US08817515B2
Each of m word lines is connected to n memory cells in a corresponding one of rows of m×n memory cells. Each of n bit lines is connected to m memory cells in a corresponding one of columns of m×n memory cells, and each of n source lines is connected to m memory cells in a corresponding one of columns of m×n memory cells. N first switching elements switch connection states between a reference node and the n bit lines, and n second switching elements switch connection states between the reference node and the n source lines. N third switching elements switch connection states between the write driver and the n bit lines, and n fourth switching elements switch connection states between the write driver and the n source lines.
US08817512B2
A semiconductor memory device comprises: a semiconductor substrate; a memory cell array provided above the semiconductor substrate and including a plurality of memory cells that are stacked; a plurality of bit lines connected electrically to the plurality of memory cells; and a plurality of sense amplifiers connected to the bit lines via bit line connection lines. The bit line connection lines have every adjacent N lines (where N is an integer of 2 or more) as one group. The sense amplifiers are arranged in a number smaller than N in a first direction that the bit line connection lines extend. An M number of the sense amplifiers are arranged in a width of a P number of groups in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The M number being larger than the P number.
US08817508B2
A bidirectional inverter is provided for a renewable energy storage system which may simplify the circuitry and lower manufacturing cost by reducing the numbers of switches and control signals. The bidirectional inverter includes a pulse-width-modulation (PWM) signal provider for providing a PWM signal, a push-pull inverter coupled to the PWM signal provider and a direct current (DC) link, and an offset voltage provider coupled to the push-pull inverter and the electric power system. Accordingly, the bidirectional inverter converts DC power from the DC link into AC power or AC power from the electric power system into DC power.
US08817495B2
An ultralow no-load conduction loss DC converter includes a DC power source, a transformer having a first winding, a first MOSET and a PWM controller at the primary side and a second winding, a third winding, a drive control unit, a rectifier unit and a second MOSFET at the secondary side. The second MOSFET, the drive control unit and the rectifier unit constitutes a combination circuit electrically coupled between one end of the second winding and one end of the third winding. The second MOSFET has set therein a body diode. The second winding and the second MOSFET forms a combination circuit electrically connected to a load. Thus, the decision to turn off the drive control unit is made at the secondary side so that non-load conduction loss can be minimized.
US08817494B2
A converter includes a rectifying circuit of an AC voltage of an AC power source into a rectified voltage, an input smoothing capacitor Ci, a first series circuit connected to the input smoothing capacitor and including a first and a second switching elements, a second series circuit connected to a connection point of the first and second switching elements and a first end of the input smoothing capacitor and including a primary winding of a transformer and a first capacitor Cri, a controller to alternately turn on/off the first and second switching elements, a rectifying-smoothing circuit (D1, Co) to rectify and smooth a high-frequency voltage of a secondary winding of the transformer into a DC output voltage, and a second capacitor connected between a connection point of the primary winding of the transformer and the first capacitor and a first end of the AC power source.
US08817486B2
A semiconductor device having a printed circuit board and a semiconductor chip. The printed circuit board includes a chip region, a plurality of first ball lands adjacent to the chip region, and at least one second ball land adjacent to the first ball lands. The semiconductor chip is mounted on the chip region. The first ball lands are arranged to have a first pitch. One of the first ball lands which is nearest to the second ball land, and the second ball land have a second pitch greater than the first pitch.
US08817482B2
An in-vehicle electronic device includes a circuit board in which a preamplifier circuit, and the like are provided, and a holding case, which stores the circuit board. The holding case is configured by combining a lower case which is fixed to a glass surface in which an antenna radiation conductor is arranged, and an upper case which is detachably mounted on the lower case so as to cover the lower case, so that a connection terminal held in the lower case is brought into press-contact with an electrode of the circuit board. When the upper case is removed from the lower case, an elastic piece is bent by pushing a tip of a protruded portion to a base end side, or a snap claw is separated from a locking hole by inserting a tool such as a driver, in between a tongue piece and the elastic piece.
US08817475B2
First and second electronic devices each include an insulating package embedding a chip of semiconductor material which integrates at least one electronic component. Each insulating package has a mounting surface for mounting the respective electronic device on a substrate and an opposite free surface. A heatsink is fixed to the free surfaces through respective first and second base portions. A connection element is configured to connect the first base portion to the second base portion. The heatsink also includes, for each electronic device, at least one stabilizing element extending from the respective base portion to make contact with a substrate to which the mounting surfaces of the first and second electronic devices are attached.
US08817467B2
A sliding protective device for an electronic product having a first portion and a second portion is disclosed. The protective device comprises a top cover, a bottom cover, a fixing element, and a sliding element, wherein the fixing element is provided at an inner surface of one of the aforementioned covers to be fixed to the first portion of the electronic product; the sliding element is provided at an inner surface of the other one of the aforementioned covers to be slidably engaged with two lateral sides of the second portion of the electronic product; whereby, when the electronic product is being opened, the second portion of the electronic product can slide along the sliding element, so that the protective device can be always smoothly attached to the outer surfaces of the electronic product, so that the protective device can be prevented from being bulged or wrinkled.
US08817464B2
A server system includes a rack, a power supply module, a switch, and a plurality of servers. The rack can be divided into a plurality of rack units. The rack units are parallel to each other and vertically arranged. The power supply module and the switch are disposed in close proximity to each other in at least one of the rack units. The power supply is adjacent to the rear side of the rack. The switch is adjacent to the front side of the rack. Each of the servers is disposed in one of the other rack units and electrically connected to the power supply module and the switch.
US08817458B2
An electrical interconnection system comprises a bifurcated, multilayer flex circuit having electrode pads on the inner surfaces of the bifurcation. Electronic components are mounted on one or both sides of the flex circuit by conventional means. When the bifurcation is spread apart, the electrode pads are alignable with respective contacts on a printed circuit board. After bonding the pads to the contacts by soldering, conductive adhesive, or other means, a secure electrical connection is maintained while still allowing the flex circuit to bend somewhat from side to side, creating additional design options not available with rigidly mounted components and modules.
US08817457B1
A reversible folio for a tablet computer has a tablet shell with a cavity removably receiving the tablet computer. A proximal edge of the tablet shell has a symmetrical profile different from a non-symmetrical profile of the table computer. A keyboard pivotally and removably coupled to the tablet shell. A channel is pivotally coupled to an edge of the keyboard. An interior of the channel removably receiving the proximal edge of the tablet shell, and has a symmetrical profile mating with the symmetrical profile of the tablet shell. The channel and proximal edge have first and second symmetrical magnet arrays, respectively. The proximal edge of the tablet shell physically mates with the channel of the keyboard, and the second magnet array of the tablet shell magnetically mates with the first magnet array of the channel, in both a first orientation and an opposite second orientation.
US08817456B2
A connection assembly comprises a bracket, a linkage element, a first elastic element, a trigger element, and a second elastic element. The first elastic element is connected with the bracket and the linkage element. One end of the trigger element is fixed on the bracket. The second elastic element is connected to the trigger element and the bracket. When the electronic apparatus is not connected to the dock, the linkage element is located at a first position of the trigger element, and the first elastic element stores a first elastic force. When the electronic apparatus is connected to the dock, the trigger element receives an external force so that the second elastic element stores a second elastic force, and the first elastic element releases the first elastic force to move the linkage element to a second position of the trigger element.
US08817454B2
A system and method are provided for coordinating the installation and removal a motor control center subunit with the power connection and interruption thereof. A system of interlocks and indicators causes an operator to install a motor control center subunit into a motor control center, and connect supply and control power thereto, in a particular order. Embodiments of the invention may prevent actuation of line contacts of the bucket, and shield the line contacts, until the bucket is fully installed in the motor control center. Other embodiments also prevent circuit breaker closure until the line contacts are engaged with a bus of the motor control center.
US08817450B2
A device is provided for energizing a power output stage, that has a transistor, a capacitor and a supply circuit. The transistor has a control input and is designed to supply a firing current as a function of a control voltage that is present at the control input. The capacitor, which is connected to the control input of the transistor, is designed to supply the control voltage to the control input. The supply circuit has a resistor that is connected between the capacitor and a supply voltage terminal, the supply circuit being designed to charge the capacitor via the resistor to the control voltage.
US08817444B2
A control arrangement for a circuit breaker station includes a central control system and, for each of the circuit breakers, a circuit breaker operating unit connected to the central control system to obtain switching instructions and to the respective circuit breaker to control the operation thereof. The central control system and the circuit breaker operating units each have a local clock that are synchronized with one another. The central control system is, during use, arranged to calculate a point of time for switching each of the circuit breakers based on measured voltages, currents, and circuit breaker positions, and to send the point of time in a switching instruction to the circuit breaker operating unit. Each of the circuit breaker operating units is arranged to switch the circuit breaker, to which it is connected, at the point of time which is received in the switching instruction from the central control system.
US08817437B2
A high voltage open-drain electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device is disclosed, which comprises a high-voltage n-channel metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (HV NMOSFET) coupled to a high-voltage pad and a low-voltage terminal and receiving a high voltage on the high-voltage pad to operate in normal operation. The high-voltage pad and the HV NMOSFET are further coupled to a high-voltage ESD unit blocking the high voltage, and receiving a positive ESD voltage on the high-voltage pad to bypass an ESD current when an ESD event is applied to the high-voltage pad. The high-voltage ESD unit and the low-voltage terminal are coupled to a power clamp unit, which receives the positive ESD voltage via the high-voltage ESD unit to bypass the ESD current.
US08817434B2
An exemplary ESD protection device is adapted for a high-voltage tolerant I/O circuit and includes a stacked transistor and a gate-grounded transistor e.g., a non-lightly doped drain type gate-grounded transistor. The stacked transistor and the gate-grounded transistor are electrically coupled in parallel between an I/O pad and a grounding voltage of the high-voltage tolerant I/O circuit.
US08817433B2
An electrostatic protection apparatus is disclosed that has a voltage level supply configured to supply a voltage level to an electrostatic discharge protection device and the electrostatic discharge protection device that protects a semiconductor electronic device from a rapidly increasing incoming current. The voltage level supply comprises: a voltage divider arranged between high and low voltage rails for supplying an intermediate voltage level to the electrostatic protection device such that a voltage drop across at least some devices within the electrostatic protection device is limited by the intermediate voltage level; a detection device for detecting a signal received from said electrostatic discharge protection device indicating the electrostatic discharge protection device has received the rapidly increasing incoming current; a switching device responsive to the signal to switch the voltage level supplied to the electrostatic discharge protection device from the intermediate voltage level to a voltage level of one of the voltage rails.
US08817432B2
A driver circuit has a pad that may be utilized for programming a core circuit or receiving a data signal. A trace high circuit receives a pad voltage signal from the pad, and outputs a trace high voltage approximating a higher voltage of the pad voltage signal and the power supply voltage. A level shifter and a first inverter output a pull high control signal generated by inverting and level shifting a programming control signal. An ESD blocking circuit selectively blocks the pad voltage signal from reaching the core circuit depending on the pad voltage signal and the level-shifted programming control signal. A pull high circuit receives the pull high control signal and the power supply voltage, and outputs the power supply voltage to the core circuit when the pull high control signal is lower than the power supply voltage.
US08817429B2
A power converter includes a voltage conversion unit that provides a first driving voltage at a first output electrode by converting a power supply voltage in response to a first control signal, the voltage conversion unit being configured to provide a second driving voltage at a second output electrode by converting the power supply voltage after a short detection period, the voltage conversion unit being configured to shut down in response to a third control signal, and a short detection unit that generates the third control signal by comparing a magnitude of a voltage of the second output electrode with a magnitude of a reference voltage during the short detection period.
US08817422B2
A magnetic storage medium is formed of magnetic nanoparticles that are encapsulated within nanotubes (e.g., carbon nanotubes).
US08817416B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes: magnetic heads; a magnetic disk in which servo patterns having different write frequencies from one another are divided and recorded into a plurality of zones; and a head controller configured such that, when performing seek control of the magnetic heads based on a model position and a model velocity obtained from a model which simulates the magnetic heads, the head controller corrects the model position and the model velocity, at the time of switching of the zones, so as to reflect variation of sampling time resulting from gaps between the zones.
US08817408B2
A method of and system for handling latency issues encountered in producing real-time entertainment such as games of skill synchronized with live or taped televised events is described herein. There are multiple situations that are dealt with regarding latencies in receiving a television signal with respect to real-time entertainment based on the unfolding games played along with the telecasts. Systemic delays, arbitrarily imposed delays of a broadcast signal and variances in the precise broadcast times of taped television programs have to be equalized so as to provide fair entertainment.
US08817404B1
The present inventions are related to systems and methods for data processing, and more particularly to systems and methods for improving performance and/or resource utilization based upon channel characteristics.
US08817400B1
A data storage device includes a storage medium on which data is stored in overlapping tracks, and a medium controller that directs storage of data on, and reading of data from, the storage medium, including encoding data being stored and decoding data being read. The decoding includes, when reading a first track, cancelling interference from a second track that overlaps the first track. The data storage device also includes a host controller in communication with the medium controller. The host controller includes memory that stores data decoded, and data to be written, by the medium controller. Communication between the medium controller and the host controller includes signals derived from data on said first and second tracks for facilitating the cancelling. A method of operating a data storage device includes, when reading a first track, facilitating the cancelling by communicating signals derived from the data on the first and second tracks.
US08817399B2
This lens barrel includes a lens-receiving surface that extends in an intersection direction intersecting the central axis; a side frame portion that is arranged further outward than the lens-receiving surface in the intersection direction and that protrudes in the direction of the central axis from the lens-receiving surface; and a plurality of caulking portions that are formed at a tip portion of the side frame portion in the protruding direction and are deformed by external pressure to caulk and fix a lens between the caulking portions and the lens-receiving surface. The lens-receiving surface is formed so as to be axisymmetrical to the central axis.
US08817398B2
Adjustable mount assembly having two mount parts which are adjustable relative to one another and which themselves form adjustable mounts respectively comprising an outer mount frame and an inner mount frame. The mount assembly permits a highly precise adjustment of two optical components relative to one another in a plane perpendicular to an axis and an adjustment of the two mutually adjusted optical components relative to a reference base.
US08817396B2
Disclosed is an imaging lens unit that prevents the detachment of a cover from a holder. The imaging lens unit (200) is provided with a combination lens (6) and an external covering that is formed from at least the holder (2) and the cover (4) and covers the combination lens (6) from the outside, wherein the holder (2) and the cover (4) are connected by means of fitting members (70) that are integrally formed from a resin material and have, on both ends, a first fitting (78) that fits with a section of the holder (2) and a second fitting (80) that fits with a section of the cover (4).
US08817392B2
A wide field optically athermalized orthoscopic lens system includes, in order from object to image, a first lens having a negative power, a second lens having a positive power, a third lens group having a positive power, a fourth lens having a positive power and a fifth lens having a negative power. The third lens group includes two lenses having, in order, a first lens with positive power and a second lens with negative power. The powers, shapes, Abbe dispersion values and temperature coefficients of refractive indices of the lenses are selected such that the lens system is athermalized, orthoscopic and achromatized over a wide (e.g. >140° C.) temperature range.
US08817390B2
An image pickup lens having a relatively wide angle of field with various aberrations preferably corrected and having a small F-value is achieved. The image pickup lens is composed of, in order from an object side, an aperture stop, a first lens of a biconvex shape having a refractive power, a second lens of a meniscus shape having a negative refractive power with a concave surface facing the object side near the optical axis, a third lens of a meniscus shape having a positive refractive power with a concave surface facing the object side near the optical axis, and a fourth lens of a biconcave shape having a negative refractive power near the optical axis, wherein the image pickup lens satisfies a following conditional expression (1): 0.6
US08817387B2
An imaging lens includes a first lens having negative refractive power; a second lens having positive refractive power; a third lens having positive refractive power; and a fourth lens having negative refractive power, arranged from an object side to an image plane side. In the first lens, a curvature radius of an image-side surface is positive. In the second lens, curvature radii of the object-side surface and the image-side surface are both negative. In the third lens, a curvature radius of the object-side surface is positive and a curvature radius of the image-side surface is negative. When a whole lens system has a focal length f and the first lens has a focal length f1, the imaging lens satisfies the following conditional expression: −3.0
US08817384B2
A zoom lens device includes a focusing lens group arranged on an object side, and a variator lens group next thereto, and a temperature sensor. The focusing lens group includes a focusing lens, and a temperature-based correction lens for correcting changes in focal point caused by temperature changes around the focusing lens group. The temperature-based correction lens is moved by a temperature-based correction lens driving mechanism along an optical axis to a position determined by a temperature detected by the temperature sensor, independently of the positions of the focusing lens or variator lens group. Thereby, the zoom lens device is capable of favorably correcting defocus of the lens group caused by an ambient temperature change with a simple correcting mechanism.
US08817382B2
A light modulation device side lens group has different powers in the longitudinal direction and the lateral direction of a liquid crystal panel. Therefore, as the entire system of the optical projection system, the light modulation device side lens group has different magnification in the longitudinal and lateral directions. Therefore, it is possible to make the aspect ratio of an image of the liquid crystal panel different from the aspect ratio of an image projected on a screen. That is, conversion can be performed on an aspect ratio. At this time, a distance p between each focus or a diaphragm and the screen SC side end surface of the light modulation device side lens group satisfies the conditional expressions, so it is possible to achieve a predetermined or higher telecentricity in both states, that is, a first operating state and a second operating state.
US08817376B2
This disclosure is directed to an improved process for making glass articles having optical coating and easy-to clean coating thereon, an apparatus for the process and a product made using the process. In particular, the disclosure is directed to a process in which the application of the optical coating and the easy-to-clean coating can be sequentially applied using a single apparatus. Using the combination of the coating apparatus and the substrate carrier described herein results in a glass article having both optical and easy-to-clean coating that have improved scratch resistance durability and optical performance, and in addition the resulting articles are “shadow free.”
US08817375B2
A voice coil motor for moving a correction lens including a magnet unit having a pair of yokes and at least one permanent magnet for defining a magnetic gap, and a coil disposed in the magnetic gap. The permanent magnet having different magnetic poles adjacent to each other along the movement direction on a surface opposing the magnetic gap; the width of the permanent magnet in the movement direction being two times the width Wm of the magnetic poles; the width Wa of the coil in the movement direction being smaller than the width 2Wm of the permanent magnet; and the effective conductor width Wb of the coil, the magnetic pole width Wm of the permanent magnet and the longest movement distance St of the correction lens meeting the conditions of Wm=(Wb+St)×K, wherein K is a constant meeting 1
US08817373B2
An end face of a polarization plate cut by laser becomes a substantially flat surface having only sloping micro waviness because of having been melted once to be solidified. Since the surface has few stress-concentrated parts that may cause microcracks, this prevents microcracks from easily being produced.
US08817371B1
A polarizing beam splitter has a pair of opposed transparent prism substrates with a refractive index n0, and providing at least one input port and at least one output port. The input port accepts light incident over a range of operational angles including a central operational angle. A multilayer thin film structure is sandwiched between the pair of opposed transparent substrates and consists essentially of a plurality of layers l1 . . . lm having respective refractive indices n1 . . . nm, wherein at least three of said refractive indices n1 . . . nm are different, and wherein the refractive index of the substrates n0 lies between the highest refractive index nH and lowest refractive index nL, and wherein nH, nL and n0 define a Brewster angle θ0B: θ 0 B = arcsin ( n L n H n 0 n L 2 + n H 2 ) , and a critical angle θc: θ C = arcsin ( n L n 0 ) . The refractive indices n0 and n1 . . . nm are selected such that the central operational angle for a beam incident on the multiple thin film structure lies above the Brewster angle θ0B and such that most or all the operational angles defined by said input port lie above the Brewster angle θ0B. For p-polarized light at least one optical admittance of the layers with refractive indices n1 . . . nm is lower or very close to that of the optical admittance of the substrate for the operational angles such that the thin film polarizing beam-splitter favors the transmittance for p-polarized light incident at that input port such that most of the p-polarized light is transmitted through the multiple thin film structure. For s-polarized light the polarizing beam-splitter acts as a high reflective coating to favor the reflectance for s-polarized light incident at the input port such that most of the s-polarized light is reflected from said multiple thin film structure. The polarizing beam splitter is compact and yet remains functional over a wide range of operational angles.
US08817368B2
A light source and/or a deflector and/or the emitting end of an illuminating optical fiber is arranged in the rear focal plane of a lens for total internal reflection microscopy.
US08817364B2
Provided is a device of generating various types of pulses by controlling a distance between saturable absorber connectors, and more particularly, a device of generating various types of pulses by controlling a distance between saturable absorber connectors, capable of actively controlling a distance between saturable absorbers to completely overcome a disadvantage that an opened space is present in a cavity or a disadvantage that a fiber component should be changed and implementing a simple design of the entire fiber laser cavity since only a saturable absorber part, which is a portion of a fiber laser cavity, should be designed, as a carbon nanotube saturable absorber part in a passively mode-locked fiber laser generating apparatus using the saturable absorber.
US08817362B2
A modular approach to a pattern illumination system for selective excitation of microparticles is used. A dual-channel pattern module having two single-channel pattern modules are oriented at a non-zero offset angle to each other. In this arrangement, a galvo-scanner based phase-shifting module is shared between the two channels. A set of tilt mirrors are used to direct the beams from the pattern modules onto the target plane. Additional layers of pattern modules can be added to accommodate any desirable number of additional channels. The additional layer(s) may be rotationally off-set from the other layer(s) by an angular amount to simplify the layout of optical components. A remote light source module may be connected to the pattern modules through optical fiber.
US08817361B2
An electrophoretic particle includes a core particle and a coating layer covering at least one portion of the core particle. The coating layer contains a polymer and a silane coupling agent containing a nonionic charged group attached to the surface of the core particle. The polymer contains a silane coupling agent containing a polymerizable group attached to the surface of the core particle and a polymerization site formed by polymerizing a monomer using the polymerizable group as a starting point.
US08817359B2
In a multiple-axis free-space-coupled single-mode fiber-optic transmission system, such as an optical cross-connect switch, a method and apparatus are provided for the closed loop attenuation of optical beam power signals employed to align and cause dithering via MEMS mirrors which are manipulated to impose on the optical beam frequency modulation and, in particular, a time-varying set of induced mirror angles that yield a desired time history of optical power level that is modulated according to a digital code in the frequency modulation pattern.
US08817348B2
A holographic film for recording multicolor volume holograms, especially full color volume reflection holograms, and/or manufacturing techniques for such film, and/or corresponding methods of recording multicolor and full-color volume, in particular volume reflection holograms. In one case, a holographic film for recording a multicolor volume hologram is set forth that includes: a carrier; a first photosensitive recording layer sensitive to one or both of red and green laser light; and a second photosensitive recording layer sensitive to blue laser light.
US08817345B2
Apparatus and methods for image processing using multiple imaging devices are provided. A first imaging device is configured to acquire a first image of a portion of a printed substrate and the second imaging device is configured to acquire a second image of a portion of the printed substrate. At least a portion of the first image and the second image are acquired from the same portion of the printed substrate at the same time. The first imaging device is configured to process color data from the first image using a first processing circuit of the first imaging device and the second imaging device is configured to process spatial information from the second image using a separate second processing circuit of the second imaging device.
US08817343B2
An image reading apparatus capable of reading documents includes a reading unit including a light emitting element, a mechanism configured to move the reading unit, and a control unit configured to control the reading unit and the mechanism both to carry out reading by turning on the light emitting element and moving the reading unit and to temporarily stop moving the reading unit upon occurrence of a predetermined factor. The control unit sets a first current value which is caused to flow through the light emitting element when reading is carried out and sets a second current value which is less than the first current value and which is caused to flow through the light emitting element when the reading unit is temporarily stopped.
US08817342B2
Provided is a light guide, in which: at least one of a reflecting part or a light exit part has a light condensing action in a direction intersecting a predetermined direction; the at least one of the reflecting part or the light exit part includes diffusing parts arranged in the predetermined direction; the diffusing parts include: a first curved surface having a first degree of diffusion in the predetermined direction for a sparse region of light sources; and a second curved surface having a second degree of diffusion, which is lower than the first degree of diffusion, in the predetermined direction for a dense region of the light sources; and each of the first curved surface and the second curved surface has a shape corresponding to a part of a cylinder extending in a direction orthogonal to the predetermined direction in which the light sources are arrayed.
US08817335B2
An image reading apparatus includes a main body, a rotation unit supported on the main body so as to be rotatable around a rotation axis, an imaging unit that is mounted on the rotation unit at an outward position in a radial direction of the rotation axis and images a medium to be read that is placed on a placement surface located under the rotation unit in the vertical direction, and a light source that irradiates the medium to be read with light. The light source and the imaging unit can be arranged with a relative positional relationship capable of suppressing specular reflected light of light that is emitted from the light source and reflected by the medium to be read from being incident on the imaging unit.
US08817332B2
Methods and techniques of using 3D printers to create physical models from image data are discussed. Geometric representations of different physical models are described and complex data conversion processes that convert input image data into geometric representations compatible with third party 3D printers are disclosed. Printing templates are used to encapsulate complex geometric representations and complicated data conversion processes from users for fast and simple 3D physical model printing applications.
US08817326B2
When a user inputs an image addition instruction from a UI input unit, a job registration unit registers a job corresponding to the instruction in a job list for each type of processing. When undo is input from the UI input unit, a current position pointer prepared for each type of processing returns to the immediately preceding job. When redo is input, the current position pointer moves to the immediately succeeding job. When a processing execution instruction is input, out of jobs registered in the job list, the job indicated by the current position pointer and preceding jobs are executed in a predetermined order.
US08817321B2
An image forming apparatus includes a controller that provides control in which, if image formation processing by a single unit is executed first since a density adjustment condition for adjusting a density of an image is satisfied, a density adjustment value is changed by a predetermined basic change amount, and a first image is formed in a corresponding image formed region with a density that is adjusted in accordance with the changed density adjustment value, and control in which, if a single image other than the first image is formed in the corresponding image formed region, the current density adjustment value is changed by a predetermined fine change amount that is smaller than the basic change amount, and the single image is formed in the corresponding image formed region with a density that is adjusted in accordance with the changed density adjustment value.
US08817310B2
Systems, devices, and methods for global enterprise workflow management are disclosed. The system may include a communications module, memory, and processor for executing a method of managing job information. The system receives job information and uses a model to identify a desirable resource to execute the job. Then the system sends the job information to the identified resource for execution. The resource may send back information associated with the running and/or completion of the job. Various models may be used in identifying a desirable approach, including a cost model, a staffing model, and other models.
US08817305B2
A communication apparatus that can leave a transmission history including transmission destination information as well as transmission destination dial information at the time of PC-FAX transmission. A facsimile apparatus, which is a communication apparatus having a PC-FAX transmission function, acquires transmission destination dial information from a facsimile transmission request received from a client terminal, searches an address book database registered in the facsimile apparatus to find an address book including transmission destination dial information coincident with the acquired dial information, and performs facsimile transmission based on the acquired transmission destination dial information. If an address book including transmission destination dial information coincident with the acquired dial information is found by the search, a transmission history is stored that includes dial information and transmission destination information that are registered in the address book found by the search.
US08817303B2
A control device includes a generating unit, a specifying unit, a calculating unit, a determining unit, and a controller. The generating unit generates, upon receiving a print instruction, which includes attribute information representing an attribute of a printed material to be created, processing information by using the attribute information and a preset rule. The specifying unit specifies activation periods of activation operations of activating the respective processing devices indicated by the processing information. The calculating unit calculates processing periods of processing operations executed to create the printed material by the respective processing devices indicated by the processing information. The determining unit determines starting times of the activation operations executed by the respective processing devices indicated by the processing information. The controller controls the respective processing devices indicated by the processing information so that the processing devices start the respective activation operations at the starting times determined by the determining unit.
US08817300B2
A print server apparatus includes a receiving unit, an extraction unit, an acquisition unit, and an instruction unit. The receiving unit receives a URL displayed on an edit screen of a document from a client device, wherein the edit screen is provided by a web application on a web application server and is displayed on a web browser to use the displayed edit screen, thereby executing edit processing of the document. The extraction unit extracts identification information used to identify document data corresponding to the document based on the received URL. The acquisition unit acquires the document data identified by the extracted identification information from the web application server that provides the edit screen. The instruction unit instructs a printing apparatus to print the acquired document data.
US08817290B2
An information processing apparatus for selecting the stored print job or the document data as a print target according to a user operation via an input device, performing setting of printing to the selected print target according to the user operation, and comparing the setting information included in the print job with the setting information indicating the contents of the performed setting when it is determined that the print job is selected, and when the comparison indicates that the setting information included in the print job and the setting information indicating the contents of the setting performed in the setting unit match, performing warning, and when the comparison indicates that the setting information included in the print job and the setting information indicating the contents of the setting performed in the setting unit do not match, instructing the image forming apparatus to perform printing.
US08817286B2
A communication system includes an apparatus transmitting management information about management of consumable supplies and a mobile communication device that receives the management information. The communication device includes a detection part configured to detect a position of the communication device; a memory part configured to store a supplier's name of the consumable supplies and a position of the supplier; a setting part configured to set an area specified by a circle with a radius of predetermined length, which is centered on the position of the supplier stored in the memory part, as a control area; a display part; and a display control part configured to allow the display part to display the management information, the name of the supplier, and/or the position of the supplier when the display control part receives the management information from the apparatus and the position detected by the detection part falls within the control area.
US08817283B2
A transmitting module and a multi-functional printer (MFP) using the same are provided. The transmitting module includes at least two shafts and a conveyer belt. Each shaft has a circumference surface and multiple first fixing structures, and the first fixing structures are arranged in a row encircling the circumference surface. The conveyer belt encircles the shafts, and the conveyer belt has a body and multiple second fixing structures, where the fixing structures are arranged in a row on a bottom of the body. When the conveyer belt rotates along with the shafts, the second fixing structures engage with the first fixing structures correspondingly.
US08817278B2
An information processing apparatus includes a storage device, a selection unit, a registration unit and a setting unit. The storage device is configured to store an execution condition that associates setting items which are set for execution of a process with setting values for the setting items. The selection unit selects, from among the setting items, a part of the setting items. The registration unit registers, in the storage device, the part of the setting items selected by the selection unit and setting values for the part of the setting item as an execution condition. When the execution condition stored in the storage device is selected in setting values for setting items to execute a process, the setting unit sets a setting value for a setting item corresponding to the selected execution condition to the setting value stored in the storage device.
US08817276B2
A data processing system includes a thin-client machine, a management server configured to manage the thin-client machine, an image processing apparatus configured to process job information, and a job management apparatus configured to manage a processing result of the job information. In the data processing system, when the job information is processed according to an instruction from the thin-client machine, the job management apparatus receives the processing result of the job information and information for identifying image data related to the job information from the management server and manages the received processing result and the information for identifying the image data related to the job information as a job log.
US08817262B2
A method is disclosed for determining the inactive doping concentration of a semiconductor region using a PMOR method. In one aspect, the method includes providing two semiconductor regions having substantially the same known as-implanted concentration but known varying junction depths. The method includes determining on one of these semiconductor regions the as-implanted concentration. The semiconductor regions are then partially activated. PMOR measures are then performed on the partially activated semiconductor regions to measure (a) the signed amplitude of the reflected probe signal as function of junction depth and (b) the DC probe reflectivity as function of junction depth. The method includes extracting from these measurements the active doping concentration and then calculating the inactive doping concentration using the determined total as-implanted concentration and active doping concentration. The method may also include extracting thermal diffusivity, refraction index, absorption coefficient, and/or SRHF lifetime from these measurements.
US08817260B2
A modulated reflectance measurement system includes lasers for generating an intensity modulated pump beam and a UV probe beam. The pump and probe beams are focused on a measurement site within a sample. The pump beam periodically excites the measurement site and the modulation is imparted to the probe beam. For one embodiment, the wavelength of the probe beam is selected to correspond to a local maxima of the temperature reflectance coefficient of the sample. For a second embodiment, the probe laser is tuned to either minimize the thermal wave contribution to the probe beam modulation or to equalize the thermal and plasma wave contributions to the probe beam modulation.
US08817259B2
Disposable, pre-sterilized, and pre-calibrated, pre-validated sensors are provided. The sensor comprises a disposable fluid conduit or reactor bag and a reusable sensor assembly. An optical bench or inset optical component is integrated within the disposable fluid conduit or bioreactor bag, which provides an optical light path through the conduit or bag. These sensors are designed to store sensor-specific information, such as calibration and production information, in a non-volatile memory chip on the disposable fluid conduit or bag and on the reusable sensor assembly. Methods for calibrating the sensor and for determining a target property of an unknown fluid are also disclosed. The devices, systems and methods relating to the sensor are suitable for and can be outfitted for turbidity sensing.
US08817251B2
A defect inspection method according to the present invention is a defect inspection method for inspecting a defect of a semiconductor wafer, including the steps of: (a) forming a mark on a semiconductor wafer that is an inspection object, the mark corresponding to the size of a device chip that will be obtained from the semiconductor wafer, the mark being formed with respect to a predetermined device chip on the semiconductor wafer; and (b) during a predetermined process included in a semiconductor wafer process or before the semiconductor wafer process, performing a defect inspection on the semiconductor wafer and recognizing defect information based on the mark as a reference.
US08817247B2
Precision approach path indicator (PAPI) measurement systems and methods are described herein. One system includes a number of light sensor modules, wherein each light sensor module is configured to determine an intensity of a beam of light from a PAPI unit, a memory, and a processor configured to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to determine a transition angle of the beam of light from the PAPI unit, an elevation angle of the beam of light with respect to horizontal, and a width of a transition region of the beam of light, based, at least in part, on the intensity of the beam of light determined by each light sensor module.
US08817244B2
Disclosed herein is a fluorescence measuring apparatus capable of more accurately measuring fluorescence emitted when an object to be measured is irradiated with laser light.The apparatus for measuring fluorescence emitted when an object to be measured is irradiated with laser light includes: a laser light source that irradiates the object to be measured with laser light; a first light-receiving unit that receives scattered light emitted when the object to be measured is irradiated with the laser light; a second light-receiving unit that receives fluorescence emitted when the object to be measured is irradiated with the laser light; and a signal processing unit that assigns a weight to a signal of the fluorescence received by the second light-receiving unit depending on an intensity of the scattered light received by the first light-receiving unit.
US08817240B2
An optical pen for use in a chromatic range sensor (CRS) may be used in a probe system for a coordinate measuring machine (CMM). The optical pen includes a confocal optical path, an interchangeable optics element, an optical pen base member, and a repeatable fast exchange mount. The confocal optical path includes a confocal aperture and a chromatically dispersive optics portion. The interchangeable optics element includes the chromatically dispersive optics portion. The optical pen base member includes an external mounting surface for mounting to an external reference frame. The repeatable fast exchange mount includes a first mating half located on the base member and a second mating half located on the interchangeable optics element. The repeatable fast exchange mount is configured to allow the base member to receive and hold the interchangeable optics element in a fixed relationship relative to the base member and the external reference frame.
US08817235B2
A lithographic apparatus is disclosed that includes an illumination system configured to condition a beam of radiation, the illumination system having a Pockels cell arranged to control the polarization of the radiation beam, and an array of individually controllable reflective elements arranged to control the pupil plane distribution of the radiation beam.
US08817234B2
An optical device for splitting a single beam to a plurality of beams and an exposure apparatus including the optical device are disclosed. The optical device includes a first DOE lens array including a plurality of first diffractive optical element (DOE) lenses that are two-dimensionally arranged on a first plane and a second lens array including a plurality of second DOE lenses arranged on a second plane parallel to the first plane so as to respectively correspond to the plurality of first DOE lenses. The first DOE lens array splits a first parallel beam into a plurality of second beams by condensing the first parallel beam and the second DOE lens array modifies the plurality of second beams into a plurality of third beams.
US08817232B2
An optical apparatus has a moveable reflective element and associated actuator. The actuator includes a first magnet which is connected to the moveable reflective element such that movement of the first magnet will cause the moveable reflective element to move, and a second magnet which is connected to a motor such that operation of the motor will cause the second magnet to move. The second magnet is positioned relative to the first magnet such that moving the second magnet will cause the first magnet to move.
US08817229B2
A method of thermally conditioning an optical element operating in a vacuum environment. The optical element includes a first body having at least one optical surface and at least one heat transfer surface. The first body is dynamically controlled in position and/or orientation. The method includes controlling a temperature of a second body to a desired temperature, the second body including a second heat transfer surface; positioning the second body adjacent the first body and dynamically controlling the second body in position and/or orientation so as to maintain the first and second heat transfer surfaces in a substantially constant arrangement without contact between the bodies; and delivering a gas as a heat transfer medium into a heat transfer space defined by the first and second heat transfer surfaces, while controlling the pressure of the gas in the heat transfer space to between about 30 Pa and about 300 Pa.
US08817223B2
Disclosed is a flexible display device capable of forming a display device on a glass substrate and simultaneously ensuring flexibility, and a fabrication method thereof, the method including preparing a glass substrate having a display region and a non-display region defined on a front surface thereof, forming a display device on the display region defined on the front surface of the glass substrate, preparing a metal foil substrate, bonding the metal foil substrate to the glass substrate such that a front surface of the metal foil substrate faces the front surface of the glass substrate so as to seal the display device, attaching a first passivation film on a region of a rear surface of the glass substrate, the region corresponding to a part or all of the non-display region defined on the front surface of the glass substrate, and attaching a second passivation film on an entire rear surface of the metal foil substrate, performing a first etching with respect to the display region of the rear surface of the glass substrate by using the first passivation film as a mask, removing the first passivation film, and performing a second etching with respect to the display region and the non-display region of the rear surface of the glass substrate, removing the second passivation film, and mounting a display device driving unit on the non-display region defined on the front surface of the glass substrate.
US08817213B2
A liquid crystal display includes a first insulating substrate. A pixel electrode is formed on a top surface of the first insulating substrate. The pixel electrode has a first opening pattern at each pixel area. The pixel electrode is substantially rectangular in shape with first and second long sides, and first and second short sides. The pixel electrode is divided into an upper region defined by the first and second long sides and first short side, and a lower region defined by the first and second long sides, and second short side. A common electrode is formed on a bottom surface of a second insulating substrate, and has a second opening pattern at each pixel area. The first and second opening patterns each have a plurality of openings, the openings of the first opening pattern and the second opening pattern being alternately arranged parallel to each other.
US08817210B2
There is provided a flat panel display (FPD). The FPD includes a display panel, a substrate on the display panel, and an anti-reflection polarizer. The anti-reflection polarizer is on the substrate to absorb light reflected from a surface of the substrate or a surface of the display panel. The anti-reflection polarizer includes a top polarizing film for linearly polarizing the light, a top phase difference film for circularly polarizing light that passes through the top polarizing film, a first supporting film between the top polarizing film and the phase difference film to support the top phase difference film, and a second supporting film that faces the first supporting film with the top phase difference film interposed therebetween to support the top phase difference film.
US08817207B2
A liquid crystal display including a first substrate; a light-blocking member disposed on the first substrate; an emission layer disposed on the first substrate; an ultraviolet-light blocking filter disposed on the emission layer; a lower polarizer disposed on the ultraviolet-light blocking filter; a gate line and a data line disposed on the lower polarizer and substantially perpendicular to each other; a thin film transistor electrically connected to the gate line and the data line; a pixel electrode electrically connected to the thin film transistor; a second substrate disposed facing the first substrate; a common electrode disposed on the second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate.
US08817193B2
A method and apparatus for hiding a caption when displaying a video image. Hiding area information is acquired. According to the hiding area information, a hiding area is acquired. Hiding time period information is acquired. A preconfigured image in the hiding area of a video image is displayed in the hiding time period when the video image is displayed. By applying the technical solution according various embodiments, an external caption and an embedded caption can be hid flexibly.
US08817190B2
A general moving image includes a plurality of objects in a frame image. At the time of playback, the temporal visual characteristic is taken into consideration uniformly in the overall frame image. It is therefore impossible to perform playback while particularly considering an object of interest. In this invention, when playing back a moving image including a plurality of time-divided frame images, the object adaptation time of each object image is acquired first in the frame image of interest of the plurality of frame images. An adaptation weight is calculated based on the acquired object adaptation time, and a low-pass image reflecting the adaptation weight is generated for each object image. Color adaptation conversion using the low-pass image makes it possible to perform, for the frame image of interest, color conversion based on the adaptation time of each object image and perform color conversion particularly considering an object of interest.
US08817188B2
Systems and methods for automatic adjustment of text in a video are described. At least one embodiment includes a system for automatic adjustment of text in a video on a display comprising a ratio detector configured to detect an original aspect ratio of the video, an edge locator configured to identify edges of the video based on the original aspect ratio detected, wherein regions between the edges of the video and edges of the display define unused regions, a size assessment module configured to determine size of the text, wherein the size assessment module determines the size of the text by examining at least one of light portions within the text and a bounding rectangle which surrounds the text. The system further comprises a text adjuster configured to move the text to the unused region above or below the video, wherein the text adjuster further aligns the text to at least one of the edges of the video and the edges of the display device.
US08817181B2
A digital cable broadcast receiver and a method for automatically processing caption data of various standards and types, is disclosed. The digital broadcast receiver includes: a demultiplexer for dividing a received broadcast stream into video data, audio data, supplementary information; a controller for determining whether caption data included in the video data is digital caption data or analog caption data on the basis of caption information included in the supplementary information, and outputting a control signal according to a result of the determining; a digital caption decoder for extracting and decoding digital caption data from the video data according to the control signal; and an analog caption decoder for extracting and decoding analog caption data from the video data according to the control signal.
US08817175B2
A dome camera (1A) includes a camera (2), a base (4A), and a dome cover (5). The base (4A) has a reference surface (P1) and a cover-support surface (P2) tilted relative to the reference surface (P1). A semispherical cover (9) having a semispherical shape and a partial spherical cover (10) having a partial spherical shape are joined together at a joint surface (P3). A cover-supported surface (P4) of the partial spherical cover (10) is supported on the cover-support surface (P2) of the base. The camera (2) is placed so that the optical axis (X1) thereof passes through the spherical center (C). The dome cover (5) is supported so as to be rotatable on the cover-support surface (P2) around a rotational axis (X2) passing through the spherical center (C). Thereby, the direction of the visual range of the camera can be adjusted.
US08817173B2
A photographing apparatus according to the present invention comprises: an accumulation control section controlling an accumulation operation in an imaging section; an accumulation start timing setting section setting a timing of accumulation start in the imaging section; and a flash light emission control section controlling the start and stop of light emission in the flash light emission section, wherein the accumulation control section instructs the flash light emission control section to start the flash light emission and causes the imaging section to start the accumulation based on an output of the accumulation start timing setting section, and the flash light emission control section causes the flash light emission to be started in response to the flash light emission start instruction of the accumulation control section and causes the flash light emission section to stop the light emission based on an appropriate light emission amount output by an exposure calculation section.
US08817171B2
In an imaging apparatus having LED 1j for emitting light toward an object, an imaging unit 1 having CCD 1d generates a first object image with LED 1j emitting light and a second object image with LED 1j emitting no light. Average brightness of the first object image and average brightness of the second object image are calculated. Brightness difference between the average brightness of the first object image and the average brightness of the second object image is calculated. Brightness difference of the object is obtained using the calculated brightness difference between the first and second object images, and under control of CPU 9, a process is executed for adjusting exposure conditions based on the brightness difference of the object.
US08817169B2
The optical apparatus including a motor to move an optical element, a position detector configured to detect a position of the optical element, a controller configured to control drive of the motor by using a position detection signal from the position detector, and a memory configured to store a reference movement amount of the optical element corresponding to a moving speed and a moving time period of the optical element moved by the motor. The controller is configured to acquire a correction value for reducing a difference between (a) an actual movement amount of the optical element obtained by using the position detection signal when the optical element is moved by the motor and (b) the reference movement amount, and then to control the drive of the motor by using the correction value.
US08817167B2
An imaging device includes an image sensor that includes a first group of pixels and a second group of pixels disposed on a semiconductor die. The first group of pixels are arranged to capture a first image and the second group of pixels are arranged to capture a second image. The imaging device also includes a first lens configured to focus image light from a first focus distance onto the first group of pixels. The imaging device further includes a second lens configured to focus the image light from a second focus distance onto the second group of pixels and not the first group of pixels. The first lens is positioned to focus the image light from the first focus distance onto the first group of pixels and not the second group of pixels. The first focus distance is different than the second focus distance.
US08817162B2
Provided is a solid-state imaging device which can carry out ranging with high precision even when the pixel size is small. The solid-state imaging device including a pixel includes: a photoelectric conversion unit for converting light into an electrical signal; an optical waveguide provided on an light incident side of the photoelectric conversion unit, the optical waveguide being configured so that light entering from a first direction is converted into a first waveguide mode and is guided and light entering from a second direction, which is different from the first direction, is converted into a second waveguide mode and is guided; and a light blocking member provided in the optical waveguide, for reducing more light in the second waveguide mode which is guided to the photoelectric conversion unit than light in the first waveguide mode which is guided to the photoelectric conversion unit.
US08817155B2
A driving circuit includes first through N-th selective operation driving portions selectively producing first through N-th selective operation driving signals, a selection circuit selectively driving the first through the N-th selective operation driving portions in response to an input signal and a control signal, and a supplying arrangement combining the first through the N-th selective operation driving signals to supply a combined driving signal to a solid-stage image pickup device. An n-th selective operation driving portion includes (M×2(n-1)) P-channel FETs connected in parallel with each other and (M×2(n-1)) N-channel FETs connected in parallel with each other. The (M×2(n-1)) P-channel FETs have drains connected to drains of the (M×2(n-1)) N-channel FETs.
US08817147B2
A photoelectric conversion device includes: a photoelectric conversion layer which includes a thioindigo derivative.
US08817122B2
An image pickup apparatus includes a face area selecting unit configured to select at least a face area situated at a first object distance and a face area situated at a second object distance, and to select a face area occupying the smallest area in a picked-up image among two or more face areas in a case where the two or more face areas are situated at the first object distance or at the second object distance.
US08817119B2
There is provided a camera device includes a first information acquisition portion that acquires first information used to control a first area that is specified within a whole image captured by a camera portion, a second information acquisition portion that acquires second information used to control a second area that is specified within the whole image, a control portion that controls mechanical movement of the camera portion based on the first information, and an image processing portion that acquires an image of the first area from the whole image captured by the camera portion, and that extracts an image of the second area from within the first area based on the second information.
US08817112B2
An electronic apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium shorten the response time of an electronic apparatus such as an electronic camera capable of communicating with an information processing apparatus such as a computer, and improve the usability of the information processing apparatus when the information processing apparatus requests data stored in the storage medium of the electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus, which has a main storage device and an auxiliary storage device, is connected to an external apparatus, and can transmit/receive data to/from the external apparatus. Data to be requested by the external apparatus is loaded in advance from the auxiliary storage device to the main storage device before the external apparatus requests the data after connection to the external apparatus is established.
US08817107B2
An imaging device that includes a control unit is provided. The control unit switches between a day mode and a night mode. In the day mode, image capture is performed while an infrared cut filter is placed on an optical path, and in the night mode, image capture is performed while the infrared cut filter is removed from the optical path. Immediately after shifting from the day mode to the night mode, in the night mode, as the amount of incident light decreases, the control unit increases an irradiation intensity of an infrared irradiation portion from zero while a gain is maintained at a first gain value. When the amount of the incident light further decreases after the irradiation intensity reaches a maximum, the control portion increases the gain from the first gain value.
US08817104B2
In the present invention, there is provided a data processing device, including: a first memory configured to store identification information for identification of video data in association with a feature included in the video data; a second memory configured to store the feature included in the video data in association with the identification information for identification of the video data; a first reader configured to read out the identification information stored in the first memory based on a feature included in input video data; a second reader configured to read out the feature stored in the second memory based on the identification information read out by the first reader; and a checker configured to compare the feature included in the input video data with the feature read out by the second reader to determine whether or not the input video data matches video data whose feature is stored in the second memory.
US08817095B2
In an embodiment, a third party video content database is coupled to an IPTV network. The IPTV network includes a plurality of set top boxes (STBs). The third party video content database is mapped to the IPTV network via an IP address of the third party content database, and it is associated with an assigned channel on the IPTV network. One or more STBs of the IPTV network have access to the assigned channel.
US08817086B2
A coupling assembly for a scope and an image sensor housing is disclosed generally comprising an image orientation unit having first and second coupling sections for coupling the unit to a scope and an image sensor housing, such as a camera head, an optical assembly with a rotatable optical element for rotating the images, a rotation sensor for monitoring rotation of the optical element, an accelerometer for monitoring rotation of the unit, and a processor for receiving signals from the rotation sensor and the accelerometer and calculating the orientation of the images relative to the direction of gravity. In certain embodiments, the processor causes an actuator to rotate the optical element to level the images. In some embodiments, the processor activates a visual indicator, such as a diode, to indicate the direction of vertical.
US08817067B1
Embodiments relate to selecting textures for a panoramic photographic image in image-based three-dimensional modeling. In a first embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes a method for inputting a panoramic photographic image that uses a photogrammetry algorithm to adjust a plurality of camera parameters for the panoramic photographic image. In the method, a street-level panoramic photographic image is selected by a user from a street-level panoramic image display site. An area of the street-level panoramic image is also identified by the user. A photographic image at the area of the street-level panoramic image is captured. Camera parameters representing a camera that took the photographic image is determined. A position on the photographic image is mapped to a position on a three-dimensional model. The camera parameters are adjusted so that the three-dimensional model is rendered onto the photographic image from a perspective specified by the adjusted camera parameters.
US08817066B2
A mirror assembly adapted for use in a panoramic imaging system for capturing a panoramic image includes a mirror for optically coupling to a fisheye lens having a first field of view, the mirror configured for reflecting an image of a second field of view through the fisheye lens. A housing has a first end and a second end, the mirror being secured proximate to the first end, and the second end having an engagement portion for securing the mirror assembly to the panoramic imaging system. When the mirror assembly is secured to the panoramic imaging system, the mirror is optically coupled to the fisheye lens and a detector for capturing a first portion of the panoramic image and a second portion of the panoramic image, the first portion of the panoramic image having a portion overlapping the second portion of the panoramic image.
US08817065B1
In some implementations, a method includes receiving a selection of one or more users of a social networking service, the selection received via a social networking interface. A live visual data feed derived from a camera is received, where the received live visual data feed has a multiple frames and has a time interval between successive frames of the live visual data feed. A modified live visual data feed is sent over a network to be distributed using the social networking service to the selected users of the social networking service. The modified live feed includes frames derived from the frames of the received live visual data feed, and the modified feed provides a different time interval between its successive frames than the time interval between the frames of the received live feed.
US08817064B2
A television and camcorder combination include an acoustic echo canceller and a videoconference protocol stack in order to provide videoconferencing capabilities using only a television in combination with an attached camcorder. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
US08817060B2
An optical device includes: a light source including a plurality of light emitting spots that output laser beams, respectively; a separating unit that separates each of the laser beams output from the plurality of light emitting spots into a monitor beam and a scanning beam; a light-quantity measuring unit that measures a light quantity of the monitor beam; a storage unit in which respective drive currents with which the plurality of light emitting spots of the light source output a prescribed light quantity of laser beams are stored in advance; a light-source control unit that drives the light source with the drive currents stored in the storage unit and causes the plurality of light emitting spots to output the laser beams; and a determining unit that determines whether the light source operates properly on the basis of the light quantity measured by the light-quantity measuring unit.
US08817049B2
Amalgamated maps, comprising interior maps overlaid on venues indicated in general maps can be automatically generated. Initially, interior maps can be obtained through targeted network searches, whose search results can be filtered to retain those that are most likely useable interior maps. A bounding polygon is generated for both interior map and venue exterior from general map. Subsequently, directional histograms representing orientations of lines in bounding polygons are generated and compared to automatically identify a rotation to align the interior map with the venue exterior from the general map. Anchor points are identified to locally deform the interior map, preserving internal structures, to better align with the venue exterior. Once aligned, the interior map can be combined with the general map, forming an amalgamated map. Updated geocoding can be performed based on locations of establishments in the venue as indicated by the interior map.
US08817048B2
This is directed to rotating an entire user interface of a portable electronic device. In particular, this is directed to defining a UI orientation mode in which a user can direct the device to rotate a UI. When the UI orientation mode is enabled, the electronic device can detect particular inputs, for example based on the outputs of motion sensing components such as an accelerometer and a magnetometer, to determine how to rotate the UI. Once the UI has been rotated to a desired orientation, a user can lock the UI orientation and exit the UI orientation mode.
US08817041B2
Various technologies described herein pertain to filling a fill area of a canvas with a source visual object and/or a supplemental visual object to emulate a result of clamping the source visual object onto the fill area of the canvas. A source sub-region of a canvas is filled with the source visual object. Moreover, an extension sub-region of the canvas, which includes at least a part of the fill area outside the source sub-region, is formed based on the source sub-region of the canvas. Further, a supplemental visual object is generated by using a tiling clip on the source visual object and repeated within the extension sub-region of the canvas. The tiling clip specifies a size of the portion of the source visual object used as the supplemental visual object.
US08817040B2
A magnified image is improved by integrating the wavelength specific component into that image. A magnified images obtained, and at least one wavelength specific component images also obtained. The different images are converted in color space, and different channels, indicative of the different parts of the image shows, are also obtained. For example, the image may be converted to an L*a*b* color space, and the luminance channel of the wavelength specific component may be used to enhance or replace the luminance channel of the magnified image.
US08817039B2
Provided is an image processing device which enables image display that takes full advantage of a color reproduction performance of a panel without providing a viewer with a feeling of strangeness. An image processing device includes: a color gamut conversion processor configured to convert inputted data into RGB data according to a liquid crystal panel; a weighting factor calculator configured to calculate a weighting factor; a first post-color-gamut-conversion data weighting processor configured to perform weighting processing to the RGB data; an inputted data weighting processor configured to perform weighting processing to the inputted data; and an output adder configured to add data after the weighting processing to generate RGB data to be supplied to the liquid crystal panel. The weighting factor calculator obtains the weighting factor based on a positional relation among a chromaticity coordinate on an xy chromaticity diagram, a color reproduction range for the inputted data, and a boundary line defined so as to include memory colors.
US08817038B2
A display apparatus, which adjusts a luminance value of an image, and a method for driving the same are disclosed. The display apparatus includes a first image conversion unit that converts first image data into a plurality of second image data each including a luminance value, a luminance analysis unit that determines quantities of luminance values of the second image data, and determines a distribution of the luminance values, and a luminance adjustment unit that adjusts the respective luminance values of the second image data based on the quantities.
US08817037B2
Techniques for generating three dimensional image data with brushstroke effects from a two dimensional image is disclosed. One or more three dimensional brushstroke patterns from at least one brushstroke are generated. A two dimensional image is partitioned into one or more color regions. For each color region, each three dimensional brushstroke pattern is transformed to obtain a brushstroke effect. Each transformed three dimensional brushstroke pattern is then applied to each color region to generate a three dimensional image data having the brushstroke effect.
US08817032B2
Methods for managing a framebuffer in a single memory pool comprising frame buffer memory and display list memory on printing devices are presented. In some embodiments, a method for managing at least one pixmap corresponding to an image using equal sized blocks allocated to the pixmap from a memory pool comprises: receiving a request for at least one scanline in the image; securing a pointer to at least one block from the memory pool in response to the request for the at least one scanline, if memory blocks are available in the memory pool; and applying at least one of a plurality of memory freeing strategies, if there are no memory blocks available in the memory pool.
US08817023B2
A method, medium, and system rendering 3-dimensional (3D) graphic objects. According to the 3D rendering method, medium, and system, a minimum number of objects for expressing a current state of a user interface are extracted, and the extracted objects are rendered, thereby enabling the rendering performance of a user interface engine to be improved. Here, according to a method, medium, and system minimizing the number of rendering objects, a minimum number of objects for expressing each state of a user interface are culled, and a list of the culled objects is generated, thereby enabling the minimum number of objects for expressing a current state of a user interface to be extracted using the list of the culled objects.
US08817020B2
An image processing apparatus and a method of processing an image are provided. The image processing apparatus includes a depth estimation unit for estimating a depth of an input three-dimensional (3D) image; a text area detection unit for detecting a text area included in the 3D image; a mask generation unit for generating a text mask for the text area; and a depth correction unit for correcting a depth of the text area based on the estimated depth of the input 3D image and the text mask.
US08817016B2
There is provided a method for generating a 3D representation of an object, comprising: acquiring 3D topographic data representative of at least one portion of the object having a macroscopic form and microscopic features; separating the 3D topographic data into microscopic data representative of the microscopic features and macroscopic data representative of the macroscopic form; independently scaling one of the microscopic data and the macroscopic data in order to enhance the microscopic features with respect to the macroscopic form, thereby obtaining scaled topographic data; and generating a 3D image using the scaled topographic data, thereby obtaining a modified representation having enhanced microscopic features for the at least one portion of the object.
US08817015B2
Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable storage media for rendering focused plenoptic camera data. A depth-based rendering technique is described that estimates depth at each microimage and then applies that depth to determine a position in the input flat from which to read a value to be assigned to a given point in the output image. The techniques may be implemented according to parallel processing technology that renders multiple points of the output image in parallel. In at least some embodiments, the parallel processing technology is graphical processing unit (GPU) technology.
US08817004B2
In a display apparatus having a display zone and a light-shielding zone, the light-shielding zone includes an electrically controlled material having a controllable light shielding rate and being controlled to change its light shielding rate in accordance with a control signal.
US08817003B2
A power supply unit adapted to prevent or reduce damage to devices when the devices receive power with an abnormal voltage, and an organic light emitting display device using the same. An embodiment of the present invention provides a power supply unit, including: a power block including an input terminal for receiving an input power, an output terminal for outputting an output power, and an enable terminal for receiving an enable signal for controlling a driving of the power block; an input power unit configured to concurrently transfer the input power to the input terminal and the enable terminal; and a controller configured to control a voltage of the input power transferred to the enable terminal to determine the driving time point of the power block, and an organic light emitting display device using the same.
US08817000B1
A method for displaying power sustainability data for a battery includes providing a processor and a memory device coupled to the processor and receiving power sustainability data at a plurality of times. The power sustainability data includes a remaining battery capacity and a light exposure level. The method also includes storing the plurality of times and data values associated with the power sustainability data in the memory device. Additionally, the method includes obtaining most recently received data values for remaining battery capacity and light exposure level and displaying the most recently received data values for remaining battery capacity and light exposure levels.
US08816998B2
An organic light emitting display is disclosed. In one embodiment, the display includes pixels formed in every horizontal line, scan lines coupled to the pixels positioned in two horizontal lines, i data lines coupled to pixels positioned in odd horizontal lines, (i+1) data lines coupled to pixels positioned in even horizontal lines, and first and second emission control lines coupled to the pixels positioned in the two horizontal lines to supply first and second emission control signals, respectively. Each of the pixels includes a pixel circuit coupled to one of the data lines and one of the scan lines, a first organic light emitting diode (OLED) and a second OLED coupled to the pixel circuit to emit light to correspond to current supplied from the pixel circuit, and a selection unit for supplying current from the pixel circuit to the first or second OLED.
US08816994B2
An electronic device includes a display for displaying data stored on said electronic device; input means; sensing means for sensing the three-dimensional position of the input means relative to said device; and control means for controlling the data displayed on said display in dependence on the three-dimensional position of the input means relative to said device. The input means includes a source of electromagnetic radiation for directing an infrared conical beam onto the display. The sensing means can sense the elliptical eccentricity of the electromagnetic radiation incident on the display to determine the angle at which it strikes the display, and can sense the area of the electromagnetic radiation incident on the display to determine the distance of the input means from the display.
US08816992B2
A display device having at least a display circuit for displaying an image, and a light receiving sensor for detecting a light disposed is provided. When a light receiving circuit region including the light receiving sensor is made a dark portion, and a region other than the light receiving circuit region is made a light portion, the display circuit and the light receiving sensor are disposed so that a spatial frequency of a repetitive pattern of the light portions and the dark portions becomes equal to or higher than 10 cpd.
US08816991B2
A touch-based input system includes a screen and multiple projectors that project graphics onto the screen. A processor processes user interactions with the screen and generates touch data based upon the interactions.
US08816980B2
A system and method for operating a portable electronic device are disclosed. A detected object is detected when the object is in contact with the device to provide detection results. Whether the device is performing a predetermined function to provide a first determination result and whether the object is in contact with the device based on the detection results to provide a second determination result are then determined. One of a first function and a second function comprising the first function based on the first determination result and the second determination result is then selected. The first function is selected if it is determined that the device is performing the predetermined function and that the object is in contact with mobile terminal. The second function is selected if it is determined that the device is performing the predetermined function and that the object is not in contact with the device.
US08816977B2
Electronic devices may be provided that contain flexible displays and internal components. An internal component may be positioned under the flexible display. The internal component may be an output device such as a speaker that transmits sound through the flexible display or an actuator that deforms the display in a way that is sensed by a user. The internal component may also be a microphone or pressure sensor that receives sound or pressure information through the flexible display. Structural components may be used to permanently or temporarily deform the flexible display to provide tactile feedback to a user of the device.
US08816968B2
Reducing energy usage by a monitor includes a map manager between a monitor interface and a processor that divides a display area of a monitor into areas and stores display information in a staging area. The map manager distinguishes an active window selected by a user from the remainder inactive, unselected areas of a display, and further determines a used subset of areas within the active window distinguished from the remainder unused areas as a function of a user preference. Accordingly, the map manager drives the monitor at each of the used area active window areas with the processor display information stored in the staging area at a normal luminance specified by the processor display information, and at each of the remainder unused, inactive and unselected areas of the total display area at a reduced luminance lower than the specified normal luminance.
US08816963B2
An optical navigation module includes a light source, a light transmission window having a navigation surface, a first light shield configured for blocking the ambient light and absorbing the scattered light, a sensor configured for detecting light from the light transmission window and a second light shield located between the light source and the sensor and configured for blocking the direct light from the light source to the sensor. The light transmission window includes at least one refraction surface. The refraction surface is in the light path from the light source to the sensor.
US08816962B2
The inventive technology, in its various embodiments, relates to improved multi-axis input devices such as joysticks, and associated multi-axis optical displacement measurement means. Certain embodiments of the input devices may comprise elements movable with respect to each other in at least, e.g., three degrees of freedom and comprise ionically conductive elements that are utilized to generate a position signal in, e.g., at least three, or at least six degrees of freedom. Various ergonomic configurations of six axis joystick embodiments which may be facilitated by the compact design of the transducer means are disclosed. Certain embodiments of the input device technology may provide feedback (e.g., relative to force applied to an item whose position is controlled by an operator) to the operator. Means for dynamically adjusting coordinate transformations for construction machinery control are also disclosed.
US08816957B2
An electronic device including a display unit and a photoelectric conversion board is provided. The display unit includes a display surface and a back surface which are opposite to each other, and an edge of the photoelectric conversion board is rotatably connected to the back surface of the display unit. The photoelectric conversion board includes a substrate, a first photoelectric conversion unit, and a second photoelectric conversion unit. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface which are opposite to each other, the first photoelectric conversion unit is disposed on the first surface, the second photoelectric conversion unit is disposed on the second surface, and an absorption band of the first photoelectric conversion unit is different from an absorption band of the second photoelectric conversion unit.
US08816955B2
A display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel; a light guide plate disposed at a rear side of the liquid crystal panel; at least one LED module disposed in at least one side of the light guide plate and including a plurality of LEDs; a driver which drives the plurality of LEDs; an image analyzer which analyzes an input image; and a switch unit which turns off at least one LED among the plurality of LEDs while a remainder of the plurality of LEDs are being driven by the driver, according to a result of the analyzing the input image, wherein the at least one LED is disposed closer to a corner of the liquid crystal panel than the remainder of the plurality of LEDs.
US08816949B2
In a shift register circuit, a defective operation while an output signal is not outputted and a drive capability lowering while the output signal is outputted are prevented. A unit shift register comprises a first transistor for supplying a clock signal inputted to a first clock terminal to an output terminal, and the first transistor is driven by a drive circuit. A second transistor is connected between the gate of the first transistor and the output terminal and has a gate connected to the first clock terminal. The second transistor connects the gate of the first transistor to the output terminal based on the clock signal when the gate of the first transistor is at L (Low) level.
US08816944B2
A display device, which includes a plurality of pixels; a data driver for outputting data signals to the pixels; a bias current outputting unit for outputting a bias current having a predetermined magnitude; a plurality of driving current outputting units for outputting driving currents to the pixels; and a first switch connected between the bias current outputting unit and the driving current outputting units for selecting one of the driving current outputting units to connect to the bias current outputting unit, wherein the magnitudes of the driving currents are substantially the same as a magnitude of the bias current.
US08816941B2
A display device includes a scan driver transmitting a plurality of scan signals to a plurality of scan lines, a data driver transmitting a plurality of data signals to a plurality of data lines, a display unit including a plurality of pixels connected to corresponding scan lines and corresponding data lines, and respectively receiving the corresponding data signal when the plurality of pixels are selected with the corresponding scan signal, and a timing controller controlling the scan driver and the data driver, dividing one frame period into a first viewpoint image display period, a second viewpoint image display period, and a black image display period, and generating image data signals corresponding to the first viewpoint image display period, the second viewpoint image display period, and the black image display period, and supplying the respective image data signals to the data driver, wherein the black image display period is shorter than the first viewpoint image display period and the second viewpoint image display period, and the image data signal corresponding to the black image display period is a black image data signal controlling the plurality of pixels not to emit light.
US08816940B2
An embodiment is a display unit. The display unit includes a substrate layer, a layer of colored fluid on the substrate layer, and a transparent actuator element on the layer of the colored fluid. The layer of colored fluid has a thickness and a color. The transparent actuator element modulates the thickness of the colored fluid upon activated by a force such that the colored fluid is changed from a first state to a second state or vice versa. The modulated thickness provides a variable optical density of the colored fluid.
US08816930B2
A waveguide orthomode transducer, comprises: a junction having a main waveguide and four auxiliary waveguides lying along the two orthogonal main axis of the junction and defining four quadrants; a combination network comprising: two magic tees, each having an E-port, two opposed common-ports, and a H-port; an H-plane tee junction having a Σ-port and two opposed common-ports; and an E-plane tee junction having a Δ-port and two opposed common-ports. Two auxiliary waveguides define a first quadrant are respectively connected to the common-ports of one of the magic tees and the two other secondary waveguides defining a second quadrant opposite to the first quadrant are connected to the common-ports of the other magic tee. The tee junctions are used to connect similar magic tee ports so that the transducer separates towards two different outputs two orthogonally polarized signals entering at the main waveguide. Reciprocally, two signals entering respectively in the Σ-port and the Δ-port of the tees junctions are combined with orthogonal polarizations in the main waveguide.
US08816929B2
Array packages and methods for forming large-scale antenna arrays. One method includes aligning two or more array packages. The two or more array packages each include one or more bottom dielectric layers, an array of antennas arranged in a plane above the one or more bottom dielectric layers, a ground plane layer above the one or more bottom dielectric layers, and a conductive surface on at least a part of an outside surface of the array package and orthogonal to the plane of the array of antennas. The conductive surface is electrically connected to the ground plane layer.
US08816921B2
A multiple antenna assembly with high isolation between the antennas is disclosed. The assembly includes a dielectric substrate with a ground plane and first and second antennas thereon. One or more metal-dielectric isolation structures are on the substrate at locations at which an electric current is present that has a current density greater than a predefined threshold. Each metal-dielectric isolation structure resonates at a given frequency that inhibits mutual signal coupling between the first and second antennas. Various configurations, such as concentric ring patterns, for the metal-dielectric isolation structures are disclosed. A device can be provided to dynamically tune the given frequency of the metal-dielectric isolation structures to correspond to radio frequency signals emitted by the first and second antennas.
US08816919B2
A first plate-like radiating element including a first side and a second side, the first side being a straight line portion and the second side being curved; and a second plate-like radiating element including a third side and a fourth side, the third side being a straight line portion and the fourth side being curved, are included. The first side of the first radiating element and the third side of the second radiating element are disposed to face each other in parallel and to be shifted in a parallel direction. The second side and the fourth side each preferably include a curve portion. The second side or the fourth side or the second and fourth sides is (are) preferably formed by a combination of one or a plurality of curve portions and one or a plurality of straight line portions.
US08816916B2
The invention relates to a radome (1) for an aircraft, and more specifically to a device for connecting said radome to the structure of said aircraft. The radome that is the subject of the invention comprises a plurality of locking units able to bring together the opposing surfaces of the aircraft's fuselage (10) and the radome (1), each unit comprising: locking means (20) able to exercise a traction force on the surface of the fuselage, substantially normal to the surface, via attachment means; centering means able to withstand the shear forces substantially tangential to the opposing surfaces of the fuselage and radome; the locking means (20) are placed such that they are located inside the cone of resulting forces on the centering means so as to minimize the bending stresses generated by the assembly in the radome (1).
US08816913B2
An antenna unit and a mobile terminal having the same are provided. the mobile terminal includes a terminal body having a circuit board for processing wireless signals, a first radiator disposed to overlap the circuit board with being spaced apart from the circuit board, a second radiator disposed adjacent to the first radiator, a first feeding connector configured to allow a feeding connection between the first radiator and the circuit board, and a first ground connector configured to allow a ground connection between the circuit board and the second radiator. With this configuration, the antenna unit can satisfy a multiband characteristic even within a space, in which the antenna unit may be interrupted by the circuit board or a display panel inside the terminal body.
US08816904B2
The invention is a device for multi-band, multi-channel, wireless communications that automatically provides signal amplification when and where necessary, and that automatically avoids harmful interference to base stations and other parts of the communications infrastructure. The invention is a unique combination of an adjustable gain, bidirectional amplifier, a GPS receiver, a processor, and one or more removable, non-volatile, updatable memory devices. Alternatively, the memory can be an internal device accessible via an electronic port such as a USB. In either case, the memory stores comprehensive information that determines if, and how much, amplification is necessary at a particular location sensed by the GPS receiver. The device also includes a dedicated apparatus that permits a deactivation by remote control in the event of a malfunction.
US08816902B2
There is provided a radar apparatus for detecting a target. A detection signal generating unit generates detection signals of the target based on transmission and reception waves of antennas. A detection signal processing unit performs frequency analysis on the detection signals to extract signal components of the target, and performs a predetermined process on the signal components to calculate at least one of a distance to the target, a relative speed to the target, and an orientation of the target. The detection signal generating unit includes a filter unit for giving changes to the detection signals in a frequency bandwidth higher than Nyquist frequency which is a half a sampling frequency. The detection signal processing unit acquires the signal components from the detection signals to which the filter unit gives the changes to determine whether the signal components are generated by replication due to the Nyquist frequency.
US08816898B2
A radar apparatus includes: an array antenna having antenna elements having function of a transmission antenna and a reception antenna and receiving an echo signal which is a reflection of a probe signal from a target, the probe signal being radiated from the antenna elements; a converter for converting the echo signal to a baseband signal; a signal synthesizing unit which generates a synthesized baseband signal vector on the basis of aperture synthesis of the baseband signal generated from a combination of the antenna elements giving an equal spatial phase; a correction data acquiring unit which acquires correction data on the basis of coefficients of terms of a synthesized array polynomial; a correction processing unit which corrects the synthesized baseband signal vector on the basis of the correction data; and an estimating unit which performs angle estimation on the basis of the synthesized baseband signal vector.
US08816893B1
An example ramp analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for generating at least one bit of a digital signal includes a modified ramp signal generator, a comparator, and a control circuit. The modified ramp signal generator receives a ramp signal and generates a modified ramp signal in response thereto. The comparator compares an analog input with the modified ramp signal. The control circuit controls the modified ramp signal generator, such that the analog input is converted a variable M number of times for each period of the ramp signal. The number M is dependent on a magnitude of the analog input. In one example, the number M is greater for analog inputs of a lower magnitude, such that the analog inputs of the lower magnitude are converted more times than analog inputs of a higher magnitude.
US08816889B2
A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) includes, in a segment of the DAC, a first switch and a second switch. The first switch includes a first pair of transistors having a first set of inputs and has a first output connected to an output of the DAC. The second switch includes second and third pairs of transistors having second and third sets of inputs, respectively, and has a second output that is connected to the output of the DAC. A driver module generates control signals to drive the first, second, and third sets of inputs based on data received by the DAC for conversion from digital to analog format at a conversion rate determined by a clock. The control signals toggle one of the first and second switches during each cycle of the clock.
US08816878B2
There is provided a parking assist apparatus capable of allowing an automatic steering control to be started smoothly, without requiring any special operation after confirmation of a parking target location. The parking assist apparatus includes a parking target position setting section for setting a parking target position, a guiding path calculating section for calculating a guiding path to the parking target position, a reporting information outputting section for reporting to the driver upon successful establishment of a guiding path that an automatic steering is now possible, a non-holding state determining section for determining whether there is established a non-holding state of the driver not holding a steering device, and a guiding start determining section configured to allow guiding by the automatic steering to be started, provided the guiding path has been established AND the non-holding state has been realized.
US08816876B2
An apparatus for communicating weather related information to a vehicle has been developed. The invention includes, a navigational positioning system that provides the location of the vehicle and a receiver for receiving weather related data at the vehicle that includes road conditions, atmospheric conditions, weather warnings and watches, and forecast conditions. The weather related data is associated with a geographic grid that is made of a plurality of cells. The invention's processor determines if the weather related data is associated with the vehicle location and displays the weather related data to the vehicle's occupants.
US08816875B2
An electronic thermometer includes a hollow probe provided at its longitudinal tip with a temperature measuring unit having a temperature sensor for sensing a temperature, electrodes neighboring to the temperature sensor and arranged in the hollow of the probe, and a determining unit for determining whether temperature measuring unit is in appropriate contact with a measurement target portion of a user or not, based on a change in electrostatic capacity sensed using the electrodes.
US08816874B2
A danger presentation device includes a worker position acquisition unit configured to acquire a worker position which is a position of a worker; a worker view range determination unit configured to determine a view range of the worker depending on the worker position acquired by the worker position acquisition unit; a position/posture determination unit configured to determine a position/posture which contains at least one of a position of a robot and a posture of the robot at a specific time in which at least a part of the robot which operates in accordance with a motion planning is included in the view range; and an image generation unit configured to generate image data for illustrating the position/posture determined by the position/posture determination unit.
US08816872B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for monitoring the productivity, operability, and safety conditions of factory machinery and particularly unitizers. The system monitors factory machines such as a unitizer in a corrugated box factory, using one or more sensors to determine whether and how efficiently the machinery is operating, to determine if any conditions of the machinery require immediate attention, and to determine if a safety violation has occurred with respect to the machinery. The system appropriately notifies a factory manager of issues that arise. In addition, the system aggregates data about past performance and safety violations and generates reports about the aggregated data to help factory managers maximize productivity of the monitored machinery. The disclosed system is particularly advantageous in that it enables improvement of the productivity of the factory as a whole.
US08816871B2
The invention relates to a method for monitoring a static and/or dynamic stability of a wind turbine. The wind turbine has a tower, a nacelle, which is supported by the tower, and a rotor, which is mounted in or on the nacelle and has at least one rotor blade which can be adjusted about its longitudinal axis. The method includes the following steps: the wind turbine is excited to oscillate in at least one direction. A frequency (fm) of the excited oscillation is detected. The detected frequency is compared with a predetermined frequency (fref) and an alarm signal is generated if the detected frequency deviates from the predetermined frequency by more than a difference value (Δf).
US08816865B1
A method and apparatus for monitoring the quality of steam used in a process is disclosed. A pressure and temperature sensor is exposed to the steam on either side of an inline pressure drop device such as an orifice or pressure reducing valve. The measurements are transmitted to a controller that calculates the steam quality percentage or superheat value. An alarm is issued if the steam quality is beyond a predetermined tolerance.
US08816859B2
A training toilet design that can be adapted for either a dog or a cat or other animal and even for a young human child is disclosed. A space or enclosure receives the trainee and upon receipt a switch is actuated. The switch can either be a pressure actuated mechanical switch or a motion detector switch. In response to the switch changing state, a microcontroller is actuated to provide any one of a number of responses. Responses include an audible encouraging comment when the trainee exits and for when entering the toilet. A timing lapse programmed into the microprocessor can ensure that the exit message is played only when there has been a predetermined lapse time between the entrance and exit of the trainee. Modes that are provided by different combinations of these features are determined by a mode switch that is operable by the user.
US08816857B2
The present invention provides an automated system for asset tracking and management and utilizes near field Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) technology. RFID tags are attached to the assets, and RFID antennas (and corresponding readers) are strategically located in close proximity to read the tags. As applied to a rack or cabinet, near-field antennas are mounted along one of the mounting posts at each rack unit location such that when a piece of equipment (rack mounted or rail mounted) is installed at a particular rack unit space, the tag will be read and registered in an RFID management system. A magnetic field shaping arrangement ensures that crosstalk between adjacent rack positions is prevented. Ferrite elements are used to control the magnetic field.
US08816855B2
Methods, computer program products and systems for providing video tracking. The method includes receiving a first signal from a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag. A location of the RFID tag is determined in response to the first signal. An image that includes the location of the RFID tag is recorded. The location of the RFID tag is marked on the image, resulting in a marked image.
US08816845B2
An approach for providing notifications to caregivers based on the detected presence of a child in a car seat is described. Physical presence of an object within a car seat is detected. A determination is made that a proximity threshold between a mobile device and the car seat is satisfied based on the presence information, range information associated with the mobile device, or a combination thereof. A notification message is generated in response to the detected physical presence of the object to indicate the presence of the object in the car seat based on the determination. Initiation of the transmission of the notification message to a mobile device within a predetermined proximity of the car seat is performed.
US08816843B2
An alarm system for a smoke or fire barrier, including alarm circuits have a normally closed switch position. A control circuit connected to the alarm circuits applies a voltage to create a non-activation situation or remove a voltage to create an activation situation when the switch is open. The alarm circuit further including either a series connected resistance or a normally open switch position in parallel to the normally closed switch position, to create a “fault” condition in the absence of detection of the resistance, or an open switch position and a closed switch position.
US08816841B2
The present invention relates to a warning system mounted on a vehicle comprising detection means for detecting an object, and signalling means connected to said detection means, wherein said detection means are arranged to remotely detect an object in the vicinity of the vehicle and that said detection means is connected to said signalling means to automatically emit a signal that is detectable from at least one other side of the vehicle than the one where said object is present, and wherein said detection means (4) are arranged to avoid detecting objects lower than 0.5 m, preferably lower than 0.25 m from the ground.
US08816833B2
A display device for a vehicle includes a meter unit, an indicator unit and a control unit. The meter unit includes an image display monitor having a screen, and a meter for indicating a value of a vehicle first state is displayed by an image on the screen. The indicator unit includes a display pane defining an opening for exposing the meter at a display side of the image display monitor, an indicator is provided on the display pane at a peripheral area of the opening, and the indicator displays a vehicle second state by light. The control unit controls independently a display luminance of the meter and a display luminance of the indicator.
US08816830B2
The present invention further provides a motor control system, which controls a motor through a power line. The motor control system includes a control apparatus and an actuation apparatus. The control apparatus includes a controller and a first communication module electrically connected to the controller. The controller receives a command and converts the command into electrical control signals. The first communication module receives the electrical control signals from the controller and transmits the electrical control signals to the power line. The actuation apparatus includes a second communication module and a motor actuator electrically connected to the second communication module. The second communication module is connected to the power line to receive the electrical control signals from the control apparatus and convert the electrical control signals into a command. The motor actuator receives the command from the second communication module to change the power supplying to the motor.
US08816826B2
A radio frequency identification device is configured as a data logger. In a logging mode the radio frequency identification device logs information received from a transmitter. In an upload mode the radio frequency identification device is configured to upload to a receiver logged information and/or information identifying the radio frequency identification device. Optionally, the logging mode is used when there is insufficient power to send a readable response signal to the transmitter.
US08816820B2
A first mobile device includes a location processor, a communication processor, and a display, and a second mobile device includes a location processor and a communication processor. The first mobile device is configured to wirelessly communicate with the second mobile device, and the first mobile device is configured to display a superimposed icon representing a location of the second mobile device as viewed from the perspective of the first mobile device when the first mobile device is pointed in the direction of the second mobile device.
US08816811B2
An inductor includes a core formed of a magnetic material and a foil winding wound at least partially around or through at least a portion of the core. A first end of the winding extends away from the core to form an extended output tongue configured and arranged to supplement or serve as a substitute for a printed circuit board foil trace. A second end of the winding forms a solder tab. At least a portion of the extended output tongue and the solder tab are formed at a same height relative to a bottom surface of the core. Another inductor includes a core formed of a magnetic material, a winding wound at least partially around or through at least a portion of the core, and a ground return conductor attached to the core. The core does not form a magnetic path loop around the ground return conductor.
US08816809B2
A reactor is disclosed. The reactor is comprised of a housing, a solenoid coil, a center columnar member, and a core. The center columnar member provides first surfaces contacting with sandwich portions of the housing, and the core is comprised of resin including magnetic powder. The coil and the center columnar member are fixed in the core. A surface roughness (Rz2) of a second surface which contacts to the core is larger than a surface roughness (Rz1) of the first surfaces. The center columnar member further provides a basis surface of which roughness (Rz3) is smaller than the Rz2 and larger than the Rz1.
US08816807B2
An anisotropic conductive adhesive (ACA) arrangement is disclosed, including a thermosetting resin disposed between a connector of a first structure and a connector of a second structure, and a plurality of ferromagnetic conductive particles dispersed through the thermosetting resin, wherein the plurality of ferromagnetic conductive particles form columns between the connector of the first structure and the connector of the second structure, and wherein a density of the ferromagnetic particles in the columns is substantially higher than a density of the plurality of ferromagnetic particles away from the columns.
US08816806B2
Provided is a magnetically coupled device, a method of assembling the magnetically coupled system, and a method whereby positioning a first arrangement and a second arrangement prevents a magnetic field generated from within a first plurality of magnets and a second plurality of magnets from affecting a magnetically sensitive component.
US08816801B2
A contact mechanism where a shape of at least one of a fixed contactor including a pair of fixed contact portions and a movable contactor including a pair of movable contact portions capable of contacting with and separating from the pair of fixed contact portions is set to a shape that generates a Lorentz force resisting electromagnetic repulsion in a contactor opening direction generated between the fixed contact portions and the movable contact portions when a current is applied, has the fixed contactor and the movable contactor being inserted in a current path. Magnetic bodies are disposed on at least one of the fixed contactor and the movable contactor for suppressing a force driving arcs, which are generated between the pair of fixed contact portions and the pair of movable contact portions, to the fixed contactor on the opposite side.
US08816799B2
Various embodiments provide for waveguide assemblies which may be utilized in wireless communication systems. Various embodiments may allow for waveguide assemblies to be assembled using tools and methodologies that are simpler than the conventional alternatives. Some embodiments provide for a waveguide assembly that comprises a straight tubular portion configured to be shortened, using simple techniques and tools, in order to fit into a waveguide assembly. For instance, for some embodiments, the waveguide assembly may be configured such that the straight portion can be shortened, at a cross section of the portion, using a basic cutting tool, such a hacksaw. In some embodiments, the straight portion may be further configured such that regardless of whether the straight tubular portion is shortened, the waveguide assembly remains capable of coupling to flanges, which facilitate coupling the straight tubular portion to connectable assemblies, such as other waveguide assemblies, radio equipment, or antennas.
US08816794B2
A signal branching filter according to the invention is a signal branching filter connected to a network having at least four terminals. The signal branching filter includes a first line one end of which is connected to a first terminal of the network, a second line one end of which is connected to a second terminal of the network, a third line one end of which is connected to a third terminal of network, and a fourth line one end of which is connected to a fourth terminal of the network. The other end of the first line and the other end of the second line are connected to each other at a first node, and the other end of the third line and the other end of the fourth line are connected to each other at a second node. When a signal is received from the first node, a phase difference between a phase of a signal appearing on a second node side of the third line and a phase of a signal appearing on a second node side of the fourth line is almost 180°±360°*n is an integer equal to or larger than 0).
US08816793B2
A transmission line having a plurality of branch lines that respectively include a first end part and a second end part and have a same line length, in which at least part of the plurality of branch lines includes bent shapes, the first end parts of the plurality of branch lines are connected to a common terminal, and the second end parts of the plurality of branch lines are connected to a common terminal. The plurality of branch lines may include two micro strip lines that are formed on substrates having the same dielectric constant and have bent shapes in symmetry with each other with respect to a straight line.
US08816792B2
A termination configured to absorb high microwave power while generating low levels of passive intermodulation interference. The termination includes a microwave cable having a first end and a second end providing an insertion loss from the first end to the second end, a heat-dispersive element in thermal contact with at least a portion of the microwave cable, a channel accommodating the microwave cable, and an input connector coupled to the proximal end of the microwave cable. Optionally, one or more plates having grooves to accommodate the microwave cable may be provided between the heat-dispersive elements.
US08816791B2
Systems and methods for a filtering wave energy using a rectangular-to-circular waveguide transition are discussed herein. An exemplary system comprises a rectangular-to-circular waveguide transition and a filter card. The rectangular-to-circular waveguide transition may include a front section and a back section opposite the front section, the rectangular-to-circular waveguide transition defining a circular hole extending from the front section of the rectangular-to-circular waveguide transition through the back section, the rectangular-to-circular waveguide transition further having a first arcuate region on the face of the transition, the first arcuate region defining a first cavity extending from the circular hole through the first arcuate region, the rectangular-to-circular waveguide transition also having a second arcuate region defining a second cavity opposite the first cavity, the second cavity extending from the circular hole through the second arcuate region. The filter card may be configured to be placed across the circular hole of the rectangular-to-circular waveguide transition.
US08816782B2
A voltage controlled oscillator includes a plurality of serially connected composite gain stages. A composite gain stage includes a transconductance stage and a transimpedance stage. The transconductance stage has first and second current paths from a first power supply voltage terminal to a second power supply voltage terminal. A first variable resistance is coupled between the first and second current paths. The transimpedance stage has a first inverter and a second inverter. The first inverter has an input terminal coupled to the output of the first current path and an output terminal. The second inverter has an input terminal coupled to the output of the second current path, and an output terminal. A second variable resistance is coupled between the input terminal and the output terminal of the first inverter, and a third variable resistance is coupled between the input terminal and the output terminal of the second inverter.
US08816781B2
An all-digital frequency detector is provided, which includes a phase-frequency detector receiving a reference clock and an input clock, two sample/hold circuits sampling the phase-frequency detector outputs responsive to a ninety-degree phase shifted reference clock and a ninety-degree phase shifted input clock, a plurality of logical operators to generate an output frequency detection signal and a output clock responsive to the difference between the reference clock and the input clock.
US08816780B2
An exemplary calibration apparatus for calibrating timing mismatch of an edge rotator operating on multiple phases of an oscillator includes a capturing block arranged to capture phase error samples, and a calibrating block arranged to adjust timing of said edge rotator according to said phase error samples. An exemplary calibration method for calibrating timing mismatch of an edge rotator operating on multiple phases of an oscillator includes the following steps: capturing phase error samples, and adjusting timing of said edge rotator according to said phase error samples.
US08816772B2
Differential amplifier with function of variable gain and optical receiver implemented with the same
A differential circuit with a function of a variable gain without shifting the output cross point is disclosed. The differential circuit includes an amplifying stage and a control stage. The amplifying stage includes three units each having a pair of transistors, a pair of load resistors, and a pair of current sources. The second and third units each put between the first unit and the load resistor to bypass the current. The control stage includes two units and two current sources to compensate the current bypassed by the second or third unit to keep the DC output level substantially in constant.
US08816770B2
The present invention concerns an apparatus comprising a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to generate an output signal in response to a differential input signal, a first power supply and a ground. The output signal may have a rail-to-rail voltage with a magnitude between the first power supply and the ground. The first circuit may also be configured to source an intermediate differential signal in response to the differential input signal, the first power supply and ground. The second circuit may be configured to sink the differential intermediate signal in response to the differential input signal, the first power supply, ground and a second power supply. The second circuit may flatten the transconductance of the first circuit relative to a common mode voltage of the differential input signal.
US08816766B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes: a first capacitance element and a second capacitance element; a first amplification circuit that amplifies a potential difference of a first voltage signal and a second voltage signal supplied via the first capacitance element and the second capacitance element, respectively, to output a first amplification signal and a second amplification signal; a first resistance element that feeds back the first amplification signal to one input terminal of the first amplification circuit; a second resistance element that feeds back the second amplification signal to another input terminal of the first amplification circuit; a voltage generator that generates a predetermined voltage; and a third resistance element that transmits the predetermined voltage generated by the voltage generator to each input terminal of the first amplification circuit.
US08816764B2
An amplifier includes a first stage, a second stage coupled to the first stage, and a summation circuit. The first stage is configured to receive an analog input signal, convert the analog input signal to a digital signal, and output an intermediate analog output signal in response to the digital signal. The second stage is configured to output a second analog intermediate output signal based on a scaled pulse width modulation quantization error of the first stage. The summation circuit is configured to combine the first and second analog intermediate output signals to generate an amplified output signal.
US08816763B2
A circuit includes a first amplifier and a second amplifier, wherein first amplifier is configured to receive an input current at a first input of the first amplifier, and an output of the first op-mp is configured to drive a first input of the second amplifier. The circuit further includes a pull-up current source selectively coupled to the first input of the second amplifier, and a pull-down current source selectively coupled to the first input of the second amplifier. If the absolute value of the input current is larger than a predefined threshold current: i) the pull-up current source is configured to drive current into the first input of the second amplifier for a first polarity of the input current, and ii) the pull-down current source is configured to sink current from the first input of the second amplifier for a second polarity of the input current.
US08816762B2
A programmable active frequency-selective circuit includes a first capacitor having a fixed value and a second capacitor coupled in parallel to the first capacitor and having a plurality of switchable capacitors connected in parallel to each other. The programmable active frequency-selective circuit further includes a plurality of switches each being associated with one of the switchable capacitors, and a control port coupled to the switches. The capacitors may be varied to account for processing variations that occur during manufacturing of the programmable active frequency-selective circuit. The capacitors values may also be varied to change the bandwidth and/or gain of the programmable active frequency-selective circuit.
US08816745B1
An equalizer circuitry that includes both inductor based and non-inductor based equalizer stages is provided. In one implementation, the equalizer circuitry includes a first equalizer circuitry including a first inductor based equalizer stage and a first non-inductor based equalizer stage coupled to the first inductor based equalizer stage. In one implementation, the equalizer circuitry further includes a second equalizer circuitry including a plurality of inductor based equalizer stages, where the plurality of inductor based equalizer stages includes the first inductor based equalizer stage. In one implementation, the first equalizer circuitry further includes a second inductor based equalizer stage coupled to the first inductor based equalizer stage and the first non-inductor based equalize stage.
US08816742B2
An electronic device comprises an electronic component and an integrated circuit, wherein the integrated circuit is configured to generate a system clock and an external clock having a programmable delay from the system clock, provide the external clock to the electronic component, determine a delay range between system clock and the external clock in which the integrated circuit and the electronic component can communicate, and program the external clock with one of a plurality of predetermined delay values based on the delay range.
US08816735B1
A phase-locked loop circuit, a phase converter module thereof and a phase-locked controlling method are disclosed herein. The phase converter module is suitable for a phase-locked loop circuit including a digitally-controlled oscillator (DCO) for generating an oscillator output signal and a divider for converting the oscillator output signal into N-phased oscillator output signals. The phase converter module includes a phase finder and a time-to-digital converter. The phase finder is configured for sampling the oscillator output signal with the N-phased oscillator output signals to calculate an estimated value of a fractional phase part. One oscillation period of the digitally-controlled oscillator is divided into N sub-periods. The time-to-digital converter is configured for sampling one of the N-phased oscillator output signals with a reference-frequency signal to calculate a precise value of the fractional phase part within one sub-period.
US08816728B2
A gate driving circuit includes a pull-up control part, a pull-up part, a carry part, a first pull-down part and a second pull-down part. The pull-up control part applies a carry signal from a previous stage to a first node. The pull-up part outputs an N-th gate output signal based on a clock signal. The carry part outputs an N-th carry signal based on the clock signal in response to the signal applied to the first node. The first pull-down part includes a plurality of transistors connected to each other in series. The first pull-down part pulls down a signal at the first node to a second off voltage in response to a carry signal of a next stage. The second pull-down part pulls down the N-th gate output signal to a first off voltage in response to the carry signal of the next stage.
US08816725B2
A high voltage electrical switch including: a plurality of series connected semiconductor switches; a plurality of rectifiers wherein each rectifier is connected to a semiconductor switch control input of one of the semiconductor switches; a radio frequency signal generator; and a plurality of galvanic isolators, wherein each galvanic isolator connects the radio frequency signal generator to one of the plurality of rectifiers, wherein the plurality of semiconductor switches are isolated from one another.
US08816721B2
The present disclosure provides an output control circuit including a signal feedback circuit and an enable control circuit, wherein the signal feedback circuit is configured to compare an output voltage with a set output voltage threshold and to output a disable signal to an enable control circuit when the output voltage arrives at the set output voltage threshold, and wherein the enable control circuit is configured to stop an operation of a translation circuit, upon reception of the disable signal from the signal feedback circuit.
US08816718B1
In one embodiment, a programmable logic device includes a memory and an input/output (I/O) interface adapted to enter a variable response mode responsive to an assertion of a control signal. The I/O interface is operable in the variable response mode to respond to a read command from an external device by retrieving data from the memory and to shift dummy data to the external device until an internal data ready signal is asserted.
US08816713B2
A probe card for high-frequency signal transmission includes a circuit board with transmission lines, a plurality of probes, and a signal path adjuster having first lead wires with a same length respectively connected between the transmission lines and the probes. Each first lead wire is selectively replaceable by a second lead having a length different from that of the first lead wire. As a result, a first high-frequency signal transmitting from one transmission line through the associated first lead wire to the associated probe and a second high-frequency signal transmitting from another transmission line through the associated second lead wire to the associated probe may have a same output timing when the first and second high-frequency signals are synchronously inputted into the circuit board.
US08816689B2
A method and apparatus is provided for collecting reservoir data. The method includes providing one or more electromagnetic sources for generating an electromagnetic field in a reservoir and providing one or more electromagnetic sensors equipped with capacitive electrodes. The electromagnetic source is located separately from the electromagnetic sensor. The electromagnetic sensor may either be located within a well or at the surface, is capable of measuring the electromagnetic field in three dimensions, and may be isolated from the well fluids. The data collected by the electromagnetic sensors can be used to create a model of the oil reservoir, including the water saturation.
US08816681B2
In a method for detecting near-surface defects in a test sample consisting at least partly of a ferromagnetic material, a test volume of the test sample is magnetized and scanned for the detection of magnetic leakage fields caused by defects. The test volume is magnetized by means of a magnetic constant field and simultaneously by means of a magnetic alternating field superposed on the constant field. Leakage field test devices suitable for carrying out the method are described.
US08816676B2
The position sensor includes a shift lever used to select one of five ranges P, R, N, D, and B, fixed contacts corresponding to the ranges P, R, N, D, and B, and movable contacts configured to be electrically connected to the fixed contacts. The fixed contacts include regular fixed contacts, first backup fixed contacts, and second backup fixed contacts. The first and second backup fixed contacts have their lengths in the moving direction of the movable contacts configured to be longer than the length of the regular fixed contact that corresponds to the first and second backup fixed contacts.
US08816672B1
A system for measuring passive intermodulation (PIM) comprises a port connectable with a load and a PIM source, a test signal source providing a test signal having components of two or more frequencies, and a receiver including a phase-coherent detector to receive a reflected signal obtained at the port in response to the provided test signal. The phase-coherent detector has an output that provides a signal indicative of PIM. A reference signal source connected with the phase-coherent detector provides a reference signal derived from the test signal. A signal combiner having a first input connected with the output of the phase-coherent detector, a second input connectable with storing a measurement of residual PIM generated by the apparatus, and removes the residual PIM from the signal indicative of PIM and provides measured PIM of the PIM source at the output.
US08816667B2
A maximum power point tracking method is provided. The method includes temporarily determining a next voltage command using voltage and power measured at current and previous time points. When an increase or decrease in voltage command is continued predetermined times or more, it is decided that the next voltage command temporarily determined to be increased is decreased or that the next voltage command temporarily determined to be decreased is increased. The output voltage of a solar cell is regulated based on the decided next voltage command.
US08816665B2
A reference voltage stabilization apparatus is disclosed, having an input node for receiving a reference voltage, an output node for coupling with a load, a voltage buffer coupled between the input node and the output node, a charge storage device coupled with the output node, and a charging/discharging circuit coupled with the charge storage device for charging or discharging the charge storage device. The voltage buffer and the charged/discharged charge storage device are coupled with the load so that the voltage at the load equals the reference voltage after a period of time.
US08816655B2
A voltage regulator apparatus includes a first power transistor and a second power transistor connected in parallel to each other between a first power source and a second power source, and a control unit for turning on the first power transistor and the second power transistor. An aspect ratio of the first power transistor is smaller than an aspect ratio of the second power transistor. The control unit turns on the second power transistor in a predetermined period of time after the first power transistor is turned on.
US08816639B2
A rechargeable battery assembly provides load balancing for individual battery cells making up a battery assembly. The battery assembly includes a plurality of series-connected battery cell assemblies. Each battery cell assembly includes a battery cell and a charge bypass load connected in parallel with the battery cell. A cell supervisory circuits (CSCs) and battery interface unit (BUI) interface between the battery cell assembly and a battery charge/discharge circuit to provide load balancing by comparing the voltages monitored with respect to each battery cell assembly to an end of charge voltage (EOCV) threshold and in response to the monitored voltage equaling the EOCV threshold issues a charge bypass command to the CSC to activate the charge bypass load.
US08816627B2
A control signal for controlling an operation of a motion control system suitable for positioning a load is generated using determining a cost function based on a model of energy consumption of the system and a function of a tracking time; and minimizing the cost function subject to constraints to determine a trajectory of the control signal. The control signal is generated based on the trajectory and a current state of the system, wherein the steps of the method are performed by a processor.
US08816620B2
The invention discloses a reciprocal radial field electric machine based on the soft magnetic attraction principle, characterized by a plurality of active elements organized as a bi-dimensional cylindrical machine matrix and fed sequentially by an external power converter in order to derive a motoring or generation effect. The machine is comprised of a fixed stator matrix featuring salient poles and electrical coils, and a mobile rotor matrix featuring salient poles. The machine works on the principle of time integration of the discrete actions performed by its active elements. The bi-dimensional matrix organization of the active elements and the algorithms of their activation in both motoring and generation modes are key features for the functional cohesion of the machine. The design of this machine is based on a unique digital modeling method developed by the inventors, using exclusively the matrix calculus adapted to cylindrical matrices.
US08816619B2
A motor control system for a hoist drive having an electric motor operationally connected to a hoisting member for hoisting a load, the motor control system being adapted to generate a final angular frequency reference (ω*s) for control of the electric motor, the motor control system comprising a power limiter means adapted to generate a correction term (ωs,cor) for angular frequency reference. The power limiter means comprises an integrating controller means, the power limiter means being adapted to generate the correction term (ωs,cor) for angular frequency reference using output signal IP of the integrating controller means, initial data of the integrating controller means including information relating to actual value of the power of the electric motor and a power related limit value of the electric motor.
US08816618B2
A current sensor detects a bus current flowing to an inverter. An estimation section uses actual currents id and id outputted from a d-q conversion section as initial values, estimates currents flowing in a motor/generator and calculates estimated currents ide and iqe. A UVW conversion section converts the estimated current ide and iqe to three phase currents. A selection section inputs, as currents flowing in each phase of the motor/generator, three out of outputs of the UVW conversion section and the bus current. The bus current is used as the current of one phase, if a voltage vector representing an operation state of the inverter is an effective voltage vector.
US08816614B2
A circuit for controlling a load current through a coil is connected to an output port of a transistor H-bridge that includes two low side transistors and two high side transistors. A current sense circuit is coupled to the H-bridge and configured to provide a representation of the load current provided by the output port. A current regulator is configured to generate a modulated signal dependent on the representation of the load current and a current set-point. The modulated signal has a duty-cycle. A gate control logic drives the individual transistors of the H-bridge on and off in accordance with the modulated signal. A direction signal provides the load current to the coil. The direction signal determines the direction of the load current. An over current detection circuit is coupled to each individual transistor and is configured to signal an over-current by providing an active over-current failure signal when a transistor current through the respective transistor exceeds a respective maximum value.
US08816602B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatus for controlling a lighting system by proximity sensing of a spotlight control device, particularly to controlling a spotlight generated by a lighting system such as a large LED lighting array by means of a spotlight control device. A device is provided for controlling a lighting system by proximity sensing of a spotlight control device, wherein a predefined area around the spotlight control device is illuminated if a proximity sensor signals presence of the spotlight control device within the predefined area.
US08816593B2
A device for detecting a dimmer phase angle set by operation of a dimmer for a solid state lighting load includes a processor having a digital input, a first diode connected between the digital input and a voltage source and a second diode connected between the digital input and ground. The device further includes a first capacitor connected between the digital input and a detection node, a second capacitor connected between the detection node and ground, and a resistance connected between the detection node and a rectified voltage node, which receives a rectified voltage from the dimmer. The processor is configured to sample digital pulses at the digital input based on the rectified voltage and to identify the dimmer phase angle based on lengths of the sampled digital pulses.
US08816586B2
The present disclosure is directed to illuminated devices attached to vehicles. More specifically, an illuminated device may be attached to a vehicle in the form of an illuminated logo or emblem. The illumination of the device may be controlled for color, state, and/or intensity in response to vehicle signals received by the device. In addition, the illuminated device may use switching circuitry to interface with a vehicle's electrical power and/or signals.
US08816574B2
A flexural vibration element according to a first aspect of the invention includes: a vibration element body composed of a plurality of vibrating arms provided in parallel, a connecting part connecting the vibrating arms, and one central supporting arm extending between the vibrating arms from the connecting part in parallel with the vibrating arms at equal distance from the arms; and a frame body disposed outside the vibration element body.
US08816572B2
A resonator element includes: at least one resonating arm which performs flexural vibration; a base portion connected to an end of the resonating arm; and a tapered portion which is axisymmetrical with respect to a centerline which bisects the width of the resonating arm, and which has a width increasing toward a portion of the tapered portion connected to the base portion from a portion of the tapered portion connected to the resonating arm, wherein assuming that the length and width of the resonating arm are L and W and the length and width of the tapered portion are Lt and Wt, the shape of the tapered portion is controlled to satisfy a taper length occupancy η=Lt/L and a taper width occupancy ξ=2Wt/W.
US08816565B2
A two-dimensional comb-drive actuator and manufacturing method thereof are described. The two-dimensional comb-drive actuator includes a supporting base, a frame and a movable body. The supporting base has first comb electrodes and the frame has internal comb electrodes and external comb electrodes. The external comb electrodes of the frame are interdigitated to the first comb electrodes of the supporting base. The movable body has second comb electrodes which are interdigitated to the internal comb electrodes of the frame. The thicknesses of the second comb electrodes of the movable body are unequal to the internal comb electrodes of the frame and the external comb electrodes of the frame are unequal to the first comb electrodes of the supporting base. The two-dimensional comb-drive actuator utilizes a conducting layer for the above-mentioned comb electrodes in order to increase the rotation angle and operation frequency thereof.
US08816561B2
A compressor includes a casing and a motor disposed inside the casing. The motor is welded to the casing at a plurality of weld positions. The motor includes a core, a coil, at least one insulating member and a gap. The core has an annular back yoke portion, a plurality of tooth portions projecting radially inwardly from the back yoke portion and a slot formed between the tooth portions adjacent to each other. The coil is disposed in the slot. The insulating member is disposed in the slot to insulate the coil from the core. The gap is provided between the back yoke portion and the insulating member.
US08816559B2
A squirrel cage induction motor includes: a stator core (11); a plurality of stator slots (12) radially disposed in a circumferential direction of the stator core (11) with predetermined intervals; a plurality of stator windings (13) housed in the stator slots respectively; a rotor core (21); a plurality of rotor slots (22) radially disposed in a circumferential direction of the rotor core (22) with predetermined intervals; a plurality of rotor conductors (23) housed in the rotor slots (22) respectively. The stator windings (13) and the rotor conductors (23) includes electrically conductive materials mainly composed of copper. An area ratio of a total area of the stator slots (12) to a total area of the rotor slots (22) is not smaller than 2.7 and not greater than 8.0 to provide compatibility between the starting characteristic (starting torque) and the steady characteristic (for a high efficiency) can be provided.
US08816558B2
An insulator for a stator assembly includes at least a first insulator adapted to be mounted to the stator core and structured to insulate the stator core from the coils. The at least one insulator includes structure to perform at least one additional function. For example, the structure may include a support member to support and/or locate the PCBA on the stator core, a wire guide to guide cross-over wires that form a connection between coils, and/or positioning structure to precisely position the PCBA with respect to the coils.
US08816547B2
An electric machine is provided. The electric machine includes a stator, a rotor and a closed cooling channel through which a gaseous cooling medium circulates. The stator includes a stator lamination at least partially encasing several stator windings. The closed cooling channel is disposed in circumferential direction of the stator lamination. The stator lamination is at least partially formed as fins.
US08816540B2
The present disclosure describes a vibration energy harvester with increased output power density. The vibration energy harvester has two magnetic solenoids, each with cores that include multiple layers of high permeability materials. The two magnetic solenoids are fixed at two sides of a movably supported hard magnetic core, such as a magnet pair with anti-parallel magnetization, which produces a spatially inhomogeneous bias magnetic field for switching the flux inside the solenoids during vibration of the magnetic core. An output voltage of 2.52 V and a power density 20.84 mW/cm3 at 42 Hz, with a half peak working bandwidth of 6 Hz.
US08816538B2
An electric junction box, having a terminal portion positioned in the connector engagement portion and arranged perpendicular to a direction along which case members attach each other, which can be assembled easily without increasing the number of components and manufacturing cost is provided. Also, a power supply device having the above-described electric junction box is provided. The electric junction box includes: a box main body having a connector engagement portion and an upper case attached to a lower case in an overlapping relationship; and a bus bar received in the box main body. The lower case includes a bottom wall portion, a positioning wall and peripheral walls. The bus bar includes the terminal portion positioned in the connector engagement portion, a positioning plate portion and a mount portion. The peripheral wall includes a cutout portion allowing the positioning plate portion to move into and out from the lower case.
US08816535B2
A protection method in a distributed power system including of DC power sources and multiple power modules which include inputs coupled to the DC power sources. The power modules include outputs coupled in series with one or more other power modules to form a serial string. An inverter is coupled to the serial string. The inverter converts power input from the string and produces output power. When the inverter stops production of the output power, each of the power modules is shut down and thereby the power input to the inverter is ceased.
US08816529B2
The invention relates to an insulation monitoring device (IMD) in a non-grounded electrical DC grid (DC-IT System), particularly an electrical photovoltaic system (PV). Said device has a power supply unit (B), which is supplied with electrical energy from the electrical DC grid (DC-IT System). According to the invention a rechargeable energy store (CIMD) is present, in particular a capacitor with a charging diode (D) connected upstream. This is supplied with electrical energy (UIMD) via the electrical DC grid and supplies the power supply unit (B) in the event of a temporary failure of the electrical DC grid, so that continued operation of the insulation monitoring device (IMD) is possible until the non-grounded electrical DC grid is re-established. Advantageously, for continued operation of the insulation monitoring in the event of failure of the electrical DC grid the power supply unit (B) provides a preferably pulsed measurement voltage (UP), which is used in order to feed electrical energy into the electrical DC grid (DC-IT) via a coupling circuit (AS).
US08816528B2
A mobile power system comprises a plurality of energy sources, wherein at least one energy source is a solar powered generating device and at least one energy source is a wind powered generating device; a plurality of electronic and telecommunications components configured to receive the power generated by the plurality of energy sources and/or convert the power generated to direct current power; a plurality of batteries configured to store the direct current power; and one or more transportable housings configured to hold the plurality of energy sources, the plurality of electronic and telecommunications, and the plurality of batteries during transport of the housing, and wherein the at least one solar powered energy device and the at least one wind powered generating device are disposed remotely from the housing when the mobile power system is in operation.
US08816520B2
Systems and methods for reducing dynamic loading in an idled wind power unit include sensing at least one parameter indicative of dynamic loading and executing a reduced torque brake mode, which may comprise a controlled brake and brake-release sequence, with the turbine braking system when the sensed parameter exceeds a selected value. The reduced torque brake mode absorbs energy and reduces dynamic loading thereby.
US08816518B2
A scalable portable modular power plant that includes an electrical substation module containing a substation container with a first transformer and a second transformer positioned at the first and second ends of the substation container, and a plurality of containerized electric generator modules each positioned relative to a corner of the substation module, where each electric generator module is connected to one of the two transformers.
US08816517B2
An energy storage system used to store energy is disclosed. The system uses compression, torsion, extension and/or leaf springs to store energy. Input energy is use to compress the springs through an apparatus. The potential energy in the compressed spring is used to run a generator, which provides power to the consumer.
US08816515B2
There is provided a semiconductor module capable of being easily manufactured and a manufacturing method thereof, the semiconductor module including a module substrate on which at least one electronic element is mounted, at least one external connection terminal fastened to the module substrate, and a case formed by coupling a first case and a second case, wherein the first case and the second case accommodate the module substrate at both ends of the module substrate and are coupled to each other.
US08816514B2
First and second bond elements, e.g., wire bonds, electrically connect a chip contact with one or more substrate contacts of a substrate, and can be arranged so that the second bond element is joined to the first bond element at each end and so that the second bond element does not touch the chip contact or one or more substrate contacts. A third bond element can be joined to ends of the first and second bond elements. In one embodiment, a bond element can have a looped connection, having first and second ends joined at a first contact and a middle portion joined to a second contact.
US08816512B2
Disclosed is a light emitting device module including a package body, a first lead frame and a second lead frame provided on the package body, a light emitting device electrically connected to the first lead frame and the second lead frame, a first pad and a second pad respectively formed on the lower surfaces of the first lead frame and the second lead frame, and a third pad formed on the lower surface of the package body, wherein at least one of the first pad, the second pad and the third pad includes a plurality of sub-pads.
US08816500B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip including a first main face and a second main face wherein the second main face is the backside of the semiconductor chip. Further, the semiconductor device includes an electrically conductive layer, in particular an electrically conductive layer, arranged on a first region of the second main face of the semiconductor chip. Further, the semiconductor device includes a polymer structure arranged on a second region of the second main face of the semiconductor chip, wherein the second region is a peripheral region of the second main face of the semiconductor chip and the first region is adjacent to the second region.
US08816499B2
Provided are electrical interconnections and methods for fabricating the same. The electrical interconnection may include a substrate including a bonding pad, a solder ball electrically connected to the bonding pad, a solder supporter on the bonding pad, a portion of the solder ball filling the solder supporter, and a metal layer between the bonding pad and the solder supporter, the metal layer having an ionization tendency lower than the bonding pad.
US08816490B2
An integrated circuit die stack including a first integrated circuit die mounted upon a substrate, the first die including pass-through vias (‘PTVs’) composed of conductive pathways through the first die with no connection to any circuitry on the first die; and a second integrated circuit die, identical to the first die, rotated with respect to the first die and mounted upon the first die, with the PTVs in the first die connecting signal lines from the substrate through the first die to through silicon vias (‘TSVs’) in the second die composed of conductive pathways through the second die connected to electronic circuitry on the second die; with the TSVs and PTVs disposed upon each identical die so that the positions of the TSVs and PTVs on each identical die are rotationally symmetrical with respect to the TSVs and PTVs on the other identical die.
US08816487B2
A method of manufacture of an integrated circuit packaging system includes: providing a package substrate, having a component side and a system side; mounting a first integrated circuit die on the component side of the package substrate; mounting a second integrated circuit die on the component side of the package substrate; mounting an internal package, having an internal die, over the first integrated circuit die; coupling chip interconnects between the first integrated circuit die, the second integrated circuit die, the internal die, the component side, or a combination thereof, and forming a stacked package body by encapsulating the component side, the first integrated circuit die, the second integrated circuit die, the internal package, and the chip interconnects.
US08816486B2
An I/O pad structure in an integrated circuit (IC) comprises a first vertical region in the IC including a top metal layer and one or more semiconductor devices formed thereunder, the top metal layer in the first vertical region serving as a first pad, the semiconductor devices being electrically connected to the first pad, and a second vertical region in the IC next to the first vertical region including the top metal layer and one or more through-silicon-vias (TSVs) formed thereunder, the top metal layer in the second vertical region serving as a second pad, and no semiconductor devices being formed beneath the second pad, the TSVs being electrically connected to the second pad, wherein the first and the second pad are electrically connected through at least one metal layer.
US08816480B2
The electronic device package includes a package substrate including a frame portion and a cantilever portion surrounded by the frame portion, at least one semiconductor chip mounted on the cantilever portion, and a molding member disposed on the package substrate to cover the at least one semiconductor chip. The cantilever portion has a first edge connected to the frame portion and declines from the first edge toward a second edge located opposite to the first edge. Related methods are also provided.
US08816472B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first insulating film formed above a substrate, wires formed on the first insulating film, an air gap formed between the adjacent wires, and a second insulating film formed on the wires and the air gap. Each of the wires has a metal film formed on the first insulating film and a hard mask formed on the metal film, the hard mask has a first layer and a second layer, a second internal angle formed by the under surface and the side surface of the second layer on a cross section of the second layer is smaller than a first internal angle formed by the under surface and the side surface of the first layer on a cross section of the first layer, and the top surface of the air gap is higher than the top surface of the metal film.
US08816468B2
A semiconductor rectifier includes a semiconductor substrate having a first type of conductivity. A first layer, which is formed on the substrate, has the first type of conductivity and is more lightly doped than the substrate. A second layer having a second type of conductivity is formed on the substrate and a metal layer is disposed over the second layer. The second layer is lightly doped so that a Schottky contact is formed between the metal layer and the second layer. A first electrode is formed over the metal layer and a second electrode is formed on a backside of the substrate.
US08816459B2
An image sensor having a wave guide includes a semiconductor substrate formed with a photodiode and a peripheral circuit region; an anti-reflective layer formed on the semiconductor substrate; an insulation layer formed on the anti-reflective layer; a wiring layer formed on the insulation layer and connected to the semiconductor substrate; at least one interlayer dielectric stacked on the wiring layer; and a wave guide connected to the insulation layer by passing through the interlayer dielectric and the wiring layer which are formed over the photodiode.
US08816456B2
According to embodiments of the present invention, a magnetoresistive device is provided. The magnetoresistive device includes a fixed magnetic layer structure having a fixed magnetization orientation along a first easy axis, a free magnetic layer structure having a variable magnetization orientation along a second easy axis, and an offsetting magnetic layer structure having a magnetization orientation along an axis at least substantially non-parallel to at least one of the first easy axis or the second easy axis, wherein the fixed magnetic layer structure, the free magnetic layer structure and the offsetting magnetic layer structure are arranged one over the other. According to further embodiments of the present invention, a method of forming a magnetoresistive device is also provided.
US08816436B2
A fin resistor and method of fabrication are disclosed. The fin resistor comprises a plurality of fins arranged in a linear pattern with an alternating pattern of epitaxial regions. An anneal diffuses dopants from the epitaxial regions into the fins. Contacts are connected to endpoint epitaxial regions to allow the resistor to be connected to more complex integrated circuits.
US08816424B2
A non-volatile memory includes a channel layer to extend from a substrate in a vertical direction; a plurality of interlayer dielectric layers and a plurality of gate electrodes to be alternately stacked along the channel layer; and a memory layer to be interposed between the channel layer and each of the gate electrodes, wherein the memory layer comprises a tunnel dielectric layer to contact the channel layer, a first charge trap layer to contact the tunnel dielectric layer and formed of an insulating material, a charge storage layer to contact the first charge trap layer and formed of a semiconducting material or a conductive material, a second charge trap layer to contact the charge storage layer and formed of an insulating material, and a charge blocking layer to contact the second charge trap layer.
US08816421B2
According to one exemplary implementation, a semiconductor device includes a channel, a source, and a drain situated in a first semiconductor fin. The channel is situated between the source and the drain. The semiconductor device also includes a control gate situated in a second semiconductor fin. A floating gate is situated between the first semiconductor fin and the second semiconductor fin. The semiconductor device can further include a first dielectric region situated between the floating gate and the first semiconductor fin and a second dielectric region situated between the floating gate and the second semiconductor fin.
US08816420B1
A FinFET structure which includes: silicon fins on a semiconductor substrate, each silicon fin having two sides and a horizontal surface; sequential layers of a first layer of titanium nitride, a dielectric layer and a second layer of titanium nitride on the sides and horizontal surface of the silicon fins; a polysilicon gate layer over the second layer of titanium nitride on the silicon fins and over the semiconductor substrate such that first and second ends of the silicon fins protrude from the polysilicon layer; spacers adjacent to the polysilicon gate layer; epitaxial silicon over the first and second ends of the silicon fins to form sources and drains, wherein the combination of the first layer of titanium nitride, dielectric layer and second layer of titanium nitride forms a metal-insulator-metal capacitor situated between each silicon fin and the polysilicon layer.
US08816415B2
A photodiode structure includes a photodiode and a concave reflector disposed below the photodiode. The concave reflector is arranged to reflect incident light from above back toward the photodiode.
US08816414B2
The present invention provides a module structure comprising a substrate with a partial pierced region. A main chip has a sensing area. At least one component is included, wherein the main chip, the at least one component and the substrate are located at the same level. A holder is disposed on the substrate. A transparent material is disposed on the holder, substantially aligning to the sensing area. A lens holder is disposed on the holder, and a lens is configured on the lens holder, substantially aligning to the transparent material and the sensing area.
US08816407B2
Semiconductor packages are disclosed. A semiconductor package includes: a first chip that includes a chip region and scribe regions at edges of the chip region, wherein the chip region comprises integrated circuit units and main through substrate vias electrically connected to the integrated circuit units; and a second chip that is bonded onto the first chip. The semiconductor package includes dummy conductive connectors including at least dummy wiring lines, the dummy conductive connectors electrically connected to the main through substrate vias at one end, and not capable of forming an electrical connection at the other end.
US08816405B2
An elevated photosensor for image sensors and methods of forming the photosensor. The photosensor may have light sensors having indentation features including, but not limited to, v-shaped, u-shaped, or other shaped features. Light sensors having such an indentation feature can redirect incident light that is not absorbed by one portion of the photosensor to another portion of the photosensor for additional absorption. In addition, the elevated photosensors reduce the size of the pixel cells while reducing leakage, image lag, and barrier problems.
US08816398B2
There is provided a vertical GaN-based semiconductor device in which the on-resistance can be decreased while the breakdown voltage characteristics are improved using a p-type GaN barrier layer. The semiconductor device includes a regrown layer 27 including a channel located on a wall surface of an opening 28, a p-type barrier layer 6 whose end face is covered, a source layer 7 that is in contact with the p-type barrier layer, a gate electrode G located on the regrown layer, and a source electrode S located around the opening. In the semiconductor device, the source layer has a superlattice structure that is constituted by a stacked layer including a first layer (a layer) having a lattice constant smaller than that of the p-type barrier layer and a second layer (b layer) having a lattice constant larger than that of the first layer.
US08816386B2
A flip-chip LED including a light emitting structure, a first dielectric layer, a first metal layer, a second metal layer, and a second dielectric layer is provided. The light emitting structure includes a first conductive layer, an active layer, and a second conductive layer. The active layer is disposed on the first conductive layer, and the second conductive layer is disposed on the active layer. The first metal layer is disposed on the light emitting structure and is contact with the first conductive layer, and part of the first metal layer is disposed on the first dielectric layer. The second metal layer is disposed on the light emitting structure and is in contact with the second conductive layer, and part of the second metal layer is disposed on the first dielectric layer. The second dielectric layer is disposed on the first dielectric layer. The first conductive layer includes a rough surface so as to improve a light extraction efficiency.
US08816376B2
A semiconductor light emitting device includes a multilayer structure formed on a substrate and including a plurality of semiconductor layers including a light-emitting layer. The multilayer structure includes an optical waveguide having ridge structure provided at an upper part of the multilayer structure. The optical waveguide extends from a front facet to a rear facet of the multilayer structure, and includes a straight waveguide section which is inclined to a normal to the front facet of the multilayer structure and extends from the front facet, and a curved waveguide section which perpendicularly reaches the rear facet of the multilayer structure. The curved waveguide section is closer to the rear facet of the multilayer structure than a center of the optical waveguide is.
US08816375B2
A radiation-emitting semiconductor body is provided which, besides an epitaxial semiconductor layer sequence having an active zone that is suitable for generating electromagnetic radiation, has a carrier layer that is intended to mechanically stabilize the epitaxial semiconductor layer sequence. The semiconductor body furthermore has contact structures for electrical contacting of the semiconductor body, which respectively have a volume region and a surface bonding region. The surface bonding region is formed from a material which is different from the material of the volume region.
US08816367B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor light emitting device includes first and second electrodes, first and second semiconductor layers and a light emitting layer. The first electrode includes a first region, a second region, and a third region provided between them. The first semiconductor layer includes a first portion on the first region and a second portion on the second region. The light emitting layer includes a third portion on the first portion and a fourth portion on the second portion. The second semiconductor layer includes a fifth portion on the third portion and a sixth portion on the fourth portion. The insulating layer is provided between the first and second portions on the third region and between the third and fourth portions. The second electrode includes a seventh portion provided on the insulating layer, eighth and ninth portions contacting side surfaces of the fifth and sixth portions.
US08816361B1
Disclosed is a structure combining a solar cell and a light-emitting element. The structure includes a light-emitting device having a substrate and a light-emitting structure disposed on the first surface of the substrate. The substrate includes a plurality of cones formed on a second surface opposite to the first surface. The structure also includes a first conductive layer, disposed on the second surface, a power convention layer disposed on the first conductive layer, a second conductive layer disposed on the power conversion layer, and a patterned transparent layer disposed on the second conductive layer. The patterned transparent layer includes a surface consisting of a plurality of cones and disposed on a side opposite to the second conductive layer.
US08816356B2
Improved semiconductor devices are fabricated utilizing nickel gallide and refractory borides deposited onto a silicon carbide semiconductor substrate. Varying the deposition and annealing parameters of fabrication can provide a more thermally stable device that has greater barrier height and a low ideality. This improvement in the electrical properties allows use of Schottky barrier diodes in high power and high temperature applications. In one embodiment, a refractory metal boride layer is joined to a surface of a silicon carbide semiconductor substrate. The refractory metal boride layer is deposited on the silicon carbon semiconductor substrate at a temperature greater than 200° C. In another embodiment, a Schottky barrier diode is fabricated via deposition of nickel gallide on a SiC substrate.
US08816343B2
A display panel includes an insulation substrate having a display area and a peripheral area, wires disposed on the insulation substrate in the display area, first and second testing lines disposed on the insulation substrate and aligned substantially parallel to each other, and a diode unit disposed between the wires and one of the first testing line and the second testing line. The wires extend from the display area into the peripheral area and through diodes included in the diode unit, and the wires are electrically connected to the one of the first testing line and the second testing line.
US08816341B2
An organic electroluminescent display includes a substrate having a pixel area, a pixel definition layer having an opening corresponding to the pixel area, a pixel electrode in the pixel area, a hole injection layer on the pixel electrode, a conductive primer layer in the opening and on the hole injection layer, the conductive primer layer being more lyophilic than the hole injection layer, a hole transfer layer in the opening and on the conductive primer layer, an organic light-emitting layer on the hole transfer layer, and a common electrode on the organic light-emitting layer.
US08816335B2
By the invention it is proposed a method of preparing a serial connection of OLED-devices, comprising the steps of providing a carrier substrate; depositing a first electrode material layer on said carrier substrate; depositing a layer of an organic optoelectronic active material on said first electrode material layer; depositing a second electrode material layer on said organic optoelectronic active material layer; ablating at least the second electrode material layer and the organic optoelectronic active material layer at least in selected areas to build a trench forming separated OLED-devices on the carrier surface; electrically interconnecting neighboring OLED-devices by connecting the anode of a first OLED-device to the cathode of a neighboring second OLED-device, wherein in the steps of depositing the organic optoelectronic active material layer and the cathode layer, the carrier substrate surface is covered over its entire functional area with said layers, and wherein the electrical interconnection of the neighboring OLED-devices is performed by at least partially filling the trenches built in the ablating step with an electrical conductive material. Furthermore, an illuminant is provided comprising serial connected OLED-devices.
US08816331B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus including: a substrate; a plurality of pixels on a first surface of the substrate, each pixel of the pixels having a first region in which visible rays are emitted and a second region through which external light penetrates, such that the plurality of pixels provide a plurality of first and second regions; a plurality of pixel circuit units in the first region of each pixel, each pixel circuit unit of the pixel circuit units including at least one thin film transistor (TFT); a plurality of first electrodes independently disposed in the first region of each pixel, each first electrode of the first electrodes being electrically connected to each pixel circuit unit; a second electrode facing the first electrodes, the second electrode being electrically connected throughout the pixels; and an intermediate layer including an organic emitting layer between the first electrodes and the second electrode.
US08816326B2
A semiconductor device, which comprises: a semiconductor substrate; a channel region on the semiconductor substrate, said channel region including a quantum well structure; a source region and a drain region on the sides of the channel region; a gate structure on the channel region; wherein the materials for the channel region, the source region and the drain region have different energy bands, and a tunneling barrier structure exists between the source region and the channel region.
US08816323B2
The nitride-based light emitting device according to one embodiment includes a first nitride semiconductor layer doped with a first conductive impurity; a strain buffer layer formed on the first nitride semiconductor layer and comprised of InGaN; an active layer formed on the strain buffer layer and having a multi-quantum well structure in which a quantum-well layer and a quantum-barrier layer are alternately stacked one above another; and a second nitride semiconductor layer formed on the active layer and doped with a second conductive impurity opposite to the first conductive impurity, wherein the ratio B/A satisfies 1.4
US08816322B2
The present invention provides a Group III nitride semiconductor light-emitting device which is intended to relax stress applied to a light-emitting layer. The light-emitting device includes an MQW layer, and an n-side superlattice layer formed below the MQW layer. The n-side superlattice layer is formed by repeatedly depositing layer units, each unit including an InGaN layer, a GaN layer, and an n-GaN layer which are sequentially deposited from the side of the sapphire substrate. In the n-side superlattice layer, an InGaN layer more proximal to the MQW layer has a higher In compositional proportion. The In compositional proportion of the InGaN layer (which is most proximal to the MQW layer) of the n-side superlattice layer is 70% to 100% of the In compositional proportion of the InGaN layer (which is most proximal to the n-side superlattice layer) of the MQW layer.
US08816305B2
An apparatus supplies a target material to a target location. The apparatus includes a reservoir that holds a target mixture that includes the target material and non-target particles; a supply system that receives the target mixture from the reservoir and that supplies the target mixture to the target location, the supply system including a tube and a nozzle that defines an orifice through which the target mixture is passed; and a filter inside the tube through which the target mixture is passed.
US08816301B2
Germicidal lamp apparatuses are provided with lamps disposed between upper and lower bases of a support structure. In some embodiments, a longitudinal axis of a lamp is at an acute angle greater than 0° relative to a region of the lower base between the lamp and another lamp. In addition, the longitudinal axis of the other lamp is at either a right angle or an obtuse angle relative to said region. Other embodiments of apparatuses include a reflector system disposed between the upper and lower bases which is common to the lamps and which includes a reflector with slanted peripheral edge. Other germicidal lamp apparatuses are provided which include a reflector with multiple sections each contoured to manipulate directionality of light emitted from a subset of lamps. In such cases, the apparatuses are configured to move the reflector and/or collectively move the lamps during illumination of the lamps.
US08816295B2
A system and method for detecting adhesive used to produce an envelope in a mailpiece creation system. The system includes a source of ElectroMagnetic (EM) energy in at least the short UV range to illuminate a surface of the substrate material anticipated to have an adhesive deposited thereon in select regions, an EM energy detection device operative to detect energy reflected from the surface of the substrate material in the visible light range and produce a response indicative of the optical absorbance of EM energy in the short UV range; and a processor operative to analyze the response of the EM energy detection device to determine whether light energy in the visible range is below a threshold level to indicate the presence of adhesive deposited on the substrate material.
US08816288B2
In the radiation detector, a capacitor is connected between a connecting wire which is connected with a preamplifier (amplifier) and another connecting wire. Specifically, the capacitor is connected between the connecting wire and another connecting wire which has the lowest electric resistance with respect to a signal wire among connecting wires connected with a radiation detecting element. This prevents electric current produced by static electricity from flowing to the signal wire and prevents the signal wire or the preamplifier from being damaged by static electricity. A circuit element for a countermeasure against static electricity is not provided at the signal wire, and therefore input capacitance of the preamplifier is kept low. Accordingly, the radiation detector is improved by a sufficient countermeasure against static electricity while input capacitance of the preamplifier is kept low.
US08816285B2
A photosensor-equipped display device is provided having a combination of visible and non-visible light sources where a voltage drop is minimized when the non-visible light sources are turned on. The display device includes: a plurality of infrared LEDs (3b); photosensors (9) provided in a pixel region (4) for detecting reflected light originating from the infrared LEDs (3b); a sensor row driver circuit (7) configured to supply a sensor drive signal to the photosensors (9); an amplifier circuit (6) configured to amplify a signal read from the photosensors (9) in response to the sensor drive signal and output a photosensor signal; a signal processing circuit (20) configured to process the photosensor signal output from the amplifier circuit (6); and a backlight control circuit (13) configured to control on and off of the infrared LEDs (3b). The plurality of photosensors (9) are divided into a plurality of sensor groups in the pixel region (4). The light source control circuit (13) causes separate sets of infrared LEDs (3b), corresponding to the sensor groups, to be on during different time periods.
US08816277B2
An amount of pattern position displacement between observation images acquired by irradiating from two different directions is changed depending on beam deflection for moving an image acquisition position. In a pattern evaluation method that measures astigmatic difference or focus position displacement having a small amount of dose at a high speed using parallax caused by the tilted beam, a correction value obtained in advance by measurement is reflected in an amount of pattern position displacement between observation images obtained by irradiating from at least two different directions and generated in accordance with the amount of beam deflection for moving an image acquisition position. A processing unit calculates an amount of correction of an amount of pattern position displacement depending on beam deflection of a beam deflecting unit for moving an image acquisition position on the sample at a high speed.
US08816260B2
Embodiments of a flight-control system and methods of reducing the probability of a roll-control reversal in a canard-controlled flight vehicle are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the flight-control system may monitor angular velocities of the flight vehicle to detect the onset of instability and adaptively control an acceleration limit of the flight vehicle based on the detected instability to reduce the probability of a roll-control reversal. The onset of instability may be detected by persistently high angular velocities. The acceleration limit may be further adaptively controlled based on an approach of a vehicle trim limit.
US08816259B2
A system and method of restoring material properties is disclosed. A subject material may have one or more of its material properties restored by contacting a packed bed of a reactive material contained within a container with the subject material in which material properties are desired to be restored. The packed bed and the subject material may be heated to restore the material properties. The packed bed may be formed from boron, silicon or other appropriate materials. An inert atmosphere system may have an argon injection system or a helium injection system in communication with the container. A deoxidizing system may be in communication with the container for creating a vacuum within the container or injecting hydrogen into the container.
US08816255B2
Provided is a surface heater using a strip type surface heating element and a fabricating method thereof, in which the surface heater can be embodied into a thin film form using a metallic surface heating element which has a specific resistance value appropriate as a heat wire and is formed of a strip style, where the strip type surface heating element can be sequentially produced at an inexpensive cost. The surface heater includes: the strip type surface heating element in which a number of strips which are obtained by slitting a metallic thin film are arranged with an interval in parallel with each other and both ends of each adjacent strip are connected with each other; and an insulation layer which is coated on the outer circumference of the strip type surface heating element in a plate form.
US08816245B2
A method of cutting an object to be processed comprises the steps of irradiating an object to be processed with a laser light which is an elliptically-polarized light having an ellipticity other than 1 such that a direction of polarization of the laser light intersects a line to cut the object and a thickness direction of the object, while locating a converging point of the laser light within the object, so as to form a modified region within the object along the line and generate a fracture from the modified region in the thickness direction of the object, and causing the fracture to reach front and rear faces of the object so as to cut the object along the line.
US08816242B2
A method of fabricating an implantable pulse generator for generating electrical pulses for application to tissue of a patient, the method comprises: providing one or more housing components adapted to house at least pulse generating and switching circuitry of the implantable pulse generator; providing a feedthrough assembly adapted to be coupled with the one or more housing components, the feedthrough assembly comprising an array of feedthrough pins for providing respective electrical connections from a hermetically sealed enclosure formed within the one or more housing components to a location exterior to the enclosure; providing a plurality of welding components with each welding component comprising a first portion adapted to engage a respective feedthrough pin and a second portion for engaging a conductor wire; performing one or more weld operations for each welding component to connect each welding component with a respective feedthrough pin and a respective conductor wire.
US08816241B2
Together with a scanner device, an air blower is provided above a workpiece, and the air blower exhausts air in the shape of a ring toward the workpiece, the air in a ring shape surrounding an optical axis of a laser beam emitted from the scanner device. A housing of the air blower is formed in a ring shape, a ring-shaped cavity is formed in the housing, an inner ring member is attached to an undersurface of the housing, an outer ring member is attached to an outer peripheral side of the inner ring member, and a ring-shaped exhaust port is formed between the inner ring member and the outer ring member. An exhaust direction of the air is defined by inclination of an outer-peripheral-side end surface of the inner ring member and inclination of an inner-peripheral-side end surface of the outer ring member (FIG. 2).
US08816238B2
A DC balanced square wave power source, controlled in a constant voltage mode, for ESW and ESW-NG welding systems and methods can be matched with variable speed wire electrode feeders, multiple guide tubes, articulated air-cooled cooper welding shoes, and multiple pass ESW welding systems, thus gaining the following advantages, namely, controlling weld bead shape, reducing base metal dilution, reducing total heat input into the parent material, and reduction or elimination of any DC magnetic field in the weld cavity.
US08816221B2
A low resistance pathway includes a flexible member, a surface interfacing the flexible member, a sealing feature, and a fastener. The sealing feature forms an interior edge of at least one of the flexible member and the surface. The fastener compresses the flexible member to contact the surface.
US08816220B2
An enclosure that includes a box structure that includes a plurality of sides defining a sealed chamber for containing a heat producing component. At least one of the sides of the box structure includes a panel. The panel includes two outer sheets and an inner layer of material sandwiched between the two outer sheets. The two outer sheets and the inner layer of material collectively define a plurality of fluid flow channels extending from a first end of the two outer sheets to a second end of the two outer sheets. Heat generated by the heat producing component is transferred to at least one of the outer sheets which transfers the heat to fluid flowing through the fluid flow channels. The panel can be the main load bearing path of the box structure.
US08816219B2
Provided is a metal strip for an electromagnetic interference shield case. The metal strip is uniform in width and thickness. A metal clip that is integrated with at least one pair of face-to-face elastic parts and is appropriate for soldering is fitted on an end of the metal strip along a width direction of the metal strip. The metal strip is bent and cut so as to have a shape corresponding to a ground pattern disposed on a printed circuit board, and then, a bottom surface of the metal clip is soldered to the ground pattern or a solder member disposed on the ground pattern.
US08816217B2
Multilayer polyimide-fluoropolymer insulation structures exhibiting excellent copper heat seal strength and superior internal adhesion strength comprise a layer of polyimide having first and second major surfaces and at least a first fluoropolymer layer wherein the first fluoropolymer layer comprises fluoropolymer, metal oxide and ammonium salt. Protected wire or cable using the multilayer insulation structures, are also described.
US08816215B2
The present invention relates to a disk with an electrical connection element, having a substrate with a first coefficient of thermal expansion, an electrically conductive structure on a region of the substrate, and a connection element with a second coefficient of thermal expansion.
US08816209B2
A submersible motor electric wire includes a conductor including a copper wire and an enamel coating formed on the periphery of the copper wire, and an insulating sheath layer formed outside the conductor. The insulating sheath layer includes a silane graft polymer as a main constituent. The silane graft polymer is formed by a graft-polymerization that an unsaturated silane compound and an organic peroxide are added to polyethylene, and is cross-linked contacting with water in the presence of a siloxane condensation catalyst. Alternatively, the insulating sheath layer includes a composition including polyethylene as a main constituent, and the composition is cross-linked by being irradiated with an ionizing radiation.
US08816204B2
A wire connecting method and a wiring harness that allows one to utilize a single terminal for multiple core wires having various diameters thereby reducing the number and different types of terminals. The wire connecting method allows the larger wire cores first to be ultrasonic pressed such that the diameter of the larger core wires are reduced to sizes that are small enough to utilize the single terminal used on smaller core wires.
US08816203B2
A fitting for coupling an end of a first insulated conductor to an end of a second insulated conductor is described. The fitting includes a first splice housing placed over the end of the first insulated conductor and coupled to the first insulated conductor. The fitting also includes a second splice housing placed over the end of the second insulated conductor and coupled to the second insulated conductor. A sleeve is located over the end of the second insulated conductor and adjacent to the second splice housing. An interior volume of the fitting is substantially filled with electrically insulating material. The interior volume of the fitting is reduced such that the electrically insulating material substantially filling the interior volume is compacted.
US08816201B1
An electrical device cover includes a base with a wall structure having at least two pairs of opposing walls located perpendicular to each other and an opening in a back side large enough to receive an electrical device. An exterior surface of at least a first wall has at least one rail running perpendicular to a plane in which the back side of the base resides and the base of a detachable hinge component is slidably coupled to the at least one rail. The detachable hinge component has at least one hinge member that is parallel to the base of the hinge component and a lid with at least one hinge tab in which the at least one hinge member seats such that the lid is pivotally coupled to the hinge component.
US08816199B1
A cable routing system includes a longitudinally-expanding body positionable within an IT rack having a frame and two or more NEMA rails coupled to the frame. A pair of mounting brackets are positioned proximate each distal end of the longitudinal-expanding body and configured to directly engage the frame of the IT rack. A cable routing tray is longitudinally affixed to the longitudinally-expanding body and configured to rout cables longitudinally along at least a portion of the longitudinally-expanding body. One or more vertical radiused supports are configured to define a minimum vertical bend radius for cables routed through the cable routing tray.
US08816197B2
A pressure-balanced electrical cable assembly including a connector body, an electrical conductor positioned within the connector body, an interior chamber defined within the connector body, a dielectric fluid medium contained within the chamber, and a shuttle delimiting at least a portion of the chamber to prevent the escapement of the dielectric fluid from the chamber. The shuttle is moveable in response to differences between a pressure within the chamber and a pressure outside of the chamber.
US08816194B2
A photoelectric conversion device with a novel anti-reflection structure. In the photoelectric conversion device, a front surface of a semiconductor substrate which serves as a light-receiving surface is covered with a group of whiskers (a group of nanowires) so that surface reflection is reduced. In other words, a semiconductor layer which has a front surface where crystals grow so that whiskers are formed is provided on the light-receiving surface side of the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor layer has a given uneven structure, and thus has effects of reducing reflection on the front surface of the semiconductor substrate and increasing conversion efficiency.
US08816192B1
An improved efficiency thin film solar cell is disclosed. Nanoscale indentations or protrusions are formed on the cross sectional surface of a carrier layer, onto which a thin metal film is deposited. Additional layers, including semiconductor absorber and collector layers and a window layer, are disposed on the metal film, thereby completing the solar cell. The nanostructure underlying the metal film serves to reduce the work function of the metal and thereby assists in the absorption of holes created by solar photons. This leads to more efficient electricity generation in the solar cell. In a further embodiment of the present invention the cross sectional surface of the semiconductor absorber layer is also modified by nanoscale indentations or protrusions. These indentations or protrusions have the effect of altering the size of the semiconductor band gap, thereby optimizing the radiation absorption properties of the solar cell.
US08816191B2
Novel structures of photovoltaic cells (also treated as solar cells) are provided. The cells are based on nanometer or micrometer-scaled wires, tubes, and/or rods, which are made of electronic materials covering semiconductors, insulators, and may be metallic in structure. These photovoltaic cells have large power generation capability per unit physical area over the conventional cells. These cells will have enormous applications such as in space, commercial, residential and industrial applications.
US08816178B2
A system of removing undesirable overtones and rings in an acoustic drum includes a drum, a tuning port, and an attachment mechanism. The tuning port is attached to the drum by the attachment mechanism, and three different attachment mechanisms are used within the system to attach the tuning port. A plurality of dimples is positioned on the inner surface of the tuning port, and the tuning port includes a first, second, and third alternative embodiments. The first alternative embodiment, which has a flared end and a cylindrical end, can be attached with a drum shell of the drum by the first and second attachment mechanisms. The second alternative embodiment, which has two flared ends, can be attached with the drum shell by the first and second attachment mechanisms. The third alternative embodiment, which has two flared ends, can be attached with the drum shell by the third attachment mechanism.
US08816173B1
A novel maize variety designated PH1DBM and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH1DBM with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH1DBM 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 PH1DBM or a locus conversion of PH1DBM with another maize variety.
US08816170B2
A pepper hybrid designated E 490264 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of pepper hybrid E 490264, to the plants of pepper hybrid E 490264, and to methods for producing a hybrid plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing the pepper hybrid E 490264 with itself or another pepper plant. The invention further relates to methods for producing a pepper plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other pepper lines, cultivars or hybrids derived from the pepper hybrid E 490264.
US08816159B1
The present invention provides novel lettuce cultivar Inferno and plant parts, seed, and tissue culture therefrom. The invention also provides methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the lettuce plants of the invention with themselves or another lettuce plant. The invention also provides lettuce plants produced from such a crossing as well as plant parts, seed, and tissue culture therefrom.
US08816157B2
This invention provides modified, insecticidal Cry34 proteins with enhanced properties as compared to wild-type Cry34 proteins. The modifications to these proteins were based in part on an analysis of the three-dimensional (3D) structure of this protein and other proteins in the Cry34 class. The subject invention also includes polynucleotides that encode these modified proteins, and transgenic plants that produce these modified proteins. This invention further provides methods of controlling plant pests, including rootworms, with these modified proteins. The modified proteins of the subject invention include chimeric toxins involving exchanged segments, domains, and motifs as discussed herein. The subject invention also provides methods of modifying Cry34 proteins.
US08816155B2
Long-day onion plants of variety I37853B, I37554A, or I37554B variety capable of producing onion bulbs comprising ‘high soluble solids’ combined with a ‘sweet taste’ as a result of low pungency, are provided. Such onions can be stored for long periods without a loss in quality and without an increase in pungency.
US08816148B2
A process comprising receiving a hydrocarbon feed stream comprising carbon dioxide, separating the hydrocarbon feed stream into a light hydrocarbon stream and a heavy hydrocarbon stream, separating the light hydrocarbon stream into a carbon dioxide-rich stream and a carbon dioxide-lean stream, and feeding the carbon dioxide-lean stream into a hydrocarbon sweetening process, thereby increasing the processing capacity of the hydrocarbon sweetening process compared to the processing capacity of the hydrocarbon sweetening process when fed the hydrocarbon feed stream. Included is an apparatus comprising a first separation unit that receives a hydrocarbon feed stream containing carbon dioxide and produces a heavy hydrocarbon stream and a light hydrocarbon stream, and a second separation unit that receives the light hydrocarbon stream and produces a carbon dioxide-rich stream and a carbon dioxide-lean stream, wherein the apparatus is configured to feed the carbon dioxide-lean stream to a physical solvent, membrane, or carbon dioxide recovery process.
US08816132B2
The present invention relates to a process for accelerated preparation of polyglycerol from crude glycerol using microwave irradiation as the heat element in the presence of soap as the catalyst. The process includes the steps of (a) heating the crude glycerol that contain soap to an elevated temperature for a certain reaction time by using a microwave technology, (b) acidifying the crude polyglycerol with mineral acid at a specific temperature and centrifuging acidified crude product obtained from step (b) at a specific temperature for a certain duration of time.
US08816125B2
The invention relates to a multi-stage process for the continuous, phosgene-free preparation of (cyclo)aliphatic diisocyanates that comprises the conversion of (cyclo)aliphatic diamines into the corresponding (cyclo)alkylene biscarbamates and the thermal cleaving of the latter into the (cyclo)alkylene diisocyanates and alcohol. The urea used in accordance with the invention and also the urea employed for the preparation of urea equivalents (e.g. alkyl carbonates, alkyl carbamates) as a possible precursor for the synthesis of the (cyclo)aliphatic biscarbamates is unconditioned.
US08816124B2
Disclosed is an energetic reactive plasticizer for a plastic bonded explosive (PBX), and specifically an energetic reactive plasticizer for PBX which has high performance and insensitiveness without a plasticizer leak by being bonded with a polymer binder for a plastic bonded explosive.
US08816123B2
A decarboxylation reaction of a (3-methyl-3-butenyl)malonic acid dialkyl ester, carried out by heating in the presence of water and a base, produces an alkyl 5-methyl-5-hexenoate. The decarboxylation reaction produces the alkyl 5-methyl-5-hexenoate inexpensively and effectively. The base can optionally be a tertiary amine compound or a heterocyclic amine compound. Producing the alkyl 5-methyl-5-hexenoate can optionally further include removing an alcohol.
US08816122B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for prostratin analogs, bryostatin analogs, prodrugs of prostratin and prostratin analogs, methods of making prostratin analogs, and methods of making prodrugs of prostratin and prostratin analogs, methods of use of prostratin analogs, bryostatin analogs, and prodrugs thereof, and the like.
US08816116B2
A hexafluorodimethylcarbinol terminated compound, method of making it, and a composition of matter are disclosed. The compound may have the formula (CF3)2C(OH)-L-M-R. The substructure L may be selected from an optionally substituted propenylene group (—CH2CH═CH—) and trimethylene group (—CH2CH2CH2—). The substructure M may be selected from a substituted or unsubstituted methylene chain, a substituted or unsubstituted oxyalkylene chain, and a silicon-containing chain or combination thereof. In one embodiment, M may be selected from —(CH2)n—, —(OCH2CH2)m—, and —(Si(CH3)2O)p—Si(CH3)2—(CH2)q—, wherein n is at least 1, e.g., n is up to 10, m can be at least 1, e.g., m is up to 10, p can be 0 and in one embodiment is from 1 to 10, and wherein q can be 1 and in one embodiment is from 1 to 12. The substructure R represents one of a halogen, —SH, —SZ, —S—S-M-L-C(CF3)2(OH), wherein Z represents a thiol protecting group.
US08816115B2
Provided herein are metal nanoparticles, metal nanopowders, methods of synthesizing the same, and radiation shields using the same.
US08816113B2
A novel bidentate catalytic ligand of general formula (I) is described. R represents a hydrocarbyl aromatic structure having at least one aromatic ring to which Q1 and Q2 are each linked, via the respective linking group, if present, on available adjacent atoms of the at least one aromatic ring. The groups X3 and X4 represent radicals joined via tertiary carbon atoms to the respective atom Q1 and the groups X1 and X2 represent radicals joined via primary, or substituted aromatic ring carbon atom(s) to the respective atom Q2. A and B represent an optional lower alkylene linking group. Q1 and Q2 each represent phosphorus, arsenic or antimony. A process for the carbonylation of ethylenically unsaturated compounds comprising reacting the compound with carbon monoxide in the presence of a source of hydroxyl groups, optionally, a source of anions and catalyst system obtainable by combining a metal of Group 8, 9 or 10 or a compound thereof and the bidentate ligand of general formula (I) is also described.
US08816106B2
The present invention relates to enzymes which possess desaturase, conjugase, epoxidase and/or hydroxylase activity that can be used in methods of synthesizing fatty acids.
US08816102B2
A method of modulating the flavor of an orally-receivable product, such as a foodstuff, beverage, dentifrice or medicine, comprising the addition thereto of a flavor-modulating proportion of at least one compound of the formula I in which X is selected from CHOH, C═O, CH2—CO and CH═C(OH), Y is selected from C1-C7 linear and branched alkyl and CH2CH2OH, Z is selected from CH3 and a moiety of the formula II in which the wavy bond represents bond linking Z to X and R1 and R2 are selected from the possibilities (i) both hydrogen; (ii) independently OH and OCH3; and (iii) R1 and R2 together with their bonds to the phenyl ring form a ring of the formula —O—CH2—O—; such that, when Z is CH3, X is C═O and Y is CH2CH2OH.
US08816091B2
The invention provides a crystalline sulfate salt of 3-endo-(8-{2-[cyclohexylmethyl-((S)-2,3-dihydroxy-propionyl)amino]ethyl}-8-aza-bicyclo[3.2.1]oct-3-yl)benzamide or a solvate thereof. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising such crystalline salt forms, methods of using such crystalline salt forms to treat diseases associated with mu opioid receptor activity, and processes useful for preparing such crystalline salt forms.
US08816090B2
This invention relates to compounds of the formula (I): wherein A, B, R1, R4, m, and n are each as described herein or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and compositions containing such compounds and the use of such compounds in the treatment of a condition mediated by 5-HT4 receptor activity such as, but not limited to, gastroesophageal reflux disease, gastrointestinal disease, gastric motility disorder, non-ulcer dyspepsia, functional dyspepsia, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), constipation, dyspepsia, esophagitis, gastroesophageral disease, nausea, central 10 nervous system disease, Alzheimer's disease, cognitive disorder, emesis, migraine, neurological disease, pain, cardiovascular disorders such as cardiac failure and heart arrhythmia, diabetes and apnea syndrome.
US08816086B2
A process for the preparation of compounds of formula (I) or a salt thereof wherein X1, X2, X3, X4, Rx, u, R2, R1g, z, and A1 are as defined in the specification is disclosed.
US08816085B2
The compounds of Formula (I), wherein R1, R21, R22, R23, R24, Y and R3 have the meanings as given in the description, the salts thereof, the stereoisomers of the compounds and the salts thereof are effective inhibitors of the type 5 phosphodiesterase.
US08816080B2
Described herein are platinum and palladium compounds with geometrically distorted charge transfer state, applications and methods for the preparation thereof. The platinum and/or palladium compounds described herein are capable of emitting light and can be used in light emitting devices.
US08816078B2
Compositions and methods related to the removal of acidic gas. In one embodiment, compositions and methods are provided for the removal of acidic gas from a gas mixture using an aqueous amine solvent comprising water, a first amine, and a second amine, wherein the first amine contributes at least 50% by weight of the solvent's total amine concentration.
US08816074B2
The present invention relates to 2′-Fluoro-6′-methylene carbocyclic nucleosides, pharmaceutical compositions containing these nucleosides and their use in the treatment or prophylaxis of a number of viral infections and secondary disease states and conditions thereof, especially including Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and secondary disease states and conditions thereof (cirrhosis and liver cancer), Heptatitis C virus (HCV), Herpes Simplex virus I and II (HSV-1 and HSV-2), cytomegalovirus (CMV), Varicella-Zoster Virus (VZV) and Epstein Barr virus (EBV) and secondary cancers which occur thereof (lymphoma, nasopharyngeal cancer, including drug resistant (especially including lamivudine and/or adefovir resistant) and other mutant forms of these viruses.
US08816073B2
The present invention relates to β-hydroxy and amino-substituted carboxylic acids, which act as matrix metalloproteinase inhibitors, particularly diastereomerically pure β-hydroxy carboxylic acids, corresponding processes for their synthesis, and pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds of the present invention. Compounds of the present invention are useful in the treatment of various inflammatory, autoimmune, and allergic diseases, such as methods of treating asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, COPD, rhinitis, osteoarthritis, psoriatic arthritis, psoriasis, pulmonary fibrosis, wound healing disorders, pulmonary inflammation, acute respiratory distress syndrome, perodontitis, multiple sclerosis, gingivitis, atherosclerosis, neointimal proliferation, which leads to restenosis and ischemic heart failure, stroke, renal diseases, tumor metastasis, and other inflammatory disorders characterized by the over-expression and over-activation of a matrix metalloproteinase.
US08816068B2
The invention relates to an improved process for the production of a sugar alcohol from the corresponding sugar through catalytic hydrogenation. Especially, the invention relates to a process for reducing the interference of sugar-derived aldonic acids in the hydrogenation process by adjusting the hydrogenation conditions so that the activity of the catalyst is maintained. In one embodiment of the invention, the process of the invention is carried out by adjusting the hydrogenation temperature by starting the hydrogenation at a lower temperature and then gradually rising the temperature to the final hydrogenation temperature. In another embodiment of the invention, the process of the invention is carried out by adding small-molecular monocarboxylic acids to the hydrogenation solution.
US08816049B2
There is provided a lipid peptide that is capable of forming a hydrogel with an extremely small amount thereof over a liquid property range from acidic to alkaline, and a hydrogel having high environmental suitability, biocompatibility and biodegradability. A lipid peptide represented by Formula (1): where R1 represents an aliphatic group having 9 to 23 carbon atoms; R2, R3, R4 and R5 independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 7 carbon atom(s) which optionally has a branched chain having 1 to 3 carbon atom(s), a phenylmethyl group, a phenylethyl group or a —(CH2)n—X group, and at least one of R2, R3, R4 and R5 represents a —(CH2)n—X group; n represents the number of 1 to 4; X represents a guanidino group, a —CONH2 group or a 5-membered ring, a 6-membered ring or a fused heterocyclic ring composed of a 5-membered ring and a 6-membered ring which optionally have 1 to 3 nitrogen atom(s); and m represents 1 or 2, and a hydrogel comprising the lipid peptide.
US08816046B2
Embodiments herein generally relate to methods, compositions and uses of CaMKII inhibitors. Other embodiments relate to methods, compositions and uses of agents that target CaMKII. Yet further embodiments relate to compositions, methods and uses of CaMKIIN-derived molecules and other CaMKII inhibitor molecules that inhibit autonomous CaMKII activity. In accordance with these embodiments, compositions that inhibit autonomous CaMKII activity may be used for treating conditions causing neuronal cell death, for treating cancer or for treating neurodegenerative disorders.
US08816043B2
The present invention relates to solar cells and discloses a difluoro benzotriazolyl solar cell material and preparation method and use thereof. The solar cell material is represented by formula (I), wherein both R1 and R2, are C1 to C20 alkyl, and n is an integer from 10 to 50. In the difluoro benzotriazolyl solar cell material, since the 1,2,3-benzotriazole solar cell material contains two fluorine atoms, the HOMO energy level is reduced by 0.11 eV, while the fluorine-substituted 1,2,3-benzotriazole has two imido groups with electron-withdrawing ability; the fluorine-substituted 1,2,3-benzotriazole is a heterocyclic compound with strong electron-withdrawing ability, and an alkyl chain can be easily introduced to the N-position of the N—H bond of the benzotriazole. The functional group of the alkyl chain can improve the solar energy conversion efficiency, thus solving the low efficiency problem of solar cells made of the solar cell material.
US08816037B2
The invention relates to moisture-curing compositions which comprise at least one aromatic isocyanate group-bearing polyisocyanate and at least one dialdimine of formula (I). The compositions according to the invention have a longer open time and at the same time a shorter curing time, they are storage-stable and cure without forming bubbles. They are especially suitable as adhesives, sealing agents, potting compounds or coating materials, the use as sealing agents being especially advantageous.
US08816032B1
The present invention is directed to a copolymer derived from an acyclic conjugated diene monomer and a 1-vinylcycloalkene monomer of formula I where n is an integer ranging from 0 to 4, R is hydrogen or a linear or branched alkyl group of one to four carbon atoms, with the proviso that R may be appended at the 3 to (n+5) positions on the carbon ring.
US08816023B2
Disclosed are particles that have an exterior surface coated with a thin polymeric coating, such as a coating that includes a sulfur-containing polymer. Also disclosed are compositions, such as fuel-resistant sealant and coating compositions, which include such particles. Aerospace vehicles having an aperture at least partially sealed with a sealant deposited from such a sealant composition are also disclosed.
US08816020B2
A method of producing liquid polymeric polyols from epoxidized plant oils by ring-opening polymerization in an organic solvent in the presence of a catalyst to yield the desired polyols at room temperature. The properties of the polymeric polyols depend on the type of plant oil used as starting material. Typically, polymeric content of the purified plant oil based polyols ranges from 65% to 90%. The hydroxyl value and the acid value ranges from 30 to 90 mg KOH/g sample and 1 to 14 mg KOH/g sample respectively. The average molecular weight Mn ranges from 800 Da to 16000 Da. The liquid plant oil based polymeric polyols are reacted with excess diisocyanate to produce isocyanate terminated prepolymer. Subsequently, the prepared prepolymer is reacted with diol or diamine to polyurethane and polyurea respectively.
US08816016B2
A curable composition, useful as a thermosetting binder, having an emulsion (co)polymer, a polyol, and a water soluble polyacid or salt thereof.
US08816001B2
This invention pertains to methods for producing homogeneous recombinant proteins that contain polymer initiators at defined sites. The unnatural amino acid, 4-(2′-bromoisobutyramido)phenylalanine of formula 1, was designed and synthesized as a molecule comprising a functional group further comprising an initiator for an atom-transfer radical polymerization (‘ATRP”) that additionally would provide a stable linkage between the protein and growing polymer. We evolved a Methanococcus jannaschii (Mj) tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase/tRNACUA pair to genetically encode this unnatural amino acid in response to an amber codon. To demonstrate the utility of this functional amino acid, we produced Green Fluorescent Protein with the unnatural amino acid initiator of formula 1 site-specifically incorporated on its surface (GFP-1). Purified GFP-1 was then used as an initiator under standard ATRP conditions with oligo(ethylene oxide)monomethyl ether methacrylate, efficiently producing a polymer-GFP bioconjugate wherein the polymer is connected at a specifically selected site on GFP.
US08815991B2
The present invention relates to a polymer composition comprising polylactide and, based on the weight of this polymer, from 17 to 25 wt % of a chain modifier, from 30 to 55 wt % of an elastomeric polymer and from 20 to 45 wt % of a plasticizer. The invention also relates to the method of preparing said composition as well as to the method of manufacturing an article starting from said composition and the article per se.
US08815986B2
This invention relates to a method for storing a naphthol aralkyl type cyanate ester resin solution, which is difficult to precipitate due to long term storage in a solution state, and particularly relates to a method for storing a naphthol aralkyl type cyanate ester resin solution (AB), which comprises: preparing (i) a naphthol aralkyl type cyanate ester resin solution (AB) comprising a naphthol aralkyl type cyanate ester resin (A), a maleimide compound (B) and a solvent, (ii) a naphthol aralkyl type cyanate ester resin solution (AB) comprising a prepolymer of a naphthol aralkyl type cyanate ester resin (A), a maleimide compound (B) and a solvent, or (iii) a naphthol aralkyl type cyanate ester resin solution (AB) comprising a prepolymer of a naphthol aralkyl type cyanate ester resin (A) and a maleimide compound (B), and a solvent, and; storing the resin solution (AB).
US08815985B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a curable composition which is made mainly of a polymer having one or more reactive silicon groups, has good curability even when filler is used while a non-organotin catalyst is used, and is further high in industrial practicability. The object is solved by a curable composition, comprising, as constituents, a polymer (A) having one or more reactive silicon groups on average per molecule thereof, the reactive silicon group(s) being (each) a group which can be crosslinked by forming a siloxane bond, a Lewis acid and/or derivative thereof (B), an amine compound (C), a compound (D) having a reactive silicon group, and filler (E), and obtained by mixing the constituents with each other.
US08815984B2
An elastomeric composition containing a rubber polymer, an acid acceptor, and a silane-modified needle-like/acircular mineral additive. Compositions according to the present invention have superior heat resistance, compression set resistance, and improved processability (lower compound Mooney) compared to known rubber compositions.
US08815980B2
The invention provides an ink composition for inkjet recording, including: a component (A) that is a compound having two or more groups each of which having a specific structure; a component (B) that is at least one selected from the group consisting of organic solvents each of which having a specific structure; and (C) a colorant.
US08815974B2
[Problems] To provide a liquid dental adhesive composition which contains a phosphoric acid-type compound having a hydrogenphosphoric diester group as an acidic group-containing polymerizable monomer and, further, contains polyvalent metal ions, effectively preventing not only the gelation but also the formation of precipitates (cloudiness) during the storage.[Means for Solution] A dental adhesive composition which is acidic and contains an acidic group-containing polymerizable monomer (A), polyvalent metal ions (B), water (C), a water-soluble organic solvent (D) and fluoride ions (E), wherein at least 35% by mole of the acidic group-containing polymerizable monomer (A) is a phosphoric acid-type compound having a hydrogenphosphoric diester group, and the contents of the fluoride ions (E) and the polyvalent metal ions (B) are so set that a valence number ratio (RF) defined by the following formula (1): RF=VF/TVP (1) wherein VF is a valence number of the fluoride ions (E) contained in the composition, and TVP is a total valence number of the polyvalent metal ions (B) contained in the composition, satisfies a range of 0.2 to 2.0.
US08815966B2
Disclosed is a sheet for use as a packaging material having a low percentage thermal shrinkage, outstanding flexibility and outstanding properties as a packaging material for solar cells. The sheet for use as a packaging material for solar cells according to the present invention is a resin sheet having air spaces obtained by the hot-melt bonding of a portion of a dispersed hot-bonding resin powder, wherein the apparent density of the sheet is no less than 20(%) and no more than 70(%) of the net density of the hot-bonding resin, such that the sheet is adequately flexible.
US08815952B1
A composition comprising a mixture of chlorohexidine, a surfactant, and a cationic quaternary ammonium compound is suitable for use as an antiseptic and is surprisingly effective against difficult-to-kill organisms such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis and against Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) while still being suitable for topical application. The composition may include a chelating agent.
US08815943B2
The present invention provides compounds and methods for modulation of the quorum sensing of bacteria. In an embodiment, the compounds of the present invention are able to act as replacements for naturally occurring bacterial quorum sensing ligands in a ligand-protein binding system; that is, they imitate the effect of natural ligands and produce an agonistic effect. In another embodiment, the compounds of the present invention are able to act in a manner which disturbs or inhibits the naturally occurring ligand-protein binding system in quorum sensing bacteria; that is, they produce an antagonistic effect. The compounds of the present invention comprise N-acylated-homoserine lactones (AHLs) comprised of a wide range of acyl groups.
US08815942B2
Combination therapy and uses thereof for treatment and prevention of parasitic infection and disease
The invention relates to compounds, methods, uses, compositions, combinations, kits and packages for the prevention and/or treatment of parasite infection (e.g., Plasmodium parasites) and/or disease (e.g., malaria) based on uses of (a) cystamine, cysteamine, and analogs, derivatives, prodrugs, precursors thereof; an agent capable of inducing their production; and/or salts thereof, and (b) artemisinin and functional derivative, analog, conjugate, metabolite, prodrug or precursor thereof, and/or salts thereof.
US08815941B2
Compounds of structural formula (I) useful for the treatment or prophylaxis of viral infection, particularly viral influenza are provided Pharmaceutical preparations thereof and methods for their preparation are also described. The therapeutic effect is achieved via inhibition of viral neuraminidases, also known as viral sialidases. These neuraminidases are classified under the GH34 family of viral enzymes.
US08815937B2
The present invention relates, in various embodiments, to a compound represented by Structural Formula (I), pharmaceutically acceptable salts or prodrugs thereof, and compositions comprising said compounds, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or prodrugs thereof. Methods of using compounds of Structural Formulas (I) and (la) or compositions comprising compounds of Structural Formulas (I) and (la), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or prodrugs thereof, to treat ischemia or ischemia-reperfusion injury are also disclosed.
US08815932B2
Substituted tricyclic diproline analogues of the formula (I): wherein the variables are as defined herein. Also disclosed are methods for the production thereof, the use thereof for the induction of an alpha-helix conformation in peptides and/or proteins, pharmaceuticals containing said compounds, methods for the production of a peptide library containing said compounds, and peptide libraries containing said compounds.
US08815931B2
Oral formulations and method of formulating photosensitive agents for oral administration during photodynamic therapy (PDT) and Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (APDT) treatment are presented. The oral formulated photosensitizers show increased solubility and permeability, thus improving the bioavailability of photosensitizers at the treatment site. An orally administered photosensitizer is suitably formulated for mucosal adhesion and absorption via gastrointestinal mucosal membranes. Oral formulation provided herein use lipids and known proteins as carriers for photosensitizers by oral route. Carriers for encapsulating preselected photosensitizers include conventional liposomes, pegylated liposomes, nanoemulsions, nanocrystrals, nanoparticles, fatty emulsions, lipidic formulations, hydrosols, SMEDDS, Alpha-Feto protein (AFP), and Bovine-Serum-Albumin (BSA), fatty emulsions, hot-melt-extrudates and nanoparticles. The oral formulation, in case of a hydrophobic photosensitizer in the present invention, is stabilized using suitable surfactants/solubilizers thus preventing aggregation of the drug in the stomach and until it is absorbed in the duodenum and the small intestine. Oral formulations can be administered in the form of liquid, capsule, tablet, powder, paste or gel. Formulated drugs can be administered orally as one single dose or in multiple doses before administering PDT. In one embodiment Temoporfin (m-THPC) is used as a photosensitizer in the oral formulations. Temoporfin like many hydrophobic photosensitizers are especially suitable to be administered orally because there is no known enzyme system in the mammalian body which can metabolize Temoporfin or similar photosensitizers. Temoporfin can reach the blood system unchanged and fully active after absorption of the formulation in the gastrointestinal tract.
US08815928B2
The present invention discloses compounds of Formula (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, or prodrugs thereof: which inhibit RNA-containing virus, particularly the hepatitis C virus (HCV). Consequently, the compounds of the present invention interfere with the life cycle of the hepatitis C virus and are also useful as antiviral agents. The present invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the aforementioned compounds for administration to a subject suffering from HCV infection. The invention also relates to methods of treating an HCV infection in a subject by administering a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compounds of the present invention. The present invention relates to novel antiviral compounds represented herein above, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, and methods for the treatment or prophylaxis of viral (particularly HCV) infection in a subject in need of such therapy with the compounds.
US08815927B2
The invention relates to diazo bicyclic Smac mimetics that are tethered through a covalent linker to give a bivalent species. Bivalent diazo bicyclic Smac mimetics function as inhibitors of Inhibitor of Apoptosis Proteins (IAPs). The invention also relates to the use of bivalent diazo bicyclic Smac mimetics for inducing or sensitizing cells to the induction of apoptotic cell death. Thus, compounds of the invention are useful in the treatment, amelioration, or prevention of hyperproliferative diseases such as cancer.
US08815926B2
The invention relates to compounds of formula (I): as described herein, pharmaceutical preparations comprising such compounds, uses and methods of use for such compounds in the treatment of a disorder or a disease mediated by the activity of MDM2 and/or MDM4, and combinations comprising such compounds.
US08815923B2
Disclosed herein is a compound having a structure compositions, methods, and medicaments related thereto are also disclosed.
US08815916B2
The present invention relates to pharmaceutical formulations comprising at least one acid-labile proton pump inhibiting agent and at least one antacid, which have improved bioavailability, chemical stability, physical stability, dissolution profiles, disintegration times, safety, as well as other improved pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic, chemical and/or physical properties. The present invention is directed to methods, kits, combinations, and compositions for treating, preventing or reducing the risk of developing a gastrointestinal disorder or disease, or the symptoms associated with, or related to, a gastrointestinal disorder or disease in a subject in need thereof.
US08815907B2
The invention provides compounds of the formula: in salt or zwitterionic form or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R1-6, a, Z and Q are as defined in the specification. These compounds are muscarinic receptor antagonists. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds, processes for preparing such compounds and methods of using such compounds to, for example, treat pulmonary disorders such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma.
US08815903B2
The present invention provides a compound represented by the general formula (I) of the present invention, which has EP1 receptor antagonism: wherein A represents a benzene ring, a pyridine ring, or the like; Y1 represents a C1-6 alkylene group or the like; Y2 represents a single bond or the like; Z represents —C(═O)—NHSO2R6, an acidic 5-membered hetero ring group, or the like; R1 represents a hydrogen atom or the like; R2 represents a phenyl group, a 5-membered aromatic heterocyclic group, or the like; R3 represents a halogen atom, a C1-6 alkoxy group, or the like; R4 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, or the like; R5 represents a hydrogen atom or the like; and R6 represents a C1-6 alkyl group or the like], or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Furthermore, the compound (I) of the present invention can be used as an agent for treating or preventing LUTS, in particular, various symptoms of OABs.
US08815902B2
The present invention is directed to tetrahydroquinoline amide compounds of formula (I) (Formula should be inserted here) which are M1 receptor positive allosteric modulators and that are useful in the treatment of diseases in which the M1 receptor is involved, such as Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, pain or sleep disorders. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, and to the use of the compounds and compositions in the treatment of diseases mediated by the M1 receptor.
US08815901B2
The invention relates to compounds of formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in the specification, in free form or in the form of a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, ester, N-oxide thereof; processes for the preparation thereof; to pharmaceuticals containing such compounds, in particular for the use in one or more Protein tyrosine kinase mediated diseases.
US08815897B2
Provided herein are compounds according to Formula I and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and compositions comprising the same, for use in various methods, including treating cancers such as colon, ovarian, pancreatic, breast, liver, prostate and hematologic cancers:
US08815894B2
Novel [1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-a]pyridinyl-6-yl-substituted tetrahydroisoquinolines are described in the present invention. These compounds and crystalline forms SA1 and N-2 are used in the treatment of various neurological and physiological disorders. Methods of making these compounds and crystalline forms SA-1 and N-2 are also described in the present invention.
US08815878B1
Substituted spiro hemiaminals and methods for their use in the treatment of viral diseases, including hepatitis C viral infections, are described herein.
US08815870B2
The present teachings provide a compound of Formula (I-B): wherein R1-R10 are as described herein; a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the compound, a geometric isomer of the compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the geometric isomer. Also described are methods of preparing the same, as well as methods for preparing vilazodone using the same.
US08815864B2
The present invention relates to compounds of general formula I, wherein the group (Het)Ar is defined as in claim 1, which have valuable pharmacological properties, in particular bind to the GPR40 receptor and modulate its activity. The compounds are suitable for treatment and prevention of diseases which can be influenced by this receptor, such as metabolic diseases, in particular diabetes type 2.
US08815847B2
The present invention describes [1,2,4]thiadiazine 1,1-dioxide compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, which are useful in lowering serum uric acid in a patient in need thereof comprising administering to the patient a therapeutically or prophylactically effective amount of a [1,2,4]thiadiazine 1,1-dioxide compound.
US08815845B2
The present invention provides novel chemical compounds characterized as Rho kinase (ROCK) inhibitors, methods for their discovery, and their therapeutic, research, and diagnostic use. In particular, the present invention provides 1,4-benzodiazepine-2,5-dione compounds and related compounds having ROCK inhibitory activity, and methods of using such compounds as therapeutic agents to treat a number of conditions associated with ROCK activity.
US08815840B2
The present invention provides compounds of Formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof The Formula (I) compounds inhibit tyrosine kinase activity of Jak2, thereby making them useful as antiproliferative agents for the treatment of cancer and other diseases.
US08815839B2
Disclosed are compounds, compositions and methods for treating diseases, syndromes, conditions and disorders that are affected by the inhibition of MGL, including pain. Such compounds are represented by Formula (I) as follows: wherein Y, r, R2 and Z are defined herein.
US08815831B2
The invention provides a method to improve the efficacy of an antibiotic to inhibit the growth of Acinetobacter, said method comprising using said antibiotic together with an alginate oligomer. The Acinetobacter may be on an animate or inanimate surface and both medical and non-medical uses and methods are provided. In one aspect the invention provides an alginate oligomer for use together with at least one antibiotic in treating a subject infected, suspected to be infected, or at risk of infection, with Acinetobacter. In another aspect the method can be used to combat Acinetobacter contamination of a site e.g., for disinfection and cleaning purposes.
US08815825B2
This invention relates to compounds, compositions, and methods useful for reducing β-catenin target RNA and protein levels via use of dsRNAs, e.g., Dicer substrate siRNA (DsiRNA) agents.
US08815820B2
The present invention provides a method of identifying host cell molecules which may be modulated to inhibit viral replication and method of testing antiviral compounds. In addition, the invention provides compositions, methods and medicaments for treating viral infections and/or diseases or conditions caused or contributed to by viruses.
US08815815B2
Methods are provided for obtaining phytoextracts from vegetation waters and pomaces coming from olive milling. Such methods may be based on combining physical-chemical and enzymatic pre-treatment methods, membrane tangential filtration and vacuum evaporation. Such methods allow eco-sustainable and efficient extraction of the active ingredients involved. Compositions resulting from such methods are also provided.
US08815805B2
The teachings provided herein generally relate to a combination therapy and are directed to pharmaceutical compositions and methods for administering a combination of an α5β1 antagonist with an α2β1 antagonist to a subject. The methods are for use in inhibiting, preventing, or reversing angiogenesis, as well as in treating cancer. In some embodiments, the compositions and methods include a combined administration of VLO4 and VP12 (ECL12).
US08815802B2
The invention relates to a GLP-1 analog which comprises a histidine (H) residue at a position corresponding to position 31 of GLP-1(7-37) (SEQ ID NO: 1), a glutamine (Q) residue at a position corresponding to position 34 of GLP-1 (7-37) (SEQ ID NO: 1), and a maximum of ten amino acid modifications as compared to GLP-1 (7-37) (SEQ ID NO: 1); wherein the H residue is designated H31, and the Q residue is designated Q34; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, amide, or ester thereof. The invention also relates to derivatives thereof, as well as the pharmaceutical use of these analogs and derivatives, for example in the treatment and/or prevention of all forms of diabetes and related diseases. The invention furthermore relates to corresponding novel side chain intermediates. The derivatives are suitable for oral administration.
US08815801B2
A controlled release composition containing a physiologically active substance in high content, suppressing the initial excess release, and achieving a stable release speed over a long period of time is provided. A controlled release composition comprising (1) a physiologically active substance or salt thereof in an amount of about 14% (w/w) to about 24% (w/w) based on the total composition weight, (2) hydroxynaphthoic acid selected from the group consisting of 3-hydroxy-2-naphthoic acid and 1-hydroxy-2-naphthoic acid or salt thereof, and (3) a lactic acid polymer or salt thereof having a weight-average molecular weight of 15000 to 50000 in which the content of polymers having molecular weights of 5000 or less is about 5% by weight or less, wherein the molar ratio of said hydroxynaphthoic acid or salt thereof to said physiologically active substance or salt thereof is from 3:4 to 4:3.
US08815800B2
The invention is directed to skin moisturizing compositions comprising an aminopeptide mixture. The composition replenishes the skins natural moisturization factor and delivers excellent sensory benefits. The composition is not unpleasantly viscous during and after application.
US08815793B2
Adhesive polymeric compositions which can comprise dihydroxyphenyl moieties and derivatives thereof, and related methods of use.
US08815792B2
The present invention concerns a compound of formula wherein R represents a hydrogen atom or a C1-2 alkyl or alkoxyl group; each R1, R2 or R3 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl or ethyl group; and X represents a CHO, COOR4 or CN group, R4 being a methyl or ethyl group; and at least one of said R, R1 or R2 represents a group containing at least one carbon atom; and it use as perfuming ingredient, for instance to impart odor notes of the floral and/or anis type.
US08815790B2
Foaming light duty liquid detergent formulations that contain at least one cleaning solvent, at least one anionic surfactant and at least foam stabilizing surfactant are disclosed. The compositions of the presently described technology are useful for soil removal applications including, but not limited to, washing dishes by hand and cleaning bathroom and kitchen articles and/or surfaces.
US08815787B2
Provided is a skin cleanser, including the following components (A) to (D): (A) 1 to 30% by weight of a higher fatty acid or a salt thereof; (B) 0.5 to 10% by weight of a polyoxyethylene alkyl ether carboxylic acid or a salt thereof; (C) 0.1 to 10% by weight of an amphiphilic substance having an IOB of 0.25 to 1.2; and (D) 1 to 25% by weight of a water-insoluble particle having an average particle diameter of 50 to 500 μm, in which a weight ratio between the components (A) and (B) “(A)/(B)” is 1/2 to 10/1.
US08815785B2
Methods for creating a fluid diverting barrier in a zone of a subterranean formation are provided. Certain methods comprise providing a treatment fluid that comprises an aqueous base fluid, a viscoelastic surfactant, and a soap component; placing the treatment fluid in a subterranean formation penetrated by a well bore; and allowing the soap component of the treatment fluid to interact with a metal ion present in the subterranean formation to form a precipitate.
US08815782B2
Provided herein is method comprising: contacting an initial RNA sample containing a population of different RNA molecules with a divalent cation and a set of DNAzymes that are designed to cleave multiple target RNAs in the initial sample, thereby producing a product RNA sample that comprises: a) uncleaved RNA molecules and b) cleaved RNA fragments that contain a 2′,3′-cyclic-phosphate and a 5′ hydroxyl as the result of DNAzyme cleavage.
US08815781B2
The present patent application introduces methods for generating mixture compound libraries from a drug lead. The mixture compound libraries are then screened for the discovery of modified drug lead compounds which possess desired improved drug properties. The process utilizes a non-selective reaction to modify the drug lead compound structure. Compared to existing methods of modifying a drug lead compound, this new method can modify more structural positions of a drug lead compound. As a consequence, there will be greater probability of finding a product with improved drug properties.
US08815779B2
This invention provides transcription regulatory control sequences, the activity of which function as biomarkers for a variety of biological responses. This invention also provides expression constructs in which a biomarker transcription regulatory sequence is operably linked with a sequence for a reporter. Cells that comprise these expression constructs can be used in assays to identify conditions that modulate activity of the biological response.
US08815778B2
The present disclosure relates to detecting receptor-ligand binding by measuring local pH modulation using a pH-sensitive fluorophore.
US08815775B2
Bis(difluoromethyl)pyrazole derivatives of the formula (I) in which the symbols R1, X, Y and Q are each as defined in the description, and agrochemically active salts thereof, and use thereof for controlling phytopathogenic harmful fungi, and also processes for preparing compounds of the formula (I).
US08815771B2
A mechanochromic coating composition is disclosed comprising a polymeric network incorporating a plurality of ring-opening mechanophores each bound at two positions thereof within said polymeric network.
US08815769B2
A process for conditioning a high efficiency silver catalyst used to manufacture ethylene oxide from ethylene, oxygen, and at least one organic chloride is described. A non-reactive conditioning gas comprising at least one of ethylene, oxygen, and a ballast gas is introduced to the catalyst at a conditioning temperature ranging from 150° C. to 180° C. for a selected period of at least 4 hours.
US08815767B2
Mixed oxides catalysts usable in particular in the full oxidation to CO2 and H2O of volatile organic compounds (VOC), in the decomposition of nitrogen protoxide to nitrogen and oxygen and the combustion of CO, H2 and CH4 off gases in fuel cells, comprising oxides of manganese, copper and La2O3 and/or Nd2O3, having a percentage composition by weight expressed as MnO, CuO, La2O3 and/or Nd2O3 respectively of 35-56%, 19-31% and 20-37%. The oxides are supported on inert porous inorganic oxides, preferably alumina.
US08815766B2
Embodiments include metal (102) containing composites (100) and methods of forming metal containing composites. A metal containing composite can be formed by contacting an oxide support surface (104) with coordination compounds having metal atoms for a first predetermined time, where the metal atoms of the coordination compounds deposit on the oxide support surface; contacting the oxide support surface with a first reagent for a second predetermined time; and contacting the first reagent with a second reagent for a third predetermined time, where the first reagent and the second reagent react to form another layer of the oxide support surface.
US08815764B2
A process is presented for the formation of a SAPO-34 catalyst product. The process, that involves treatment with water or optionally at least one dissolved solid selected from the group consisting of ammonium chloride, ammonium phosphate, ammonium sulfate, ammonium acetate, ammonium carbonate, ammonium nitrate and mixtures thereof creates a SAPO-34 catalyst that has an increased selectivity for production of ethylene and propylene.
US08815760B2
The subject of the present invention relates to obtaining a zirconia sintered body having excellent in both properties of a translucency and a mechanical strength. The present invention relates to obtaining a high-strength zirconia sintered body having a translucency of an in-line transmission of 50% or more at a sample thickness of 1 mm for visible light at a wavelength of 600 nm and an average flexural strength of 300 MPa or more by subjecting a zirconia primary sintered body having an average grain size of 1 μm or less and a relative density of 92% or more and the crystal phase composed of cubic crystals only to HIP treatment at a temperature of 1,250° C. to 1,600° C. and a pressure of at least 50 MPa. The primary sintered body is obtained by maintaining a molded body of a zirconia powder containing 7 mol % to 30 mol % of yttria at 1,100° C. to 1,300° C. for at least 5 hrs or by heating the molded body at a high rate of temperature rise of 500° C./hr or more.
US08815758B2
The present application relates to a silica-based nonflammable material and to a method for preparing same. More particularly, the application relates to a silica-based nonflammable material which contains silica, limestone, and albite as main ingredients, which is obtained by a series of processes including grinding, melting, spraying, and molding, and which can replace asbestos, as well as to a method for preparing same. As functional building materials which are nonflammable even at high temperatures can be prepared using silica-based nonflammable materials consisting of silica-based minerals, and as only natural minerals may be used as main ingredients. The materials used as building materials may not be harmful to the human body and can replace asbestos that has been widely used as a conventional building material for thermal insulation, soundproofing, etc.
US08815753B2
Methods for sealing a porous dielectric are presented including: receiving a substrate, the substrate including the porous dielectric; exposing the substrate to an organosilane, where the organosilane includes a hydrolysable group for facilitating attachment with the porous dielectric, and where the organosilane does not include an alkyl group; and forming a layer as a result of the exposing to seal the porous dielectric. In some embodiments, methods are presented where the organosilane includes: alkynyl groups, aryl groups, fluoroalkyl groups, heteroaryl groups, alcohol groups, thiol groups, amine groups, thiocarbamate groups, ester groups, ether groups, sulfide groups, and nitrile groups. In some embodiments, method further include: removing contamination from the porous dielectric and a conductive region of the substrate prior to the exposing; and removing contamination from the conductive region after the forming.
US08815739B2
One illustrative device disclosed herein includes at least one fin comprised of a semiconducting material, a layer of gate insulation material positioned adjacent an outer surface of the fin, a gate electrode comprised of graphene positioned on the layer of gate insulation material around at least a portion of the fin, and an insulating material formed on the gate electrode.
US08815735B2
A semiconductor device comprises a substrate, a dielectric layer, an undoped silicon layer, and a silicon material. The substrate comprises a doped region. The dielectric layer is formed on the substrate and comprises a contact hole, and the contact hole corresponds to the doped region. The undoped silicon layer is formed on the doped region. The silicon material fills the contact hole from the undoped silicon layer.
US08815720B2
A workpiece is implanted to a first depth to form a first amorphized region. This amorphized region is then etched to the first depth. After etching, the workpiece is implanted to a second depth to form a second amorphized region below a location of the first amorphized region. The second amorphized region is then etched to the second depth. The implant and etch steps may be repeated until structure is formed to the desired depth. The workpiece may be, for example, a compound semiconductor, such as GaN, a magnetic material, silicon, or other materials.
US08815716B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer (1) containing GaN and an electrode. The electrode includes an electrode main body (6), a connection-use electrode (8) containing Al and formed at a position farther from the semiconductor layer (1) than the electrode main body (6), and a barrier layer (7) formed between the electrode main body (6) and the connection-use electrode (8), the barrier layer (7) containing at least one selected from the group consisting of W, TiW, WN, TiN, Ta, and TaN. A surface roughness RMS of the barrier layer (7) is 3.0 nm or less.
US08815711B2
A manufacturing apparatus for a semiconductor device, including: a reaction chamber configured to perform film formation on a wafer; a process gas supplying mechanism provided in an upper part of the reaction chamber and configured to introduce process gas to an interior of the reaction chamber; a gas discharging mechanism provided in a lower part of the reaction chamber and configured to discharge gas from the reaction chamber; a supporting member configured to hold the wafer; a cleaning gas supplying mechanism provided in an outer periphery of the supporting member and configured to emit cleaning gas in an outer periphery direction below an upper end of the supporting member; a heater configured to heat the wafer; and a rotary driving mechanism configured to rotate the wafer.
US08815704B2
A method of forming a substrate with isolation areas suitable for integration of electronic and photonic devices is provided. A common reticle and photolithographic technique is used to fabricate a mask defining openings for etching first and second trench isolation areas in a substrate, with the openings for the second trench isolation areas being wider than the openings for the first trench isolation areas. The first and second trench isolation areas are etched in the substrate through the mask. The second trench isolation areas are further etched to the deeper than the first trench isolation areas. The trench isolation areas are filled with oxide material. Electrical devices can be formed on the substrate and electrically isolated by the first trench isolation areas and photonic devices can be formed over the second trench isolation areas and be optically isolated from the substrate.
US08815703B2
A fabricating method of a shallow trench isolation structure includes the following steps. Firstly, a substrate is provided, wherein a high voltage device area is defined in the substrate. Then, a first etching process is performed to partially remove the substrate, thereby forming a preliminary shallow trench in the high voltage device area. Then, a second etching process is performed to further remove the substrate corresponding to the preliminary shallow trench, thereby forming a first shallow trench in the high voltage device area. Afterwards, a dielectric material is filled in the first shallow trench, thereby forming a first shallow trench isolation structure.
US08815692B2
A thin film transistor array substrate having excellent characteristics and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The thin film transistor array substrate includes a substrate, a gate electrode positioned on the substrate, a gate insulating layer positioned on the gate electrode, an active layer which is positioned on the gate insulating layer and includes a channel, an ohmic contact layer positioned on the active layer, and a source electrode and a drain electrode which are respectively connected to both sides of the active layer through the ohmic contact layer. The gate insulating layer includes a phosphorus-doped layer positioned adjacent to the active layer.
US08815683B2
A nonvolatile memory electronic device including nanowire channel and nanoparticle-floating gate nodes, in which the nonvolatile memory electronic device, which comprises a semiconductor nanowire used as a charge transport channel and nanoparticles used as a charge trapping layer, is configured by allowing the nanoparticles to be adsorbed on a tunneling layer deposited on a surface of the semiconductor nanowire, whereby charge carriers moving through the nanowire are tunneled to the nanoparticles by a voltage applied to a gate, and then, the charge carriers are tunneled from the nanoparticles to the nanowire by the change of the voltage that has been applied to the gate, whereby the nonvolatile memory electronic device can be operated at a low voltage and increase the operation speed thereof.
US08815680B2
A method for making a non-volatile memory device provides a semiconductor substrate including a surface region and a tunnel dielectric layer overlying the surface region. Preferably the tunnel dielectric layer is a high-K dielectric, characterized by a dielectric constant higher than 3.9. The method forms a source region within a first portion and a drain region within a second portion of the semiconductor substrate. The method includes forming a first and second nanocrystalline silicon structures overlying the first and second portions between the source region and the drain region to form a first and second floating gate structures while maintaining a separation between the first and second nanocrystalline silicon structures. The method includes forming a second dielectric layer overlying the first and second floating gate structures. The method also includes forming a control gate structure overlying the first and second floating gate structures.
US08815673B2
In some embodiments of the inventive subject matter, methods include forming an oxide layer on a semiconductor substrate, injecting nitrogen into the oxide layer to form a nitrogen injection layer and to change the oxide layer to an oxynitride layer, removing a part of the oxynitride layer to leave a portion of the oxynitride layer in a first area and expose the nitrogen injection layer in a second area and forming an insulating layer comprising a portion on the portion of the oxynitride layer in the first area and a portion on the nitrogen injection layer in the second area. The insulating layer may have a higher dielectric constant than the oxide layer.
US08815670B2
A FinFET structure is formed by forming a hardmask layer on a substrate including a silicon-containing layer on an insulating layer. The hardmask layer includes first, second and third layers on the silicon-containing layer. An array of fins is formed from the hardmask layer and the silicon-containing layer. A gate is formed covering a portion but not all of a length of each of the array of fins. The portion covers each of the fins in the array. The gate defines source/drain regions on either side of the gate. A spacer is formed on each side of the gate, the forming of the spacer performed to remove the third layer from portions of the fins in the source/drain regions. The second layer of the hardmask layer is removed from the portions of the fins in the source/drain regions, and the fins in the source/drain regions are merged.
US08815658B2
The present invention provides a method of forming a transistor. The method includes forming a first layer of a first semiconductor material above an insulation layer. The first semiconductor material is selected to provide high mobility to a first carrier type. The method also includes forming a second layer of a second semiconductor material above the first layer of semiconductor material. The second semiconductor material is selected to provide high mobility to a second carrier type opposite the first carrier type. The method further includes forming a first masking layer adjacent the second layer and etching the second layer through the first masking layer to form at least one feature in the second layer. Each feature in the second layer forms an inverted-T shape with a portion of the second layer.
US08815652B2
The present invention is a manufacturing method for a semiconductor device having steps of; aligning a program head 80 having a program dot array corresponding to each OTP-ROM cell array 21 provided in areas 12 to be a plurality of semiconductor chips arranged in a semiconductor wafer to the OTP-ROM cell array 21 in one of the areas to be the plurality of semiconductor chips 12; and programming the OTP-ROM cell array 21 with a different pattern for each of the areas to be the plurality of semiconductor chips 12 by using the program head 80.
US08815650B2
A method of manufacture of an integrated circuit packaging system includes: providing a substrate; mounting an integrated circuit above the substrate with an interconnect directly connecting between the substrate and the integrated circuit; and forming an under-fill between the integrated circuit and the substrate having a cast side.
US08815648B1
A method of assembling semiconductor devices includes applying a metal paste including a plurality of metal particles having an average size less than 50 nanometers and a binder material onto a metal terminal of a package substrate. The metal paste is processed including a heat up step in a reducing gas atmosphere and then a vacuum sintering step at a temperature of at least 200° C. for forming a sintered metal coating. A semiconductor die is attached onto a die attach area of the package substrate. A bond wire is then connected between a bond pad on the semiconductor die and the sintered metal coating on the metal terminal.
US08815636B2
Solar cell contacts having good electrical performance are made by a process involving: (a) providing a silicon wafer substrate; (b) providing a paste comprising: (i) aluminum, (ii) glass frit, and (iii) a separate and distinct amount of at least one oxide, such that, together with the aluminum, the glass frit and oxide forms a paste having an exothermic reaction peak, at a temperature of at least 660° C. to less than 900° C., (c) applying the paste to the silicon wafer substrate to form a coated substrate, and (d) firing the coated substrate for a time and at a temperature sufficient to sinter the aluminum and fuse the glass frit and oxide.
US08815634B2
Dark currents within a photosensitive device are reduced through improved implantation of a species during its fabrication. Dark currents can be caused by defects in the photo-diode device, caused during the annealing, implanting or other processing steps used during fabrication. By amorphizing the workpiece in the photo-diode region, the number of defects can be reduced thereby reducing this cause of dark current. Dark current is also caused by stress induced by an adjacent STI, where the stress caused by the liner and fill material exacerbate defects in the workpiece. By amorphizing the sidewalls and bottom surface of the trench, defects created during the etching process can be reduced. This reduction in defects also decreases dark current in the photosensitive device.
US08815633B1
A method of fabricating a 3-dimensional structure on a copper-indium-gallium-diselenide material comprises steps: preparing a CIGS (Copper Indium Gallium Diselenide) substrate, and defining two types of regions complementary to each other on the CIGS substrate; providing a mold absorbing an etching solution that can etch the CIGS substrate instead of the mold; aligning the mold to the two types of regions, and allowing the etching solution to flow out from the mold and contact with the two types of regions to etch the two types of regions for generating a level drop between the two types of regions and forming a 3-dimensional (3D) structure on the CIGS substrate. As a result, the present invention can fabricate a large-area 3D structure on a CIGS substrate rapidly without using expensive equipments or complicated processes.
US08815628B2
A complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) device and a method for fabricating the same are provided. The CMOS image sensor includes: a first conductive type substrate including a trench; a channel stop layer formed by using a first conductive type epitaxial layer over an inner surface of the trench; a device isolation layer formed on the channel stop layer to fill the trench; a second conductive type photodiode formed in a portion of the substrate in one side of the channel stop layer; and a transfer gate structure formed on the substrate adjacent to the photodiode to transfer photo-electrons generated from the photodiode.
US08815627B2
A method for manufacturing an ionizing radiation detection device having a block of a semiconductor material adapted to undergo local separations of charges between positive and negative charges under the effect of ionizing radiation. The device including a first series of at least two collecting electrodes formed on the surface of the semiconductor block, and a second series of at least two non-collecting electrodes formed on a support and separated from the semiconductor block by an insulating layer. During processing, after forming the insulating layer on the support so as to cover the non-collecting electrodes, the block of semiconductor material bearing the collecting electrodes and the support bearing the non-collecting electrodes and the insulating layer are assembled.
US08815620B2
In a flexible organic light-emitting display device and a method of manufacturing the same, a photolysis layer and an electrostaticity prevention layer are sequentially formed on a carrier substrate, a first flexible substrate is formed on the electrostaticity prevention layer, a display unit is formed on the first flexible substrate, the display unit is covered with the second flexible substrate, and light is irradiated so as to decompose the photolysis layer and to remove the carrier substrate. The formed flexible organic light-emitting display device may have improved flexibility because a flexible substrate is used instead of a typical strong and thick glass substrate. In addition, occurrence of electrostaticity during the separation of the carrier substrate is suppressed by the electrostaticity prevention layer, and thus, damage of the display unit due to electrical impacts is also reduced.
US08815611B2
A functional group and spacer group modified polymer composition, articles incorporating the composition, and methods for label-independent-detection using the articles, as defined herein.
US08815609B2
A lateral flow device includes a sample compressor and a test strip comprising a diverting zone. The diverting zone, which may include a barrier and/or a gap or ditch, stops or impedes flow. Flow is reinitiated and diverted into an alternate plane by compression of a sample compressor. Flow returns to the original, lateral plane, at the end of the diverting zone.
US08815606B2
A thin-layer chromatography method for detection and identification of common military and peroxide explosives in samples includes the steps of provide a reverse-phase thin-layer chromatography plate; prepare the plate by marking spots on which to deposit the samples by touching the plate with a marker; spot one micro liter of a first standard onto one of the spots, spot one micro liter of a second standard onto another of the spots, and spot samples onto other of spots producing a spotted plate; add eluent to a developing chamber; add the spotted plate to the developing chamber; remove the spotted plate from the developing chamber producing a developed plate; place the developed plate in an ultraviolet light box; add a visualization agent to a dip tank; dip the developed plate in the dip tank and remove the developed plate quickly; and detect explosives by viewing said developed plate.
US08815603B2
A chemochromic indicator is provided that includes a hypergolic fuel sensing chemochromic pigment that change from a first color to a second color in the presence of a hypergolic fuel. In a first embodiment, a chemochromic indicator is provided for detecting the presence of a hypergolic fuel such that the irreversible hypergolic fuel sensing chemochromic pigment includes potassium tetrachloroaurate (KAuCl4). There are several types of chemochromic indicators, for example, the article used to form the chemochromic indicators include, but are not limited to, wipe materials, silicone/TEFLON tape, manufactured parts, fabrics, extruded parts, and paints.
US08815598B2
The present inventors discovered that genes could be introduced specifically into trophectodermal cells with high efficiency, by infecting blastocysts with viral vectors carrying an arbitrary polynucleotide, or by using a nucleic acid transfection reagent in blastocysts, from which zona pellucida (extracellular matrix covering preimplantation early embryos to protect them from infection of viruses and the like) is removed. This method has no risk of infecting cells of the inner cell mass, which develops into a fetus in the future, with the introduced polynucleotide because the trophectoderm serves as a barrier. The present invention provides methods for introducing foreign genes into only placenta but not fetus, which enables rescue of genetically mutant animals from embryonic lethality due to placental abnormality and allows their birth. Furthermore, it is possible to analyze expression and effect of genes that regulate placental formation or placental function by using these methods.
US08815594B2
A hybrid tissue scaffold is provided which comprises a porous primary scaffold having a plurality of pores and a porous secondary scaffold having a plurality of pores, wherein the secondary scaffold resides in the pores of the primary scaffold to provide a hybrid scaffold. The pores of the porous primary scaffold may have a pore size in a range of 0.50 mm to 5.0 mm, and the pores of the porous secondary scaffold may have a pore size in a range of 50 μm to 600 μm. The primary scaffold may provide 5% to 30% of a volume of the hybrid scaffold.
US08815592B2
A method of differentiation stem cells cells by contacting stem cells with a dopaminergic differentiation agent is provided in certain aspects. For example, the agent may comprise substituted benzoxazole. These methods and compositions may be used in toxicological screens, e.g., to evaluate the neurotoxicity of a test compound or treatment of neurological disorders.
US08815582B2
Methods, systems and devices are implemented in connection with light-responsive ion channel molecules. One such method is implemented using a light-activated ion channel molecule that responds to a light stimulus. The method includes engineering the light-activated ion channel molecule in a cell; and activating the ion channel molecule, in response to light stimulus that is provided to the ion channel molecule and that has properties that do not activate a ChR2 ion channel, to allow ions to pass through the light-activated ion channel molecule.
US08815578B2
Disclosed is a cell culture tube, having in opposite end walls two respective eccentric openings which communicate with each other through an inner straight passage formed in the cell culture tube, in which the inner straight passage is tilted at an angle relative to a longitudinal axis of the cell culture tube to allow a culture medium to smoothly flow into and out of the inner passage through the openings. Also, provided is a multiple cell culture system using a plurality of the culture tubes.
US08815572B2
The present invention relates to a nucleic acid extracting apparatus, and the nucleic acid extracting apparatus can include a pipe-shaped tube having an open outlet at one side thereof, and a hydrogel supporting member that is provided inside the tube and filters impurities excluding an extraction target material.
US08815563B2
Modified viral particles wherein the viral particles, typically adenoviral particles, are modified by glycosylation and the use of the modified viral particles to deliver heterologous nucleic acid to cells. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same and method of treatment using the same.
US08815561B2
Methods and composition for biofuel processing are provided. For example, in certain aspects methods for using metal compounds to enhance cellulose enzymatic hydrolysis are described. Furthermore, the invention provides integrated processes with fewer lignin removal steps to improve efficiency.
US08815555B2
The present invention includes methods, devices and systems for isolating a nucleic acid from a fluid comprising cells. In various aspects, the methods, devices and systems may allow for a rapid procedure that requires a minimal amount of material and/or results in high purity nucleic acid isolated from complex fluids such as blood or environmental samples.
US08815549B2
The invention relates to a method for the ozonolysis of unsaturated fatty acids and derivatives thereof, comprising a) ozonolysis of a fatty acid or of a derivative thereof in an organic phase comprising an organic solvent, and b) contacting the organic phase with an aqueous phase comprising catalase and preferably a buffer, where the fatty acid or the derivative thereof has a linear chain having at least eight carbon atoms, and the use of catalase for removing reactive oxygen species from a reaction mixture comprising ozonolysis products of an unsaturated fatty acid.
US08815548B2
The invention features methods for producing isoprene from cultured cells using a feedback-resistant mevalonate kinase polypeptide, such as an archaeal mevalonate kinase polypeptide. The resulting isoprene compositions may have increased yields and/or purity of isoprene.
US08815542B2
This invention provides compositions and methods for producing translational components that expand the number of genetically encoded amino acids in eukaryotic cells. The components include orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases and unnatural amino acids. Proteins and methods of producing proteins with unnatural amino acids in eukaryotic cells are also provided.
US08815541B2
The invention provides an improved method for producing polypeptides with a C-terminal glycine in a yeast transformant being characterized in having a non functional KEX1 gene. The method is in particular well suited to produce polypeptides with an aromatic amino acid residue attached to the C-terminal glycine. The yeast strain may have further non-functional protease genes selected from PEP4, YPS1, MKCI, YPS3, YPS5, YPS6, YPS7, PRB1, STE13 and KEX2.
US08815540B2
The present invention provides a method for preparing a non-adenoviral target virus or target proteins utilizing a potent expression cell line having stably integrated into its genome a gene encoding a specific heterologous regulator protein.
US08815533B2
A method is provided for purifying a protein comprising the steps of providing a heme tag with an open coordination site and tagging the recombinant protein of interest with the heme tag. A resin framework is used, wherein a base that binds to heme is immobilized to the resin, and the open coordination site of the heme tag is capable of reversibly binding to the base immobilized to the resin. The tagged protein is reversibly bound to the resin, then eluted from the resin and quantified. The method enables the tagged protein to be tracked during protein expression or purification, and can be used to identify secretion of a protein to the periplasm or to tag proteins in the cytoplasm.
US08815520B2
The present invention relates to a method for discrimination of p16INK4a overexpressing metaplasias from neoplastic or preneoplastic p16INK4a overexpressing lesions by determination of the level of high risk HPV encoded gene-products such as e.g. HPV E2 and/or HPV E7 molecules in biological samples in the course of cytological testing procedures. The method thus enables for reduction of false positive results in the p16INK4a based detection of anogenital lesions in cytological testing procedures.
US08815498B2
The present invention provides a method of forming tight-pitched patterns. First, a target pattern is provided, wherein the target pattern comprises a plurality of first stripe patterns, and each of the first stripe patterns has a first width and a first length. Then, a photomask comprising a plurality of second stripe patterns corresponding to the first stripe patterns is provided, and each of the second stripe patterns has a second width and a second length. Then, a first exposure process with the photomask is provided in an exposure system, wherein the first exposure process uses a first light source that can resolve the second width of each of the second stripe patterns. Lastly, a second exposure process with the photo-mask is provided in the exposure system, wherein the second exposure process uses a second light source that cannot resolve the second width of each of the second stripe patterns.
US08815477B2
A color filter manufacturing method for forming a filter segment and a black matrix by repeating at least a coating step of coating a substrate with a photosensitive resin layer, a pattern exposure step of curing the photosensitive resin layer by pattern exposure, a developing step of developing the exposed photosensitive resin layer, and a sintering step of thermosetting the developed photosensitive resin layer, in this order a plurality of number of times, characterized in that in the exposure step, a laser is used as a light source, and proximity exposure is performed by repetitively emitting the laser via photomask such that a cumulative exposure amount is 1 to 150 mJ/cm2.
US08815470B2
It is a main object of the present invention to provide a fuel cell catalyst in which a support for supporting a metal catalyst has electrical conductivity in itself and which can prevent agglomeration of the metal catalyst during long term use of the fuel cell. In the present invention, the object is achieved by providing a fuel cell catalyst for use in a cathode-side catalyst electrode layer of a solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell, comprising a metal catalyst and a perovskite-type complex oxide (ABO3).
US08815467B2
The present invention relates to a membrane electrode assembly comprising at least two electrochemically active electrodes separated by at least one polymer electrolyte membrane, the aforementioned polymer electrolyte membrane having fibrous reinforcing elements which at least partly penetrate the polymer electrolyte membrane, wherein at least some of the fibrous reinforcing elements have functional groups which have a covalent chemical bond between the fibers and the polymer of the polymer electrolyte membrane.The membrane electrode assembly is suitable for applications in fuel cells, especially in high-temperature polymer electrolyte fuel cells.
US08815464B2
A fuel cell includes a membrane electrode assembly and a metal separator. The metal separator is stacked with the membrane electrode assembly. A reactant gas passage is provided between the membrane electrode assembly and the metal separator to supply a reactant gas along an electrode surface. The metal separator includes a reactant gas communication hole to communicate with the reactant gas passage. The metal separator further includes a plurality of groove groups each having a plurality of grooves press-formed to allow the reactant gas communication hole to communicate with the reactant gas passage. The grooves adjacent to each other are spaced apart by a first distance. The groove groups adjacent to each other are spaced apart by a second distance larger than the first distance.
US08815463B2
Deterioration of an electrolyte and a sealing member is suppressed taking account of the durable temperature characteristics thereof, while enhancing the starting performance of a fuel cell. For this realization, in a system comprising a gas piping system for supplying a reactant gas to a fuel cell, and a gas supply controller for altering the supply state of the reactant gas in response to a power generation request, a gas supply quantity is altered in accordance with the temperature of the fuel cell. Preferably, the gas supply quantity is altered in accordance with the durable temperature characteristics of a passage member forming a gas passage of the reactant gas. Furthermore, the differential pressure of the gas supply state between the anode side and the cathode side of the fuel cell is preferably taken into account and the differential pressure between both poles is suppressed by altering the gas supply quantity on the cathode side as the case may be.
US08815459B2
A fuel system including a fuel cell including a plurality of unit cells supplied with a prescribed gas to generate electricity, a stoichiometric ratio calculating apparatus calculating the stoichiometric ratio of the prescribed gas for each unit cell, and a gas flow increasing apparatus increasing the supply of the prescribed gas when the stoichiometric ratio falls below a prescribed value.
US08815452B2
The present invention relates to one or more electrode plates, which are installed with current collecting terminals at two or more sides thereof, and joined to an auxiliary conductor made of a material having a conductivity that is higher than that of the electrode plates. Current collecting terminals are installed at two or more sides of the auxiliary conductor, for linking with current collecting terminals installed at two or more sides of the electrode plates, and at least one of linked terminals is used as a general current collecting terminal to output current to an external part or to receive input current from the external part. Finally, insulators installed between the auxiliary conductor and the electrode plates to constitute an electrode unit.
US08815451B2
A negative-electrode plate 22 for use in a cylindrical cell, intended to be laid over a positive-electrode plate 21 with a separator 23 interposed between and rolled to form a cylindrical electrode body 20, with the positive-electrode plate 21 inside, the electrode body being arranged in a bottomed cylindrical outer can 10 to form the cylindrical cell, comprises a first negative-electrode part 22a which is to face the positive-electrode plate 21 on either side, with the separator 23 between, when formed into the electrode body 20, and a second negative-electrode part 22b which is to form the innermost circumference of the electrode body 20 and face the positive-electrode plate 21 only on one side, with the separator 23 between, when formed into the electrode body 20, the second negative-electrode part 22b being lower in negative-electrode active material density than the first negative-electrode part 22a.
US08815447B2
The present invention aims to provide a fuel cell anode, a membrane electrode assembly and a fuel cell, so as to obtain high electric power. The fuel cell anode has an electrode catalyst layer, and the electrode catalyst layer comprises a supported catalyst comprises electrically conductive carriers and fine catalytic particles supported thereon, a proton-conductive inorganic oxide supporting SiO2 on its surface, and a proton-conductive organic polymer binder. The SiO2 supported on the inorganic oxide prevents the oxide particles from growing, to ensure the high electric power. It is necessary to control the mixing ratios among the supported catalyst, the proton-conductive oxide and the proton-conductive binder in particular ranges.
US08815444B1
Composite current collectors containing coatings of metals, alloys or compounds, selected from the group of Zn, Cd, Hg, Ga, In, Tl, Sn, Pb, As, Sb, Bi and Se on non-metallic, non-conductive or poorly-conductive substrates are disclosed. The composite current collectors can be used in electrochemical cells particularly sealed cells requiring a long storage life. Selected metals, metal alloys or metal compounds are applied to polymer or ceramic substrates by vacuum deposition techniques, extrusion, conductive paints (dispersed as particles in a suitable paint), electroless deposition, cementation; or after suitable metallization by galvanic means (electrodeposition or electrophoresis). Metal compound coatings are reduced to their respective metals by chemical or galvanic means. The current collectors described are particular suitable for use in sealed primary or rechargeable galvanic cells containing mercury-fee and lead-free alkaline zinc electrodes.
US08815442B2
The invention relates to an electrode comprising (a) an electron collector containing one or more transition metals from the groups 4 to 12 of the Periodic Classification of the Elements, and (b) a material that is electrochemically active, present on the surface of the electron collector in the form of a nano-structured conversion layer containing nano-particles or agglomerates of said nano-particles, wherein the nano-particles have a mean diameter of between 1 and 1000 nm, preferably between 10 and 300 nm, wherein said electrochemically active material contains at least one compound of the transition metal or transition metals present in the electron collector, characterized by the fact that the electrode is a textile formed by metallic wires or fibers. The invention also relates to a half-accumulator and an accumulator containing such a textile electrode.
US08815441B2
A secondary battery includes an electrode assembly for generating electricity, a can for accommodating the electrode assembly, and a cap assembly. The can has an open top and the cap assembly seals the open top. The electrode assembly has a plurality of electrode tabs through which electricity is supplied. The cap assembly includes an insulating case that has a plurality of tab drawing grooves. Each of the tab drawing grooves is capable of being occupied by one of the electrode tabs. A number of the tab drawing grooves is greater than a number of the electrode tabs. One of the electrode tabs can be drawn through one of the tab drawing grooves. Other tab drawing grooves are left as spare grooves, and therefore it is not necessary to change the shape of the insulating case even though the structure of the secondary battery is changed.
US08815437B2
A rechargeable battery is disclosed. In one embodiment, the battery includes: i) a first current collecting plate, ii) a plurality of electrode assemblies electrically connected in parallel with each other via the first current collecting plate, wherein each of the electrode assemblies comprises two opposing ends and an outer side formed between the two ends, and wherein the first current collecting plate is electrically connected to one of the two ends of the electrode assemblies and iii) a can configured to accommodate the first current collecting plate and the plurality of electrode assemblies, wherein the can comprises at least one non-linear portion, and wherein an inner surface of the non-linear portion faces the outer side of at least one electrode assembly.
US08815435B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a separator for a nonaqueous secondary battery having excellent heat resistance and excellent ion permeation as well as shut-down properties. The first invention is a separator for a nonaqueous secondary battery, comprising a porous composite membrane which includes a substrate comprising a polyolefin microporous membrane and a heat-resistant porous layer comprising a heat-resistant resin, the heat-resistant porous layer being formed on at least one surface of the substrate, wherein the separator is characterized in that the sheet resistance (A) of the substrate, the Gurley value (B) of the substrate, the sheet resistance (C) of the porous composite membrane, and the Gurley value (D) of the porous composite membrane satisfy a specific relationship. The second invention is characterized in that the heat-resistant porous layer has an average pore size of 0.1 to 0.2 μm as measured by mercury intrusion porosimetry. The third invention is characterized in that the heat-resistant resin fibrils have an average fibril diameter of 10 to 80 nm, and the pores in the heat-resistant porous layer have an average pore size of 50 to 250 nm.
US08815433B2
Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a separator. The method includes (S1) preparing a porous planar substrate having a plurality of pores, (S2) preparing a slurry containing inorganic particles dispersed therein and a polymer solution including a first binder polymer and a second binder polymer in a solvent, and coating the slurry on at least one surface of the porous substrate, (S3) spraying a non-solvent incapable of dissolving the second binder polymer on the slurry, and (S4) simultaneously removing the solvent and the non-solvent by drying. According to the method, a separator with good bindability to electrodes can be manufactured in an easy manner. In addition, problems associated with the separation of inorganic particles in the course of manufacturing an electrochemical device can be avoided.
US08815424B2
A process of controlling the temperature of a battery pack includes the steps of determining the operating mode and present temperature of the battery pack. Optimal temperature for the battery pack depends on the operating mode and the difference between the present temperature and the previously identified optimal temperature. The battery pack is warmed if the temperature difference (measured minus optimal) is large. The optimal time interval over which the battery pack should be warmed is a function of the operating mode and the previously calculated temperature difference. A heater is switchably operated enabling and disabling the heat generating element to warm the pack to the previously identified optimal temperature.
US08815422B2
A battery pack and a method for fabricating the same are provided. The battery pack includes a plurality of battery cells connected in series or in parallel to each other, a protective circuit module (PCM) controlling charging and discharging of the plurality of battery cells, and a coverlay electrically connecting the plurality of battery cells to the PCM, wherein the coverlay includes a plurality of wires, each of the plurality of wires includes battery connecting pads provided at its one end, the battery connecting pads connected to the battery cells, and module connecting pads provided at it's the other end, the module connecting pads connected to the PCM, and a solder layer is formed on the battery connecting pads.
US08815416B2
Disclosed is an organic electroluminescent device (organic EL device) which is improved in luminous efficiency, fully secured of driving stability, and of simple constitution. Also disclosed is a compound useful for the fabrication of said organic electroluminescent device. This compound for organic electroluminescent device is a bipyrimidyl compound which has a basic skeleton of 2,2′-bipyrimidyl and is substituted by an aromatic hydrocarbon group, an aromatic heterocyclic group, or a substituted amino group. The aforementioned organic electroluminescent device has a light-emitting layer between an anode and a cathode which are piled one upon another on a substrate and the light-emitting layer contains a phosphorescent dopant and the aforementioned bipyrimidyl compound as a host material.
US08815410B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a light emitting element, which is resistant to repetition of an oxidation reaction. It is another object of the invention to provide a light emitting element, which is resistant to repetition of a reduction reaction. An anthracene derivative is represented by a general formula (1). In the general formula (1), R1 represents hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R2 represents any one of hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms and an aryl group having 6 to 12 carbon atoms, R3 represents any one of hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and an aryl group having 6 to 12 carbon atoms, Ph1 represents a phenyl group, and X1 represents an arylene group having 6 to 15 carbon atoms.
US08815409B2
An organic electroluminescent device including at least one organic layer between a pair of electrodes, wherein the at least one organic layer includes a luminescent layer, at least one layer of the at least one organic layer includes at least one metal complex containing a tri- or higher-dentate ligand, and a compound represented by formula (I) is contained in an organic layer containing the metal complex and/or in other organic layer(s). In formula (I), R11 to R14 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent group, and at least one of R11 to R14 represents an aryl or heteroaryl group.
US08815404B2
Disclosed herein is a protective film. The protective film is produced by alternate coating of a polysilazane-based polymer and a flexible polysiloxane-based polymer. The polysilazane-based polymer is cured at low temperature to form silica, thereby achieving high hardness and high light transmittance. The protective film has improved interfacial adhesion between the respective coating films, which prevents permeation of moisture and oxygen. In addition, the protective film can be easily produced by low-temperature wet processes. Also disclosed herein is an encapsulation material comprising the protective film.
US08815399B2
Provided is a carbon nanotube (CNT) transparent conductive layer having a loop pattern in which a plurality of loops are at least partially connected to one another, and a fabrication method thereof. The loops in the pattern are generated by a spray-coating method and partially connected with one anther, and thus improving transparency and conductivity of the CNT transparent conductive layer. In Addition, the CNT transparent conductive layer has conductivity and sheet resistance highly suitable for a transparent electrode.
US08815396B2
Improved silicon carbide particles, improved silicon carbide abrasive particles, and abrasive slurry compositions for use chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) processes. The particles can comprise nano-sized silicon carbide particles, particularly silicon carbide particles having a surface chemistry similar to silica.
US08815392B2
A process is disclosed for producing a doped gallium arsenide single crystal by melting a gallium arsenide starting material and subsequently solidifying the gallium arsenide melt, wherein the gallium arsenide melt contains an excess of gallium relative to the stoichiometric composition, and wherein it is provided for a boron concentration of at least 5×1017 cm−3 in the melt or in the obtained crystal. The thus obtained crystal is characterized by a unique combination of low dislocation density, high conductivity and yet excellent, very low optic absorption, particularly in the range of the near infrared.
US08815379B2
A coated article includes a substrate, a first layer formed on the substrate, and a second layer deposited on the first layer. The substrate comprises a first outer surface. The substrate defines a plurality of first convexes in the first outer surface. The first layer comprises a second outer surface away from the first outer surface. The second outer surface of the first layer defines a plurality of second convexes corresponding to the first convexes in the position. The second layer substantially includes substance M, O, and N, wherein M is Al or Si.
US08815376B2
A surface treatment agent for hydraulic transfer to perform hydraulic transfer decoration with high adhesion onto an olefin-type substrate with poor adhesion. They are provided by a surface treatment agent for hydraulic transfer to a polyolefin-type substrate to be used in a hydraulic transfer method for forming a decorative layer, by coating an activator to a dried print pattern on a water-soluble film to recover adhesion of said print pattern, and then by hydraulic transferring said print pattern onto the surface of a surface treatment layer of the polyolefin-type substrate treated with the surface treatment agent, characterized in that said surface treatment agent for hydraulic transfer is consisted of a resin composition including a modified polyolefin (a), a polyfunctional isocyanate (b) and a solvent (c), and a blending ratio of (b)/(a) is 0.005 to 0.5, in weight ratio.
US08815370B2
A decorative floor tile including at least one decorative layer and a backing layer having an array of resilient annular projections. Each annular projection includes a concave top surface, an outside wall surface, and an inside wall surface. The inside wall surface defines a central, blind passageway area. When the decorative floor tile is installed over an underlying surface, and pressure is applied to the decorative floor tile, a vacuum is created within the blind passageway and the underlying surface. The vacuum increases the amount of frictional drag between the surface covering and the underlying surface, and thus allows the surface covering to remain in place without the need for an adhesive.
US08815368B2
A composite sheet and a method of making a composite sheet. A core having end walls is provided. Continuous fibers or a continuous fiber mat is secured to the core such that the continuous fibers align with the end walls of the core.
US08815366B2
Reinforced concrete component with at least one upper and at least one lower longitudinal reinforcement layer, and one transverse force reinforcement. Transverse force reinforcement being passed to the upper and lower longitudinal reinforcement in its extension. The transverse force reinforcement is formed by at least 20 L-shaped sheet metal components made from structural steel with stirrups attached thereto. Each sheet metal component thereby comprises a chamfer.
US08815359B2
Provided is a multi-layer container excellent in delamination resistance and gas barrier property, which can be manufactured without employing any molding method involving a special apparatus, which increases a production cost, and a complicated step. Specifically, the multi-layer container includes a laminate structure of three or more layers having at least a gas barrier layer between an innermost layer and an outermost layer, in which the gas barrier layer in a site formed of the laminate structure has a portion having a thickness 0.01 to 0.9 times as large as the maximum thickness of the gas barrier layer. Further, provided are a mold suitable for manufacturing the multi-layer container, and a manufacturing method for a multi-layer container using the mold.
US08815348B2
The present invention relates to modified geopolymer compositions, geopolymer-coated organic polymer substrates, and methods of manufacturing and articles comprising same.
US08815343B2
The invention relates to a process for the synthesis of conducting polymer films by vapor phase polymerization. The invention relates particularly to the synthesis of polymerized thiophene films, for example poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) films.
US08815342B2
The present invention relates to a process for forming on the surface of a metal part a protective coating containing aluminium and zirconium, in which process said part and a cement made of an aluminium alloy are brought into contact with a gas at a treatment temperature in a treatment vessel, the gas comprising a carrier gas and an activator, the activator reacting with the cement to form a gaseous aluminium halide that decomposes on the surface of the part, depositing metallic aluminium thereon, the activator containing a zirconium salt such as ZΓO (¾ obtained from granules of a zirconium salt), disassociation reactions of said zirconium salt taking place within a disassociation temperature range with formation of a Zr metal coating on the surface of the part, the assembly comprising the part, the cement and the zirconium salt granules is progressively heated in the chamber from room temperature up to the treatment temperature, the process being characterized in that the treatment chamber is maintained at an overpressure with no carrier gas flow throughout the temperature range corresponding to the disassociation reactions of the zirconium salt.
US08815341B2
Processes for growing carbon nanotubes on carbon fiber substrates are described herein. The processes can include depositing a catalyst precursor on a carbon fiber substrate, optionally depositing a non-catalytic material on the carbon fiber substrate, and after depositing the catalyst precursor and the optional non-catalytic material, exposing the carbon fiber substrate to carbon nanotube growth conditions so as to grow carbon nanotubes thereon. The carbon nanotube growth conditions can convert the catalyst precursor into a catalyst that is operable for growing carbon nanotubes. The carbon fiber substrate can remain stationary or be transported while the carbon nanotubes are being grown. Optionally, the carbon fiber substrates can include a barrier coating and/or be free of a sizing agent. Carbon fiber substrates having carbon nanotubes grown thereon are also described.
US08815340B2
The subject of the invention is a heat treatment process by flame treatment of at least one thin film deposited on a glass substrate (1) running in the path of at least one flame treatment device comprising at least one burner (2), said treatment being able to increase the degree of crystallization of said at least one thin film and/or to increase the size of the crystallites in said at least one thin film, said process being characterized in that the maximum transient bending “b” is less than 150 mm and respects the following condition: b≦0.9×d where the bending “b” corresponds to the distance, expressed in mm, between the plane of the substrate without heating (P1) and the point of the substrate closest to the plane (P2) passing through the tip (6) of the burner (2) and parallel to the plane of the substrate without heating (P1), “d” corresponds to the distance between the plane of the substrate without heating (P1) and the tip (6) of the burner (2), expressed in mm, the width of the substrate “L” in a direction perpendicular to the run direction (5) being greater than or equal to 1.1 m.
US08815338B2
A method for producing a composite lithium iron phosphate material, which comprises formulating lithium iron phosphate material and purified water at a weight ratio of 1:5-15 into a suspension solution, slowly adjusting the pH value of the suspension solution to 1-3 with phosphoric acid at a concentration of 5-30% in weight, adding an analytically pure soluble chloride in an amount of 0.05-2% based on the molar amount of the lithium iron phosphate material; then adding ammonia water into the solution to adjust the pH value of the solution to 5-6 to obtain hydroxide colloid; drying liquid through spraying to prepare powder, and calcining at 300-450° C. for 3-6 hours under an inert atmosphere; coating the oxide with high conductivity obtained by thermally decomposing the hydroxide colloid on the surface of the lithium iron phosphate material grains; ball milling and sieving the calcined material into a finished product. Also disclosed is the composite lithium iron phosphate material produced by such a method.
US08815336B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided a magnetic recording medium manufacturing method including forming a resist layer on a magnetic recording layer, patterning the resist layer, forming a magnetic pattern by performing ion implantation through the resist layer, partially modifying the surface of the magnetic recording layer, removing the resist, applying a self-organization material to the surface of the magnetic recording layer and forming a dotted mask pattern, and patterning the magnetic recording layer.
US08815335B2
One exemplary embodiment may include a method comprising: depositing a solution comprising an organometallic compound on a substrate, drying the solution to provide a film of the organometallic compound and at least partially oxidizing an organic component of the organometallic compound to provide nanoparticles including metal oxides on the substrate which would have multiuse industrial applications.
US08815332B2
An apparatus, comprising two conductive surfaces or layers and a nanostructure assembly bonded to the two conductive surfaces or layers to create electrical or thermal connections between the two conductive surfaces or layers, and a method of making same.
US08815330B2
The following is included: loading cells spatially defined by partitions with a dispersion liquid containing electrophoretically mobile particles and a dispersion medium for dispersing the electrophoretically mobile particles, and covering the exposed surface of the dispersion liquid loaded in the cells with a sealing coating to seal the dispersion liquid in the cells. The dispersion medium is a lipophilic hydrocarbon solvent, and the sealing coating is made from a material containing a water-soluble polymer.
US08815323B2
There is described a method for the prevention, mitigation or slowing of the discoloration of produce (fruit) the method comprising: (i) an optional first step of pre-dipping the produce in a chelating agent; and (ii) treating the optionally pre-dipped produce with an enzyme inhibitor.
US08815280B2
The present invention provides a composition comprising HMB and Vitamin D. Methods of administering HMB and Vitamin D to an animal are also described. Vitamin D and HMB are administered to increase muscle mass, strength, and functionality. The combination of Vitamin D and HMB together has a synergistic effect, which results in a surprising and unexpected level of improvement in muscle mass, strength and functionality.
US08815266B2
The invention relates to peptide derivatives of general formula (I): R1-AA1-AA2-R3-AA4-R2 (I) their stereoisomers, mixtures thereof, and their cosmetically or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, a method for obtaining them, cosmetic or pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use for the treatment, care and/or cleansing of those conditions, disorders and/or pathologies of the skin, mucosae, scalp and/or nails resulting from microorganism proliferation or being at risk of microorganism proliferation.
US08815261B2
[Summary] An external preparation formulation superior in the transdermal absorbability has been desired as a new administration route of aripiprazole. Transdermal absorption of aripiprazole has been enabled for the first time by appropriately combining aripiprazole and an organic acid (particularly fatty acid with low lipophilicity). That is, it has been found that more superior transdermal absorbability can be achieved by forming a salt by using a compound showing lipophilicity within the range of −1.5-2, such as fatty acid and the like. It has been further found that the transdermal absorbability is remarkable improved by appropriately selecting the solvent composition. As a result, since a new dosage form of aripiprazole other than oral preparation has been developed, a new transdermal absorption preparation of aripiprazole can be provided.
US08815259B2
The invention describes nanotextured super hydrophobic coatings that contain active agents which can elute from the coating over a period of time.
US08815256B2
The present invention is directed to variants of antigens comprising folate binding protein epitopes as a composition associated with providing immunity against a tumor in an individual. The variant is effective in inducing cytotoxic T-lymphocytes but preferably not to the extent that they become sensitive to silencing by elimination, such as by apoptosis, or by anergy, as in unresponsiveness.
US08815250B2
The invention relates to a chimeric protein comprising at least one clotting factor and at least a portion of an immunoglobulin constant region. The invention relates to a method of treating a hemostatic disorder comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a chimeric protein wherein the chimeric protein comprises at least one clotting factor and at least a portion of an immunoglobulin constant region.
US08815245B2
A medicament based on antibodies contains an activated form of monoclonal, polyclonal, or natural antibodies to interferon in low or ultra-low doses prepared by multiple consecutive dilutions and exposure to external factors, preferably in accordance with homeopathic technology. In order to obtain antibodies, human or heterologous interferon alpha, beta, or gamma, including recombinant interferon, is used; a mixture of various, mostly centimal, homeopathic dilutions being employed. A method of treating a pathologic syndrome, whose formation is affected by interferon, consists in the use of activated forms of antibodies to interferon alpha, beta, or gamma in low or ultra-low doses obtained by multiple consecutive dilutions and exposure to external factors.
US08815240B2
The present invention relates to methods of diagnosing, and methods of treating, hepatocellular carcinoma in a subject. The invention also relates to antagonists of PLVAP proteins, such as antibodies that specifically bind PLVAP proteins, as well as compositions and kits comprising antagonists of PLVAP proteins. The invention further relates to humanized antibodies that specifically bind PLVAP protein.
US08815232B2
The present invention is based, in part, on our discovery of compositions and methods that can be used to systemically deplete arginine and thereby treat arginine-dependent cancers. Our studies indicate that administering a composition that depletes arginine directly to the patient's small intestine will provide effective treatment for arginine-dependent cancers. Moreover, the methods can be carried out in such a way that various sources of arginine are restricted and side effects are minimized. For example, to deplete arginine, one can not only administer an arginine-depleting enzyme directly to the intestinal lumen but can also inhibit endogenous production of arginine, reduce arginine production by intestinal bacteria and limit arginine intake. To minimize side effects, one can inhibit protein breakdown, which may occur as a compensatory mechanism, provide systemic NO from a nitric oxide donor, provide a pressor peptide, and/or provide prostacycline or an analog thereof.
US08815225B2
The invention relates to hair care compositions comprising an effective amount of a condensation polymer having at least one, optionally quarternized or protonated, dialkylamide end-group connected through the polymer backbone to a unit derived from an alkylamide, the connection comprising at least one ester linkage.
US08815221B2
A composition used for skin whitening includes: an effective amount of spermidine derivative, wherein a structure of the spermidine derivative is shown as Structure (I): where R1-R5 individually includes H, OH, or OCH3 and at least one of R1-R5 is OH, and the spermidine derivative has tyrosinase inhibition activity; and a cosmetically or pharmaceutically acceptable vehicle, wherein the composition used for skin whitening whitens skin.
US08815220B2
Sunscreen compositions containing an extract of Curcuma longa L. are provided, the sunscreens having an absorption that spans the UVA and UVB ranges in a manner that meets updated FDA recommendations without requiring the addition of titanium dioxide. The sunscreens can also include an extraction solvent that is at least substantially non-toxic and useful also as a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier in liquid dosage forms. Microemulsions and nanoemulsions are also provided to enhance the bioavailability and stability of the extracts in the sunscreens.
US08815215B2
A tooth whitening system comprising a dental tray having a surface operable to confront a tooth surface, and a tooth whitening composition comprising a whitening agent and a hydrophobic polymer carrier. The tooth whitening composition is preferably substantially non-water soluble. A tooth whitening kit is also provided using a dental tray and the tooth whitening composition comprising a whitening composition and a hydrophobic polymer carrier.
US08815214B2
Provided is a family of intramolecularly quenched imaging agents for use in both in vivo and in vitro imaging that contain at least one enzymatically cleavable oligopeptide and two fluorophores or a fluorophore and a quencher. When subjected to proteolytic cleavage, at least one fluorophore is unquenched and becomes capable of producing a fluorescent signal upon excitation with light of an appropriate wavelength. Also provided are in vivo and in vitro imaging methods using such imaging agents.
US08815211B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a radioactive metal anti-cadherin antibody which is highly accumulated specifically in cancer tissue. Another object is to provide a cancer therapeutic agent having high anti-cancer effect and safety and a cancer diagnostic agent. The radioactive metal-labeled anti-cadherin antibody is obtained by binding a radioactive metallic element to an anti-cadherin antibody via a metal-chelating reagent.
US08815203B2
A process for removing sulfur from a gas stream is provided in which a plurality of reactor units, each comprising a condenser and reactor, are selectively operable under Claus reaction and cold bed adsorption conditions. The arrangement of reactor units within the plant is periodically changed following a front-middle-back sequencing scheme. This ensures that the final reactor unit in the series utilizes fully cooled catalyst which is most efficient for operation under cold bed adsorption conditions. In addition, the condenser of the final reactor unit in the series operates at or below the freezing point of sulfur thereby permitting even greater sulfur recovery.
US08815196B2
A method for reducing NOx emissions from a lean burn combustor equipped with a NOx reducing exhaust catalyst, includes at least the following steps: (i) generating a computer based model of the geometry of an exhaust system of the combustor; (ii) computing at least one of flue gas velocity profiles and mass flow stream lines for exhaust gas flow through the exhaust system; (iii) inputting injector data comprising at least droplet size and velocity; (iv) modeling droplet trajectories for a plurality of injector locations; (v) modeling at least one flow conditioning device in the exhaust system; and (vi) manipulating the computer based model until an injector location is identified that provides a predicted root mean square (RMS) of reagent at the face of the catalyst that is less than 15%.
US08815184B2
A process for treating spent catalyst containing heavy metals, e.g., Group VIB metals and Group VIII metals is provided. In one embodiment after deoiling, the spent catalyst is treated with an ammonia leach solution under conditions sufficient to dissolve the group VIB metal and the Group VIII metal into the leaching solution, forming a leach slurry. After solid-liquid separation to recover a leach solution, chemical precipitation and solids repulping is carried out to obtain an effluent stream containing ammonium sulfate (Amsul), ammonium sulfamate, Group VB, Group VIB and Group VIII metals. Following sulfidation, the Group VIII metal is fully removed and Group VB and Group VI metals are partially removed from the Amsul stream. In the additional steps of oxydrolysis and iron precipitation, an effective amount of ferric ion at a pre-select pH is added to form insoluble complexes with the Group VB and Group VIB metals, which upon liquid-solid separation produces an effluent ammonium sulfate stream containing less than 10 ppm each of the Group VB and Group VIB metals.
US08815181B2
A delivery apparatus for selectively delivering one or more liquid reagents into a reaction or test chamber (2), especially of an assay apparatus, the apparatus comprising: one or more respective storage chambers (5,6) for containing the one or more liquid reagents and arranged generally above the reaction or test chamber (2); and a plunger element (4) arranged and operable for insertion into the mouth of a selected storage chamber so as to displace a selected reagent from therewithin into the reaction or test chamber (2) generally therebelow by gravitational liquid overflow from the mouth of the chamber. The apparatus may conveniently be provided as a discrete delivery unit, with the storage chambers (5,6) pretilled with the selected reagents.
US08815179B2
An automated liquid collection workstation is provided. The workstation includes a processor, a peristaltic pump, a valve actuator, and an algorithm. The peristaltic pump and the valve actuator are in electrical communication with the processor. The valve actuator can move a plurality of valves, when disposed therein, among an off position, a flush position, and a collection position. The algorithm is resident on the processor and is configured to: move all of the valves to the off position and place the pump in an off state when no sampling or flushing is required, move all of the valves to the flush position and place the pump in an on state for a predetermined flush time period when flushing is required, and move a respective one of the valves to the collection position, move any of the valves upstream of the respective valve to the flush position, and place the pump to the on state for a predetermined collection time period when collection is required.
US08815168B2
A carbon nanotube synthesizing apparatus in which the state of generated plasma can be stabilized is provided. A carbon nanotube synthesizing apparatus 1 comprises a chamber 2, an antenna 3 including a tip 3a, a microwave conductor 4, a gas introducing unit 5, a gas discharging unit 6, a substrate holding unit 7, and a heating unit 8. The shape of the inner wall of the chamber 2 is symmetrical with respect to the tip 3a of the antenna 3.
US08815161B2
A gas-sensing element configured to measure a concentration of a specific component of a gas is mounted to a first circuit board which includes a driving circuit configured to drive the gas-sensing element. A moisture-proof material is disposed over at least one side of the first circuit board disposed in a tubular gas-sensing element case fixed to a sensor case. A gas-sensing chamber is defined by the first circuit board and an inner tubular surface of the gas-sensing element case, and opens at an open end of the gas-sensing element case to receive the gas to be monitored. A second circuit board which includes a control circuit configured to control the gas-sensing element via the driving circuit is fixed to a sensor case, and disposed in a position separate from the gas-sensing chamber such that the second circuit board is kept out of contact with the gas to be monitored.
US08815155B2
A diagnostic tape cassette is disclosed that includes an analytical test tape, a supply spool for winding off unused test tape and a take-up spool for winding used test tape, a housing and a rotational lock for the take-up spool at least against inadvertent unwinding of test tape. The rotational lock includes one of a locking teeth arrangement, friction elements, and a catch spring and spring latch arrangement.
US08815150B2
Methods of producing metal nanowires, compositions, and articles are disclosed. Such methods allow production of metal nanowires with reproducibly uniform diameter and length, even in the presence of catalyst concentration variation. Such metal nanowires are useful for electronics applications.
US08815148B2
Multi-component magnesium-based alloy consisting essentially of about 1.0-15.0 wt. % of scandium, about 0.1-3.0 wt. % of yttrium, about 1.0-3.0 wt. % of rare-earth metal, about 0.1-0.5 wt. % of zirconium. Purity degree of magnesium base is not less of 99.995 wt. %. Impurities of Fe, Ni and Cu do not exceed 0.001 wt. % of everyone, the contents of other impurity in an alloy does not exceed 0.005 wt. %. The alloy demonstrates an improved combination of strength, deformability and corrosion resistance at room temperature. The alloy does not contain harmful and toxic impurities. The alloy can be used in the various practical applications demanding a combination of high strength, deformability and corrosion resistance, preferably in the field of medicine.
US08815142B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing a resin molded gear, which is to be integrally formed by injection molding, and includes: a tooth portion formed along an outer peripheral surface of a rim; a web extending along an inner peripheral surface of the rim; and a gate portion arranged at a boss, which joins to at least part of the web and is formed on a core portion located at a center axis, the method using a synthetic resin having a melting temperature of Tm° C., the method including: injecting and loading the synthetic resin molten at the melting temperature of Tm° C. into a cavity of a mold for forming the resin molded gear; and setting, when the gate portion is solidified, a thickness center temperature T1 of the web to (Tm−20)° C. or more to (Tm+20)° C. or less and a surface temperature T2 of the tooth portion to (T1−50)° C. or less.
US08815139B2
A method for forming a flare in the end of a flexible tube comprises heating the end of the flexible tube to a near-melted state, inserting the end of the flexible tube into a flare-forming die with a flare forming portion, and pressing a mandrel into the end of the flexible tube, thereby pressure forming a flare in the end of the flexible tube.
US08815138B2
A recoil pad having a pad in which the elastomer contains a plurality of pockets having one or more pocket characteristics adjustable over the entirety or portions of the pad to achieve recoil pad characteristics which can be incrementally variably matched to the recoil energy characteristics and recoil energy transfer characteristics of a particular target stock.
US08815137B2
A method of incorporating an anti-counterfeiting device into a multi-walled container is provided. The multi-walled container includes an inner wall having an outer surface, an outer wall adjacent to the inner wall, and an anti-counterfeiting device sandwiched between the inner and outer walls. The method includes forming the inner wall from a polymeric composition, adhering the anti-counterfeiting device to the outer surface of the inner wall either during, or after formation of the inner wall, and then over molding the outer wall about the inner wall to form the multi-walled container. Suitable anti-counterfeiting devices for incorporation into the multi-walled container include RFID, printed or foil antennae, conductive inks, metal spheres, and x-ray readable foils.
US08815135B2
A high-throughput process for the manufacture of absorbent unexpanded glass-like polysaccharides is disclosed. The process comprises the use of a twin screw extruder having turbulence and kneading sections, the kneading sections being located downstream from the turbulence sections.
US08815118B2
A method and system for assembling building blocks of colloidal particles and also for shaping of colloids for self-assembly for manufacturing, processing and formation of compositions of matter. A first type of particle is selected as a “key” particle constructed to mate with a “lock” particle, the binding arising from depletion forces. A variety of shapes can be used to carry out this method and system to create compositions of matter. Colloids can be shaped by controlled deformation of multiphase colloid particles.
US08815113B2
The invention relates to a biodegradable halogen-free flame retardants composition used for fire-safety and prevention, that limits and extinguishes fires by means of increased resistance to ignition, slowing down burning rates and the rate of heat, smoke and toxic gas release from polymers with different physical and chemical properties and structure, such as textiles, wooden materials, paper, cardboard, corrugated board, leather, cellular polystyrene, foamed polyurethane, and items made of them. The composition according to the invention contains orthophosphoric acid, urea, triethanolamine, ammonia water, polydimethylsiloxane, surfactant, which may be anionic, cationic, amphoteric, non-ionic or mixtures thereof and water.
US08815111B2
The substrate treatment method is for treating a substrate with a chemical liquid in a treatment chamber. The method includes a higher temperature chemical liquid supplying step, and a rinse liquid supplying step after the higher temperature chemical liquid supplying step. The rinse liquid supplying step includes: a peripheral edge portion treating step of supplying the rinse liquid selectively onto a center portion of the front surface of the substrate so that a chemical liquid treatment is inhibited on the center portion while being allowed to proceed on a peripheral edge portion of the front surface of the substrate; and an entire surface rinsing step of spreading the rinse liquid over the entire front surface of the substrate to replace the chemical liquid with the rinse liquid on the entire front surface of the substrate after the peripheral edge portion treating step.
US08815109B2
A computer implemented method of monitoring a polishing process includes, for each sweep of a plurality of sweeps of an optical sensor across a substrate undergoing polishing, obtaining a plurality of current spectra, each current spectrum of the plurality of current spectra being a spectrum resulting from reflection of white light from the substrate, for each sweep of the plurality of sweeps, determining a difference between each current spectrum and each reference spectrum of a plurality of reference spectra to generate a plurality of differences, for each sweep of the plurality of sweeps, determining a smallest difference of the plurality of differences, thus generating a sequence of smallest difference, and determining a polishing endpoint based on the sequence of smallest differences.
US08815106B2
A method of supplying an etching gas includes: supplying a first etching gas used in an etching process into a processing container; and supplying a second etching gas used in the etching process into the processing container, in which, when the first etching gas and the second etching gas are switched therebetween, only a small amount of a gas, which is needed as an etching gas before the switching and is not needed as an etching gas after the switching, is continuously supplied into the processing container.
US08815103B2
A method of preparing an optical preform includes the steps of: a) etching an optical preform to remove a portion of an oxide material deposited on the preform by using a gas comprising an etchant gas containing fluorine at a sufficient temperature and gas concentration to create a redeposited germanium containing compounds contamination such as GeOx in the remaining oxide material; and b) cleaning the etched preform using a cleaning gas containing at least one halogen gas at a sufficient temperature and gas concentration to remove the redeposited germanium containing compound contamination without any substantial further contamination of the remaining deposited oxide material. Preferably the halogen is either chlorine or bromine.
US08815101B2
This invention relates generally to the field of separation of heterogeneous mixtures and, more particularly to a solid-liquid separating tank and system.A settlement tank including: a tank wall defining a tank inner space; an internal wall structure in the inner space and defining a fluid flow path from a center of the inner space to a fluid outlet at the tank wall; and a plurality of drainage pipes having an open internal end and an outer end connected to a drainage manifold, wherein the open internal end is positioned at a bottom of the inner space to remove gravity decanted sediment and hydrostatically decanted water from the inner space.
US08815079B2
An electrochemical test sensor for detecting the analyte concentration of a fluid test sample includes a base, a dielectric layer, a reagent layer, a light guide area, and a lid. The base provides a flow path for the test sample having on its surface a counter electrode and a working electrode adapted to electrically communicate with a detector of electrical current. The dielectric layer forms a dielectric window therethrough. The reagent layer includes an enzyme that is adapted to react with the analyte. The lid is adapted to mate with the base and to assist in forming a capillary space with an opening for the introduction of the test sample thereto. The light guide area transmits light towards the capillary space.
US08815077B2
An electrochemical sensor for measuring the oxygen partial pressure in a process fluid, comprises an electrolyte-filled sensor body, which is covered on one side charged with the process fluid by an oxygen-permeable membrane, a cathode on the membrane, an annular guard electrode surrounding the cathode, which in measuring operation lies at the same potential as the cathode, an anode charged by the electrolyte in the sensor body, a reference electrode charged by the electrolyte in the sensor body, wherein between the anode and cathode a voltage can be applied, which is controlled between the cathode (8) and reference electrode at a constant polarization voltage and the measuring sensor current flowing in measuring operation between the cathode and anode is a measure for the oxygen partial pressure in the process fluid, and a test voltage source which can be switched in a testing mode between the cathode and guard electrode for producing test oxygen in the electrolyte and/or in the process fluid between the cathode and guard electrode for testing the function of the sensor.
US08815074B2
A method for reducing carbon dioxide with use of a device for reducing carbon dioxide includes steps of (a) preparing the device. The device includes a vessel, a cathode electrode and an anode electrode. An electrolytic solution is stored in the vessel, the cathode electrode contains a copper rubeanate metal organic framework, the copper rubeanate metal organic framework is in contact with the electrolytic solution, the anode electrode is in contact with the electrolytic solution, and the electrolytic solution contains carbon dioxide. The method further includes step of (b) applying a voltage difference between the cathode electrode and the anode electrode so as to reduce the carbon dioxide.
US08815072B2
A process is provided for roughening both sides of a copper plate by forming protrusions with fine bump shapes on both sides of the copper plate in an electroplating solution for plating copper while reducing deterioration of the electroplating solution. Opposed pairs of negative electrodes (3c) and positive electrodes (3a) are provided in an electroplating copper solution (2), and a copper plate (4) is arranged between the pair of negative electrodes (3c). An anodic treatment for generating copper fine particles on both surfaces of the copper plate (4) is carried out by performing an electrolytic process for three to ten minutes with the copper plate (4) as a positive electrode between the negative electrodes (3c). Then a cathodic treatment is carried out by moving the copper plate (4) between positive electrodes (3a) and performing an electroplating of copper for three to ten minutes with the copper plate (4) as a negative electrode for fixing the copper fine particles onto the surfaces of the copper plate (4). The cycle of anodic and cathodic treatment may be performed more than one time.
US08815070B2
Disclosed herein is a device A device of the microelectrode array architecture, comprising: (a) a bottom plate comprising an array of multiple microelectrodes disposed on a top surface of a substrate covered by a dielectric layer; wherein each of the microelectrode is coupled to at least one grounding elements of a grounding mechanism, wherein a hydrophobic layer is disposed on the top of the dielectric layer and the grounding elements to make hydrophobic surfaces with the droplets; (b) a field programmability mechanism for programming a group of configured-electrodes to generate microfluidic components and layouts with selected shapes and sizes; and, (c) a system management unit, comprising: (i) a droplet manipulation unit; and (ii) a system control unit.
US08815069B2
A disposable capillary electrophoresis detecting device includes a fixing device, a capillary electrophoresis microchip, and an electrochemical sensor microchip. The fixing device includes two chip-fixing bases having a first chip-holding cavity horizontally arranged and a second chip-holding cavity vertically arranged. The second chip-holding cavity is substantially perpendicular to the first chip-holding cavity and faces an end portion thereof. The capillary electrophoresis microchip is horizontally placed in the first chip-holding cavity. The electrochemical sensor microchip is vertically placed in the second chip-holding cavity. In the electrochemical sensor microchip, a patterned insulation layer is located on a detecting electrode, exposes a sensor area of the detecting electrode, and is extended to two sides of the sensor area. The outlet of the separation capillary of the capillary electrophoresis microchip is aligned to the sensor area, and the distance between the outlet and the sensor area is the thickness of the patterned insulation layer.
US08815060B2
A method for applying a protective layer to an electronic device such as the ABS of a slider, magnetic head, etc. for reducing paramagnetic deadlayer thickness includes selecting an etching angle for minimizing formation of a paramagnetic deadlayer at an interface of an electronic device and an adhesive layer subsequently formed on the electronic device, etching a surface of an electronic device at the selected angle, the selected angle being less than about 75 degrees from an imaginary line extending perpendicular to the surface, forming an adhesive layer on the etched surface of the electronic device, and forming a protective layer on the adhesive layer. A magnetic head formed by the process is also disclosed.
US08815058B2
Arsenic can be an impurity in phosphorous pentafluoride production processes. It is desirable to remove arsenic from phosphorous pentafluoride prior to using of the phosphorous pentafluoride in the production of lithium hexafluorophosphate. The present technology provides methods of removing arsenic from phosphorous pentafluoride by extractive distillation.
US08815050B2
Processes and systems for drying liquid bromine utilizing two fractionators to produce a substantially dry liquid bromine stream and a substantially bromine-free water stream. Wet bromine liquid may be conveyed to a first fractionator wherein a substantially dry bromine liquid is produced, while a vapor stream from the first fractionator may be condensed into a first liquid phase comprising bromine saturated with water and a second liquid phase comprising water saturated with bromine. The water saturated with bromine may be conveyed to a second fractionator to produce at least substantially bromine-free water.
