US07995788B2
A leader line of a voice coil from a conductive wire part is drawn out from a part between a diaphragm coupling part and a part disposed in the magnetic gap toward a frame in a non-contact state with a diaphragm. One end side of the second edge made of an elastic body is coupled to a part between a drawing part of the leader line on the voice coil and a part of the voice coil disposed in the magnetic gap. The other end side of the second edge is coupled to the frame. A suspension holder is integrated with the proximity of a coupling part of the second edge to the voice coil. The suspension holder is stuck to the voice coil using an adhesive. The disturbance of the movement of the voice coil can be reduced.
US07995787B2
A sound emitting assembly inserted into a body or frame (106) or handgrip of a personal transport means (90) said assembly comprising: (i) a package comprising an electronically actuated sound generator, an electronic circuit to feed a signal to the sound generator and a source of stored electric power, and (ii) an actuating switch (118) separated from the package and linked to the package by an electric pathway (119) such that when the switch (118) is activated by the user, a sound is emitted from said body or frame (106) or handgrip distant from the switch (118).
US07995786B2
The invention provides an auxiliary fastening device for assisting in fastening a transducer such as a speaker on a base structure. Moreover, the auxiliary fastening device according to the invention is capable of isolating the vibration induced from the transducer to the base structure during operation.
US07995783B2
To assist headphones and headphone cords from becoming tangled, a connection source is made part of a first speaker enclosure and a connection target is made part of a second speaker enclosure.
US07995782B2
A sound tube having two passages affords a compact arrangement for a combined receiver and ear-canal microphone assembly. The ear-canal microphone is positioned in line with the receiver but above the receiver's output port, and the sound tube connects both with the ear canal.
US07995781B2
In order to switch between different hearing programs to adjust to a momentary acoustic scene, a method for adjusting a hearing device, in which one of several possible hearing programs can be selected in order to adjust to a momentary acoustic scene, the method comprising the steps of detecting a desired hearing program change, changing parameters (b1, . . . , bm) of a transfer function provided between a microphone (M1) and a receiver of the hearing device in order to adapt it to the detected hearing program change, adjusting the parameters (b1, . . . , bm) to be changed from a momentary value to a desired value in such a manner that a smooth transition is perceived by the hearing device user while changing from a momentary hearing program to the desired hearing program, whereas each of the smooth transition is individually adjustable.
US07995780B2
A hearing aid includes a hearing aid housing enclosing a microphone for converting sound into an audio signal, first feedback compensation means for providing a first feedback compensation signal of signals picked up by the microphone by modeling an internal mechanical feedback signal path of the hearing aid, second feedback compensation means for providing a second feedback compensation signal by modeling an external feedback signal path of the hearing aid, subtracting means for subtracting the first and second feedback compensation signals from the audio signal to form a compensated audio signal, processing means, connected to an output of the subtracting means, for processing the compensated audio signal, and a receiver, connected to an output of the processing means, for converting the processed compensated audio signal into a sound signal.
US07995778B2
A set of filters is configured to distribute input signals representing a single perceptual axis to first and second physically separate arrays of loudspeakers comprising at least first and second transducers, such that the arrays of loudspeakers will create an array pattern corresponding to the input signals when the input signals are between a first frequency and a second frequency.
US07995773B2
A method for processing an audio signal received through a microphone array coupled to an interfacing device is provided. The method is processing at least in part by a computing device that communicates with the interfacing device. The method includes receiving a signal at the microphone array and applying adaptive beam-forming to the signal to yield an enhanced source component of the signal. Also, an inverse beam-forming is applied to the signal to yield an enhanced noise component of the signal. The method combines the enhanced source component and the enhanced noise component to produce a noise reduced signal, where the noise reduced signal is a target voice signal. Then, monitoring an acoustic set-up associated with the audio signal as a background process using the adaptive beam-forming inverse beam-forming to track the target signal component, and periodically setting a calibration of the monitored acoustic set-up. The calibration implements blind source separation that uses second order statistics to separate the enhanced source component from the enhanced noise component, and the calibration remains fixed between the periodic setting. By executing this method, the target signal is able to freely move around relative to the microphone array of the interface device.
US07995766B2
Provided is a group subordinate terminal in a key updating system that includes a server and a group of terminals including: a group managing terminal; and group subordinate terminals including the group subordinate terminal, the group subordinate terminal comprising: a group withdrawal request processing unit which transmits a group withdrawal request to the group managing terminal in response to an instruction to update its apparatus-unique key, the group withdrawal request requesting for withdrawal of the group subordinate terminal from the group; an update apparatus-unique key requesting unit which requests for another apparatus-unique key by transmitting to the server a group withdrawal certificate indicating that the withdrawal of the group subordinate terminal from the group of terminals is completed through invalidation of its group key; and an update processing unit which updates the apparatus-unique key held in an apparatus-unique key holding unit to the another apparatus-unique key obtained from the server.
US07995761B2
A data providing system is provided which includes: a storage section which stores an encoded file obtained by encoding a data file to be distributed with a predetermined common key and an encoded information file obtained by encoding an information data file including information on the common key with a private key different from the common key; and a file transfer section which transfers the encoded file and the encoded information file from the storage section to external electronic device.
US07995757B2
A method is provided for combining two or more input sequences in a communications system to increase a repetition period of the input sequences in a resource-efficient manner. The method includes a receiving step, a mapping step, and a generating step. The receiving step involves receiving a first number sequence and a second number sequence, each expressed in a Galois field GF[pk]. The mapping step involves mapping the first and second number sequences to a Galois extension field GF[pk+1]. The generating step involves generating an output sequence by combining the first number sequence with the second number sequence utilizing a Galois field multiplication operation in the Galois extension field GF[pk+1]. p is a prime number. k is an integer. pk+1 defines a finite field size of the Galois extension field GF[pk+1].
US07995751B2
In a communications system, a method of transforming a set of message signals representing a message comprising the steps of first encoding one of the set of message signals in accordance with a first keyed transformation, a second encoding of the one of the set of message signals in accordance with at least one additional keyed transformation, a third encoding of the one of the set of message signals in accordance with a self inverting transformation in which at least one of the set of message signals is altered, a fourth encoding of the one of the set of message signals in accordance with at least one additional inverse keyed transformation wherein each of the at least one additional inverse keyed transformation is a corresponding inverse of at least one additional keyed transformation, and fifth encoding the one of the set of message signals in accordance with first inverse keyed transformation wherein the first inverse keyed transformation is the inverse of the first keyed transformation.
US07995740B2
Multiple communication types (e.g. chat, email, voice, etc.) are integrated into a call center. Embodiments can allow a single agent to handle multiple endpoints and multiple communication types. An agent user interface allows the agent to have control over accepting multiple communications and provides information to the agent about the communications and the customer. The agent can drag and drop canned responses, images, URLs, or other information into a window for immediate display on a customer's computer. The system also provides flexibility in transferring large amounts of historic and current data from one agent to another, and from storage to an active agent. The system also provides for “blending” of different communication types to provide a single interface to the agent.
US07995737B2
Independent telephony systems are integrated by using symmetric forking from both systems. Calls received by either system are forked to the other system. Thus, a call can be accepted by one of the systems, using its external interfaces, and presented to all devices in both systems. Each system is enabled to leverage internal call control advanced features to enhance overall user experience. Internally inserted parameters to call requests are used between the two systems for preventing endless loop of calls between the integrated systems.
US07995734B2
A telephone caller identification system where potential callers can be assigned to call-in groups, each call-in group having a particular ring. When a member of a particular call-in group calls, the telephone presents the ring associated with that call-in group. A caller not assigned to any call-in group causes the telephone to present a default ring. The telephone can also present particular transfer rings when transferred indicating that the call being transferred is from a caller belonging to a particular call-in group, or provide unique voice mail rings when a member of a call-in group leaves voice mail.
US07995712B2
A mobile communication device includes video communication capability. When the video call is place on hold by the mobile communication device, a pre-recorded video is transmitted to the holding party. The pre-recorded video may be stored in the memory of the mobile communication device or may be stored in a video server in the network. In the latter case, the mobile communication device signals the video server to transmit a selected video to the holding party when the video call is placed on hold.
US07995711B2
A novel method and apparatus for recording an audio note for a voice message stored on a messaging platform are disclosed.
US07995700B2
A rear door system for transferring hot cell equipment into or out of a hot cell is disclosed. The rear door system of the present invention includes a rear door, which is provided to a rear wall of the hot cell so as to be movable to open or close the rear wall of the hot cell, and a vertical moving table, which is provided at a predetermined position on the lower portion of the front surface of the rear door so as to be movable upwards or downwards. The rear door system further includes a drive unit, which is provided at a predetermined position in the lower end of the rear door to move the rear door, and a stationary working table, which is disposed above the vertical moving table and is fixed in the hot cell in a horizontal orientation. The rear door system further includes a removable table, which is removably coupled at a predetermined position to the stationary working table, and a hot cell crane hook and a service area crane hook, which are respectively provided inside and outside the hot cell.
US07995695B2
In an exemplary embodiment, a data alignment system comprises a First-In First-Out register (FIFO), a programmable pattern generator connected to the FIFO, and a controller connected to the programmable pattern generator and the FIFO. The FIFO is configured to provide data to or receive data from a first data lane of a serial data link having one or more lanes. Each data lane of the serial data link is configured to transmit a respective serial data stream. The programmable pattern generator is configured to generate a plurality of alignment symbols. The controller is configured to manage the alignment of the one or more data lanes of the serial data link and the insertion of a selected one of the plurality of alignment symbols into each of the serial data streams.
US07995694B2
A method for detecting a specific timing from a synchronization channel is described. A signal with a known sequence is received. Two or more correlation values between the received signal and the known sequence are calculated at two or more positions. The two or more correlation values are compared. A determination is made whether the position of the known sequence has been shifted based on the comparison. A specific timing of a synchronization channel is detected based on the determination.
US07995693B2
Apparatus for serial communication using embedded clock signals includes a data divider for dividing a data stream into odd-numbered and even-numbered data streams; a clock-embedded signal generator for generating odd-numbered and even-numbered embedded clock signals by pulse amplitude modulating the odd-numbered and even-numbered data streams and, when an external clock is input, inverting polarities of the pulse amplitude modulated odd-numbered and even-numbered data streams; a clock-embedded signal recovery unit for recovering the odd-numbered and even-numbered data streams by comparing amplitudes of the odd-numbered and even-numbered embedded clock signals with reference voltages, respectively, and recovering synchronization information of the clock by detecting when amplitude polarities of the odd-numbered and even-numbered embedded clock signals are inverted; and a data integrator for integrating the odd-numbered and even-numbered data streams and supplying the result as the data stream.
US07995690B2
Digital filter (104), comprising: a first frequency shifting mechanism (106) configured to shift an input spectrum (H(f)) of an input signal (100) by a first frequency distance (F1) to obtain a shifted frequency signal (122) with a shifted spectrum; a filter (108), configured to filter said shifted frequency signal with a predetermined transfer function to obtain a filtered signal (130); and a signal processor (110), said signal processor including: an adder (202), and at least a second frequency shifting mechanism (222), said signal processor (110) being configured to generate an output signal (140), which is a sum of said filtered signal (130) and said shifted frequency signal (122) and said output signal (140) has an output spectrum, which is shifted by a second frequency distance (DF) with respect to said shifted spectrum, wherein said second frequency distance (DF) is independent of said first frequency distance (F1).
US07995675B2
A method to communicate information within a data storage system comprising a plurality of enclosures, wherein the method defines and stores a first waveform comprising a frequency FB, a second waveform comprising a frequency F0 wherein that second waveform is decoded to mean a bit comprising a first value, and a third waveform comprising a frequency F1, wherein that third waveform is decoded to mean a bit comprising a second value. The method transmits by an initiating enclosure a byte of data encoded as eight data waveforms, wherein each of those data waveforms comprises the frequency FB in combination with either the frequency F1 or the frequency F0.
US07995670B2
Provided are a data transmitting and receiving method for a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system, and a transmitter and a receiver using the method. Accordingly, since precoding matrices of a codebook is constituted using a rotation matrix, expansion of the codebook is easy, and since each of the precoding matrices is determined according to the number of transmit antennas, the codebook is systematically created according to a system. In addition the codebook can be applied to even a correlated channel, and the minimum distance between precoding matrices can advantageously be maximized.
US07995659B2
A prediction module includes a computation control unit and first to sixth processing units. The computation control unit arranges the pixels of a reference block outputted by a frame buffer appropriately according to data decoded by an entropy decoder into first and second pixel signals, and outputs the same to the first to sixth processing units in units of cycles. The processing units are controlled by the computation control unit to respectively complete corresponding computations in a cycle, and to use the computation results as values of first to sixth output signals to be correspondingly outputted in a next cycle. The computation control unit receives the first to sixth output signals, and computes the output signals so as to obtain pixel values of a macroblock to be predicted.
US07995657B2
Provided are intelligent water ring scan apparatus and method thereof, image encoding/decoding apparatus using the water ring scanning and method thereof, and a computer-readable recording medium for recording a program that implements the methods. The apparatus or method of this research selectively improves the image quality of a particular image part that needs to be encoded with priority by transmitting the image data of the particular image part suitably for a human visual system so as to provide a visually improved image. The encoding apparatus of this research differentiates the amount of image data depending on the significance of a certain image part to process the image in various qualities suitably for the human visual system. The methods of this research can be applied to an image encoding/decoding process.
US07995656B2
Some embodiments comprise a method of decoding a video bitstream that include receiving a first layer of data and a second layer of data, combining the received first layer data and the received second layer data, and decoding the combined data. Also, a method of video encoding that includes selecting data for encoding in a first layer and a second layer so as to allow decoding of the data in a single combined layer, and encoding the selected data in the first layer and in the second layer by encoding a coefficient in the first layer and encoding a differential refinement to the first layer coefficient in the second layer.
US07995655B2
According to a coefficient variable length coding method adopting four-stage pipeline, a 3-dimension value including a run, a level and a last data is obtained by performing a run length coding upon coefficient data, where, after transferring the 3-dimension value, a variable bit vector is obtained from the transferred 3-dimension value and the variable length bit vector is stored, and where, particularly in case the pipeline breaks, the method reuses the previously obtained 3-dimension value to minimize process time such that the coefficient variable length coding is swiftly performed by the efficient pipeline operation, and the broken pipeline may be restored within minimized time.
US07995647B2
A measurement indicator, “transfer efficiency,” is provided for evaluating conditions of propagation paths of wireless communication systems having a plurality of transmitting and receiving antennas. Transfer functions of signal paths are calculated from data of received signals that are obtained with receiving antennas by receiving OFDM signals transmitted by transmitting antennas. A demodulation matrix is calculated for demodulating a transmitting vector from a receiving vector concerning a desired subcarrier of the received signals. A noise amplification factor is calculated as a square root of a sum of second powers of components of the demodulation matrix of the receiving antennas concerning the desired transmitting antenna. The noise amplification factor or the inverse is displayed as a value or as a graph that has an axis concerning the subcarrier and an axis concerning the noise amplification factor or the inverse.
US07995645B2
The present general inventive concept relates to apparatuses and/or methods for measuring an in-phase and quadrature (IQ) imbalance. In one embodiment, a signal generator can provide a first IQ signal of a DC component during a first period and the first IQ signal of a first angular frequency during a second period, an IQ up-conversion mixer can up-convert the first IQ signal by a second angular frequency during the first period and up-convert the first IQ signal by a third angular frequency during the second period to output a second IQ signal, an IQ down-conversion mixer can down-convert the second IQ signal by the third angular frequency to output a third IQ signal and an IQ imbalance detector can obtain a first IQ imbalance (e.g., Rx IQ imbalance) from the third IQ signal during the first period and a second IQ imbalance (e.g., Tx/Rx IQ imbalance) during the second period.
US07995644B2
An apparatus, system, method and computer program product for secure ranging between at least two devices in radio communications with each other. In particular, an apparatus, system, method and computer program product for secure ranging between at least two devices communicating via ultra wideband (UWB) protocols. Either ternary-IR or time-hope-IR sequences are used for ranging and security. A first device transmits a range packet. A second device responds to the range packet after a delay time known only to the first and second devices. The delay time can be selected randomly by either to the first device or the second device and made known to the other device in an encrypted notification packet.
US07995639B2
A method is provided for output control of a pulse width modulated power inverter used with a substantially resistive, single phase, ac load such as an electro-slag remelting furnace. In one application of the method, during each of the inverter's half cycle outputs, active switching devices are alternatively pulsed on and off during the half cycle so that only half of the switching transients in the half cycle are handled by one of the active switching devices.
US07995633B2
A method for producing a multiplicity of semiconductor lasers (100) comprising the steps of providing a carrier wafer (30), producing an assembly (70) by applying a multiplicity of semiconductor laser chips (4) to a top side (31) of the carrier wafer (30), and singulating the assembly (70) to form a multiplicity of semiconductor lasers (100). Each semiconductor laser (100) comprises a mounting block (3) and at least one semiconductor laser chip (4). Each mounting block (3) has a mounting area (13) which runs substantially perpendicular to a top side (12) of the mounting block (3), on which top side the semiconductor laser chip (4) is arranged. The mounting area (13) is produced during the singulation of the assembly.
US07995630B2
This invention relates to opto-electronic systems using semiconductor lasers driven by optical phase-locked loops that control the laser's optical phase and frequency. Feedback control provides a means for precise control of optical frequency and phase, including the ability for broadband electronic tunability of optical signals and the cascading of multiple lasers for enhanced tunability and coherent combining for increased output power.
US07995626B2
Provided is an athermal external cavity laser (ECL), whose output optical power and output wavelength can be kept regular irrespective of temperature changes without using additional temperature controlling components. The ECL comprises: a semiconductor amplifier; an optical fiber comprising a core in which a Bragg grating is formed and a cladding surrounding the core; and a thermosetting polymer that fixes the optical fiber to a ferrule and has a negative thermooptical coefficient, wherein the thickness of the cladding surrounding the core in which the Bragg grating is formed is smaller than the portion of the cladding surrounding the portion of the core where the Bragg grating is not formed, and the thermosetting polymer the negative thermooptical coefficient surrounds the cladding. The ECL does not need additional temperature controlling components and thus can be manufactured compact and at low cost, and thus can be used as a light source of a dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) system in designing economical WDM passive optical networks (PON).
US07995622B1
A method for digital clock smoothing is provided. The method comprises: (A) inputting an asynchronous data stream having an asynchronous symbol rate into a FIFO two-port memory block; (B) obtaining FIFO depth B by subtracting modulo B for each stored symbol a symbol output address from a symbol input address; (C) inputting FIFO depth B into a programmable look-up table (LUT); (D) obtaining a phase detector error signal; (E) scaling the phase detector error signal to obtain a scaled error factor; (F) adding the scaled error factor to a nominal phase step to obtain a phase update; (G) obtaining a smoothed symbol rate; and (H) reading out each output symbol from FIFO under control of an output FIFO address control register at the smoothed symbol rate.
US07995617B2
A DTV transmitting system includes two pre-processors. The first pre-processor codes high-priority enhanced data for forward error correction (FEC) and expands the FEC-coded data. The second pre-processor codes low-priority enhanced data for FEC and expands the FEC-coded low-priority enhanced data. The DTV transmitting system further includes a data formatter generating enhanced data packets including the pre-processed data, a multiplexer multiplexing the enhanced data packets with main data packets, an RS encoder RS-coding the multiplexed data packets, a data interleaver interleaving the RS-coded data packets, and a block processor which codes each block of enhanced data in the interleaved enhanced data packets and bypasses the interleaved main data packets.
US07995615B2
An apparatus and method for receiving data in a communication system are provided. The method includes identifying first codewords, which have been used in transmission of data by a transmitter, in the data received from the transmitter, setting third codewords by adding second codewords to the identified first codewords, calculating correlation values of orthogonal vectors corresponding to the third codewords and detecting information included in the data based on the calculated correlation values. Accordingly, feedback information may be better received and detected.
US07995614B2
Provided is a sequence allocation method capable of reducing inter-cell interference of a reference signal when a ZC sequence is used as the reference signal in a mobile communication system. In the sequence allocation method divides R×M sequences specified by a ZC sequence number r (r=1 to R) and a cyclic shift sequence number m (m=1 to M) into a plurality of sequence groups X (X=1 to R) in accordance with the transmission band width of the reference signal, so that the ZC sequence is allocated to each cell in each sequence group unit. When it is assumed that R=9 and M=6, the number of sequence is 54. Each of the sequence groups is formed by two sequences. Accordingly, the number of sequence groups is 27. The 27 types of sequence groups are allocated to each cell.
US07995608B2
The invention relates to the technical field of data communication in a network of distributed stations, particularly in a home network. A home network of this type allows AV data streams to be transmitted between network subscriber stations. The aim of the invention is to assist the user of a network of this type when he wishes to start a recording procedure for the audio and/or video data. In line with the invention, a data connection is automatically set up between that data source appliance which has already set up a connection to a data sink appliance or to a user interface appliance and the recording appliance. The automatic set-up of a data connection takes place directly after the user interface for the recording appliance has been called up. Alternatively, the automatic set-up of a data connection may take place only specifically after selection of the recording function on the recording appliance. The measure assists the implementation of an instant-recording function on the recording appliance in the network.
US07995595B1
According to one embodiment, node addresses are efficiently detected. For example, a node address is extracted from a packet that is being communicated from a first network to a second network through a network element. An abstraction of the node address is determined. A determination is made as to any previously received packets correspond to the node address by comparing the abstraction to a plurality of abstractions that correspond to node addresses extracted from the plurality of previously received packets. The abstraction is added to the plurality of abstractions if the node address is not associated with any of the previously received packets.
US07995587B2
A time stamp adding device includes: PCR_PID detecting means for detecting a PCR_PID included in a PMT by searching TS packets included in a TS from the head of the TS including TS packets having no time stamp, input from the outside and transmitted in a MPEG2-TS format and analyzing the resulting PMT; PCR detecting means for detecting values of PCRs included between the head of the TS and the PMT and position information of the PCRs and detecting values of all PCRs in the TS packets between the PMT and the tail of the TS and position information of the PCRs in the TS; time interval calculating means for calculating a time interval for adding a time stamp and a value of the time stamp based on the PCR values; and time stamp adding means for adding the time stamps to the TS packets having no time stamp based on the time interval.
US07995584B2
The method, apparatus and system of detecting whether a router is compromised and configured to place malicious packets onto the network are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for detecting a malicious router includes performing hash on a current ingress packet received via the network packet payload to generate ingress packet hash values. Further, includes performing hash on current egress packet that is associated with the current ingress packet to generate egress packet hash values. The generated ingress packet hash values and the egress packet hash values are then compared. Then the router is checked to determine whether it is potentially compromised and configured to place the malicious packets based on the outcome of the comparison.
US07995579B2
A packet transfer controlling apparatus stores, for each of a plurality of comparators, a plurality of associations of a code and a classification to be compared by the comparator when specification of the code is accepted. Also, each selector sets information that belongs to a classification stored in association with the accepted code as information to be selected from the packet. Then, each selector selects the set information when an input of a packet is accepted. Then, each comparator outputs a comparison result indicating whether the information selected by the selector and a comparison value match each other. Next, when the comparison result is output from every comparator, a rule searching unit conducts a search to see which rule the packet is relevant to among a plurality of rules, and then outputs a rule number.
US07995577B2
The invention concerns a method for broadcasting a plurality of multimedia programmes generated by operators of different services, whereby one or more network headends broadcast (in 102) on a reference multicast address a list associating identifiers of service operators with at least one first level service multicast address, the reference multicast address being previously known to all the terminals capable of receiving and multiplexing broadcast multiplexed contents and said reference multicast address being different from all the broadcasting multicast addresses.
US07995568B2
The invention is directed to the capturing of user interface switch states. A method according to an embodiment of the invention includes: adding a state attribute to a UI switch control, the state attribute containing an expression; evaluating the expression relative to a UI binding of the UI switch control, if given, or a UI binding context node of the UI switch control, otherwise; and interpreting a result of the expression as a data layer node whose content is an ID reference to a case of UI controls that must be selected by the UI switch control.
US07995563B2
The present invention is an Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) based system and method that allows a subscriber connected to the Internet via a dial-up connection to receive caller identification information concerning an incoming telephone call. The information may be provided via a pop-up dialog box on the subscriber's display, which includes but is not limited to a monitor of a personal computer (PC). The information displayed to the subscriber includes the name and number of the calling party, if available. In addition, several disposition options are presented to the subscriber solely via the Internet which, upon selection, determine the handling of the incoming call.
US07995561B2
Techniques for implementing logical trunk groups with session initiation protocol (SIP) are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as an apparatus for implementing logical trunk groups with session initiation protocol (SIP). The apparatus may comprise a first network device and a second network device that are configured to exchange SIP signaling messages. Network traffic between the first network device and the second network device may be segregated into one or more logical groups. The SIP signaling messages associated with each logical group may include a Route header that uniquely identifies the logical group between the first network device and the second network device.
US07995560B2
A communications system and method of managing communications with multiple appearance endpoints, e.g. Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) endpoints in the communications system. At least one SIP endpoint includes a keyset with multiple lines, at least a primary line and one or more secondary and/or phantom lines. A Back to Back User Agent (B2BUA) manages communications with the SIP endpoints and multiple (e.g., all) line appearances register in a single REGISTER message sent by the primary line to the B2BUA. The B2BUA sends NOTIFY messages for any incoming call and once the call is answered sends an INVITE message to the answering endpoint. The B2BUA includes a media negotiator that negotiates early media with the SIP endpoints upon an indication of a pending call, incoming or outgoing.
US07995557B2
A method of measuring network quality for VoIP calls comprises setting up a test call from a local IP endpoint to a remote IP endpoint reachable by a logical trunk group associated with the local IP endpoint, receiving statistical data regarding the test call, tearing down the test call, processing the statistical data and generating measurement results, and routing a VoIP call using a route selected based at least in part on the measurement results.
US07995553B2
A method of transmitting a control signal using efficient multiplexing is disclosed. The present invention includes the steps of multiplexing a plurality of 1-bit control signals within a prescribed time-frequency domain by code division multiple access (CDMA) and transmitting the multiplexed control signals, wherein a plurality of the 1-bit control signals include a plurality of the 1-bit control signals for a specific transmitting side. Accordingly, reliability on 1-bit control signal transmission can be enhanced.
US07995550B2
In a compressed mode, a spread spectrum communication device interleaves bit units across multiple frames using an interleaver, reduces the spreading factor using a framing/spreading unit, outputs the compressed mode frames at a predetermined compressed mode frame timing, and increases the average transmission power in the compressed mode at a radio frequency transmitter. Furthermore, a handover between different frequencies is carried out by establishing synchronization to another frequency carrier, based on a first search code and a second search code which have been detected, and moreover, a handover between different communication systems is carried out by establishing synchronization to a GSM, based on an FCCH and a SCH which have been detected.
US07995549B2
A method, apparatus, and system for setting an uplink transmission rate limit for a mobile terminal operating in a mobile communications network in which the mobile terminal receives downlink transmissions over a high speed downlink shared channel. The mobile terminal measures a downlink channel quality (CQI), and sends the CQI to the network. The network utilizes the measured CQI to determine an uplink data transmission rate limit for the mobile terminal.
US07995531B2
In a data communication system capable of variable rate transmission, high rate packet data transmission improves utilization of the forward link and decreases the transmission delay. Data transmission on the forward link is time multiplexed and the base station transmits at the highest data rate supported by the forward link at each time slot to one mobile station. The data rate is determined by the largest C/I measurement of the forward link signals as measured at the mobile station. Upon determination of a data packet received in error, the mobile station transmits a NACK message back to the base station. The NACK message results in retransmission of the data packet received in error. The data packets can be transmitted out of sequence by the use of sequence number to identify each data unit within the data packets.
US07995525B1
Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) technology in conjunction with the IEEE 802.11 standard enables simultaneous communication of data packets to or from multiple users in the same frequency. Spatial divisional multiple access (SDMA) is thus provided. In this way, system capacity can be increased to an extent that depends on available antenna resources and the multipath characteristics of the communication channel. Doubling or quadrupling of network throughput can be achieved.
US07995524B2
A method for processing wireless data in a wireless communication network, the wireless communication network including a plurality of intermediary nodes and a plurality of destination devices. The method includes determining at least one transmission path to each of the plurality of intermediary nodes. The at least one transmission path includes data associated with every intermediary node along the at least one transmission path. The method also includes determining a transmission path identifier for each of the at least one transmission paths and sending transmission data to at least one destination device of the plurality of destination devices. The transmission data is sent based on at least one of the transmission path identifiers.
US07995520B2
The present invention provides a wireless communication system and a terminal. A base station notifies terminals of an intensity of a received interference power. The terminal controls a transmission power for transmitting data to the base station, which is one of base stations and to which data is to be transmitted, by referencing an intensity of interference power (OSI) notified from base stations to which data is not to be transmitted. The terminal calculates a decision value for increasing/decreasing the transmission power, wherein the decision value is variable according to the current transmission power of the terminal and propagation attenuations between the terminal and the base stations to which data is not to be transmitted, and variably controls the amount of transmission power increase/decrease according to the decision value for increasing/decreasing a transmission power.
US07995507B2
A method of efficient scheduling for portable devices communicating with a coordinator over a network is disclosed. The method includes: listening for beacons broadcasted by a coordinator; assigning, by the coordinator, a single contiguous time block (CTB) for portable devices during a superframe defined by consecutive beacons; scheduling a single wake period of one of the portable devices, which overlaps inclusively with consecutive beacons and the single CTB; and minimizing duration of the single wake period of the portable device. The single CTB may be arranged next to one of the consecutive beacons. The method may further comprise assigning, by the coordinator, a single random access time block (RATB) for the one of the portable devices so as to overlap with the single wake period. The RATB may be arranged next to one of consecutive beacons. The CTB may be arranged next to the RATB. The CTB may be arranged next to one of the consecutive beacons.
US07995506B2
The present invention provides a method and a system for handling content requests initiated by mobile wireless devices or content providers servers, implemented within a proxy server. Said method and system comprise of the steps: analyzing request type according to predefined business logic rules; identifying the relevant backend information server resources required for executing said request; connecting to the respective information servers; requesting and receiving the relevant information form the respective information servers; and forwarding the received information to content provider server.
US07995504B2
Systems and methods storage of adding a node entry to a routing table of an inquiring node of a data network are disclosed herein. An inquire message is transmitted to a publishing node. The publishing node can be configured to publish a routing entry which can be added by nodes of a network. An acknowledgment response can be received from the publishing node. The roundtrip time elapsed between transmitting the inquire message and receiving the response can be measured by the inquiring node. For all node registration entries in the routing table of the inquiring node a determination of whether the inquiring node is closest in locality to the publishing node than to a node corresponding to each node registration entry can be performed. Such determination can be made based on (a) the roundtrip time between nodes (b) node IP address prefix matching.
US07995503B2
A method for provisioning a NSP application in a digital interactive broadcasting environment including: A) at a headend server transmitting the AIT table, having an application provisioning descriptor including a version information and a location information of an application in a form of ATTS; and B) at a user set-top box, b-1) checking a downloaded status of the application, and comparing the application version information in the descriptor with that stored into the set-top box, b-2) if the version in the descriptor is the same with that in the set-top box and downloading of the application has been performed normally, executing the application without downloading, and b-3) if the version in the descriptor is different from that in the set-top box or if downloading of the application has been performed abnormally, accessing and downloading the application based on the location information are performed.
US07995502B2
The present invention relates to a method of efficiently assigning addresses in a WPAN and a WPAN device. The address assignment method of the present invention is performed by a higher device. Address assignment information for determining an address to be assigned to a lower device, is managed. An address is assigned to a lower device that requests connection from the higher device based on the address assignment information. The address assignment information is updated to a address value as the address value is assigned, and the updated address assignment information is transmitted to lower devices. If an update of address assignment information is requested by the lower device that assigned an address value to a device lower thereto, the address assignment information is updated and the updated address assignment information is transmitted to lower devices.
US07995479B2
A system facilitates the visualization of a network having multiple nodes. The system collects information from at least one of the nodes (510). The information describes network operation over a period of time. The system then reconstructs the network operation for the time period from the collected information (520) and presents the reconstructed network operation to an operator (530-550).
US07995472B2
A network processor dataflow chip and method for flexible dataflow are provided. The dataflow chip comprises a plurality of on-chip data transmission and scheduling circuit structures. The data transmission and scheduling circuit structures are selected responsive to indicators. Data transmission circuit structures may comprise selectable frame processing and data transmission functions. Selectable frame processing may comprise cut and paste, full dispatch and store and dispatch frame processing. Scheduling functions include full internal scheduling, calendar scheduling in communication with an external scheduler, and external calendar scheduling. In another aspect of the present invention, data transmission functions may comprise low latency and normal latency external processor interfaces for selectively providing privileged access to dataflow chip resources.
US07995469B2
A method, a system, and a computer program product that enables real-time, intelligent quality of service (QoS) for essential services being accessed and/or utilized by a back-office device via a secondary connection to a back-office server running the back-office application/service. A network management device (NMD) executes a QoS utility that responds to a detection of the failure of a primary connection to the back-office server by establishing a secondary connection and providing optimal QoS for the essential services on the secondary connection, in real time.
US07995459B2
In an orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) communication network, a node transmits an echo profile probe to other nodes in the network. The echo profile probe is a message that allows characterization of the unique echo profile through the communication channel between each node pair. The echo profile is used to calculate the cyclic prefix length needed for optimum communication from one node to the other.
US07995456B2
The present invention relates to a device and method for optimal estimation of the distortion caused by the transmission medium by means of the sequential emission of pairs of quadrature complementary sequences, estimating the frequency spectrum of a transmission channel allows obtaining information of considerable interest to analyze its characteristics or correcting the distortion effects introduced in a communication system. This invention describes a new method for extracting said characteristics generating a transmission preamble using complementary sequences, which allows upon reception identifying the distortion caused in each of the I/Q phases of a quadrature modulation system on the transmitted symbols, canceling the phase distortion effects caused by the medium and reducing the equalization of the channel to a single equalizing baseband filter identical for both I2/Q2 phases. Since the distorted frequencies are received in the receiver, they also allow extracting the temporal and/or frequency characteristics of the distortion caused by the medium they traverse with a precision depending on the length of the sequences used in coding.
US07995454B2
Systems and methods for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing are provided. In one embodiment, a multi-carrier modem comprises: a receiver configured to receive a waveform comprising spectrally overlapping carrier signals from at least two of a plurality of remotes, wherein the spectrally overlapping carrier signals are modulated using an inverse Fourier transform algorithm; a transmitter; a processor coupled to the transmitter, wherein the processor outputs data for transmission by the transmitter, wherein the processor applies an inverse Fourier transform algorithm to the data provided to the transmitter; a controller programmed to calculate an elapsed time for each of the two remotes, the elapsed time representing a time between transmitting a ranging signal to a remote and receiving a signal from the remote in response to the ranging signal; the controller further programmed to reducing any difference between at least two elapsed times by instructing at least one of the plurality of remotes to adjust a delay.
US07995452B2
This disclosure describes thin optical media that may be compliant with conventional DVD drives. Unlike conventional DVDs, however, the described media does not include the non-information bearing “dummy” substrate. Instead, the described media may comprise a single substrate having a thickness of approximately 0.6 millimeters. Depending on the format, reflective layers, information layers, dyes, phase change materials, or other materials may be deposited over the replicated side of the substrates. Furthermore, in accordance with this disclosure, a hard coat layer is also formed over the replicated side of the media in order to provide mechanical integrity to the media. Printable layers, printed layers, lacquer, or other materials may also be added. The elimination of the non-information bearing “dummy” substrate can reduce raw materials, thereby reducing costs and providing a more environmentally friendly optical disk. The hard coat can provide the mechanical protection to the replicated side of the 0.6 millimeter substrate.
US07995450B2
In an optical element feeding device and an optical pickup unit using the same, in order to make the device compact and light and achieve a stable operation, the device has a main shaft and a sub shaft supporting a movable frame in which an optical element is arranged in such a manner as to be movable in a direction of an optical axis, a stepping motor, a lead screw rotating on the basis of a rotation of the stepping motor, a resin nut engaging with the lead screw and being movable in the direction of the optical axis on the basis of the rotation of the lead screw, and a spring pressing the movable frame in the direction of the optical axis so as to bring the movable frame into contact with the nut, and a cushioning material is provided between the nut and the movable frame so as to connect the nut and the movable frame.
US07995439B2
When an optical disc apparatus reproduces information from an optical disc, it converges a reading light beam emitted from an LED to substantially collimated light and projects it to the optical disc to cause it to be reflected by reflection surface thereof so as to make it become a reading reflected light beam. Then, the apparatus converges the reading reflected light beam by a mark layer selection lens, detects the reading reflected light beam passing through the target position by a detection region located at the confocal point of the target position and generates a detection signal. Subsequently, the apparatus recognizes the presence or absence of a recording mark based on the detection signal to reproduce the information. Thus, the apparatus can detect the state of the reading reflected light beam observed when it passes the target position and can recognize the presence or absence of a recording mark.
US07995432B2
Deterioration of error rate at reproduction time is prevented even if a photodetector with a poor characteristic is included. An optical pickup unit (3) is provided with 4 photodetectors. A controller (13) obtains an error correction result of a reproduced signal, which is reproduced based on an RF signal generated while changing combination of the 4 photodetectors at startup time, and determines a combination at reproduction time in accordance with the obtained error correction result, to be given to an RF amplifier unit (10). The controller (13) is provided with a counter that counts for a fixed time period the error correction result per combination of the photodetectors, a comparator that compares a count result of the counter with a threshold set in advance, and an output controller that judges whether or not to use a combination of the photodetectors based on a comparison result of the comparator and performs change control of the combination of the photodetectors, of which there is a plurality. At reproduction time, control is performed to obtain the reproduced signal from output outside of the photodetector with the poor characteristic.
US07995426B2
It is highly precisely determined as to whether or not a laser-irradiated position on an optical disk is positioned within an identification area (BCA) in which identification information is recorded, and the position of the identification information area is efficiently determined.An optical disk apparatus includes an optical pickup for detecting reflected light from an optical disk and generating a light amount signal, and a detecting section for outputting a detection signal which is in accordance with a change in the signal level of the light amount signal, the detection signal indicating that the change has continued for a first predetermined time or longer. Furthermore, the optical disk apparatus includes a pulse signal output section which, each time the detection signal is output, outputs a pulse signal which continues for a second predetermined time, and an area determination section which determines whether an irradiated position of light is within the identification area or not based on a continuing duration of the pulse signal.
US07995425B2
A slider mounted TAMR (Thermal Assisted Magnetic Recording), DFH (Dynamic Flying Height) type read/write head using optical-laser generated surface plasmons in a small antenna to locally heat a magnetic medium, uses the same optical laser at low power to pre-heat the antenna. Maintaining the antenna at this pre-heated temperature, approximately 50% of its highest temperature during write operations, allows the DFH mechanism sufficient time to compensate for the thermal protrusion of the antenna at that lower temperature, so that thermal protrusion transients are significantly reduced when a writing operation occurs and full laser power is applied. The time constant for antenna protrusion is less than the time constant for DFH fly height compensation, so, without pre-heating, the thermal protrusion of the antenna due to absorption of optical radiation cannot be compensated by the DFH effect.
US07995424B2
An electronic device includes a timer which measures a current time, a display which displays information based on the time, a receiver which, by receiving and decoding a signal, including time information indicating a standard time, which is encoded by means of a predetermined communication system, acquires the time information, and a controller which, as well as instructing the receiver to acquire the time information, corrects a deviation of the measured time, based on the time information, and instructs the display to display information based on the corrected time. The controller gives an instruction in such a way that no time period occurs in which both the receiver's operation of acquiring the time information, and the display's operation of displaying the information based on the corrected time, are executed.
US07995415B2
A dynamic random access memory (“DRAM”) device is operable in either a normal refresh mode or a static refresh mode, such as a self-refresh mode. A cell plate voltage selector couples a voltage of one-half the supply voltage to the cell plate of a DRAM array in a normal refresh mode and in the static refresh mode when memory cells are being refreshed. In between refresh bursts in the static refresh mode, the cell plate voltage selector couples a reduced voltage to the cell plate. This reduces the voltage reduces the voltage across diode junctions formed between the source/drain of respective access transistor and the substrate. The reduced voltage reduces the discharge current flowing from memory cells capacitors, thereby allowing a reduction in the required refresh rate and a consequential reduction in power consumption.
US07995409B2
Digital memory devices and systems, as well as methods of operating digital memory devices, that include access circuitry to access a first subset of a plurality of memory cells associated with a current access address during a current access cycle and precharge circuitry, disposed in parallel relative to the access circuitry, to precharge in full or in part a second subset of the plurality of memory cells associated with a next precharge address during the current access cycle.
US07995407B2
A semiconductor memory device comprising a regular cell array that includes a regular memory cell to which one of a first power supply voltage and a second power supply voltage is supplied and to which a third power supply voltage is supplied, a redundant cell array that includes a redundant memory cell to which one of the first power supply voltage and the second power supply voltage is supplied and to which the third power supply voltage is supplied, and a power supply control circuit that controls supply of the first power supply voltage and the second power supply voltage to the regular cell array and the redundant cell array, wherein a difference between the second power supply voltage and the third power supply voltage is smaller than a difference between the first power supply voltage and the third power supply voltage.
US07995406B2
A data writing apparatus includes a distributed transmission unit configured to transmit first data and second data, having been aligned to have the same timing, to data lines at mutually different timings, and a data writing unit configured to synchronize the first data and the second data having been transmitted through the data lines and to write the synchronized data in a memory area.
US07995399B2
A NAND Flash memory device reduces circuitry noise during program operations. The memory includes bit lines that are electrically coupled together to charge share their respective voltage potentials prior to performing a discharge operation on the bit lines. A NAND flash cell is programmed by coupling a first memory array bit line to a program voltage to program the memory cell, biasing a second memory array bit line to a ground potential, wherein the second memory array bit line is located adjacent to the first memory array bit line, activating at least one first transistor to electrically coupling the first and second memory array bit lines together, and activating at least one second transistor to electrically couple the first and second memory array bit lines to a discharge potential.
US07995396B2
Provided are methods of operating NAND nonvolatile memory devices. The operating methods include applying a read voltage or a verify voltage to a selected memory cell from among a plurality of memory cells of a cell string to verify or read a programmed state of the selected memory cell; applying a first pass voltage to non-selected memory cells closest to the selected memory cell of the cell string; applying a second pass voltage to second closest non-selected memory cells to the selected memory cell; and applying a third pass voltage to other non-selected memory cells, where the first pass voltage is less than each of the second and third pass voltages and the second pass voltage is greater than the third pass voltage.
US07995391B2
Multiple select gates in association with non-volatile memory cells are described. Various embodiments include multiple select gate structure, process, and operation and their applicability for memory devices, modules, and systems. In one embodiment a memory array is described. The memory array includes a number of select gates coupled in series to a number of non-volatile memory cells. A first select gate includes a control gate and a floating gate electrically connected together and a second select gate includes a control gate and a floating gate which are electrically separated by a dielectric layer.
US07995387B2
Systems and methods for reading data are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a method includes measuring characteristics of a plurality of cells at a memory. The characteristics correspond to a plurality of values including a first value stored at a particular cell and a second value stored at a second cell of the memory. The method includes testing whether at least some of the plurality of values match a particular pattern correlated to a disturb condition at the particular cell, and providing a data value corresponding to the particular cell. The data value is determined at least in part based on a result of the testing.
US07995385B2
A system comprising a program component that programs one or more non-volatile memory (“NVM”) cells of an array of pairs of NVM cells using FN tunneling, an erase component that erases the one or more NVM cells of the array of pairs of NVM cells using FN tunneling, and a read component that reads the one or more NVM cells of the array of pairs of NVM cells.
US07995384B2
A gated diode nonvolatile memory cell with a charge storage structure includes a diode structure with an additional gate terminal. Adjacent memory devices are electrically isolated. Example embodiments include the individual memory cell, an array of such memory cells, methods of operating the memory cell or array of memory cells, and methods of manufacturing the same.
US07995383B2
A particular magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) cell includes a side wall defining a first magnetic domain adapted to store a first digital value. The MTJ cell also includes a bottom wall coupled to the side wall and defining a second magnetic domain adapted to store a second digital value.
US07995381B2
A method of operating an integrated circuit includes determining a resistance value of at least one resistivity-changing memory cell when the memory cell is in a low-resistance state, the at least one resistivity-changing memory cell configured to be programmable to at least the low-resistance state and a high-resistance state, comparing the resistance value to a threshold value, selecting, based on the comparison, a cell reset process to be employed for programming the at least one resistivity-changing memory cell to the high-resistance state. The selecting includes selecting a predetermined reset process as the cell reset process when the resistance value is less than the threshold value, and adjusting the predetermined process and selecting the adjusted predetermined reset process as the cell reset process when the resistance value is at least equal to the threshold value.
US07995371B2
A threshold device including a plurality of adjacent tunnel barrier layers that are in contact with one another and are made from a plurality of different dielectric materials is disclosed. A memory plug having first and second terminals includes, electrically in series with the first and second terminals, the threshold device and a memory element that stores data as a plurality of conductivity profiles. The threshold device is operative to impart a characteristic I-V curve that defines current flow through the memory element as a function of applied voltage across the terminals during data operations. The threshold device substantially reduces or eliminates current flow through half-selected or un-selected memory plugs and allows a sufficient magnitude of current to flow through memory plugs that are selected for read and write operations. The threshold device reduces or eliminates data disturb in half-selected memory plugs and increases S/N ratio during read operations.
US07995370B2
A ferroelectric memory includes a memory cell array including a first unit block, a second unit block, and a plurality of dummy cells. The plurality of dummy cells being arranged toward a column direction and being disposed between the first unit block and the second unit block. The first unit block including a plurality of first memory cells arranging in t rows, and including a plurality of first plate lines arranging toward a row direction. The second unit block including a plurality of second memory cells arranged in t rows, and including a plurality of second plate lines arranging toward a row direction. Each of the plurality of dummy cells including a ferroelectric capacitor. Either of the first second plate line or the second plate line of the second unit block extending above the plurality of dummy cells.
US07995367B2
The circuit arrangement comprises a symmetrically constructed comparator (3), a non-volatile memory cell (10) and a reference element (20). The comparator (3) exhibits a latching function, and is connected in a differential current path that joins the power supply terminal (9) to a reference potential terminal (8). The non-volatile memory cell (10) is connected in a first branch (35) of the differential current path, and the reference element (20) is connected in a second branch (55) of the differential current path.
US07995366B2
A system for terminating a homogenous cell array is disclosed. A preferred embodiment comprises a plurality of homogenous cells arranged in rows and columns to form the homogenous cell array, wherein a first homogenous cell of each column is electrically differently connected than a rest of the homogenous cells of the column.
US07995365B1
Described herein are a method and apparatuses for providing DDR memory access. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a data storage unit to store and synchronize a plurality of data line signals with a clock signal. The apparatus includes a selector unit that receives the plurality of data line signals and selects two data line signals. The apparatus also includes a double data rate (DDR) output unit that receives the two data line signals from the selector unit and generates a DDR data line signal having a time period substantially one half of a clock time period of the clock signal. The apparatus also includes an input/output (I/O) pad coupled to and locally positioned with respect to the DDR output unit. The data storage unit, the selector unit, and the DDR output unit in combination form an I/O buffer which is locally coupled to the I/O pad.
US07995363B2
A DC-DC converter includes a charge pump unit and a clock pulse generator unit. The charge pump unit precharges a boost node in response to a precharge clock pulse and boosts the boost node to a boosted voltage in response to a pump clock pulse. The clock pulse generator unit generates the precharge clock pulse and the pump clock pulse in which corresponding pulse widths increase during multiple time intervals over time.
US07995362B2
A circuit apparatus for providing an AC voltage to a load. The apparatus may include: a first, second, third and fourth switch, wherein the first switch is connected between a first node and a first terminal of the second switch and the fourth switch is connected between a second node and a first terminal of the fourth switch; a voltage source, wherein the voltage source is electrically connected between the first node and the second node; a resistive divider connected across the voltage source; a first resistor connected across the first switch a second resistor connected across the third switch; first connecting means for configurably connecting a second terminal of the second switch to the second node; second connecting means for configurably connecting a second terminal of the third switch to the first node; and third connecting means for configurably connecting the second terminal of the second switch in series with the second terminal of the third switch.
US07995361B2
The present invention relates to an error information detection circuit and an error feedback circuit, which detect the error of an output voltage from a voltage induced to a winding. The circuit for detecting error information of an output voltage of a transformer from voltage induced to the feedback winding of the transformer and feeding back the error information includes a flyback period detection circuit (34) for detecting a flyback period from a voltage induced to the feedback winding. A comparison unit (35) compares the induced voltage of the feedback winding with a reference voltage and outputs a result of comparison. A logic unit (36) outputs error information of an output voltage of the transformer according to a flyback period detection output of the flyback period detection circuit and the output of the comparison unit. An up/down control unit (32) outputs a feedback value corresponding to the error information.
US07995357B2
A telecommunications system including a frame to which telecommunications equipment is mounted. The frame defines a patch panel region and an active equipment region. Patch cords are interconnected between the patch panel region and the active equipment region. The system further includes a slack storage panel that stores patch cord slack. The slack storage panel defines a single cable routing pathway. The patch cords are routed through the slack storage panel such that no portion of the length of each patch cord overlaps itself. In systems including both copper and fiber cables, the copper cables are routed separately from the fiber cables.
US07995354B2
A casing structure having a removable base frame includes a casing and a base frame. The casing includes a bottom plate, wall plates, and a bracket disposed on the bottom plate. A top stopper is erected on the bracket. The base frame has a frame plate for disposing the base frame astride the wall plates. The base frame is also disposed with a mounting plate corresponding to the top stopper. The mounting plate has a rotatable push-actuated member. When the push-actuated member rotates and is pressed against the top stopper, the base frame is pushed up and removed from the casing.
US07995351B2
The invention relates to a printed board which comprises an inlay and on whose one face electrical components are provided and on whose other face at least one single cooling element for cooling the components is mounted. A component to be cooled, the inlay and the cooling element are aligned with each other. The components are SMD components of, e.g., a high-power output stage circuit with heat emissions of up to 10 to 15 watt. In order to cool the structure, the heat produced in a heating zone between the pins of a component to be cooled is guided to the inlay which is dimensioned in such a manner that it extends farther than below the pins of the component to be cooled. In order to prevent short-circuits and allow power connections, an additional layer is arranged on the printed board above the inlay and simultaneously below the component to be cooled and comprises thermic provisions between a component to be cooled and the inlay for ensuring a good to excellent heat conduction from the heating zone of a component to be cooled to the inlay.
US07995347B1
A chassis shelf may include an upper guide adapted to receive a first edge of a first card and a lower guide adapted to receive a first edge of a second card. The chassis shelf may include an alignment device adapted to align the chassis shelf with respect to a chassis. The chassis shelf may include an attachment device for removably coupling the chassis shelf to the chassis.
US07995343B2
A cooling unit includes: a heat-radiating section in which a coolant flows and which radiates heat caught by the coolant; and a path where the coolant flows through the heat-radiating section; a pump on the path to cause the coolant to flow; and heat absorbing sections disposed on the path to touch heat-producing elements having different heating values, in which the coolant runs to absorb heat produced by the heat-producing elements. One of the heat-absorbing sections is a maximum-heat-absorbing section that touches a maximum-heat-producing element and is disposed downstream from the pump and upstream from the heat-radiating section in a flow of the coolant on the path. Another one of the heat absorbing sections is a low-heat absorbing section that touches the heat-producing element except the maximum-heat-producing element and is disposed upstream from the pump and downstream from the heat-radiating section in the flow of the coolant on the path.
US07995342B2
A display device according to the present invention comprises a display panel, a housing sealing around the display panel and making a display screen of the display panel viewable from outside, and a heat exchanger collecting heat, which is arranged on a rear surface side of the display panel. Another display device according to the present invention comprises a housing having a waterproof structure and provided with an accommodation room formed therein, a display panel arranged in the accommodation room and including a display screen viewable from a front surface side of the housing, a heat exchanger collecting heat generated from the display panel and arranged on a rear surface side of the display panel, and a second heat exchanger releasing heat collected by the heat exchanger to outside of the housing and arranged outside the accommodation room.
US07995330B2
A housing includes a pair of housing walls that face each other with an inner space therebetween. The housing further includes: a first projection that projects from a first housing wall of the pair of housing walls toward a second housing wall of the pair of housing walls and abuts the second housing wall; and a second projection that projects from the second housing wall toward the first housing wall and engages in the first projection thereby preventing separation of the pair of housing walls.
US07995327B2
an exemplary film includes a base having an electrically insulating polymer which carries on one or both surfaces a sequence of electrically conductive coated areas which are separated by non-coated interstices. The film, which can include a superposition of films arranged one above another, can be shaped to form a capacitor. The capacitor can include a plurality of parallel electrodes which are insulated from each other. Each electrode can include one or more electrode layers formed by the coated areas that are separated by dielectric layers formed by sections of the base.
US07995306B2
According to the present invention, when processing shafts in a centerless grinding machine, engagement between the shafts is prevented without rearranging the shafts, and thus outer circumferential faces of the shafts can be precisely processed. A shaft 12 is used in a hydrodynamic bearing device, and includes a cylindrical column formed with an outer circumferential face 12a forms a hydrodynamic radial bearing portion, a tapped hole 12j that is formed at a first end of the cylindrical column, and a first projecting portion 12b formed at a second end of the cylindrical column. When the first end and the second end of the shafts 12 are arranged side by side in an axis direction, the first projecting portion 12b of the shaft 12 can not interfere with the tapped hole 12j of the other shaft 12.
US07995304B2
In a servo control loop, phase detection between a clock signal and servo burst fields on a movable storage media is carried out with compensation for phase error and frequency error in the timing of servo burst fields.
US07995298B2
An illumination system including at least one coherent light source, a light uniforming element, and a prism is provided. The coherent light source is capable of emitting a coherent beam. The light uniforming element is disposed on a transmission path of the coherent beam. The prism is disposed on the transmission path of the coherent beam and between the coherent light source and the light uniforming element. The prism has a light incident end and a light exit end. The light incident end has at least one incident polygonal pyramid portion protruding away from the light exit end. The prism is capable of rotating about an axis, and the axis extends from the light incident end to the light exit end. The illumination system effectively reduces the degree of the speckle phenomenon.
US07995296B2
A replacement apparatus for an optical element mounted between two adjacent optical elements in a lithography objective has a holder for the optical element to be replaced, which holder can be moved into the lithography objective through a lateral opening in a housing of the same.
US07995292B2
An image pickup lens includes, in order from an object side, a first lens element having a positive refractive power and a convex surface facing the object side, an aperture stop adjusting the amount of light, a second lens element having a negative refractive power, a third lens element having a positive refractive power and a concave surface facing the object side, and a fourth lens element having a negative refractive power. In the image pickup lens, the following conditional expressions are satisfied, 0.6<|f2/f|<1.8 0≦f2/R4<1.7 where f denotes a focal length of an entire lens system, f2 denotes a focal length of the second lens element, and R4 denotes a curvature radius of an object-side surface of the second lens element.
US07995288B2
A zoom dial mechanism includes a zoom dial mounted on a base plate so as to extend through a central hole of the base plate and so as to be turnable, a coil spring mounted on the base plate to urge the zoom dial toward a neutral position, and a push knob mounted in a central hole of the dial. The base plate has a groove concentric with the central hole. The coil spring is mounted in the groove. The mechanism further includes a first rib fixed to the dial so as to abut one end of the coil spring and a second rib fixed to the dial so as to abut the other end of the spring. The spring is compressed by the first rib when the dial is turned clockwise, and the coil spring is compressed by the second rib when the dial is turned counterclockwise.
US07995283B2
Provided is a zoom lens in which both higher-order components of distortion and lateral chromatic aberration are corrected in a retrofocus type optical system. The zoom lens includes, in order from a magnifying side, a first lens unit which is negative, a second lens unit which is positive, and a rear lens group which is positive. A solid material having high dispersion and high extraordinary dispersion is used for a negative lens included in the first lens unit to provide a suitable shape and refractive power.
US07995279B2
For combining light from different light sources that are spatially apart, an optical system comprises a prism assembly that comprises a totally-internally-surface and a dichroic filter. The totally-internally-surface and the dichroic filter are configured for reflecting light of different colors or polarizations, so as to combine light of different polarization or colors into a single beam.
US07995278B2
Microlens sheetings with different types of composite images are disclosed, in which the composite image floats above, in, or below the sheeting, or some combination. One type of composite image may be viewable to the unaided eye or an observer and another type of composite image is viewable only to the aided eye of an observer. Methods for providing such an imaged sheeting are also disclosed.
US07995277B2
An apparatus for controlling energy from a skylight of a structure including a plurality of vanes positioned beneath the skylight and angularly adjustable to control solar radiation entering the structure through the skylight. The vanes are substantially S-shaped. A first light sensor is disposed proximate the skylight side of the vanes for providing a signal over time representative of changing incident solar radiation at the skylight side of the vanes, and a second light sensor disposed proximate the structure side the vanes for providing a signal over time representative of changing incident solar radiation at the structure side of the vanes. A control assembly is operably connected to the vanes for automatically controlling the angle of each of the vanes in response to the signals of the first and second light sensors which signals vary due to changes in incident solar radiation over time. A light deflecting member is positioned below the vanes a selected distance so as to cause a first portion of the light that passes through the vanes to be reflected toward the ceiling of the structure and a second portion of the light to pass directly toward the floor of the structure.
US07995275B2
A polarization conversion element having plural polarization separation sections and plural phase modulation sections is disclosed. A light flux is separated into transmission light (P polarization) and reflection light (S polarization) by being input to a polarization separation section. The reflection light reflected at the polarization separation section is output in the same direction as that of the transmission light by being reflected again at an adjacent polarization separation section at a different position from a position where a light flux is input to the adjacent polarization separation section. The phase modulation section is disposed on an optical path of the transmission light or the reflection light and output light becomes the same polarization.
US07995259B2
An optical pattern generator uses a rotating component that includes a number of deflection sectors containing optical elements. Each sector deflects an incident optical beam by a substantially constant angle although this angle may vary from one sector to the next. The constant deflection angle is achieved by symmetry within the deflection sector, specifically gut-ray symmetry. The rotating component may be combined with an imaging group that produces, for example, image points, spots, or lines displaced along a line locus. The image spots can also be displaced to either side of a line, for example by introducing a tilt in the orthogonal direction or by introducing light beams at various angles to the plane of symmetry.
US07995253B2
An image reading device feeds a document original along a sub-scanning direction over an exposure glass. A moving unit moves to and fro in the sub-scanning direction over the exposure glass thereby causing an image reading position on the exposure glass to move. A line image sensor reads one line of an image of the document original at the image reading position in a main scanning direction, while the moving unit is moving, thereby obtaining image. A dirt determining unit determines that there is dirt on the exposure glass when a straight line appears in the main scanning direction in the image data.
US07995238B2
The present invention provides an image processing method and an image processing apparatus. The method and the apparatus perform image processing based on image data and drawing commands input from an image processing terminal. The method includes: setting drawing of a spot color plate different from process colors when data of color plates of process colors is generated based on a drawing command; performing for each object drawing command replacement of drawing the spot color plate according to object information data of image processing settings according to the type of the object; and enabling image processing for each object with respect to the color plates of the process colors based on the object information of the spot color plate.
US07995237B2
The present invention transforms a source device colorant value to a destination device colorant value, by determining whether all non-black colorant values of the source device colorant value are zero, transforming the source device colorant value to a colorimetric value using a source device model, transforming the colorimetric value to a gamut-mapped colorimetric value using a user-selectable gamut-mapping model, and selecting a destination device colorant value based on the determination. In a case where all of the non-black colorant values of the source device colorant value are zero, the destination device colorant value is selected so that its black colorant value reproduces a lightness of the gamut-mapped colorimetric value, and all of its non-black colorant values are zero. Otherwise, the destination device colorant value is selected so that a combination of its non-black and black colorant values reproduces the gamut-mapped colorimetric value. Accordingly, black content is preserved while accommodating a user-selectable gamut-mapping model.
US07995234B2
A scanning device includes a scanning mechanism, a memory, a processing mechanism, and a scan rate adjustment mechanism. The scanning mechanism scans a media sheet having an image thereon at a variable scan rate, to yield raw data. The memory temporarily stores the raw data. The processing mechanism converts the raw data within the memory into processed data. The raw data is removed from the memory as the raw data is converted. The scan rate adjustment mechanism adjusts the variable scan rate, based on one or more of an amount of free space within the memory, a fill rate at which the raw data is filling the memory, and a removal rate at which the raw data is being removed from the memory, so that the memory does not become completely full.
US07995225B2
A system suited to scheduling print jobs for a printing system includes a first processing component which identifies preliminary attributes of print jobs to be printed on sheets. A job scheduler receives the preliminary attributes and assigns each of the print jobs to one of a plurality of job queues in time order for printing. Print jobs spanning the same time are scheduled for printing contemporaneously. In one mode of operation, the assignment of the print jobs to the job queues is based on their preliminary attributes and on the application of at least one constraint which affects contemporaneous printing of at least two of the plurality of print jobs. A second processing component identifies detailed attributes of the print jobs. A sheet scheduler receives information on the assignments of the print jobs and their detailed attributes and forms an itinerary for each sheet to be printed.
US07995223B2
A printing apparatus is supplied, capable of continuing print process by switching to other PDL automatically when error occurs in PDL process execution. In the printing apparatus, an interpreting and making section interprets print data on the basis of language format and makes output use data; a detecting section detects an occurrence of error in the interpreting and making section; a priority order information storing section previously stores priority order information representing a priority order to correspond to each language format information; a reading and selecting section reads out the corresponding priority order information on the basis of the language format information, and selects a change language format on the basis of the priority order information; a changing section changes the print data and the language format information into change print data and change language format information; and a controlling section controls the interpreting and making section to execute an interpretation of the change print data and a making of output use data based on the change language format.
US07995222B2
A printer having a first printing mode in which information is printed in a normal image on a general printing tape and a second printing mode in which information is printed in a mirror image on a transfer tape. When the printer prints a two-dimensional code symbol image 40b in the second printing mode on the transfer tape 31b, the printer also prints a two-dimensional code symbol image 40a in the normal image in an area of the transfer tape next to its area in which the symbol image is printed in the mirror image. At this time, an additional confirmative indication 42 is printed close to the symbol image 40a printed in the normal image to indicate that this symbol image should be used only for confirming the content of the symbol image printed in the mirror image.
US07995216B2
A system and method utilizes an image analysis approach for controlling the collection instrument-to-surface distance in a sampling system for use, for example, with mass spectrometric detection. Such an approach involves the capturing of an image of the collection instrument or the shadow thereof cast across the surface and the utilization of line average brightness (LAB) techniques to determine the actual distance between the collection instrument and the surface. The actual distance is subsequently compared to a target distance for re-optimization, as necessary, of the collection instrument-to-surface during an automated surface sampling operation.
US07995213B2
A measurement method of measuring a wavefront aberration of an optical system to be measured, comprising a first measurement step of measuring wavefronts of the optical system to be measured with respect to linearly polarized light beams along at least three different azimuths, a first calculation step of calculating a wavefront of the optical system to be measured with respect to non-polarized light and a birefringent characteristic of the optical system to be measured, based on the wavefronts of the optical system to be measured, which are measured in the first measurement step, and a second calculation step of calculating a wavefront of the optical system to be measured with respect to arbitrary polarized light, based on the wavefront and the birefringent characteristic of the optical system to be measured, which are calculated in the first calculation step.
US07995212B2
An optical displacement measuring device includes a diffraction grating, a reflecting optical system configured to irradiate two one-time diffracted beams diffracted at the diffraction grating on the diffraction grating again, and the reflecting optical system includes a first imaging element, a second imaging element, a first reflector, and a second reflector, wherein the focal length of the first imaging element and the focal length of the second imaging element are the same, the diffraction grating and first reflector are disposed around the focal position of the first imaging element, and the diffraction grating and second reflector are disposed around the focal position of the second imaging element, thereby suppressing influence of displacement of the diffraction grating as to other than a direction where a movement position is detected.
US07995211B2
The invention relates to a spectrograph (11) comprising a waveguide (10) provided with accesses (10; 10b, 12), a means for injecting two guided contra-propagative waves by each accesses in such a way that a spatial interference is formed in the waveguide, means (19, 20, 14, 16) for detecting the energy of the evanescent wave of the guided field produced by the interference of said contra-propagative waves.
US07995210B2
Devices, arrangements and apparatus adapted to propagate at least one electro-magnetic radiation are provided. In particular, a probe housing, a sample arm section and a reference arm section can be included. For example, the sample arm section can be at least partially situated within the probe housing, and configured to propagate a first portion of the electro-magnetic radiation that is intended to be forwarded to a sample. The reference arm section can be at least partially situated within the probe housing, and configured to propagate a second portion of the electro-magnetic radiation that is intended to be forwarded to a reference. In addition or as an alternative, an interferometer may be situated within the probe housing. The first and second portions may travel along substantially the same paths, and the electro-magnetic radiation can be generated by a narrowband light source that has a tunable center wavelength. Further, the first and second portions may be at least partially transmitted via at least one optical fiber. A splitting arrangement may be provided which splits the electro-magnetic radiation into the first and second portions, and positioned closer to the sample than to the source of the electro-magnetic radiation, and the first and second portions may be adapted to propagate in different directions. An apparatus may be provided that is configured to control an optical path length of the second portion.
US07995208B2
A monolithic frame for optics used in interferometers where the material of the monolithic frame may have a substantially different coefficient of thermal expansion from the beamsplitter and compensator without warping, bending or distorting the optics. This is accomplished through providing a securing apparatus holding the optics in place while isolating the expansion thereof from the expansion of the frame. Stability in optical alignment is therefore achieved without requiring a single material or materials of essentially identical coefficients of thermal expansion. The present invention provides stability in situations where it is not possible to utilize a single material for every component of the interferometer.
US07995205B2
Apparatus and methods are disclosed for viewing low-birefringence structures within samples directly, with the eye, in real-time. The sample is placed between an entrance polarizer and analyzer polarizer, the transmission state of one of which is changed dynamically to create a modulated view of the scene; against this background, birefringent structures are visible because of their different appearance when modulated. Modulation rates of 4 or more states per second; use of 4 or more states, or even a continuum of states, which lie substantially on a latitude line on the Poincare sphere; and orientation of the polarization components to produce a uniform background; produce a clear view that does not produce operator fatigue. Broad-band wavelength operation spanning 50 nm or more, or the whole visible range, is achieved, and it is compatible with integration into other microscopy modes such as Hoffman relief contrast.
US07995202B2
Methods and systems for real-time monitoring of optical signals from arrays of signal sources, and particularly optical signal sources that have spectrally different signal components. Systems include signal source arrays in optical communication with optical trains that direct excitation radiation to and emitted signals from such arrays and image the signals onto detector arrays, from which such signals may be subjected to additional processing.
US07995197B2
The present invention relates to a method for detecting or inferring a physical disturbances on a communications link, in particular by using distributed backscattering. The method includes the steps of: transmitting test signals onto a link; receiving test signals returned from a remote portion of the link; performing a function on the returned test signals; and in dependence on at least one characteristic of the combination signal, inferring the presence of a disturbance. The test signal are returned by a process Rayleigh backscattering along the fibre, so existing fibre installations can be used without requiring a mirror to be specifically introduced.
US07995193B2
A measuring device includes a VCSEL of a first-order or high-order single mode emitting laser beams, a driving part configured to drive the VCSEL, a detecting part configured to detect an electric signal relating to feedback lights generated when laser beams are projected onto an object, and a calculating part configured to identify a direction of movement of the object on the basis of the electric signal detected by the detecting part.
US07995191B1
A scannerless 3-D imaging apparatus is disclosed which utilizes an amplitude modulated cw light source to illuminate a field of view containing a target of interest. Backscattered light from the target is passed through one or more loss modulators which are modulated at the same frequency as the light source, but with a phase delay δ which can be fixed or variable. The backscattered light is demodulated by the loss modulator and detected with a CCD, CMOS or focal plane array (FPA) detector to construct a 3-D image of the target. The scannerless 3-D imaging apparatus, which can operate in the eye-safe wavelength region 1.4-1.7 μm and which can be constructed as a flash LADAR, has applications for vehicle collision avoidance, autonomous rendezvous and docking, robotic vision, industrial inspection and measurement, 3-D cameras, and facial recognition.
US07995190B2
Disclosed is a method for measuring a distance between a distance sensor (5), which is carried on a vehicle, and an object (2). The method includes emitting electromagnetic impulse signals (6) and receiving signals (7), which are reflected by the object. Subsequently the signal propagation time is determined. Pulses (10) received after having been reflected by the object (2) are separated and added together, after which the mean value is formed, and the received pulses are superimposed with a modulation signal (18). Also disclosed is a device suited for carrying out the method.
US07995186B2
A lithographic projection apparatus includes a substrate table configured to hold a substrate, a projection system arranged to project a patterned beam of radiation onto the substrate, a liquid supply system configured to supply liquid to a space between the projection system and the substrate, and a residual liquid detector configured to detect liquid remaining on the substrate and/or the substrate table after an exposure is completed. A device manufacturing method includes projecting, using a projection system of a lithographic apparatus, a patterned beam of radiation through a liquid onto a substrate, the substrate being held by a substrate table, and, after the projecting is complete, detecting residual liquid on the substrate and/or the substrate table.
US07995179B2
An electro-optical device includes, a first substrate, a second substrate, an electrooptic material layer, an illuminating device, and a polarizing device. The electrooptic material layer is held between the first substrate and the second substrate. The illuminating device irradiates illumination light to an outer surface of the first substrate. The polarizing device is provided on the outer surface of the first substrate. The electrooptic material layer exhibits optical isotropy when no electric field is applied, and, when an electric field is applied, exhibits optical anisotropy corresponding to the magnitude of the electric field. The electrooptic material layer further has a characteristic to selectively reflect a first circularly polarized light having a first rotation direction. Light that passes through the polarizing device is a second circularly polarized light that has a second rotation direction reverse to the first rotation direction of the first circularly polarized light.
US07995172B2
An electrically-floating light shielding film is formed on a glass substrate, and a signal line is formed above the light shielding film via a gate insulating film. The light shielding film is formed along the signal line, and has a width larger than that of the signal line. On an interlayer insulating film that covers the signal line, transparent electrodes of neighboring pixels are formed, and a reflective electrode extending from the transparent electrode has a frame portion disposed along the signal line. The reflective electrode is formed the interlayer insulating film. The light shielding film does not overlap the transparent electrode in a plan-view perspective and overlaps the reflective portion in a plan-view perspective. The signal line does not overlap the reflective electrode in a plan-view perspective. Hence, a semitransparent liquid crystal display device that suppresses vertical crosstalk and as well maintains a high aperture ratio is obtained.
US07995171B2
A thin film transistor (TFT) substrate that is capable of providing a wide viewing angle and high contrast ratio without a decrease is aperture ratio is presented. The TFT substrate may be, for example, used with a patterned vertical alignment (PVA) mode LCD. The TFT substrate includes gate lines and data lines extending in non-parallel directions and a pixel electrode formed in a pixel region. The pixel region has two transmission regions separated from each other by a reflection region, and at least one of the gate lines is formed in the reflection region. A storage capacitor may also be formed in the reflection region. This configuration avoids the use of a bridge region between the two transmission regions that is responsible for aperture ratio decrease in the conventional configuration.
US07995165B2
An embodiment of the present invention discloses a Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS) display unit, in which a Metal-Insulator-Metal (MIM) capacitor consisting of a micromirror layer, a insulation layer and a light shielding layer is formed by grounding the light shielding layer on a pixel switch circuit layer. Therefore the pixel switch circuit and the capacitor are in vertical distribution, that is, the switch circuit and the capacitor both have an allowable design area of the size of one pixel. Another embodiment of the present invention provides a method for forming a Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS) display unit.
US07995164B2
An array substrate for a liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a substrate having a display region and a non-display region at periphery portions of the display region, the non-display region including first, second, third and fourth regions; a plurality of gate lines parallel to the second and fourth regions, the plurality of gate lines including a first gate line closest to the second region and a second gate line closest to the fourth region; a plurality of data lines parallel to the first and third regions and crossing the plurality of gate lines to define a plurality of pixel regions in the display region, the plurality of data lines including a first data line closest to the first region; and a light-shielding portion corresponding to the non-display region and disposed at the same layer as at least one of the gate line and the data line, the light-shielding portion including first, second, third and fourth portions corresponding to the first, second, third and fourth regions, respectively.
US07995157B2
An array substrate for a liquid crystal display device, includes: a gate line and a data line on a substrate, the data line crossing the gate line to define a pixel region; an insulating layer between the gate line and the data line; a switching element adjacent to a crossing of the gate line and the data line; a pixel electrode connected to the switching element, the pixel electrode disposed in the pixel region; and a first buffer pattern at a first side of one of the gate line and the date line and overlapped with the other one of the gate line and the date line, the first buffer pattern being disposed at the same layer as the one of the gate line and the date line.
US07995152B2
A TV including: an interface section connected to an external device including a power supply section and a data storage section; and a main body storage section which stores TV data, wherein the main body storage section is set to a readable state by supplying power from the power supply section through the interface section; and wherein the interface section outputs the TV data to the data storage section of the external device when the main body storage section is in the readable state.
US07995148B2
An image signal is resolved into a plurality of frequency components whose spatial frequencies are different from each other; a variation component of the image signal is extracted based on each of the plurality of frequency components, an absolute value of the variation component being smaller than a predetermined reference value; a level difference amount of the image signal is calculated based on the extracted variation component; and the calculated level difference amount is subtracted from the image signal.
US07995145B2
A system, method, and apparatus for inline audio/visual conversion are described. Power to an inline converter is provided over the A/V cable that couples the converter to a destination such as a selector.
US07995129B2
An image sensor includes a plurality of vertical CCDs; first HCCD receiving charge packets from even numbered vertical CCDs; and a second HCCD receiving charge packets from odd numbered vertical CCDs; wherein four charge packets are summed together from the first HCCD, and four charge packets are summed together in the second HCCD such that the summing process in the second HCCD begins one or two charge packets spatially after the first charge packet of the four charge packets summed in the first HCCD.
US07995127B2
This invention provides an image pickup device comprising a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit, a semiconductor area to which a signal from the photoelectric conversion unit is transferred, a transfer switch for transferring the signal from the photoelectric conversion unit to the semiconductor area, and a read unit for reading out the signal from the semiconductor area, and a drive circuit for outputting a first level at which the transfer switch is set in an OFF state, a second level at which the transfer switch is set in an ON state, and a third level between the first level and the second level, wherein the drive circuit controls to hold the third level for a predetermined time while the transfer switch is changing from the ON state to the OFF state.
US07995123B2
A digital double sampling method, a related complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor, and a digital camera comprising the CMOS image sensor are disclosed. The method includes generating first digital data corresponding to an initial voltage level apparent in a pixel in response to a reset signal, inverting the first digital data, outputting a detection voltage corresponding to image data received from outside of the CMOS image sensor, and counting in synchronization with a clock signal, starting from an initial value equal to the inverted first digital data, and for an amount of time responsive to a voltage level of the detection voltage.
US07995120B2
An apparatus and a method of smoothing the brightness of an image photographed in an image sensor without amplifying a noise component of a surrounding part of the image are disclosed. The image brightness correction apparatus correcting the brightness of an image by using a correction curve can include an image input unit, receiving an image; a correction gradient selection unit, selecting a gradient of the correction curve corresponding to an object pixel, having the brightness desired to be corrected, of pixels of the image; a correction performance unit, converting original brightness of the object pixel into correction brightness according to the correction curve having the selected gradient; and an image output unit, outputting the image allowing the object pixel to have the correction brightness by the correction performance unit; whereas the correction curve increases the contrast of the corresponding correction brightness if the original brightness is the same as or smaller than a predetermined brightness, and the correction curve decreases the contrast of the corresponding correction brightness if the original brightness is larger than a predetermined brightness. With the present invention, a dynamic range of an image is smooth and the contrast of the image is acquired.
US07995118B2
A digital imaging device and methods thereof that will enable the embedding and retrieving of information in digital images are provided. The digital imaging device includes a capture module for capturing an image and creating a digital image file; an input module for inputting information regarding the captured image; and a processing module for associating the inputted information to the digital image file. The device further includes a scanning module for reading a symbology associated with a printed digital image and wherein the processing module is adapted to use the symbology to retrieve the associated information of the digital image file. The device may be embodied as a digital camera, a mobile phone, personal digital assistant (PDA), etc.
US07995115B2
An image pickup device includes: an image pickup unit which picks up a subject at first and second exposure times; a high dynamic range (HDR) image data generating unit which generates first HDR image data configured by pixel data of which pixel values are expressed by a floating-point form in which a mantissa part has N bits (N is a natural number of 2 or more), a cardinal number is X (X is a natural number of 2 or more) and an exponential part of the cardinal number has M bits (M is a natural number of 2 or more), on the basis of first image data obtained by picking up the subject at the first exposure time and second image data obtained by picking up the subject at the second exposure time; an image processing unit which performs a predetermined image process including a floating-point arithmetic operation process, with respect to the first HDR image data generated by the HDR image data generating unit; and a HDR image data converting unit which converts the first HDR image data after the image process into second HDR image data configured by pixel data of which the pixel values are expressed by a floating-point form in which the mantissa part has n bits (n is a natural number of N>n) and the exponential part of the cardinal number has m bits (m is a natural number of M>m).
US07995110B2
A scan conversion device includes a first buffer unit, a pixel packing unit, a second buffer unit, and a scan output unit. The first buffer unit stores therein pixel signals of the input image on every line in a main scanning direction thereof. The pixel packing unit groups N (N≧2) pixel signals on each line into pixel signal packs according to a predetermined pixel combination rule, and outputs them sequentially. The second buffer unit stores therein the pixel signal packs and aligns them in a second main scanning direction different from the main scanning direction. The scan output unit sequentially outputs the pixel signal packs aligned in the second main scanning direction. According to this configuration, a scan pattern of the input image is changed into a scan pattern of outputting every N output lines in the second main scanning direction.
US07995108B2
An image processing apparatus includes an image obtaining unit, a color shift detecting unit, a controlling unit, and a correction amount calculating unit. The image obtaining unit obtains image data. The color shift detecting unit detects color shifts of this image data. The controlling unit determines fitting reliability of the color shift detection result and selects a magnification chromatic aberration model suitable for color shift fitting according to the reliability. The correction amount calculating unit fits the magnification chromatic aberration model selected by the controlling unit to the color shift detection result and obtains correction amounts of the magnification chromatic aberration for the image data.
US07995106B2
A digital camera has human extraction means, non-human extraction means, and composition judgment means. The human extraction means extracts a human figure region by analysis of image data. The non-human extraction means extracts a major subject other than a human figure by analysis of a region other than the human figure region having been extracted by the human extraction means. The composition judgment means evaluates arrangement of the human figure and the major subject according to results of the extraction, and judges whether composition is appropriate. Based on whether the composition is appropriate, timing to record the image data is determined. Preferably, recording means is controlled so as to record the image data at the determined timing, or the timing is notified to a user.
US07995105B2
A brightness adjusting method used in an image-retrieving system for producing a suitable brightness adjusting value, the image-retrieving system having a filter and defining a first threshold value, a second threshold value set, a third threshold value, and a fourth threshold value, the second threshold value set including a high value and a low value.
US07995104B2
In a moving image recording process, a shooting operation using a short exposure time appropriate for shooting a still image, and a shooting operation using a long exposure time appropriate for shooting a moving image are performed repeatedly in turn. Plural pieces of frame image data “B” shot by the shooting operations using a long exposure time are successively recorded as moving image data. When a shutter button is pressed in the moving image recording process, frame image data which is shot using a short exposure time just before the shutter button is pressed is recorded as a still image.
US07995095B2
In a night vision arrangement for a motor vehicle in which a camera captures an infra-red image of the roadway in front of the vehicle, a video signal generated by the camera is processed by a signal processor so that the field of view of the image displayed by a display unit is selected in accordance with a control signal. The control signal is generated by a signal generator which is responsive to one or more parameters of the movement of the vehicle. The width of the field of view may be decreased with increasing speed. The axial direction of the field of view may be adjusted depending upon the nature of a turning movement of the vehicle.
US07995094B2
A method and apparatus for inspection of the optical quality of a glazing is provided. A greyscale image is generated digitally, and reflected off or transmitted through a glazing, and captured using an image capture device. Preferably, the generation of the greyscale pattern and the capturing of the reflected or transmitted greyscale pattern are synchronised.
US07995092B2
A processor adjusts a first image generated by a projector and a second image generated by the projector in a first manner if the first and second images together include a stereoscopic image, and in a second manner if the first and second images do not include a stereoscopic image.
US07995091B2
A method of transferring communication between communication channels of differing bandwidth comprises establishing data communications on a first channel having a first bandwidth, establishing data communications on a second channel in response to a trigger indicating changes in the data to be communicated, wherein the second channel has a bandwidth providing resources different from the first bandwidth of the first channel. The method further comprises responding to the discontinuation of an in-progress mixed-media call that transmits data using a first and second media by initiating a second call not supporting the second media.
US07995084B2
A line head, includes: a plurality of luminous elements grouped into a plurality of luminous element groups; and a lens array which includes a plurality of lenses each of which faces the luminous element group, focuses light beams emitted from the luminous element group on an image plane, and accordingly forms a spot group, wherein the plurality of luminous element groups are arrayed in M×N in a first direction and in a second direction which are different from each other, where M and N are integers equal to or greater than two, and spot groups adjacent to each other in a direction corresponding to the first direction are so formed on the image plane as to partly overlap in a direction corresponding to the second direction.
US07995077B2
A portable electronic equipment includes a main body, a display screen, an orientation sensing module and a display controlling module. The display screen is arranged on the main body for displaying an image in an original orientation. The orientation sensing module includes a first elongated chamber, a first sensing unit, a second sensing unit, an opaque medium partially filled in the first elongated chamber and an air pocket received in the first elongated chamber. The display controlling module is configured for deviating the displayed image at a given angle clockwise or counterclockwise from the original orientation of the image.
US07995069B2
A graphics system including a custom graphics and audio processor produces exciting 2D and 3D graphics and surround sound. The system includes a graphics and audio processor including a 3D graphics pipeline and an audio digital signal processor. The graphics system has a graphics processor includes an embedded frame buffer for storing frame data prior to sending the frame data to an external location, such as main memory. The embedded frame buffer is selectively configurable to store the following pixel formats: point sampled RGB color and depth, super-sampled RGB color and depth, and YUV (luma/chroma). Graphics commands are provided which enable the programmer to configure the embedded frame buffer for any of the pixel formats on a frame-by-frame basis.
US07995067B2
A storage buffer attached to an image processor for stereo image processing. The processor compares a first image and a second image. The storage buffer stores image data of the second image. The storage buffer includes: a data-shifting-hardware mechanism which while the processor compares a patch of the first image to a swath of the second image, the data shifting mechanism using hardware within the storage buffer shifts at least a portion of the swath within the storage buffer. The data-shifting hardware mechanism includes preferably digital multiplexers with respective selectable inputs from adjacent and non-adjacent columns of data within the storage buffer and selectable inputs from adjacent rows of data within the storage buffer.
US07995062B2
A method is provided for utilizing the human perceptual system by providing a spectrum of event log data for viewing. Event log data is received. Events of the event log data are mapped to an x-axis of a spectrum based on time, where the events of the event log data correspond to a time slot on the x-axis. Categories for the events are mapped to a y-axis of the spectrum, where the y-axis is a frequency axis, and where each of the categories respectively corresponds to a frequency of the multiple frequencies. Strength of events are mapped to a z-axis of the spectrum, where the z-axis is a magnitude axis, and where a magnitude value reflects the significance of the events happened at a particular time slot in a particular category. The magnitude of events (z-axis) of the event log data may be further mapped to a line thickness of the spectrum for the multiple frequencies. The spectrogram of the event log data is presented in a two-dimensional graphical format in time, frequency, and magnitude for observation by a user.
US07995050B2
A mobile computing device comprises a power source, a display, a display driver and a control circuit. The power source is configured to provide a power signal. The display comprises a plurality of pixels. The display driver is configured to receive the power signal and to drive the pixels based on the power signal and display data. The control circuit is configured to periodically remove the power signal from at least a portion of the display driver.
US07995047B2
A current driving device comprises: a voltage supply part; a current supply part; and a plurality of current output parts, each comprising a current-voltage converting function, a voltage-current converting function, and a voltage holding capacitance element. The current output part takes three operation modes. Under a voltage supply mode, the current output part receives a voltage from the voltage supply part and holds the voltage in the voltage holding capacitance element. Under a current supply mode, the current output part receives the current from the current supply part, generates a second voltage by the current-voltage converting function and holds the voltage in the voltage holding capacitance element. Under a current output part, the current output part outputs an output current according to the voltage held in the voltage holding capacitance element by the voltage-current converting function. By charging the current output part with the reference voltage before the calibration performed by using the reference current, calibration of the current output part is performed at a high speed.
US07995038B2
A rotary quad control interface that allows a vehicle driver to control several vehicle systems without focusing on the interface itself. The interface includes four touch pads disposed in four quadrants of the interface, an outer rotary dial positioned substantially at the center of the four touch pads and an inner rotary dial disposed within the outer rotary dial and being concentric thereto, where the inner rotary dial also operates as a push button. A display screen displays the operation of the interface, and includes a first display portion, a second display portion, a third display portion and a fourth display portion that are provided as quadrants on the display screen and are representative of the touch pads on the interface.
US07995036B2
A method for noise reduction in a digitizer, the digitizer comprising a plurality of detecting elements for detecting an electromagnetic signal at one of a number of predetermined frequencies: the method comprising: sampling at least two of said detecting elements substantially simultaneously to obtain outputs therefrom, and reducing the output on one of said two elements in accordance with the output on the other of said elements.
US07995030B2
An apparatus and method for searching and displaying data are provided. The method includes a scroller having a plurality of touch pads, a memory for storing the data, a controller for obtaining a first memory area of the memory in which data to be displayed are stored, and then sequentially displaying the data of the first memory area when the data to be displayed are selected, as well as obtaining a second memory area within the first memory area corresponding to a position of a touched touch pad and then sequentially displaying data of the second memory area when the touch pad is touched for more than a pre-determined time, and obtaining a scroll direction based on the position of the touched touch pad and then scrolling the screen in the obtained scroll direction when the touch pad is touched for less than the pre-determined time, and a user interface for enabling a user can to select the data to be displayed or request a memory mapping operation, and displaying or scrolling the data on a screen under control of the controller.
US07995018B2
A hold-type display device reduces the blur of a moving image and makes less conspicuous the color shift caused due to different blur positions among RGB. In the case where the relative brightness of the video data of one or two of the three primary colors RGB changes from between 0 and 0.5 inclusive for the previous frame to between 0 and 0.5 inclusive for the present frame, the video image of the one or two colors is delayed by one frame and displayed.
US07995016B2
This display includes a first display portion and a second display portion, a first signal line supplying a signal output from a driver circuit to the first display portion while partially serving also as a signal line for supplying another signal output from the driver circuit to the second display portion, a first switching circuit switching the signal supplied through the first signal line by time sharing and a second signal line for supplying the signal to the second display portion.
US07995008B2
A drive circuit that compensates for the dispersion of the characteristics of drive transistors is disclosed. A switch SW2 is turned off, and switches SW1 and SW3 are turned on. Thereby, a constant current from a constant current source CC1 is flown in a drive transistor T1. Consequently, a gate voltage corresponding to the constant current Is written in the gate of the drive transistor T1. Then, the switches SW1 and SW3 are turned off, and the switch SW2 is turned on. Simultaneously, the voltage of a capacitor C1 on the side of the switch SW4 is varied according to a signal voltage, and thereby the voltage is added to the gate of the drive transistor T1 to flow a current corresponding to the signal voltage in the drive transistor T1.
US07995003B1
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for displaying high-resolution images using multiple graphics processing units (GPUs). The graphics driver is configured to present one virtual display device, simulating a high-resolution mosaic display surface, to the operating system and the application programs. The graphics driver is also configured to partition the display surface amongst the GPUs and transmit commands and data to the local memory associated with the first GPU. A video bridge automatically broadcasts this information to the local memories associated with the remaining GPUs. Each GPU renders and displays only the partition of the display surface assigned to that particular GPU, and the GPUs are synchronized to ensure the continuity of the displayed images. This technique allows the system to display higher resolution images than the system hardware would otherwise support, transparently to the operating system and the application programs.
US07995000B2
An electronically controlled monolithic array antenna includes a transmission line through which an electromagnetic signal may be propagated, and a metal antenna element defining an evanescent coupling edge located so as to permit evanescent coupling of the signal between the transmission line and the antenna element. The antenna element includes a conductive ground plate; an array of conductive edge elements defining the coupling edge, each of the edge elements being electrically connected to a control signal source, and each of the edge elements being electrically isolated from the ground plate by an insulative isolation gap; and a plurality of switches, each of which is selectively operable in response to the control signal to electrically connect selected edge elements to the ground plate across the insulative isolation gap so as to provide a selectively variable electromagnetic coupling geometry of the coupling edge.
US07994994B2
An embedded antenna for facilitating wireless transmission of utility meter data is disclosed, where in one embodiment an RF antenna is a part of the faceplate of the utility meter. In another embodiment the utility meter faceplate is a single-layer or a multi-layer printed circuit board (PCB) with the RF antenna printed on any desired layer. Such faceplates may be labeled to be viewable from outside of the meter housing and/or have openings to accommodate visual access to an output display of the meter consumption information.
US07994993B2
For installation in the chassis of a car to receive a tire pressure signal from a sensor and transmitter unit wirelessly and to transmit the signal to a display device in the driver's cab of the car through a cable, a receiving antenna for receiving tire pressure signal is disclosed to include a base, a circuit board mounted in the base and spaced the bottom side of the base at a distance over 1 cm, and a top cover covering the base. The circuit board has a metal signal receiving line arranged on the substrate thereof. The signal receiving line has a receiving segment arranged on the top wall of the substrate near one end and extending around a rectangular area of the top wall a number of turns from an inner side toward an outer side, a lead-out segment extending from the outer end of the receiving segment to a predetermined distance in direction toward the other end of the substrate, and a connection segment extended from the lead-out segment to a connection terminal at the second end of the substrate and having a width greater than the lead-out segment.
US07994992B1
A multi-band antenna comprising a conductive structure and a plurality of current probes coupled around the conductive structure. Each current probe is designed to receive and transmit in a substantially different frequency band than the other current probes. The current probes are positioned on the conductive structure so as to effectively create a plurality of transmit/receive antennas such that each respective antenna has a voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) of less than or equal to approximately 3:1 for a given range within each respective frequency band.
US07994986B2
A mobile communication device having primary resonator coupled to a near field deflector. The near field deflector forms a false edge for near field deflection wherein the primary resonator couples with the false edge instead of to metallic portions of the device or the user.
US07994973B2
A disclosed vehicle control device includes a first ionospheric state information receiving unit receiving information of a predicted ionospheric state at a time point later than a current time point; a second ionospheric state information receiving unit receiving information of an ionospheric state at the current time point; an ionospheric delay error estimating unit estimating an ionospheric delay error by correcting a first ionospheric delay error based on a second ionospheric delay error, the first ionospheric delay error being derived based on the first ionospheric state information, and the second ionospheric delay error being derived based on the second ionospheric state information; and a positioning unit locating a position of a moving body based on a receiving result of a radio wave from a satellite and the estimated ionospheric delay error.
US07994972B2
A satellite navigation system generates a smooth and flexible parameterization of satellite orbits and/or clock corrections. The satellite orbit(s) and/or the satellite clock corrections, are described by a first function system of advancing differentiable functions having a high approximation quality and long range of influence. Satellite orbits and/or clock corrections parameterized from the first function system are transmitted from a central ground processing unit to satellite(s) and then to a user device. (Alternatively, transmission may be effected via only a ground infrastructure.) In addition, a second advancing function system of at least continuous functions of moderate approximation quality and a very short range of influence may be provided, which permits a conversion to the first function system, particularly via the user terminal. Thus, the time required to determine the first navigation information (the time to the first fix) can be significantly shortened.
US07994966B1
The invention relates to a device for generation of microwaves comprising a virtual cathode oscillator (1) in a coaxial embodiment with an outer cylindrical tube forming a cathode (2) and connected to a transmission line (14) for feeding the cathode (2) with voltage pulses, and an inner cylindrical tube, at least partially transparent for electrons, forming a anode (3) and connected to a waveguide (13) for outputting microwave radiation generated by the formation of a virtual cathode (4) inside an area enclosed by the anode. Through the introduction of electrically conductive structures (5 and 6) a device for generation of microwaves is achieved that demonstrates higher efficiency and higher peak output.
US07994965B2
A surveillance apparatus (100) is provided, said apparatus including a linear sub-array (101) of N omnidirectional transmitter elements (103) and a planar sub-array (102) of M receiver elements (104). A plurality of the transient elements (105) are generated by separating out at each of the receivers (104) the signals transmitted from the antenna elements (103) of the transmitter sub-array (101). This allows the geometry of each path (from each transmitter antenna element, to the point being imaged and back to the receiver antenna elements) to be converted to a delay or phase shift to focus on the particular point being imaged. The transient elements (105) form a cylindrical array (106) at the mid points between transmitter and receiver sub-arrays. Such a configuration enables a full 360 degrees of cover in azimuth and typically +/−60 degrees in elevation.
US07994940B2
The invention provides a sensor for determining when a latch for securing an engine cowl on an aircraft is secured by detecting the proximity of a latch hook and a latch pin. The sensor includes a resonant circuit configured and adapted to transmit a status signal when the latch is in a secured state. The sensor also includes a means for conveying status information of the latch to a location remote from the latch based on the status signal, the conveying means being operably connected to the resonant circuit. The invention also provides a method of determining when a latch is open or secured by detecting the proximity of a latch hook and a latch pin.
US07994927B2
A water meter with an emergency shutdown is a dual purpose water meter, which records the accumulated water consumption of individual runs as any regular water meter, and detects water leakage or uncontrolled flow by comparing each single continuous run in non-equal batches with a set target quantity. The water meter shuts down the water flow if a single continuous run reach that target. The water meter is adaptable to any type of water meter or method of recording, turbine, vertical turbine, positive displacement, multiple jet, propeller, or magnetic or electronic flow measuring.
US07994922B2
A communications system includes a radio frequency identification device including an integrated circuit having a single die including a microprocessor, a receiver coupled to the microprocessor, and a backscatter transmitter coupled to the microprocessor, the integrated circuit having a digital input, and the receiver being configured to receive wireless communications from a remote interrogator; and an analog to digital converter external of the single die and having a digital output coupled to the digital input of the integrated circuit, and having an analog input configured to be coupled to an analog measuring device, wherein the radio frequency identification device is configured to transmit a signal indicative of the analog input using the backscatter transmitter. A communications method includes coupling an analog to digital converter to a radio frequency identification device.
US07994921B2
A method for wireless data transmission, for example for RFID systems, between a base station and a transponder is provided. For wireless data transmission between a base station and a transponder, data are wirelessly and bidirectionally transmitted between the base station and the transponder through a first interface of a first interface type using a first data transmission protocol, and data are wirelessly and bidirectionally transmitted between the base station and the transponder through at least one second interface of a second interface type using a second data transmission protocol. The first data transmission protocol and the second data transmission protocol correspond at least in part.
US07994920B2
Methods and apparatus for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) security in an RFID-enabled medium, the RFID-enabled medium including an RFID tag coupled to an antenna, and a touch sensing switch, the touch sensing switch coupled to an electrode and a power source, the touch sensing switch adapting the RFID tag to the power source, the RFID security including: sensing, by the touch sensing switch, human contact with the electrode; and providing, by the touch sensing switch only during human contact with the electrode, operating power from the power source to the RFID tag.
US07994918B2
A method and system for monitoring one or more objects by an electronic device are provided. The method includes defining a distance threshold between the electronic device and an object having a RFID tag, calculating a distance between the electronic device and the object, and generating alerts upon detecting that the distance is greater than the distance threshold.
US07994917B2
An apparatus for fixing RFID tags fixes a RFID circuit element on a print label to produce a RFID label. At this time, a barcode provided on the print label side is read by a barcode sensor, and information to be written corresponding to barcode information is written into the RFID circuit element through an antenna via wireless communication. The barcode on the print label is associated with the label print, whereby a RFID label with print can be produced in which the label print and the information to be stored in the RFID circuit element are associated with each other.
US07994906B2
Disclosed is a pressure-responsive vehicle alarm pad for a vehicle seat to remind a presence of an object inside a vehicle to an occupant of the vehicle seat. The pressure-responsive vehicle alarm pad comprises a pressure sensor pad, a control circuitry, and alarm speakers. The pressure sensor pad disposed on the vehicle seat to detect a pressure of the occupant. The control circuitry electrically coupled to the pressure sensor pad to receive the detected pressure from the pressure sensor pad. The control circuitry generate a first electrical signal when the detected pressure is greater than a threshold pressure, and generates a second electrical signal when the detected pressure is less than the threshold pressure. The alarm speakers electrically coupled to the control circuitry to generate a first audible sound in response to the first electrical signal, and generate a second audible sound in response to the second electrical signal.
US07994905B2
There is provided an exemplary tire pressure monitoring (TPM) system that can use a half-duplex wireless link to communicate between one or more wheel-mounted sensor units and a vehicle-mounted transceiver unit. The half-duplex wireless link enables the sensor units to report sensor readings to the transceiver unit, and it enables the transceiver unit to make configuration changes to the sensor units for improved communication. Some examples of wireless settings that can be modified include modulation settings, data encoding/decoding settings, error correction settings, and transmission power settings.
US07994898B2
Portable devices, methods, and systems for controlling access to computers and other secure systems such as systems protecting secure premises, by processing data supplied by the individual seeking access to the system and data supplied by the system to which the prospective user seeks access, to determine whether access by the individual is to be authorized or enabled. In one embodiment the invention provides a device for providing a code that may be used to access a system such as a computer or security system. The device comprises an output device and at least one processor. The processor processes data representing a biometric characteristic of a prospective user of the system and a signal provided by the system, and, depending upon a result of the processing, provides to the output device a code that may be used to access the system.
US07994896B2
A moveable barrier system includes a loop detector for providing an electrical field. The electrical field has an associated base frequency. The base frequency changes when a vehicle enters the loop detector and the loop detector detects this change. A transmitter device is positioned at the vehicle. The transmitter detects the base frequency of the electrical field as the vehicle becomes positioned in proximity to the loop detector. The transmitter responsively transmits a coded signal to a moveable barrier operator when the base frequency is detected. The coded signal is operable to actuate the moveable barrier operator.
US07994894B2
A varistor having a favorable heat-dissipating property is provided.In the varistor, a composite part having a favorable heat-dissipating property formed by a composite material composed of ZnO and Ag is arranged between main faces of a varistor matrix. Therefore, the heat transmitted from a semiconductor light-emitting device to a varistor part through an outer electrode can rapidly be transferred toward a main face on the opposite side through the composite part. In this varistor, side faces excluding inner side faces are exposed at side faces of the varistor matrix. Such a structure yields a favorable heat-dissipating property.
US07994891B2
Improved inductive electronic apparatus and methods for manufacturing the same. In one exemplary embodiment, the apparatus comprises an inductive device module comprising N inductors and N+1 core elements. The core elements comprise ferrite core pieces that are optionally identical to one another. These core elements are stacked (e.g., in a longitudinal coaxial arrangement) such that the back of one core element associated with a first inductor provides a magnetic flux path for a second inductor. Form-less (bonded) windings are also optionally used to simplify the manufacture of the device, reduce its cost, and allow it to be made more compact (or alternatively additional functionality to be disposed therein). One variant utilizes a termination header for mating to a PCB or other assembly, while another totally avoids the use of the header by directly mating to the PCB.
US07994884B2
An electromagnetic relay includes: a casing formed with an opening; a relay core member adapted for generating an electromagnetic field and inserted into the casing through the opening; an actuating set that is inserted into the relay core member, that is exposed from the casing, and that can be driven by a magnetic attraction force attributed to the electromagnetic field; a terminal set disposed on the casing and adapted to be actuated by the actuating set to thereby act as a switch mechanism; and a housing accommodating the casing, the relay core member, the actuating set and the terminal set.
US07994882B2
A single pole module of a circuit breaker is disclosed. The housing includes a first portion and a second portion, and an interior wall separating the first portion from the second portion. The first portion includes a first section receiving a circuit board and a second section receiving a lever mechanism. The second portion includes a first section receiving an electromagnetic protection device, a second section receiving an arc extinguishing device, a third section receiving a thermal protection device, and a fourth section receiving an operating mechanism. The first and second sections of the first portion occupy substantially half of the housing and the first, second, third and fourth sections of the second portion occupy substantially half of the housing and the second section of the first portion and the third section of the second portion are opposite each other.
US07994880B2
An energy transferring system including a source-side resonator, an intermediate resonant module, and a device-side resonator is provided. The three resonators substantially have the same resonant frequency for generating resonance. The energy on the source-side resonator is coupled to the intermediate resonant module, such that non-radiative energy transfer is performed between the source-side resonator and the intermediate resonant module. The energy coupled to the intermediate resonant module is further coupled to the device-side resonator, such that non-radiative energy transfer is performed between the intermediate resonant module and the device-side resonator to achieve energy transfer between the source-side resonator and the device-side resonator. The coupling coefficient between the intermediate resonant module and its two adjacent resonators is larger than the coupling coefficient between the source-side resonator and the device-side resonator. The invention has the advantages of high transmission efficiency, small volume, low cost.
US07994875B2
The present invention discloses a tri-frequency duplexer circuit and multi-frequency duplexer circuit. The tri-frequency duplexer circuit comprises a microstrip line circuit, two first mushrooms, two second mushrooms and two third mushrooms. The microstrip line circuit comprises a first Input/Output (I/O) port, a second I/O port, a third I/O port and a fourth I/O port. The two first mushrooms are respectively disposed at transmission line paths between the first I/O port and the second I/O port and between the first I/O port and the third I/O port. The two second mushrooms are respectively disposed at transmission line paths between the first I/O port and the second I/O port and between the first I/O port and the fourth I/O port. The two third mushrooms are respectively disposed at transmission line paths between the first I/O port and the third I/O port and between the first I/O port and the fourth I/O port.
US07994871B2
A chip on film (COF) trace routing method for EMI reduction includes: providing a flexible circuit board; mounting a chip that has a first signal pad, a second signal pad and a ground pad on the flexible circuit board; and forming a first signal trace, a second signal trace, a first ground trace and a second ground trace on the flexible circuit board. The first signal trace and the second signal trace are electrically connected to the first signal pad and the second signal pad respectively. The first ground trace and the second ground trace are both electrically connected to the ground pad. The first signal trace and the second signal trace are disposed between the first ground trace and the second ground trace. The first ground trace and the second ground trace are immediately adjacent to the first signal trace and the second signal trace respectively.
US07994865B1
An amplifier and a method for converting a single ended signal to an amplified differential signal. The amplifier comprises an input configured to receive a single ended signal, a differential amplifier that outputs an amplified differential signal based on the single ended signal, and a compensator coupled to the differential amplifier and configured to inject an adjusted distortion compensating signal based on the even order distortion signal to compensate for a distortion in the amplified differential signal. The method comprises receiving a single ended signal, converting the single ended signal to an amplified differential signal, and generating a distortion compensating signal to substantially cancel an even order distortion signal injected to the differential signal by the converting.
US07994852B2
An electronic circuit includes: a circuit generating first and second balanced differential input signals; a first envelope detection circuit including a first output terminal and first and second input terminals receiving the first and second input signals, respectively, via first and second impedance elements, respectively, and outputs from the first output terminal a first output signal that is the sum of the squares of the first and second input signals; a second envelope detection circuit including a second output terminal and third and fourth input terminals receiving the first and second input signals, respectively, via third and fourth impedance elements, respectively, and outputs from the second output terminal a second output signal that is twice the value obtained by squaring the average of the first and second input signals; and a differential circuit generating a differential signal from the first and second output signals.
US07994850B2
A discrete time analog filter suitable for use in a receiver and other electronics devices is described herein. In one exemplary design, an apparatus may include a transconductance amplifier, a sampler, and a discrete time analog filter. The transconductance amplifier may amplify a voltage input signal and provide an analog signal. The sampler may sample the analog signal and provide analog samples at a sampling rate. The discrete time analog filter may filter the analog samples and provide filtered analog samples either at the sampling rate for a non-decimating filter or at an output rate that is lower than the sampling rate for a decimating filter. The discrete time analog filter may also filter the analog samples with either equal weights for a rectangular filter or at least two different weights for a weighted filter.
US07994844B2
A multiple-stage charge pump circuit comprises first and second pump capacitors, first and second transfer circuits, first and second driving circuits, and a charge recycle circuit. The first pump capacitor, the first transfer circuit, and the first driving circuit form a first stage circuit, and the second pump capacitor, the second transfer circuit and the second driving circuit form a second stage circuit. The first and the second stage circuits operate 180 degree out of phase with each other. The charge recycle circuit transfers the charge at the second end of the first pump capacitor to the second end of the second pump capacitor in a first time interval, and transferring the charge at the second end of the second pump capacitor to the second end of the first pump capacitor in a second time interval.
US07994834B2
A duty cycle corrector includes a delay unit configured to adjust an input clock and an inverted input clock with a delay value controlled in response to one or more control signals and to generate a positive clock and a negative clock, and a duty detector configured to receive the positive clock and the negative clock, to detect duty ratios of the positive clock and the negative clock and to generate the one or more control signals.
US07994823B2
A flip-flop circuit having a scan function includes an internal clock generator to receive a clock signal, a scan enable signal, and a first input signal, and to output an internal timing signal based on each of the clock signal, the scan enable signal, and the first input signal. The circuit includes a dynamic input unit to receive a second input signal, the scan enable signal, a first timing signal, and the internal timing signal, and to output a first output signal. The circuit also includes a static output unit to receive the first timing signal and the first output signal and to output a static output signal, and the dynamic input unit outputs the first output signal corresponding to one of the first input signal and the second input signal, respectively, based on a status of the scan enable signal.
US07994822B2
The performance of a whole system is improved by synchronizing communication and computations between stacked computing LSIs. Each of stacked an external communication LSI and a computing LSI has a PLL which multiplies a crystal oscillator clock signal, a clock pulse generator which distributes the clock signal, and flip-flop circuits. The computing LSI has a DLL circuit composed of a clock phase comparator, a delay controller, and a delay chain. In order to synchronize the communication and computations of the external communication LSI and the computing LSI, a synchronization reference clock signal is transmitted from the external communication LSI to the computing LSI via a through-electrode. An internal clock signal of the computing LSI is synchronized with the synchronization reference clock signal from the external communication LSI by the DLL circuit.
US07994821B1
A level shifter circuit includes first and second transistors coupled in series and third and fourth transistors coupled in series. The fourth transistor is coupled to a first node between the first and the second transistors. The level shifter circuit also includes fifth and sixth transistors coupled in series and seventh and eighth transistors coupled in series. The eighth transistor is coupled to a second node between the fifth and the sixth transistors. The second and the eighth transistors receive a first input signal at control inputs. The fourth and the sixth transistors receive a second input signal at control inputs. The second input signal is inverted relative to the first input signal.
US07994816B1
The present invention provides a DQS bus for implementing high speed multiple-data-rate interface architectures in programmable logic devices. The DQS bus has a balanced tree structure between at least one data strobe circuit and a plurality of I/O register blocks.
US07994813B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of pads, where an external reference resistor is connected to a first one of the pads, an impedance calibrating unit configured to generate an impedance calibration code corresponding to an impedance of the reference resistor and output the impedance calibration code to a code transmitting line during a normal operating mode, and an impedance matching unit configured to perform an impedance matching operation in response to the impedance calibration code during the normal operating mode. The impedance calibrating unit is configured to output a test code to the code transmitting line in response to a test signal during a test operating mode. The impedance matching unit is configured to serialize the test code to output the serialized test code to each of the other pads in response to the test signal during the test operating mode.
US07994808B2
A system for testing a microcircuit having a center ground (CG) terminal has an insert for electrically connecting the CG terminal to a ground contact on a load board. The insert is held within a housing by compression and frictional interaction between a resilient projection carried by the insert and a slot in a wall of an aperture holding the insert.
US07994803B2
A calibration substrate includes a plurality of input terminals, a detector coupled to the input terminals, and an output terminal. The calibration substrate can be used for calibrating and/or deskewing communications channels.
US07994796B2
The subject matter relates to a circuit arrangement for monitoring the function of a fill level measuring apparatus, and particularly of a vibration level switch, including a first piezo-electric vibration device as a transmitting device, a second piezo-electric vibration device as a receiving device, an oscillator circuit, the input and output of which during normal operation are connected to the vibration devices, the second connections of which devices are at common ground potential, and a monitoring circuit for monitoring the function. The monitoring circuit has a switch element for temporarily connecting the first and second vibration devices in parallel to each other and for connecting the vibration devices, which are connected in parallel to each other, in series to a capacitance measuring apparatus during a temporary monitoring mode according to a first embodiment, a capacitance value (c) being supplied by the monitoring circuit as an indicator of the function of the vibration devices and/or of lines to the vibration devices.
US07994787B2
An MRI apparatus is provided in which a heat quantity penetrating into the helium tank of a superconducting magnet can be grasped to select a cryo-cooler to be incorporated, whereby consumption of liquid helium is suppressed and a static magnetic field is generated stably. The superconducting magnet includes a superconducting coil, containers 209 and 203 for accommodating the superconducting coil and a refrigerant, a cooler 208 for liquefy gas once again, the gas having been obtained by vaporizing the refrigerant in the containers, and a means for measuring the amount of vaporized refrigerant, while keeping the pressure in the containers at a constant level. The heat quantity penetrating into the containers and the coolability of the cooler are measured accurately, thereby enabling a combination in which the coolability of the cooler to be combined has capacity more than the heat penetration amount.
US07994786B2
This invention provides a system and method that improves the sensitivity and localization capabilities of Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) by using combinations of time-varying and static magnetic fields. Combinations of magnetic fields can be used to distribute the signals coming from the magnetic particles among the harmonics and other frequencies in specific ways to improve sensitivity and to provide localization information to speed up or improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of imaging and/or eliminate the need for saturation fields currently used in MPI. In various embodiments, coils can be provided to extend the sub-saturation region in which nanoparticles reside; to provide a static field offset to bring nanoparticles nearer to saturation; to introduce even and odd harmonics that can be observed; and/or to introduce combinations of frequencies for more-defined observation of signals from nanoparticles. Further embodiments provide for reading of the signal produced by cyclically saturated magnetic nanoparticles in a sample so as to provide a measurement of the temperature of those nanoparticles. The spectral distribution of the signal generated provides estimates of the temperature of the nanoparticles. Related factors may also be estimated—binding energies of the nanoparticles, phase changes, bound fraction of the particles or stiffness of the materials in which the nanoparticles are imbedded.
US07994785B2
A method for measuring the apparent transverse relaxation time (“T*2”) and apparent diffusion coefficient (“ADC”) of a hyperpolarized gas in a single breath-hold and consequently, with a single dose of the hyperpolarized gas contrast agent, is provided. The method employs a multiple-echo projection acquisition based pulse sequence. Individual images are reconstructed from data acquired during each of the individual echo times. Subsequently, T*2 and ADC are calculated using these reconstructed images. Furthermore, the method produces images indicative of ADC that have isotropic resolution, allowing for more reliable image registration. The inter-echo spacing and diffusion weighting b-value are varied during the pulse sequence employed when practicing the present invention; thus, a significant separation between the effects of diffusion and T*2 decay on the detected MR signals is possible. This separation allows for reliable measurements of these two parameters from a single echo-train.
US07994784B2
A method for scaling MR signal intensity after noise has been removed is disclosed. Because the signal in a DTI series varies with the apparent diffusivity in the direction of an applied gradient, one can multiply image data collected under actual clinical conditions with a spatially-dependent scaling function to synthesize different spatial diffusion distributions, after removal of noise. Recombination of the data with the removed noise preserves the bias in the system.
US07994774B2
A sensor includes a magnetic position sensing element to generate angular position information, a first signal generator, a second signal generator, a first inverter to invert the first waveform for providing a first inverted waveform and a second inverter to invert the second waveform for providing a second inverted waveform, wherein the first and second waveforms are inverted about an offset voltage, and an analog signal processing module to generate a linear output signal from the first waveform, the second waveform, the first inverted waveform, and the second inverted waveform.
US07994766B2
A current sensor having a pair of sense transistors is disclosed. The sense transistors sense a current conducted by a power transistor of a voltage regulator. The ratio in size between the power transistor and the sense transistors corresponds to a scaling factor M. Each sense transistor has an associated series connected sense resistor. The two sense resistors are unbalanced and provide a differential voltage based on the sensed current at the sense transistor to a transconductor. The transconductor has heavy emitter degeneration to provide an output current substantially proportional to the current conducted by the primary power transistor, the proportion determined by the scaling factor M and a ratio of the emitter degeneration and sense resistors.
US07994761B2
A regulator comprising a linear regulator. The linear regulator may comprise a preamplifier, a first radio frequency (RF) transistor and a second radio frequency (RF) transistor. An output of the preamplifier stage may be provided to a biasing terminal of the first RF transistor and a biasing terminal of the second RF transistor. Also, the first and second RF transistors may be electrically connected in series between a positive supply voltage and a negative supply voltage.
US07994760B2
A boost regulator system for regulating one or more output voltages includes, a first pump element coupled to receive a first input voltage, a first switching device coupled to the first pump element, the first switching device causing a finite amount of energy to be stored in the first pump element in response to a first control signal. The system further includes, a first capacitor coupled to the first pump element and the first switching device, the first capacitor storing the finite amount of energy and generating a first output voltage in response to the finite amount of energy. A boost controller (BC) coupled to receive the first output voltage, the boost controller further configured to regulate the first output voltage by generating the first control signal. The system further includes, a second switching device coupled to a second capacitor, the second switching device further causing a second voltage to develop across the second capacitor in response to a second control signal, a third capacitor coupled to the first pump element and the second switching device, the third capacitor further generating a third output voltage in response to the finite amount of energy, and a linear controller (LC) coupled to receive the third output voltage, the BC further configured to regulate the third output voltage by generating the second control signal.
US07994756B2
A power distribution circuit for use in a personal telecommunications device comprises a switched mode power supply configured to convert an input voltage and current from an energy source into an output voltage and current, a plurality of series-connected charge storage components arranged to be charged by the output voltage and a charge balancing circuit configured to substantially equalise voltages across each of the charge storage components, wherein the charge balancing circuit comprises a charge pump.
US07994748B2
The object of the present invention is provide a drive control system of an electric vehicle that can prevent overshoot of the amount of slip. The drive control system of the electric vehicle includes: a motor to drive a driving wheel; a PDU; a number-of-revolution sensor that detects the number of revolutions of the motor; a grip number of revolutions calculating device for calculating the current grip number of revolutions of the motor; a motor power limiting value calculating portion and a conversion portion that determines the limiting torque value of the motor; and a driving torque determining portion that determines the driving torque of the motor.
US07994747B2
A clamping circuit is included in a phased motor control circuit, particularly on an electrical connection connected to at least one electrostatic discharge cell and/or the driver control electronics of the phased motor control circuit. The clamping circuit triggers when a voltage that exceeds a clamping turn-on threshold occurs on the electrical connector, sourcing or sinking the discharge current so as to protect the electrostatic discharge cells and/or driver control electronics from destruction by said discharge current.
US07994744B2
The present invention relates to a method and a circuit of controlling a speed of a brushless motor of a ceiling fan. The circuit includes a motor PWM duty consumption sampling unit and a motor speed sampling to sense a PWM duty and a speed of the brushless motor. A central processing unit is provided to compare the PWM duty and the speed of the brushless motor to a preset maximum PWM duty and a preset maximum speed. When the PWM duty reaches to the preset maximum PWM duty first, the central processing unit sets the current speed to be a maximum speed, and speeds of each level are calculated according to the maximum speed. If the speed reaches to the preset maximum speed first, a constant-speed control will take over to control the brushless motor, and speeds of each level are according to the preset speeds.
US07994743B2
A device is proposed for moving a first furniture part relative to a second furniture part, using a drive unit, by means of which the first furniture part, can be moved in a driven manner relative to the second furniture part via a monitoring unit for monitoring the movement of the first furniture part. According to the invention, the monitoring unit is designed to render the automatic closing inoperative for positioning the first furniture part, in an open position, from which the first furniture part, returns automatically to a closed position after a predetermined closing time interval.
US07994742B2
A position sensing system includes a member movable along a path, the member having an elongated magnet extending along the path, the magnetic field orientation of the elongated magnet being at an angle with respect to the path. A sensor determines a position of the member along the path based on a measurement of a magnetic field generated by the elongated magnet.
US07994735B1
A solar-controlled light device with a circuit-control having a phototransistor, a first resistor, and a first transistor connected to a storage unit, to a solar cell, and to a current-control. The current-control has a transformer, a second resistor, and a second transistor, connected at one end of the current-control to a light and at another end connected to the circuit-control, wherein the current-control senses the amount of power and boost the power as needed to a sufficient level to power the lights.
US07994734B2
A circuit arrangement for operating a discharge lamp, wherein the circuit arrangement comprises a commutation device, which has an input which is coupled to a DC source, and has an output which can be coupled to a discharge lamp. The commutation device is designed in such a way that it couples the DC source to the output, and the polarity at which the DC source is coupled to the output can be commutated by a control device. The control device has a sync input, and the polarity of the DC source is commutated in synchronism with sync pulses of a sync signal which can be applied at the sync input. The control device has a measuring input, which is coupled to a measuring device which is designed to provide a measured value which is a measure of the size of electrode peaks. The control device suppresses at least one commutation if the measured value overshoots or undershoots a predetermined threshold value.
US07994724B2
An inductive plasma applicator comprises a ferromagnetic inductively coupled source and an electrode with a hole pattern centered with respect to the plasma source. Such plasma applicator provides an efficient energy transfer to the plasma. The plasma applicator is preferably manufactured using a technology for producing electrical circuits. The electrode and a coil of the ferromagnetic inductively coupled plasma source are metal track portions formed on an insulating substrate. For example, the plasma applicator is manufactured using printed circuit board technology.
US07994718B2
A plasma display panel including a front panel including front glass substrate, a display electrode formed on the substrate, a dielectric layer covering the display electrode, a protective layer formed on the dielectric layer, and a rear panel facing the front panel so that a discharge space is formed. Further, the rear panel includes an address electrode formed in a direction intersecting the display electrode, and a barrier rib partitioning the discharge space. The protective layer includes a base film on the dielectric layer and aggregated particles of a plurality of aggregated metal oxide crystal particles attached to the base film, such that the aggregated metal oxide crystal particles are distributed over an entire surface. Specifically, the aggregated particles have a distribution of peak intensity values in a spectrum in a wavelength range of not less than 200 nm and not more than 300 nm of a cathode luminescence within 240% of a cumulative average value.
US07994717B2
A high-luminance plasma display panel has a plurality of discharge cells including a phosphor film emitting visible rays by excitation caused by ultraviolet light generated by the discharge of a discharge gas. The phosphor film has at least two layers of a phosphor layer and a reflecting layer, and the phosphor layer is arranged closer to the discharge space side than the reflecting layer. A film thickness Wt of the phosphor film is 40 μm or less, and a film thickness Wp of the phosphor layer, a particle diameter dp of a phosphor that is at least a part of components of the phosphor layer, a film thickness Wr of the reflecting layer, and a particle diameter dr of a reflecting material that is at least a part of components of the reflecting layer satisfy 2dp≦Wp≦5dp and 2dr≦Wr≦Wt−Wp.
US07994716B2
In the present invention, an organic EL device, which includes first and second display electrodes and at least one organic functional layer sandwiched between the respective display electrodes and composed of an organic compound, a high-molecular compound film covering the organic EL device and a surface of a substrate in the periphery of the organic EL device, an inorganic barrier film covering the high-molecular compound film, the edge of the high-molecular compound film, and a surface of the substrate in the periphery of the high-molecular compound film are formed on the substrate. In this case, a aliphatic polyurea film is used as the high-molecular compound film.
US07994712B2
An organic light emitting device includes a first pixel displaying a first color, a second pixel adjacent to the first pixel and displaying a second color, and a third pixel adjacent to the first pixel or the second pixel and displaying a third color, wherein the first pixel includes a first and second subpixel units that output respective lights having different color characteristics.
US07994709B2
An interconnection arrangement for interconnecting a high-current carrying cable with a metal thin-film (3, 4) on a transparent and insulating substrate (1). According to the invention the high-current carrying cable is designed as a flat cable (5) and the inter-connection between the flat cable and the metal thin-film (3, 4) is an ultrasonic weld joint (6a, 7a).
US07994698B2
An electron emitting device includes an amorphous electron supply layer, an insulating layer formed on the electron supply layer, and an electrode formed on the insulating layer. The electron emits device emitting electrons when an electric field is applied between the electron supply layer and the electrode. The electron emitting device includes a concave portion provided by notching the electrode and the insulating layer to expose the electron supply layer, and a carbon layer covering the electrode and the concave portion except for an inner portion of an exposed surface 4a of the electron supply layer and being in contact with an edge portion of the exposed surface of the electron supply layer.
US07994697B2
A light emission device includes a vacuum chamber including a first substrate, a second substrate spaced from and facing the first substrate, and a sealing member between the first substrate and the second substrate. An electron emission unit is on the first substrate, the electron emission unit including a plurality of electron emission elements. A light emission unit is on the second substrate, the light emission unit including a phosphor layer. A barrier is spaced from the sealing member between the first substrate and the second substrate. At least one stud pin is fixed on at least one of the sealing member and the barrier and a getter unit is attached to the at least one stud pin, the getter unit fixed between the sealing member and the barrier.
US07994686B2
The present invention generally provides devices and methods involving electrochemical actuation. The devices may comprise at least one component capable of exhibiting a volumetric or dimensional change upon application of a voltage. In some cases, the volumetric or dimensional change may produce mechanical work. Some embodiments of the invention may provide devices capable of exhibiting high actuation rates and supporting high amounts of stress (e.g., in tensile and/or compressive loading). In some embodiments, the present invention may provide morphing structures that may be useful in applications such as airfoils.
US07994684B2
An automotive generator that includes a Lundell rotor. First and second protruding portions are disposed so as to project from inner wall surfaces of portions of first and second yoke portions at root portions of first and second claw-shaped magnetic pole portions, and first and second recess portions are recessed into inner wall surfaces of portions of the first and second yoke portions that face the second and first protruding portions. In addition, a shape of a region in which the field coil is disposed is configured into a wave shape that has a cross-sectional shape in a plane that includes a central axis of the pole core that is approximately constant in a circumferential direction and that zigzags alternately in an axial direction at positions of each of the first and second claw-shaped magnetic pole portions.
US07994679B2
Stator for use in an electrical machine. A non-magnetic support frame section and a non-magnetic axial coil support are used to provide an air gap stator configuration. The present stators provide an air gap winding configuration that facilitates the fixing of stator coils in the air gap. The stator coils are located near the surface of the magnetic back iron and are separated from adjacent coils by non-magnetic structure.
US07994674B2
A flux-focused, shaped permanent magnet includes a body of magnetic material having multiple surface contouring to form a reduced flux side with convex surfaces and an increased flux side with concave surfaces. The surfaces develop high and low resistance external flux paths creating focused asymmetric flux fields. A magnetic unit having the shaped permanent magnet and a magnetic flux attracter or two shaped permanent magnets interconnected by two segmented permanent magnets and a kinetic device having a stationary stator ring, a rotor disc rotating within the stator ring and a multiplicity of the magnetic units on the stator ring and the rotor disc, are also provided.
US07994662B2
The innovation relates to systems and methodologies for facilitating and/or enhancing heat transfer in a stage machine employed in an industrial or manufacturing environment. A thermal block and thermal rail combination and/or a thermal block and bearing rail combination draw accumulated heat away from a source of heat generated within the stage machine, and such combinations conduct the heat to a base of the stage machine. Each type of combination is conductively coupled such that the conductive coupling facilitates the translation or movement of the stage while maintaining contact to facilitate the conduction through the thermal block and thermal rail of the stage machine. The removal of the heat from the source of the heat or the accumulation of the heat within the stage machine system prevents distortion of the machine or products being manufactured or measured by the machine from the heat.
US07994657B2
An apparatus and method for supplying energy to a load includes an energy recharge unit, an energy storage unit, an energy converter connected to the energy recharge unit, the energy converter being capable of transferring energy at a power level from the energy recharge unit to an output node, the power level being determined by a power transfer controller, and a bi-directional energy converter connected to the energy storage unit and to the output node. The bi-directional energy converter is capable of converting energy of varying voltages from the energy storage unit to energy of varying current levels to supplement the transferred energy with energy from the energy storage unit so as to maintain a constant voltage on the output node. The bi-directional energy converter is capable of converting the transferred energy to provide charging energy to the energy storage unit when the transferred energy exceeds a demand level of the load while maintaining the constant voltage at the output node.
US07994655B2
A method of providing mechanical assistance to the onset of heart-pumping activity includes selecting anatomical structure adjacent the heart which may be stimulated to produce in the selected anatomical structure motion which may be delivered as driving force to the heart in relation to heart-pumping activity; control-stimulating that selected anatomical structure in a pre-determined timed relationship with respect to the normal, expected, heart-pumping onset; and by such stimulating, and utilizing the selected anatomical structure, drivingly assisting the heart-pumping onset activity.
US07994654B2
A wireless-controlled power-saving apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus particularly includes a power-saving control strip and a wireless power-detection controller. The power-saving control strip has a master socket and at least one slave socket to be controlled. The strip further includes a receptacle for containing the wireless power-detection controller. More, the wireless power-detection controller connects to an external host for detecting the performance thereof. When the external host boots up, the wireless power-detection controller controls the slave socket to be powered. Or otherwise, when the external host shuts down, the wireless power-detection controller controls the slave socket to be disconnected. Thus the invention achieves the sockets mounted on the power-saving control strip to function a wireless master-slave-correlation operation.
US07994653B2
One aspect provides a pluggable power management module, comprising a module housing having input and output pluggable connectors extending therefrom configured to be couplable to a corresponding input and output terminals of a conventional, generic distribution panel, a controller interface located on or within the module housing and couplable to a controller, and a sensor located within the module housing and coupled to the controller interface and configured to produce a signal to the controller, that determines that a minimum or maximum threshold voltage or current of a source/load coupled to the pluggable power management module has been reached based on the signal.
US07994652B2
The present invention relates to a method of increasing the output of a wind turbine, wherein one or more flow surfaces are placed at a wind turbine. At lower wind speeds, the flow surfaces are set to guide the wind up towards and/or out from the rotor of the wind turbine and hence use the venturi effect in the rotor to advantage. At higher wind speeds, the flow surfaces are completely or partially taken out of the flow of the wind. Moreover, the flow surfaces can be adjusted around the wind turbine based on measurements of the speed of the wind and direction of the wind and/or the power signal of the wind turbine. The invention further relates to a system comprising one or more flow surfaces and means for adjusting same to the effect that the output of a wind turbine can be maximized by using the venturi effect to advantage as described above.
US07994644B2
A packaged microelectronic element includes a package element that further includes a dielectric element having a bottom face and a top face, first and second bond windows extending between the top and bottom faces, a plurality of chip contacts disposed at the top face adjacent to the first and second bond windows, and first and second sets of package contacts exposed at diagonally opposite corner regions of the top face, wherein the first and second sets conductively connected to the chip contacts. There is also a microelectronic element adjacent to the bottom face of the dielectric element, as well as bond wires extending through the first and second bond windows to conductively connect the microelectronic element to the chip contacts.
US07994631B1
A substrate for an integrated circuit package is disclosed. The substrate comprises a core comprising a first dielectric layer having a first thickness; conductive traces formed on the first dielectric layer for routing signals within the integrated circuit package, wherein the conductive traces have a second thickness; and a substrate support structure comprising conductive traces formed on the first dielectric layer, where the conductive traces of the substrate support structure have a third thickness which is greater than the second thickness. A method of forming an integrated circuit package is also disclosed.
US07994630B2
According to one embodiment, a power transistor package includes an electrically conductive flange configured to be connected to a source of a power transistor device. The package further includes a first terminal mechanically fastened to the flange and configured to be electrically connected to a gate of the power transistor device and a second terminal mechanically fastened to the flange and configured to be electrically connected to a drain of the power transistor device. The package also includes a bus bar mechanically fastened to the flange which extends between and connects at least two different DC bias terminals mechanically fastened to the flange. The bus bar is configured to be electrically connected to the drain via one or more RF grounded connections.
US07994624B2
An integrated circuit package system includes attaching an adhesive segment spacer to an interposer assembly; mounting an integrated circuit over a carrier; mounting the interposer assembly over the integrated circuit with the adhesive segment spacer exposing an inner region of the integrated circuit and covering a periphery of the integrated circuit; and forming an encapsulation over the integrated circuit, the interposer assembly, and the adhesive segment spacer with the interposer assembly exposed with a recess in the encapsulation.
US07994623B2
A semiconductor device where multiple chips of identical design can be stacked, and the spacer and interposer eliminated, to improve three-dimensional coupling information transmission capability. A first semiconductor circuit including a three-dimensional coupling circuit (three-dimensional coupling transmission terminal group and three-dimensional coupling receiver terminal group); and a second semiconductor integrated circuit including a three-dimensional coupling circuit and feed-through electrode (power supply via hole and ground via hole); and a third semiconductor integrated circuit including a three-dimensional coupling circuit and feed-through electrode are stacked on the package substrate.
US07994622B2
Packaged microelectronic elements are provided which include a dielectric element, a cavity, a plurality of chip contacts and a plurality of package contacts, and microelectronic elements having a plurality of bond pads connected to the chip contacts.
US07994620B2
A stacked semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor element bonded on a circuit base. The first semiconductor element is electrically connected to a connection part of the circuit base via a first bonding wire. A second semiconductor element is bonded on the first semiconductor element via a second adhesive layer with a thickness of 50 μm or more. The second adhesive layer is formed of an insulating resin layer whose glass transition temperature is 135° C. or higher and whose coefficient of linear expansion at a temperature equal to or lower than the glass transition temperature is 100 ppm or less.
US07994599B2
Device for the detection of electromagnetic waves with a first plate that contains a membrane and a detector structure fixed at least partially to the membrane, a second plate attached to the first plate, at least one contact point for surface mount technology on the first and/or second plate, whereby in a connection line between the detector structure and the contact point is at least partially led through the first and/or the second plate and that this connection line is at least partially prepared by film deposition and/or plating.
US07994596B2
An MTJ memory cell and/or an array of such cells is provided wherein each such cell has a small circular horizontal cross-section of 1.0 microns or less in diameter and wherein the ferromagnetic free layer of each such cell has a magnetic anisotropy produced by a magnetic coupling with a thin antiferromagnetic layer that is formed on the free layer. The MTJ memory cell so provided is far less sensitive to shape irregularities and edge defects than cells of the prior art.
US07994591B2
Disclosed are a semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same. The semiconductor device includes a gate structure which includes a silicon oxynitride (SiON) layer formed on a semiconductor substrate, a hafnium silicon oxynitride (HfSiON) layer formed on the silicon oxynitride (SiON) layer, a polysilicon layer formed on the hafnium silicon oxynitride (HfSiON) layer, and a silicide layer formed on the polysilicon layer, spacers at sidewalls of the gate structure, and source and drain regions at opposite sides of the gate structure.
US07994589B2
A seal ring structure is formed through a multilayer structure of a plurality of dielectric films in a peripheral part of a chip region to surround the chip region. A dual damascene interconnect in which an interconnect and a plug connected to the interconnect are integrated is formed in at least one of the dielectric films in the chip region. Part of the seal ring structure formed in the dielectric film in which the dual damascene interconnect is formed is continuous. A protection film formed on the multilayer structure has an opening on the seal ring. A cap layer connected to the seal ring is formed in the opening.
US07994582B2
In a stacked load-less static random access memory (SRAM) device in which a pair of transmission transistors is stacked on a pair of driving transistors, the stacked load-less SRAM device includes first and second transistors arranged in first and second active regions separately on a semiconductor substrate and third and fourth transistors arranged on first and second semiconductor layers over the first and second transistors. A first drain region of the first transistor, a third drain region of the third transistor, and a second gate of the second transistor are electrically connected through a first contact node. A second drain region of the second transistor, a fourth drain region of the fourth transistor, and a first gate of the first transistor are electrically connected through a second contact node.
US07994575B2
A method for fabricating a metal-oxide-semiconductor device structure. The method includes introducing a dopant species concurrently into a semiconductor active layer that overlies an insulating layer and a gate electrode overlying the semiconductor active layer by ion implantation. The thickness of the semiconductor active layer, the thickness of the gate electrode, and the kinetic energy of the dopant species are chosen such that the projected range of the dopant species in the semiconductor active layer and insulating layer lies within the insulating layer and a projected range of the dopant species in the gate electrode lies within the gate electrode. As a result, the semiconductor active layer and the gate electrode may be doped simultaneously during a single ion implantation and without the necessity of an additional implant mask.
US07994568B2
A vertical transistor of a semiconductor device and a method for forming the same are disclosed. The vertical transistor comprises a silicon fin disposed on a semiconductor substrate, a source region disposed in the semiconductor substrate below a lower portion of the silicon fin, a drain region disposed in an upper portion of the silicon fin, a channel region disposed in a sidewall of the silicon fin between the source region and the drain region, a gate oxide film disposed in a surface of the semiconductor substrate and the sidewall of the silicon fin, and a pair of gate electrodes disposed on the gate oxide films.
US07994561B2
A semiconductor device for preventing the leaning of storage nodes and a method of manufacturing the same is described. The semiconductor device includes support patterns that are formed to support a plurality of cylinder type storage nodes. The support patterns are formed of a BN layer and have a hexagonal structure. The BN layer forming the support patterns has compressive stress as opposed to tensile stress and can therefore withstand cracking in the support patterns.
US07994560B2
An integrated circuit includes a substrate and at least one active region. A transistor produced in the active region separated from the substrate. This transistor includes a source or drain first region and a drain or source second region which are connected by a channel. A gate structure is position on top of said channel and operates to control the channel. The gate structure is formed in a trench whose sidewalls have a shape which converges (narrows) in the width dimension towards the substrate. A capacitor is also formed having a first electrode, a second electrode and a dielectric layer between the electrodes. This capacitor is also formed in a trench. An electrode line is connected to the first electrode of the capacitor. The second electrode of the capacitor is formed in a layer shared in common with at least part of the drain or source second region of the transistor. A bit line is located beneath the gate structure. The integrated circuit may, for example, be a DRAM memory cell.
US07994557B2
Non-volatile memory cells employing a transition metal oxide layer as a data storage material layer are provided. The non-volatile memory cells include a lower and upper electrodes overlapped with each other. A transition metal oxide layer pattern is provided between the lower and upper electrodes. The transition metal oxide layer pattern is represented by a chemical formula MxOy. In the chemical formula, the characters “M”, “O”, “x” and “y” indicate transition metal, oxygen, a transitional metal composition and an oxygen composition, respectively. The transition metal oxide layer pattern has excessive transition metal content in comparison to a stabilized transition metal oxide layer pattern. Methods of fabricating the non-volatile memory cells are also provided.
US07994556B2
A semiconductor memory device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a field effect transistor formed on the semiconductor substrate; an interlayer dielectric layer formed on the field effect transistor; a contact plug connected to the field effect transistor through the interlayer dielectric layer; and a ferroelectric capacitor disposed on the interlayer dielectric layer and connected to the contact plug, wherein a contact surface between a lower electrode of the ferroelectric capacitor and the contact plug is smaller than a contact plug surface of the contact plug.
US07994553B2
A complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS)-based planar type avalanche photo diode (APD) using a silicon epitaxial layer and a method of manufacturing the APD, the photo diode including: a substrate; a well layer of a first conductivity type formed in the substrate; an avalanche embedded junction formed in the well layer of the first conductivity type by low energy ion implantation; the silicon epitaxial layer formed in the avalanche embedded junction; a doping area of a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductive type, formed from a portion of a surface of the well layer of the first conductivity type in the avalanche embedded junction and forming a p-n junction; positive and negative electrodes formed on the doping area of the second conductivity type and the well layer of the first conductivity type separated from the doping area of the second conductivity type, respectively; and an oxide layer formed on an overall surface excluding a window where the positive and negative electrodes are formed.
US07994549B2
Provided is an optical device with improved phase shift and propagation loss of light without decreasing the dynamic characteristics of the optical device. The optical device includes a first semiconductor layer which is doped with a first type of conductive impurities and has a uniform thickness; a gate insulating layer which has a shape and is formed on a portion of the first semiconductor layer and has a thin center portion; and a second semiconductor layer which covers an upper surface of the gate insulating layer and is doped with a second type of conductive impurities opposite to the first type of conductive type impurities.
US07994548B2
Semiconductor devices are described wherein current flow in the device is confined between the rectifying junctions (e.g., p-n junctions or metal-semiconductor junctions). The device provides non-punch-through behavior and enhanced current conduction capability. The devices can be power semiconductor devices as such as Junction Field-Effect Transistors (VJFETs), Static Induction Transistors (SITs), Junction Field Effect Thyristors, or JFET current limiters. The devices can be made in wide bandgap semiconductors such as silicon carbide (SiC). According to some embodiments, the device can be a normally-off SiC vertical junction field effect transistor. Methods of making the devices and circuits comprising the devices are also described.
US07994539B2
The present invention relates to a light emitting diode having an AlxGa1−xN buffer layer and a method of fabricating the same, and more particularly, to a light emitting diode having an AlxGa1−xN buffer layer, wherein between a substrate and a GaN-based semiconductor layer, the AlxGa1−xN (0≦x≦1) buffer layer having the composition ratio x of Al decreasing from the substrate to the GaN-based semiconductor layer is interposed to reduce lattice mismatch between the substrate and the GaN-based semiconductor layer, and a method of fabricating the same. To this end, the present invention provides a light emitting diode comprising a substrate; a first conductive semiconductor layer positioned on the substrate; and an AlxGa1−xN (0≦x≦1) buffer layer interposed between the substrate and the first conductive semiconductor layer and having a composition ratio x of Al decreasing from the substrate to the first conductive semiconductor layer.
US07994524B1
A vertical structured Light Emitting Diode (LED) array using wafer level bonding. The process bonds two or more LED arrays vertically to produce light mixing in a small footprint. The vertically bonded LED array contains through substrate vias and a plurality of metal posts coated with solder to form an internal cavity between the LED layers. This LED array structure is intrinsically hermetically sealed.
US07994514B2
One or more circuit elements such as silicon diodes, resistors, capacitors, and inductors are disposed between the semiconductor structure of a semiconductor light emitting device and the connection layers used to connect the device to an external structure. In some embodiments, the n-contacts to the semiconductor structure are distributed across multiple vias, which are isolated from the p-contacts by one or more dielectric layers. The circuit elements are formed in the contacts-dielectric layers-connection layers stack.
US07994513B2
A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a substrate, a drift layer located on a first surface of the substrate, a base region located on the drift layer, a source region located on the base region, a trench sandwiched by each of the base region to the drift layer, a channel layer located in the trench, a gate insulating layer located on the channel layer, a gate electrode located on the gate insulating layer, a source electrode electrically coupled with the source region and the base region, a drain electrode located on a second surface of the substrate, and a deep layer located under the base region and extending to a depth deeper than the trench. The deep layer is formed into a lattice pattern.
US07994512B2
New Group III based diodes are disclosed having a low on state voltage (Vf) and structures to keep reverse current (Irev) relatively low. One embodiment of the invention is Schottky barrier diode made from the GaN material system in which the Fermi level (or surface potential) of is not pinned. The barrier potential at the metal-to-semiconductor junction varies depending on the type of metal used and using particular metals lowers the diode's Schottky barrier potential and results in a Vf in the range of 0.1-0.3V. In another embodiment a trench structure is formed on the Schottky diodes semiconductor material to reduce reverse leakage current. and comprises a number of parallel, equally spaced trenches with mesa regions between adjacent trenches. A third embodiment of the invention provides a GaN tunnel diode with a low Vf resulting from the tunneling of electrons through the barrier potential, instead of over it. This embodiment can also have a trench structure to reduce reverse leakage current.
US07994509B2
Provided is a thin film device and an associated method of making a thin film device. For example, fabrication of an inverter thin film device is described. Moreover, a parallel spaced electrically conductive strips are provided upon a substrate. A functional material is deposited upon the conductive strips. A 3D structure is then provided upon the functional material, the 3D structure having a plurality of different heights, at least one height defining a first portion of the conductive strips to be bundled. The 3D structure and functional material are then etched to define a TFD disposed above the first portion of the conductive strips. The first portion of the conductive strips is bundled adjacent to the TFD.
US07994508B2
The present invention generally comprises TFTs having semiconductor material comprising oxygen, nitrogen, and one or more element selected from the group consisting of zinc, tin, gallium, cadmium, and indium as the active channel. The semiconductor material may be used in bottom gate TFTs, top gate TFTs, and other types of TFTs. The TFTs may be patterned by etching to create both the channel and the metal electrodes. Then, the source-drain electrodes may be defined by dry etching using the semiconductor material as an etch stop layer. The active layer carrier concentration, mobility, and interface with other layers of the TFT can be tuned to predetermined values. The tuning may be accomplished by changing the nitrogen containing gas to oxygen containing gas flow ratio, annealing and/or plasma treating the deposited semiconductor film, or changing the concentration of aluminum doping.
US07994506B2
A semiconductor device having a semiconductor element (a thin film transistor, a thin film diode, a photoelectric conversion element of silicon PIN junction, or a silicon resistor element) which is light-weight, flexible (bendable), and thin as a whole is provided as well as a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device. In the present invention, the element is not formed on a plastic film. Instead, a flat board such as a substrate is used as a form, the space between the substrate (third substrate (17)) and a layer including the element (peeled layer (13)) is filled with coagulant (typically an adhesive) that serves as a second bonding member (16), and the substrate used as a form (third substrate (17)) is peeled off after the adhesive is coagulated to hold the layer including the element (peeled layer (13)) by the coagulated adhesive (second bonding member (16)) alone. In this way, the present invention achieves thinning of the film and reduction in weight.
US07994489B2
The invention relates to a skin tanning chamber, the improvement comprising at least one light emitting diode emitting a UVA light, such as a UVA LED that emits essentially only UVA. Additionally, multiple LEDs of varying types with various characteristic wavelengths are controlled independently to produce an arbitrary light pattern in an arbitrary sequence over time. The chamber can be rigid or flexible. It can be a bed, booth or incorporated into a flexible form, such as a garment or cloth. In one embodiment, the chamber further comprises at least one LED emitting a UVC light, whereby the UVC light sanitizes the chamber surface. Preferably the LED emitting the UVA light is under independent control from the LED emitting UVC light.
US07994481B2
There are provided an apparatus capable of complying with arbitrary data acquisition period (frame rate) change instruction without increasing load and cost, and a method and a system for controlling such an apparatus. To realize this, in the present invention, there are included an area sensor for reading out an electric signal accumulated in a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, line by line, and a control unit for controlling the area sensor. The area sensor operates in a first operation for deriving radiation image data by reading during irradiation with radiation, and a second operation for deriving the radiation image data by reading during non-irradiation with radiation, alternately. The control unit switches a period for deriving the radiation image data during a time period from an end of the reading in the first operation until an end of the reading in the second operation.
US07994479B2
Method and apparatus for detecting, by absorption spectroscopy, an isotopic ratio of a sample, by passing first and second laser beams of different frequencies through the sample. Two IR absorption cells are used, a first containing a reference gas of known isotopic ratio and the second containing a sample of unknown isotopic ratio. An interlacer or reflective chopper may be used so that as the laser frequencies are scanned the absorption of the sample cell and the reference cell are detected alternately. This ensures that the apparatus is continuously calibrated and rejects the baseline noise when phase sensitive detection is used.
US07994472B2
Systems, methods, devices and apparatus are implemented for producing controllable charged particle beams. In one implementation, an apparatus provides a deflection force to a charged particle beam. A source produces an electromagnetic wave. A structure, that is substantially transparent to the electromagnetic wave, includes a physical structure having a repeating pattern with a period L and a tilted angle α, relative to a direction of travel of the charged particle beam, the pattern affects the force of the electromagnetic wave upon the charged particle beam. A direction device introduces the electromagnetic wave to the structure to provide a phase-synchronous deflection force to the charged particle beam.
US07994466B2
Disclosed is a bolometer infrared imaging device including a plural number of readout circuits, each comprising a bias circuit that includes a bias transistor that supplies a constant voltage to a bolometer device, a bias cancellation circuit that includes a canceller transistor that removes offset current component of the bolometer device and an integrating operational amplifier that integrates the difference current between the current flowing in the bias transistor and that flowing in the canceller transistor. The bias circuit includes a source follower circuit that receives a first input voltage and supplies an output voltage to the gate of the bias transistor. The bias cancellation circuit includes a source follower circuit that receives a second input voltage and supplies an output voltage to the gate of the canceller transistor.
US07994462B2
A vehicular image sensing system includes an imaging sensor having a forward field of view to the exterior of and through the windshield of an equipped vehicle. The imaging sensor is operable to capture image data and the image sensing system includes a control having an image processor. The image sensing system identifies objects of interest in the forward field of view of the image sensor via processing of the captured image data by the image processor. Identification of objects of interest may be enhanced by comparing objects over successive frames of captured image data. Objects of interest may be qualified and/or disqualified based at least in part on object motion in the field of view of the imaging sensor. The image processing may include pattern recognition.
US07994460B2
An method and system for laser beam tracking and pointing is based on a conventional position sensing detector (PSD) or quadrant cell but with the use of amplitude-modulated light. A combination of logarithmic automatic gain control, filtering, and synchronous detection offers high angular precision with exceptional dynamic range and sensitivity, while maintaining wide bandwidth. Use of modulated light enables the tracking of multiple beams simultaneously through the use of different modulation frequencies. It also makes the system resistant to interfering light sources such as ambient light. Beam pointing is accomplished by feeding back errors in the measured beam position to a beam steering element, such as a steering mirror. Closed-loop tracking performance is superior to existing methods, especially under conditions of atmospheric scintillation.
US07994459B2
Systems and methods of calibrating heliostat parameters for subsequent open-loop sun-tracking, the calibration based on driving artificial light source reflections from one or more heliostats into one or more image sensors.
US07994456B2
A construct for supporting a food item includes a plurality of divider walls and a plurality of base panels. The divider walls are spaced from one another along a length of the construct. Each base panel is located between a pair of adjacent divider walls and connecting the adjacent divider walls. A microwave energy interactive element may overlie a surface of the construct.
US07994453B2
A chemical sample gas tube that is capable of being rapidly heated and cooled allows rapid purging of condensed chemical vapor from its inside surface. The tube may include a thin foil with an electrically conducting surface, a rigidly separated pair of clamps to shape the thin foil into a cylinder shape, and a temperature-controlled source of electricity that can flow sequentially through the clamps and thin foil for heating. The temperature of the cylindrical thin foil may be increased at a rate of at least 25 degrees Celsius per second, and may be cooled at a rate of at least 10 degrees Celsius per second. A temperature control sequence may be provided that includes at least one temperature that performs at least one of: condensing the chemical vapor, transmitting the chemical vapor, desorbing the condensed chemical vapor, and decomposing the condensed chemical vapor.
US07994450B2
A method and an apparatus of minimizing the deposition of debris onto a sample being ablated. The method comprising the steps of: 1) reducing a laser pulse energy to approximately a threshold level for ablation; and 2) ablating a region of the sample using a multitude of laser pulses, each pulse being sufficiently separated in time to reduce a concentration of ablation products in a gas phase. An apparatus for ablating a region of a sample with a laser beam. The apparatus comprises: 1) a source providing a pulsed laser beam of a certain energy, the source focusing the laser beam on the sample to ablate a region of the sample; and 2) a device for providing a flowing fluid over the region being ablated to remove the ablation products.
US07994444B2
An electrical switching device has a state indicator which is covered or uncovered in accordance with the state of the switching device. In order to reduce the amount of moved masses, the state indicator remains in a resting position during a switching process of the electrical switching device. The state indicator can be covered at least in part by the movable switching contact pieces of the electrical switching device, for example.
US07994441B2
A compound operation input device includes a casing; an operating lever accommodatable in the casing in such a manner that the lever is depressingly operable from a neutral position in a pressing-movement direction and swingingly operable from the neutral position in two opposite swinging directions intersecting the pressing-movement direction; a position detector accommodatable in the casing and adapted to output a signal in accordance with a swing of the lever; a pressing member facing an end surface of the lever on the pressing-movement direction side; and a press switch facing the pressing member with a depressible portion of the switch facing a direction substantially orthogonal to the pressing-movement direction and the swinging directions of the lever. The pressing member is adapted to move toward the switch when pressed by the end surface of the lever so as to depress the depressible portion of the switch.
US07994437B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first internal terminal, a second internal terminal, a third internal terminal, and a fourth internal terminal which are placed along perimeter of the substrate, a circuit formed above the substrate and coupled to the first internal terminal, a first external terminal coupled to the second internal terminal, a second external terminal coupled to the third internal terminal, and a third external terminal coupled to the fourth internal terminal and placed beside one side of the substrate where the second external terminal is located, wherein the circuit generates a signal indicative of a connection state between the first internal terminal and the first external terminal, and wherein the first internal terminal and the second internal terminal are arranged to form two rows in a direction perpendicular to one side of the substrate beside which the first external terminal is placed.
US07994430B2
A mounting structure includes a first electronic component, a second electronic component, and an adhesive. The first electronic component includes at least one protruding electrode including a protruding member and at least one electrically conductive layer. The protruding member is formed of resin. The at least one electrically conductive layer is disposed on the protruding member. The second electronic component has a facing electrode electrically conductively in contact with the at least one protruding electrode. The adhesive is used to adhere the first electronic component and the second electronic component to each other. The protruding member has a first area and a second area. The first area has the at least one electrically conductive layer provided thereon. The second area does not have the at least one electrically conductive layer provided thereon. The first area of the protruding member is squashed more than the second area.
US07994427B2
A high voltage insulation system for high-voltage direct current including a bushing, a conductor, a transformer conductor, and a connection between the conductor and the transformer conductor. A conductive shielding electrode shields the connection between the bushing and transformer. A surrounding insulation system is immersed in transformer oil. The surrounding insulation system includes transformer insulation material and bushing insulation material. A cylindrical solid insulation barrier encloses the connection between the bushing conductor and transformer conductor. At least one solid insulation barrier is fastened on the outer side of the shielding electrode. The at least one solid insulation barrier extends in an axial direction outside the axial direction of the shielding electrode and forms a distance to the insulation material of the bushing and the insulation material of the transformer, whereby a moderate voltage drop over the solid insulation barrier is obtained.
US07994426B1
An improved underground slack chamber in a form which will extendably retain a loop of electrical service cable ready to pay out slack in the event of ground subsidence is provided with improved means to stabilize the position of the slack chamber while inserting cable within the chamber and thereafter either in line with an underground cable run or partially buried in line with an improved service line arrangement from the building service downwardly to an underground service line.
US07994417B1
A solar PV panel has an array of primary mirrors that collects and reflects solar radiation toward an array of dichroic secondary elements. The dichroic secondary elements reflect near-visible solar radiation to an array of near-visible radiation sensitive solar cells and simultaneously transmit infrared radiation to an array of infrared sensitive solar cells. The array of near-visible radiation sensitive cells and the array of infrared sensitive cells are wired in series. The optical properties of the dichoic secondary element, near-visible radiation sensitive cell, and IR sensitive cell are chosen for simultaneous maximum power production from the panel.
US07994412B2
A sound system and method for modeling a sound field generated by a sound source and creating a sound event based on the modeled sound field is disclosed. The system and method captures a sound field over an enclosing surface, models the sound field and enables reproduction of the modeled sound field. Explosion type acoustical radiation may be used. Further, the reproduced sound field may be modeled and compared to the original sound field model.
US07994411B2
At a time T0, prior read reproduction is started with a volume of 0. Upon starting the prior read reproduction, MIDI events containing note events are sequentially generated. Each time each of the note events is generated, note data is generated based on these note events and sequentially stored in a note pool 123. At a time T1, actual reproduction is started. After the time T1, the actual reproduction and the prior read reproduction are concurrently performed at a same speed. Accordingly, the prior read reproduction precedes invariably two bars ahead of the actual reproduction. Information pertinent to notes contained in a part from a currently played position to a position two bars ahead of the currently played position can be easily obtained from the note pool 123.
US07994409B2
The present disclosure relates to audio mixing and editing devices and methods. A system is provided that permits mixing of and editing of multiple input audio tracks through the use of visual representation of audio signals. By viewing the visual representations of the audio inputs, a user is able to achieve a desired mix of signals with more accuracy and efficiency when compared with mixing based on hearing alone.
US07994400B2
Plant seed compositions are disclosed that comprise a herbicide-resistant variety as a major component and two or more additional varieties as minor components. One of the minor varieties is herbicide-resistant. Each variety is phenotypically distinguishable from all other varieties in the seed mixture.
US07994399B2
The present invention relates to improved methods for the incorporation of DNA into the genome of a Zea mays plant by means of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Preferred is the use of the Zea may lines deposited with American Type Culture Collection under the Patent Deposit Designation PTA-6170 and PTA-6171.
US07994396B2
Transgenic plants, and a method for making the same, wherein genes encoding the enzyme luciferase and its corresponding substrate luciferin are incorporated into a native plant genome. Once transformed into plant cells, these genes may be regulated such that under certain endogenous or exogenous conditions, their expression in the mature plant results in bioluminescence. Different luciferin/luciferase complexes and/or mechanisms of regulation may be utilized for these transgenic plants, depending on a variety of factors such as plant species and the circumstances under which a bioluminescent reaction is desired. Phototransformation may be utilized to vary the wavelength of light emitted from the mature plant.
US07994391B2
This invention relates to isolated polynucleotides encoding WUS polypeptides. The invention further provides isolated WUS polypeptides. The invention also provides methods of using the polynucleotides to modulate the level of WUS, improve transformation efficiency, to stimulate plant cell growth, including stem cells, to stimulate organogenesis, to stimulate somatic embryogenesis, to induce apomixis, and to provide a positive selection for cells comprising the polynucleotide. The invention also relates to cells, plants and seeds comprising the polynucleotides of the invention or produced by the methods of the invention.
US07994386B2
The present invention provides an absorbent article having superior surface characteristics and improved absorbing ability. The absorbent article of the present invention includes a liquid permeable top sheet 10 disposed at a skin-side, a liquid impermeable back sheet 20 disposed at a garment side, and an absorbent body interposed between the top sheet and the back sheet. An apparent thickness (t2) of the top sheet 10 is 70% to 95% to an apparent thickness (t1) of the panty liner 1. The absorbent body 30 consists of a structure, in which a capillary rise height (h2) is higher than a capillary rise height (h1) of the top sheet 10.
US07994379B2
A radioactive containment composition may be created for containing radionuclides from a radioactive material by mixing a clay mineral with water. This mixture may form an aqueous clay suspension. The mixture can be refined by filtering to remove coarse material. The aqueous clay suspension may be applied to a radioactive material, allowing the radionuclides to be exchanged with cations in the aqueous clay suspension. The resulting aqueous slurry, a silver-based solution may be added to produce a suspension. The suspension may be collected, heated and analyzed.
US07994373B2
High assay, reaction-derived decabromodiphenylethane product is prepared by feeding (i) diphenylethane or (ii) partially brominated diphenylethane having an average bromine number less than about two, or (iii) both of (i) and (ii), into the liquid confines of a reaction mixture. Such reaction mixture is (a) formed from components comprised of excess liquid bromine and aluminum-based Lewis acid bromination catalyst, and (b) maintained at one or more elevated reaction temperatures of from about 45°-90° C., and at least when elevated pressure is needed to keep a liquid state in the reaction mixture at the temperature(s) used, the reaction mixture is at such an elevated pressure, whereby ar-bromination occurs. The feeding is conducted at a rate slow enough to form high assay reaction-derived decabromodiphenylethane product, which is an effective flame retardant.
US07994361B2
The invention relates to a process for preparing aromatic diisocyanates by reaction of phosgene with diamines in the gas phase, in which the reaction is carried out in a reaction zone at moderate pressures, i.e. the pressure in this reaction zone is more than 3 bar and less than 20 bar.
US07994359B2
A process for the industrial synthesis of the compound of formula (I) Application in the synthesis of agomelatine.
US07994358B2
The present invention provides a phosphorus-containing compound of formula (I): wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are the same or different; and R1, R2, R3 and R4 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, halogen, C1-8 alkyl, haloalkyl, and alkoxy. The phosphorus-containing compound is prepared by bonding a bisphenol group to a phosphorus atom to prevent the phosphorus-containing heterocyclic molecule from exhibiting steric hindrance on hydroxyl functional groups, thereby increasing reactivity in the subsequent reactions.
US07994357B2
The invention relates to a compound represented by the following formula (I): and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, stereoisomers, enantiomers, prodrugs and solvates thereof. The compounds are useful as an agent for enhancing the neurite outgrowth and preventing or treating of diseases associated with HDAC in particular, tumor or cell proliferative diseases. In particular, the compounds of the invention can be used as an agent for anti-cancer, anti-diabetic, and anti-neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, Spinocerebellar Ataxias (SCA), and human spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).
US07994356B2
The present invention relates to polymeric compositions useful in the manufacture of biocompatible medical devices. More particularly, the present invention relates to certain monoethylenically unsaturated polycarbosiloxane monomers capable of polymerization to form polymeric compositions having desirable physical characteristics useful in the manufacture of ophthalmic devices.
US07994350B2
Process for the continuous preparation of N-ethyl-2-pyrrolidone (NEP) by reacting gamma-butyrolactone (GBL) with monoethylamine (MEA) in the liquid phase, wherein GBL and MEA are used in a molar ratio in the range from 1:1.08 to 1:2 an the reaction is carried out at a temperature in the range from 320 to 420° C. and an absolute pressure in the range from 70 to 120 bar.
US07994343B2
A process for the production of amorphous atorvastatin calcium and stabilized, amorphous atorvastatin calcium is provided.
US07994342B2
There is provided a novel method for producing an optically active succinimide compound which is a useful compound utilized as an intermediate raw material for pharmaceutical products or the like. The method for producing an optically active succinimide compound of formula (2) comprises processing a racemic compound of a succinimide compound of formula (1) in the presence of a hydrolase to selectively hydrolyze one of the enantiomers, and subjecting to a post-treatment.
US07994335B2
Disclosed is a new class of chiral bidentate ligands capable of performing asymmetric hydrogenation. Also disclosed are processes of performing asymmetric hydrogenation the chiral bidentate ligands.
US07994331B2
A compound represented by the formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: (I) wherein X1 to X4 independently represent a carbon atom or the like; the ring A represents a 5- to 6-membered heteroaryl having 1 to 4 heteroatoms independently selected from the group consisting of a nitrogen atom, a sulfur atom and an oxygen atom; X5 represents an oxygen atom or the like; X represents a carbon atom or the like; Het represents a 5- or 6-membered aliphatic heterocycle; R1 represents an aryl or the like; R2 represents a formyl group or the like; and R3 represents a —C1-6 alkyl or the like. The compound or salt has a glucokinase activation effect and is useful as a therapeutic agent for diabetes.
US07994327B2
The present invention provides new processes for the preparation of unsubstituted and substituted 4-amino-2-(2,6-dioxopiperidin-3-yl)isoindoline-1,3-dione compounds which are useful, for example, for preventing or treating diseases or conditions related to an abnormally high level or activity of TNF-α. The invention can provide improved and/or efficient processes for the commercial production of unsubstituted and substituted 4-amino-2-(2,6-dioxopiperidin-3-yl)isoindoline-1,3-dione compounds, including, but not limited to, unsubstituted 4-amino-2-(2,6-dioxopiperidin-3-yl)isoindoline-1,3-dione.
US07994315B2
Production method of an optically active morpholine compound represented by the formula 10, or a compound represented by the formula 55, which includes the following steps: or wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification. An optically active 2-aryl-substituted morpholine compound and 3-oxo-3-(pyrimidin-4-yl)propionate, which are important as starting materials for synthesizing 2-(2-arylmorpholin-4-yl)-1-methyl-1H-[4,4′]bipyrimidinyl-6-one having a tau protein kinase 1 inhibitory activity and useful as a therapeutic drug for Alzheimer's disease and the like, can be produced in a high yield by an industrially advantageous method.
US07994310B2
Disclosed is a method for preparing 2′-deoxy-2′,2′-difluorocytidine of Formula I comprising, preparing an optically pure 3R-hydroxypropane amide compound of Formula VIII from an optical ester compound of Formula IX using an optically active chiral amine, preparing an optically pure D-erythro-2,2-difluoro-2-deoxy-1-oxoribose compound of Formula V from the compound of Formula VIII, glycosylating the compound of Formula V with a nucleobase to prepare the 2′-deoxy-2′,2′-difluorocytidine of Formula I as a β-nucleoside. With the present invention, it is possible to prepare an optically pure compound of Formula I in a high purity and a high yield. In the Formulae, R1 and R2 are protecting groups and are each independently benzoyl, 4-methylbenzoyl, 3-methylbenzoyl, 4-cyanobenzoyl, 3-cyanobenzoyl, 4-propylbenzoyl, 2-ethoxybenzoyl, 4-t-butylbenzoyl, 1-naphthoyl or 2-naphthoyl, R3, R4 and R7 are each independently C1-C3 alkyl, R5 is methyl or ethyl, R6 is hydrogen, methyl or methoxy.
US07994309B2
The present invention relates to a double-stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) for inhibiting the expression of a mutant gene, comprising a complementary RNA strand having a complementary region that is substantially complementary to a portion of the mutant gene, and which is partially complementary to the corresponding wild-type gene. The invention further relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising the dsRNA and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The pharmaceutical compositions are useful for inhibiting the expression of a target mutant gene, as well as for treating diseases caused by expression of the target gene. The invention also relates to methods for inhibiting the expression of a target mutant gene, as well as methods for treating diseases caused by the expression of the target gene.
US07994307B2
The invention relates to compositions and methods for modulating the expression of Bcr-Abl, and more particularly to the down-regulation of Bcr-Abl mRNA and Bcr-Abl protein levels by oligonucleotides via RNA interference, e.g., chemically modified oligonucleotides.
US07994306B2
A method of treating a CD24-related medical condition is disclosed. The method comprises administering to a subject in need thereof at least one siRNA molecule selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 1 to 4. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising same are also disclosed.
US07994287B2
Antibodies and antigen-binding fragments of antibodies that bind human CXCR3 are disclosed. In preferred embodiments, the antibodies are human. Nucleic acids and vectors encoding the antibodies or portions thereof, recombinant cells that contain the nucleic acids, and compositions comprising the antibodies or antigen-binding fragments are also disclosed. The invention also provides therapeutic and diagnostic methods which employ the antibodies and antigen-binding fragments.
US07994279B2
Modified GAD65 compositions antagonize the activities of islet-specific T cells that contribute to the progression of one or more autoimmune disorders. The compositions are also antagonistic in humanized mice that express human HLA alleles associated with increased-risk of Type 1 diabetes.
US07994266B2
In a process for dropletizing a liquid by means of a dropletizer plate at least the underside of the dropletizer plate has at least in part a contact angle of at least 60° with regard to the liquid to be dropletized.
US07994262B2
The present invention has its object to provide a reactive silyl group-containing room temperature curable composition which can give cured products having good recovery, durability and creep resistance and the mechanical physical properties of which can be adjusted so as to be adequate for the use as a sealing material or adhesive and, further, which is low in viscosity and good in workability. This object can be achieved by, for example, a curable composition which comprises an organic polymer (A) containing reactive silyl groups represented by the general formula (1) given below wherein a is 3 and an organic polymer (B) containing an average of 0.5 to 1.5 reactive silyl groups represented by the general formula (1) given below per molecule —Si(R13-a)Xa (1).
US07994260B2
A polymeric surfactant obtained by the reaction of: (i) a polyolefin oligomer functionalized with at least one group deriving from a dicarboxylic acid, or a derivative thereof; and (ii) a polyoxyalkylene of linear oxyalkylene units. The polyoxyalkylene is linked to a long-chain alkyl group optionally containing one or more ethylenic unsaturations. The polymeric surfactant may be utilized to stabilize a fuel of an emulsion between water and a liquid hydrocarbon. The fuel has high stability over time, without forming carbonaceous deposits which adhere to metal surfaces.
US07994251B2
A coating system for floors, containing a) one or more agents in which, together or separately, a polymer or polymer/wax dispersion and aziridine and, where desired, a flatting component are present, for application on the floor in order to form a crosslinked base film that is not capable of being removed by wet chemical means, as well as b) an aziridine-free agent containing conventional floor-maintenance components, in particular a polymer or polymer/wax dispersion, for the purpose of generating a sacrificial film on said base film that is capable of being removed by wet chemical means.
US07994244B2
A sealant composition comprising a binder and a filler material. The binder comprising a residual pitch product and an elastomeric material and, optionally, asphalt, a microcrystalline wax, and/or oil. The filler material is present in an amount of between about 11 vol. % and about 67 vol. % of the sealant composition. In one embodiment, the filler material is present in an amount of between about 25 wt. % and about 70 wt. % of the sealant composition.
US07994243B2
An aqueous composition including a particulate novolac resin and a polyol, wherein >50% of the number of total particles of novolac resin have a particle size of >15 μm and >5% of the number of total particles of novolac resin have a particle size of >50 μm, wherein the particulate novolac resin has a dropping point temperature of >127° C., and wherein the aqueous composition is essentially free of organic solvent. The aqueous composition will form a stable dispersion which is ideal for the preparation of a film or coating of substrates such as fiberglass, nonwoven fibers, or lignocellulosic materials which include composite boards, plywoods, parquets, laminated veneer lumber (LVL), laminated flooring, doors, wood for door frames and paper.
US07994239B2
Provided is an aromatic polycarbonate resin composition including a combination composed of 98 to 1 mass % of an aromatic polycarbonate (A), 1 to 98 mass % of an aliphatic polyester (B), and 1 to 80 mass % of an organic filler derived from a natural product (C), the aromatic polycarbonate resin composition being obtained by suppressing increase in density of an aromatic polycarbonate resin composition containing an aliphatic polyester, while improving rigidity and fluidity thereof and ameliorating poor external appearance such as pearly luster.
US07994236B2
A method for preparing a polymer product, the method comprising polymerizing conjugated diene monomer, optionally together with vinyl aromatic monomer, within a hydrocarbon solvent by employing a lithium-containing initiator, thereby forming a living polymer cement, where about 0.04 to about 0.2 moles of the alkyl lithium initiator per 100 g of the monomer are employed, where the concentration of the monomer within the solvent is about 1 to about 30% by weight, and where the living polymer cement includes a lithium-containing residue, adding a quenching agent to the living polymer cement in an amount sufficient to quench all of the living polymer within the cement, thereby forming a non-living polymer cement, passing the non-living polymer cement through a purification medium, where the purification medium includes alumina, silica, or both, thereby separating at least part of the lithium-containing residue from the polymer cement, collecting the polymer cement after passing the cement through the purification medium, adding an antioxidant, and desolventizing the polymer cement.
US07994233B2
A thermoplastic composition that includes from about 1% by weight to 25% by weight block copolymer having the formula (A-B)x or A-B-A, where the A block includes polyvinylarene, the B block includes poly(monoalkenyl) and x is an integer of at least one, spherical superabsorbent particles comprising polyacrylate, and plasticizing oil, the composition exhibiting water gel time of no greater than 2 minutes, a viscosity of no greater than 100,000 centipoise and a wet tensile strength of at least 15 g/in2.
US07994232B2
The invention provides a photo-curable composition that addresses degradation in dispersibility caused by the use of a pigment, and has good color tone and high light fastness. The photo-curable composition includes: a polymerizable compound; a polymerization initiator; and a dye represented by Formula (1): in which, A1, A2 and A3 each represent a monovalent group, and Z represents a nitrogen atom, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, or a monovalent group-bonded carbon atom, the dye represented by Formula (1) having two azo groups in a molecule thereof.
US07994230B2
Filling foam composition capable of providing excellent rustproofing and also suppressing reduction of a foam ratio of the filling foam composition even when reusing unwanted parts thereof and inferior goods thereof; a foam filling member using the same filling foam composition; and a filling foam produced by foaming the filling foam composition. The filling foam composition is prepared by mixing foamable polymer, a foaming agent, and a basic oxide in such a mixing ratio that a ratio of the basic oxide can be in the range of 0.05-70 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of foaming agent. The mounting member for the filling foam composition to be mounted in an internal space of a hollow member is produced by mounting a mounting member on the filling foam composition obtained. The filling foam is formed by fitting the foam filling member in the internal space of the hollow member and, then, foaming the filling foam composition by the application of heat.
US07994228B2
Provided is a novel ion-pair charge-transfer complex polymer suitable for use as a photo-functional material which shows extremely fast photoresponses in the wide wavelength range from visible to near infrared regions, and thermally stable, wherein the acceptor is a substituted bipyridinium cation expressed by the formula (I) below. In the formula, X represents a group bonded at the 4- or 2-position relative to the nitrogen atoms of the bipyridinium group and selected from the group consisting of phenyl, biphenyl, thienyl, bithienyl, terthienyl, furyl, fluorenyl, pyrenyl, perylenyl, and vinyl groups, or X may not be present so that the pyridinium groups are directly connected; and Z represents a polymer preferably from the ring-opening polymerization of an oxazoline derivative (e.g. one substituted with phenyl group). The anion as the donor is selected, for example, from chloride, bromide, iodide, tetraphenylborate or derivatives thereof.
US07994216B2
Methods and compositions are presented in which catechin-containing compositions have statistically significant and strong therapeutic effect in the treatment of LUTS wherein such compositions are stage-specifically administered to a patient diagnosed with HG-PIN and optional coexistent BPH.
US07994207B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing fluoromethyl-substituted heterocyclic compounds of the general formula (I) in which R1 is H or F; R2 is an -[A-O]m—R3 group in which A is C2-C4-alkanediyl, R3 is C1-C4-alkyl and m is 1 or 2; by converting the corresponding chloromethyl-substituted compounds (II) in the presence of fluorinating agents, to processes for preparing the chloromethyl-substituted compounds (II), to processes for preparing amides of the general formula (IV) and to compounds of the general formulae (I) and (II).
US07994202B2
A nitrogen-containing bicyclic heterocyclic compound represented by the following formula (1) is provided. When the compound or a salt thereof is administered to a human being or an animal, the compound has a strong antagonistic action against EP1 receptors, and is useful, for example, as an active ingredient of a medicine for the prevention and/or treatment of overactive bladder. The compound is also useful as an active ingredient of a medicine for the prevention and/or treatment of symptoms such as frequency urinary, urinary urgency, or urinary incontinence.
US07994200B2
The present invention relates to Cycloalkane-substituted substituted pyrazoline compounds of formula (I), methods for their preparation, medicaments comprising these compounds as well as their use for the preparation of a medicament for the treatment of humans and animals.
US07994198B2
Compounds of formula (I); wherein R represents various substituent groups, are useful as inhibitors of glucosylceramide synthase.
US07994197B2
Pharmaceutical compositions containing dihydroergotamine (DHE) and methods in which DHE is administered to patients for treatment of migraine without side effects or adverse effects are disclosed. Methods for rapid treatment of migraine with DHE are disclosed comprising: dampening the peak plasma concentration (Cmax) and slightly delaying the peak such as to avoid activating the dopaminergic and adrenergic receptors, while achieving sufficient active binding to the serotonin receptors to provide relief from migraine symptoms within a timeframe that permits rapid resolution of migraine symptoms. Inhaler devices suitable for the methods are disclosed. Kits for practicing the methods of invention are disclosed.
US07994196B2
The present invention can provide a cancer treatment drug containing, as an active ingredient, a substance selected from the group consisting of an indazole compound of the following formula (I), a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, a hydrate, a water adduct and a solvate:
US07994186B2
A camptothecin-containing pharmaceutical composition which contains: (a) camptothecin or a derivative thereof, and (b) one or more compounds selected from among ascorbic acid or a salt thereof, sodium hydrogen sulfite, sodium sulfite, potassium pyrosulfite, sodium erythorbate, sodium thioglycolate, sodium pyrosulfite, and α-thioglycerin. The pharmaceutical composition is useful in that, after storage for a long period of time or under light-irradiation conditions, camptothecin or a derivative thereof contained therein undergoes minimum degradation.
US07994184B2
This invention provides a novel screening system for identifying p53 mimetics/agonists. Also provided are small organic molecules that act as effective p53 mimetics/agonists.
US07994172B2
The invention provides compounds of formula (I) and methods for inhibition of kinases, more specifically p70S6 kinases, and more preferably p70S6, Akt-1 and Akt-2 kinases. The invention provides compounds for modulating protein kinase enzymatic activity for modulating cellular activities such as proliferation, differentiation, programmed cell death, migration, chemoinvasion and metabolism. Compounds of the invention inhibit, regulate and/or modulate kinase receptor signal transduction pathways related to the changes in cellular activities as mentioned above, and the invention includes compositions which contain these compounds, and methods of using them to treat kinase-dependent diseases and conditions.
US07994166B2
Pyrrolidinone benzenesulfonamide derivatives as modulators of ion channels for the treatment of pain
The present invention relates to pyrrolidinone benzenesulfonamide derivatives useful as inhibitors of ion channels. The invention also provides pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising the compounds of the invention and methods of using the compositions in the treatment of pain.
US07994164B2
The present invention provides a compound of Formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of Formula (I) in combination with a suitable carrier, diluent, or excipient; and methods for treating physiological disorders, particularly congestive heart failure, hypertension, diabetic nephropathy, or chronic kidney disease, comprising administering a compound of Formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US07994162B2
The present invention relates to 2-alkoxy-3,4,5-trihydroxyalkylamide benzodiazepine compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, to methods of treatment comprising administering such compounds, to processes for the preparation of such compounds, and to intermediate precursors to such compounds.
US07994156B2
This invention relates to novel carboxylic acid 4-phenylazo-phenyl ester derivatives useful as monoamine neurotransmitter re-uptake inhibitors.In other aspects the invention relates to the use of these compounds in a method for therapy and to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of the invention.
US07994140B2
The present invention relates to a method of identifying a candidate therapeutic agent. The method comprises contacting a G-Protein Coupled Receptor (GPCR) with a compound of General Formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof determining whether the compound inhibits or effects signal transduction activity of the GPCR, wherein a compound that inhibits or effects the activity of the GPCR is a candidate therapeutic agent.
US07994135B2
Auristatin peptides, including MeVal-Val-Dil-Dap-Norephedrine (MMAE) and MeVal-Val-Dil-Dap-Phe (MMAF), were prepared and attached to Ligands through various linkers, including maleimidocaproyl-val-cit-PAB. The resulting ligand drug conjugates were active in vitro and in vivo.
US07994133B2
A method of changing or otherwise converting the biological activity of a PKC peptide agonist to a peptide antagonist is described. The method involves substituting one or more amino acid residues so as to effect a change in charge in the peptide and/or to otherwise make the sequence similar to a sequence derived from the PKC binding site on the RACK protein for the respective PKC enzyme. Methods of inhibiting the activity of a PKC enzyme, and various peptide antagonists of εPKC are also disclosed.
US07994123B2
Polypeptides of the neuregulin (NRG) heparin binding domain (N-HBD) and nucleic acids coding therefor are disclosed. In particular, fusion polypeptides are produced that comprise, as a targeting structure, a N-HBD polypeptide, fragment, homologue or functional derivative and a protein to be targeted. This is fused to a polypeptide or peptide being targeted (Ptrg) to cell surfaces rich in heparan sulfate proteoglycans to either activate or inhibit interactions at tyrosine kinase receptors. A preferred fusion polypeptide comprises an N-HBD, a spacer and the extracellular domain of erbB4, one of several receptors signaled by NRG, which is potent NRG antagonist. Such products are used to treat diseases or conditions where either agonism or antagonism at tyrosine kinase receptors has beneficial effects, including cancer and a multitude of diseases of the nervous system.
US07994119B2
This invention relates generally to peptides including tripeptides and to methods for pharmaceutical treatment of mammals using such tripeptides and analogs thereof. More specifically, the invention is directed to neuropeptide Y (“NPY”) receptor antagonists and agonists including O-glycosylated tripeptides, i.e. O-glycopeptides, and extended tripeptides, and their analogs, as well as to PYY analogs, to pharmaceutical compositions containing such tripeptides and PYY analogs, and to methods of treatment of mammals using such tripeptides and PYY analogs. In addition, the invention relates to methods of treatment of mammals using such tripeptides and PYY analogs for control of appetite, blood pressure, cardiovascular response, libido, and circadian rhythm.
US07994117B2
The invention relates to the field of compounds, especially peptides or polypeptides, that have thrombopoietic activity. The peptides and polypeptides of the invention may be used to increase platelets or platelet precursors (e.g., megakaryocytes) in a mammal.
US07994113B2
The invention relates to β-galactoside binding protein (βGBP) and compositions, including pharmaceutical compositions, comprising βGBP for use in therapy and related applications. In particular, the invention relates to use of βGBP and the manufacture of medicaments for the treatment or prevention of conditions in which disease associated cell division occurs, wherein the cells which result from said disease associated cell division comprise a cell in respect of which the effect of βGBP is not inhibition of growth. The invention also relates to methods of inducing apoptosis, methods of treating or preventing conditions in which disease associated cell division occurs and methods of assessing the suitability of βGBP as a therapeutic agent.
US07994112B2
Aqueous laundry detergent compositions containing surfactants and fatty acid, having a pH of from about 6 to about 11 and containing a polymer having a number average molecular weight of from about 700,000 to about 4,000,000 and comprising monomeric units including: nonionic monomers selected from acrylamide, N,N-dialkyl acrylamide, methacrylamide, N,N-dialkylmethacrylamide, hydroxyalkyl acrylate and vinyl pyrrolidone, vinyl acetate, vinyl alcohol, and mixtures thereof; cationic monomers selected from N,N-dialkylaminoalkyl methacrylate, N,N-dialkylaminoalkyl acrylate, N,N-dialkylaminoalkyl acrylamide, N,N-dialkylaminoalkylmethacrylamide, methacylamidoalkyl trialkylammonium chloride, acrylamidoalkylltrialkylammonium chloride, vinylamine, quaternized vinyl imidazole and diallyl dialkyl ammonium chloride, and mixtures thereof; and anionic monomers selected from acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, maleic acid, vinyl sulfonic acid, styrene sulfonic acid, acrylamidopropylmethane sulfonic acid (AMPS), salts thereof, and mixtures thereof; in a specified mole ratio.
US07994110B2
The invention relates to a solid redispersible emulsion, which is comprised of an oil-in-water emulsion consisting of a laundry care constituent, which is encapsulated in an enclosure. This enclosure is stabilized by polyvalent metal ions and, initially, is water-insoluble and is rendered soluble by adding metal ions. The enclosure material is preferably a biodegradable material and, in particular, a polysaccharide, such as alginates, pectins or carageenans. These solid and redispersible emulsions are used, in particular, in laundry care products.
US07994108B2
An aqueous-based composition and process for removing hardened photoresist and/or bottom anti-reflective coating (BARC) material from a microelectronic device having same thereon. The aqueous-based composition includes at least one chaotropic solute, at least one alkaline base, and deionized water. The composition achieves high-efficiency removal of hardened photoresist and/or BARC material in the manufacture of integrated circuitry without adverse effect to metal species on the substrate, such as copper, and without damage to low-k dielectric materials employed in the microelectronic device architecture.
US07994107B2
Processes are described for producing liquid, biobased lubricant additives containing from 50 to 100% biobased carbon according to ASTM D6866 from heat-bodied oils by transesterification with biobased or petroleum based alcohols and by hydrogenation of at least the resulting diesters, triesters and polyesters.
US07994106B2
The present invention relates to a rosin acid ester and compositions containing the same, as well as methods of making and using the same.
US07994105B2
A combination nano and microparticle treatment for engines enhances fuel efficiency and life duration and reduces exhaust emissions. The nanoparticles are chosen from a class of hard materials, preferably alumina, silica, ceria, titania, diamond, cubic boron nitride, and molybdenum oxide. The microparticles are chosen from a class of materials of layered structures, preferably graphite, hexagonal boron nitride, magnesium silicates (talc) and molybdenum disulphide. The nano-micro combination can be chosen from the same materials. This group of materials includes zinc oxide, copper oxide, molybdenum oxide, graphite, talc, and hexagonal boron nitride. The ratio of nano to micro in the proposed combination varies with the engine characteristics and driving conditions. A laser synthesis method can be used to disperse nanoparticles in engine oil or other compatible medium. The nano and microparticle combination when used in engine oil can effect surface morphology changes such as smoothening and polishing of engine wear surfaces, improvement in coefficient of friction, and fuel efficiency enhancement up to 35% in a variety of vehicles (cars and trucks) under actual road conditions, and reduction in exhaust emissions up to 90%.
US07994090B2
Provided is a process for readily producing fine particles of a solid solution having a small particle size, comprising a solid solution of zirconia, ceria and a rare earth oxide in a desired composition, and being highly crystalline.The process for producing the fine particles of the solid solution comprises the following steps in the order named: obtaining a melt comprising, in terms of mol % on an oxide basis, from 5 to 50% ZrO2, CeO2 and RE2O3 (where RE is at least one member selected from rare earth elements other than Ce) in total, from 10 to 50% RO (where R is at least one member selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba and Zn), and from 30 to 75% B2O3; quenching the melt to obtain an amorphous material; heating the amorphous material to obtain precipitates containing crystals of a solid solution with ZrO2, CeO2 and RE2O3; and separating the crystals of the solid solution from the precipitates to obtain fine particles of the solid solution.
US07994085B2
A material with a hierarchical porosity is described, constituted by at least two spherical elementary particles, each of said spherical particles comprising zeolitic nanocrystals having a pore size in the range 0.2 to 2 nm and a matrix based on silicon oxide, which is mesostructured, having a pore size in the range 1.5 to 30 nm and having amorphous walls with a thickness in the range 1 to 20 nm, said spherical elementary particles having a maximum diameter of 10 μm. the matrix based on silicon oxide may contain aluminium. The preparation of said material is also described.
US07994080B2
An electrically conductive non-woven fabric (10) for heating applications is described and comprises a three-dimensional network (11) of non-woven synthetic fibers (12) which are non-electrically conductive and electrically conductive strands (13) of synthetic fibers or fine metal wires consolidated therewith. The fabric has an intrinsic resistivity in the range of from about 0.05 to 5 m2/kg.
US07994075B1
Ballistic resistant articles having abrasion resistance. Particularly, abrasion resistant, ballistic resistant articles and composites having a wax-based topical treatment.
US07994072B2
By forming two or more individual dielectric layers of high intrinsic stress levels with intermediate interlayer dielectric material, the limitations of respective deposition techniques, such as plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition, may be respected while nevertheless providing an increased amount of stressed material above a transistor element, even for highly scaled semiconductor devices.
US07994069B2
To improve the mechanical strength of a wafer comprising a low-k dielectric layer, the low-k dielectric layer is formed so as to have certain regions of low dielectric constant and the remainder having a higher mechanical strength. The higher-strength regions may have a relatively-higher value of dielectric constant. Selective ultraviolet curing of a dielectric material can be performed so as to expel a porogen from the region(s) desired to have low dielectric constant. A photomask, hardmask, or opaque resist, patterned so as to define the region(s) to have lower dielectric constant, is used to shield the remainder of the dielectric material from the ultraviolet radiation. Alternatively, a layer of dielectric material can be blanket cured to lower its dielectric constant, then non-critical regions thereof can be selectively over-cured whereby to produce regions of increased mechanical strength.
US07994068B2
A method for fabricating a 3-D monolithic memory device. Silicon-oxynitride (SixOyNz) on amorphous carbon is used an effective, easily removable hard mask with high selectivity to silicon, oxide, and tungsten. A silicon-oxynitride layer is etched using a photoresist layer, and the resulting etched SixOyNz layer is used to etch an amorphous carbon layer. Silicon, oxide, and/or tungsten layers are etched using the amorphous carbon layer. In one implementation, conductive rails of the 3-D monolithic memory device are formed by etching an oxide layer such as silicon dioxide (SiO2) using the patterned amorphous carbon layer as a hard mask. Memory cell diodes are formed as pillars in polysilicon between the conductive rails by etching a polysilicon layer using another patterned amorphous carbon layer as a hard mask. Additional levels of conductive rails and memory cell diodes are formed similarly to build the 3-D monolithic memory device.
US07994067B2
A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus and a semiconductor manufacturing method, and has as one object to process a wafer easily and stably irrespective of thickness. To achieve the above object, a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes: an open-topped cassette that encases a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of processors for performing a predetermined processing of the semiconductor substrate; and a transporting mechanism that transports the cassette encasing the semiconductor substrate between the plurality of processors.
US07994066B1
A method is disclosed for the cleaning of a Si surface at low temperatures. Oxide on the Si surface is brought into contact with Ge, which then sublimates off the surface. The Ge contamination remaining after the oxide removal is cleared away by an exposure to an alkali halide. The disclosed cleaning method may by used in semiconductor circuit fabrication for preparing surfaces ahead of epitaxial growth.
US07994061B2
A method for forming a vertical channel transistor in a semiconductor memory device includes: forming a plurality of pillars over a substrate so that the plurality of pillars are arranged in a first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction, and so that each of the pillars has a hard mask pattern thereon; forming an insulation layer to fill a regions between the pillars; forming a mask pattern over a resultant structure including the insulation layer, wherein the mask pattern has openings exposing gaps between each two adjacent pillars in the first direction; etching the insulation layer to a predetermined depth using the mask pattern as an etching barrier to form trenches; and filling the trenches with a conductive material to form word lines extending in the first direction.
US07994059B2
By forming an additional stressed dielectric material after patterning dielectric liners of different intrinsic stress, a significant increase of performance in transistors may be obtained while substantially not contributing to patterning non-uniformities during the formation of respective contact openings in highly scaled semiconductor devices. The additional dielectric layer may be provided with any type of intrinsic stress, irrespective of the previously selected patterning sequence.
US07994058B2
The present invention relates to polishing slurry and polishing method used for polishing in a process for forming wirings of a semiconductor device, and the like. There are provided polishing slurry giving a polished surface having high flatness even if the polished surface is made of two or more substances, and further, capable of suppressing metal residue and scratches after polishing, and a method of chemical mechanical polishing using this. The polishing slurry of the present invention is polishing slurry containing at least one of a surfactant and an organic solvent, and a metal oxide dissolving agent and water, or polishing slurry containing water and abrasive, wherein the surface of the abrasive is modified with an alkyl group, and preferably, it further contains a metal oxidizer, water-soluble polymer, and metal inhibitor.
US07994053B2
A method for forming a metal oxide thin film pattern using nanoimprinting according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: coating a photosensitive metal-organic material precursor solution on a substrate; pressurizing the photosensitive metal-organic material precursor coating layer to a mold patterned to have a protrusion and depression structure; forming the metal oxide thin film pattern by irradiating ultraviolet rays to the pressurized photosensitive metal-organic material precursor coating layer to cure it; and removing the patterned mold from the metal oxide thin film pattern.
US07994050B2
A method for forming a dual damascene pattern includes preparing a multi-functional hard mask composition including a silicon resin as a base resin, wherein the silicon resin comprises about 20 to 45% silicon molecules by weight, based on a total weight of the resin; forming a deposition structure by sequentially forming a self-arrangement contact (SAC) insulating film, a first dielectric film, an etching barrier film, and a second dielectric film over a hardwiring layer; etching the deposition structure to expose the hardwiring layer, thereby forming a via hole; coating the multi-functional hard mask composition over the second dielectric film and in the via hole to form a multi-functional hard mask film; and etching the resulting structure to expose a part of the first dielectric film using a photoresist pattern as an etching mask, thereby forming a trench having a width greater than that of the via hole.
US07994043B1
A method includes forming a patterned resist layer comprising a resist layer opening overlying a bond pad of a substrate. The resist layer opening is at least partially filled with a first solder component layer. A second solder component layer is formed on the first solder component layer. The patterned resist layer is removed. The first solder component layer and the second solder component layer are reflowed to form a lead free binary metal alloy solder bump electrically connected to the bond pad.
US07994042B2
Anti-reverse engineering techniques are provided. In one aspect, a method for forming at least one feature in an insulating layer is provided. The method comprises the following steps. Ions are selectively implanted in the insulating layer so as to form at least one implant region within the insulating layer, the implanted ions being configured to alter an etch rate through the insulating layer within the implant region. The insulating layer is etched to, at the same time, form at least one void both within the implant region and outside of the implant region, wherein the etch rate through the insulating layer within the implant region is different from an etch rate through the insulating layer outside of the implant region. The void is filled with at least one conductor material to form the feature in the insulating layer.
US07994039B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device according to one embodiment includes: forming a plurality of Si-based pattern portions above a semiconductor substrate, the plurality of Si-based pattern portions being adjacent in a direction substantially parallel to a surface of the semiconductor substrate via insulating films; forming a metal film above the plurality of Si-based pattern portions and the insulating films so as to contact with the plurality of Si-based pattern portions; processing whole areas or upper portions of the plurality of Si-based pattern portions into a plurality of silicide layers by a silicidation reaction between the plurality of Si-based pattern portions and the metal film by heat treatment; and removing the plurality of silicide layers formed above the insulating films by applying planarizing treatment to the plurality of silicide layers.
US07994031B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is further described, comprising the steps of providing a supply of dopant atoms or molecules into an ionization chamber, combining the dopant atoms or molecules into clusters containing a plurality of dopant atoms, ionizing the dopant clusters into dopant cluster ions, extracting and accelerating the dopant cluster ions with an electric field, selecting the desired cluster ion by mass analysis, modifying the final implant energy of the cluster ion through post-analysis ion optics, and implanting the dopant cluster ions into a semiconductor substrate. In general, dopant clusters contain n dopant atoms where n can be 2, 3, 4 or any integer number. This method provides the advantages of increasing the dopant dose rate to n times the implantation current with an equivalent per dopant atom energy of 1/n times the cluster implantation energy. This is an effective method for making shallow transistor junctions, where it is desired to implant with a low energy per dopant atom.
US07994030B2
The present invention provides an antenna with low resistance and a semiconductor device having an antenna whose communication distance is improved. A fluid containing conductive particles is applied over an object. After curing the fluid containing the conductive particles, the fluid is irradiated with a laser to form an antenna. As a method for applying the fluid containing the conductive particles, screen printing, spin coating, dipping, or a droplet discharging method is used. Further, a solid laser having a wavelength of 1 nm or more and 380 nm or less is used as the laser.
US07994024B2
An object cutting method which can reliably remove particles remaining on cut sections of chips is provided. An expandable tape 23 is electrically charged in a state where a plurality of semiconductor chips 25 obtained by cutting a planar object to be processed along a line to cut are separated from each other on the expandable tape 23. This electric action causes particles remaining on cut sections of the semiconductor chips 25 to eject therefrom even when a molten processed region is formed in the cut sections. Therefore, particles remaining on the cut sections of the chips 25 can reliably be removed.
US07994011B2
A method of manufacturing a nonvolatile memory device having a three-dimensional memory device includes alternately stacking a plurality of first and second material layers having a different etching selectivity on a semiconductor substrate; forming an opening penetrating the plurality of first and second material layers; removing the first material layers exposed by the opening to form extended portions extending in a direction perpendicular to the semiconductor substrate from the opening; conformally forming a charge storage layer along a surface of the opening and the extended portions; and removing the charge storage layer formed on sidewalls of the second material layers to locally form the charge storage layer patterns in the extended portions.
US07994005B2
High-mobility vertical trench DMOSFETs and methods for manufacturing are disclosed. A source region, a drain region or a channel region of a high-mobility vertical trench DMOSFET may comprise silicon germanium (SiGe) that increases the mobility of the charge carriers in the channel region. In some embodiments the channel region may be strained to increase channel charge carriers mobility.
US07994003B2
A method of fabricating a nonvolatile memory device includes forming a tunnel insulating layer on a semiconductor substrate, forming a charge storage layer on the tunnel insulating layer, forming a dielectric layer on the charge storage layer, the dielectric layer including a first aluminum oxide layer, a silicon oxide layer, and a second aluminum oxide layer sequentially stacked on the charge storage layer, and forming a gate electrode on the dielectric layer, the gate electrode directly contacting the second aluminum oxide layer of the dielectric layer.
US07994001B1
A fabrication method of a trenched power semiconductor structure with a schottky diode is provided. Firstly, a drain region is formed in a substrate. Next, at least two gate structures are formed above the drain region, and then, a body and at least a source region are formed between the two adjacent gate structures. Thereafter, a first dielectric structure is formed on the gate structure to shield the gate structure. Then, a contact window is formed in the body and has side surface thereof adjacent to the source region to expose the source region. Afterward, a second dielectric structure is formed in the contact window. Next, by using the second dielectric structure as an etching mask, the body is etched to form a narrow trench extending to the drain region below the body. Finally, a metal layer is filled into the contact window and the narrow trench.
US07994000B2
To provide a semiconductor device having a memory element, and which is manufactured by a simplified manufacturing process. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes, forming a first insulating film to cover a first semiconductor film and a second semiconductor film; forming a first conductive film and a second conductive film over the first semiconductor film and the second semiconductor film, respectively, with the first insulating film interposed therebetween; forming a second insulating film to cover the first conductive film; forming a third conductive film selectively over the first conductive film which is formed over the first semiconductor film, with the second insulating film interposed therebetween, and doping the first semiconductor film with an impurity element with the third conductive film serving as a mask and doping the second semiconductor film with the impurity element through the second conductive film.
US07993988B2
Methods for fabricating a non-planar transistor. Fin field effect transistors (finFETs) are often built around a fin (e.g., a tall, thin semiconductive member). During manufacturing, a fin may encounter various mechanical stresses, e.g., inertial forces during movement of the substrate and fluid forces during cleaning steps. If the forces on the fin are too large, the fin may fracture and possibly render a transistor inoperative. Supporting one side of a fin before forming the second side of a fin creates stability in the fin structure, thereby counteracting many of the mechanical stresses incurred during manufacturing.
US07993986B2
A device is provided that includes a structure having a sidewall surface, a layer of material provided on the sidewall surface, and a device structure provided in contact with the layer of material. Fabrication techniques includes a process that includes forming a structure having a sidewall surface, forming a layer of material on the sidewall surface, and forming a device structure in contact with the layer of material, where the device structure and the layer of material are components of a device.
US07993975B2
A semiconductor-device manufacturing method includes: forming terminals on a wafer and across each of dicing lines along which the wafer is cut into a plurality of semiconductor chips; preparing a plurality of pre-cut substrates each including a substrate body capable of being cut along corresponding one of cutting lines into a pair of same structured substrate pieces, connection pads provided on a top surface of the substrate body, and external terminals formed on a bottom surface of the substrate body and connected to the connection pads; mounting the pre-cut substrates onto the wafer while the cutting lines of the pre-cut substrates match the dicing lines; and simultaneously dicing the wafer and the pre-cut substrates along the dicing lines matching the cutting lines.
US07993970B2
A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The method is carried out by forming solder pads on a substrate by wet etching, flipping a semiconductor chip having a plurality of connection bumps formed on an active surface of the semiconductor chip for the connection bumps to be mounted by compression on the solder pads of the substrate correspondingly, at a temperature of the compression between the connection bumps and the solder pads lower than the melting points of the solder pads and the connection bumps, so as to allow the semiconductor chip to be engaged with and electrically connected to the substrate through the connection bumps and the solder pads, thereby enhancing the bonding strength of the solder pads and the connection bumps and increasing the fabrication reliability.
US07993962B2
A memory device includes two electrodes, vertically separated and having mutually opposed contact surfaces, between which lies a phase change cell. The phase change cell includes an upper phase change member, having a contact surface in electrical contact with the first electrode; a lower phase change member, having a contact surface in electrical contact with the second electrode; and a kernel member disposed between and in electrical contact with the upper and lower phase change members. The phase change cell is formed of material having at least two solid phases, and the lateral extent of the upper and lower phase change members is substantially greater than that of the kernel member. An intermediate insulating layer is disposed between the upper and lower phase change members adjacent to the kernel member.
US07993954B2
The thermal management and method for large scale processing of CIS and/or CIGS based thin film overlaying glass substrates. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a method for fabricating a copper indium diselenide semiconductor film. The method includes providing a plurality of substrates, each of the substrates having a copper and indium composite structure. The method also includes transferring the plurality of substrates into a furnace, each of the plurality of substrates provided in a vertical orientation with respect to a direction of gravity, the plurality of substrates being defined by a number N, where N is greater than 5. The method further includes introducing a gaseous species including a selenide species and a carrier gas into the furnace and transferring thermal energy into the furnace to increase a temperature from a first temperature to a second temperature, the second temperature ranging from about 350° C. to about 450° C. to at least initiate formation of a copper indium diselenide film from the copper and indium composite structure on each of the substrates.
US07993952B2
A charge transfer device 1 has an P-type region, an N-type well provided to the surficial portion of the P-type region, and transfer electrodes having P-type conductivity, provided over the N-type substrate while placing an insulating film in between.
US07993946B2
A thin film transistor array panel including a substrate, a gate line and a gate-layer signal transmitting line of a gate driving circuit portion formed on the substrate, a gate insulating layer formed on the gate line and the gate-layer signal transmitting line and having a first contact hole exposing a portion of the gate-layer signal transmitting line, a semiconductor layer formed on the gate insulating layer, a data line including a source electrode, and a drain electrode formed on the gate insulating layer and the semiconductor layer, a data-layer signal transmitting line of the gate driving circuit portion formed on the gate insulating layer and connected to the gate-layer signal transmitting line through the first contact hole, a pixel electrode connected to the drain electrode, and a passivation layer formed on the data line, the drain electrode, and the data-layer signal transmitting line of the driving circuit portion. The data line, the drain electrode, and the data-layer signal transmitting line have a triple-layered structure including a lower layer, an intermediate layer, and an upper layer. The lower layer is made of a same layer as the pixel electrode.
US07993945B2
An object is to provide a method for manufacturing a light-emitting device with high definition, high light-emitting characteristics, and the long lifetime by employing a method in which a desired evaporation pattern can be formed and an excess evaporation of a material layer which is to be the transfer layer is prevented and in which deterioration of the material or the like is hard to occur in a transfer step. This is a method for manufacturing a light-emitting device, in which irradiation with first light is performed to pattern a material layer over a first substrate which is an evaporation donor substrate and irradiation with second light is performed to evaporate the material layer patterned onto a second substrate which is a deposition target substrate.
US07993942B2
A method of detecting heavy metal in a semiconductor substrate, includes: a gate oxide film forming step of forming an organic oxide film by spin coating or a sol-gel process, and forming a metal/oxide film/semiconductor junction element by using a mercury probe method; and a step of detecting and quantifying heavy metal by calculating the surface concentration of the heavy metal from junction capacitance characteristics of the element.
US07993938B2
A method of forming a highly doped layer of AlGaN, is practiced by first removing contaminants from a MBE machine. Wafers are then outgassed in the machine at very low pressures. A nitride is then formed on the wafer and an AlN layer is grown. The highly doped GaAlN layer is then formed having electron densities beyond 1×1020 cm−3 at Al mole fractions up to 65% are obtained. These levels of doping application of n-type bulk, and n/p tunnel injection to short wavelength UV emitters. Some applications include light emitting diodes having wavelengths between approximately 254 and 290 nm for use in fluorescent light bulbs, hazardous materials detection, water purification and other decontamination environments. Lasers formed using the highly doped layers are useful in high-density storage applications or telecommunications applications. In yet a further embodiment, a transistor is formed utilizing the highly doped layer as a channel.
US07993935B2
A test strip for immunochromatography comprising a sample receiving member, a label holding member, and a chromatography membrane is described. The chromatography membrane has a first detection zone and a second detection zone. The second detection zone is formed by utilizing a blocking material and the second substance. A method for producing above the test strip is also described.
US07993934B2
A reaction method using a microreactor, comprises: forming, in a microchannel, an at least two-layered laminar flow in n kinds (n is an integer of 3 or more) of a fluid 1, a fluid 2, . . . , and a fluid n at least two kinds of which are mutually incompatible; and pulsating at least one kind of the fluids.
US07993931B1
Provided are methods and compositions for quantitatively measuring the amount of an unlabeled organic acid in a sample. Oxygen-18 labeled organic acids are used as internal standards to adjust for the loss of a structurally similar or identical unlabeled organic acid through processing required for its detection, such as by mass spectrometry. The methods of the invention are useful for diagnosing inborn errors of metabolism in an individual by quantitating signature organic acids in body fluids such as urine or plasma.
US07993926B2
The inventors herein disclose a new transporter that participates in guard cell movement. The inventors have now found that AtCHX20 is preferentially expressed in guard cells using microarray and promoter TGUS analyses. The inventors have also found a guard cell specific promoter which serves as a powerful tool to manipulate the opening and closing of guard cells and thus the ability to control water loss and gas exchange of plants. Such a tool can be particularly useful when applied to crops and other plants of economic importance, thus the present inventors have identified homologous genes in several other plants that fall within the scope of this invention.
US07993925B2
The invention relates to recombinant vectors for inducible and/or tissue specific expression of double-stranded RNA molecules that interfere with the expression of a target gene. In certain embodiments, the invention relates to the use of Tet (tetracycline)-responsive RNA Polymerase II (Pol II) promoters (e.g., TetON or TetOFF) to direct inducible knockdown in certain cells of an integrated or an endogenous gene, such as p53. The invention also relates to a method for producing transgenic animals (e.g., mice) expressing inducible (such as tetracycline-regulated), reversible, and/or tissue-specific double-stranded RNA molecules that interfere with the expression of a target gene.
US07993924B2
The present invention relates, in general, to a methodology for the generation of nonsegmented negative-strand RNA viruses (Pringle, 1991) from cloned deoxyribonucleic acid (cDNA). Such rescued viruses are suitable for use as vaccines, or alternatively, as plasmids in somatic gene therapy applications. The invention also relates to cDNA molecules suitable as tools in this methodology and to helper cell lines allowing the direct rescue of such viruses. Measles virus (MV) is used as a mode for other representatives of the Mononegavirales, in particular the family Paramyxoviridae.
US07993915B2
The present invention provides novel methods and materials for increasing the expression of recombinant polypeptides. Methods and materials of the invention allow increased expression of transcription units that include recombinant DNA sequences which encode polypeptides of interest. The present invention provides expression vectors which contain multiple copies of a transcription unit encoding a polypeptide of interest separated by at least one selective marker gene and methods for sequentially transforming or transfecting host cells with expression vectors to increase transcription unit dosage and expression.
US07993914B2
A paraquat resistance gene and a vascular tissue- and trichome-specific promoter are provided. The paraquat resistance gene and the vascular tissue- and trichome-specific promoter are isolated by identifying and analyzing genes of Arabidopsis thaliana.
US07993911B2
A multi-port liquid bridge (1) adds aqueous phase droplets (10) in an enveloping oil phase carrier liquid (11) to a draft channel (4, 6). A chamber (3) links four ports, and it is permanently full of oil (11) when in use. Oil phase is fed in a draft flow from an inlet port (4) and exits through a draft exit port (6) and a compensating flow port (7). The oil carrier and the sample droplets (3) (“aqueous phase”) flow through the inlet port (5) with an equivalent fluid flow subtracted through the compensating port (7). The ports of the bridge (1) are formed by the ends of capillaries held in position in plastics housings. The phases are density matched to create an environment where gravitational forces are negligible. This results in droplets (10) adopting spherical forms when suspended from capillary tube tips. Furthermore, the equality of mass flow is equal to the equality of volume flow. The phase of the inlet flow (from the droplet inlet port (5) and the draft inlet port (4) is used to determine the outlet port (6) flow phase.
US07993904B2
A process for the production of an optically enriched oxazolidinone of the formula (2a) or (2b), by reacting an epoxide of the formula (1) with cyanate in the presence of halo-hydrin dehalogenase.
US07993903B2
To provide a bacterium belonging to the genus Bifidobacterium which is excellent in a survival ability in the gastrointestinal tract, has an effect of inhibiting the cholesterol absorption in the intestinal tract, and is excellent in lipid metabolism ameliorating effects including decreasing the blood cholesterol level and the like, and shows a high survival rate after storage, and a cholesterol absorption inhibitor using the same. The invention provides a cholesterol absorption inhibitor containing, as an active ingredient, at least one microorganism selected from Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. animalis YIT 10394, Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis JCM 1253, Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis JCM 7117, and Bifidobacterium pseudolongum subsp. globosum.
US07993902B2
The invention relates to a plasmid-free clone of Escherichia coli strain DSM 6601, to a method for preparing the same and to the use thereof as a cloning vehicle.
US07993878B2
An IL-1β binding molecule, in particular an antibody to human IL-1β, especially a human antibody to human IL-1β is provided, wherein the CDRs of the heavy and light chains have amino acid sequences as defined, for use in the treatment of an IL-1 mediated disease or disorder, e.g. osteoarthritis, osteoporosis and other inflammatory arthritides.
US07993875B2
The present invention provides a novel β-galactoside-α2,6-sialyltransferase having high productivity and/or high activity, and a nucleic acid encoding the sialyltransferase. The present invention also provides a microorganism producing the sialyltransferase. The present invention further provides a vector carrying a nucleic acid encoding the sialyltransferase, and a host cell transformed with the vector, as well as a method for producing a recombinant β-galactoside-α2,6-sialyltransferase.
US07993865B2
The present invention provides a method of diagnosing Crohn's disease in a subject by determining the presence or absence or IgA anti-OmpC antibodies in the subject, where the presence of the IgA anti-OmpC antibodies indicates that the subject has Crohn's disease.
US07993864B2
The present invention provides a homogeneous assay for identifying an antibody producing cell producing an antibody which binds to a selected antigen comprising: a) providing a population of antibody producing cells; b) incubating said population of antibody producing cells with a selected antigen and a labeled anti-antibody antibody, wherein said anti-antibody antibody is capable of distinguishing cells producing an antibody which binds to the selected antigen from those cells which do not; and c) identifying an antibody producing cell capable of producing an antibody which binds to the selected antigen.
US07993863B2
We have discovered a protein in humans, herein referred to as collagen like gene (CLG) product (SEQ ID NOS: 12 and 13), that is expressed in human prostate cancer and breast cancer cell lines but not in normal adult, placenta, lung, liver, skeletal muscle, kidney or pancreas tissues. We have also discovered that the level of CLG mRNA expression correlates positively with the metastatic potential of the cancer cell lines tested.
US07993858B2
The present invention provides a method of predicting pregnancy outcome in a subject by determining the amount of an early pregnancy associated molecular isoform of hCG in a sample. The present invention further provides a method for determining the amount of early pregnancy associated molecular isoforms of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) in a sample. The present invention also provides a diagnostic kit for determining the amount of early pregnancy associated hCG in a sample. The present invention additionally provides an antibody which specifically binds to an early pregnancy associated molecular isoform of human chorionic gonadotropin. Finally, the present invention provides methods for detecting trophoblast or non-trophoblast malignancy in a sample.
US07993851B2
The invention provides a lysis reagent and method for preparing a test sample for use in an assay, wherein the method yields a homogeneous lysis mixture suitable for use in automated pipetting systems without the need for a centrifugation step. The lysis reagent includes a glycol and non-specific animal immunoglobulins. Other aspects of the invention include related immunoassays and test kits.
US07993842B2
The present invention provides microarrays of oligonucleotide primer pairs, and in particular, microarrays of primers that comprise at least one cleavable linkage. Also provided are methods to capture oligonucleotide primer pairs from one or more microarrays, and methods to use the captured oligonucleotide primer pairs, such as for amplification of a target polynucleotide sequence. In addition, methods of using a microarray to isolate, purify and/or amplify a target polynucleotide are provided.
US07993837B2
This invention provides a method of gene expression analysis that enables extensive gene expression analysis and simultaneous analysis of multiple samples of organisms for which genomic analysis has not yet been advanced. In this method, tags each comprising an oligonucleotide of more than 25 bp for identifying expressed genes, wherein the 3′-end of the tag is defined by a cleavage site of a type III restriction enzyme and the 5′-end thereof is defined by a cleavage site of another restriction enzyme located closest to the 3′-end of the cDNA of such genes, are immobilized on a solid support, gene-containing samples are hybridized to the solid support, and the signals emitted from the genes hybridized to the tags are detected to analyze the gene expression profiles in the samples.
US07993830B2
Disclosed are nucleic acid and amino acid sequences encoded by a novel, prostate specific gene (UC41) and diagnostic techniques for the detection of human prostate cancer utilizing such nucleic acid and amino acid sequences. Genetic probes and methods useful in monitoring the progression and diagnosis of prostate cancer are described. Methods of treatment for prostate cancer utilizing antisense constructs or antibodies specific for UC41 gene products are also described.
US07993828B2
A PCR process for DNA amplification with thermocyclisation of the corresponding reagents is disclosed, in which total integration of all substances and process steps is achieved in a closed, single-use unit (so-called cartridge) in which the reagents are stored in a storage-stable form at room temperature. According to the process, the water-soluble reagents are covered by a water-insoluble medium, then the DNA to be amplified is supplied and the water-insoluble medium is eliminated, so that the water-soluble reagents are dissolved and PCR can start. In the corresponding arrangement, a test unit designed as a single-use produce (a so-called cartridge) has at least one micro-channel or micro-cavity for receiving a PCR reagent. The PCR reagents in the form of a mixture which can be dried at a negligible vapour pressure and forms a storage-stable substance substance at room temperature adhere to the walls of the micro-channel or micro-cavity and form a thin film covered by an insoluble medium.
US07993826B2
The present invention relates to a method for investigating body fluids for cancer cells, the use thereof and corresponding analysis kits, and the possibilities for cancer treatment derived therefrom. The method is based essentially on determining the expression of the manganese superoxide dismutase, thioredoxin reductase and/or glutathione peroxidase genes. Use of this method permits in particular reliable tumor diagnosis and prognosis. Diminishing an elevated expression of these genes has therapeutic value and may be utilized for cancer treatment.
US07993819B2
Electrowetting display devices and fabrication methods thereof are presented. The electrowetting display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate with a polar fluid layer and a non-polar fluid layer insolvable to each other and interposed between the first and second substrates. A first transparent electrode is disposed on the first substrate. A second electrode is disposed on the second substrate. A dielectric layer is disposed on the second electrode. A hydrophilic partition wall structure is directly disposed on the dielectric layer defining a plurality of pixel regions. A layer of low surface energy material is disposed on the dielectric layer within each of the pixel region.
US07993817B2
A structure is provided with a self-aligned resist layer on an insulator surface and non-lithographic method of fabricating the same. The non-lithographic method includes applying a resist on a structure comprising at least one of interconnects formed in an insulator material. The method further comprises exposing the resist to energy and developing the resist to expose surfaces of the interconnects. The method further comprises depositing metal cap material on the exposed surfaces of the interconnects.
US07993815B2
Methods of forming line ends and a related memory cell including the line ends are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes forming a first device element and a second device element separated from the first device element by a space; and forming a first line extending from the first device element, the first line including a bulbous line end over the space and distanced from the first device element, and a second line extending from the second device element, the second line including a bulbous line end over the space and distanced from the second device element.
US07993813B2
A manufacturing process technology creates a pattern on a first layer using a focused ion beam process. The pattern is transferred to a second layer, which may act as a traditional etch stop layer. The pattern can be formed on the second layer without irradiation by light through a reticle and without wet chemical developing, thereby enabling conformal coverage and very fine critical feature control. Both dark field patterns and light field patterns are disclosed, which may enable reduced or minimal exposure by the focused ion beam.
US07993811B2
A positive resist composition comprises (A) a resin component which becomes soluble in an alkaline developer under the action of an acid and (B) an acid generator. The resin (A) is a polymer comprising specific recurring units, represented by formula (1). The acid generator (B) is a specific sulfonium salt compound. When processed by lithography, the composition is improved in resolution and forms a pattern with a satisfactory mask fidelity and a minimal LER. Herein R1 is H or methyl, R2 is an acid labile group, R3 is CO2R4 when X is CH2, R3 is H or CO2R4 when X is O, R4 is a monovalent C1-C20 hydrocarbon group, and m is 1 or 2.
US07993810B2
A (meth)acrylate compound having an aromatic acid-labile group, the (meth)acrylate compound being represented by the following Formula 1: In Formula I, R1 is hydrogen or methyl, R2 is hydrogen, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl, R3 is hydrogen, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl, AR is a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl, or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl having from two to four fused aromatic rings, and carbon CAR is bonded directly to an aromatic ring of AR.
US07993809B2
A photosensitive resin composition comprising: (A) a binder polymer; (B) a photopolymerizable compound that has an ethylenically unsaturated bond; and (C1) a compound represented by general formula (1) below, wherein, at least one R represents a C1-10 alkoxy group or a C1-12 alkyl group; the sum of a, b, and c is 1 to 6; and when the sum of a, b, and c is 2 to 6, each R may be the same as or different from one another.
US07993804B2
A color filter being precisely and easily manufactured while solving an alignment problem is provided. Further, a method for manufacturing a color filter structure formed in a display panel that has front and rear substrates opposed to each other is provided. This method is provided with: a first step of forming a composite layer (11, 12, 1G, 1C, 1S, 1D) that includes a pixel drive element in a rear substrate 10; a second step of patterning a first rib 42 along a boundary of a pixel region on or above the composite layer and a second rib 44 arranged in the pixel area, the second rib having a height that is smaller than that of the first rib 42 in accordance with a photolithography technique; a third step of dropping a light transmission material in a reflection region Pr defined by the first rib 42 and the second rib 44 and forming a stepped layer 7 in accordance with an ink jet technique; and a fourth step of, after the stepped layer 7 has been formed, dropping a light coloring material 9 in a region defined by the first rib 42 and forming a color layer in accordance with an ink jet technique.
US07993800B2
An active mask emits a patterned energy flux in response to an energy input.
US07993796B2
A thin wafer comprising through holes filled at least partially with conductive carbon nanotubes generally oriented transversally to the wafer. A fuel cell comprising, in a thin wafer, a through hole filled with an electrolyte surrounded with barriers of carbon nanotubes generally oriented transversally to the wafer.
US07993790B2
A fuel cell, which can increase a ratio of an area of a power generation region to an area of a fuel cell unit to increase power per unit volume and unit weight of a fuel cell. The fuel cell includes an oxidizer electrode surrounding member provided at four corners of the fuel cell unit to incorporate atmospheric oxygen through an oxidizer intake formed at a gap of the oxidizer electrode surrounding member. The fuel cell further includes a through-hole which serves as a hydrogen gas supply path for each fuel cell unit and fastens the fuel cell units in a stacking direction formed inside the oxidizer electrode surrounding member. By aligning through-holes of end plates, separator, and fuel electrode seals with each other and by allowing a stack fastening component to penetrate through the through-holes, the whole is pressed and urged to be assembled.
US07993784B2
A reaction vessel that integrates and balances an endothermic process with at least one exothermic process of the fuel cell system. Preferably the exothermic process is conducted in stages to provide more uniform and/or controllable heat generation and exchange, and to produce a uniform and/or controllable temperature profile in the endothermic reaction process. The invention allows for the elimination of the working fluid loop of prior art systems that had unsatisfactory response times at startup, and during transient conditions, and also added to the overall mass and volume of the fuel cell system.
US07993779B2
A carbon foam battery useful for electrical applications is disclosed which includes a relatively low conductivity low density high porosity carbon foam.
US07993765B2
In a perpendicular magnetic recording medium which includes a substrate (1) of a nonmagnetic material, first and second nonmagnetic underlayers (4 and 5) formed on the substrate, and a perpendicular magnetic recording layer (6) formed on the first and the second nonmagnetic underlayers, the first nonmagnetic underlayer is made of an amorphous nonmagnetic metal material containing a metal element which forms a face-centered cubic (fcc) crystal structure by a simple substance. The second nonmagnetic underlayer is formed on the first nonmagnetic underlayer in contact with the first nonmagnetic underlayer and made of a nonmagnetic material containing a hexagonal close packed structure. The perpendicular magnetic recording layer is formed on the second nonmagnetic underlayer in contact with the second nonmagnetic layer.
US07993761B2
The present invention provides a quinoxaline derivative represented by a general formula (G1). In the formula, α1 and α2 each independently represent an arylene group which has 13 or less carbon atoms forming a ring; Ar represents an aryl group which has 13 or less carbon atoms forming a ring; R1 and R6 each independently represent any of a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or an aryl group which has 13 or less carbon atoms forming a ring; and R2 to R5 and R7 to R10 each independently represent any of a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted biphenyl group.
US07993748B2
A method of making a multilayered chromonic structure comprises (a) preparing a first aqueous mixture comprising (i) a first continuous water-soluble polymer phase and (ii) a first discontinuous chromonic phase comprising a chromonic material, to form chromonic nanoparticles; (b) non-covalently crosslinking the resulting chromonic nanoparticles with a multivalent cation salt; (c) dispersing the resulting crosslinked chromonic nanoparticles in a composition comprising a chromonic material to form a chromonic nanoparticle dispersion; and (d) preparing a second aqueous mixture comprising (i) a second discontinuous chromonic phase comprising the chromonic nanoparticle dispersion and (ii) a second continuous water-soluble polymer phase, to encapsulate the chromonic nanoparticles; wherein at least one of the first discontinuous chromonic phase and the second discontinuous chromonic phase further comprises a guest compound.
US07993747B2
A light emitting composition includes a light-emitting lumophore-functionalized nanoparticle, such as an organic-inorganic light-emitting lumophore-functionalized nanoparticle. A light emitting device includes an anode, a cathode, and a layer containing such a light-emitting composition. In an embodiment, the light emitting device can emit white light.
US07993746B2
The present invention relates to flaky alpha-alumina crystals with large aspect ratio and its preparation method, and particularly to flaky alpha-alumina crystals comprising aluminum oxide, zinc oxide and tin oxide, which are prepared by obtaining a mixed gel which are prepared by obtaining a mixed gel by means of hydrolysis of an aqueous aluminum precursor solution comprising aqueous flux, aqueous zinc precursor solution and tin precursor aqueous solution, followed by aging, drying and crystallization processes. The crystals herein have an average particle thickness of 0.5 μm or less, an average particle diameter of 30 μm or higher and an aspect ratio of 100 or higher, thus being useful as a substrate of high quality pearlescent pigments, an abrasive, ceramic material and a filling material.
US07993736B2
A wood composite material comprises wood strands disposed in surface layers and one or more core layers, wherein about 70 wt % to about 98 wt % of the wood strands of the first and second surface layers are comprised of a wood species that has a density greater than a density of a wood species from which about 70 wt % to about 98 wt % of the strands in the one or more core layers are stranded.
US07993735B1
The present teachings provide an intermediate transfer member. The intermediate transfer member includes a polyimide polymer having the formula: wherein R is alkyl or aryl and the like and mixtures thereof; and n and m are the mole percent of the repeating unit.
US07993731B2
A modular tile assembly having a substantially rigid substrate, at least one sealant layer, and at least one stone, ceramic, or porcelain tile. A bottom surface of a first sealant layer being bonded to an upper surface of the substrate and a top surface of a second sealant layer being bonded to a lower surface of the substrate. The tile being bonded to at least a portion of the top surface of the first sealant layer. In one example, the substrate is provided with a tongue or a groove defined in any one, combination, or each of the respective side edges of the substrate, as desired.
US07993730B2
An electro-optical device includes: a display panel module having electronic parts provided therein; and an insulating tape that is adhered to the display panel module so as to cover the electronic parts. The insulating tape includes an adhesive portion and a non-adhesive portion. The non-adhesive portion is disposed at a position that covers a region in which the electronic parts are provided, and the adhesive portion is adhered to the display panel module in regions other than the region in which the electronic parts are provided.
US07993726B2
A matting construction includes a multilayer thickness for supporting at least a user thereon, the multilayer thickness may have an outer layer which enables a user to ambulate without slipping thereon; a compressible layer for absorbing at least a portion of the weight of the user, and a peripheral frame member disposed between the outer layer and the compressible layer. The peripheral frame member may be disposed at an angle from the horizontal and the frame member is fixedly attached between the outer layer and the compressible layer.
US07993725B2
A thermoformed product formed during a thermoforming process includes a thermoformed sheet of polymeric material having front and rear surfaces defining a thickness, and having a first section thermoformed to include a non-planar three-dimensional useful structure and at least one second section. Each of the at least one second sections have a first area of reduced thickness and have a second area including attachment structure, with the attachment structure being formed in part by material extruded from the first area into the attachment structure while the polymeric material of the sheet is hot during the thermoforming process.
US07993720B2
An information recording medium of the present invention includes recording layers 19 and 26 whose phase can change by an optical or an electrical system so as to be detectable, and interface layers 18, 20, 25 and 27, which are in contact with the recording layers 19 and 26, to serve as oxide layers. The recording layer 19 contains a Ge—Bi—Te-M material represented by a formula: GeαBiβTeγM100-α-β-γ (atom %), where M denotes at least one element selected from Al, Ga, In and Mn, and α, β and γ satisfy 25≦α≦60, 0<β≦18, 35≦γ≦55, and 82≦α+β+γ<100. The interface layers 18, 20, 25 and 27 contain at least one oxide of the element M contained in the recording layers 19 and 26.
US07993716B2
The invention relates to a process for the manufacture of an object, curved in one or more directions, from a package of at least one stacked ply containing polymeric fibers by the deforming thereof at elevated temperature, the process comprising imposing on the fibres a tensile stress at a temperature lying between the melting point of the fibers at the imposed tensile stress and 20° C. below the melting point, which tensile stress is high enough for the fibers to be drawn. This process allows objects, curved in one or more directions, to be produced from flat fiber plies without appreciable wrinkling using even fiber plies with low internal and/or mutual deformability and without material being drawn into the die in a controlled manner. The invention also relates to an object, curved in one or more directions, obtainable by the process according to the invention.
US07993710B2
A liquid crystalline medium comprises a plurality of polymerizable monomers and a plurality of liquid crystal molecules. The liquid crystal molecules are selected from at least one of compounds 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. “G1”, “G3” and “G5” are independently alkyl having 1 to 8 carbons or alkyenyl having 2 to 8 carbons. “G2” and “G6” are independently alkyl having 1 to 8 carbons or alkoxy having 1 to 7 carbons. “G4” is alkyl of 1 to 8 carbons, alkyenyl of 2 to 8 carbons or alkoxy of 1 to 7 carbons. “Z1” is single bond, ethyl or methoxy. “Z2” is single bond, ethyl, methoxy, or caroboxyl. “Z3” is single bond, ethyl, difluoromethoxy, difluoropropoxy or ethyl carboxyl. “Z4” is single bond, ethyl, difluoromethoxy, or difluoropropoxy. are independently 1,4-cyclohexylene or 1,4-phenylene. One of “E1” and “E2” is fluorine, and the other is chlorine.
US07993709B2
A process for treating lignocellulosic material, such as wood for example, the process including the steps of: a) providing lignocellulosic material; b) evaluating parameters of the lignocellulosic material; c) preparing the lignocellulosic material; d) heating the lignocellulosic material in a treatment chamber following a given profile based on parameters of the lignocellulosic material; e) stabilizing the lignocellulosic material; and f) cooling down the lignocellulosic material. The process enables to improve the quality of the wood being treated, while ensuring a greater repeatability and uniformity of coloring results, and overcoming drawbacks associated with conventional torrefaction methods.
US07993708B2
A method of operating a power generating system including a fuel cell coupled to an electrical buffer, wherein the fuel cell is further coupled to a steam reformer, comprising adjusting operation of the reformer based on a voltage affected by the electrical buffer while maintaining a steam to carbon ratio of the reformer to control charging of the electrical buffer by the fuel cell.
US07993699B2
A metallized aluminum substrate for mounting a semiconductor device such as LD or LED is provided and a metallized aluminum nitride substrate having excellent dimensional accuracy and high bonding strength of a wiring pattern. An intermediate material substrate is provided, comprising a sintered aluminum nitride substrate having on its surface a wiring pattern constituted of a conductor layer composed of a composition containing at least high-melting point metal powder, aluminum nitride powder and a sintering auxiliary agent for aluminum nitride is prepared. Then, the intermediate material substrate is fired while the sintered aluminum nitride obtained by sintering using a sintering auxiliary agent of the same kind as that of the sintering auxiliary agent contained in the composition is placed so as to be brought into contact with the conductor layer on the surface of the intermediate material substrate or so as to be present in the vicinity of the conductor layer.
US07993695B2
The object of the present invention is a novel transformation process of fruits and vegetables for manufacturing industrial derivatives such as hypoallergenic juices, puree and concentrates, etc. mainly intended for individuals suffering from OAS (Oral Allergy Syndrome) following the consumption of traditional industrial derivatives, but also for general consumption to prevent sensitization in atopic patients. In a second aspect, the present invention also relates to the products obtainable by means of said process.
US07993694B2
The invention relates to an appliance (1) for cooking food, the appliance comprising firstly a receptacle (2) for containing the food and secondly a blade (8) placed within the receptacle (2), said receptacle (2) and blade (8) being designed to be driven with relative rotary motion so as to stir the food in the receptacle (2), the appliance being characterized in that the blade (8) includes turnover means (13) shaped to act under the effect of the relative rotary motion to cause at least a fraction of the food to turn over in a turnover direction (D) that presents, in the plane of the rotary motion, a majority component that is radial.
US07993688B2
The invention relates to a method of preparing a liquid, which contains proteins (esp. haze sensitive proteins), for subsequent separation of at least haze-forming material, when predetermined filter aids are used. The method includes the addition of protein-complexing agent to the liquid, which agent is capable of forming a complex with at least some sensitive proteins of the liquid, to result in a limitation of the residual haze of the liquid, obtained after the separation (e.g. filtration), step.
US07993684B2
Alveolar bone resorption, periodontal membrane loss, and gingival recession can be inhibited by administering 500 mg to 2000 mg per day of calcium, 10 mg to 40 mg per day of soy isoflavone aglycone, and vitamin D3 to persons having a tendency for decreased bone density, postmenopausal women, and periodontal disease patients in a maintenance phase; and even an extended period of administration provides a high degree of safety.
US07993683B2
Compositions comprising: saligenin or derivatives thereof or Salix ssp extracts containing from 10 to 50% of saligenin; substantially pure andrographolide or andrographolide enriched Andrographis paniculata extract containing from 5 to 30% of andrographolide; optionally N-acetyl-glucosamine and/or glucuronic acid or glucuronolactone.
US07993666B2
Methods and compositions are provided for reducing, treating or preventing pain and/or inflammation in a patient in need of such treatment, the methods and compositions comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a statin or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof to a target tissue site beneath the skin.
US07993660B2
A method of increasing immunological effect in a patient by administering an effective amount of a primary cell derived biologic to the patient, inducing immune production, blocking immune destruction, and increasing immunological effect in the patient. Methods of treating an immune target, treating a tumor, immune prophylaxis, and preventing tumor escape.
US07993656B2
The invention provides modified Clostridial toxins comprising a Clostridial toxin enzymatic domain, a Clostridial toxin translocation domain, a translocation facilitating domain and an altered target domain; polynucleotide molecules encoding such modified Clostridial toxins; and methods of producing such modified Clostridial toxins.
US07993650B2
A polypeptide is provided, which has a binding affinity for HER2 and which is related to a domain of staphylococcal protein A (SPA) in that the sequence of the polypeptide corresponds to the sequence of the SPA domain having from 1 to about 20 substitution mutations. Nucleic acid encoding the polypeptide, as well as expression vector and host cell for expressing the nucleic acid, are also provided. Also provided is the use of such a polypeptide as a medicament, and as a targeting agent for directing substances conjugated thereto to cells overexpressing HER2. Methods, and kits for performing the methods, are also provided, which methods and kits rely on the binding of the polypeptide to HER2.
US07993648B2
A synergistic adjuvant is provided comprising synergistically effective amounts of at least one type 1 interferon and at least one CD40 agonist, wherein these moieties may be in the same or separate compositions. In addition, fusion proteins and DNA conjugates which contain a type 1 interferon/CD40 agonist/antigen combination are provided. The use of these compositions, protein and DNA conjugates as immune adjuvants for treatment of various chronic diseases such as HIV infection and for enhancing the efficacy of vaccines (prophylactic and therapeutic) is also provided.
US07993646B2
The invention features hK1 binding polypeptides as well as compositions comprising such polypeptides and methods of making and using such polypeptides.
US07993634B2
Biocompatible intraocular implants, such as microparticles, include a prostamide component and a biodegradable polymer that is effective in facilitating release of the prostamide component into an eye for an extended period of time. The prostamide component may be associated with a biodegradable polymer matrix, such as a matrix of a two biodegradable polymers. Or, the prostamide component may be encapsulated by the polymeric component. The present implants include oil-in-oil emulsified implants or microparticles. Methods of producing the present implants are also described. The implants may be placed in an eye to treat or reduce a at least one symptom of an ocular condition, such as glaucoma.
US07993630B2
The present invention discloses certain heterocyclic complexes of metals of formula (I), especially those of manganese, which enhance the safety and efficacy of sunscreens via urocanate pathway modulation. The present invention also discloses a method for topical application of said complexes, which causes the reduction of topical peroxide including hydrogen peroxide, the reduction of topical inflammation including sunburn, increased sun protection of skin, comprehensive protection from UVA, UVB, and UVC, reduction of radiation-initiated inflammation, the reduction of skin wrinkles, acne, and overall treatment of skin damaged from natural aging and exposure to sun:
US07993627B2
This invention provides methods of screening compounds for their ability to alter the production of Aβ(x≧41) alone or in combination with Aβ(x≦40). The methods involve administering compounds to cells, specifically measuring the amounts of Aβ(x≦40) and Aβ(x≧41) produced by the cells, and comparing these amounts to that produced by the cells without administration of the compounds.
US07993625B1
The invention discloses a pharmaceutical composition of bioactive nanoparticles composed of chitosan, poly-glutamic acid, and a pegylated bioactive agent for oral delivery. The chitosan-based nanoparticles are characterized with a positive surface charge and enhanced permeability for oral drug delivery.
US07993616B2
The disclosure provides methods and systems for sequestering and/or reducing sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides and/or carbon dioxide present in industrial effluent fluid streams. A solid particulate material comprising a slag component, a binder component (distinct from the slag component), and optionally water is formed and then contacted with the effluent fluid stream to reduce at least one of the sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, and/or carbon dioxide. The contacting of the effluent stream may occur in a packed bed reactor with the solid dry particulate material. Methods of reducing pollutants from exhaust generated by combustion sources, lime and/or cement kilns, iron and/or steel furnaces, and the like are provided.
US07993614B2
A method for recovering tungsten from a reaction mixture obtained by reacting an organic compound with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of a tungsten catalyst comprising blowing a gas into the reaction mixture to precipitate tungstic acid (WO3.H2O) and separating tungstic acid precipitated.
US07993613B2
The disclosed invention provides water-insoluble, water-immiscible extraction reagent compositions comprising an extractant reagent comprising one or more aldoxime extractants, optionally including one or more ketoxime extractants, in combination with one or more ether or polyether equilibrium modifiers, or mixtures thereof, selected from the compounds of Formula I-III:
US07993612B2
A process for recovering rare earth elements from a composite ore containing rare earth elements that includes a monazite group mineral and an apatite mineral, includes pre-leaching the composite ore with an acid so as to substantially dissolve the apatite mineral into the leach liquor and precipitating rare earth elements from the pre-leach liquor. The residue of the pre-leaching step is subjected to an acid bake treatment, followed by a water leach, to produce a water leach liquor rich in rare earth elements. Impurities including thorium and iron are separated from the water leach liquor by introducing a neutralizing additive to the water leach liquor rich in rare earth elements, and rare earth elements are precipitated from the post-neutralization liquor.
US07993606B2
An adaptive membrane structure is provided. The adaptive membrane structure has movable membranes that can be made to change its gas, liquid or particulate permeability in response to surrounding environmental conditions. Such adaptive membrane structures can be used to provide protective apparel that is comfortable to wear wherein the level of protection provided is based on conditions in the environment. The adaptive membrane structures can be used to provide protective enclosures.
US07993605B2
A production apparatus, for producing a probe array, comprises a liquid discharging device for discharging a liquid containing a probe capable of being specifically bonded to a target substance in order to form a spot on the carrier, a detector for detecting whether the spot is formed or not by observing a surface state on the carrier, and a controller for controlling the liquid discharge device to again discharge the liquid to form the spot on the carrier if the detector detects that the spot has not been formed on the carrier.
US07993591B2
A spouted bed device of the present invention includes a cylinder which extends vertically; a closing plate which closes a top end of the cylinder; a decreasing diameter member which is formed at a bottom end of the cylinder, has an inside diameter that decreases progressively downward, and has a gas inlet orifice at a bottom end thereof; and a gas discharge nozzle which passes through the cylinder from an inside surface to an outside surface thereof and which discharges gas from a treatment zone enclosed by a top surface of the decreasing diameter member, a bottom surface of the closing plate and the inside surface of the cylinder. The gas discharge nozzle is provided above a spouted bed which is formed within treatment zone.
US07993586B2
Disclosed is a total organic carbon (TOC) measurement apparatus capable of facilitating reduction in size of the apparatus and achieving enhanced measurement accuracy. The TOC measurement apparatus includes an organics oxidation unit, a carbon-dioxide separation unit and a conductivity measurement unit, which are integrally formed by laminating a plurality of plates to define therebetween and incorporate therein an oxidizing flow passage, an aqueous-sample flow passage, a gas permeable membrane, a measurement-water flow passage and a conductivity measuring electrode. The TOC measurement apparatus is designed such that carbon oxide in an aqueous sample is transferred from the aqueous-sample flow passage to the measurement-water flow passage through the gas permeable membrane, and a conductivity of measurement water which contains the carbon oxide and flows through a flow passage facing the conductivity measuring electrode is determined and converted to a TOC content.
US07993576B2
A method for producing a sintered body includes: a) molding a composition containing a powder primarily made of an inorganic material and a binder including an aliphatic carbonic acid ester based resin in a predetermined shape so as to obtain a compact; b) exposing the compact to a first atmosphere containing an alkaline gas and thus decomposing and removing the aliphatic carbonic acid ester based resin from the compact so as to obtain a degreased body; and c) sintering the degreased body so as to obtain a sintered body.
US07993572B2
A screw conveyor for conveying an object to be conveyed, supported by a casing 1 by rotation of a screw 2, in which wear of a screw blade and decrease in conveyance efficiency are prevented without the need for extra power. Load on an electric motor 3 or the like for rotating the screw 2 or a value corresponding to the load is measured, and if the value is equal to or larger than a preset upper limit value, a screw shaft 2a is lifted up to increase a gap between an edge of the screw blade 2b and a bottom portion of the casing 1.
US07993571B2
A ceramic component is provided, including a ceramic body containing silicon carbide, and an oxide layer provided on the ceramic body, the oxide layer being formed by oxidizing the ceramic body in the presence of alumina having a submicron particle size.
US07993570B2
A cementitious product and method of modifying the properties of a low or medium density FRC product by providing a predetermined pore size distribution. The pore size distribution is obtained such that in critical zones of the distribution, the pore volume is substantially equivalent to or less than the pore volume in a respective critical zone of a conventional high density FRC product. The resultant material provides improved properties over conventional medium density FRC products, in particular improved freeze/thaw durability and/or improved workability.
US07993566B2
The present invention relates to a method and a device for alleviating and/or preventing conditions relating to damaged joints. The device may be formed by moulding. Also the device may be formed with a hole or a slit to fit into the joint and lock the device around intra-articular components. A further aspect of invention relates to method for introducing the prosthetic device into a joint, such as a method comprising locking the device to an intro-articutar component. Also the invention relates to an instrument for inserting a prosthetic device according to the invention.
US07993555B2
Provided are a structure of molding tools and an injection molding device that can easily perform molding of an optical element even from a resin of low velocity or the like and can suppress any negative effects by air. The structure of the molding tools includes between the molding tools (61, 62) a fixed molding tool (61) and a movable molding tool (62) and an O-ring (63a) for keeping air tightness and a resin seal (63b) for preventing any resin leakage. The O-ring (63a) performs decreasing of the pressure in a cavity (CV) formed by joining the molding tools (61, 62), whereby the vacuum molding in which resin supply and resin curing is carried out under a decreased pressure can be performed. Accordingly, the effects such as prevention of air bubbling due to air trapping by injected resin within the cavity (CV) can be attained. Furthermore, the resin seal (63b) can prevent any resin leakage from the molding tools (61, 62) even when the resin having a low viscosity is used.
US07993553B2
The invention relates to composite compositions having a matrix of polymer networks and dispersed phases of particulate or fibrous materials. The matrix is filled with a particulate phase, which can be selected from one or more of a variety of components, such as fly ash particles, axially oriented fibers, fabrics, chopped random fibers, mineral fibers, ground waste glass, granite dust, or other solid waste materials. A system for providing shape and/or surface features to a moldable material includes, in an exemplary embodiment, at least two first opposed flat endless belts spaced apart a first distance, with each having an inner surface and an outer surface.
US07993541B1
The present application is directed to the preparation and use of a class of nanoparticles that contain a single Quantum Confined dopant. A QCA nanocrystal comprises of a plurality of host atoms in a nanocrystal of a size of less than 10 nm with a single atom of a dopant (or activator). This single QCA dopant, when confined, becomes polarized and creates a large magnetic-moment in a nanosize host that contains atoms of unpaired spins. The quantum confined atom (QCA) which is now pinned, triggers the alignment of the host atoms resulting in nanosize magnetic domain. Engineering of nanomagnets based on QCA nanoparticles can be used in different applications such as: sensors, drug delivery, bio-tagging, cell/DNA tagging, magnetic memories and others.
US07993532B2
The present inventions relate to water and wastewater treatment devices including stationary cloth filter media support structures forming effluent plenums for the filtered influent and self-aligning backwash assemblies for efficient periodic cleaning of the cloth filter media.
US07993521B2
A plant for generating biogas from organic biodegradable material containing liquid and solid components, such as waste products, in particular liquid manure from agricultural enterprises, comprises a biogas generation container (9) having a feed for the degradable material and a biogas collection zone (6) having a biogas outlet, and a flotation separation unit having a microbubble generation unit (15) for separating off the solid components from the liquid components of the degradable material. The flotation separation unit comprises a chamber region (14) which is delimited in the interior of the biogas generation container and essentially active in the direction of gravity and having a closed bottom and an open upper end arranged below the liquid level of the biogas generation container. Clarified liquid form the chamber region and a gas, in particular the biogas from the biogas collection region, can be fed to the microbubble generation unit for charging the liquid with gas. The outlet of the microbubble generation unit is connected to an inlet (18) of the chamber region in order to recycle microbubble-forming clarified liquid to the chamber region. Near the bottom of the chamber region, an outlet (116) for clarified liquid from the chamber region is provided. The flotation separation takes place in the chamber region in countercurrent flow to the ascending microbubbles.
US07993508B2
Electrochemical cells including a casing or cup for direct electrical contact with a negative electrode or counter electrode and serving as the current collector for the electrode. The casing includes a substrate having a plated coating of an alloy including copper, tin and zinc, the coating having a composition gradient between the substrate and the external surface of the coating wherein the copper content is greater adjacent the substrate than at the external surface of the coating and the tin content is greater at the external surface of the coating than adjacent the substrate. Methods for forming a coated casing and an electrochemical cell including a coated casing are disclosed, preferably including providing an electrode casing with a coating utilizing variable current density plating that reduces discoloration of a surface exposed to the ambient atmosphere.
US07993502B2
An electrolytic bath includes a shell, an upper cover joined on an upper end of the shell, an outer supporting member held in the shell, a hollow cylindrical positive electrode plate held in the outer supporting member, a hollow cylindrical negative electrode plate held in the positive electrode plate, an inner supporting member held in the negative electrode plate, a lower cover joined on a lower end of the shell, and a base member on a bottom of the lower cover; a space exists between the positive and the negative electrode plates; the electrolytic bath has a waste water outlet and a water outlet hole for acid waste water and alkaline water to flow out therethrough respectively; because the electrode plates are hollow cylindrical and completely open, they can't change shape easily, and there is no need for a separating plate, and scale can't form on the electrode plates easily.
US07993501B2
In various embodiments, the present invention provides an electrolytic cell contact bar having a first pole and a pair of second poles. The second poles are opposite in charge to the first pole and each of the pair of second poles are adjacent to and parallel to the first pole. In various embodiments, the contact bar may include an electrode holder capable of holding at least one electrode.
US07993498B2
An apparatus and method designed to remove metals from a wafer surface using an electrolytic removal process. The apparatus includes a conductive pad having a plurality of alternating cathodes and anodes provided with a power source. The conductive pad is structured and configured to contact all metal islands on a surface of the wafer. Gaps are provided between pairs of the plurality of alternating cathodes and anodes.
US07993492B2
The invention relates to an apparatus used in the formation of paper. More specifically the present invention is directed to an apparatus for maintaining the hydrodynamic processes involved in the formation of a fiber mat or paper sheet. The performance of this apparatus is not affected by the velocity of the paper machine, the basis weight of the paper sheet and or the thickness of the mat being formed.
US07993487B2
In the present invention, two coil-shaped probes each detecting the intensity of a magnetic field in a direction around a center axis of a processing space are provided in a process vessel of a plasma processing apparatus. Each of the probes detects an induced electromotive force generated in the coil, and a computer calculates an amount of radio-frequency current from the induced electromotive force, based on a predetermined calculation principle. A difference between the amounts of the radio-frequency current detected by the probes is calculated, and a loss radio-frequency current amount passing out of a plasma area between upper and lower electrodes is calculated, whereby the flow of the radio-frequency current in the plasma is known.
US07993482B2
The present invention relates to a process for transferring at least one coating onto at least one geometrically defined surface of a lens substrate to produced a lens substrate coated with at least one functional coating adhering to at least one geometrically defined surface through a layer of transparent adhesive composition.
US07993478B2
A method for applying multiple polymeric coatings onto a fibrous substrate. More particularly, a method for applying multiple polymeric coatings onto fibrous substrates without regard to chemical or physical incompatibilities of the polymeric coating materials. A first polymeric material is applied onto at least one fibrous substrate, and a second polymeric material is applied onto a support. The fibrous substrate and support are joined, contacting the first polymeric material with the second polymeric material, followed by separating the support from the fibrous substrate, such that at least a portion of the second polymeric material remains on the first polymeric material on the fibrous substrate.
US07993467B2
An apparatus and method are provided to remove matte-sticking adhered to an inner surface of an inclined rear jacket of an exhaust gas hood for collecting exhaust gas discharged during the converter operation in copper smelting. Scraping means 10a˜10f are each provided with a scraping part 20 for scraping off matte-sticking by moving slidably across the inner surface of the rear jacket 8 by driving means 11 from a sidewall of the exhaust gas hood to at least over the centerline L of the width of the rear jacket 8. The scraping means are arranged in pairs at both right and left sidewalls of the exhaust gas hood 6 in multiple levels along the inclination of the rear jacket 8, thereby allowing the matte-sticking adhered to the rear jacket 8 to be removed over almost its entire surface.
US07993462B2
A substrate-supporting device has a top surface for placing a substrate thereon composed of a plurality of surfaces separated from each other and defined by a continuous concavity being in gas communication with at least one through-hole passing through the substrate-supporting device in its thickness direction. The continuous concavity is adapted to allow gas to flow in the continuous concavity and through the through-hole under a substrate placed on the top surface.
US07993459B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide an effective way of replenishing particulate material for vaporization. This object is achieved by a method for delivering material into a deposition chamber having a vaporization zone to vaporize such material to form a layer. The improvement includes providing a cartridge defining a cavity for receiving material under a controlled environment for preventing material contamination, receiving material from the cavity and translating such received material along a feed path to the vaporization zone and removably securing the cartridge to the deposition chamber.
US07993456B2
The present invention relates to a device for carrying out a surface treatment of substrates under vacuum, which comprises a housing (1) comprising chambers (2-5) communicate with a vacuum source, at least one of which chambers serves as vacuum lock to the remaining chambers when surface treatment processes are in progress. The housing (1) is divided into an upper and a lower housing half (6, 7) of which at least one has symmetrically distributed recesses (8). Pivotally mounted between the housing halves (6, 7) is a revolver (9), which comprises recesses (10) in which substrate to be treated is placed. The housing halves (6, 7) are designed to be in two positions, in the first of which they are separated from the revolver (9) and in the second of which they are in contact therewith. In the first position the revolver (9) is designed to be turned to predefined rotational positions at which recesses in the housing halves (6, 7) and the revolver (9) coincide in the chambers (2-5). In the first position the vacuum lock can be opened and evacuated without disturbing the vacuum in other parts of the housing (1).
US07993452B2
A role of a bottom face of a silicon wafer is identified in a manufacturing process of the silicon wafer. And preferable characteristic feature is also identified. In order to obtain the above characteristic feature, a process method to be implemented into the method of manufacturing a normal silicon wafer is provided. For example, the method comprises: a pre-cleaning process for cleaning the silicon wafer having top and bottom faces processed to a mirror finish; and a rapid thermal process or an epitaxial growth process, wherein the pre-cleaning process comprises a hydrofluoric acid (HF) process and a subsequent pure water (DIW) process.
US07993450B2
The object is to remove unburned carbon in a fly ash in a stable and economically advantageous manner. A fly ash, water and a trapping agent are mixed together in a hybrid mixer (2), a shearing force is applied to the mixture to prepare a slurry containing surface-modified unburned carbon within a short time, a foaming agent is added to the slurry, and then the unburned carbon is separated by performing flotation separation in a flotator (11).
US07993435B2
A process for cracking hydrocarbon feedstock containing resid comprising: heating the feedstock, mixing the heated feedstock with a fluid and/or a primary dilution steam stream to form a mixture, flashing the mixture to form a vapor phase and a liquid phase which collect as bottoms and removing the liquid phase, separating and cracking the vapor phase, and cooling the product effluent, wherein the bottoms are maintained under conditions to effect at least partial visbreaking. The visbroken bottoms may be steam stripped to recover the visbroken molecules while avoiding entrainment of the bottoms liquid. An apparatus for carrying out the process is also provided.
