US08064729B2
Methods and apparatus for detecting skew in a document image, such as a check image, to produce a de-skewed image are described. One example method includes detecting one or more lines in the image and determining whether the one or more lines are reliable. Reliability of a line may be based on at least one of line length, straightness, and the presence of holes in the line. If one or more lines are reliable, the method may calculate a skew angle of the image based on the one or more reliable lines' orientations with respect to an orientation of the image. A comparison may also be made between lines detected in different regions of the check to determine if a difference between skew angles corresponding to each of the compared lines is lower than an error threshold.
US08064728B2
The formation of marks on devices is described. In one embodiment, a method for marking a device includes forming a plurality of unique marks sequentially on a device. The method includes defining a virtual array having a plurality of cells extending in an x-direction and a plurality of cells extending in a y-direction, wherein the marks are each positioned in a cell in the virtual array. The method also includes capturing an image including the relative cell position of the marks within the virtual array and converting the relative position of the marks within the virtual array into a set of coordinates including an x value along the x-direction and a y value along the y-direction for each of the marks. The method also includes generating a device identification using a plurality of the x values and the y values. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08064707B2
The invention provides an image recognition method. First, it is judged whether a set of discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients corresponding to an image and/or a set of texture parameters corresponding to the DCT coefficients exist. If the judgment is no, the image is selectively performed a DCT or an inverse discrete cosine transform (IDCT) to generate the set of DCT coefficients based on a format of the image. Based on the set of DCT coefficients, the set of texture parameters is then generated. Afterward, the set of texture parameters is compared with a set of target texture parameters to generate a recognition result.
US08064694B2
Systems and methods of classifying pixels into a nonhuman animal integument class are described. In one aspect, values of features in a discriminant space are determined for respective pixels of the input image. The pixels are classified into a nonhuman animal integument class based on the respective feature values and a mapping that segments the discriminant space into one or more regions of feature values representing pixels associated with a nonhuman animal integument characteristic and one or more regions of feature values representing pixels unassociated with the nonhuman animal integument characteristic.
US08064685B2
A method, device, system, and computer program for object recognition of a 3D object of a certain object class using a statistical shape model for recovering 3D shapes from a 2D representation of the 3D object and comparing the recovered 3D shape with known 3D to 2D representations of at least one object of the object class.
US08064674B2
Dixon methods in magnetic resonance imaging generate MRI images that may contain at least two tissue components such as fat and water. Dixon methods generate images containing both tissue components and predominantly one tissue component. A first segmentation of a first tissue component is generated in a T1 weighted image. The segmentation is correlated with at least a first and a second Dixon image. The image with the highest correlation is assigned the first tissue component.
US08064672B2
An imaging system (10) comprises a data device (30), which controls radiation data acquisition from a subject positioned in an examination region (18) for an examination. A rebinning processor (40) bins the acquired data periodically into a histogram (42). A transform (70) transforms the histogram (42) into individual independent or uncorrelated components, each component including a signal content and a noise content. A stopping determining device (52) compares an aspect of at least one selected component to a predetermined threshold (TH) and, based on the comparison, terminates the data acquisition.
US08064656B2
Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus, including a representative face extraction unit configured to detect face images in an image frame that forms part of video image data, and select, from the detected face images, a face image to be used as index information. The representative face extraction unit is configured to calculate a score of each of the face images detected in the image frame based on characteristics of the face image, and select a detected face image whose score is high as an index-use face image.
US08064655B2
An face image detection device capable of detecting the location of the face image with high accuracy without increasing time for detecting the location of the face image or electric consumption required for detecting the location of face image includes: a rotated reduced image data generation unit operable to generate n pieces of rotated reduced image data by reducing the input image data and rotating the reduced input image data by 360 ×i/n, where n is an integer equal to or larger than 2 and i ranges from 0 to n−1, each of the rotated reduced image data is rotated at intervals of 360/n degrees; and a face detection unit operable to detect the location of the face image from among the n pieces of rotated reduced image data.
US08064654B2
Disclosed is a method for correcting a facial region detected from image data for photoprinting of improved image quality. The method includes an image data input step of inputting the image data to an image processing device; facial region detection step of extracting a skin color region from the inputted image data and detecting a planar face or a rotated planar face from a face-existing candidate region; a region division step of dividing the facial region detected in the facial region detection step; a correction step of extracting a distortion data value from the region divided in the region division step and conducting correction; and a photoprinting step of visually outputting the image data finally corrected in the correction step. Various types of distortion of the facial image is effectively corrected before it is printed by a photoprinter so that the image quality is improved.
US08064649B2
A plurality of iris images are acquired (SA0), and aggregation of iris images of which distribution of pupil openings is uniform is acquired from the plurality of iris images by duplication and/or deletion (SA1). Features are generated from the respective iris images that belong to the aggregation (SA2), and a predetermined number of registration features are selected from the features, using authentication performance as an evaluation index.
US08064645B1
A method of authenticating users is provided that includes capturing biometric authentication data of a user and processing the captured biometric data into an image. Moreover, the method includes determining a region of interest of the image and a gray scale image from the image, determining an optimum transformation parameter set within the region of interest, and aligning the gray scale image with an enrollment gray scale image generated during enrollment of the user using results of the optimum transformation parameter set determination. Furthermore, the method includes extracting biometric feature data from the gray scale image and verifying an identity of the user with extracted biometric feature data included in a region of agreement.
US08064642B2
A method and apparatus to develop an advanced correlation model of movement of a target within a patient, which needs less data points and can adapt to the changes of respiration behavior automatically.
US08064640B2
A software application to generate a Precision Fires Image (PFI) which provides a precision targeting coordinate to guide an air launched weapon using a forward deployed hand held hardware device executing the PFI software application. Suitable hardware devices to execute the PFI software application include the Windows CE handheld and the Army Pocket Forward Entry Device (PFED). Precision targeting coordinates derived from the PFI software application are compatible with most military target planning and weapon delivery systems.
US08064639B2
A system and method are provided for tracking a face moving through multiple frames of a video sequence. A predicted position of a face in a video frame is obtained. Similarity matching for both a color model and an edge model are performed to derive correlation values for each about the predicted position. The correlation values are then combined to determine a best position and scale match to track a face in the video.
US08064637B2
A method and system for identifying a fluorescence mark in a printed document includes using an image acquisition device to derive an input digital image. For each pixel of at least one of the input image color channels, the gray value is adjusted to define a filtered digital image including a plurality of pixels each defined by an adjusted gray value. A binary image is derived that that represents the filtered digital image. The binary image includes a binary representation of the fluorescence mark and a binary representation of the background. At least one morphological operation is performed on the binary image. An ASCII character for the binary representation of the fluorescence mark (or each constituent character thereof) is derived and compared to a known security code to authenticate the printed document.
US08064632B2
An interference filter having a plurality of layers and a spectrum as a function of angle of observation is combined with a metameric element adjacent the interference filter and appearing to have a same color as the interference filter at at least one angle of observation and a contrasting color as said interference filter at least one other angle of observation. A plurality of interference filter layers, including a metallic layer, can be provided on a support structure for the layers. The support structure is then adapted to allow the layers to be seen from a top and a bottom side, with the layers being adapted to have different spectra as a function of angle of observation in reflection and transmission.
US08064626B2
A loudspeaker apparatus includes an acoustic diaphragm; a support member having a housing, which is a hole in a surface of the support member facing the acoustic diaphragm; a magnetostrictive actuator having a magnetostrictor and a drive rod coupled to an end of the magnetostrictor, the magnetostrictive actuator being inserted into the housing such that the drive rod contacts the acoustic diaphragm, the magnetostrictive actuator applying vibration to the acoustic diaphragm; and a spring inserted into the housing from a position opposite to a position of the drive rod of the magnetostrictive actuator, the spring pressing the magnetostrictive actuator toward the acoustic diaphragm and applying a load to the magnetostrictor.
US08064624B2
A stereo signal with enhanced perceptual quality using a mid-signal and a side-signal, can be generated, when a enhanced side signal is created prior to the upmix of the stereo signal. A decorrelated representation of at least a portion of the sum signal and/or a decorrelated representation of at least a portion of the side-signal is generated. The enhanced side-signal is generated combining a representation of the side-signal with the decorrelated representation of the portion of the mid signal, with the decorrelated representation of the side-signal and the decorrelated representation of the portion of the mid-signal or with the portion of the mid-signal and the decorrelated representation of the portion of the side-signal. The stereo signal with enhanced perceptual quality is created using a representation of the mid-signal and the enhanced side-signal.
US08064618B2
A direction detection apparatus is disclosed. The direction detection apparatus includes a distribution obtainment section, an emphasis section, and a direction selection section. The distribution obtainment section obtains a distribution of intensities of sounds in a predetermined directional range. The emphasis section emphasizes sounds in the distribution of the intensities of the sounds obtained by the distribution obtainment section, wherein the emphasis section emphasizes the sounds in a second directional range which is a narrower directional range than the predetermined directional range and a center of the second directional range corresponds to a direction represented by selection information. The direction selection section decides a direction to be selected next based on the distribution of the intensities of the sounds which are output from the emphasis section and outputs the direction decided to be selected next as the selection information.
US08064615B2
An audio signal processing apparatus comprising: an audio data generation part for generating third audio data from first audio data and second audio data, the first audio data including first L-channel data and first R-channel data which are alternately and serially arranged in a word unit, the second audio data including second L-channel data and second R-channel data which are alternately and serially arranged in the word unit, and the third audio data including the first L-channel data and the second L-channel data which are alternately and serially arranged in the word unit; a DA conversion part for dividing the third audio data into the first L-channel data and the second L-channel data and converting the first L-channel data and the second L-channel data into a first analog signal and a second analog signal, respectively; and a combining part for combining the first analog signal with the second analog signal to form a third analog signal.
US08064612B2
A subtractor subtracts a first control signal output from a first bandpass filter from an error signal, and supplies a differential signal to a second bandpass filter. The second bandpass filter, which has a central frequency of 70 Hz, is affected by an operation of the first bandpass filter, i.e., a first control signal, which has a central frequency of 40 Hz. The first bandpass filter is not affected by an operation of the second bandpass filter, i.e., the second control signal.
US08064610B2
The present invention is an ambient noise canceling physiological acoustic monitoring system and method. The system and method utilizes a plurality of microphones to collect input data including ambient noise signals, bed frame noise signals and patient respiratory and cardiac data signals. The system and method cancels the ambient noise and bed frame noise signals, and calculates a filtered audio output signal with an algorithm that utilizes ECG rhythm patterns and impedance pneumography. The set of input data and the filtered audio output signal are then displayed in real time.
US08064600B2
A system for encrypting and decrypting data is provided. The system includes a client for receiving a data packet, setting a value of a crypto bit, and transmitting the data packet over a system bus. A crypto module receives the data packet from the system bus and performs a cryptology function on the data packet based on a first value of the crypto bit. A memory controller receives the data packet from the system bus and performs non-cryptology functions on the data packet based on a second value of the crypto bit.
US08064589B2
Method and system of estimating a number of agents to service contacts arriving on multiple chat channels in an automatic contact distribution system. In some embodiments, estimated average times that agents and contacts spend, respectively, composing a single chat message and an estimated average time of a chat session are used to derive an inflated handle time for any selected number of chat channels, an effective number of agents is computed for the inflated handle time, and that effective number of agents is divided by the selected number of channels.
US08064586B2
A real-time, interactive system and method of building a list of contact records, such as a mailing list, on a computer network based on selected criteria. A list specification is generated, which may include interactively specifying a geographically defined area for which a contact list is desired including receiving user input, and interactively selecting a product from a plurality of products and a threshold score for the product including receiving user input. The list specification may be transmitted over the computer network to a server where the contact list is built in real-time based on the list specification. If a set of characteristics of the contact list, such as number of records generated or cost, are approved by the user, the contact list is transmitted to a user-specified node on the computer network. The list specification may be stored in memory for reuse by a business, such as a chain of stores. This feature provides a way to easily regenerate new and updated contact lists at future dates for all or a subset of the stores by accessing updated source databases without having to re-specify the list every time a fresh list is required.
US08064584B2
A method and system for placing a call back from a call center to an end user viewing a website includes sending a request for the call back from an end user computer to a call server, the request including the PSTN number at which the end user wishes to be called; placing calls to the end user and the call center, the call center call including the ANI/callerID of the number at which the end user is called; requesting by the call center data concerning the end user from the call server; receiving by the call server data from the end user computer; and transmitting the data from the call server to the call center. The data from the end user computer may be an identification of the web page being viewed, data entered on the web page, an end user identifier and/or co-browsing data.
US08064574B2
A presence aware communications system, comprising a messaging system configured to perform at least one of the following operations: (a) provide a subscriber's communication device with information regarding an incoming contact during a messaging session between the subscriber's communication device and the messaging system; (b) provide the subscriber's communication device with a text message containing information regarding one or more messages when a notification is received that the subscriber's communication device is available; (c) provide the subscriber's communication device with a text message relating to a voice message from a different first party received by the messaging system; (d) in response to the subscriber's communication device requesting a connection with at least one of an inputted telephone number and address, provide the subscriber's communication device with a notification respecting at least one eligible message from a second party associated with the at least one of an inputted telephone number and address; (e) while a contact between the subscriber and a different third party is in progress, provide the subscriber's communication device with information respecting the at least one eligible message from the third party; (f) transform an audio messaging session between the messaging system and the communication device of a contacting party into a graphical user interface-based audio session; and (g) transform the audio messaging session into a session having a video channel or both audio and video channels.
US08064570B2
A hand-held XRF analyzer including an x-ray source for emitting x-rays through a window to a sample. A detector behind the window is responsive to x-rays irradiated by the sample. A controlled volume about the x-ray source and the detector is maintained in a vacuum or a predetermined purge condition for a predetermined amount of time for increasing the sensitivity of the analyzer. A processor is responsive to the detector for analyzing the spectrum of irradiated x-rays and responsive to a pressure sensor for detecting a pressure change inside the controlled volume. The processor is configured to detect if the vacuum or the predetermined purge condition has been compromised.
US08064566B2
Disclosed herein is a method comprising heating helium in a core of a nuclear reactor; extracting heat from the helium; superheating water to steam using the heat extracted from the helium, expanding the helium in a turbine; wherein the turbine is in operative communication with an electrical generator; and generating electricity in the electrical generator.
US08064564B2
In a nuclear reactor neutron panels varying in thickness in the circumferential direction are disposed at spaced circumferential locations around the reactor core so that the greatest radial thickness is at the point of highest fluence with lesser thicknesses at adjacent locations where the fluence level is lower. The neutron panels are disposed between the core barrel and the interior of the reactor vessel to maintain radiation exposure to the vessel within acceptable limits.
US08064554B2
Multi-carrier transmission is performed without inserting a repetitive signal into guard interval periods. A transmitter provides guard interval periods by using a null signal to save transmission power and prevent the deterioration of the SN ratio. Delayed waves at the head of each received symbol cause high-frequency waves to occur and carriers to interfere with one another. Accordingly, a receiver adds a component following each received symbol to a delayed-wave component at the head of the received symbol. As a result, the delayed-wave component at the head of the received symbol and the added component become continuous in wave form and subcarriers do not interfere with each other.
US08064538B2
There is provided a communication device capable of transmitting a transfer rate request signal while reducing it and reducing the interference and power consumption when the transfer rate request signal is transmitted substantially without lowering the transmission efficiency in the MIMO communication method. In this device, a modulation encoding unit (125) encodes and modulates transmission data transmitted to a communication partner of the MIMO communication method and the transfer rate request signal in the plurality of transmission antennas. A transmission unit (132) and a transmission antenna (134) transmit a signal from the modulation encoding unit (125). A transmission control unit (120) controls transmission of a signal transmitted from the transmission antenna (134) and transmits a transfer rate request signal of one transmission antenna via the transmission antenna (134) according to a comparison result between a difference of the transfer rate request signal in the respective transmission antenna of the communication partner and a predetermined value.
US08064533B2
A wireless transceiver includes a plurality of antennas. A plurality of signal recovery circuits generate a selected number of received signals from a first subset of the plurality of antennas, based on a control signal. A receiver section recovers an inbound data stream from the selected number of received signals. A plurality of transmitter sections generate a selected number of transmitted signals to a second subset of the plurality of antennas, based on the control signal, wherein the intersection between the first subset of the plurality of antennas and the second subset of the plurality of antennas is the null set for each value of the control signal.
US08064532B2
An apparatus, system, and method for space-time cochannel interference cancellation are described. The apparatus may include a time stacking module to stack consecutive subcarrier signals for a period of time equal to several symbols and a space-time subcarrier beamformer module to perform space-time subcarrier beamforming by applying space-time beamformer weights to stacked symbols on one or more subcarriers. The space-time beamformer weights may be calculated based on spatial and time correlation properties of one or more interference signals. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08064531B2
In one embodiment, a receiver implements a method of demodulating a set of symbols dispersed within a time-frequency grid of a received OFDM signal. The method includes determining which one of two or more demodulators is preferred for use in a given region of the time-frequency grid by evaluating detection statistics generated by the demodulators for the set of symbols. Each demodulator operates according to different demodulation parameters that correspond to different interference assumptions. The method further includes recovering the set of symbols for decoding using whichever demodulator is preferred for each symbol according to the region from which the symbol is recovered. The method may be further extended by updating each demodulator's demodulation parameters using reference and/or data symbols from the region(s) where that demodulator is preferred, and recovering the desired symbols using the updated demodulation parameters. Such updating can be further iterated, for additional demodulation parameter refinement.
US08064529B2
In a configuration where systems C and D having different reception quality requirements are present, a peak suppressor generates a replica of a signal from system C combined together with a signal from system D before peak suppression. Based on the replica, system specific peak suppressing units respectively perform peak suppression on signals of each system according to the respective reception quality requirements of each system. A combining unit combines the peak-suppressed signals of each system. Hence, peak suppression on signals from systems requiring different reception qualities is performed at an appropriate degree according to each system.
US08064527B2
The error concealment technique disclosed herein relates to the use of existing information by the decoder to conceal bitstream errors regardless of what the encoder does. Examples of existing information include, for example, the previous reference frame, macroblock information for the previous reference frames, etc. Another aspect of the system described herein relates to the steps that the encoder can take to enhance the decoder's ability to recover gracefully from a transmission error. Exemplary steps that can be taken by the encoder include intra walk around and sending GOB headers. Although these encoder techniques can provide greatly enhanced results, they are not strictly necessary to the system described herein.
US08064526B2
Presented herein are systems, methods, and apparatus for real-time high definition television encoding. In one embodiment, there is a method for encoding video data. The method comprises estimating amounts of data for encoding a plurality of pictures in parallel; generating a plurality of target rates corresponding to the plurality of pictures based on the estimated amounts of data for encoding the plurality of pictures; and lossy compressing the plurality of pictures based on the target rates corresponding to the plurality of pictures.
US08064524B2
The present invention is directed to de-interlacing method and apparatus using remote interpolation. An up window and a down window are firstly determined. The closest pair of pixels of the up window and the down window along a direction of 90°, −45°, and 45° is determined, which is then used to interpolate a new pixel. Subsequently, the up window and the down window are moved or stayed according to which pair is determined as being closest.
US08064523B2
A motion vector search apparatus has two internal memories for storing one macroblock of current image data each and N internal memories for storing M macroblocks of reference image data each, where M and N are integers greater than one. Selectors feed data from one of the current image memories and N−1 of the reference image memories to a processor that carries out a block matching calculation, on the basis of which a detector finds a motion vector for the selected macroblock of current image data. During the search, data for one new current image macroblock and M new reference image macroblocks are read into the non-selected memories, so that as soon as the motion vector is found, the search for the next motion vector can begin.
US08064516B2
A method for encoding an image of a video stream divided into macroblocks comprising determining a maximum of variance of luma blocks in a macroblock, determining if the maximum of variance exceeds a predetermined threshold, determining if the motion vectors of the macroblock are in correlation with a reference macroblock, determining if the macroblock is not an edge macroblock and setting a first quantization level for the macroblock if it meets these conditions and setting a second quantization level for the macroblock if it does not meet these conditions, where the second quantization level is greater than the first quantization level.
US08064509B1
Various systems and methods are provided for adaptive equalization. The adaptive equalization is performed on a data signal received from a channel in a receiver. The data signal is equalized using an equalizer in the receiver, thereby generating an equalized data signal. During equalization, an equalization setting of the equalizer is adapted based upon an overshoot of the equalized data signal at a data transition.
US08064502B2
A wireless communication apparatus compensates for phase and amplitude imbalances existing among transmit and receive branches, while also preventing likelihood information and SNR estimation error produced by such imbalance compensation. In an apparatus having a plurality of transmit and receive antennas and respective branches for each antenna, a calibration processor multiplies receive signals in each receive branch by antenna calibration coefficients, in order to correct phase and amplitude imbalances existing among the receive branches. A transmit beamforming matrix estimator then estimates a transmit beamforming matrix by using the multiplied receive signals. An estimator then solves for estimated values such as the noise power, likelihood information, and channel waveform equalization values for each receive branch, and in addition, derives a final estimated value that takes the multiplication by correction coefficients into account when averaging the estimated values for each receive branch or when computing a weighted average according to likelihood.
US08064489B2
The present invention relates to a spectral stretching and control device for high peak power pulse lasers, which does not limit the extraction efficiency of the amplifiers in the CPA chain into which said device can be inserted, and it is characterized in that it comprises an acousto-optical device for dispersing light pulses, which is programmable in terms of spectral amplitude, disposed in a multi-pass amplifier.
US08064488B2
A compact high average power mid infrared range laser for ultrasound inspection. The laser comprises one of a Nd:YAG or Yb:YAG laser pumped by a diode at 808 nm to produce a 1 micron output beam. The 1 micron output beam is directed to an optical parametric oscillator where the beam wavelength is converted to 1.94 microns and conveyed to a mid infrared emission head. The emission head comprises one of a Ho:YAG or Ho:YLG laser optically coupled with a second optical parametric oscillator. The second optical parametric oscillator forms a generation output beam for creating ultrasonic displacements on a target. The generation output beam wavelength ranges from about 3 to about 4 microns, and can be 3.2 microns.
US08064482B2
A system and a method provides both for a real-time-critical communication and a non-real-time-critical communication in a switched data network consisting of users and switching units, for example a distributed automation system, by means of a cyclic operation. In a so-called transmission cycle (12), there exists for all users and switching units of the switched data network in each case at least one section (13) for transmitting real-time-critical data and at least one section (14) for transmitting non-real-time-critical data, as a result of which the real-time-critical communication is separated from the non-real-time-critical communication. Since all users and switching units are always synchronized to a common time base, the respective sections for transmitting data in each case take place at the same time for all users and switching units, i.e. the real-time-critical communication takes place independently in time from the non-real-time-critical communication and is, therefore, not influenced by the latter.
US08064480B2
The application discloses a method and apparatus for providing interoperability for a mobile subscriber unit (MSU), employing a first protocol e.g., SCEP, with a packet-data subsystem operating at a second protocol e.g., SNDCP. The method includes determining that the first protocol employed by the MSU is different from the second protocol operated by the packet data subsystem. The method then includes creating a context information for the MSU when the determined first protocol is different from the second protocol. Further, the method includes determining a header associated with the second protocol based on the created context information and then receiving at least one data packet associated with the first protocol from the MSU. The method then encapsulates the at least one data packet with the determined header associated with the second protocol. The method then transmits the at least one encapsulated data packet to the communication network through a context manager.
US08064479B2
The invention is directed to a method for providing client-server data transfer over a Hybrid Fiber Coax network, comprising interfacing, at a client, a channel, wherein the channel is one of a video channel and a DOCSIS channel, intercepting a content request made from an end-user computing device, notifying a server of a relevant intercepted message via one of using an interactive channel and tagging the request, selecting content sent by the server over the channel, processing the content selected so as to return it to its IP traffic format, and forwarding the content in its IP traffic format to the end-user computing device.
US08064473B2
A local area network that includes multiplexing means for establishing out-of-band channels along with corresponding Ethernet channels over shared network cabling; the out-of-band channels are configured dedicatedly for operating an IP telephony system including IP phones; a power sourcing equipment (PSE) may be further provided for remotely supplying power to the IP phones over shared network cabling; and means for access control and device location tracking may be further implemented for the IP telephony system.
US08064465B2
In a virtual LAN, a packet forwarding apparatus forwards IP packets and L2 packets using a single switch. The packet forwarding apparatus includes a switch that switches a media access control (MAC) packet using a MAC address of the MAC packet, and a packet format converter. The packet format converter converts a packet from an input and output unit into a packet having a MAC address according to information from the input and output unit, and converts a packet output from the switch to the input and output unit to a packet format compatible with the input and output unit according to the information of the input and output unit.
US08064456B2
A frame relay apparatus includes an acquisition unit for acquiring a frame from an input port connected to a first subnet, a setting unit for setting an output port corresponding to a destination of the frame acquired by the acquisition unit, an assignment unit for assigning, to the frame, a flag indicating whether the output port of the frame set by the setting unit is connected to a second subnet, and a registration unit for storing the flag assigned to the frame by the assigning unit as well as a source address of the frame acquired by the acquisition unit and a port number in a learning table for storing a correspondence between an address and the port number.
US08064453B2
A transport stream processing apparatus according to the present invention is a transport stream processing apparatus including a plurality of processing steps for separating desired data from a transport stream, and comprises a hardware transport stream separating device, a software transport stream separating device, and a processing switching device for switching to and from the respective separating devices in executing an optional processing step. The transport stream processing apparatus realizes a transport stream separation of a high performance without demanding a high operation frequency and a high CPU power and adding a circuit.
US08064450B2
A system and method for enabling a wireless communication device to register a temporary public IP address assigned to the device by a network access translation module, when the device is initially informed only of a private, non-routable IP address that has been assigned to it. In one embodiment, the device sends a “blind” registration message to an SIP server, with the private IP address of the device being translated to the public IP address by the NAT and with the SIP server registering the “originator” address in the header. In another embodiment, a registration server detects a message indicating the public IP address and sends the public IP address back to the device, so that the device can conventionally register the address with the SIP server.
US08064449B2
A device, system and method for controlling the flow of multicast data packets from sources sending data to hosts requesting the data. In one implementation, a router is situated in a data network between sources that send multicast data packets directed to a multicast group and hosts requesting to receive the multicast data packets. The router has one or more network interfaces in the direction of the hosts and stores for each network interface, each multicast group address and each host at least one data record arising from one or more data requests made by the hosts which includes multicast group and source information. The router stores executable instructions to receive messages originating from a host, update the status of the data sources for that host and implement the actions according to one or a combination of Tables 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 disclosed herein.
US08064445B2
When an apparatus located at an edge of a network transmits a report message in a multicast procedure transmitted from a mobile terminal to a gateway switch, the apparatus snoops the report message and transmits an entry update request frame for causing an entry forming a transfer route for multicast to be learned in a direction of the gateway switch. The gateway switch transfers the received report message to a port to which an IP multicast router is connected after the transfer router for multicast is formed.
US08064443B2
In general, techniques are described to dynamically redefine a preference value used during route resolution. A network device, such as a router, may implement the techniques to improve a usability aspect of the router. The router may comprise an interface card that receives messages describing one or more of a plurality of routes. The router may also include a control unit that stores data defining a policy. The policy may comprise rules by which the router determines the preference value for one of the plurality of routes. The policy dynamically redefines the preference value as two or more bit fields rather than viewing the preference value as an integer value. The control unit further sets each of the two or more bit fields of the local preference value in accordance with the policy and associates the at least one of the routes with the determined local preference value.
US08064438B1
The present invention enables equipment housed in unmanned facilities to be periodically scanned by remote systems for information regarding physical hardware and software configurations. The captured configurations can be compared against a reference configuration that represents the healthy state of the installed equipment. During outages, these captured configurations can be analyzed to determine possible root causes and resolutions for restoration.
US08064430B2
As an apparatus itself moves, its access section gets access to a router using a temporarily assigned global address when making a roaming connection to a different network from a network to which the apparatus belongs currently. A message generating section generates a binding update message, which contains a global address which is uniquely assigned to a network element apparatus, the above temporarily assigned global address, and a global address of the router, to transmit the generated message via the access section to a router, which is a serving router after move. This makes it possible to deliver packets among moving networks with the minimum delay to an intended recipient.
US08064428B2
A method is provided for ordering retransmissions in a Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) system using N×M antennas. A transmitter splits a coded data stream into N sub-packets, and transmits the N sub-packets to a receiver via N transmission antennas. The receiver removes interferences of the N sub-packets received via M reception antennas, and independently decodes the interference-removed sub-packets. The receiver transmits an acknowledgement (ACK) or a negative acknowledgement (NACK) to the transmitter based on errors included in the decoded sub-packets. Upon receipt of the NACK, the transmitter retransmits to the receiver a sub-packet retransmission using ordering based on an Alamouti space-time coding scheme.
US08064423B2
A terminal for use in a voice communications system includes a base station and at least one handset arranged to communicate wirelessly with the base station. The base station includes a first interface to a packet data network and a second interface to a public switched telephone network, the base station being arranged to selectively establish a packet data call from the first interface and a public switched telephone call from the second interface.
US08064422B2
A wireless audio headphone communication system has an audio input for receiving an audio signal from an audio source. A wireless transceiver receives and transmits radio frequency communications with a wireless audio headphone, the communications including an audio control signal that conforms to a wireless audio control protocol of a wireless communication protocol. A converter converts the audio control signal between the wireless audio control protocol transceived by the wireless transceiver and a local control protocol for controlling the audio source.
US08064408B2
Devices and methods are provided for directionally receiving and/or transmitting acoustic waves and/or radio waves for use in applications such as wireless communications systems and/or radar. High directional gain and spatial selectivity are achieved while employing an array of receiving antennas that is small as measured in units of the wavelength of radio waves being received or transmitted, especially in the case of spatially oversampled arrays. Frequency/wavenumber, multi-dimensional spectrum analysis, as well as one-dimensional frequency spectrum analysis can be performed.
US08064389B2
A wireless communication system is disclosed wherein an information source communicates with a mobile station via multiple intermediary base stations located in respective cells of a broadcast zone. In one embodiment, each base station sends multiple information streams that may be received by a mobile station located in the broadcast zone. By receiving multiple information streams from multiple base stations, the mobile station may enhance reception. In one embodiment, each base station in a broadcast zone transmits an information stream that exhibits a first level of robustness and another information stream that exhibits a second level of robustness.
US08064387B2
A wireless-linked remote ecological environment monitoring system is proposed, which is characterized by the use of a sensor network such as WSN (wireless sensor network) installed at the remote site for collecting ecological data, and the use of a public wireless communication system such as GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) for transferring all the collected ecological data to a back-end host server unit where the ecological data are compiled into webpages for posting on a website. This feature allows the research/management personnel to browse the ecological data simply by linking a network workstation via a network system such as the Internet to the website, without having to travel to the remote site and collect ecological data by human labor.
US08064383B2
A method of enabling a mobile station (MS) to request radio resources for uplink packet transmission is provided. The method includes starting a supervision timer at the beginning of a packet access procedure, the packet access procedure initiated by scheduling the sending of a packet channel request message and performing cell re-selection when the supervision timer expires, wherein the supervision timer is stopped when any message is received from a network in response to the packet channel request message or after M+1 (M≧0) attempts to send the packet channel request message.
US08064382B2
A method of scheduling an uplink (UL) data packet on a packet data network (PDN) connection of at least one radio bearer by a wireless communication unit comprises receiving, by the wireless communication unit, a signalling message comprising at least one scheduling priority parameter assigned to at least one uplink radio bearer, wherein the at least one scheduling priority parameter is based on at least one characteristic of the PDN connection that the radio bearer belongs to. The method further comprises determining, from the at least one scheduling priority parameter, at least one user transmission priority level associated with at least one PDN connection of at least one radio bearer; and scheduling at least one uplink data packet transmission in response to the at least one user transmission priority level.
US08064381B2
A method of calculating uplink output power in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes receiving a message which includes a command to a mobile station (MS) to perform handover from a current serving cell to a target cell, which is one of neighbor cells, performing handover to the target cell according to the message, measuring power of a downlink transmission channel in the target cell, and calculating the uplink output power by using only the measured power and without considering previous measured powers from the current serving cell if the measured power is used for a first calculation to obtain the uplink output power after the MS moves to the target cell.
US08064375B2
Inter-cell handover (or cell reselection) in order to provide load balancing in wireless networks, in particular in hierarchical (overlay) networks, wherein the mobile stations in the cells are associated to different multicast groups. A technique for assigning one or more members of a multicast group to cells of radio network is described. This technique includes determining among multicast group members in a first cell one or more first group members having the highest resource demand in this cell. Next, for each cell of a cell cluster and in relation to a second group member having the highest resource demand in the considered cell, the relative resource consumption increase if the one or more first group members were assigned to said considered cell is determined. This determination is also carried out for the first cell but disregarding the one or more first group members having the highest resource demand. These one or more first members are then assigned to the cell that is associated with a minimum compensated relative resource consumption increase or a minimum compensated relative resource increase. In one embodiment, the cells are hierarchically structured and the assignment of member of the multicast group cells is allowed to be carried out on different hierarchy layers.
US08064374B2
Method, apparatus, and computer program product embodiments are disclosed to enable power save modes of operation between mobile wireless devices for direct data transfer in an infrastructure BSS. An example embodiment inserts in a message that is transmitted by the transmitting mobile wireless device, a specified time when a next active direct data transfer period will start so that the devices can remain in power save mode in a direct data transfer link until that time. Then, when the next active direct data transfer period is about to start, the receiving device sends a trigger signal based on the specified time, the trigger signal indicating that the next period is about to start. This confirms to the transmitting device that the receiving device has awakened, so that the transmitting device may start transmitting the data to the receiving device via the direct data transfer link.
US08064366B2
A Bluetooth-enabled computing device includes a user interface for displaying a prompt to specify a descriptive identifier for a network device prior to performance of a Bluetooth Device Discovery Routine, the descriptive identifier being different from Bluetooth Device Discovery Routine Identifiers. A system memory has entries including descriptive identifiers, each descriptive identifier corresponding to a network device pre-configured with a connection profile. A connection manager determines if a specified descriptive identifier is a match to any entry in the system memory and to implements a connection to a network device corresponding to a matching entry. Otherwise the connection manager performs a discovery routine to locate and establish a connection to at least one available network device corresponding to the specified descriptive identifier. A Bluetooth compatible wireless transceiver is operable to transmit and receive signals associated with the connection to the network device and the discovery routine.
US08064365B2
A relay node comprising a reception station for receiving a route trace control message including routing information on a path used for data transfer from a starting node to a terminal node from the preceding node on the path, an editing section for, if the home node is boundary node located at the boundary of a routing information shielding section on the path, editing so that a portion on the routing information shielding section of the routing information included in the route trace control message received by the reception section cannot be identified, and a transmission section for sending out a route trace control message after the edition to the node of the subsequent stage, which is located on the path.
US08064363B2
A node device (601) of a wireless sensor network comprises a receiver (651) for receiving transmissions from other nodes. A controller (641) selectively switches on said receiver (651) according to a timetable. The node device (601) maintains synchronization with and receives beacon transmissions from another node in said wireless sensor network. If a failure is observed in previously maintained synchronization, the controller (641) reads from memory previously received information about neighboring nodes with which said node device (601) did not yet maintain synchronization. The controller (641) utilizes such stored information to selectively switch on the receiver (651) to attempt receiving a beacon transmission from such a neighboring node.
US08064349B2
Provided are WLAN system management procedure and a station supporting the procedure. In the management procedure, a station receives one or more event request frames each of which includes zero or more event request elements, wherein each of the event request elements comprises an event type field for specifying the event type of an event request. After reception, if the station moves to a different Extended Service Set (ESS), the station cancels all outstanding event requests of the event request frames and deletes all pending event report frames and event data.
US08064347B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods are provided for redundant switched communications among end users in a network. The apparatus includes an interface for coupling to a corresponding end user, a first channel for processing a communication from the end user, a second channel for processing the communication, and a multiplexer coupled to the interface and the first and second channels. The multiplexer selects at least one of the first and second channels to transmit the communication. The method includes receiving a data communication via first and second switches, each of the first and second switches having first and second channels, and routing the data communication through at least one of the first and second channels of the first and second switches.
US08064340B2
An apparatus includes a collection device, a determining device, and an estimating device. The collection device collects information and flow rates of flows circulated in a network and structural information of the network. The determining device finds links through which the flows pass from the information and the network structural information, and determines the flows based on degrading and non-degrading threshold values. The estimating device, from a set of the links through which the quality-degraded flows pass, outputs a subset having a minimum element number and including a link through which an arbitrary flow among the quality-degraded flows passes. The determining device changes, for a set of the quality-degraded flows that pass a link through which a given quality-non-degraded flow passes, the non-degraded flow number threshold value depending on number of elements of a set. When this threshold value becomes high, the estimating device finds a non-degraded link.
US08064339B2
A method is disclosed that includes detecting a problem with a broadband connection at an end device and determining whether the problem can be resolved at the end device. The method also includes requesting that a data network connection device remotely connected to the end device attempt to determine a cause of the problem when the end device cannot resolve the problem. The method also includes determining whether the broadband connection is available. When the broadband connection is available, the method includes initiating a broadband data communication session via the data network connection device.
US08064338B2
Techniques for recovering from hierarchical virtual private LAN service (HVPLS) hub connectivity failure with a dynamic spoke pseudowire. According to one embodiment of the invention, a provider edge (PE) network element in the HVPLS hub monitors for a failure of HVPLS hub connectivity failure and reuses an HVPLS spoke connectivity failure recovery mechanism in an MTU by fabricating failure of one or more spoke facing connectivity elements coupling the MTU with the PE network element causing the MTU to transition to a secondary PE network element in the HVPLS hub. In addition, the PE network element establishes a dynamic spoke pseudowire for each virtual instance affected with the MTU to restore HVPLS hub connectivity for that PE network element.
US08064332B2
Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a MAP may be used by a base station to allocate network users for one or more users in a wireless network using persistent scheduling. In the event one or more of the users does not successfully receive a MAP transmitted by the base station, the user may stop transmitting and/or receiving in order to minimize and/or avoid collision with transmissions from other users. The affected user may transmit an indication of the error in receiving the MAP to the base station, wherein the base station may retransmit the previously transmitted MAP to the affected user that did not successfully receive the MAP from the origination transmission. One or more users may utilize a shared NAK channel to indicate to the base station an indication of the error in receive the MAP.
US08064325B1
According to example embodiments for use in a communication system that is adapted to permit the users to transmit data simultaneously via shared frequency and spatial resources, an allocation of user transmission rates involves setting and maintaining the transmission rates of the users to at least a minimum user transmission rate to provide an expected minimum quality of communication for each of the users. These rates of the users are incrementally adjusted by iteratively changing the transmission rate of each user as a function of a resulting vector of transmit powers ensuing from the increased transmission rate, a degree of transmission-rate-allocation unfairness relative to the transmission rates of all the users, and a power-based selection criteria. With such an approach, the rates are fairly allocated without a disproportionate allocation of system bandwidth. Various embodiments are applicable to a variety of communication applications including OFDM or CDMA communication systems.
US08064315B2
An optical pickup includes: a first emission unit emitting an optical beam with a first wavelength corresponding to a first optical disc; a second emission unit emitting an optical beam with a second wavelength, which is longer than the first wavelength, corresponding to a second optical disc different from the first optical disc; a third emission unit emitting an optical beam with a third wavelength, which is longer than the second wavelength, corresponding to a third optical disc different from the first and second optical discs; a condensing optical device condensing, on a signal recording surface of a corresponding optical disc, the optical beams emitted from the first to third emission units; and a diffraction unit provided in the condensing optical device, which is disposed on the optical path of the optical beams with the first to third wavelengths.
US08064305B2
A method of and apparatus for managing disc defects in a disc using a temporary defect management area in the disc, and the disc, where the method includes recording in a data area user data; and recording in a temporary defect management area, which is present in at least one of a lead-in area and a lead-out area, which temporary defect information and temporary defect management information regarding the user data recorded in the data area are recorded. Accordingly, the method and apparatus are applicable to recordable discs and capable of effectively using the defect management area.
US08064281B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to a state-monitoring memory element. The state-monitoring memory element may have a reduced ability to retain a logic state than other regular memory elements on an IC. Thus, if the state-monitoring memory elements fails or loses state during testing, it may be a good indicator that the IC's state retention may be in jeopardy, possibly requiring the IC to be reset. The state-monitoring memory element may be implemented by degrading an input voltage supply to the state-monitoring memory element across a diode and/or a transistor. One or more current sources may be used to stress the state-monitoring memory element. A logic analyzer may be used to analyze the integrity of the state-monitoring memory element and trigger appropriate actions in the IC, e.g., reset, halt, remove power, interrupt, responsive to detecting a failure in the state-monitoring memory element. Multiple state-monitoring memory elements may be distributed in different locations on the IC for better coverage.
US08064275B2
An integrated circuit having an SRAM array includes SRAM cells arranged in rows and columns, and a global read circuit connected to globally read SRAM cells corresponding to accessed rows and columns of the SRAM array. The SRAM array also includes a separate, local sense and feedback circuit connected to a local column of the SRAM array, wherein a sensing portion indicates a memory state of an SRAM cell in an accessed row of the local column and a feedback portion rewrites the memory state back into the SRAM cell. Additionally, a method of operating an integrated circuit having an SRAM array includes providing an SRAM cell in an addressed condition of the SRAM array. The method also includes locally sensing a current memory state of the SRAM cell and locally feeding back to the SRAM cell to retain the memory state during the addressed condition.
US08064254B2
A non-volatile memory device includes at least one semiconductor column having a first sidewall and a second sidewall. The device also includes at least one gate electrode is disposed on the first sidewall and at least one control gate electrode disposed on the second sidewall. The device further includes at least one charge storage layer is disposed between the second sidewall and the at least one control gate electrode. The at least one gate electrode and the at least one control gate electrode may be disposed on opposite sides of the at least one semiconductor column such that they commonly control a channel region in the semiconductor column.
US08064251B2
A non-volatile memory device programs memory cells in each row in a manner that minimizes the coupling of spurious signals. A control logic unit programs the cells in a row using a set of bit state assignments chosen by evaluating data that are to be written to the cells in the row. The control logic unit performs this evaluation by determining the number of cells in the row that will be programmed to each of a plurality of bit states corresponding to the write data. The control logic unit then selects a set of bit state assignments that will cause the programming level assigned to each bit state to be inversely proportional to the number of memory cells in the row that are programmed with the bit state. The selected set of bit states is then used to program the memory cells in the row.
US08064249B2
A nanowire electromechanical switching device is constructed with a source electrode and a drain electrode disposed on an insulating substrate and spaced apart from each other, a first nanowire vertically grown on the source electrode and to which a V1 voltage is applied, a second nanowire vertically grown on the drain electrode and to which a V2 voltage having an opposite polarity to that of the V1 voltage is applied, and a gate electrode spaced apart from the second nanowire, partially surrounding the second nanowire and having an opening that faces the first nanowire in order to avoid disturbing a mutual switching operation of the first nanowire and the second nanowire and to which a V3 voltage having the same polarity as that of the V2 voltage is applied.
US08064246B2
A structure includes an electrically conductive material possessing spontaneous magnetization (“free magnet”) not in contact with an electrically resistive material possessing spontaneous magnetization (“pinned magnet”), and a spacer having free electrons to transfer spin between the electrically resistive material and the electrically conductive material. During operation, an existing direction of magnetization of the free magnet is changed to a new direction of magnetization, by a spin current generated by transfer of heat between at least the spacer and the pinned magnet. Thereafter, the new direction of magnetization of the free magnet is sensed. Many such structures are fabricated to have an easy axis of magnetic anisotropy in the free magnet, to implement memories that write data by transferring heat. Several such structures are fabricated to have an easy plane of magnetic anisotropy in the free magnet, to implement oscillators that generate an oscillating signal, on transfer of heat.
US08064241B2
A voltage detection circuit outputs a detection signal when an amount of charges read to one of a pair of bit lines reaches a predetermined amount. A mask circuit of a timing generator masks an output of a sense amplifier activation signal until the detection signal is output. A sense amplifier determines logics of data read to the bit lines from memory cells in synchronization with the sense amplifier activation signal. An operation of the sense amplifier is started after predetermined amounts of charges are read from the memory cells to the bit lines, that is, after the detection signal is output. Accordingly, even when a timing to output a timing signal becomes early due to a variance of manufacturing conditions of a semiconductor memory, data read from the memory cells can be latched correctly in the sense amplifier. As a result, malfunctions of the semiconductor memory can be prevented.
US08064224B2
A microelectronic package comprises a substrate (110), a silicon patch (120) embedded in the substrate, a first interconnect structure (131) at a first location of the silicon patch and a second interconnect structure (132) at a second location of the silicon patch, and an electrically conductive line (150) in the silicon patch connecting the first interconnect structure and the second interconnect structure to each other.
US08064223B2
An electronic device includes: a board; a housing in which the board is disposed; and a cable passing through a path that at least partially extends along an inner wall of the housing, the cable having an end connected to the board. The electronic device further includes a cable holding section provided on an inner wall of the housing and located on the path, the cable holding section holding the cable while allowing the cable to move forward and backward along the path.
US08064220B2
Electrical communication between an information handling system chassis having a non-conductive surface and processing components within the chassis is established through the non-conductive surface with conductive elements extending from a conductive pad. A protruding element extending from a conductive pad engages the conductive elements through the non-conductive surface when the protruding element is coupled to a cavity formed in the chassis. Alternatively, the protruding element extends from the chassis to couple to a cavity in the conductive pad. Processing components have electrical communication with the chassis through the conductive pad.
US08064219B2
A ceramic substrate part comprising on its upper surface pluralities of external electrodes comprising wire-bonding electrodes, each of which comprises a primer layer based on Ag or Cu, a Ni-based lower layer, an intermediate layer based on a Pd—P alloy containing 0.4-5% by mass of P, and a Au-based upper layer formed in this order on a ceramic substrate, the upper layer containing Pd after heated by soldering, and having a Au concentration of 80 atomic % or more based on the total concentration (100 atomic %) of Au and Pd.
US08064217B2
A method of manufacturing an optical component embedded printed circuit board is disclosed. An optical component embedded printed circuit board that includes a metal core in which at least one cavity is formed, an optical component embedded in the cavity, a first insulation layer stacked on one side of the metal core, a second insulation layer stacked on the other side of the metal core, and a circuit pattern which is formed on the first insulation layer and which is electrically connected with the optical component.
US08064214B2
A press fit passive component, such as a resistor or capacitor, adapted to fit within, or partially within, a via of a printed circuit board. In one example, the press fit passive component has a cylindrically shaped body with solderable terminals at either end of the body, and a dielectric collar disposed at least partially about the cylindrically shaped body.
US08064212B2
In a hybrid integrated circuit device that uses a metal substrate, a sound noise is prevented, which would otherwise be generated due to transmission, to the metal substrate, of vibration caused when a ceramic capacitor expands and contracts by switching ON and OFF a transistor. For improving a heat dissipation effect, a switching transistor driven by a driving pulse and a ceramic capacitor connected to the switching transistor are incorporated on a conductive path on an insulated metal substrate. Both ends of the ceramic capacitor are fixed to the conductive path by solders which are covered with a hard resin to be protected from a solder crack by thermal expansion of the metal substrate. The ceramic capacitor and the hard resin are wholly covered with a soft resin which absorbs noise due to expansion caused when the ceramic capacitor is switched, so that the metal substrate is prevented from resonating.
US08064204B2
An electronic apparatus includes a housing, first and second circuit boards disposed in the housing in such a way that the first and second circuit boards are stacked on each other, and a pump block disposed between the first and second circuit boards, the pump block abutting a first electronic part mounted on the first circuit board and a second electronic part mounted on the second circuit board, the pump block sucking air outside the housing and discharging the air out of the housing.
US08064203B2
A free standing film includes: i. a matrix layer having opposing surfaces, and ii. an array of nanorods, where the nanorods are oriented to pass through the matrix layer and protrude an average distance of at least 1 micrometer through one or both surfaces of the matrix layer. A method for preparing the free standing film includes (a) providing an array of nanorods on a substrate, optionally (b) infiltrating the array with a sacrificial layer, (c) infiltrating the array with a matrix layer, thereby producing an infiltrated array, optionally (d) removing the sacrificial layer without removing the matrix layer, when step (b) is present, and (e) removing the infiltrated array from the substrate to form the free standing film. The free standing film is useful as an optical filter, ACF, or TIM, depending on the type and density of nanorods selected.
US08064201B2
A thermal module includes a fin assembly, a heat spreader, a heat pipe connected between the fin assembly and the heat spreader, and a securing plate. The securing plate has at least three resilient members secured on a bottom surface thereof. Each of the resilient members has a capability to deform resiliently along a direction perpendicular to the bottom surface of the securing plate to resiliently press the heat spreader to an electronic component.
US08064198B2
A cooling device for a semiconductor element module and a magnetic part, includes: a water-cooled type heat sink having a cooling water passage; a semiconductor element module including a plurality of chips arranged side by side in a circulation direction in the cooling water passage, the semiconductor element module being mounted on the heat sink; and a magnetic part including a core and a winding portion mounted on the core, the magnetic part being mounted on the heat sink or another heat sink. In the cooling device, a plurality of cooling fins is disposed to extend along the circulation direction in the cooling water passage in a manner that the plurality of cooling fins are separated into groups for the respective chips arranged side by side in the circulation direction, and that the groups of the cooling fins are offset from each other in a direction perpendicular to the circulation direction. Accordingly, it is possible to have improved cooling efficiency of a heat sink with cooling fins.
US08064195B2
A storage device module is disclosed. The storage device module includes a storage device, a bracket for receiving the storage device, a mounting member attached to one side of the bracket, and a screw attached to the mounting member for extending through the bracket to screw into the storage device. A screw mounting structure is arranged on the mounting member for retaining the screw.
US08064193B2
An accessory system for a laptop computer is disclosed which includes a framework adapted to be attached to a top display system of a laptop computer. The accessory system includes an extendable device-carrying arrangement having laterally adjustable holders that retract into the framework when not in use and can be extended beyond the framework to hold items when desired. An auxiliary electronic power port connection provides an auxiliary power source for lighting and battery charging device. The system includes an attachment arrangement capable of attaching the system to the display screen section of a laptop computer.
US08064192B2
A capacitor element includes a positive electrode body made of valve metal, a dielectric oxide layer on the positive electrode body, a solid electrolytic layer made of conductive polymer on the dielectric oxide layer, and a negative electrode layer on the solid electrolytic layer. A solid electrolytic capacitor includes the capacitor element, a package made of insulating resin covering the capacitor element, a base electrode provided at an edge surface of the package and made of non-valve metal coupled with the positive electrode body, a diffusion layer for connecting the positive electrode body to the base electrode, an external electrode on the base electrode, and an external electrode connected to the negative electrode layer. The solid electrolytic capacitor reduces the number of components and processes to reduce its cost and to have a small size, and has a small equivalent series resistance and a small equivalent series inductance.
US08064184B2
An ion nozzle (36) generates an air jet (38) comprising charged particles which is incident on the open side edge (52) of the printed products (10). As a result of this, the printed products (10) are bulged and, at the same time, discharge electrostatic charge from the open side edge (52).
US08064182B2
An overvoltage protection plug is disclosed. The plug includes a housing forming a body, a handle, and an insertion portion. The plug further includes a circuit board mounted at least partially within the body. A portion of the circuit board protrudes from the housing at the insertion portion and includes metallic connection pads configured for interconnection to a connection block. The plug also includes a gas tube mounted to the circuit board and residing within the housing, the gas tube electrically connected to the metallic connection pads by a plurality of circuit traces on the circuit board. The handle of the housing can extend rearward from a top edge of the housing. The body can include an interior cavity having generally parallel side walls including a thinned region surrounding the gas tube. A circuit connection block assembly is also disclosed.
US08064180B1
Certain example embodiments disclosed herein include an adaptive current limiter comprising a variable reference voltage generator which is coupled to a power source via two input nodes and which develops a voltage step with exponential decay in response to, for example, a transient over-voltage condition, with the output of the variable reference voltage generator supplying a reference voltage to a comparator which compares the reference voltage to a voltage derived from a sensing resistor and, upon detecting an over-voltage condition, signals to a circuit breaker that the circuit should be broken or modified.
US08064178B2
Systems and methods are provided for balancing current through a first conductor and a second conductor. A method comprises determining if a first current through the first conductor is greater than a second current through the second conductor by more than a threshold value. The first current and the second current are received from a ground fault current interrupt device. The method further comprises increasing the second current in response to determining that the first current is greater than the second current by more than the threshold value.
US08064176B2
A bipolar transient clamp including a RC circuit, a clamping circuit and a breakdown circuit. The RC circuit is configured to control the rate of change of clamp. Moreover, the RC circuit is coupled between a first rail and a second rail. The clamping circuit is configured to pass a current from the first rail to the second rail. In addition, the clamping circuit is coupled to be activated by the RC circuit. The breakdown circuit is coupled between the RC circuit and the clamping circuit. The breakdown circuit is configured to increase the transient trigger voltage of the clamping circuit.
US08064175B2
A power supply shunt for an electronic circuit. The power supply shunt includes at least two Field Effect Transistors (FETs), a first of the FETs having its drain coupled to a terminal of an electronic circuit and its source coupled to another of the FETs, and a second of the FETs having its source coupled to ground and its drain coupled to another of the FETs. The first FET has a bulk terminal that floats with respect to ground.
US08064171B2
Embodiments of the present invention help to reduce out-of-plane excitation force exerted on a coil in a voice coil motor of a magnetic disk drive, so that vibration of a magnetic head is suppressed. According to one embodiment, a voice coil motor has a flat magnet that faces a coil, and generates a magnetic field, and yokes that apply the magnetic field generated by the magnet to the coil. The magnet is provided with a magnetic flux guiding section, absorbing leakage flux from the magnet, on a most distal end of the magnet as viewed from a pivot axis. A most distal part of the coil as viewed from the pivot axis, may be situated in an outer side with respect to the most distal end of the magnet, and the magnetic flux guiding section is provided between the most distal end of the magnet and the most distal part of the coil.
US08064169B2
A suspension for a disc drive includes a base plate, a load beam, and a flexure. The flexure includes a metal base member and a circuit member disposed along the metal base member. The circuit member extends along the load beam. The circuit member includes a resin base member formed of a first polyimide, conductors, and a resin cover member formed of a second polyimide. The resin cover member is lower than the resin base member in humidity expansion coefficient.
US08064161B2
Embodiments of the present invention help to provide a perpendicular magnetic recording head capable of writing a signal in a track having a small width. According to one embodiment, a perpendicular magnetic recording head includes an auxiliary pole, a main pole, a yoke, a coil, a first soft magnetic film and a second soft magnetic film. The yoke is in contact with the main pole. The coil is wound around a magnetic circuit composed of the auxiliary and main poles and the yoke. The first soft magnetic film is provided on both sides of the main pole with a non-magnetic film provided between the first soft magnetic film and the main pole. The second soft magnetic film is provided on the trailing side of the main pole with the non-magnetic film provided between the second soft magnetic film and the main pole. The first and second soft magnetic films are two types of plated magnetic films. One type of the plated magnetic films have respective thicknesses of 0.5 nm to 20 nm and respective body centered cubic lattice crystal structures. The other types of the plated magnetic films have respective thicknesses of 0.5 nm to 20 nm and respective face centered cubic lattice crystal structures. The two types of the plated magnetic films are alternately laminated with four or more layers. This can achieve the magnetic disk drive capable of reducing a possibility to erroneously delete a signal after the signal being written and preventing degradation of characteristics of a high frequency signal.
US08064154B2
A protective device for optical and/or electronic apparatuses, in particular space telescopes, is described, wherein the device is such as to removably close an aperture, through which apparatuses may be accessed, the device being such as to achieve a first and second operating configuration, respectively, for allowing or inhibiting access to apparatuses through aperture. The device includes a supporting structure having at least one supporting beam, which is transversely positioned with respect to aperture; a plurality of covering elements comprising at least a pair of elements, which are rotatably coupled to the same supporting beam; and actuation means for rotating the covering elements between a first and second angular position, in order for the device to attain the first or second operating configuration, respectively, wherein, in the second operating configuration, the covering elements are such as to define together a screen for aperture.
US08064151B2
A control method is provided for controlling a heating of a thermal optical element, the thermal optical element having a matrix of heater elements. The method includes stabilizing a nominal temperature of the thermal optical element with a feedback loop to control the heating of heater elements; providing a desired temperature profile of the thermal optical element by a set point signal; determining a feedforward control of the heater elements from the set point signal; and forwardly feeding an output of the feedforward control into the feedback loop.
US08064148B2
Disclosed are high numerical (NA) catadioptric objectives without a central obscuration, and applications thereof. Such objectives can operate through a wide spectral bandwidth of radiation, including deep ultraviolet (DUV) radiation. Importantly, refractive elements in the catadioptric objectives can be manufactured from a single type of material (such as, for example, CaF2 and/or fused silica). In addition, the elements of such catadioptric objectives are rotationally symmetric about an optical axis. The catadioptric objectives eliminate the central obscuration by (1) using a polarized beamsplitter (which passes radiation of a first polarization and reflects radiation of a second polarization), and/or (2) using one or more folding mirrors to direct off-axis radiation into the pupil of the catadioptric objective. An example catadioptric objective is shown in FIG. 2.
US08064146B2
An image pickup apparatus includes a housing, a lens incorporated in the front of the housing and configured to constitute an imaging optical system, an image pickup device provided in the housing and configured to capture a subject image guided by the imaging optical system, a printed wiring board provided in the housing and having the image pickup device mounted thereon, a barrel provided integrally with the front of the housing, an annular lens cover configured to push a face of the lens facing forward in a rearward direction, and detachably mounted on the front of the barrel, and a support wall projecting rearward outside a rear end of the barrel in the radial direction and inside the housing, and bonded to the printed wiring board with adhesive.
US08064145B2
An optical system includes a front lens group, a stop, and a rear lens group arranged successively in order from the object side toward the image side. The front lens group includes a solid material element having a refractive action. The rear lens group includes a diffractive optical element. The solid material element is formed on at least one transmissive surface of a refractive optical element. An Abbe number of a solid material of the solid material element with respect to the d line, a partial dispersion ratio of the solid material with respect to the g line and the F line, respective thicknesses of the solid material element and the refractive optical element when measured on the optical axis, and respective focal lengths of the diffractive optical portion of the diffractive optical element and the solid material element in air satisfy predetermined conditional expressions.
US08064141B2
An optical element includes an airtight container having opposing face walls in a thickness direction, and side walls connecting the end face walls; a first liquid sealed in the container and having polarity or conductivity; a second liquid sealed in the container and not mixed with the first liquid so as to define an interface between the first liquid and the second liquid; and voltage applying means for applying a voltage to the first liquid. Further, the first liquid and the second liquid have the same specific gravity and substantially the same refractive index, and minute particles made of a material that does not transmit light are mixed in the first liquid, such that the first liquid has less light transmittance than the second liquid. In a state in which the voltage is applied to the first liquid, the interface between the first liquid and the second liquid deforms, and a transmitting path of light is formed that passes through the end face walls and propagates in the thickness direction of the container.
US08064129B2
A process for poling a ferroelectric material doped with a metal, which process comprises: (i) defining an electrode pattern on a −z face of a crystal of the ferroelectric material doped with the metal; (ii) providing an electrode material; (iii) poling at a temperature of not more than 45° C.; and (iv) poling by a two-stage voltage-controlled application of electric field based on a first poling stage of domain nucleation and a second poling stage of domain spreading.
US08064114B2
An illumination device for uniformly illuminating an image generating micro-display that includes a coherent light source, a beam shaping and speckle reduction device located on an optical path between said coherent light source and said image generating micro-display, wherein the beam shaping and speckle reduction device includes a dynamic diffractive optical element, and a processor which is configured to control said dynamic diffractive optical element so that a sequence of different hologram patterns is generated on said dynamic diffractive optical element, the different hologram patterns being uncorrelated to each other.
US08064113B2
This invention provides a display apparatus, control method, and control program, which display hue differences and color difference values of respective patches as lists, and display the hue direction of the hue difference of each individual patch on a chromaticity diagram in an easy-to-understand manner. To accomplish this, a display method of this invention includes a specifying step of specifying a color determined by a hue difference calculated from first and second values associated with spectral reflectance characteristics, and a display step of displaying the color specified in the specifying step as a graphical object. The specified color is specified as a representative color that indicates a hue on a chromaticity diagram to which the hue difference biases.
US08064110B2
An imaging system generates a gain for a component of an image format. The gain is at least partially dependent on the brightness of the light source illuminating a scene when an image of the scene was generated. The gain can be used to correct the component of the image format for the color shift in the image caused by the light source. In some instances, the imaging system generates a gain for a plurality of the components of the image format or for all of the components of the image format. The gains can be used to correct the components for the color shift in the image caused by the light source.
US08064108B2
A full-zone optical image addressing apparatus, including an addressing device, an image extraction converter, a comparator, an AND gate and a counter. The addressing device is located at the enclosure of the scanner and includes a plurality of geometric patterns. Each of the geometric patterns includes a plurality of rows of pixels. While receiving an exposure signal, the image extraction converter extracts one row of pixels from the addressing device, such that a series of analog signals is obtained and output to the comparator. The comparator then compares the series of analog signals to an analog critical voltage to output a series of analog comparison signals to the AND gate. The AND gate synchronously processes the series of analog comparison signals and a pixel rate clock to output the pixel data corresponding to the extracted row of pixels to the counter. After receiving the synchronously processed pixel value from the AND gate, the counter calculates and outputs the extracted row of pixels, including the amount of pixels and the geometric patterns in the row of pixels.
US08064106B2
A document reading apparatus includes a conveying unit configured to continuously convey a document having a series of sheets along a conveyance path, a reading unit configured to obtain image data by reading a sheet at a predetermined reading position, a storage unit configured to store the image data obtained by the reading unit, and a transfer unit configured to transfer the stored image data to a transfer destination. The transfer satisfies a relationship X+Y≧Z>X, wherein X represents a reading time required for the reading unit to read said sheet, Y represents an interval time between an end of reading said sheet and a beginning of reading a next sheet of the series, and Z represents a transfer time required for the transfer unit to transfer the image data stored in the storage unit to the transfer destination. A related method is also disclosed.
US08064105B2
An image scanning device including: a conveyance path which conveys originals; a first scanning means and a second scanning means which are placed such that they sandwich the conveyance path; and a white reference member used for adjusting the white levels of the scanning means; wherein at least one of the first scanning means, the second scanning means and the white reference member is movable; the first scanning means and the second scanning means can scan the same surface of said white reference member since the first scanning means or the second scanning means is moved or the white reference member is moved.
US08064101B2
Provided herein is a method for accelerating the production of a standalone copy of a document by a peripheral device. The invention employs a white space map of the document to be copied. The map is generated by the ASIC chip, preferably at an early stage in the processing pipeline, and is used by the device to identify white areas of the outputted copy that do not require subsequent image processing calculations and do not require ink or toner markings on the paper. Use of the white space map allows the system to reduce the processing resources necessary to image process and subsequently physically print the copy, thus speeding up copy production.
US08064100B2
A system is employed to reveal a watermark in a document. A watermark generator is utilized to select the placement and at least one colorant combination of an image and at least one colorant combination for a watermark on a document, where the at least one colorant combination of the image and the watermark form a metameric pair. A printing system receives data from the watermark generator and places the image and the watermark on the document. A decoder comprising a narrow band illumination element is selected or tuned to a wavelength corresponding to the colorant combinations utilized by the printing system to reveal the watermark placed thereon.
US08064095B2
Provided is a method of generating ink amount data which is the used amounts of inks of respective colors when an image is printed, by analyzing image data of the image, the method including: extracting a character area, of which a saturation value is equal to or less than a predetermined value, from the image by analyzing the image data; dividing the character area into a character contour area which is a contour part of the character and a character inside area which is the inside of the character; and converting the image data of the character contour area and the image data of the character inside area into the ink amount data of at least one type of achromatic color ink and at least three types of chromatic color inks, wherein the converting of the ink amount data includes converting the image data of the areas into the ink amount data such that the chromatic color inks are largely used in the character inside area compared with the character contour area.
US08064094B2
A position deciding unit decides a correction target position in the image data from a position of a reference pixel in the image data based on size-adjustment proportion and a correcting unit performs correction with respect to the correction target position. A size adjusting unit adjusts a size of the image data by performing sub-scanning direction processing including causing the position deciding unit to sequentially decide positions of a plurality of correction target pixels in one line of pixels along a sub-scanning direction and causing the correcting unit to sequentially perform correction with respect to the correction target positions, and performing main-scanning direction processing including performing the sub-scanning direction processing for all the lines of pixels in the sub-scanning direction.
US08064088B2
A system and method for transmission of a document from a sending location to a receiving location by way of a trusted way location is disclosed. A selected document is physically or electronically transmitted by a sending location to a letter server operated by a delivery service. A confirmation of transmission of the document is provided the sender by the delivery service. Thereafter, the letter server reproduces the document in original quality, accompanied by any necessary items such as a delivery container and/or delivery instructions. The delivery service then delivers the reproduced document such as through electronic delivery or inducting the reproduced document into its delivery paradigm for physical delivery to the indicated recipient.
US08064076B2
The printer is connected to an interface device and communicates through the interface device with external devices, and has a detector that detects a prescribed operation of the printer, a controller that receives a query signal sent from the interface device, and confirms the reception status of the query signal after the detector detects the prescribed operation, wherein the controller determines the operating status of the interface device based on the query signal reception status confirmed by the controller.
US08064074B2
An image reading apparatus which can improve the operability in making various settings required for direct transmission of read image data to services on the Internet. The image reading apparatus is connected to at least one external service, which provides at least one service for image data output from the image reading apparatus via a network. Personalized service list information for personalizing the service is acquired so that the operator can use the service. A setting screen, a setting procedure, and contents of setting for the operator are personalized according to the acquired service list information. Various settings based on the setting screen, setting procedure, and contents of setting personalized for the operator are transmitted via the network to the external service, together with the image data.
US08064073B2
System and methods for printing are provided. One such method includes determining a storage capacity available for use as a rasterizer buffer, and implementing a rasterizer buffer having a storage capacity that is responsive to the storage capacity determined to be available for use as a rasterizer buffer.
US08064066B2
In a displacement measurement apparatus using light interference, a probe light path is spatially separated from a reference light path. Therefore, when a temperature or refractive index distribution by a fluctuation of air or the like, or a mechanical vibration is generated, an optical path difference fluctuates between both of the optical paths, and a measurement error is generated. In the solution, an optical axis of probe light is brought close to that of reference light by a distance which is not influenced by any disturbance, a sample is irradiated with the probe light, a reference surface is irradiated with the reference light, reflected light beams are allowed to interfere with each other, and a displacement of the sample is obtained from the resultant interference light to thereby prevent the measurement error from being generated by the fluctuation of the optical path difference.
US08064065B2
A new technique for capturing both the amplitude and phase of an optical waveform is presented. This technique can capture signals with many THz of bandwidths in a single shot (e.g., temporal resolution of about 44 fs), or be operated repetitively at a high rate. That is, each temporal window (or frame) is captured single shot, in real time, but the process may be run repeatedly or single-shot. This invention expands upon previous work in temporal imaging by adding heterodyning, which can be self-referenced for improved precision and stability, to convert frequency chirp (the second derivative of phase with respect to time) into a time varying intensity modulation. By also including a variety of possible demultiplexing techniques, this process is scalable to recoding continuous signals.
US08064056B2
A substrate includes an overlay target. The overlay target can include two superposed layers. Each of the two superposed layers includes two gratings with a different pitch from each other.
US08064045B2
The invention relates to a method of transferring a substrate from a first substrate holder to a second substrate holder in a lithographic projection apparatus by using a transfer unit on the basis of transfer data available thereto. The second substrate holder has a surface provided with a first plurality of burls. In the method, a memory encoded with burl position data and substrate position data is provided. Subsequently, a substrate is provided on the first substrate holder. The position error and orientation of the substrate is then measured. On the basis of the burl position data, substrate position data and orientation as measured orientation adjustment data are calculated. The orientation of the substrate is subsequently adjusted in accordance with the orientation adjustment data. The substrate is then transferred from the first substrate holder to the second substrate holder by the transfer unit and placed on the second substrate holder.
US08064040B2
A projection objective for microlithography serves for imaging a pattern of a mask arranged in its object surface into an image field arranged in its image surface with a demagnifying imaging scale. It has a multiplicity of optical elements arranged along the optical axis of the projection objective, the optical elements being designed and arranged in such a way that the projection objective has an imageside numerical aperture NA>0.85 and a demagnifying imaging scale where |b|<0.05, and the planar image field having a minimum image field diameter suitable for microlithography of more than 1 mm.
US08064039B2
A liquid immersion device that has an mixing mechanism that mixes and dissolves a predetermined substance for adjusting specific resistance of the liquid, which is supplied onto a liquid repellent film on the surface of an object (member) of a projection optical system placed on the light emitting side of projection optical system, and an liquid immersion area is formed by supplying the liquid in which the predetermined liquid is dissolved onto the liquid repellent film.
US08064034B2
A fabrication method of a liquid crystal display device uses a printing method which forms a pattern of a wider effective line width such as a gate line, a data line, a passivation layer, a pixel electrode, etc. constituting an LCD device. The inventive lithography process uses a mask that is applied at the time of forming a channel region having a narrow effective line width. Accordingly, the amount of resist used may be reduced, and the fabrication process can be simplified. This printing method can be used to fabricate a color filter substrate of an LCD device.
US08064032B2
An electrooptic device includes: a display panel; an adhesive layer mounted on the outer surface of the display panel; and a functional member bonded to the display panel with the adhesive layer. The adhesive layer has spacers dispersed on the functional member or the display panel.
US08064029B2
A display panel includes a source-pad portion, a first source fan-out portion and source lines. The source-pad portion has a group of pads to which a driving signal is applied from an external source. The source fan-out portion has output lines that are extended from the group of pads and are formed to have an asymmetric structure. The source lines are extended from the output lines, and pixels of different colors are connected to each of the source lines. Accordingly, a unit pixel portion is formed to be perpendicular to each other and a fan-out portion is formed to have the asymmetric structure, so that a size of a printed circuit board is remarkably decreased. Thus, costs for manufacturing a display apparatus may be decreased.
US08064028B2
A method for manufacturing an electro-optical device including an element substrate which includes a plurality of pixels including pixel electrodes and which is connected to a circuit board includes providing a UV-curable molding member on the element substrate such that the molding member extends from the element substrate to the circuit board and also includes curing the molding member by irradiating the molding member with UV light. The element substrate includes an electrostatic protection circuit. The electrostatic protection circuit is shielded from the UV light applied to the molding member in the operation of curing the molding member.
US08064025B2
There is disclosed a lightweight and small liquid crystal display which achieves low power consumption and in which the optical anisotropy of the liquid crystal material is compensated for in order to enhance the viewing angle characteristics and the response speed of the liquid crystal material. Display electrodes and a common electrode are formed on one of the substrates. The orientation of the liquid crystal material is of the HAN (hybrid alignment nematic) type. This compensates for the optical anisotropy of the liquid crystal material and improves the response speed.
US08064021B2
Provided is a light illuminating unit for emitting partially polarized light having an anisotropic illuminance distribution onto a polarizing device. The light illuminating unit includes: a light generator to emit light having an anisotropic illuminance distribution; and a polarizing device to receive light from the light generator.
US08063994B2
Flicker occurs in a flicker-noticeable area consisting of pixels with no pixel value variations. An image processing device (100) includes a variance calculation unit (101) that obtains a variance of an area consisting of a target pixel and neighboring pixels included in a first frame, and changes, according to the variance, the rate at which an error generated at the target pixel through tone level restriction is distributed within the frame and between frames. The image processing device (100) includes an error diffusion unit (113) that distributes the error generated at the target pixel to the neighboring pixels included in the first frame based on an intra-frame error diffusion rate and an intra-frame error distribution weight, and distributes the error generated at the target pixel to a target pixel and neighboring pixels included in the second frame based on an inter-frame error diffusion rate and an inter-frame error distribution weight.
US08063992B2
Extracting and processing video content encoded in a rendered color space to be emulated by an ambient light source, comprising extracting dominant color information from a video signal and transforming the color information through unrendered color space using tristimulus primary matrices to form a second rendered color space for ambient distribution. Steps include quantizing the rendered color space to form an assigned color distribution, such as by reducing possible color states, or binning to form superpixels; and selecting a dominant color using a mode, mean, median, or weighted average of pixel chromaticities. A color of interest can be further analyzed to produce a true dominant color, and past video frames can guide selection of dominant colors in future frames.
US08063986B2
In an HDMI system, the clock regenerator proposed by the HDMI specification may suffer external noise because the input clock of a phase lock loop circuit in a sink device of the HDMI system is too slow. This slow input clock causes the phase lock loop circuit unable to adjust and reduce the jitter of an audio clock regenerated in the sink device. Therefore, one embodiment of the present invention provides a clock regenerator to extract the relationship between the regenerated audio clock and a video clock received by the sink device from other source devices. The clock regenerator may comprise a phase lock loop circuit, a recovery circuit, a crystal oscillator and a tracking circuit. The crystal oscillator generates a crystal clock. The phase lock loop circuit receives the crystal clock and regenerates an audio clock. The recovery circuit extracts the relationship between the audio clock and the received video clock. The tracking circuit tunes the frequency of the crystal clock based on the extracted relationship.
US08063983B2
An imaging apparatus is disclosed. The imaging apparatus includes: a housing forming an external armor; an imaging lens provided in the housing; a barrier adapted to be moved between a closing position at which it covers the imaging lens; and an opening position at which it causes the imaging lens, a barrier opening/closing member provided at the housing so as to be movable between a first position and a second position; and an interlock mechanism coupling the barrier and the barrier opening/closing member, causing the barrier to be located at the closing position at the first position of the barrier opening/closing member, and causing the barrier to be located at the opening position at the second position, the barrier being provided between the housing and the barrier opening/closing member and covered, at the opening position, with the barrier opening/closing member located at the second position.
US08063978B2
An image pickup device includes a pixel unit which has first pixels and second pixels. A first photoelectric conversion unit is configured to generate charges corresponding to light incident upon each of the first pixels. A first control unit is connected to the first photoelectric conversion unit and configured to control the first photoelectric conversion unit. A second photoelectric conversion unit is configured to generate charges corresponding to light incident upon each of the second pixels. The second photoelectric conversion unit is smaller than the first photoelectric conversion unit. A second control unit is connected to the second photoelectric conversion unit and configured to control the second photoelectric conversion unit. The second control unit is arranged in a space which is generated due to a size difference between the first photoelectric conversion unit and the second photoelectric conversion unit.
US08063973B2
An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor configured to convert an optical image of a subject into an electric signal, an optical member provided on an imaging optical axis in front of the image sensor, a vibrating device configured to vibrate the optical member, a status acquiring unit configured to acquire a status inside the imaging apparatus, and a control unit configured to control the vibrating device to vibrate the optical member at each of frequency steps into which a predetermined frequency band is divided and to change at least one of the frequency band, a number of frequency steps into which the frequency band is divided, and a time per frequency step based on the status acquired by the status acquiring unit.
US08063970B2
An image recording/reproduction apparatus reads image data from a recording medium storing plural image data to display the read image data on a TV monitor or the like, and selects image data of a same aspect ratio to simultaneously index display plural small images of thus selected image data on the TV monitor. Reduced images of an aspect ratio of 4:3 and 16:9 are formed respectively from image data of an aspect ratio of 4:3 and 16:9, and the number of displayed small image is changed according to the aspect ratio, thereby displaying a larger amount of information within a limited display space in an easily recognizable manner.
US08063968B2
An image sensing device for detecting an image of a nonplanar surface includes a plurality of pixels configured to detect the image of the nonplanar surface. The plurality of pixels are associated with a plurality of pixel pitches. The plurality of pixels are positioned to maintain a constant image resolution of the nonplanar surface for the plurality of pixels, based on the plurality of pixel pitches associated with the plurality of pixels.
US08063964B2
A dual sensitivity image sensor provides a standard mode and a high-sensitivity mode of operation via iSoC integration. In addition to boosting sensitivity, the high sensitivity mode also reduces temporal noise thereby optimally boosting the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) of the image sensor. The circuit does not significantly increase pixel complexity and requires minimal changes to the support circuits in the iSoC including the addition of support and control circuitry to facilitate seamless mode change.
US08063963B2
A method obtains a read-out signal of a pixel having at least a photosensitive element with a charge storage node. The method includes the steps of acquiring charge carriers, converted from impinging radiation on the photosensitive element, on the charge storage node, applying during the integration period at least one reset pulse, resetting incompletely the charge carriers acquired at the moment of applying the reset pulse, to obtain at least one linear response region for the pixel, and driving the pixel in weak inversion after the last incomplete reset pulse of the integration period so as to obtain a logarithmic response part. A corresponding pixel is also described.
US08063960B2
A solid-state imaging device includes a reference-signal generating unit that generates plural kinds of reference signals for converting an analog pixel signal into digital data, a reference-signal selecting unit that selects any one of the plural kinds of reference signals, a comparing unit that compares the pixel signal and the selected reference signal, and a count unit that performs count processing in parallel with comparison processing in the comparing unit and stores a count value at a point when the comparison processing is completed. The count unit decides digital data of the pixel signal in a 1 LSB step by storing a count value at a point when the comparison processing is completed for any one of the plural kinds of reference signals and correcting the stored count value on the basis of results of the comparison processing for respective remaining reference signals of the plural kinds of reference signals.
US08063955B2
In a particular embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes illuminating an opaque mask having a plurality of holes formed therein, each hole of the plurality of holes having a predetermined size. The method includes forming a two-dimensional impulse response image of the illuminated opaque mask using a camera module. The method further includes determining at least one optical characteristic of the camera module based on the two-dimensional impulse response image of the illuminated opaque mask.
US08063949B2
An activity-based system for, and method of, reducing Gr-Gb gain imbalance and a digital camera incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a sensor configured to provide a input Bayer pattern array containing amplitudes corresponding to Gr and Gb cells and (2) a processor coupled to the sensor and configured to (2a) compute for at least some of the Gr and Gb cells: activity measures for pluralities of adjacent, same-type cells, green precompensation factors based on the activity measures, averages for the pluralities of adjacent, same-type cells and averages for pluralities of adjacent, opposite-type cells and (2b) use the green precompensation factors, the averages for the pluralities of adjacent, same-type cells and the averages for the pluralities of adjacent, opposite-type cells to form an output Bayer pattern in which the Gr-Gb gain imbalance is reduced.
US08063948B2
A proximity-based system for, and method of, reducing Gr-Gb gain imbalance and a digital camera incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a sensor configured to provide a input Bayer pattern array containing amplitudes corresponding to Gr and Gb cells and (2) a processor coupled to the sensor and configured to (2a) compute for at least some of the Gr and Gb cells: closeness measures for pluralities of adjacent, same-type cells, weights for pluralities of adjacent, opposite-type cells based on the closeness measures and weighted averages of the pluralities of the adjacent, opposite-type cells based on the weights and (2b) use the weighted averages to form an output Bayer pattern in which the Gr-Gb gain imbalance is reduced.
US08063947B2
An image shooting device with an image sensing portion that acquires a series of input images formed in chronological order; a face detection portion that, detects a human face from each input image outputting position information of the detected face; a priority face choice portion that chooses a priority face from the detected faces; an identification portion that, searches for the priority face; and a re-choice portion that, when the priority face is detected from a first input image acquired but the priority face is not detected by the identification portion from a second input image retains information including position information executes a re-choice processing to re-choose the priority face searching within the third input image for a face to be re-chosen as a priority face.
US08063940B2
Image stabilization systems and methods are disclosed. One embodiment of the image stabilization method, among others, includes detecting motion of a camera, and responsive to the detected motion, changing an optical filter orientation to displace an image provided on a sensor.
US08063937B2
An electronic motion picture camera for recording a sequence of images includes a sensor device having a two-dimensional arrangement of sensor elements that generate electrical signals in dependence on an exposure to light. A first group of the sensor elements forms a recording region of the sensor device and generates recording signals, and a second group of the sensor elements forms a monitoring region of the sensor device and generates monitoring signals, wherein the monitoring region surrounds the recording region. A memory device stores the recording signals, but not the monitoring signals. A display device displays the recording signals, the monitoring signals and a frame signal representing a border between the recording region and the monitoring region of the sensor device, and the border between the recording region and the monitoring region is kept fixed during the recording of the sequence of images.
US08063934B2
A helmet for displaying environmental images in critical environments, comprising at least one video camera and a display for displaying environmental images; the helmet also has a supporting structure that can be anchored to the helmet in order to support the at least one video camera and the display; the supporting structure has a front adapter that can be coupled to a front edge of the helmet, a rear adapter that can be coupled to a rear edge of the helmet, and a connecting element for mutually connecting the front adapter and the rear adapter.
US08063933B2
The invention provides an in vivo imaging device, the device comprising a first support having thereon a first battery contact, a second support having thereon a second battery contact, a battery disposed between the first support and the second support such that the battery is in contact with the first battery contact and with the second battery contact, wherein the first battery contact is a spring and the second battery contact comprises a pin to contact the battery and a housing for the pin and a battery stopper placed between the battery and the first or second support.
US08063928B2
System and method for providing personal videotelephony in which a plurality of videophones are connected to a communications network that is configured for transmitted video and audio communications. Each of the videophones typically includes a camera, display device, telephone keypad, speaker and microphone all of which are operatively connected. The videophones further include means for selectably receiving and transmitting signals over the communications network, which signals represent images and/or sound, and for selectably displaying the signals representing any received signals representing the images on the display screen, and for playing any received signals representing the sounds on said speaker. Means are also provided for selectably accessing a remote location, such as, but not limited to, another videophone, using information entered or selected by a user of the videophone, and to retrieve the signals representing the images and sounds being transmitted from the remote location. In one or more embodiments the present invention further includes at least one networks operation center to store information related to the operation of the videophones and to facilitate the operation of the videophones.
US08063925B2
A multi-media printer includes an engine controller, a printhead controller, and a pulse activation table. The engine controller transmits a row of energy values. The printhead controller receives the row of energy values and transmits an activation signal. The activation signal is transmitted based on a comparison of an activating energy level for each pulse position in a pulse stream with the energy values in the row of energy values. Comparison logic performs the comparison and transmits an activation signal if the energy value for the row of energy values is greater than or equal to the activating energy level for the corresponding pulse positions.
US08063915B2
A 3D surface wound, injury, and personal protective equipment (PPE) data entry system provides an easily usable graphical user interface through which an examiner can objectively record data relating to surface wounds and injuries sustained by a subject human, as well as PPE used when the wounds/injuries were sustained. The system includes a 3D human model onto which the examiner draws the surface wound(s) and/or damage to the PPE. The subject human's record is stored in a database of similar records. The database records comprise quantifiable, objective data that is easily compared and analyzed. An analysis tool can aggregate a selected population of human subjects within the database to create wound density information that can be statistically analyzed and/or displayed on a standard 3D human model. Such objective wound density information may facilitate improved medical and/or tactical training, and improved PPE design.
US08063913B2
A method and apparatus for reducing color error bands occurring due to the abrupt difference in brightness between sub-pixels. In the method of displaying an image signal of an apparatus for displaying the image signal, the apparatus includes a plurality of pixels each having at least two sub-pixels, and the method includes detecting pixels that belong to an edge of an input image, changing pixel values of the sub-pixels constituting the pixels belonging to the edge, and driving a display in accordance with the new pixel value.
US08063908B1
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for validating a graphics processor design. In operation, a test image is identified. Additionally, a reference image is automatically selected from a set of reference images. Furthermore, a graphics processor design is validated using the test image and the selected reference image.
US08063890B2
A digitizer system for controlling movement of a pointer on a display unit is provided. The system includes a digitizer tablet for detecting an input position and generating tablet coordinate data according to the detected input position. A mapping unit maps the tablet coordinate data to display coordinate data based on a plurality of different predetermined scaling relationships and provides the display coordinate data to the display unit. An input device controls the mapping unit to switch between the predetermined scaling relationships.
US08063885B2
A ballot marking system and apparatus for marking a paper ballot listing a plurality of candidates which includes a marking space for each candidate which can be either hand-marked by a voter, or machine-marked by the marking apparatus. The marking apparatus includes a touchscreen device on which the voter can enter his selections. The touchscreen is pivotally mounted atop the ballot marking apparatus such that it fits within a recess in the apparatus housing when in its closed position, and is ergonomically presented to the voter when in its open position.
US08063877B2
A driving circuit for an input display is provided. The driving circuit includes first and second data lines disposed in parallel with each other, first and second gate lines disposed in parallel with each other and intersected with the first and the second data lines, so as to form a pixel of the input display thereby, a common line disposed between the first and the second gate lines, a first switching element having a first gate electrode connected to the first gate line, a second switching element having a second gate electrode connected to the second gate line, and a third switching element connected between the common line and the second switching element and operating in a forward-bias state. The first and second gate lines operate in sequence and the first and second switching elements are respectively activated by the first and second gate lines in sequence.
US08063872B2
A portable electronic device with a touch-sensitive display is disclosed. In some embodiments, the time period after which the display is dimmed due to user inactivity is extended based on user interaction with the device subsequent to a dimming event. The dim time can be extended for a single application, multiple applications, or for the device as a whole. The user interaction with the device that extends the dim time can be a touch on any button of the device, the device's touch screen display, or even a smack on the body of the device that is detected by an acceleration sensor.
US08063866B2
A capacitor charged beforehand is discharged according to a light surrounding a display unit. A data is decreased similarly to the voltage between the electrodes of the capacitor. A trigger signal is outputted if the data becomes equal to or less than a threshold value. A clock signal whose cycle of changing levels gradually becomes long is generated. A count value is updated at each change of the clock signal's level and the updated count value is outputted. The count value is sampled when the trigger signal is outputted.
US08063865B2
A display includes a substrate provided with a display region and a non-display region. A plurality of display electrodes are arranged on the substrate. A plurality of switching elements are respectively connected to the display electrodes. Each of the switching elements includes a control electrode and a data electrode. A plurality of scan lines are respectively connected to the control electrodes of the switching elements. A plurality of data lines are respectively connected to the data electrodes of the switching elements. A scan line electrostatic protection and test circuit is provided in the non-display region and connected to the scan lines The scan line electrostatic protection and test circuit includes an electrostatic protection circuit provided with a protection element which is normally in a non-conduction state and is set in a conduction state by generated static electricity, and an inspection circuit to inspect a conduction state of the scan lines by way of the protection element.
US08063864B2
A pixel, according to the invention, comprises a pixel electrode, a data line, and a switch element. The switch element comprises a gate electrode, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a semiconductor layer. The first electrode is electrically connected to the pixel electrode and comprises a first portion and a second portion. The second portion has a curved structure and comprises a first terminal connected to the first portion and a second terminal. The first terminal of the second portion is substantially aligned with the second terminal thereof. The second electrode is electrically connected to the data line. The second electrode forms or the second electrode and the data line together form a concave area where the first electrode is disposed in. The semiconductor layer is disposed between the first electrode, the second electrode, and the gate electrode.
US08063861B2
An active matrix type display panel is a hold type display panel which has a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form, and holds and displays an electrical signal pixel by pixel for a predetermined time. A frame rate conversion circuit converts a video signal having a first vertical frequency (60 Hz) into a video signal having a second vertical frequency (120 Hz) which is m/n-fold (wherein m is an integer of 2 or more, n is an integer of 1 or more, and conditions of m>n are satisfied) of the first vertical frequency. A time base emphasizing circuit subjects an output from the frame rate conversion circuit to time base emphasis. A drive circuit displays the video signal having the second vertical frequency in a display panel.
US08063860B2
In one embodiment, a display device includes a plurality of gate lines transmitting normal gate signals, a plurality of data lines crossing the gate lines and transmitting data voltages, and a plurality of storage electrode lines extending in parallel to the gate lines and transmitting storage signals. The display device may further include a plurality of pixels arranging in a matrix, each pixel having a switching element connected to the gate line and the data line, a liquid crystal capacitor connected to the switching element and a common voltage, and a storage capacitor connected to the switching element and the storage electrode line. The display device may further include a plurality of pseudo gate driving circuits generating pseudo gate signals based on the normal gate signals, and a plurality of storage signal generating circuits generating the storage signals based on the pseudo gate signals.
US08063859B2
In a light emitting device, luminance irregularities caused by fluctuation in threshold of TFTs for supplying a current to EL elements among pixels hinder the light emitting device from improving the image quality. A voltage equal to the threshold of a TFT 110 is held in capacitor means 111 in advance. When a video signal is inputted from a source signal line, the voltage held in the capacitor means is added to the signal, which is then applied to a gate electrode of the TFT 110. Even when threshold is fluctuated among pixels, each threshold is held in the capacitor means 111 of each pixel, and therefore, influence of the threshold fluctuation can be removed. Since the threshold is stored in the capacitor means 111 alone and the voltage between two electrodes is not changed while a video signal is written, fluctuation in capacitance value has no influence.
US08063857B2
When an organic EL display apparatus enables display of a standard luminance mode and a high luminance mode, it takes long time to reset the gate potential of the OLED drive TFT to a given value in a standard mode. In the reset operation of the gate potential of an OLED drive TFT at the time of writing an image signal, in a standard mode, a precharge current is allowed to flow in the OLED element for a short period before the reset operation to set an initial value of the gate potential of the OLED drive TFT to be close to a supply potential or a reference potential. With the above operation, the variation of the OLED drive TFT gate potential after resetting is reduced. As a result, the light emitting period during one frame can be extended. Also, since a blanking period can be extended, it is possible to measure the characteristic of the OLED element by using the blanking period.
US08063855B2
A switching transistor is controlled to turn on or off depending on a turn-on voltage or a turn-off voltage applied to a gate signal line. A driver transistor is supplied with an image signal applied to a source signal line through a switching transistor. A voltage based on the supplied image signal is retained by a capacitor. The driver transistor supplies a light-emitting current to an EL element based on the voltage retained in the capacitor. A capacitor is formed between one terminal of the capacitor (that is, a gate terminal of the driver transistor) and a gate signal line. The capacitor causes the gate terminal voltage of the driver transistor to be varied depending on variation of the potential on the gate signal line.
US08063853B2
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes a first pixel including a first light emitting diode, a first driving transistor connected to the first light emitting diode and having a first terminal, a second terminal, and a third terminal, and a first storage capacitor connected between the first terminal and the second terminal of the first driving transistor, and a second pixel including a second light emitting diode, a second driving transistor connected to the second light emitting diode and having a first terminal, a second terminal, and a third terminal, and a second storage capacitor connected between the first terminal and the second terminal of the second driving transistor, wherein the first storage capacitor has a different capacitance than the second storage capacitor.
US08063839B2
A technique for tuning an antenna may include one or more of the following: working against a ground plane, utilizing the third dimension by alternating layers on a substrate, integrating an inductive short stub in the substrate to improve port matching, and making a tuning port available for capacitive loading and resonance modification.
US08063836B2
A mobile wireless communications device may include a portable housing, at least one wireless transceiver carried by the portable housing, and a satellite positioning signal receiver carried by the portable housing. Moreover, a satellite positioning antenna may be carried by the portable housing. The satellite positioning antenna may include an active element connected to the satellite positioning signal receiver, and a passive element connected to a voltage reference and positioned in spaced apart relation from the active element and operatively coupled thereto for directing a beam pattern thereof.
US08063833B2
Methods for tuning at least a region of a tunable frequency selective surface. The methods disclosed how to achieve an opaque or absorptive state in at least a region of tunable frequency selective surface.
US08063817B2
Methods and apparatus for enhancing the resolution of a radar image in the cross-range direction. An example method includes receiving a plurality of received power samples in the cross-range dimension as the radar antenna scans and calculating a window function from the antenna beam response pattern. Then for each of a plurality of positions of the window function along the azimuth axis, multiplying the received response pattern by the window function at that position, yielding a product function for each position. Finally, the method includes calculating an estimated azimuth bin offset, resulting estimated target location, and a reflected power value corresponding to the integral of the product function from the product function of each position. A reconstructed azimuth bin array developed from the estimated target locations and reflected power values is substituted for the original received cross-range received power values, yielding a resolution-enhanced map image.
US08063813B1
The present invention provides an apparatus and method of detecting, locating, and suppressing electronic devices, specifically IEDs. This RF emission measurement device in some embodiments can also be considered a system for RF emission measurement, location, and suppression. In some embodiments the apparatus comprises a high sensitivity receiver for receiving and analyzing electronic emissions. In other embodiments the apparatus comprises a high sensitivity receiver and an electromagnetic source for illuminating, and/or suppressing an electromagnetic device. The electromagnetic source could be any electromagnetic emitter known in the art, for example a magnetron or an adjustable wideband electromagnetic emitter.
US08063812B2
A radio wave absorber for use in an electromagnetic field probe that measures an electromagnetic field by means of an antenna section provided therewith, the radio wave absorber including: a first end section; a second end section that is located at a position opposite the first end section; and an intermediate section that is located between the first and second end sections, the intermediate section having outer dimension and thickness that increase in accordance with a distance from the first end section toward the second end section.
US08063811B2
A method and apparatus for performing pipelined capacitive folding and interpolation analog-to-digital conversion. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a multistage pipelined analog-to-digital converter having: a distributed sample/hold and preamp, folding and interpolation unit which combines a plurality of preamplified signals using a capacitive folding and capacitive interpolation; and a decoding unit coupled to decode the output signals from the folding and interpolation unit. The distributed sample/hold and preamp drastically improves the input dynamic range and hence increases ADC over all linearity. This technique offers an inherent dynamic offset cancellation in every sample and can be implemented in submicron CMOS, using the core digital supply.
US08063809B2
A transient signal encoding method and device, decoding method and device, and processing system, where the transient signal encoding method includes: obtaining a reference sub-frame where a maximal time envelope having a maximal amplitude value is located from time envelopes of all sub-frames of an input transient signal; adjusting an amplitude value of the time envelope of each sub-frame before the reference sub-frame in such a way that a first difference is greater than a preset first threshold, in which the first difference is a difference between the amplitude value of the time envelope of each sub-frame before the reference sub-frame and the amplitude value of the maximal time envelope; and writing the adjusted time envelope into bitstream.
US08063804B2
With analog output stages of digital systems, the relationship between a digital data value, which is assigned to an analog output stage and to an actually generated output voltage, often does not correspond to a desired characteristic curve. A switching unit is provided to generate an output voltage as a function of a digital data value, the characteristic curve of which is adjusted by a calibration voltage. A method for calibrating a corresponding switching unit is also provided. The switching unit and the method are used in controllers.
US08063803B2
Techniques for correcting component mismatches in an M-channel time-interleaved Analog to Digital Converter (ADC). In order to obtain an error measure for offset, gain or phase, errors, outputs from each ADC are either summed or averaged over No samples. Calling each of the sums or averages as Xk where k=1, 2, . . . , M, there are M such values as a result. A single value representing the mean of these M values, Xmean, is chosen as a reference value. The offset, gain and phase errors for the M different ADCs are then obtained from Xk−Xmean. The sign of each offset error, i.e., sign (Xk−Xmean), is then used to drive an adaptive algorithm whose output represents an offset correction value for the corresponding ADC. The offset, gain, and phase correction outputs from the adaptive algorithm is fed to an array of Digital-to-Analog converters (DACs) whose outputs are voltages or currents that directly or indirectly controls the offset, gain or phase setting of each individual ADC. Thus, there are M different offset, gain and phase error signals and M different adaptive algorithms operating in conjunction with M different DACs providing offset control signals to M different ADCs. In certain embodiments, spur frequencies can be reduced with the use of notch filters.
US08063802B1
Phase is adjusted by using an analog to digital converter to convert an analog signal to a plurality of digital samples. A filter is used to filter the plurality of digital samples to obtain a plurality of phase adjusted samples.
US08063792B2
A utility meter reading device with a global positioning system (GPS) functionality has been developed. The device includes a utility meter reading unit that reads usage data from a utility meter and GPS unit. The GPS unit collects locating coordinates of the utility meter while the meter reading unit collects the usage data.
US08063787B2
A point-of-use energy status indicator monitoring the presence or absence of energy at a monitored device that is required for proper operation of a point-of-use device. The point-of-use indicator being in two-way communication with a status determining device that monitors the monitored device. The status determining device being capable of overriding a utility or energy management system curtailment of energy to the monitored device in response to receiving a signal from a means for overriding located in the point-of-use energy status indicator.
US08063784B2
A device for deactivating an RFID portion on an identification tag and indicating that the RFID portion is deactivated. The present invention addresses current privacy concerns regarding potential use of RFID technology after the point of sale. The device for deactivating the RFID portion of an identification tag provides visual indication that the RFID portion is deactivated. The visual indication occurs without the use of additional equipment or electronics. The visual indication component of the present invention is easy to interpret, so that a viewer will be able to quickly determine whether the RFID portion of the identification tag has been deactivated.
US08063780B2
This invention provides a monitor area setting device with which an area can be easily added to or deleted from a monitor area. The device includes: an area addition/deletion specifying unit that specifies an addition area and a deletion area based on an input signal from an operating unit; an inconsistent area extraction unit that extracts an area that is between the safety area and the addition area with respect to the safety sensor as an inconsistent area; and an area setting update unit that updates area setting information so as to set an area formed either by adding the addition area and the inconsistent area to the safety area or by excluding the deletion area and the inconsistent area from the safety area as a new monitor area.
US08063774B2
A sensor node for deployment in association with an earth surface has a biodegradable plastic housing, an electronic circuit board within the housing, and at least one battery for providing electrical energy to the circuit board. The circuit board has a non-toxic substrate and at least one lead-free solder element. Each battery is a non-toxic battery.
US08063767B2
A communications interface accessory for an electric power system arrester is described. The communications interface accessory includes a housing and a communications interface positioned within the housing. The communications interface is configured to complete a signal path with the arrestor. The communications interface accessory also includes a disconnect device positioned within the housing, whereby the disconnect device is coupled to the arrestor and the communications interface.
US08063761B2
A home automation and security system is provided in which a home automation and security controller in a customer premises is coupled with a remotely located central control facility using a continuous connectivity access line providing a data channel separate from a voice channel. The controller at the customer premises is responsible for monitoring and applying control signals to devices in the home and for supporting a human interface. The remotely located central control facility is responsible for providing the computational and database resources to the controller. By redistributing functionality, the network-based structure of this home automation and security system can overcome the disadvantages of conventional home automation and security systems.
US08063760B2
An interrogator, methods of discerning the presence of an object, and interrogation systems employing the same. In one embodiment, the interrogation systems include multiple interrogators that communicate with a base command unit to track a location of an object. In another embodiment wherein the object is an RFID object (e.g., an object with an RFID tag), the interrogators employ signal processing techniques such as precharging the RFID object, and correlating a reference code with a reply code from the RFID object using selected techniques to increase a sensitivity of the interrogator, especially for adverse environments. In other embodiments, the interrogation systems include variations of metal instruments and sponges employed therewith. In yet another embodiment, the interrogation system includes metal interrogators capable of discerning the presence of a metal object, especially in a presence of another metal object.
US08063757B2
One embodiment of the present subject matter includes a battery mounted to a vehicle, with a charge state circuit located in the electric vehicle and coupled to the battery, the charge state circuit configured to provide a charge state signal indicative of the charge state of the battery. The embodiment includes a charging coupler port located proximate to a user accessible exterior of the electrical vehicle and coupled to the battery, the charging coupler port to conduct charging energy to the battery and to provide a charger connection signal indicative of a connection to an external power source. The embodiment also includes a lighting circuit coupled to the charging coupler port and the charge state circuit to control the brightness and color of an illuminated indicator responsive to the charge state signal and the charger connection signal.
US08063754B2
A vehicle state information transmission apparatus includes a warning device for issuing a warning to the driver based on information pertaining to a vehicle state detected by a vehicle state detecting device, and a vehicle state information transmission device for transmitting the information pertaining to the vehicle state detected by the vehicle state detecting device to the driver. The vehicle state information transmission device includes a tactile device, which transmits a change in the vehicle state via a vehicle operating device such as steering wheel to the driver as tactile information. The tactile device is operable in conjunction with the warning means.
US08063751B2
A graphical indicator, menu and method for modifying and displaying more than two states for the indicator is provided. An alarm indicator algorithm modifies and displays the indicator according to user-selectable options that enables a user to determine at first glance the nature of the next alarm and in particular when an alarm is not set to go off on a particular day to avoid accessing the alarm menu every time this knowledge is desired or whenever the user is uncertain of the settings. Various visual cues such as color, graphical and textual elements can be used and the algorithm can associate these cues with appropriate alarm states. When the number of settings for the multi-state alarm is relatively large, a desktop web-based application program interface (API) may be used to facilitate setting and updating the alarm functions.
US08063744B2
The present invention utilizes the existing DME transponder system infrastructure to augment existing ground surveillance multilateration (MLAT) capabilities by providing additional measurements for determining the position of an aircraft equipped with a DME transponder. DME listeners receive DME interrogation signals and DME reply signals, determine TDOA between the DME transponder and each DME listener, and transmit data to a central computer that clusters TDOAs between the DME transponder and the DME listeners and computes the aircraft position using the clustered TDOAs. The DME-aided MLAT can be used as a backup surveillance system when GNSS-based systems are unavailable. The DME-aided MLAT can be integrated with SSR receive units (RUs) performing multilateration (MLAT) calculations.
US08063737B2
A system for collecting, verifying, and managing identity data, skill data, qualification data, certification data, and licensure data of emergency responders. The system trusted verification of identity, skills, qualifications, certifications, and licensure, and disseminates information specific or related to identity, skills, qualifications, certifications, and licensure at the scene of an emergency. The system includes information collection devices, data storage media, information retrieval devices, and information management devices. The information collected, managed, and disseminated may include identity information, medical information, skills information, qualification information, certification information, licensure information. Data in the system is stored in multiple formats, allowing for the retrieval of trusted information in an environment that is part of a network or devoid of network connectivity.
US08063736B2
A unique identifier is created for each article (clothing, accessories, jewels, fragrances, manufactures, etc.) for which the provider of the article desires to authenticate its Brand source to the party acquiring the article to substantiate to that acquiring party that they are receiving a genuine article. The unique identifier is so provided from a secure third party that also stores the unique identifier, possibly with other historical information, in a secure data base accessible only by authorized parties. The unique identifier may be provided on tags to be carried by the respective article or it may be applied directly to the article as by direct part marking from the material of the article and when so provided it includes a brand source identifier of the party providing the unique identifier as an additional protective measure.
US08063733B2
A device for communicating with a system, especially for operating and monitoring an automated industrial manufacturing system is described. The device contains a mobile communication device for wireless exchange of data with the system. Further, the device also includes a fixed installed connection for the communication device and a sensor recognizing whether the communication device is connected to the fixed installed connection.
US08063730B2
An electrical device includes a thermistor and at least two electrodes electrically connected to the thermistor and to which a source of electrical power is applied to cause current to flow through the thermistor. The thermistor may be a composite and includes a polymer material; and a plurality of conductive carbon nanotubes distributed in the polymer material. The electrical device employed with the thermistor performs not only PTC property, but also NTC property. Moreover, the method for fabricating the electrical device is also simple and easy to carry out because of the simple process.
US08063726B2
An electromagnetic actuating device comprising an armature unit which can be moved along a longitudinal axis relative to a stationary core by passing a current through a coil device, said armature unit being designed to form or define a fluid flow channel, wherein the armature unit has at one end an axially elongate cylindrical section, to which an annular groove-shaped section of reduced outer diameter is connected in the direction of the longitudinal axis, wherein the fluid flow channel extends into the annular groove-shaped section, wherein the fluid flow channel runs through the elongate cylindrical section in the manner of a through-channel, in particular a through-bore, running obliquely with respect to the longitudinal axis, so that a first opening at the end side and/or an opposite second opening of the through-channel are provided outside the cylindrical outer wall of the elongate section.
US08063715B2
A directional coupler which can adjust a degree of coupling easily and by comparatively low cost is provided. A directional coupler has a substrate, a 1st transmission line formed on the substrate, a 2nd transmission line formed on the substrate, and a coupling substrate provided with a 3rd transmission line and a 4th transmission line which form a coupling part. The coupling substrate is attached to the substrate so that the coupling part may be inserted in the 1st transmission line and 2nd transmission line.
US08063711B2
A crystal oscillator emulator integrated circuit includes a first temperature sensor configured to sense a first temperature of the crystal oscillator emulator integrated circuit. The memory is configured to (i) store calibration parameters and (ii) select at least one of the calibration parameters based on the first temperature. A semiconductor oscillator is configured to generate an output signal, wherein (i) the output signal has a frequency and an amplitude and (ii) the frequency is based on the at least one of the calibration parameters. An amplitude adjustment module is configured to (i) compare the amplitude to a predetermined amplitude and (ii) generate a control signal to adjust the amplitude based on the comparison.
US08063709B2
The invention relates to a method of operating a spin-transfer torque structure to generate voltage oscillations, said structure comprising a first layer of magnetic material having a fixed magnetization vector, a spacer of non magnetic material and a second layer of magnetic material having a free magnetization vector. The method includes the application of a current (jop) through said structure and a magnetic field (Hext) in the plane of the second layer. It makes use of a region of bistability and hysteretic behaviour to trigger and stop the voltage oscillations.
US08063705B1
The present disclosure relates to a push-pull transimpedance amplifier (TIA) that receives a push-pull radio frequency (RF) input current signal having a push current and a pull current and includes a common-emitter pre-amplifier and a dynamic feedback current source (DFCS). The common-emitter pre-amplifier receives at least a portion of the push current and provides a first RF signal based on amplifying the push-pull RF input current signal. The DFCS provides at least a portion of the pull current based on the first RF signal. The push-pull TIA may operate at high data rates, may have high input sensitivity, may provide linear amplification of the push-pull RF input current signal, or any combination thereof. The push-pull TIA may provide an RF output signal based on amplifying the push-pull RF input current signal.
US08063702B2
A folded cascode receiver amplifier with constant gain has inputs coupled to PMOS and NMOS differential transistors pairs with scaled geometries. The transconductance of both PMOS and NMOS transistors is the same whether the common mode input voltage is low or high. In a first version the transconductance of both PMOS and NMOS differential transistor pairs is reduced when the common mode input voltage is at mid-rail. Resistive means between current sources and the sources of the PMOS and NMOS transistor pairs force the current source transistors into the triode region of operation. A second version insures a constant voltage gain through control means which maintain a constant ratio of the transconductance of the output stage transistors versus the PMOS and NMOS differential transistor pairs when active.
US08063692B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes: an internal circuit; a detecting circuit which detects an element characteristic of the internal circuit; a calculating circuit which calculates a first consumption energy consumed when a power gating operation is performed on a task processed by the internal circuit and a second consumption energy consumed when an operation of reducing a voltage and a frequency is performed in accordance with the element characteristic; and a switching circuit which performs the power gating operation on the internal circuit when the first consumption energy is smaller than the second consumption energy and performs the operation of reducing a voltage and a frequency when the second consumption energy is smaller than the first consumption energy.
US08063689B2
An output stage includes a system input and a system output, a first transistor having a first control input and a first controlled path, and a second transistor having a second control input and a second controlled path. The second controlled path is in series with the first controlled path and the system output. A first current-controlled voltage source has an input that is electrically connected to the system input. The first current-controlled voltage source has an output that is electrically connected to the first control input of the first transistor. A second current-controlled voltage source has an input that is electrically connected to the system input. The second current-controlled voltage source has an output that is electrically connected to the second control input of the second transistor.
US08063685B1
A flip-flop circuit includes a data input, a clock input for receiving a clock signal having active edges and inactive edges, a data output, an input circuit, a pulse generator, and a latch. The input circuit sets first and second nodes to different initial logic states in response to an inactive edge of the clock signal, and selectively changes the logic state of either the first node or the second node in response to a pulse input signal to control the state of a third node, such that the selection depends on the logic state of the data input. The pulse generator circuit enables the pulse input signal in response to an active edge of the clock signal, and disables the pulse input signal in response to detecting the change in the initial logic state of either the first node or the second node. The latch stores a data output signal for output at the data output, the data output signal depending on the logic state of the third node.
US08063684B2
A PWM controller applied to switch-type voltage regulator includes an error amplifier, a soft-start control circuit, a compensating load and a comparator. The error amplifier receives a reference voltage signal and a feedback voltage signal and outputs an error current signal according to the received feedback voltage signal and the reference voltage signal. The soft-start control circuit outputs a compensating current signal according to at least one soft-start control signal. The compensating load receives the error current signal and the compensating current signal, and outputs a compensating signal. The comparator receives a ramp signal and the compensating signal, and outputs a pulse width modulated (PWM) signal. When a supply voltage rises, the error amplifier is compensated with a preset soft-start compensating current to a circuit common ground VSS, so that the error signal slowly rises during the soft-start control process. Therefore, the function of soft-starting is effectuated.
US08063683B2
A phase interpolator is provided. The phase interpolator comprises a plurality of reference stages, the reference stages receiving a reference signal having a predetermined phase and outputting a component signal, wherein the reference stages comprise a plurality of current source circuits, and the current source circuits comprise a plurality of transistors, and the transistors of the current source circuits are coupled to one another by the drains of the transistors.
US08063681B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a DLL controlling block configured to enable or disable an update enable signal by detecting a change in a voltage level of a phase detecting signal during a predetermined time when an operation enable signal and a threshold phase difference detecting signal are enabled, and a delay locked loop (DLL) circuit configured to generate an output clock signal by delaying and driving the reference clock signal and to control a frequency of a change in the delay amount of the reference clock signal in response to the update enable signal.
US08063673B2
A transit state element circuit. The transit state element circuit includes a clock input stage coupled to receive a clock signal, an output stage configured to drive an output signal on an output node and an activation stage coupled to an input node. The activation stage is configured to, responsive to the clock input stage detecting a transition from a first logic level to a second logic level and detecting a logical transition of an input signal on the input node, activate the output stage to drive an output signal on the output node. A storage element is configured to capture a logic value of the input signal when the clock is at the second logic level and to store the logic value, and to provide the output signal on the output node when the clock signal is at the first logic level.
US08063672B2
A technique for simplifying the control of a switch is presented. In one embodiment, a method of controlling a switch as a function of the voltage across the switch is presented. In one embodiment a method of controlling a switch as a function of the slope of the voltage across the switch is present. In one embodiment a switching is switched on for an on time period that is substantially fixed in response to a voltage across the switch while the switch is off. In one embodiment a switch is switched on for an on time period that is substantially fixed in response to the slope of the voltage across the switch while the switch is off.
US08063670B2
A transistor driver includes a sender module configured to generate a power input signal. A converter module includes a transformer including a first side and a second side. The first side of the transformer is configured to receive the power input signal. A rectifier is connected to the second side of the transformer. The converter module is configured to generate an output signal at an output of the rectifier. A first receiver module is connected to each of the second side of the transformer and the output of the rectifier. The first receiver module is configured to transition a first transistor between an ON state and an OFF state based on a first signal received from the second side of the transformer.
US08063668B2
An output stage includes a first transistor pair with a first conductivity type and a second transistor pair with a second conductivity type. The source connections of the first and second transistors in the first transistor pair and of the first and second transistors in the second transistor pair are respectively connected to a first and a second circuit node. The output stage further includes a first current mirror with the first conductivity type and a second current mirror with the second conductivity type. The current mirror transistors are connected to the signal output. The signal input is connected to control connections of the first transistors in the first and second transistor pairs. A second connection of the second transistor in the first transistor pair is connected to the second current mirror, and a second connection of the second transistor in the second transistor pair is connected to the first current mirror.
US08063667B2
A peak hold circuit includes an input transistor, which is provided with an input signal, and a first hold capacitor, which holds a maximum or minimum value of the input signal. A correction circuit, which corrects the hold voltage held by the first hold capacitor, includes an operational amplifier, which is supplied with the hold voltage, and a correction transistor, which is provided with an output signal of the operational amplifier. A source/emitter of the correction transistor is coupled to the operational amplifier. The peak hold circuit also includes a current detection circuit, which detects current flowing to the input transistor, and a peak current hold circuit, which holds the peak value of the current detected by the current detection circuit as a peak current and supplies the peak current to the correction transistor.
US08063656B1
A method of enabling a circuit board analysis is disclosed. The method comprising removing a portion of the circuit board on a first side of the circuit board opposite a second side of the circuit board having an integrated circuit package; removing the circuit board from the integrated circuit package; performing a dye mapping to analyze bonds between the integrated circuit package and the circuit board; and performing an analysis of the integrated circuit package.
US08063651B2
A contact for an electrical test comprises a first area to be bonded to a board, a second area extending in the right-left direction from the lower end portion of the first area, a third area projecting downward from the tip end portion of the second area, and a low light reflective film having lower light reflectance than that of the first area. The third area has a probe tip to be contacted an electrode of an electronic device. The low light reflective film is formed on a surface of at least the bonding part of the first area to the board and its proximity.
US08063649B2
A measuring system minimizes the parasitic affects of lumped circuit elements. The system includes two or more in-situ interfaces configured to conductively link a source to an internal load and an external load. The in-situ interfaces are linked to a shunt conductor. Two or more linear and dynamic elements conductively link the in-situ interfaces in series. The dynamic elements are configured to overwhelm the parasitic self-capacitance of an input circuit coupled to at least one of the in-situ interfaces. A shield enclosing at least one of the linear and dynamic elements has a conductive surface to fields and electromagnetic interference. The shield has attenuation ratios that substantially dampen the parasitic capacitance between the linear and dynamic elements that bridge some of the in-situ interfaces.
US08063644B2
A method of measuring impedance of a pH electrode is provided. A test current is applied to the pH electrode for a time duration that is less than 50 percent of a time constant that is associated with electrical characteristics of the pH electrode. A voltage response of the pH electrode is measured when the test current is applied to the pH electrode. An impedance of the pH electrode is calculated as a function of the voltage response.
US08063643B2
In one aspect the present disclosure relates to a system for measuring an internal resistance of a battery. The system may involve: a processor; a load module responsive to the processor for applying a load across the battery; a current sense subsystem for sensing the current flowing to the load module and generating a sensed current signal in accordance therewith; a multiplexer module in communication with the current sense subsystem for detecting voltages with the load coupled across the battery and uncoupled from the battery, and generating voltage signals in accordance therewith; and a filtering and amplification subsystem responsive to the multiplexer module, for filtering and amplifying a level of each of the voltage signals to produce modified voltage signals for use by the processor in determining the battery internal resistance.
US08063642B2
A method for electromagnetic exploration includes imparting a first electromagnetic signal into subsurface formations from a first location and imparting a second electromagnetic signal into the formations from a second location substantially contemporaneously with imparting the first electromagnetic signal. The first and second electromagnetic signals are substantially uncorrelated with each other. A combined electromagnetic response of the formations to the first and second imparted electromagnetic signals is detected at a third location. A response of the formations to each of the first and the second imparted signals is determined from the detected response.
US08063635B2
The invention relates to a magnetoresistive sensor with a triangle made of magnetic sensitive material with three corners with two wiring connections, wherein the three sides of the triangle have different or at least substantially equal length.
US08063631B2
A device for non destructive evaluation of defects in a metallic object (2) by eddy currents, comprises a field emitter (3) for emitting an alternating electromagnetic field at a first frequency fi in the neighborhood of the metallic object (2), and a magnetoresistive sensor (1) for detecting a response signal constituted by a return electromagnetic field which is re-emitted by eddy currents induced by the alternating electromagnetic field in the metallic object (2). The device further comprises: a driving circuit (230) for driving the magnetoresistive sensor (1) by a current at a second frequency fc which is different from the first frequency fi, so that the magnetoresistive sensor (1) acts as an in situ modulator; a detector for detecting a response signal between the terminals of the magnetoresistive sensor (1); a filter for filtering the response signal detected by the magnetoresistive sensor (1) to keep either the frequency sum (fi+fc) of the first and second frequencies or the frequency difference (fi−fc) of the first and second frequencies, and a processor for processing the filtered response signal and extract eddy current information on defects in the metallic object (2).
US08063627B2
The linear sensor 1 for measuring an axial path L0 of a part 2 sliding in an axial direction 20 in a frame 3 comprises a mobile part 4 cooperating with a fixed part 5, said mobile part 4 comprising: a longitudinal element 40 cooperating at one end 400 with said part 2, any translation of said part 2 in said axial path causing a corresponding displacement of its other end 401; and a magnetic field source 41 integral with the end 401, said fixed part 5 comprising a receiving means 50 for said magnetic field. The linear sensor is characterized in that said fixed part 5 comprises an angular redirection means 53 cooperating with said longitudinal element 40 and thus transforming said axial path of the end 400 into a radial path of the other end 401.
US08063622B2
A circuit to control the slew rate of charging a capacitance using the capacitance is disclosed. An example circuit includes a regulator circuit to regulate a supply voltage during a normal operation mode of the circuit. A capacitance circuit is coupled to the regulator circuit. The regulator circuit is coupled to charge a capacitance between a first node and a second node of the capacitance circuit with a charge current. A slew rate control circuit is coupled to the regulator circuit and the capacitance circuit. The slew rate control circuit sets a slew rate of a voltage between the first and second nodes during a power up mode of the circuit.
US08063614B2
A system for actuating portable electronic devices includes a power supply circuit for providing an electric potential, a regulating circuit connected to the power supply circuit for regulating the electric potential provided by the power supply circuit, and an actuating circuit connected to the power supply circuit via the regulating circuit. The actuating circuit creating pulse signals to control the regulating circuit and the power supply circuit to create an actuating electric potential, which actuates portable electronic devices connected to the system.
US08063600B2
A circuit breaker with overload and short-circuit protection functions for a motor, on which is mounted a thermally actuated overload tripping device including an adjustment dial to set a value corresponding to a rated current value of the motor on a scale. The dial has a standard setting pointer mark and a correction setting pointer mark side-by-side along a perimeter. The standard setting pointer mark applies to using the circuit breaker as a single item. The correction setting pointer mark applies to using a number of circuit breakers arranged in a line in close contact with each other. By setting a mark selected according to the arrangement of the circuit breaker at the rated current value, the steady state current value of the tripping device can be adequately set to correspond to the rated current value of the motor.
US08063595B2
A location system is configured for determining a magnetic pole position of a motor. The location system includes a motor driver, a current control module, a current feedback apparatus, a speed feedback apparatus, and a magnetic pole position location module. The current control module is configured for set current of the motor via the motor driver. The current feedback apparatus is configured for sensing an actual current of the motor. The speed feedback apparatus is configured for sensing an actual speed of the motor. The magnetic pole position location module is configured for inputting a magnetic pole position of the motor, receiving the actual current from the current feedback apparatus, receiving the actual speed from the speed feedback apparatus, and processing the actual current and the actual speed to obtain an initial magnetic pole position.
US08063594B2
A motor drive apparatus includes an assembly of first and second subassemblies. The first subassembly includes a first board and at least one connecting member, such as a bus bar, formed in the first board, and arranged to form a current supply path from a power source to the motor. The second subassembly includes a second board and at least one switching device mounted on the second board. The first and second subassemblies are stacked with an interspace between the first and second boards. A terminal segment of the switching device is connected with a terminal segment of the connecting member.
US08063590B2
Both a method and a use by this method of an apparatus for detecting blocking of a direct current motor (10), in particular a direct current motor (10) for a blower of a motor vehicle, is presented. The direct current motor (10) is deactivated by a computer unit (20) with the aid of a switching means (18) for a defined time period (Toff). Within the defined time period (Toff), at least one subsequent time (ta, tb), an induced voltage (U) of the direct current motor (10) is measured and forwarded to the computer unit (20). The direct current motor (10) remains deactivated if the induced voltage (U) undershoots a predetermined threshold value (Uth), or the direct current motor (10) is reactivated if the induced voltage (U) of the direct current motor (10) does not undershoot the predetermined threshold value (Uth).
US08063568B2
A device is disclosed for wireless control of color of light emitted by a lighting system. The lighting system comprises signal receiving means and means for adjusting the color of light emitted from at least one lighting element, in response to a received color control signal from the device. The device for wireless control comprises means for—generating color information data, said data being indicative of a desired color of light to be emitted by the lighting system, means for modulating a first carrier signal in accordance with the color information data, and means for transmitting said color control signal in the form of a beam of said first modulated carrier signal to the lighting system.
US08063564B2
An arc discharge light source (10) comprises a translucent body (12) having a hollow center 14 and oppositely disposed ends (16, 18). A cathode lead-in 20 is positioned in one of the ends (16) and terminates at a first end (22) in a cathode electrode (24) within the hollow center (14) and a second end (26) in a connector (28) for a power supply. An anode lead-in 30 is positioned in the other of the ends (18) and terminates at a first end (32) in an anode electrode (34) within the hollow center (14) and at a second end (36) in a connector (40) for a power supply. A space (42) between the cathode electrode (24) and the anode electrode (34) within the hollow center (14) defines an arc gap. An arc generating and sustaining medium (43) is provided within the hollow center (14) and a starting aid (41) comprising an auxiliary electrode (44) substantially surrounds the anode electrode (34) and is positioned solely on the external surface (46) of the body (12) and is electrically connected to the cathode lead-in (20).
US08063554B2
An organic light emitting device having a phase-separated light-emissive layer comprising: a charge transport phase comprising a charge transport material; and an emitting phase, the emitting phase comprising a plurality of discrete emissive domains dispersed in the charge transport phase, each emitting domain comprising a host material and one or more metal complexes for emitting light by phosphorescence; wherein the charge transport material has a T1 energy level lower than the T1 energy level of the metal complexes and the host material has a T1 energy level higher than the T1 energy level of the metal complexes.
US08063553B2
To reduce brightness variation by wiring resistance of an upper part transparent electrode in an organic luminescence element, a stripe-shape first auxiliary wiring 11 extending in a direction parallel to a signal line is formed on the upper part transparent electrode, by a precise mask vapor deposition method. Then, a stripe-shape second auxiliary wiring 12 extending in a direction parallel to a scanning line is formed by a precise mask vapor deposition method.
US08063552B2
A light-emitting optical cavity light-emitting diode device, comprising: a) a substrate; b) a reflective electrode formed over the substrate; c) an unpatterned light-emitting layer formed over the reflective electrode; d) a transparent electrode formed over the unpatterned light-emitting layer; e) one or more different optical spacers, defining at least two different optical path lengths, are formed in different locations over the substrate, between the reflective electrode and the transparent electrode; and f) a low-index layer formed over the transparent electrode.
US08063541B2
A holster for a handheld electronic device. The holster has integrated therein one or more piezoelectric elements that provide an output voltage to the handheld electronic device upon insertion of device in the holster. The output voltage can be used to charge the battery of the device, to power, at least in part, the device, or both. The output voltage is generated by harvesting vibration energy at the piezoelectric elements upon the holster being subjected to acceleration caused by a user carrying the holster when walking, running, or during any other suitable activity.
US08063539B2
An apparatus for producing a holding or transmission frame (12, 20) for an electrostrictive actuator, in particular, a stacked piezoactuator (5) includes the following steps: a) a winding spindle (52), corresponding to the shape of the inner periphery of the frame (12, 20), is wound with several layers of a unidirectional prepreg for forming a laminate body; b) the laminate body is hardened; c) the hardened laminate body in the frame is cut by sections parallel to the direction of winding. An electrostrictive drive (100) includes an electrostrictive actuator (5) in which the length varies during actuation, and a transmission frame (12) that surrounds the actuator, is connected to the actuator for initiating the variation in length of the actuator and for amplifying the actuator, the transmission frame (12) being made of a prepreg that is wound in the laminate body and hardened.
US08063535B2
A mechanical oscillator has components with dimensions in a sub-micron range to produce resonance mode oscillations in a gigahertz range. A major element is coupled to a minor, sub-micron element to produce large amplitude gigahertz frequency oscillation that is detected with readily available techniques. The mechanical structure can be formed according to a number of geometries including beams and rings and is excited with electrostatic, magnetic and thermal related forces, as well as other excitation techniques. The mechanical structure can be arranged in arrays for applications such as amplification and mixing and is less sensitive to shock and radiative environments than electrical or optical counterparts.
US08063529B2
A motor comprises a stator and a rotor (20) disposed within the stator. The stator comprises a shell comprising a plurality of sidewalls (10a-10d) and arcuate connection parts (11a-11d) connecting neighboring sidewalls. The cross section of the shell is a polygon with fillets. The stator also comprises a plurality of magnets (12a-12d) installed inside the arcuate connection parts. The magnets (12a-12d) are mutual arranged at intervals. The outer surface of each magnet (12a-12d) is attached to inner surfaces of the two neighboring sidewalls (10a-10b) and a gap is formed between the magnet and the inner surface of the corresponding arcuate connection part. Air gaps are formed between the inner surface of the magnets (12a-12d) and the outer surface of the rotor. Disposing the magnets inside the arcuate connection parts improves the space utilization ratio. In addition, the gaps formed between the outer surface of magnets and the inner surface of arcuate connection parts may be used for adhesive to fix the magnets to the shell.
US08063516B2
An electronically controlled four quadrant MOSFET based switch in which a pair of drivers are provided in cooperation with a MOSFET. A first one of the drivers is arranged such that when current flow through the MOSFET is to be enabled responsive to a first condition of the control signal, the gate of the MOSFET is driven with an appropriate voltage, and when current flow through the MOSFET is to be disabled responsive to a second condition of the control signal, the gate is driven towards a limit voltage. A second one of the drivers is arranged such that when current flow through the MOSFET is to be enabled the body diode connection of the MOSFET is driven towards the potential of the MOSFET source, and when current flow through the MOSFET is to be disabled the body diode connection is driven towards the limit voltage.
US08063514B2
A power supply selection/detection circuit to select one main power supply from a plurality of external power supplies includes a resistance element with one end connected to an external power supply and another end connected to the main power supply, a first voltage detector to receive a voltage of the external power supply and detect a voltage of the external power supply, a second voltage detector to detect a voltage between the ends of the resistance element, and a switch connected between the external power supply and a ground to short-circuit or open-circuit between the external power supply and the ground according to an output of the second voltage detector. The resistance element and the first voltage detector are disposed for each of the plurality of external power supplies, and the second voltage detector and the switch are disposed for at least one of the plurality of external power supplies.
US08063510B2
A charge control apparatus operable in a first power mode or a second power mode having power consumption less than that of the first power mode, the charge control apparatus includes a main power supply, an auxiliary power supply, a charging unit, a time count unit, and a charge control unit, wherein the charge control unit controls the charging unit to switch from a first charge mode to a second charge mode upon detecting that the charging time counted by the time count unit is or larger than a predetermined time period in the first power mode, and wherein the charge control unit controls the charging unit to operate in the second charge mode when the charge control apparatus operates in the second power mode.
US08063505B2
An engine start system for use with a ground engaging vehicle, the system including an input device, a processing circuit, a display and an engine controller unit. The input device produces a signal when depressed, the signal initiates the application of electrical power to the engine start system. The processing circuit is activated by the application of electrical power thereto. The display is communicatively coupled with the processing circuit. The input device produces another signal when depressed. The other signal is detected by the processing circuit and the processing circuit, in response to the other signal, sends either a PIN request notice to the display or a start signal to the engine controller unit.
US08063504B2
Embodiments include systems and methods of powering data communications transmitter circuitry using current sinked from biasing circuitry used to bias a transmission line between the data communications transmitter circuitry and data communications receiver circuitry. In some embodiments, the current sinked from the biasing circuitry is sourced by a power supply configured to power the data communications receiver circuitry. The current sinked from the biasing circuitry is then re-used to power the data communications transmitter circuitry. The data communications transmitter circuitry can be operated using less power overall than the prior art by re-using the current first used to bias the transmission line to power the data communications transmitter circuitry. Various embodiments include HDMI transceivers, DVI transceivers, and DisplayPort transceivers.
US08063500B2
The present invention provides a maintenance operation method for a wind turbine generator and a wind turbine generator, which can effectively utilize a phase advance capacitor equipped in the wind turbine generator and contribute to the phase factor improvement of the system side. A maintenance operation method for a wind turbine generator including an induction generator 3 driven by rotation of blades 2, a power output line 5 for outputting power of the induction generator 3 to a distribution system 5, and at least one phase advance capacitor 10 parallel-connected to the power output line, comprises: a first step of releasing connection between the phase advanced capacitor 10 and the power output line 5 when a maintenance mode is selected; and a second step of returning the connection between the phase advanced capacitor 10 and the power output line 5 by a manual operation or an automatic operation, wherein the phase advance capacitor 10 returned to the connection with the power output line 5 performs a power factor improvement of reactor loads 53, 54 in the distribution system 50 side through a linkage portion 60 with the distribution system 50.
US08063496B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a semiconductor substrate including a main chip region and a pad region, a multi-layer pad structure on the pad region of the semiconductor substrate, a redistribution pad through the semiconductor substrate and in contact with a bottom surface of the multi-layer pad structure, the redistribution pad being electrically connected to the multi-layer pad structure, a trench belt through the semiconductor substrate and surrounding the redistribution pad, the trench belt electrically isolating the redistribution pad and a portion of the semiconductor substrate adjacent to the redistribution pad, and a connection terminal on the redistribution pad, the connection terminal electrically connecting the redistribution pad to an external source.
US08063495B2
There is provided a semiconductor device with which stress can be prevented from locally concentrating on an external connecting terminal on a post and thus damages of the external connecting terminal can be prevented. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip, a sealing resin layer stacked on a surface of the semiconductor chip, and the post which penetrates the sealing resin layer in a stacking direction of the semiconductor chip and the sealing resin layer, protrudes from the sealing resin layer, and has a periphery of the protruding portion opposedly in contact with a surface of the sealing resin layer in the stacking direction.
US08063494B2
A semiconductor device has pluralities of grid array terminals forming a grid array structure, e.g. a BGA structure, in which the output end of a built-in switch circuit is connected to multiple terminals of the grid array structure, thereby reducing the current that flows through each of the multiple terminals below a permissible level and minimizing the heat due to contact resistances of the multiple terminals in contact with the IC socket of the semiconductor device. Each pair of nearest neighbors of the multiple terminals is interposed by at least one further array terminal. The multiple terminals are all located at the outermost peripheral terminal positions of the grid array structure. Thus, the heat generated in the respective multiple terminals connected to the switch circuit is reduced, thereby minimizing the possibility of hazardous melting of the terminals.
US08063487B2
A first conducting layer is formed on a side of a main surface on which an electrode terminal of a semiconductor device is provided in a semiconductor substrate. The first conducting layer is electrically connected to the electrode terminal of the semiconductor device. A mask layer that has an opening at a predetermined position is formed on the first conducting layer. A second conducting layer is formed inside the opening of the mask layer. The mask layer is removed. A relocation wiring that includes the first conducting layer and electrically draws out the electrode terminal is formed by performing anisotropic etching for the first conducting layer using the second conducting layer as a mask. Finally, a bump is formed on the relocation wiring by causing the second conducting layer to reflow.
US08063481B2
The semiconductor package includes a dielectric layer, a trace layer, a conductive layer, a die and an underfill layer. The dielectric layer has first side and an opposing dielectric layer second side. Multiple vias extend through the dielectric layer from the dielectric layer first side to the dielectric layer second side. Multiple solder balls are disposed at the dielectric layer second side. Each of the solder balls is electrically coupled to a different one of the vias. The die is electrically coupled to the solder balls. The conductive layer is disposed between the dielectric layer second side and the die. The conductive layer defines a window there through for allowing the solder balls to electrically couple to the vias without contacting the conductive layer, i.e., no physical or electrical contact. The underfill layer is formed between the die and the conductive layer, while the trace layer is formed at the dielectric layer first side. Traces of the trace layer electrically couple the vias to other solder balls.
US08063477B2
A method of manufacture of an integrated circuit packaging system includes: providing a substrate; mounting a first internal integrated circuit structure and a second internal integrated circuit structure over the substrate; connecting the first internal integrated circuit structure and the second internal integrated circuit structure to the substrate with internal interconnects; forming asymmetric encapsulation structures above the first internal integrated circuit structure and the second internal integrated circuit structure; and encapsulating the first internal integrated circuit structure and the internal interconnects with an encapsulation.
US08063474B2
A multiple-chip package has top and bottom pre-molded leadframes formed prior to the flip-chip attachment of semiconductor die to the leadframes. After die attachment, underfill is used to encase all but one surface of the die, and the top and bottom leadframes are joined together by solder bump balls with the exposed surfaces of the semiconductor dice proximate to each other.
US08063472B2
Disclosed in this specification is a buck converter package with stacked dice and a process for forming a buck converter. The package includes a die attach pad with a low side die mounted on one surface and a high side die mounted on the opposing surface. The die attach pad is conductive, such that the drain of the low side die is connected to the source of the high side die through the pad. A controller die controls the gates of the high and low side dies. A plurality of leads extends outside of the package to permit electrical connections to the inside of the package. The high side drain is exposed to one of the surfaces of the package.
US08063464B2
A photo detector is disclosed. The photo detector has a substrate, a semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate, an insulating layer covered on the semiconductor layer, an interlayer dielectric layer covered on the insulating layer, and two electrodes formed on a portion of the interlayer dielectric layer. The semiconductor layer has a first doping region, a second doping region, and an intrinsic region located between the first doping region and the second doping region. The interlayer dielectric layer has at least three holes to expose a portion of the insulating layer, a portion of the first doping region, and the second doping region. The electrodes are connected to the first doping region and the second doping region through two of the holes.
US08063458B2
A micromechanical component that can be produced in an integrated thin-film method is disclosed, which component can be produced and patterned on the surface of a substrate as multilayer construction. At least two metal layers that are separated from the substrate and with respect to one another by interlayers are provided for the multilayer construction. Electrically conductive connecting structures provide for an electrical contact of the metal layers among one another and with a circuit arrangement arranged in the substrate. The freely vibrating membrane that can be used for an inertia sensor, a microphone or an electrostatic switch can be provided with matching and passivation layers on all surfaces in order to improve its mechanical properties, said layers being concomitantly deposited and patterned during the layer producing process or during the construction of the multilayer construction. Titanium nitride layers are advantageously used for this.
US08063455B2
A multi-terminal electromechanical nanoscopic switching device which may be used as a memory device, a pass gate, a transmission gate, or a multiplexer, among other things.
US08063452B2
A gate insulating film having a high dielectric constant, a semiconductor device provided with the gate insulating film, and a method for manufacturing such film and device are provided. The semiconductor device is provided with a group 14 (IVA) semiconductor board and a first oxide layer. The first oxide layer is composed of MO2 existing on the board, where M is a first metal species selected from the group 4 (IVB); and M′xOy, where M′ is a second metal species selected from the group 3 (IIIB) and a group composed of lanthanide series, and x and y are integers decided by the oxidation number of M.
US08063447B2
A microelectronic device includes a P-I-N (p+ region, intrinsic semiconductor, and n+ region) semiconductive body with a first gate and a second gate. The first gate is a gate stack disposed on an upper surface plane, and the second gate accesses the semiconductive body from a second plane that is out of the first plane.
US08063446B2
Provided is a LDMOS device and method for manufacturing. The LDMOS device includes a second conductive type buried layer formed in a first conductive type substrate. A first conductive type first well is formed in the buried layer and a field insulator with a gate insulating layer at both sides are formed on the first well. On one side of the field insulator is formed a first conductive type second well and a source region formed therein. On the other side of the field insulator is formed an isolated drain region. A gate electrode is formed on the gate insulating layer on the source region and a first field plate is formed on a portion of the field insulator and connected with the gate electrode. A second field plate is formed on another portion of the field insulator and spaced apart from the first field plate.
US08063439B2
A semiconductor device and a fabrication method thereof are provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate which comprise a first type well and a second type well, and a plurality of junction regions therebetween, wherein each of the junction regions adjoins the first and the second type wells. A gate electrode disposed on the semiconductor substrate and overlies at least two of the junction regions. A source and a drain are in the semiconductor substrate oppositely adjacent to the gate electrode.
US08063436B2
Memory cells including a control gate, a charge trapping material, and a charge blocking material between the control gate and the charge trapping material. The charge blocking material is configured to allow for erasure of the memory cell by enhanced F-N tunneling of holes from the control gate to the charge trapping material.
US08063430B2
A semiconductor device and methods of manufacturing and operating the semiconductor device may be disclosed. The semiconductor device may comprise different nanostructures. The semiconductor device may have a first element formed of nanowires and a second element formed of nanoparticles. The nanowires may be ambipolar carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The first element may be a channel layer. The second element may be a charge trap layer. In this regard, the semiconductor device may be a transistor or a memory device.
US08063428B2
A non-volatile memory array includes a semiconductor substrate having a main surface, a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region. The second source/drain region is spaced apart from the first source/drain region. A well region is disposed in a portion of the semiconductor substrate between the first source/drain region and the second source/drain region. A plurality of memory cells are disposed on the main surface above the well region. Each memory cell includes a first oxide layer formed on the main surface of the substrate, a charge storage layer disposed above the blocking oxide layer relative to the main surface of the semiconductor substrate and second oxide layer disposed above the charge storage layer relative to the main surface of the semiconductor substrate. A plurality of wordlines are disposed above the second oxide layer relative to the main surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US08063417B2
In an integrated circuit device, element power supply lines connected to a circuit containing a plurality of cells, element ground lines connected thereto, a trunk power supply line connected to each of the element power supply lines, and a trunk ground line connected to each of the element ground lines are provided in a first wiring layer. A branch power supply line connected to the trunk power supply line and a branch ground line connected to the trunk ground line are provided in an upper wiring layer located above the first wiring layer. A wiring structure is determined based on a wiring structure equation expressing the relations among a voltage drop in the lines, the area occupied thereby, and a current consumed thereby and on a circuit characteristic equation expressing, when the circuit is subdivided while the ratio between the area of the circuit and a current consumed thereby is held constant, the relation between an area occupied by a circuit resulting from subdivision and a current consumed thereby.
US08063416B2
In a substrate power supply cell, a portion of a substrate power supply wiring is exposed by forming a power supply wiring in a U-shape, and a connection portion to an upper-layer wiring is provided at a boundary portion of the substrate power supply cell. Thereby, a leakage current is reduced without a decrease in signal wiring efficiency.
US08063409B2
Broadband light source systems, devices, and methods with a tunable spectrum are described by multiplexing a plurality of light sources, such as LEDs, with thin-film filters or diffraction gratings. A plurality of light sources with different or same wavelengths are multiplexed together to construct a combined broadband light source. A diffraction grating diffracts light beams from the plurality of light sources to a slit-shaped aperture, depending on selected light sources, the relative positions of the light sources to the slit-shaped aperture, and the type of grating to produce a tunable spectrum.
US08063407B2
There is provided a light emitting device that can minimize reflection or absorption of emitted light, maximize luminous efficiency with the maximum light emitting area, enable uniform current spreading with a small area electrode, and enable mass production at low cost with high reliability and high quality. A light emitting device according to an aspect of the invention includes a light emitting lamination including a first conductivity type semiconductor layer, a second conductivity type semiconductor layer, and an active layer, and a conductive substrate at one surface thereof. Here, the light emitting device includes a barrier unit separating the light emitting lamination into a plurality of light emitting regions, a first electrode structure, and a second electrode structure. The first electrode structure includes a bonding unit, contact holes, and a wiring unit connecting the bonding unit to the contact holes.
US08063405B2
A display device includes source/drain electrodes on a substrate, a pixel electrode, an insulating partition wall layer, a channel-region semiconductor layer. The source/drain electrodes and the pixel electrode are formed on the substrate and in contact with each other. The insulating partition wall layer is formed on the substrate and provided with a first opening extending to between the source electrode and the drain electrode and a second opening formed on the pixel electrode and extending to the pixel electrode. The channel-region semiconductor layer is formed on the bottom of the first opening. The insulating film is formed on the partition wall layer so as to cover the first opening including the channel-region semiconductor layer. The oriented film covers the first opening from above the insulating film and the second opening from the pixel electrode.
US08063402B2
An integrated circuit includes a functional block having a plurality of standard cells. The plurality of standard cells includes a plurality of functional standard cells and a filler standard cell. Each functional standard cell of the plurality of functional standard cells has a rectangular boundary. The filler standard cell has a rectangular boundary adjacent to at least one of the functional standard cells. The filler standard cell is selectable between a first state and a second state. The filler standard cell is non-functional in the first state. The filler standard cell has functional test structures coupled to a first metal layer in the second state. This allows for test structures helpful in analyzing functionality of circuit features such as transistors without requiring additional space on the integrated circuit.
US08063400B2
A plurality of light-emitting panel units in a large-area light-emitting apparatus are arranged to make joints between the light-emitting panel units unobtrusive. A display panel unit includes a flexible substrate having a flat portion having an extended portion formed on each side thereof, a light-emitting portion formed on one surface of the substrate to extend to the extended portion, and an electrode terminal formed at an end portion of the extended portion of the substrate. The extended portion of the substrate is curved together with the light-emitting portion to connect the light-emitting portions of adjacent light-emitting panel units.
US08063399B2
A compound having Formula I, Formula II, or Formula III: Ar1 may independently be phenylene, substituted phenylene, naphthylene, or substituted naphthylene. Ar2 is the same or different at each occurrence and is an aryl group. M is the same or different at each occurrence and is a conjugated moiety. T1 and T2 are independently the same or different at each occurrence and are conjugated moieties which are connected in a non-planar configuration; a and e are the same or different at each occurrence and are an integer from 1 to 6; b, c, and d are mole fractions such that b+c+d=1.0, with the proviso that c is not zero, and at least one of b and d is not zero, and when b is zero, M has at least two triarylamine units; and n is an integer greater than 1.
US08063379B2
The invention describes radiation cameras consisting of interlaced scintillation fiber arrays and a fiber readout method using pixellated photo-detector cameras. Several fabrication methods of the fiber arrays are described. The use of such Radiation Cameras in Medical Imaging systems is also described.
US08063378B2
The preferred embodiments are directed to a high-energy detector that is electrically shielded using an anode, a cathode, and a conducting shield to substantially reduce or eliminate electrically unshielded area. The anode and the cathode are disposed at opposite ends of the detector and the conducting shield substantially surrounds at least a portion of the longitudinal surface of the detector. The conducting shield extends longitudinally to the anode end of the detector and substantially surrounds at least a portion of the detector. Signals read from one or more of the anode, cathode, and conducting shield can be used to determine the number of electrons that are liberated as a result of high-energy particles impinge on the detector. A correction technique can be implemented to correct for liberated electron that become trapped to improve the energy resolution of the high-energy detectors disclosed herein.
US08063374B2
A system and method of identifying a reference standard library for thermoplastic content includes preparing a plurality of samples of each one of a plurality of known ratios of virgin thermoplastic/recycled thermoplastic, analyzing each of the plurality of samples of each one of the plurality of known ratios of virgin thermoplastic/recycled thermoplastic with at least one of a group of analyses consisting of: a differential scanning calorimetry analysis; a physical thickness analysis; an ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy analysis; an attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy analysis; a mechanical analysis; or a plasma atomic emission spectroscopic analysis. The method is also comprised of selecting a contaminant, identifying a first plurality of indicators output from the at least one of the group of analyses, identifying a second plurality of indicators from the first plurality of indicators, the second plurality of indicators being independent of the selected contaminant and optimizing the second plurality of indicators to identify a third plurality of indicators, the third plurality of indicators being quantitatively different of the selected contaminant wherein each one of the third plurality of indicators has at least one corresponding value for each one of the plurality of known ratios of virgin thermoplastic/recycled thermoplastic. Systems and methods for determining content of recycled thermoplastic in a thermoplastic sample are also disclosed.
US08063373B2
This invention relates to a compact cavity ring down spectrometer for detection and measurement of trace species in a sample gas using a tunable solid-state continuous-wave mid-infrared PPLN OPO laser or a tunable low-power solid-state continuous wave near-infrared diode laser with an algorithm for reducing the periodic noise in the voltage decay signal which subjects the data to cluster analysis or by averaging of the interquartile range of the data.
US08063372B2
Apparatus and method for temperature mapping a rotating component (12) in a high temperature combustion environment. The apparatus includes a thermal imager (14) having a field of view to sense infrared (IR) emissions. Emissivity of a surface of the component is subject to variation in the combustion environment. A radiance emitter (18) defines a spot within the field of view of the thermal imager. The spot indicates a respective emissivity value. A processor (30) is connected to the thermal imager to generate a radiance map of the component based on the IR emissions from the component. The processor includes a thermal calibration module configured to calibrate the radiance map based on the emissivity value of the spot within the field of view of the thermal imager to generate a calibrated thermal map of the component that displays absolute temperature over the surface of the component.
US08063371B2
A device for a continuous indication of illicit substances in the exhalation air of face of the machine operator comprises an IR source and an IR detector being sensitive to wave length having an absorbance of the illicit substance, whereby the beam path of the IR source to the detector runs in front of the face of the operator.
US08063366B2
In a terahertz imaging system, a scanning component for scanning a field of view is tracked by an optical beam to obtain positional information. The optical tracking beam can be steered by the scanning component for example by reflection, refraction or diffraction. The steered tracking beam can then be detected by a spatially sensitive detector such as a charge-coupled device array. In a preferred embodiment, the output of a terahertz detector receiving terahertz radiation from the scanned field of view is used to modulate the tracking beam. This means that the spatially sensitive detector can provide an image directly derived from the scanning of the field of view by the terahertz radiation.
US08063365B1
One embodiment relates to an electron source apparatus for an electron beam lithography tool or an electron beam inspection tool. A cathode is configured to emit electrons, and an anode is configured to accelerate the electrons so as to create an electron beam. There are no beam apertures in the electron source apparatus that are positioned at non-focal planes. An electron lens may be configured to focus the electron beam to form a cathode image at a focal plane, and a beam aperture may positioned at the focal plane. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed.
US08063362B1
An ionic liquid membrane provides both vacuum sealing and ion transport for a mass spectrometer. Ion transport is necessary to take advantage of modern Electrospray Ionization (ESI) and Desorption Electrospray Ionization (DESI) methods. Combining vacuum sealing for the mass spectrometer with ion transport into the mass spectrometer reduces, and can eliminate, the need for multiple differential pumping stages significantly reducing size, weight and power requirements.
US08063353B2
A camera unit for monitoring a spatial region has an electronic image sensor arranged on a component carrier, and a lens having a lens body. The lens body and the component carrier are connected via a first coupling piece to form an integrated structural unit. The first coupling piece has at least one limited first mobility relative to the lens body and at least one limited second mobility relative to the component carrier within the integrated structural unit. The integrated structural unit has at least one first and one second releasable clamping mechanism in order to fix the first coupling piece, the lens body and the component carrier relative to one another. Such a camera unit can advantageously be used as an imaging sensor for safeguarding a machine operating in an automated fashion.
US08063350B2
An image processing system includes an image sensor circuit. The image sensor circuit is configured to obtain an image using a type of shutter operation in which an exposure pattern of a pixel array is set according to exposure information that changes over time based at least partially on charge accumulated in at least a portion of the pixel array. An image sensor circuit includes a pixel array and one or more circuits. The one or more circuits are configured to update exposure information based at least partially on one or more signals output from the pixel array, and to control an exposure pattern of the pixel array based on the exposure information. A pixel circuit includes a first transistor connected between a photodiode and a sense node, and a second transistor connected between an exposure control signal line and a gate of the first transistor.
US08063347B1
A method for engaging a target uses sensors to generate target track(s). The tracks are projected forward in time and associated with a track quality measure. The maximum seeker look angle and beamwidth, acceleration, and net radar sensitivity characteristics are listed for each type of interceptor. A plurality of target intercept times are generated for each interceptor type. The probability that the interceptor can acquire the target is determined from the projected target tracks, the quality measure, and the characteristics. The probability of hitting the target is determined from the probability of acquisition and acceleration of the interceptor type. The probabilities of acquisition and of hitting the target are aggregated, and the type of interceptor to use is the type having (a) an extreme value of the aggregation or (b) the earliest intercept time from among the interceptors having an aggregation value above a threshold value.
US08063345B2
A system for heating a food item in a microwave oven is provided. The system may include an inner container and an outer carton including an opening feature that allows for easy opening thereof. The system also may include a microwave energy interactive element.
US08063330B2
The specification and drawings present a new apparatus and method for providing and using a uniform threshold for capacitive touch sensing in a user interface having a non-flat touch surface. The capacitive touch sensor can to provide a sensor signal using the uniform capacitance threshold level as a function of a location of an object (e.g., finger, stylus, etc.) on or near the non-flat touch surface of a user interface module using a substantially uniform distance between the non-flat touch surface and a capacitive touch sensor layer, and/or using a gradient of a dielectric constant of materials between the non-flat touch surface and the capacitive touch sensor layer according to a predetermined criterion.
US08063326B2
An illuminating structure of a key operating unit for operating a key switch includes a housing unit to have a window portion formed correspondingly to the key switch, a circuit substrate to be provided inside the housing unit, to be disposed with the key switch, and to be provided with a light-guiding window portion, a keypad unit to include a key top portion inserted in the window portion of the housing unit, the keypad unit including a light-guiding portion at least in the key top portion, a light-emitting element to be arranged on a back surface side of the circuit substrate, and an illuminating plate to have a reflecting portion reflecting outgoing light of the light-emitting element to apply the reflected light from the reflecting portion to the keypad unit through the light-guiding window portion of the circuit substrate.
US08063319B2
An electrical junction box may include a casing with a lower casing member and an upper casing member. A multi-layered circuit board may be retained in the electrical junction box. The multi-layered circuit board may contain a lower layer circuit board, an upper layer circuit board and an insulation plate that is disposed between and supports the lower layer circuit board and the upper layer circuit board. A rib and a boss may project from the lower casing member and may contact the insulation plate without contacting either the lower layer circuit board or the upper layer circuit board. In this manner, no physical stress is applied to a surface of either the lower layer circuit board or the upper layer circuit board thereby preventing detachment of an electronic component from the multi-layered circuit board.
US08063314B2
A pin definition layout of electronic paper display screen is provided. The electronic paper has a first pin area, a data signal source driver area, and a second pin area sequentially disposed at any side thereof. The first pin area and the second pin area each have a first power supply pin set and a second power supply pin set disposed thereon, and a plurality of No connections is disposed by intervals in the first power supply pin set and the second power supply pin set, so as to separate potential pins. Therefore, no interference is generated between the pins, thus achieving good electrical properties and reducing the wire complexity.
US08063313B2
A printed circuit board (PCB) and a semiconductor package that are configured to prevent delamination and voids. In one example embodiment, the semiconductor package includes a PCB having a base substrate on which conductive patterns are formed and which includes an interior region having a die paddle for receiving a semiconductor chip and an exterior region disposed outside the interior region. The PCB also includes a first solder resist formed on a portion of the base substrate corresponding to the interior region and a second solder resist formed on a portion of the base substrate corresponding to the exterior region. The second solder resist may also have a greater surface roughness than the surface roughness of the first solder resist.
US08063310B2
An electronic device includes at least first and second enclosures mounted so as to enable relative displacement therebetween, and an electric wire which electrically connects a circuit of the first enclosure and a circuit of the second enclosure. The electric wire includes a tape-shaped flat cable, including a plurality of internal wires arranged in parallel in a row.
US08063309B2
Disclosed is a leak detection cable that has an outer jacket layer and a four wire construction in a flat wire configuration that is twisted in a helix. Detection cables are disposed on the exterior surface adjacent openings of the jacket to allow for detection of aqueous fluids. The wire is twisted in a helix to allow adjacent detector wires to easily detect aqueous fluids. Disparate materials are used for the jacket and the coatings of the wires, to allow the jacket to be easily removed from the wires without affecting the integrity of the coatings of the wires. The four flat wire configuration is sized and spaced for easy connection to an insulation displacement connector.
US08063305B2
A method of forming a bend in a wire loop is provided. The method includes the steps of: (1) forming a first bend in the wire loop at a predetermined portion of the wire loop; (2) paying out a length of wire after step (1); and (3) forming a second bend in the wire loop at the predetermined portion after step (2).
US08063295B2
An artificial intelligence video analysis recommendation system and method is provided that allows video viewers to discover new videos and video producers to evaluate the potential success of a new project as well as to understand the perceptual factors beneath audience ratings. The system and method accomplish these tasks by analyzing a database of video in order to identify key similarities between different pieces of video, and then recommends pieces of video to a user depending upon their video preferences. An embodiment enables a user to evaluate a new video's similarity to videos already established as commercially valuable.
US08063293B1
A user-adjustable drum pedal having foot-pedal geometries corresponding to the biomechanical requirements of a user. Preferred embodiments of the system utilize an adjustable foot pedal in combination with a laterally movable drum beater drive assembly functioning to maintain proper mechanical geometries within the operating apparatus. The angular position of the foot pedal is selectable by the user.
US08063286B1
A novel maize variety designated X7K417 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing maize variety X7K417 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X7K417 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X7K417, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X7K417. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X7K417.
US08063284B1
A novel maize variety designated PH13G0 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH13G0 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH13G0 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PH13G0 or a locus conversion of PH13G0 with another maize variety.
US08063282B1
A soybean cultivar designated 97274007 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 97274007, to the plants of soybean 97274007, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 97274007, and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 97274007 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars, or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean variety 97274007, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 97274007, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar 97274007 with another soybean cultivar.
US08063255B2
A process for recovering monoethylene glycol from a catalyst bleed stream is disclosed. The process comprises combining the catalyst bleed stream with a heavies stream comprising at least 40 wt % diethylene glycol, to provide a combined stream and distilling the combined stream to provide a first stream comprising monoethylene glycol and a second stream comprising diethylene glycol.
US08063254B2
The present invention aims to provide reduced coenzyme Q10, which is useful as food, food with nutrient function claims, food for specified health use, nutritional supplement, nutritional product, animal drug, drink, feed, cosmetic, pharmaceutical product, therapeutic drug, prophylactic drug and the like, and a production method of reduced coenzyme Q10. The present invention provides a production method of reduced coenzyme Q10, which includes reducing oxidized coenzyme Q10 with ascorbic acid or its analogue(s) as a reducing agent in a water-containing organic solvent at not more than pH 5. Using the method, the reaction time can be drastically shortened even without adding a basic substance and the like, and unpreferable side reactions can be minimized. Therefore, reduced coenzyme Q10 with high quality can be produced.
US08063250B2
Provided are crystalline forms of O-desmethylvenlafaxine fumarate, methods for their preparation, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof.
US08063248B2
The invention relates to substituted adamantane compounds, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, processes for their preparation, and methods for inhibiting sphingosine kinase and for treating or preventing hyperproliferative disease, inflammatory disease, or angiogenic disease.
US08063247B2
Compounds of formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, are opioid receptor modulators, e.g. mu-opioid receptor antagonists, neutral antagonists or inverse agonists, and are useful inter alia for the treatment of obesity.
US08063246B2
A method and apparatus is provided for cleaning flue gases from combustion plants. The method includes removing dust and removing nitrogen from flue gases, bringing flue gases into contact with an aqueous ammonia solution in the presence of an oxidizing agent whereby a reaction solution forms which contains at least ammonium carbonate, heating the reaction solution such that ammonium carbonate decomposes and carbon dioxide and ammonia transfer into the gas atmosphere, and reacting the gaseous carbon dioxide and the gaseous ammonia to form urea. The apparatus includes a device for removing nitrogen and removing dust from the flue gases, a washing device downstream of the device for removing nitrogen and removing dust, a stripper downstream of the washing device, and a urea installation downstream of the stripper.
US08063244B2
A process for the preparation of a compound of formula (I) is disclosed, which comprises: a) the reaction of a compound of formula (II) with zinc azide of formula (III) Zn(N3)2 (III) in the presence of a solvent of formula R1—OH, wherein R1 is herein defined, to obtain a compound of formula (IV), b) its conversion into a compound of formula (V); c) its enantiomeric enrichment to obtain the (S) enantiomer of formula (VI); and d) the hydrolysis thereof.
US08063241B2
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of toluene-diisocyanate. In this process, toluenediamine is reacted with phosgene to give crude toluene-diisocyanate, the crude toluene-diisocyanate is purified by distillation, the distillation residue formed during the distillation is hydrolysed at temperatures of less than 230° C. under absolute pressures of less than 30 bar, and the toluenediamine formed by this process is subsequently recycled into the reaction of toluenediamine and phosgene.
US08063236B2
A complex for transference of a nitrogen atom to an electrophilic reagent comprises a hard-hard-hard pincer ligand and an early transition metal bound to a nitride. The pincer ligand can be an OCO ligand and the transition metal can be Mo. The complex can be used to transfer the nitrogen atom bound to the metal to an electrophile in a method to produce a nitrogen containing molecule. In one novel nitrogen transfer reaction, a Mo—N triple bond is broken where the nitrogen transfers to the sp2 hybridized carbon of an acid chloride to form a nitrile.
US08063232B2
This invention relates to a catalyst compound comprising a combination of a cyclic alkyl amino carbene ligand and a benzylidene both attached to a Group 8 metal, preferably ruthenium atom.This invention also relates to a process to make linear alpha-olefins comprising contacting a feed material and an optional alkene (such as ethylene) with the catalyst described above, wherein the feed material is a triacylglyceride, fatty acid, fatty acid alkyl ester, and/or fatty acid ester, typically derived from seed oil (e.g., biodiesel).
US08063231B2
Described herein are novel N-(2 and/or 3-substituted benzyl)-4,5-dihydro-1H-imidazol-2-amine derivatives processes for preparing them, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use as pharmaceuticals modulators of subtype α2B and/or α2C adrenergic receptors.
US08063226B2
A process in which a 2-aminopyridine derivative of the general formula II is obtained from open-chain nitrile precursor I or III by reaction with a nitrogen compound in a cyclization reaction is described.
US08063218B2
The invention provides novel inhibitors of IAP that are useful as therapeutic agents for treating malignancies where the compounds have the general formula I: wherein Q, X1, X2, Y, Z R1, R2, R3, R3′, R4, R4′, R5, R6, R6′ and n are as described herein.
US08063216B2
The present invention describes Photolabile Compounds methods for use of the compounds. The Photolabile Compounds have a photoreleasable ligand, which can be biologically active, and which is photoreleased from the compound upon exposure to light. In one embodiment, the light is visible light, which is not detrimental to the viability of biological samples, such as cells and tissues, in which the released organic molecule is bioactive and can have a therapeutic effect.
US08063210B2
The invention relates to a new process useful in the preparation of pharmaceutical compounds such as 2-{ethyl[3-({4-[(5-{2-[(3-fluorophenyl)amino]-2-oxoethyl}-1H-pyrazol-3-yl)amino]quinazolin-7-yl}oxy)propyl]amino}ethyl dihydrogen phosphate (AZD1152) and intermediates used therein.
US08063208B2
Crystalline forms of (3R,4R)-4-amino-1-[[4-[(3-methoxyphenyl)amino]pyrrolo[2,1-f][1,2,4]triazin-5-yl]methyl]piperidin-3-ol of the formula are provided. Also provided is a pharmaceutical composition comprising one or more crystalline forms of (3R,4R)-4-amino-1-[[4-[(3-methoxyphenyl)amino]pyrrolo[2,1-f][1,2,4]triazin-5-yl]methyl]piperidin-3-ol, as well as a method of using one or more crystalline forms of (3R,4R)-4-amino-1-[[4-[(3-methoxyphenyl)amino]pyrrolo[2,1-f][1,2,4]triazin-5-yl]methyl]piperidin-3-ol in the treatment of cancer and other proliferative diseases.
US08063200B2
A labeled compound is so designed that an aromatic tertiary amine compound is bondable with a biomolecule. One of S1 and S2 contains a group bound with a molecular chain 10 (e.g. an oligonucleotide) capable of binding with a biomolecule or a reactive group covalently binding with a reactive group present in the biomolecule, n is 0 or 1, R3 is a phenyl group or a naphthyl group, Ar1 is a phenylene group or a naphthylene group, and Ar2 is any of a phenylene group, a naphthylene group, an anthrylene group, and a phenanthrene group. The detection of a fluorescence emitted by excitation of the labeled compound bound to a biomolecule ensures the biomolecule being detected at high sensitivity and a high SN ratio.
US08063191B2
This document provides methods and material related to natriuretic polypeptides. For example, substantially pure polypeptides having a natriuretic peptide activity, nucleic acids encoding polypeptides having a natriuretic peptide activity, host cells containing such nucleic acids, and methods for inducing a natriuretic or diuretic activity within a mammal are provided.
US08063189B2
The invention provides methods for isolating proteins in purified form from mixtures by precipitation with citrate. The methods are advantageous in that they effectively separate a protein from lower molecular weight contaminants, including fragments or portions of the protein. Such methods are particularly useful for purifying antibodies from mixtures containing antibody proteolytic fragments and unpaired chains.
US08063187B2
The present invention relates to immunoglobulins that bind FcγRIIb+ cells and coengage the antigen on the cell's surface and an FcγRIIb on the cell's surface, methods for their generation, and methods for using the immunoglobulins.
US08063176B2
A method for the manufacture of crystallized polyesters with or without subsequent solid state polycondensation for the manufacture of bottles, foils, films and technical high-performance fibres, or with or without subsequent dealdehydization for the manufacture of bottles, foils, films and technical high-performance fibres.
US08063173B2
Described as one aspect of the invention are polyesters containing (a) a dicarboxylic acid component having from 70 to 100 mole % of terephthalic acid residues and up to 30 mole % of aromatic dicarboxylic acid residues or aliphatic dicarboxylic acid residues; and (b) a glycol component having from 11 to 25 mole % of 2,2,4,4-tetramethyl-1,3-cyclobutanediol residues, and 75 to 89 mole % of 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol residues; wherein the total mole % of the dicarboxylic acid component is 100 mole %, and the total mole % of the glycol component is 100 mole %. The polyesters may be manufactured into articles.
US08063167B2
An optical polyurethane resin composition contains a polyisocyanate component including at least one cyclic polyisocyanate selected from the group consisting of alicyclic polyisocyanates, aralkyl polyisocyanates, and modified compounds thereof; and a polyol component having an average hydroxyl value of 280 to 1240 mg KOH/g and an average functionality of more than 2 and less than 5.
US08063163B2
A novel cycloolefin copolymer that can be employed in the production of molding with fewer defects, for example, fewer gel particles (fish eyes). There is provided a cycloolefin copolymer comprising 80 to 20 mol % of repeating units derived from an α-olefin monomer and 20 to 80 mol % of repeating units derived from at least one cycloolefin monomer selected from the group consisting of monomer of the general formula (I), monomer of the general formula (II), monomer of the general formula (III), monomer of the general formula (IV) and monomer of the general formula (V), wherein with respect to the repeating units derived from cycloolefin monomer, the proportion thereof being present in the form of dimer (Rd) is 50 mol % or below and the proportion thereof being present in the form of trimer (Rt) 5 mol % or above.
US08063157B2
Curing agent for epoxy resins, consisting of A) 1%-99% by weight of an adduct obtainable by reacting a1) a polyethylene polyamine having up to six nitrogens in the molecule with a2) a monoglycidyl ether, the adduct of a1) and a2) preferably being isolated by removal of the excess polyethylene polyamine, and B) 99%-1% by weight of an adduct obtainable by reacting b1) a diamine or polyamine with b2) styrene, and also curable compositions further comprising an epoxide compound, and the use of these curable compositions for producing moldings and sheetlike structures, and also for applications in the adhesives and sealants sector and for epoxy-resin mortars.
US08063156B2
A liquid thermosetting epoxy resin composition contains a base resin in combination with a curing agent and a curing accelerator or with a curing catalyst. The base resin includes a cycloaliphatic epoxy compound having at least one alicyclic skeleton and two or more epoxy groups per molecule, and a polyol oligomer having two or more terminal hydroxyl groups. An optical semiconductor device includes an optical semiconductor element sealed by using the liquid thermosetting epoxy resin composition. The composition yields a cured resinous product which is free from curing failure, is optically homogenous, has a low elastic modulus in bending, a high bending strength, a high glass transition temperature, a high optical transparency and is useful for optical semiconductors.
US08063155B2
The invention relates to a sulphur donor curing agent comprising a combination of between 10 and 90 wt % of a mixture of polysulphides of poly(alkyl phenol) and between 90 and 10 wt. % a compound of the formula R′NHCONHR″ were R′ and R″ are the same or different and are hydrogen oa an alkyl or aryl radical having 1 to 20 carbon atoms and methods of curing an EPDM-type rubber elastomer with the composition which presents no risk of the formation of nitrosamines.
US08063154B2
Provided herein are methods for preparing a polyolefin containing one or more exo-olefinic end groups on the polyolefin chain, comprising quenching an ionized polyolefin with an alkoxysilane or an ether. In some embodiments, the methods are represented by the following scheme: In some embodiments, the alkoxysilane or ether compound has the formula: wherein Y is carbon or silicon; R1 is hydrocarbyl; and R2-R4 are each, independently, hydrogen or hydrocarbyl.
US08063151B2
The copolymers include a hydrophobic monomer and an acryloyl or methacryloyl ester of a propylene glycol monomethyl ether, also referred to as 1-methyl-2-methoxyethyl acrylate (“MMOEA”). The combination of the hydrophobic monomer and the MMOEA monomer advantageously provides desired mechanical strength, biocompatibility, and drug permeability in the copolymers. The copolymers can advantageously be used on medical devices.
US08063149B2
A polymer blend including: (i) a fluoroolefin polymer prepared by a process, including contacting in a first reaction zone an initiator, 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoro-1-propene, and optionally, at least one first ethylenically unsaturated comonomer capable of copolymerizing therewith, wherein contacting is carried out at a first temperature, pressure and length of time sufficient to produce the fluoroolefin polymer; and (ii) an acrylic polymer prepared by a process, including contacting in a second reaction zone an initiator, at least one acrylic monomer selected from the group consisting of: acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, acrylate ester, methacrylate ester, and a mixture thereof, and optionally, at least one second ethylenically unsaturated comonomer capable of copolymerizing therewith, wherein contacting is carried out at a second temperature, pressure and length of time sufficient to produce the acrylic polymer. Processes for preparing the polymer blends are also provided.
US08063135B2
The present invention relates to a water-based polymer composition, comprising: at least one polymer (P) comprising recurring units (R1), from 0 to at most 25% mol of said recurring units (R1) comprising a carboxylic acid group (in acid or salt form); at least one aromatic polyamic acid (A) comprising recurring units, more than 50% mol of said recurring units comprising at least one aromatic ring and at least one amic acid group and/or imide group [recurring units (R2)], more than 50% mol of recurring units (R2) comprising at least one amic acid group, part or all of the amic acid groups being neutralized by at least one basic compound (B); water; optionally, at least one organic solvent (S) of the aromatic polyamic acid (A), in an amount of less than 20% wt with respect to the weight of the aromatic polyamic acid. The polymer (P) is preferably a fluoropolymer; it can be either a partially fluorinated fluoropolymer, such as ECTFE, or a perfluorinated fluoropolymer such as TFE polymers.The water-based polymer compositions of this invention may be notably found useful for coating applications where organic solvents may not be desired or tolerated.
US08063133B2
A thermoplastic composition includes particular amounts of a poly(arylene ether), a polystyrene, and glass fibers. The composition exhibits a highly desirable balance of stiffness, strength, and melt flow properties. Methods of preparing the composition are also described, as are articles prepared from the composition.
US08063126B2
An olefine polymer composition comprises a stabilizing amount of a metal deactivator comprising a polymeric hydrazine derivative. The deactivator is of formula (I), in which at least one of R1 and R2 comprise a polymeric radical that includes a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic radical, provided that R1 and R2 are not both of formula (II). The olefin polymers include polyethylene and polypropylene.
US08063118B2
The invention relates to absorptive, crosslinked polymeric compositions that are based on partly neutralized, monoethylenically unsaturated monomer carrying acid groups wherein the absorptive, crosslinked polymeric composition further includes an antioxidant and is color stable.
US08063113B2
The present invention relates to polyurethane foam-forming composition containing polysilsesquioxanes that provide high resilience flexible polyurethane molded foams having improved foam dimensional stability.
US08063100B2
A process for the industrial synthesis of strontium ranelate of formula (I): and its hydrates.
US08063098B2
The present invention relates to a compound of formula I wherein R1, R2, X, Ar1 and Ar2 are as defined herein and to pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts, to a racemic mixtures, or to their corresponding enantiomers and/or optical isomers thereof. Compounds of the invention are good inhibitors of the glycine transporter 1 (GlyT-1), and have a good selectivity to glycine transporter 2 (GlyT-2) inhibitors.
US08063096B2
The present invention relates to novel phenyl-substituted 4-ketolactams and -lactones of the formula (I) in which A, B, Q, G, W, X, Y, Z and R3 are as defined above, to processes and intermediates for their preparation and to their use as pesticides, microbicides and herbicides.
US08063095B2
Disclosed is an isomer, enantiomer, diastereoisomer or tautomer of a compound represented by Formula I: or a salt thereof, in which R1, R2, R100, R200, A, A1, B, B1, BG, n, Q and Q1 are substituents described. Also disclosed is the use of compounds of Formula 1 to treat proliferative disorders.
US08063089B2
Nucleophosmin inhibitors are disclosed which inhibit the multimerization of nucleophosmin and the biological activity of nucleophosmin, such as the ability of nucleophosmin to inhibit apoptosis and inhibit cellular differentiation. These small molecule inhibitors are useful for treating diseases and disorders, such as cancer associated with dysregulated nucleophosmin expression. Methods for identifying small molecule inhibitors of nucleophosmin involving multimerization sites for nucleophosmin are also disclosed. An exemplary small molecule inhibitor of nucleophosmin is NSC348884 which has the following chemical structure:
US08063088B2
The invention is concerned with novel imidazolidine derivatives of formula (I) wherein R1 to R3, A, D and E are as defined in the description and in the claims, as well as physiologically acceptable salts and esters thereof. These compounds bind to LXR alpha and LXR beta and can be used as medicaments.
US08063087B2
Compounds of Formula 1 where X is S and the variables have the meaning defined in the specification are specific or selective to alpha2B and/or alpha2C adrenergic receptors in preference over alpha2A adrenergic receptors, and as such have no or only minimal cardiovascular and/or sedatory activity. These compounds of Formula 1 are useful as medicaments in mammals, including humans, for treatment of diseases and or alleviations of conditions which are responsive to treatment by agonists of alpha2B adrenergic receptors. Compounds of Formula 1 where X is O also have the advantageous property that they have no or only minimal cardiovascular and/or sedatory activity and are useful for treating pain and other conditions with no or only minimal cardiovascular and/or sedatory activity.
US08063083B2
The present invention relates to methods of inhibiting the activity of Hsp90 in a subject in need thereof and methods for treating non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, in a subject in need thereof.
US08063078B2
Certain compounds of formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a solvate thereof, wherein R1, R2, P, P′, n, p, q, r and s are as defined in the specification, a process for preparing such compounds, a pharmaceutical composition comprising such compounds and the use of such compounds and composition in medicine.
US08063059B2
The invention relates to the use of a composition comprising kappa opioid receptor antagonists for producing a drug for the treatment of dissociative disorders in humans.
US08063056B2
Cyclopenta[g]quinazolines of the formula (I):— wherein: A is a group OR or NR0R1 wherein R0 and R1 are each independently hydrogen C1-4 alkyl, C3-4 alkenyl, C3-4 alkynyl, C2-4 hydroxyalkyl, C2-4 halogenoalkyl or C1-4 cyanoalkyl, or R0 and R1 together with the intermediate N form a five- or six-membered heterocyclic ring; p is an integer in the range 1 to 4; R2 is hydrogen, C1-4 alkyl, C3-4 alkenyl, C3-4 alkynyl, C2-4 hydroxyalkyl, C2-4 halogenoalkyl or C1-4 cyanoalkyl; Ar1 is phenylene, thiophenediyl, thiazolediyl, pyridinediyl or pyrimidinediyl which may optionally bear one or two substituents selected from halogeno, hydroxy, amino, nitro, cyano, trifluoromethyl, C1-4 alkyl and C1-4 alkoxy; and R3 is a group of one of the following formulae: -A1-Ar2-A2-Y1-A5-CON(R)CH(Y4)Y5-A8-X—Ar4 and pharmaceutically acceptable salts or esters thereof are of therapeutic value particularly in the treatment of cancer.
US08063055B2
The present invention comprises a new class of compounds capable of modulating the c-kit receptor and, accordingly, useful for treatment of c-kit mediated diseases, including various inflammatory, fibrotic and/or mast cell mediated diseases such as mastocytosis. The compounds have a general Formula I wherein A0-3 and R1-6 are defined herein. The invention further comprises pharmaceutical compositions, methods for treatment of c-kit mediated diseases, and intermediates and processes useful for the preparation of compounds of the invention.
US08063049B2
This invention concerns to N-(2-aylamino)aryl sulfonamides, which are inhibitors of MEK, methods of using such compounds in the treatment of hyperproliferative diseases, and to pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds.
US08063037B2
The present invention provides new progesterone receptor modulators which are dibenzo[b,f]pyrido[1,2-d]oxazepine-2-amines or dibenzo[b,f]prido[1,2-d]thiazepine-2-amines, and uses thereof.
US08063036B2
Novel benzamide compounds including their pharmaceutically acceptable isomers, salts, hydrates, solvates and prodrug derivatives having activity against mammalian factor Xa are described. Compositions containing such compounds are also described. The compounds and compositions are useful in vitro or in vivo for preventing or treating coagulation disorders.
US08063018B2
There is provided herein a multivalent binding molecule and uses thereof. The molecule is useful in binding a target under certain conditions and releasing it under other conditions. The molecule has the general formula (1) of BM1-L-(BM2)n (1) wherein, BM1 is a binding moiety 1 having an affinity for site 1 on the target, BM2 is a binding moiety 2 having an affinity for a site other than site 1 on the target, n is 1 or greater, and L is a linker joining BM1 and BM2, said linker being adapted to respond to a change in its environment with a change in conformation and/or flexibility, wherein BM1 and BM2 may be the same or different and are selected such that in use each of the BM1 and BM2 existing separately has a lower binding affinity then the complex of BM1 and BM2 does when they are linked to form the molecule. BM2 may have a single binding region or multiple binding regions with affinity for the target. The binding affinity of BM1 or BM2 to the target alone is no more than ½ the binding affinity of the molecule of formula (1). The molecule of formula (1) can be constructed using an oligomeric or polymeric linker, such as a polypeptide sequence. Such molecules can be useful in the delayed release of drugs, in screening assays, for stabilizing enzymes such as proteases, and for controlling reactions such as blood clotting.
US08063017B2
A process for producing a peptide product having cholecystokinin secretion promoting effect, said process comprising hydrolyzing soybean residues with one or more proteases so that the peptide product having cholecystokinin secretion promoting effect is obtained. Also disclosed is the composition containing the peptide product and the use thereof.
US08063016B2
This invention provides methods of treatment using retro-inverso peptides derived from interleukin-6 (IL-6) having between 15 and about 40 amino acids, and including the sequence that is retro-inverso with respect to SEQ ID NO: 1, i.e. wherein said peptide comprises the sequence D-Glu-D-Ala-D-Met-D-Lys-D-Pro-D-Leu-D-Asn-D-Leu-D-Asn-D-Asn-D-Glu-D-Ala-D-Leu-D-Ala-D-Glu. The peptides of the invention have the same activity as native IL-6 and also have neurotrophic activity. The peptides of the invention are also less susceptible to proteolytic degradation in vivo because of their D-amino acid linkage.
US08063015B2
The invention includes methods and compositions for remodeling a peptide molecule, including the addition or deletion of one or more glycosyl groups to a peptide, and/or the addition of a modifying group to a peptide.
US08063004B2
A chemical composition of matter comprising a wax plasticizing agent (plasticizer) tributoxyethyl phosphate, a mixture of selected long chain fatty acids (preferably C10 to C22), and a mixture of selected low-surface tension surfactants, which when added in solution to crude oil or refined products has been shown to lower both the B.S. & W. (rag layer) and the coefficient of friction of crude oils and refined products. This chemical composition of matter is particularly useful as a wax liquefaction, dispersant, and solubilization agent for asphaltene and paraffins in crude oil and refined products. The reduction in the co-efficient of friction resulting from the addition of this product to crude oil will allow crude oil to pump through pipelines with a minimum amount of resistance due to friction (drag).
US08062996B2
The present invention relates to a family of GluR in plants, including ionotropic (iGluR), metabotropic (mGluR) and other glutamate-like plant receptors. The plant GluRs of the invention may function as signal transducers involved in the regulation of plant growth. The invention also relates to the identification of compounds that modulate the activity of the plant GluR, and the use of such compounds as plant growth regulators, including herbicides.
US08062986B2
A fused silica article having a combined concentration of hydroxyl (OH) and deuteroxyl (OD) concentration of less than 10 parts per million (ppm) and, in one embodiment, less than 1 ppm. The fused silica article is formed by drying a soot blank in a halogen-free atmosphere comprising carbon monoxide. The dried soot blank may optionally be doped to reach target levels of OH and OD concentrations and improve homogeneity within the fused silica article. The dried soot blank is then oxidized and, sintered to form the article. A method of reducing the combined concentration of OH and OD to less than 10 ppm is also described.
US08062983B1
Porous dielectric layers are produced by embedding and removing nanoparticles in composite dielectric layers. The pores may be produced after the barrier material, the metal or other conductive material is deposited to form a metallization layer. In this manner, the conductive material is provided with a relatively smooth continuous surface on which to deposit.
US08062982B2
A high yield plasma etch process for an interlayer dielectric layer of a semiconductor device is provided, according to an embodiment of which a dielectric layer is etched with a nitrogen-containing plasma. In this way, the formation of polymers on a backside bevel of a substrate is avoided or substantially reduced. Remaining polymer at the backside bevel can be removed in situ by post-etch treatment. Further, a plasma etching device is provided comprising a chamber, a substrate receiving space for receiving a substrate, a plasma generator for generating a plasma in the chamber and a temperature conditioner for conditioning a temperature at an outer circumferential region of the substrate receiving space and thereby minimizing temperature gradients at a bevel of the wafer.
US08062979B2
The object of the present invention is to embed an insulating film in a hole having a high aspect ratio and a small width without the occurrence of a void. The thickness of a polishing stopper layer is reduced by making separate layers respectively serve as a mask during forming the hole in a semiconductor substrate, and a stopper during removing the insulating film filled in the hole.
US08062975B2
Through substrate vias (TSVs) are provided after substantially all high temperature operations needed to form a device region (26) of a first thickness (27) proximate the front surface (23) of a substrate wafer (20, 20′) by: (i) from the front surface (23), forming comparatively shallow vias (30, 30′) of a first aspect ratio containing first conductors (36, 36′) extending preferably through the first thickness (27) but not through the initial wafer (20) thickness (21), (ii) removing material (22″) from the rear surface (22) to form a modified wafer (20′) of smaller final thickness (21′) with a new rear surface (22′), and (iii) forming from the new rear surface (22′), much deeper vias (40, 40′) of second aspect ratios beneath the device region (26) with second conductors (56, 56′) therein contacting the first conductors (36, 36′), thereby providing front-to-back interconnections without substantially impacting wafer robustness during manufacturing and device region area. Both aspect ratios are desirably about ≦40, usefully ≦10 and preferably ≦5.
US08062974B2
Conductions and vias between different, stacked metallic layers of a semiconductor device may be mechanically damaged by mechanical strain. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, this mechanical strain may be transferred through the layer structure to the substrate by a grid of grounding structures and isolation and passivation layers which are connected by the grounding structures. This may provide for an enhancement of the lifetime of the semiconductor devices.
US08062968B1
A capacitive interposer (caposer) is disposed inside an integrated circuit package between a die and an inside surface of the package. Conductive layers within the caposer constitute a bypass capacitor. In a through-hole caposer, micro-bumps on the die pass through through-holes in the caposer and contact corresponding landing pads on the package. As they pass through the caposer, power and ground micro-bumps make contact with the plates of the bypass capacitor. In a via caposer, power and ground micro-bumps on the die are coupled to power and ground landing pads on the package as well as to the plates of the bypass capacitor by power and ground vias that extend through the caposer. In signal redistribution caposer, conductors within the caposer redistribute signals between die micro-bumps and package landing pads. In an impedance matching caposer, termination structures within the caposer provide impedance matching to a printed circuit board trace.
US08062965B2
An isotopically-enriched, boron-containing compound comprising two or more boron atoms and at least one fluorine atom, wherein at least one of the boron atoms contains a desired isotope of boron in a concentration or ratio greater than a natural abundance concentration or ratio thereof. The compound may have a chemical formula of B2F4. Synthesis methods for such compounds, and ion implantation methods using such compounds, are described, as well as storage and dispensing vessels in which the isotopically-enriched, boron-containing compound is advantageously contained for subsequent dispensing use.
US08062964B2
The present disclosure passivates solar cell defects. Plasma immersion ion implantation (PIII) is used to repair the defects during or after making the solar cell. Hydrogen ion is implanted into absorption layer with different sums of energy to fill gaps of defects or surface recombination centers. Thus, solar cell defects are diminished and carriers are transferred with improved photovoltaic conversion efficiency.
US08062963B1
A method is described which includes providing a semiconductor substrate and forming a trench in the semiconductor substrate. An epitaxy region is grown in the trench. An amorphous layer is deposited overlying the epitaxy region. The semiconductor substrate is then annealed. The anneal may convert a portion of the amorphous layer to crystalline material, as found in the epitaxy region. A chemical mechanical polish (CMP) is then performed, which may remove a portion of the amorphous layer which has not been converted. In an embodiment, the amorphous layer and epitaxy region are germanium and the semiconductor substrate is silicon. The formed crystalline region may be used to form a channel of a p-type device.
US08062956B2
Methods and apparatus for producing a semiconductor on glass (SOG) structure include: bringing a first surface of a glass substrate into direct or indirect contact with a semiconductor wafer; heating at least one of the glass substrate and the semiconductor wafer such that a second surface of the glass substrate, opposite to the first surface thereof, is at a lower temperature than the first surface; applying a voltage potential across the glass substrate and the semiconductor wafer; and maintaining the contact, heating and voltage to induce an anodic bond between the semiconductor wafer and the glass substrate via electrolysis.
US08062946B2
A strained-channel transistor structure with lattice-mismatched zone and fabrication method thereof. The transistor structure includes a substrate having a strained channel region, comprising a first semiconductor material with a first natural lattice constant, in a surface, a gate dielectric layer overlying the strained channel region, a gate electrode overlying the gate dielectric layer, and a source region and drain region oppositely adjacent to the strained channel region, with one or both of the source region and drain region comprising a lattice-mismatched zone comprising a second semiconductor material with a second natural lattice constant different from the first natural lattice constant.
US08062944B2
A method for fabricating non-volatile storage having individually controllable shield plates between storage elements. The shield plates are formed by depositing a conductive material such as doped polysilicon between storage elements and their associated word lines, and providing contacts for the shield plates. The shield plates reduce electromagnetic coupling between floating gates of the storage elements, and can be used to optimize programming, read and erase operations. In one approach, the shield plates provide a field induced conductivity between storage elements in a NAND string during a sense operation so that source/drain implants are not needed in the substrate. In some control schemes, alternating high and low voltages are applied to the shield plates. In other control schemes, a common voltage is applied to the shield plates.
US08062942B2
A treated conductive element is provided. A conductive element can be treated by depositing either a reactive metal or a very thin layer of material on the conductive element. The reactive metal (or very thin layer of material) would typically be sandwiched between the conductive element and an electrode. The structure additionally exhibits non-linear IV characteristics, which can be favorable in certain arrays.
US08062919B2
An integrated circuit, and method for manufacturing the integrated circuit, where the integrated circuit can include a phototransistor comprising a base having a SiGe base layer of a predetermined germanium composition and a thickness of more than 65 nm and less than about 90 nm. The integrated circuit can further include a transimpedance amplifier (TIA) receiving an output from the phototransistor. The phototransistor and the TIA can be built on a silicon substrate.
US08062906B2
Binding polypeptides that specifically bind B lymphocyte stimulator protein or B lymphocyte stimulator-like polypeptides can be used in methods of the invention for detecting, diagnosing, or prognosing a disease or disorder associated with aberrant B lymphocyte stimulator or B lymphocyte stimulator receptor expression or inappropriate function of B lymphocyte stimulator or B lymphocyte stimulator receptor, comprising B lymphocyte stimulator binding polypeptides or fragments or variants thereof, that specifically bind to B lymphocyte stimulator. The present invention further relates to methods and compositions for preventing, treating or ameliorating a disease or disorder associated with aberrant B lymphocyte stimulator or B lymphocyte stimulator receptor expression or inappropriate B lymphocyte stimulator function or B lymphocyte stimulator receptor function, comprising administering to an animal, preferably a human, an effective amount of one or more B lymphocyte stimulator binding polypeptides or fragments or variants thereof, that specifically bind to B lymphocyte stimulator.
US08062905B1
A purge and trap concentrator system that includes a sparge vessel, and includes a variable gas flow valve for controlling the gas pressure in an analytic trap or the sparge vessel; a sensor that detects both a foaming sample state and a high liquid level in the sparge vessel, using one optical sensor; a control scheme that re-directs the purge gases to a second inlet of the sparge vessel during a foaming condition; a control scheme that uses a split flow to enhance the quantity of sample gases passed from an analytic trap; an electrically powered thermal energy source with a fan raising the sparge vessel temperature via thermal convection.
US08062889B2
The present invention relates to methods of constructing an integrated artificial immune system that comprises appropriate in vitro cellular and tissue constructs or their equivalents to mimic the tissues of the immune system in mammals. The artificial immune system can be used to test the efficacy of vaccine candidates and other materials in vitro and thus, is useful to accelerate vaccine development and testing drug and chemical interactions with the immune system, coupled with disease models to provide a more complete representation of an immune response.
US08062886B2
The present invention provides a plasmid system which facilitates the construction of a single amplifiable plasmid that, having the potential to accommodate many independent expression cassettes, has the ability to express multi-subunit complex proteins such as antibodies and receptors.
US08062883B2
The invention is directed to a method and device for simultaneously testing a sample for the presence, absence, and/or amounts of one or more a plurality of selected analytes. The invention includes, in one aspect, a device for detecting or quantitating a plurality of different analytes in a liquid sample. The device includes a substrate which defines a sample-distribution network having (i) a sample inlet, (ii) one or more detection chambers, and (iii) channel means providing a dead-end fluid connection between each of the chambers and the inlet Each chamber may include an analyte-specific reagent effective to react with a selected analyte that may be present in the sample, and detection means for detecting the signal. Also disclosed are methods utilizing the device.
US08062874B2
The present invention provides fusion proteins including a green fluorescent protein inserted into the internal amino acid sequence of a Gαs protein and further provides method of using the fusion protein construct to follow activation of a G-protein receptor by a candidate drug.
US08062873B2
A membrane supported bioreactor arrangement and method for anerobic conversion of gas into liquid products including membrane modules having hollow fibers, each of the hollow fibers formed from an asymmetric membrane wall having a porous outer layer defining biopores for retaining a porous biolayer about the outer surface of the membrane wall and a less permeable hydration layer around the hollow fiber lumen; a membrane vessel for retaining the membrane modules in a process gas for formation of the biolayer on the outer surface of the hollow fiber wall by interaction of microorganisms with a process gas and for the production of a liquid product, wherein the membrane vessel retains the membrane modules in a common horizontal plane; provides a seal between contents of the membrane tank and ambient atmosphere; and includes a liquid supply conduit for communicating the process liquid with the hollow fiber lumens of the hollow fibers.
US08062869B2
An Escherichia bacterium having dihydrodipicolinate synthase and aspartokinase, both of which are desensitized to feedback inhibition by L-lysine. The intracellular activity of dihydrodipicolinate reductase in this bacterium can also be enhanced. Furthermore, a diaminopimelate dehydrogenase gene can be introduced into this bacterium, or intracellular activities of tetrahydrodipicolinate succinylase and succinyl diaminopimelate deacylase can be enhanced. Finally, the intracellular activities of aspartate-semialdehyde dehydrogenase or phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase can be enhanced in this bacterium. The bacterium can be cultured in a suitable medium to produce and accumulate L-lysine in culture, and the L-lysine is collected from the culture.
US08062865B2
The present invention provides a dicistronic message for producing an antibody molecule, in which the upstream cistron contains DNA coding for the light chain of the antibody and the downstream cistron contains DNA coding for the corresponding heavy chain, characterised in that the dicistronic message comprises a sequence selected from AEOS1 (SEQ ID NO:1), AEOS2 (SEQ ID NO:2), AEOS3 (SEQ ID NO:3), AEOS4 (SEQ ID NO: 4), AEOS5 (SEQ ID NO:5), AEOS6 (SEQ ID NO:6), AEOS7 (SEQ ID NO:7), AEOS8 (SEQ ID NO:8), AEOS9 (SEQ ID NO:9), AEOS1O (SEQ ID NO:10) and AEOS11 (SEQ ID NO:11).
US08062862B2
This invention relates to a process for the production of enzymatically hydrolysed egg proteins comprising a first hydrolysis step in which intact egg proteins are subjected to enzymatic hydrolysis by a first protease, an intermediate heating step in which the product of the first hydrolysis is heated to a temperature not exceeding 75° C., a second hydrolysis step in which the product of the intermediate heating step is subjected to enzymatic hydrolysis by a second protease and an inactivation step in which the product of the second hydrolysis is heated to a temperature between 85 and 90° C. and maintained at this temperature for at least 30 minutes. The invention extends to an egg pasta product containing hydrolysed whole egg.
US08062857B1
The present invention relates to a method for diagnosing myocardial infarction in a subject who suffers from acute coronary syndrome and has a cardiac troponin level which is detectable but lower than the level that is considered as being indicative for a myocardial infarction. Moreover, the present invention relates to a method for identifying a subject being susceptible to cardiac intervention, wherein the subject suffers from acute coronary syndrome and has a cardiac troponin level which is detectable but lower than a level that is considered as being indicative for a myocardial infarction. The methods of the present invention are based on the determination of H-FABP and, optionally, myoglobin in a sample of the subject and comparing the amount of H-FABP and, optionally, myoglobin to reference amounts.
US08062850B2
This disclosure provides for methods and reagents for rapid multiplex RPA reactions and improved methods for detection of multiplex RPA reaction products. In addition, the disclosure provides new methods for eliminating carryover contamination between RPA processes.
US08062849B2
Methods are provided for diagnosing in a subject a condition, such as a carcinoma, sarcoma or leukemia, associated with hypermethylation of genes by isolating the genes from tissue containing as few as 50 to 1000 tumor cells. Using quantitative multiplex methylation specific PCR (QM-MSP), multiple genes can be quantitatively evaluated from samples usually yielding sufficient DNA for analyses of only 1 or 2 genes. DNA sequences isolated from the sample are simultaneously co-amplified in an initial multiplex round of PCR, and the methylation status of individual hypermethylation-prone gene promoter sequences is then determined separately or in multiplex using a real time PCR round that is methylation status-specific. Within genes of the panel, the level of promoter hypermethylation as well as the incidence of promoter hypermethylation can be determined and the level of genes in the panel can be scored cumulatively. The QM-MSP method is adaptable for high throughput automated technology.
US08062848B2
The present invention provides thermostable enzymes, such as DNA polymerases and restriction endonucleases, that are substantially free from contamination with nucleic acids. The invention also provides methods for the production of these enzymes, and kits comprising these enzymes which may be used in amplifying or sequencing nucleic acid molecules, including through use of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
US08062844B2
Protective groups which may be cleaved with an activatable deprotecting reagents are employed to achieve a highly sensitive, high resolution, combinatorial synthesis of pattern arrays of diverse polymers. In preferred embodiments of the instant invention, the activatable deprotecting reagent is a photoacid generator and the protective groups are DMT for nucleic acids and tBOC for amino acids. This invention has a wide variety of applications and is particularly useful for the solid phase combinatorial synthesis of polymers.
US08062839B2
The invention provides in vitro, ex vivo, and in vivo assays for Parkin activity, in which Parkin-mediated ubiquitination of a Sept4 protein is measured. The assays may be used to screen for agents that modulate Parkin protein ligase activity.
US08062830B2
The present invention provides a chemically amplified resist composition comprising: a resin (A) which contains no fluorine atom and a structural unit (a1) having an acid-labile group in a side chain, a resin (B) which contains a structural unit (b2) having a fluorine-containing group in a side chain and at least one structural unit selected from the group consisting of a structural unit (b1) having an acid-labile group, a structural unit (b3) having a hydroxyl group and a structural unit (b4) having a lactone structure in a side chain, and an acid generator, wherein the content of the structural unit (b1) based on the total units of the resin (B) is less than 10 mol %.
US08062829B2
A chemically amplified resist composition, comprising: a resin which includes a structural unit having an acid-labile group in a side chain, a structural unit represented by the formula (I) and a structural unit having a polycyclic lactone structure, and which is soluble in an organic solvent and insoluble or poorly soluble in an alkali aqueous solution but rendered soluble in an alkali aqueous solution by the action of an acid; and an acid generator represented by the formula (II). wherein X1 represents a hydrogen atom, a C1 to C4 alkyl group, etc., Y in each occurrence independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, and n is an integer of 1 to 14, R1 to R4 independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, etc., and A+ represents an organic counterion, E− represents CF3SO3—, C2F5SO3—, C4F9SO3—, etc., Y1 and Y2 independently represent a fluorine atom or a C1 to C6 perfluoroalkyl group.
US08062825B2
A positive resist composition having excellent size controllability, and a resist pattern forming method are provided. This positive resist composition contains a resin component (A) comprising an alkali soluble constituent unit (a1) which comprises a constituent unit (a11) derived from (α-methyl)hydroxystyrene, and a constituent unit (a2) which has an acid dissociable dissolution inhibiting group including an acid dissociable dissolution inhibiting group (II) represented by the following general formula (II) and/or a specific chain acid dissociable dissolution inhibiting group (III); an acid generator component (B) which generates an acid upon exposure; and preferably contains an aromatic amine (C).
US08062819B2
A magenta toner for developing an electrostatic image composed of a binder and a colorant is disclosed. The toner contains a tone controlling agent having a peak of fluorescent spectrum from 380 to 500 nm. An image excellent in light fastness and durability can be obtained and high color reproducibility with sufficient transparency and chromaticness can be realized by the magenta toner.
US08062815B2
A photoconductor comprising a supporting substrate, a photogenerating layer, and at least one charge transport layer comprised of at least one charge transport component, and wherein the at least one charge transport layer contains at least one imidazolium salt.
US08062813B2
In the field of semiconductor device production, a method for manufacturing a surface using two-dimensional dosage maps is disclosed. A set of charged particle beam shots for creating an image on the surface is determined by combining dosage information such as dosage maps for a plurality of shots into the dosage map for the surface. A similar method is disclosed for fracturing or mask data preparation of a reticle image.
US08062812B2
An image mask and image mask assembly. The image mask includes a glass substrate having a thickness of less than 2 mm and a patterned mask disposed on a surface of the glass substrate. The image mask assembly includes a transparent backer plate coupled to the glass substrate. Methods of writing a pattern on a glass sheet and writing a master pattern into a layer comprising a mask material are also provided.
US08062796B2
Organic electrolytic solutions are provided. One solution includes a lithium salt, an organic solvent including a first solvent having high permittivity and a second solvent having a low boiling point, and a phosphate compound. By using the phosphate based compound, the organic electrolytic solution and the lithium battery including the organic electrolytic solution are flame resistant and have excellent charge/discharge properties. As a result, the lithium battery is highly stable and reliable and has good charge/discharge efficiency.
US08062790B2
An electrode including a conductive metal support and a paste including an electrochemically-active material and a binder. The binder includes a compound of silane type, and a polymer having at least one acrylic monomer, and representing at least approximately 0.15% of the weight of said paste. The use of this binder improves the calendar or cycle life of the battery at a temperature greater than or equal to 25° C., preferably at a temperature greater than or equal to 40° C.
US08062784B2
A battery assembly is disclosed having an enclosure with a top and sides, one of the sides having an opening for receiving the batteries therein. A plurality of batteries in electrical communication with one another are disposed within the enclosure. Each battery has a pair of parallel tubular openings extending through the battery, with one tubular opening being in electrical communication with the positive pole and the other tubular opening being in electrical communication-with the negative pole of the battery. When the batteries are aligned with one another within the enclosure, the tubular openings are axially aligned with each other. A conductor rod threaded at each end extends through and is in electrical communication with each tubular opening in each battery. A threaded fastener is secured to each of the threaded end of each of the conductor rods.
US08062783B2
Systems, devices, and methods for powering and/or controlling electrically powered devices. A power supply system is operable to provide a voltage across at the active and the counter electrode assemblies of a transdermal delivery device. The system includes a power source and a magnetic coupling element.
US08062779B2
A method of making an anode element for use in a fuel cell, comprising providing a first amount of Ni—Al alloy material having a predetermined aluminum content, providing a second amount of Ni—Cr alloy material having a predetermined chromium content, providing at least one additive component, mixing the Ni—Al alloy material, the Ni—Cr alloy material and the at least one additive component to produce a slurry and forming the slurry into the anode element.
US08062778B2
In order to obtain a magnetic recording disk that exhibits high reliability even if the flying height of a magnetic head becomes very narrow, a lubricant is specified in terms of both molecular structure and quantitative data. That is, a lubricating layer 14 of the magnetic recording disk 1 is formed by a lubricant which contains perfluoropolyether compounds represented by the following chemical formula (Chemical Formula 1) and which has a first component content of 71.7%, a second component content of 15.7%, a third component content of 11.7%, a fourth component content of 0.3%, and a fifth component content of 0.6%: X—OCH2CF2—(CF2O)m(C2F4O)n—CF2OCH2O—X (Chemical Formula 1) m, n=9 to 11 first component: X=X1=CH2CH(OH)CH2OH second component: X=X2=CH2CH(OH)CH2OCH2CH(OH)CH2OH third component: X=X3=H fourth component: X=X4=CF3 fifth component: X=X5=CF2Cl.
US08062770B2
Some embodiments provide a compound represented by Formula 1: wherein R1, R2, R3, R6, R7, and R8 are independently selected from the group consisting of H, optionally substituted C1-12 alkyl, optionally substituted phenyl, optionally substituted carbazolyl, optionally substituted diphenylamine and optionally substituted diphenylaminophenyl; provided that: at least one of R1, R2, and R3 is selected from optionally substituted carbazolyl, optionally substituted diphenylamine and optionally substituted diphenylaminophenyl and at least one of R6, R7, and R8 is selected from optionally substituted carbazolyl, optionally substituted diphenylamine and optionally substituted diphenylaminophenyl; and R4 and R5 are independently selected from the group consisting of H, optionally substituted C1-12 alkyl, optionally substituted phenyl, optionally substituted diphenylamine and optionally substituted diphenylaminophenyl. Other embodiments provide an organic light-emitting diode device comprising a compound of Formula I.
US08062767B2
An organic light emitting diode with Ir complex is disclosed in this specification, wherein the Ir complex is used as the phosphorous emitter. The chemical containing pyridyl triazole or pyridyl imidazole functional group is used as the auxiliary monoanionic bidentate ligand in the mentioned Ir complex, so that the CIE coordinate of the mentioned Ir complex is adjustable and the light emitting performance of the Ir complex is improved.
US08062764B2
The present invention relates to an aluminum alloy brazing sheet (1) for a heat exchanger improved in a life including a fatigue in a plastic area and an aluminum alloy heat exchanger tube (11) using the brazing sheet, which is composed of: a core material (2) of an Al—Mn series alloy; a skin material (3) of any one of an Al—Zn series alloy, an Al—Zn—Mg series alloy, an Al—Si—Mn—Zn series alloy, and an Al—Si—Mn—Mg—Zn series alloy clad on one side of the core material; and a brazing material (4) of an Al—Si series alloy clad on the other side of the core material, and is adapted so that an X-ray diffraction intensity ratio of the aluminum alloy brazing sheet satisfies a relational expression of I200/(I111+I200+I220+I311)≧0.4.
US08062757B2
Disclosed are high frequency-active blends comprising (a) copolymers of ethylene and maleic anhydride or its functional equivalents and (b) ethylene copolymers with polar comonomers such as ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymers, ethylene/alkyl(meth)acrylate copolymers and ethylene/(meth)acrylate/carbon monoxide terpolymers; and films, powders, multilayer structures, and articles prepared therefrom.
US08062753B2
An optical component having a diffractive element and/or refractive element is provided. The optical component includes a photosensitive glass and/or a photosensitive glass ceramic and a plurality of structures influencing propagation of light in at least a part of the photosensitive glass and/or a photosensitive glass ceramic.
US08062752B2
An intermediate transfer media, such as a belt, that includes a cyclo olefin polymer.
US08062742B2
A method for manufacturing silicone foams that maintains the original air permeable cell structure of an air permeable material including polyester by curing the air permeable material after coating the air permeable material with a silicone solution including a curing agent.
US08062741B2
A cementitious panel with ballistic and blast resistant properties having a core layer of ultra-high compressive strength composite and at least one skin layer. The panels can also be used in walls, ceiling and flooring panels which require high compressive strength for resistance to earthquakes and surfaces resistant to surface abuse such as in prison and other institutions. The panel core layer has a continuous cementitious phase resulting from the curing of an aqueous mixture, in the absence of silica flour, of inorganic cement binder, inorganic mineral filler having a particle size of about 150-450 microns, a pozzolanic mineral filler, polycarboxylate based superplasticizer, alkanolamine and acid or alkali metal acid salt; and water. The mixture may be uniformly reinforced with fiber added before curing. The cementitious core layer is then reinforced with the skin, such as fiber reinforced polymer, attached to at least one panel surface.
US08062736B1
An overmolded article and process for camouflaging or layering the overmolded article, e.g. hunting equipment, etc., is described. The camouflaged or layered areas run continuously from outside to beneath the overmolded areas on the article so there are no lines of edges where the camouflaged or layered areas end and the overmolding areas begin.
US08062726B2
The invention relates to flexible compounds that are made of a thermoplastic elastomer and a filler having increased thermal conductivity, and to flexible heat-conducting tubes produced on the basis thereof that are especially useful as heating or cooling tubes. The inventive mixtures have a thermal conductivity in the range of from 0.5 to 2 W/mK.
US08062717B2
An apparatus for providing a return current path for RF current between a chamber wall and a substrate support is provided comprising a low impedance flexible curtain having a first end and a second end, the first end adapted to be electrically connected to the chamber wall and the second end adapted to be connected to the substrate support, wherein the curtain further comprises at least one fold in the curtain material, located an axial distance between the first end and the second end, and at least one perforation cut into the curtain proximate the second end.
US08062714B2
A method is provided for manufacturing a film formation member having a dividing wall provided on a substrate to form a plurality of partitioned sections with a film being formed within each of the partitioned sections by discharging a predetermined amount of liquid within each of the partitioned sections. The method includes identifying a position of at least one of the partitioned section as a partitioned section with nonuniform liquid affinity among the partitioned sections, and discharging the liquid over a wider discharge range inside the partitioned section with nonuniform liquid affinity than a discharge range inside a partitioned section other than the partitioned section with nonuniform liquid affinity.
US08062713B2
A method for manufacturing electrodes using an electrostatic deposition unit. In the first step of the process a mixture of magnetic carrier beads and a conductive powder is prepared in the sump of the deposition unit; the mixture forms a magnetic brush on the sleeve of the deposition unit. In the second step of the process, the substrate is positioned away from the magnetic brush to form an air gap. In the third step of the process, a voltage is applied between the substrate and the sleeve of the deposition unit in order to produce a large asymmetry between the magnetic brush and said substrate such that the electric field at the magnetic brush is at least 3.0 times as great as the electric field at the substrate. In the fourth step of the process, conductive powder is deposited onto the substrate.
US08062711B2
A device for stabilizing an elongated steel sheet when continuously transporting the steel sheet in a transport direction along a predetermined transport path. The device includes at least a first pair, a second pair and a third pair of electromagnets with at least one electromagnet on each side of the steel sheet. The electromagnets are adapted to stabilize the steel sheet with respect to the predetermined transport path. The first and second electromagnets are elongated in a direction essentially perpendicular to the transport direction. The first and second electromagnets are substantially arranged on each side of a longitudinal center line for the steel sheet. The center line is essentially parallel to the transport direction. The third electromagnet is arranged adjacent to the center line.
US08062706B2
Monobutyltinchloride (“MBTC”) is recovered from an effluent vapor stream of a chemical vapor deposition coating process practiced to deposit a fluorine doped tin oxide layer over a glass ribbon. The vapor stream is condensed to a temperature to increase the ratio of MBTC to water in the liquid condensate. The condensed liquid is stored in a phase separation tank to separate the condensed liquid into at least two layers. The layers are individually removed from the phase separation tank, and the layer from the phase separation tank having a density equal to or greater than 80% the density of MBTC is further processed through a vacuum distilling operation to provide MBTC of an acceptable quality to use in the recovered MBTC in the coating process. The recovered MBTC is added to the coating precursors of the chemical deposition process.
US08062704B2
A method of making a release coating includes the following steps: forming a mixture that includes (a) solid components comprising (i) 20-99% silicon by weight and (ii) 1-80% silicon nitride by weight and (b) a solvent; applying the mixture to an inner portion of a crucible or graphite board adapted to form an ingot or wafer comprising silicon; and annealing the mixture in a nitrogen atmosphere at a temperature ranging from 1000 to 2000° C. The invention may also relate to release coatings and methods of making a silicon ingot or wafer including the use of a release coating.
US08062697B2
Carbon nanotubes, which in several embodiments are mixed with particles, organic materials, non-organic materials, or solvents, are deposited on a substrate to form a cold cathode. The deposition of the carbon nanotube mixture is performed using an ink jet printing process.
US08062695B2
Disclosed herein is a method for manufacturing a display, the method including the steps of: disposing a substrate over which a plurality of lower electrodes and a plurality of auxiliary electrodes are formed and a donor film over which a light-emitting functional layer is formed so that the light-emitting functional layer contacts with the lower electrodes and does not contact with the auxiliary electrodes; irradiating the donor film with an energy beam to selectively transfer the light-emitting functional layer onto the lower electrodes; and forming an upper electrode that covers the light-emitting functional layer and the auxiliary electrodes.
US08062692B2
A method of applying a dental composition to tooth surfaces is provided. The dental composition, comprising polymerizable resin and fluorescing compound, is applied to a tooth surface and cured so that it hardens. The composition is preferably used as a dental sealant that provides a hard, glossy surface finish over a tooth. Upon irradiating the sealant with ultraviolet light, the sealant exhibits a bright fluorescent glow. The sealant reverts immediately to its natural color when it is no longer exposed to the ultraviolet light.
US08062685B2
A method for making a direct expanded snack piece shaped like a peanut is disclosed. Ingredients comprising peanut flour, ground corn product, rice flour and oat flour are introduced into an extruder. The ingredients are hydrated and extruded through an orifice adapted to produce a puffed snack piece shaped like a peanut and cut into puffed snacks. The puffed snacks are dried and seasoned.
US08062679B2
A composition comprising at least a therapeutically effective amount of L-carnitine fumarate, and an extract of Coleus forskohlii is provided to maintain androgen and androgen-like uptake potential in cells, via simultaneous increase in the availability of androgen receptors and improved availability of androgen and androgen-like molecules. A method of same is also provided. The present invention further comprises therapeutically effective amounts of one or more of N-acetyl L-carnitine, melatonin. ubidecarenone (coenzyme Q10), idebenone, decylubiquinone, an extract of Agaricus blazei Murill, and ginsenoside Rb1.
US08062670B2
Powder compositions exhibiting improved flow properties. The compositions generally contain a bulk solid material in the form of a powder and surface-modified nanoparticles. Methods of improving the flow of powder compositions and devices and articles made using such compositions are also disclosed.
US08062664B2
A process for preparing a formulation of a lipid-regulating drug is disclosed, the process comprising dissolving lipid-regulating drug in a solvent free of surfactant to form a solution, premixing an excipient to form an admixture, wet granulating the solution and admixture to form a granulated admixture, drying the granulated admixture and utilizing the dried material to obtain a final dosage form.
US08062653B2
The present invention provides NO and, optionally, drug releasing macromers and oligomers wherein the drug molecule and NO releasing moiety are linked an absorbable macromer or oligomeric chain susceptible to hydrolytic degradation and wherein the macromer or oligomer comprises of repeat units derived from safe and biocompatible molecules such as glycolic acid, lactic acid, caprolactone and p-dioxanone. Furthermore, the present invention relates to controlled release of nitric oxide (NO) and/or drug molecule from a NO and drug releasing macromer or oligomer. Moreover, the present invention also relates to medical devices, medical device coatings and therapeutic formulations comprising of nitric oxide and drug releasing macromers and oligomers of the present invention.
US08062652B2
The present invention is directed to the controlled delivery of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists, preferably from a polymeric material that is implanted in the body. More specifically, the present invention relates to compositions comprised of a GnRH agonist, preferably histrelin, in a polymeric material that results in a desired and controlled delivery of a therapeutically effective amount of GnRH agonist over an extended period of time in order to treat central precocious puberty (CPP).
US08062647B2
Stable aqueous solutions comprising concentrations of baclofen in the range of greater than 2.0 mg/mL up to about 10 mg/mL are disclosed. These solutions can be used as pharmaceuticals for parenteral or oral administration. The invention also provides methods of preparing said stable aqueous baclofen solutions.
US08062646B2
Compositions comprising a tissue vaccine that include a mixture of heterogeneous tissue obtained from tumors and connective tissues. Vaccines comprising these compositions are also provided, as well as methods of using the vaccines in the treatment and/or inhibition of tumor growth, and particularly prostate tumor growth and cancers. The preparations may be defined as vaccines comprising tumor cells and connective (stromal) tissues derived from xenogeneic animals. Preparations comprising the tissue vaccines are provided using tissue harvested directly from tumors. Methods for preventing de novo development of cancer are also disclosed. A tissue vaccine comprising glutaraldehyde-(GFT) treated tissue prepared from tumor and connective tissue reduces the incidence of autochthonous prostate cancer. A tissue vaccine comprising a potassium thiocyanate extract (PTE) preparation of a tumor and connective tissue is also provided. The tissue vaccines are demonstrated to reduce the incidence of autochthonous prostate cancer.
US08062644B2
Disclosed herein are various genes that can be included in immunogenic compositions specific for pathogenic E. coli strains. The genes are from uropathogenic strains but are absent from non-pathogenic strains, and their encoded proteins have cellular locations which render them accessible to the immune system.
US08062642B1
The present invention is directed to a method of expressing the papillomavirus capsid protein coding sequence in a cell using an expression system under conditions facilitating expression of the protein in the cell.In another aspect of the invention, it has been discovered that virus-like particle(s) (VLPs), fragment(s), capsomer(s) or portion(s) thereof are formed from the papillomavirus capsid protein. It was further discovered that the virus-like particle(s) comprises antigenic characteristics similar to those of native infectious papillomavirus particles.In an embodiment of the invention, there is provided a method of expressing the L1 major capsid protein of human papillomavirus type-11 (HPV-11) in Sf-9 insect cells using the baculovirus expression system, and the production of HPV-11 virus-like particles.
US08062636B2
The present invention provides a composition comprising naked humanized, chimeric, and human anti-CEA antibodies and a therapeutic agent, which is useful for treatment of CEA expressing cancers and other diseases, and methods of use in treatment using this composition.
US08062629B2
Provided is a hair cosmetic composition which comprises the following components (A) to (D): (A): an organic acid, (B): an organic solvent selected from aromatic alcohols, polyols and carbonates, (C): a cationic surfactant, and (D): a higher alcohol, and water and has a pH ranging from 2 to 6. The hair cosmetic composition has excellent effects for repairing or preventing hair damage caused by coloring, permanent waving or blow drying and features good feeling upon use and luster improving effect.
US08062626B2
The invention relates to ethanol-containing pharmaceutical preparations for the production of propellant-free aerosols.
US08062624B2
Hydrogen is stored by adsorbing the hydrogen to a carbon nanomaterial that includes carbon nanospheres. The carbon nanospheres are multi-walled, hollow carbon nanostructures with a maximum diameter in a range from about 10 nm to about 200 nm. The nanospheres have an irregular outer surface with graphitic defects and an aspect ratio of less than 3:1. The carbon nanospheres can store hydrogen in quantities of at least 1.0% by weight.
US08062620B2
The present invention relates to a process for the conversion of cobalt(II)hydroxide into cobalt(III)oxidehydroxide (CoOOH) by reaction of the cobalt(II)hydroxide with oxygen in the presence of certain metal compounds. The invention further relates to the use of cobalt(III)oxidehydroxide thus prepared in the preparation of catalysts or catalysts precursors, especially catalysts or catalyst precursors for the conversion of synthesis gas into normally liquid and normally solid hydrocarbons and to normally liquid or solid hydrocarbons, optionally after additional hydrotreatment, obtained in such a conversion process.
US08062617B2
Process for reducing nitrogen oxides to nitrogen in an exhaust gas comprising passing the exhaust gas in the presence of a reducing agent through a catalyst system comprising at least two catalyst beds, in which a first catalyst bed is an iron-beta-zeolite and a second catalyst bed downstream is silver supported on alumina.
US08062613B2
An apparatus and process for isomerizing a hydrocarbon stream rich in a C4 hydrocarbon and/or at least one of a C5 and C6 hydrocarbon which includes a first drier and a second drier; and a reaction zone communicating with at least the first drier. The first drier operates at a first condition to dry the reactant and the second drier operates at a second condition during regeneration. The used regenerant remaining in the second drier after regeneration can (1) pass through a vent-to-flare assembly in a batch-wise manner; (2) pass through a downflow-depressure-to-low-pressure-device assembly in a batch-wise manner; (3) pass through a cross-over piping purge assembly to minimize upsets in the reaction and fractionation zones when the second drier is placed back in operation; or any combination of (1) (2) and/or (3) to minimize upsets in the reaction and fractionation zones when the second drier is placed back in operation.
US08062612B2
A MEMS integrated circuit comprising one or more microfluidic diaphragm valves and control circuitry for the valves. Each valve comprises: an inlet port; an outlet port; a weir positioned between the inlet and outlet ports, the weir having a sealing surface; a diaphragm membrane for sealing engagement with the sealing surface; and a thermal bend actuator for moving the diaphragm membrane between a closed position in which the membrane is sealingly engaged with the sealing surface and an open position in which the membrane is disengaged from the sealing surface. The control circuitry is configured to control actuation of the actuator so as to control opening and closing of the valve.
US08062600B2
An arrangement for separating coarse ash out of a flue gas stream, comprising a catalytic converter disposed in a widened flue gas channel portion and serving for reducing the NOx level in the flue gas stream. Also disposed in the widened channel portion is a separator sieve that extends essentially over the entire cross-section thereof. The separator sieve is provided with a plurality of openings for the passage of flue gas therethrough. Each opening has a cross-section that is smaller than a cross-section of coarse ash particles that are to be separated out.
US08062593B2
A selecting apparatus for selecting cell/tissue mass includes a base, a feeding mechanism and a dividing mechanism. The base has a platform for placing the cell/tissue mass. The feeding mechanism, disposed on the base, moves relative to the platform. The dividing mechanism, disposed on the feeding mechanism, includes a first cutting set and a second cutting set connected therewith. The second cutting set reciprocally moves between a first position and a second position, toward the first cutting set. The feeding mechanism moves the dividing mechanism above the platform, aligning the dividing mechanism with a portion of the cell/tissue mass, and moves the first cutting set toward the cell/tissue mass, cutting into the portion of the cell/tissue mass. The second cutting set moves from the first position to the second position, limiting the portion of the cell/tissue mass between the first cutting set and the second cutting set.
US08062592B2
Even if a standby time to the measurement becomes long, a sample in a sample container is prevented from deteriorating. A cooling mechanism is provided in a sample tray for holding a sample plate, or in a plate-mounting portion of a table-type auto sampler of a capillary electrophoresis apparatus, so that the sample plate is cooled during the measurement also.
US08062584B2
The present invention provides, as a material superior in heat resistance in a hot environment where the maximum temperature of the exhaust gas becomes 750 to 900° C., ferritic stainless steel sheet superior in heat resistance in a broad temperature region of 750 to 900° C. with long term stability by a smaller amount of addition of Mo than SUS444 containing about 2% of expensive Mo, that is, ferritic stainless steel sheet superior in heat resistance characterized by containing, by mass %, C: 0.01% or less, N: 0.02% or less, Si: 0.05 to 1%, Mn: 0.1 to 2%, Cr: 10 to 30%, Mo: 0.1 to 1%, Cu: 1 to 2%, Nb: 0.2 to 0.7%, Ti: 0.01 to 0.3%, and B: 0.0002 to 0.0050%, having a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, and having a 0.2% yield strength at 750° C. of 70 MPa or more.
US08062579B2
A device (10), for moving a runner (12) of a shaft furnace between an upper tapping floor level (42), where the runner is in an operational position in front of a taphole of the furnace, and a lower service level (40), where the runner is accessible for replacement. The device (10) comprises a first support (28) and a second support (34) forming a base member (38), a carrier member (20) for bearing the runner, the carrier member having a first and a second longitudinal portion, a first lifting member (22) connected via a first articulation (26) to the first longitudinal portion and via a second articulation (30) to the first support, and a second lifting member (24) connected via a third articulation (32) to the second longitudinal portion and via a fourth articulation (36) to the second support. The base member (38), the carrier member (20) and the first and second lifting members (22, 24) together with the four articulations (26, 30, 32, 36) form a four-bar equivalent mechanism. According to the invention, the device further comprises a traction link (90) connected via a fifth articulation (92) to the first lifting member (22) and via a sixth articulation (94) to the second lifting member (24). The axes of rotation of the fifth and sixth articulations (92, 94) remain above the plane defined by the axes of rotation of the second and fourth articulations (30, 36) when the carrier member (20) is in a lower position reached by approaching, taking or traversing a change point configuration.
US08062578B2
A method for controlling a ladle to pour molten metal into a sprue of a mold. The method includes obtaining a mathematical model describing a locus of positions where the molten metal flowing from the ladle drops on an upper surface of the sprue. The method further includes solving an inverse problem of the mathematical model, estimating a position where the molten metal drops using a result of the solving of the inverse problem, and determining target voltages to be supplied to servomotors controlling the ladle. At least the target voltage to be supplied to one of the servomotors is determined based on the estimated position. The method also includes controlling the servomotors based on respective target voltages.
US08062575B2
A computer based detecting system that detects a defective tire assembly during the curing process is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of temperature sensors connected to a processor of the computer system and further connected to each hose that is connected between a tire assembly inside an autoclave, and an external manifold of the autoclave. The processor receives data input from each of the temperature sensors and decodes the data to determine the current temperature of each sensor and simultaneously calculates the average temperature of all the temperature sensors connected. The processor compares the temperature reading of each station with the average temperature and notifies should the difference between the temperature average and temperature sensor reading equal or is greater than a selected temperature deviation.
US08062573B2
Porous microperforators (210A), preferably in an array of multiple perforators are employed for delivery of a drug, where the micro-perforators may dissolve in situ. Suitable micro-perforators may include multiple layers of dissolvable materials to effect sequential drug delivery. In further aspects, contemplated micro-perforators may employ a diagnostic device in which a detector layer or detector is operationally coupled to the micro-perforators.
US08062572B2
A process for simultaneously activating two or more portions of a web in different directions. The process involves feeding a web into an apparatus that includes a pair of intermeshing activation rolls having three dimensional surface features configured to simultaneously activate different portions a web in different directions. The three dimensional surface features are arranged in discrete regions on the rolls such that at least two of the regions provide different directions of activation. The rolls include one or more buffer regions positioned between the discrete regions on the roll that provide different directions of activation.
US08062561B2
Negative electrode composite material, production method, negative electrode and lithium-ion battery
A negative electrode material, a method for producing this material, and to a negative electrode and a lithium-ion battery comprising this material are described. The material comprises an active phase consisting of a material M based on Al, Si, Sn, Sb or a mixture thereof, and a support phase consisting of a material XaYbOc, where: O is an oxygen; Y is a cation with oxidation degree m=3, 4, 5 or 6; X is a cation with oxidation degree d=1, 2, 3, 4 or 5, X ensuring the electroneutrality of XaYbOc; and where: c is such that 2≦c≦10; b is such that 1≦b≦4; and a=(2c−bm)/d. An interface of mixed composition exists between the XaYbOc material and the active phase M, the interface consisting of the elements M, X, Y and O.
US08062558B2
This is to provide a conductive paste with higher electroconductivity containing, as raw materials: a metallic powder; a thermosetting resin; and a flux-activating compound having a carboxyl group and a phenolic hydroxyl group, which is applicable to the fine pitch-utilization.
US08062533B2
A spin column device, which contains a rigid porous filter that retains its shape during centrifugation, chromatography methods using the device to isolate a desired substance, e.g., a biological molecule, from other substances in a mixture, and kits containing the device with one or more reagents for use in the method.
US08062532B2
An integrated process separates salts from salty waters and electrolyzes the salts to produce chlorine products such as chlorine, hypochlorites, chlorates and/or caustic soda.
US08062531B1
An underground stormwater management system includes a receiving tank connected to a source of non-first flush runoff and a storage chamber that accumulates stormwater runoff for discharge to a storm drain. The storage chamber includes a first inlet connected to a source of first flush runoff, a second inlet connected to receive overflow from the receiving tank, a first discharge and a second discharge above the first discharge. First flush is discharged from the first discharge and is filtered before reaching the storm drain. The receiving tank assists in delaying the receipt of non-first flush runoff into the storage chamber during a major rain event. During major rain events runoff is also discharged from the storage chamber directly to the surrounding media.
US08062530B2
A method for neutralizing brines that contain high levels of silica accompanied with a high pH. Brine is processed through a reactor in which the pH is lowered and the resultant silica precipitate is adsorbed onto a sacrificial crystal structure. The resultant stream is then processed through a solids removal zone wherein the solids are removed and recovered for reuse. The neutralized solids-free brine is then suitable for down-hole injection in the heavy oil industry or further treatment by common water treatment methods if further adjustment is required for other industries.
US08062529B2
A method for treating water includes directing untreated water into a mixing zone in a water treatment system and mixing the untreated water with a flocculating agent and a ballast to form a ballast-floc mixture. Thereafter, the ballast-floc mixture is directed to a settling zone where the mixture settles to form sludge. Treated water is discharged from the settling zone and the sludge is directed to a separator. The method further includes separating at least a portion of the ballast from the sludge and directing the separated ballast from the separator to the mixing zone. Finally, the sludge is directed from the separator to a sludge treatment reactor where at least some of the remaining ballast settles from the sludge and substantially ballast-free sludge is discharged from the sludge treatment reactor.
US08062522B1
Disclosed is a system for reducing the demand of wastewater volume flowing through a wastewater collection piping system and thereby increasing the effective capacity of the system. A portion of the wastewater is diverted from a sewer main. The solids are separated from the liquid, for example, by a vortex separator. The recovered liquid can be treated and made available for local reuse. The concentrated solids are reintroduced into the main sewage line in a portion that adjusts the wastewater loading in the sewer main to a predetermined amount or predetermined range. Also disclosed is a system capable of reintroducing the concentrated solids into the sewer main in a portion that adjusts the solids loading in the sewer main to a predetermined amount or predetermined range.
US08062503B2
The present invention is directed to the upgrading of heavy hydrocarbon feedstock that utilizes a short residence pyrolytic reactor operating under conditions that cracks and chemically upgrades the feedstock. The process of the present invention provides for the preparation of a partially upgraded feedstock exhibiting reduced viscosity and increased API gravity. This process selectively removes metals, salts, water and nitrogen from the feedstock, while at the same time maximizes the yield of the liquid product, and minimizes coke and gas production. Furthermore, this process reduces the viscosity of the feedstock in order to permit pipeline transport, if desired, of the upgraded feedstock with little or no addition of diluents. The method for upgrading a heavy hydrocarbon feedstock comprises introducing a particulate heat carrier into an upflow reactor, introducing the heavy hydrocarbon feedstock into the upflow reactor at a location above that of the particulate heat carrier so that a loading ratio of the particulate heat carrier to feedstock is from about 15:1 to about 200:1, allowing the heavy hydrocarbon feedstock to interact with the heat carrier with a residence time of less than about 1 second, to produce a product stream, separating the product stream from the particulate heat carrier, regenerating the particulate heat carrier, and collecting a gaseous and liquid product from the product stream. This invention also pertains to the products produced by the method.
US08062499B2
A method and apparatus are provided for energizing an electrolysis cell receiving a liquid to be electrochemically activated and contacting the liquid with an exposed, conductive tip of a voltage detector. The voltage detector generates a humanly-perceptible indicator as a function of charge movement sensed by the voltage detector through the liquid.
US08062497B2
One inventive aspect relates to a method for forming hermetically sealed cavities, e.g. semiconductor cavities comprising fragile devices, MEMS or NEMS devices. The method allows forming hermetically sealed cavities at a controlled atmosphere and pressure and at low temperatures, for example, at temperatures not exceeding about 200° C. The method further allows forming sealed cavities with short release times, for example, release times of about a few minutes to 30 minutes. The method may, for example, be used for zero level packaging of MEMS or NEMS devices.
US08062495B2
Durable seamless replication tools are disclosed for replication of seamless relief patterns in desired media, for example in optical recording or data storage media. Methods of making such durable replication tools are disclosed, including preparing a recording substrate on the inner surface of a support cylinder, recording and developing a relief pattern in the substrate, creating a durable negative relief replica of the pattern, extracting the resulting durable tool sleeve from a processing cell, and mounting the tool sleeve on a mounting fixture. Apparatus are disclosed for fabricating such seamless replication tools, including systems for recording a desired relief pattern on a photosensitive layer on an inner surface of a support cylinder. Also disclosed are electrode-position cells for forming a durable tool sleeve having a desired relief pattern. The replication tool relief features may have critical dimensions down to the micron and nanometer regime.
US08062494B2
There is a micro-machining apparatus for removing the micro-machining dust generated at the time of machining while a workpiece M is machined within a liquid W using a probe tip. The apparatus includes a stage on which the workpiece is to be placed; a probe having the probe tip, a machining device having a moving means that moves the stage and the probe relative to each other to machine the workpiece by the probe tip, and a micro-machining dust removing device having a first electrode and a second electrode that are arranged in the liquid so as to sandwich the probe tip therebetween, and a voltage application means that applies a voltage to between both the electrodes to move the micro-machining dust in the liquid.
US08062492B2
A method for analyzing proteins with the use of electrophoresis is provided, which makes it possible to rapidly and conveniently analyze a great variety of proteins with high sensitivity. The method for analyzing a protein in a sample comprises setting a sample in a carrier for electrophoresis, performing electrophoresis for the sample using a buffer for electrophoresis in which a labeling compound represented by formula I: wherein R1 is an aryl group or a heteroaryl group that may be substituted, R2 is a heterocyclic group that may be substituted, and n is an integer between 1 and 5, is dissolved, and then detecting a complex of the compound of formula I and the protein via spectrophotometrical measurement.
US08062491B1
A microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and integrated circuit (IC) based biosensor capable of sensing or detecting various ionic molecules and macromelecules (DNA, RNA or protein). The MEMS based biosensor utilizes a hybridization and enzyme amplification scheme and an electrochemical detection scheme for sensitivity improvement and system miniaturization. The biosensor or biosensors are incorporated on a single substrate. Preferably, the biosensor system includes at least two electrodes. The electrodes includes a working electrode, a reference electrode and a counter (auxiliary) electrode. The biosensor or biosensors also provide an apparatus and method for confinement of reagent and/or solution in the biosensor or biosensors using surface tension at small scale. The confinement system provides controlled contacts between the reagent(s) and/or solution(s) with the components (i.e., electrodes) of the biosensor or biosensors using controllable surface properties and surface tension forces. The confinement system allows for incorporation of the biosensor or biosensors into a portable or handheld device and is immune to shaking and/or flipping. The invention also provides for a biosensor and/or sensors that are integrated with integrated circuit (IC) technologies. Preferably, the entire sensor system or systems are fabricated on a single IC substrate or chip and no external component and/or instrument is required for a complete detection system or systems. Preferably, the sensor system or systems are fabricated using the IC process and on a silicon substrate.
US08062490B2
Biological reagent compositions with improved sensitivity to the concentration of blood glucose in patient samples for use in measuring systems and methods. The reagent compositions comprise a glucose oxidoreductase enzyme, a flavin nucleoside coenzyme and a mediator formulation. The mediator formulation comprises at least one electroactive organic molecule and at least one coordination complex.
US08062484B2
A method of performing physical vapor deposition of copper onto an integrated circuit in a vacuum chamber of a plasma reactor, includes providing a copper target near a ceiling of the chamber, placing an integrated circuit wafer on a wafer support pedestal facing the target, introducing a carrier gas into the vacuum chamber, and establishing a deposition rate on the wafer by applying D.C. power to the copper target while establishing a plasma ionization fraction by applying VHF power to the copper target. The method can further include promoting re-sputtering of copper on vertical surfaces on the wafer by coupling HF or LF power to the wafer. The method preferably includes maintaining a target magnetic field at the target and scanning the target magnetic field across the target.
US08062481B2
A support body for an apparatus having an extended nip formed between the support body and a counter-pressure member, having a working surface, being elastically deformable, and comprising a plurality of pressure chambers pressurized for controlled expanding in the direction of the working surface in order to load the nip. According to the invention the support body comprises a plurality of reinforcing profiles disposed in at least one chamber of the pressure chambers, the interiors of the profiles being in fluid communication with one another via holes, a wall of the profile facing said working surface including holes for communicating fluid between the interior of the profile and the chamber in which said profile is located, said profiles providing an inner support to walls defining said at least one chamber.
US08062480B2
The invention disclosed herein relates to the use of laser energy to weld or melt selected locations in papermachine clothing (“PMC”) and other industrial and engineered fabrics. The invention also relates to an improved seam for a papermaker or other industrial fabric that has properties such as strength, durability, openness, adequate number of support points, and fiber support index (FSI) essentially the same as the fabric body. The invention also relates to a fabric having a durable seam, wherein the seam width as measured in the MD is a fraction of the width of a normal seam or a seam that is formed using a conventional technique of equal strength.
US08062473B2
A plasma processing apparatus includes in a processing chamber, a sample stage, a bell jar, a coil antenna, a Faraday shield, and a gas ring member located below a skirt portion of the bell jar and above the sample stage. The gas ring member supplies a process gas to a plasma generating space inside the bell jar from a gas port disposed on an inner surface of the gas ring member. A ring shaped plate is disposed near a periphery of the Faraday shield and having an inner surface facing and covering along the inner surface of the gas ring member and being spaced from the inner surface of the gas ring member so as to delimit a gap therebetween.
US08062456B2
A method for producing a buffer pad is provided with the following steps: cutting a plate into a mesh and a plurality of blocks; the mesh has a plurality of mesh holes, and the blocks have a shape corresponding to the mesh holes and are engaged with the mesh holes respectively; releasably attaching the cut plate to a sticky surface of a substrate, thereby the first surface of the block are temporarily attached to the substrate; separating the mesh from the substrate, and the blocks disengaging from the mesh holes and being left on the substrate; coating the second surfaces of the blocks with adhesive; attaching a film to the second surfaces of the blocks; separating the blocks from the sticky surface of the substrate. Thereby, a buffer pad is produced.
US08062454B2
A continuous web as a component of a disposable wearing article is fed in a machine direction and first continuous elastic members are fed via guide elements adapted to oscillate the elastic members in a cross direction. Each of the guide elements has a first servomotor having a rotary shaft adapted to repeat reversal of its rotational direction, a first arm connected directly with the rotary shaft and extending in a direction crossing the rotary shaft so that the first arm swings around the rotary shaft as the rotary shaft rotates, and a first feed member adapted to direct the first continuous elastic members toward the guide element formed on the first arm.
US08062452B2
The invention relates to a method of making a casing-and-diverging-portion unit, the method comprising the following steps: forming fiber reinforcement from a first fiber preform made with a first type of fiber and a second fiber preform made with a second type of fiber different from the first type of fiber, said second preform being placed on the first preform; maintaining the fiber reinforcement in tooling so that it has a shape identical to the shape of the casing-and-diverging-portion unit that is to be made; and impregnating said fiber reinforcement with a thermosetting resin and impregnating the resin.
US08062449B2
A cladding layer 7 is formed on a base body made of a material for an optical waveguide, and a groove is formed in the base body and the cladding layer 7. The base body and the cladding layer are joined to a supporting substrate with the cladding layer 7 positioned on the side of the supporting substrate 1. The base body is machined and thinned to form a thin plate 30 so that the groove penetrates through the thin plate 30. An end face 14A on the groove 12 side of the optical waveguide 13A is contacted with a light absorbing material or light reflecting material 9 to form a reflecting mirror.
US08062447B2
A manufacturing method of a viscoelastic bandage, having a nonwoven fabric, an elastane yarn, base cloth, and natural latex or synthetic latex as main raw materials. A viscoelastic bandage suitable for such trades as medical bandaging, industrial operation protection, field operation and sports protection can be manufactured after going through the following steps, manufacturing of the elastic base cloth→surface treatment→anti-seizing treatment→adhesive coating process. Provides high production efficiency and low cost, suitable for an industrialized mass production, with outstanding comprehensive processing economy and very powerful market competitiveness. Besides, the product has the following properties and characteristics: (1) Breaking tenacity up to 180-220 KN/m; (2) tensile ratio up to 80-120%; (3) good air permeability; (4) perfect stripping uniformity; (5) stable product property and longer storage life; and (6) attractive appearance; there is no rough fiber on the exterior surface of the nonwoven fabric any more.
US08062436B2
The present disclosure relates to a near metallic glass based alloy wherein the alloy includes at least 40 atomic percent iron, greater than 10 atomic percent of at least one or more metalloids, and less than 50 atomic percent of at least two or more transition metals, wherein one of said transition metals is Mo said alloy exhibits a tensile strength of 2400 MPa or greater and an elongation of greater than 2%.
US08062434B2
A cleaning device to clean a plurality of nozzles of a surface-mount technology (SMT) includes a first cleaning container, a supporting board, a filtering member, a second cleaning container and a connection member. The first cleaning container defines a first opening in a bottom thereof. The supporting board to fix the plurality of nozzles is connected to the bottom of the first container. The filtering member is located at a bottom of the supporting board. The second cleaning container is connected to the filtering member, and operable to receive cleaning fluid. The connection member is connected the first cleaning container and the second cleaning container. Injection of air to the first cleaning container and the second cleaning container allows the cleaning fluid to circularly flow through the second cleaning container, the connection member, the first cleaning container, the supporting board, and the filtering member to clean the plurality of nozzles.
US08062424B2
A method for encapsulating a substrate includes placing a hardened encapsulant material in a container. The encapsulant material is then heated and stirred until it is in a liquid or gel state. The liquid encapsulant material is held in the container in a vacuum state and dispensed over semiconductor dies along a guide, which allows the liquid encapsulant material to cool slightly before it covers a die.
US08062421B2
Shaped nanocrystal particles and methods for making shaped nanocrystal particles are disclosed. One embodiment includes a method for forming a branched, nanocrystal particle. It includes (a) forming a core having a first crystal structure in a solution, (b) forming a first arm extending from the core having a second crystal structure in the solution, and (c) forming a second arm extending from the core having the second crystal structure in the solution.
US08062408B2
Methods and systems for separating a targeted gas from a gas stream emitted from a power plant. The gas stream is brought into contact with an absorption solution to preferentially absorb the targeted gas to be separated from the gas stream so that an absorbed gas is present within the absorption solution. This provides a gas-rich solution, which is introduced into a stripper. Low pressure exhaust steam from a low pressure steam turbine of the power plant is injected into the stripper with the gas-rich solution. The absorbed gas from the gas-rich solution is stripped in the stripper using the injected low pressure steam to provide a gas stream containing the targeted gas. The stripper is at or near vacuum. Water vapor in a gas stream from the stripper is condensed in a condenser operating at a pressure lower than the stripper to concentrate the targeted gas. Condensed water is separated from the concentrated targeted gas.
US08062401B2
A front access frame sealing mechanism for filter cassettes comprising at least one pair of posts extending inwardly from opposing sidewalls of a filter cassette housing wherein the posts have a head with a diameter exceeding that of the shaft of the post. At least one camming retainer is mounted adjacent each opposing sidewall about a post wherein each of camming retainer has a cam with a centrally oriented aperture with a diameter greater than the diameter of the post head for mounting about the posts. The cams have a flat portion and a extending handle portion, the flat portion becomes adjacent a sealing channel when in a sealing position. A sealing channel is adjacent each sidewall of the housing with a linear side adjacent front edges of at least one upstream filter cassette and having a channel holding each of the cams.
US08062399B2
An air filter arrangement, an air cleaner assembly including the air filter arrangement and methods of assembly and use are described. An air filter arrangement comprising a serviceable filter cartridge is described. The typical cartridge includes a recessed first flow face and an opposite outwardly projecting second flow face, with a central apex. Features of the cartridge, and an air cleaner for installation into the cartridge, are described.
US08062393B2
A process for providing fast pyrolysis or gasification of feed material, such as biomass, by mixing it with inert inorganic hot solids in a fluidized mixer/reactor and utilizing released gas from the resulting reaction to transport the mixture from the mixer/reactor.
US08062391B2
Provided is a method for purifying a biodiesel fuel while completely preventing or greatly reducing generation of waste water. The present invention relates to a method for purifying a biodiesel fuel characterized by applying an electric field to or heating a crude biodiesel fuel and a method for purifying a biodiesel fuel characterized by adding water (preferably containing a demulsifier such as an inorganic calcium salt or a magnesium salt) to a crude biodiesel fuel to form W/O emulsion, and breaking the emulsion by application of an electric field or heating, etc.
US08062382B2
The present invention provides a laundry treatment composition comprising a cationic azine dye.
US08062379B2
A device useful for treating an aneurysm having a neck comprises a first inflatable disc and a second inflatable disc, said second inflatable disc being adjacent to said first inflatable disc and in fluid communication therewith. The inflatable discs are sized and constructed such that when the inflatable discs are inflated, the aneurysm neck is engaged there between. The inflatable discs may include at least one wall that is substantially inelastic and may include an internal member limiting expansion of the inflatable disc in a direction parallel to the device axis. The inflatable discs may have an aspect ratio greater than 3.
US08062366B2
Expandable medical implants for supporting bone structures may include a first member and a second member. The second member may be configured to receive the first member and may be moveable along the longitudinal axis relative to the first member. One of the first and second members may include a plurality of teeth and the other of the first and second members may include at least one tooth. At least a portion of one of the first and second main bodies may be elastically deformable to selectively engage and disengage the at least one tooth and the plurality of teeth. At least one tooth and the plurality of teeth may be shaped to deform the elastically deformable portion when both increasing and when decreasing the overall implant height by moving the second member relative to the first member along the longitudinal axis.
US08062365B2
A device for supporting adjacent bony portions includes a body having a first end and an opposite second end. The body is positionable in a space between the adjacent bony portions with the first and second ends oriented toward respective ones of the adjacent bony portions. At least one of the first and second ends includes bone engaging surfaces. An end member substantially covers the bone engaging surfaces with a bio-absorbable material on at least one end of the body. The end member providing a smooth surface profile to facilitate insertion of the body in the space between the adjacent bony portions.
US08062361B2
An accommodating intraocular lens implantable in an eye. The lens comprises an anterior portion having an anterior biasing element and an anterior optic having refractive power. The lens further comprises a posterior portion having a posterior biasing element and a posterior optic having refractive power. The anterior optic and the posterior optic are relatively moveable in response to action of the ciliary muscle to change the separation between the optics and the refractive power of the lens. The lens has an aberration-inducing force characteristic of about 70 mg to about 115 mg to allow aberration-inducing relative movement of the optics when the lens is in the eye, thereby adding optical aberration to the lens which increases depth of focus of the lens. In one variation, the lens has an aberration-inducing force characteristic of 70 mg to 115 mg. Related methods are also disclosed.
US08062358B2
An anchor anchors a therapeutic device having an elongated body within a body lumen. The anchor includes a fixation member carried on the device which is adjustable from a first configuration that permits placement of the device in the body lumen to a second configuration that anchors the device within the body lumen. The anchor further includes a lock that locks the fixation member in the second configuration. The fixation member may be locked in any one of a plurality of intermediate points between the first configuration and a maximum second configuration.
US08062353B2
Implantable medical devices may include at least one structural element having an abluminal side, luminal side, and sidewalls between the abluminal and luminal sides. The coating may include at least two continuous coating layers. In some embodiments, the luminal side, and all or a majority of the sidewalls are free of at least two of the coating layers.
US08062348B2
A stenting system for insertion into the lumen of a body duct or vessel for delivering a therapeutic agent to a treatment site on the duct or vessel. The stenting system includes an a tubular stent member having a lumen there through to allow the passage of material, an outer membrane attached to the stent at least a portion of which is porous to the therapeutic agent to allow the agent to pass to the treatment site, an inner membrane attached to the stent which is nonporous to the therapeutic agent to prevent the agent from entering the lumen of the stent, and a chamber located between the inner and outer membranes for holding the therapeutic agent. The therapeutic agent in the chamber may diffuse through the porous portion of the membrane and be deposited directly on the body site.
US08062337B2
A surgical implantation procedure and a device for performing same according to which an expandable member is inserted between anatomical structures and expanded in one plane to cause relative movement between the structures. The expansion is terminated when the structures are in a predetermined spatial relationship.
US08062336B2
An apparatus is designed to attach an implant to bone in a manner that permits rotational adjustment of the implant about multiple axes prior to securement via the apparatus. The apparatus includes separate rotational and translational fasteners that can be individually locked to independently restrict rotation and translation of the implant relative to the bone. The rotational fastener includes an interpositional member, an expandable engagement member, and a rotational locking member that urges the expandable engagement member to advance along the interpositional member. The resulting expansion of the engagement member causes it to engage the implant. The rotational fastener is slidable along a fixation member implanted in the bone until the translational fastener is applied to restrict relative translation between the rotational fastener and the bone.
US08062330B2
Multilayer structures including a porous layer and a non-porous layer are useful as buttresses when associated with a surgical stapling apparatus.
US08062324B2
A device implantable into a blood vessel having a filter to prevent particles from passing into a blood vessel, and having bows extending from a horizontal plain of the device, such bows to hold such device in place in a blood vessel.
