40). The secure device (20) is held over the gate device (40) and only in the area where normally passed, the terminal application/setting instruction (26) and the terminal application (27) are installed in the mobile telephone (10). Since the gate application (43) of the gate device (40) specifies an application which functions in a particular area, a user need not perform registration operation. Moreover, there is no need of mounting a GPS receiver or the like onto the terminal.
US07810139B2
Techniques for the remote authorization of secure operations are provided. A secure security system restricts access to a secure operation via an access key. An authorization acquisition service obtains the access key on request from the secure security system when an attempt is made to initiate the secure operation. The authorization acquisition service gains access the access key from a secure store via a secret. That is, the secret store is accessible via the secret. The secret is obtained directly or indirectly from a remote authorization principal over a network.
US07810138B2
The invention enables a client device that does not support IEEE 802.1X authentication to access at least some resources provided through a switch that supports 802.1X authentication by using dynamic authentication with different protocols. When the client device attempts to join a network, the switch monitors for an 802.1X authentication message from the client device. In one embodiment, if the client fails to send an 802.1X authentication message, respond to an 802.1X request from the switch, or a predefined failure condition is detected the client may be deemed incapable of supporting 802.1X authentication. In one embodiment, the client may be initially placed on a quarantine VLAN after determination that the client fails to perform an 802.1X authentication within a backoff time limit. However, the client may still gain access to resources based on various non-802.1X authentication mechanisms, including name/passwords, digital certificates, or the like.
US07810122B2
A method of distributing content includes receiving at least one request for a particular content item. Based on the at least one request, a number of users who are to receive the particular content item and are capable of receiving the particular content item via a wireless link is determined. Based on the number of users, at least one of a wireline link and the wireless link from which the users are to receive the particular content item is selected. The particular content item is distributed to the users via the selected at least one link.
US07810119B2
A method for assisting a user in selecting a program for viewing or listening comprising periodically receiving and storing electronic program guide information comprising records for forthcoming programs, the records having a plurality of fields; receiving a user selected text string and one more user selected fields; searching the program guide information for records having the user selected text string in one or more of the user selected fields; and displaying a list of the forthcoming programs corresponding to the matching records. This invention allows for more efficient and reliable searches of an electronic program guide for user desired programming.
US07810117B2
A method of organizing video content includes receiving video content title amendment data at a video content organizing server from a set-top box device. The video content title amendment data indicates that a first title of the video content has been changed to a second title of the video content. The method also includes receiving a request at the video content organizing server from a remote device to access data relating to the video content. Further, the method includes sending video content second title data to the remote device in response to receiving the request. The video content second title data indicates the second title of the video content.
US07810116B2
A terminal for decoding and presenting encoded realtime and non-realtime interactive program guide (IPG) content including a realtime video portion and a non-realtime guide graphics portion. The terminal includes a demodulator operative to receive and demodulate a modulated signal to provide a transport stream, and a transport demultiplexer coupled to the demodulator and operative to receive and process the transport stream to provide a sequence of transport packets re-timestamped to synchronize encoded realtime content and encoded non-realtime content included therein. At least one video decoder is coupled to the transport demultiplexer and operative to receive and decode the encoded realtime and non-realtime contents to recover the realtime and non-realtime contents for the user interface.
US07810109B2
A picker for compact discs is provided on a picker head and includes a finger which pivots relative to the picker head and will move from a retracted position within a guide that enters the opening in a compact disc to an outward extended position. When the finger is pivoted outwardly, a lug on the finger will engage the edge surface of the opening in the compact disc and urge the disc so the opposite side edge of the opening is urged against portions of the guide to securely grip and hold the disc and permit picking one disc at a time. A sensor is utilized for sensing the position of the disc relative to the guide and to provide a signal to an actuator that operates to cause the finger to move to its outwardly extended position.
