US08907783B2
A portable computing device may include a set of magnetic elements and a set of electrical contacts. An electronic device may include a sensor may also include a set of magnetic elements and a set of electrical contacts. The portable computing device may attach to the electronic device using the set of magnetic elements and may exchange data with the electronic device using the set of electrical contacts. A power source may also include a set of magnetic elements and a set of electrical contacts. The power source may couple with the portable computing device using the set of magnetic elements and may provide power to the portable computing device using the electrical contacts.
US08907782B2
A wireless medical device is disclosed. The wireless medical device comprises a processor, a memory, a sensor for detecting a physiological signal, a radio and a proximity detector to measure a distance of the wireless medical device relative to a second wireless medical device. The proximity detector includes a ranging functionality. A wireless communication channel is created when a distance between the wireless medical device and the second wireless medical device is within a first predetermined threshold. The distance is greater than zero.
US08907781B2
To provide an intrusion detecting device of a type in which a battery for supplying an electric power to both of the main unit and the transmitter is provided in a unit holder for holding the main unit, including the detecting element, to thereby increase the overall electric power capacity needed in the intrusion detecting device as a whole and, also, replacement of those batteries can be accomplished easily, the intrusion detecting device includes a main unit (1) including a detecting element (30), a battery (Ba) detachably mounted on the main unit (1) for supplying an electric power to the main unit (1), and a power supply line (18) fitted to the main unit (1) for supplying an electric power to a wireless transmitter (11) for transmitting wireless an output signal of the main unit (1).
US08907779B1
An alerting safety device includes a pole formed from flexible material, a flag attached to the pole, a fastening member attached to a bottom end of the pole, a coupling attached to the fastening member and spaced from the pole, and a light-emitting section attached to a top most end of the pole above the flag. Notably, the light-emitting section is automatically toggled between on and off modes upon receiving input signals respectively.
US08907776B2
A computer implemented method includes detecting a vehicle state for which a user is to be notified. The method also includes sending a notification for a user regarding the vehicle state. The method further includes receiving a response that a do not disturb mode is enabled for the user. The method additionally includes queuing the notification for later delivery. The method also includes re-sending the notification for the user at a later point in time than when an original notification was sent.
US08907768B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems, apparatuses and methods for using a mobile device with an accelerometer to gain access into a secured or restricted area. A first device and a second device interact by making physical contact with each other thereby generating interaction data that is representative of the physical interaction between the first and second device. The first and second device may be mobile phones. The second device may be a point of sale terminal, access point device, or any other stationary (i.e., in a fixed position) device positioned at a line, door, gate, or entrance. A server computer determines, based on interaction data, that the first device and the second device made physical contact. After determining that the first device and the second device made contact, communications may be initiated between the devices. Communications may relate an access transaction comprising an exchange of information, such as credentials, between a prospective entrant (operating the first device) and a gatekeeper (operating the second device) to verify that the prospective entrant is permitted or is not permitted access to a particular area that is secured or restricted by the gatekeeper. Other embodiments are direct to confirmation transactions. Access transaction and confirmation transactions may be combined with a financial transaction using a payment processing network.
US08907764B1
Methods and systems for determining a location and an identity of a portable device are provided. The system includes apparatus for transmitting timing synchronization information, a plurality of stationary ultrasonic base stations and a plurality of portable devices. Each ultrasonic base station is configured to receive the timing synchronization information and to transmit a corresponding ultrasonic location code in a time period based on the received timing synchronization information. Each portable device is configured to: 1) receive the timing synchronization information, 2) detect the ultrasonic location codes from the ultrasonic base stations and 3) transmit an output signal including a portable device ID representative of the portable device and the detected ultrasonic location code. Each portable device is synchronized to detect the ultrasonic location code in the time period based on the received timing synchronization information.
US08907759B2
A magnetic core includes a first core and a second core, which is formed of material having a lower magnetic permeability and a higher saturation magnetic flux density than those of the first core. The second core forms a closed magnetic path together with the first core. The second core has a distal surface held in contact with the first core. The area of the distal surface is larger than the smallest cross-sectional area of the second core in a direction perpendicular to the flow direction of magnetic flux in the closed magnetic path.
US08907753B2
The invention provides a rotary solenoid, comprising a stator and rotor that can rotate around a rotational axis, wherein the rotor has a rotor shaft on which a rotor disc is arranged, and the rotor disc, seen in the direction of circumference, has alternating magnetically polarized magnetic poles. The stator carries at least one coil carrying windings for conducting electric current. Between the coil and the rotor disc is a pole face having at least of two partial pole faces for guiding the magnetic flux of the magnetic field generated by the windings when current is applied. Elements of the magnetic system (the magnetic poles, the partial pole faces and the air gap) are configured along the direction of circumference depending on the rotational angle changeable in such a way that a torque results that returns the rotor in the starting position, when the current is switched off.
US08907744B2
A Multi-Line Phase Shifter (MLPS) for a vertical beam tilt-controlled antenna is provided, in which a housing is shaped into an elongated rectangular box, a fixed plate is attached on an inner bottom surface of the housing and has transmission lines printed thereon, the transmission lines forming part of a plurality of phase shifting patterns and a plurality of signal division patterns, for dividing an input signal and shifting phases of divided signals, and a mobile plate is installed within the housing, movably along a length direction at a position where the mobile plate contacts a surface of the fixed plate, and has transmission lines printed thereon, the transmission lines forming a remaining part of the plurality of phase shifting patterns for phase shifting by forming variable lines through coupling with the part of the plurality of phase shifting patterns.
US08907743B2
A delay line structure includes a flat spiral delay line and two grounding guard traces. The flat spiral delay line is disposed in the layout layer in a manner of extending from an input end, bending clockwise inward until reaching a U-turn part, continuously extending and bending counterclockwise outward to an out put end so as to form two coupling areas, which are spiral and have an opening respectively. The two grounding guard traces are disposed in the layout layer in a manner of extending from the openings respectively toward the coupling areas, having an interval between the grounding guard traces and the flat spiral delay line, wherein the grounding guard traces close to the openings of the coupling areas are electrically connected to the grounding circuit through a via respectively.
US08907742B2
A multi-cavity RF filter has at least one electrically conductive coupling probe disposed between two resonator cavities. The coupling probe is provided with an ESD protective arrangement such that the coupling probe is electrically connected to a metallic housing of the RF filter only by the ESD protective arrangement. The ESD protective arrangement is configured to provide (i) a low resistance electrical path from the coupling probe to the metallic housing and (ii) a high impedance to RF energy having wavelengths proximate to a center frequency wavelength of the RF filter.
US08907740B2
A duplexer includes: an insulation substrate having an upper surface on which a transmission filter and a reception filter are mounted, and a lower surface on which a foot pad layer electrically connected to the transmission filter and the reception filter is formed; a transmission pad provided on the upper surface and electrically connected to the transmission filter; a reception pad provided on the upper surface and electrically connected to the reception filter, a ring-shaped electrode provided on the upper surface and configured to surround the transmission pad and the reception pad; a ground foot pad included in the foot pad layer, and a via interconnection configured to electrically interconnect the ring-shaped electrode and the ground foot pad and to be provided in the ring-shaped electrode in a section along a shorter one of routes that connect the transmission pad and the reception pad to each other along the ring-shaped electrode.
US08907736B2
A digital pulse width modulation controller includes a pulse width modulation controller, a selection unit having at least one selector, a comparison unit having at least one comparator, and a signal conversion unit having at least one digital-to-analog converter. The digital-to-analog converter generates a reference current and/or voltage. The comparator receives the reference current and/or voltage, and performs a comparison operation to generate a comparison signal based on a feedback signal. The selector selects one selection signal to input into the pulse width modulation controller, which receives other parameters set by a user or the system at the same time so as to control characteristics of the digital pulse width modulation signals, thereby improving the electric properties of a loading circuit.
US08907734B2
An oscillator system having: an UHF oscillator, such as a SAW oscillator, for producing a signal having a controllable frequency; a passive vibration, suppressor mechanically coupled to the UHF oscillator for suppressing vibrations above a predetermined bandwidth BW1 on the UHF oscillator; and an active vibration suppressor. The active vibration suppressor includes an accelerometer for sensing vibrations within a predetermined bandwidth BW2 on the UHF oscillator; and an HF or VHF oscillator, such as a crystal oscillator, producing a signal having a frequency controlled by the accelerometer. A control loop having a bandwidth changeable with sensed vibration level is fed the oscillator and the UHF oscillator for controlling the frequency of the signal produced by the SAW oscillator in accordance with a difference between the signal produced the HF or VHF oscillator and the signal produced by the UHF oscillator, the control loop having a bandwidth BW3; where BW1
US08907732B2
There is provided an oscillation frequency regulating circuit including: a measuring section that performs measurement based on an oscillation frequency of an oscillation circuit; a comparator section that compares a measurement value measured by the measuring section against a set comparison value over a set comparison duration; a setting section that sets a comparison value selected from a plurality of comparison values of different magnitudes and that sets in the comparator section the comparison duration according to the magnitude of the selected comparison value; and a regulation section that, based on the comparison result of the comparator section, regulates the oscillation frequency of the oscillation circuit such that the oscillation frequency that is measured by the measuring section becomes a target oscillation frequency.
US08907731B2
A digitally-controlled oscillator circuit receives a digital value and generates a driving signal for driving an oscillator at a frequency according to the received digital value. A time-to-digital converter circuit receives a detection signal of oscillation of the oscillator, receives the driving signal, and detects a phase difference between the detection signal and the driving signal. A control circuit receives the detected phase difference and controls the frequency of the driving signal generated by the digitally-controlled oscillator circuit, such that the detected phase difference coincides with a predetermined resonant phase difference to resonate the oscillator.
US08907727B2
Embodiments are directed to capacitance compensation via a compensation device coupled to a gain device to compensate for a capacitance change occurring due to an input signal change, along with a controller coupled to the compensation device to receive the input signal and to control an amount of compensation based on the input signal. In some embodiments, banks may be formed of multiple compensation devices, where each of the banks has a different size and is coupled to receive a different set of bias voltages.
US08907726B2
In one embodiment, saturation of the control system of a power amplifier is limited by comparing a control voltage at a first control node against a scaled battery voltage, and then drawing an error current away from the first control node when the control voltage exceeds the scaled battery voltage. The first control node may be located after a trans-conductance amplifier in a feedback control system.
US08907720B2
A capacitive switch includes: a first conductive cantilever, a second conductive cantilever, a substrate, a coplanar waveguide arranged on the substrate, the coplanar waveguide includes a first conductor configured to transmit an electrical signal, a second conductor and a third conductor are arranged as ground wires on two sides of the first conductor; an insulation medium layer is arranged on the first conductor, a conducting layer is arranged on the insulation medium layer; the first conductive cantilever is connected to the second conductor by using a first fixed end, the second conductive cantilever is connected to the third conductor by using a second fixed end; when a direct-current signal is transmitted on the capacitive switch, a first free end of the first conductive cantilever and a second free end of the second conductive cantilever contact the conducting layer.
US08907717B2
The light receiving circuit includes: a photoelectric conversion element for causing a current corresponding to an amount of incident light to flow; a MOS transistor including a source connected to the photoelectric conversion element and a drain connected to a node, for causing the current of the photoelectric conversion element to flow to the node while maintaining a voltage of the source to a first voltage; a reset circuit for causing a current to flow from the node to a GND terminal so that a voltage of the node becomes a second voltage lower than the first voltage; a control circuit for outputting a reset signal to the reset circuit; and a voltage increase detection circuit for detecting a fluctuation in the voltage of the node and outputting a detection result.
US08907697B2
Embodiments related to electrically characterizing a semiconductor device are provided. In one example, a method for characterizing a pin of a semiconductor device is provided, the method comprising providing a test pattern to the semiconductor device. Further, the method includes adjusting a selected electrical state of a pin of the semiconductor device and measuring a value for a dependent electrical state of the pin responsive to the selected electrical state. The example method also includes generating an electrical characterization for the pin by correlating the dependent electrical state with the selected electrical state and outputting the electrical characterization for display.
US08907696B2
There is provided a test apparatus for testing a device under test, including a test signal generator that generates a test signal to test the device under test, an electric-photo converter that converts the test signal into an optical test signal, an optical interface that (i) transmits the optical test signal generated by the electric-photo converter to an optical receiver of the device under test and (ii) receives and outputs an optical response signal output from the device under test, a photo-electric converter that converts the optical response signal output from the optical interface into an electrical response signal and transmits the electrical response signal, and a signal receiver that receives the response signal transmitted from the photo-electric converter and a test method.
US08907693B2
An embodiment of a probe card is proposed. The probe card comprises a plurality of probes. Each probe is adapted to contact a corresponding terminal of a circuit integrated in at least one die of a semiconductor material wafer during a test phase of the wafer. Said plurality of probes includes at least one probe adapted to provide and/or receive a radio frequency test signal to/from the corresponding terminal during the test phase. Said probe card comprises at least one electromagnetic shield structure corresponding to the at least one probe adapted to provide and/or receive the radio frequency test signal for the at least partial shielding of an electromagnetic field irradiated by such at least one probe adapted to provide and/or receive the radio frequency test signal.
US08907690B2
A method of obtaining an electrical property of a test sample, comprising a non-conductive area and a conductive or semi-conductive test area, by performing multiple measurements using a multi-point probe. The method comprising the steps of providing a magnetic field having field lines passing perpendicularly through the test area, bringing the probe into a first position on the test area, the conductive tips of the probe being in contact with the test area, determining a position for each tip relative to the boundary between the non-conductive area and the test area, determining distances between each tip, selecting one tip to be a current source positioned between conductive tips being used for determining a voltage in the test sample, performing a first measurement, moving the probe and performing a second measurement, calculating on the basis of the first and second measurement the electrical property of the test area.
US08907685B2
Disclosed is a circuit arrangement for determining a temporal change of an output voltage of a half-bridge circuit during a dead time. In one embodiment, the circuit arrangement includes a first input for applying the output voltage. A capacitive network includes a first and a second circuit node capacitively coupled to the input, and having a terminal for a reference potential. A recharging circuit during the switched-on phase of one of a first and second switching elements, adjusts electrical potentials of the first and second nodes, the electrical potentials each being different from the reference potential. A comparator arrangement, during the dead time, determines a time difference between such times at which the electrical potentials at the first and second node each assume a given potential value, the time difference being a measure for the change with time of the output voltage.
US08907665B2
A system includes at least one strip of ferromagnetic material and a plurality of pulsing/receiving coil circuits. The at least one strip of ferromagnetic material is induced with a bias magnetic field and is coupled to a surface of a structure under test. The plurality of pulsing/receiving coil circuits are aligned with a surface of the at least one strip of the ferromagnetic material. The plurality of pulsing/receiving coil circuits are individually controllable by a number of channels to excite guided waves in the structure under test using at least one of active phased-array focusing or synthetic phased-array focusing of the guided waves.
US08907653B2
Disclosed herein are a circuit of outputting a temperature compensation power voltage from variable power and a method thereof, the circuit including: a regulator circuit unit converting the variable power into a predetermined voltage desired by a system; a resistance compensation circuit unit provided at an output terminal of the regulator circuit unit, and compensating for a change in resistance value due to the temperature change; and a temperature sensor sensing a change in surrounding temperature of an electronic circuit system employing the regulator circuit unit and supplying an output value corresponding to the sensed temperature change to the resistance compensation circuit unit, to thereby allow the resistance compensation circuit unit to compensate for the change in resistance value due to the temperature change.
US08907650B2
This invention involves a bandgap reference circuit in IC. The temperature coefficient of conventional bandgap reference is large and the higher order compensation is difficult to implement. This invention provides an adaptive compensated bandgap reference which solves the problem only using lower order (first order) temperature coefficient compensation. The invention adopts segmental compensation circuit to realize adaptive segmental compensation of bandgap reference with low temperature coefficient. The technical solution includes traditional bandgap voltage reference circuit and adaptive feedback compensation circuit which consists of sample and hold circuit, voltage comparator and control module. This invention controls the bandgap voltage reference through systematical view and it has high process compatibility. This invention can find the best temperature characteristic curve adaptively, the output voltage has low temperature coefficient, meeting the requirement of fabrication process, the implementation is simple with small area. This invention relates to integrated circuits.
US08907646B2
A power converting circuit and a feedback control circuit for the power converting circuit are disclosed. The feedback control circuit comprises a feedback controller and a level controlling unit. The feedback controller generates a feedback control signal according to a reference voltage signal and a feedback signal. The level controlling unit receives one of the reference voltage signal and the feedback signal and modules a level of the received signal from a first level to a second level with time according to a level adjusting signal.
US08907636B2
The present invention provides a method and a device for primary frequency regulation based on bang-bang control, the method comprises: obtaining in real-time a power grid frequency of a steam turbine generator set; performing a subtraction operation on a rated power grid frequency and said power grid frequency to generate a power grid frequency difference; performing a dead zone process on the power grid frequency difference according to a dead zone fixed value to generate a frequency difference; performing a frequency difference compensation operation on the frequency difference to generate a frequency difference compensation instruction; and combining an original primary frequency regulation output instruction with the frequency difference compensation instruction and outputting the result to a steam turbine speed regulation system when a selecting switch is 1.
US08907634B2
A charger includes a power supply generating a direct current power supply potential, an output transistor, a USB connector, a controller, and a resistor bridge circuit. The controller has a potential setting circuit which sets the potentials of the first and second connection nodes of the resistor bridge circuit to a middle potential between a power supply potential and a ground potential in a first mode, and sets the potentials of the first and second connection nodes to the power supply potential in a second mode.
US08907633B2
An emulation system for charging any arbitrary portable device through a communication port on the portable device. The system includes a receptacle port for communicating with the portable device and a profile database for storing multiple charging profiles. Each charging profile including a set of parameters and at least one exit condition. Further, an emulation module applies a first charging profile to the portable device and monitors the set of parameters associated with the charging profile to identify an associated exit condition. Upon a determination that the exit condition for the first charging profile is met, the emulation module applies a next charging profile to the portable device.
US08907631B1
A system to recharge a battery including a first current-voltage source to generate a first signal, a second current-voltage source to generate a second signal, a first inductor-capacitor circuit to generate the first DC current-voltage signal using the first signal, a second inductor-capacitor circuit to generate the second DC current-voltage signal using the second signal, wherein the first and second inductor-capacitor circuits are spaced apart by a predetermined distance. The system also includes a temperature sensor adapted to generate temperature data during the charging operation, and control circuitry configured to: (i) determine whether the first temperature data is out-of-specification, and (ii) generate one or more control signals to adjust the first and second DC current-voltage signals, in response to the first temperature data being out-of-specification.
US08907629B2
A multi-mode operating system for an electric vehicle is provided, the system including means for a user to select a preferred mode of operation from a plurality of operational modes that include at least a Battery Life mode and a Standard mode, wherein the Battery Life mode is configured to select operating and charging parameters that emphasize battery health and battery life over vehicle range and/or vehicle performance. The system includes a thermal management system for maintaining the vehicle's battery pack to within any of a plurality of temperature ranges, and a charging system for charging the vehicle's battery pack to any of a plurality of minimum and maximum SOC levels and at any of a plurality of charging rates.
US08907627B2
A balancer circuit for a cell in a rechargeable battery, having connecting terminals for connection of the balancer circuit to the cell. A first resistor is electrically connected to one of the connecting terminals and a voltage switch is arranged in series with the first resistor and electrically connected to the other one of the connecting terminals. The voltage switch, e.g., an adjustable voltage reference circuit, is operable to shunt a balancing current through the first resistor when a load voltage sensed over the connecting terminals is higher than a threshold voltage.
US08907617B2
A power transfer system includes a power transmission device, a power reception device and a capacitive coupling conductor. A high-voltage side conductor is formed near the upper surface of a casing of the power transmission device, and a low-voltage side conductor is formed near the lower or surrounding surface of the casing. The power transmission device includes an alternating voltage generating circuit. A high-voltage side conductor is formed near the lower surface of a casing of the power reception device, and a low-voltage side conductor is formed near the upper surface of the casing of the power reception device. The power reception device includes a load circuit. The high-voltage side conductors are capacitively coupled to each other when facing each other, and the low-voltage side conductors are capacitively coupled to each other via a capacitive coupling conductor.
US08907605B2
A circuit structure applied to a motor and enabling upgraded MOS transistor heat dissipation ability is disclosed. The circuit structure includes a motor driving unit and a signal processing unit. The signal processing unit is connected to the motor driving unit for maintaining a first and a third switch of the motor driving unit at a constant turn-on voltage and boosting turn-on voltages of a second and a fourth switch of the motor driving unit, so as to effectively upgrade the heat dissipation ability of the first, second, third and fourth switches.
US08907603B2
A steering control apparatus includes a direct current power source, a three-phase alternating current motor, and a motor driving circuit. An emergency switching element is provided on at least two phases of a three-phase power supply line connected to the three-phase alternating current motor within the motor driving circuit, and the emergency switching element is turned off when an abnormality occurs such that the motor driving circuit is disconnected from the three-phase alternating current motor. The emergency switching element is a MOSFET, and the MOSFETs are provided in pairs in each of the two phases of the three-phase power supply line. Further, parasitic diodes of the pairs of MOSFETs are disposed in opposite orientations to each other.
US08907602B2
In a control apparatus of a rotating device, a voltage command value setting section sets terminal command values on the basis of a command value of a control amount of the rotating device. Individual correcting sections calculate feedback operation amounts on the basis of history information of electric currents flowing in respective terminals of the rotating device and corrects the terminal voltage command values with the feedback operation amounts. A prohibiting section prohibits difference corresponding amounts, which correspond to differences of the feedback operation amounts and an average of the feedback operation amounts, from being reflected in correcting the terminal voltage command values with maintaining polarities when a determining section determines that it is a switching time from one of a power-running control and a regeneration control to the other.
US08907598B2
Method for operating an actuator for maneuvering a windable mobile element of a home automation appliance, the mobile element being able to be displaced between two extreme positions, the method comprising a first step for definition of a first angular speed setpoint of the actuator in a first docking area and a second step for definition of a second angular speed setpoint of the actuator in a second docking area, the first and second angular speed setpoints being different.
US08907592B2
Embodiments of LED driver circuits and the associated methods are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the LED driver circuit comprises a switch-mode converter, a controller, a feedback circuit, and a gating circuit. The feedback circuit includes a current balance circuit. The gating circuit is responsive to both a current feedback signal and a voltage feedback signal and is configured to select one of them as the feedback signal.
US08907589B2
Methods and apparatus for operating a group of lighting fixture nodes (10A-D) at a reduced power level are disclosed. In some versions of the methods a plurality of lighting fixture nodes in a group of electrically connected lighting fixture nodes may each be operated at a nominal fixture power level; a current draw across at least a test lighting fixture node of the lighting fixture nodes may be identified; and the extent to which to reduce power of each lighting fixture node may be determined as a function of the current draw across the test lighting fixture node.
US08907583B1
An LED driving device includes: a rectifying circuit for outputting a DC voltage to a string of M LED units; (M−1) first switching circuits each coupled between a corresponding one of first to (M−1)th LED units and ground; and a second switching circuit coupled between an Mth LED unit and ground. When the DC voltage is sufficient to turn on first to kth LED units, where 1≦k≦M, the kth LED unit is coupled to ground through first and second conductive paths provided by a resistor unit, and a corresponding first switching circuit or the second switching circuit, and each of the first to (k−1)th LED units is coupled to ground through a third conductive path provided by a corresponding first switching circuit and the resistor unit.
US08907581B2
An LED driver includes a transformer, current control loop and current adjustment circuit. The primary side of the transformer transfers energy to the secondary side of the transformer responsive to an input signal. The secondary side delivers output current to one or more LEDs at a magnitude corresponding to the amount of energy transferred to the secondary side. The current control loop controls current in the primary side so that the output current equals a reference current signal. The current adjustment circuit injects a current adjustment signal into the current control loop responsive to a phase-cut signal which removes a portion of the input signal. The current control loop also decreases the current in the primary side responsive to the current adjustment signal so that a brightness of each LED connected to the secondary side is decreased by an amount corresponding to the magnitude of the current adjustment signal.
US08907577B2
A circuit includes an input to be coupled to receive a rectified line voltage having a controlled conduction phase angle in each half line cycle. An active device is coupled to a feedback terminal of a controller. The feedback terminal is coupled to receive a feedback signal representative of an output of a power supply. The active device includes a control terminal coupled to receive a signal representative of the input. The active device is coupled to adjust the feedback signal on the feedback terminal in response to the control of the conduction phase angle of the rectified line voltage in each half line cycle.
US08907576B2
An electrical circuit for driving a light emitting diode (LED) string is described. The electrical circuit includes a first LED string having one or more color LED strings. A first current control transistor is coupled in series with the first LED string. A color bypass transistor may couple in parallel to one of the one or more color LED strings. A second LED string may also be coupled to the first LED string at an anode terminal of both LED strings. The second LED string may be coupled in parallel with a string bypass transistor and in series with a second current control transistor. Connection interfaces to control terminals of the first current control transistor, the color bypass transistor, the second current control transistor, and the string bypass transistor enable a control device to operate these transistors in linear mode to drive the LED strings.
US08907573B2
A LED current control system for use with an LED drive system which includes LED strings connected in series with respective current sink circuits, each of which causes a current to be conducted by the LED string to which it is connected. The drive system includes 3 or more ‘dimming’ inputs with which the LED string currents can be adjusted. The LED current control system comprises at least one minimum circuit which receives two or more dimming inputs and produces an output which is proportional to the lesser of the inputs, a multiplier circuit which receives the outputs of the minimum circuits and at least one other dimming input and produces an output ILED which is proportional to the product of the received signals, and a sink control circuit which receives ILED and controls the current sink circuits such that the string currents vary with ILED.
US08907566B2
An electrical connection device for the connection between an electronic control unit (M) and an automotive vehicle headlamp. The electronic control unit has at least one control output (Mc) and a power supply output (Mp), the headlamp comprising at least one first module comprising a first control circuit having at least one power input (1p), the first module being able to generate a first light function, and a second module comprising a second control circuit having at least one power input (2p) and a control input (2c), the second module being able to selectively generate at least one second light function, the first and second control circuits being intended to be controlled by the electronic control unit (M), the electrical connection device being characterized in that it comprises at least: one power supply line (Lp) intended to connect the power supply output (Mp) of the electronic control unit (M) to the power input (1p) of the first control circuit and to the power input (2p) of the second control circuit; and a first control line (Lc) intended to connect the control output (Mc) of the electronic control unit (M) to the control input (2c) of the second control circuit.
US08907562B2
An organic light emitting diode display includes a substrate, an organic light emitting unit disposed on the substrate and including a laminate of a first electrode, an organic emission film, and a second electrode, a first inorganic film formed on the substrate to cover the organic light emitting unit, the first inorganic film including SnO2, and a second inorganic film formed on the first inorganic film, the second inorganic film including SnO2 at a top surface and including SnO, a proportion of the SnO increasing in a direction from the top surface of the second inorganic film toward the first inorganic film.
US08907557B2
A light-emitting diode (LED) fluorescent lamp which can replace a typical fluorescent lamp is provided. The LED fluorescent lamp includes an LED array including a plurality of LEDs connected in series; first through fourth connection pins; first through fourth capacitors connected to the first through fourth connection pins, respectively; a first diode having an commonly connected to second ends of the first and third capacitors and a cathode connected to a first end of the LED array; a second diode having an anode connected to a second end of the LED array and a cathode commonly connected to second ends of the second and fourth capacitors. The LED fluorescent lamp can replace a typical fluorescent lamp without a requirement of the installation of additional equipment or the change of wiring.
US08907553B2
A cold cathode field emission electron source capable of emission at levels comparable to thermal sources is described. Emission in excess of 6 A/cm2 at 7.5 V/μm is demonstrated in a macroscopic emitter array. The emitter is comprised of a monolithic and rigid porous semiconductor nanostructure with uniformly distributed emission sites, and is fabricated through a room temperature process which allows for control of emission properties. These electron sources can be used in a wide range of applications, including microwave electronics and x-ray imaging for medicine and security.
US08907552B2
An ignition plug (1) includes a center electrode (5) extending in the direction of an axis (CL1), an insulator (2) having an axial hole (4) into which the center electrode (5) is inserted, a tip (31) joined to a forward end portion of the center electrode (5) by a fusion portion (35), and a ground electrode (27) forming a gap (33) in cooperation with the tip (31). The ignition plug generates high-frequency plasma at the gap (33) when high-frequency electric power is supplied to the gap (33). The forward end of the tip (31) is located forward of the forward end of the insulator (2) with respect to the direction of the axis (CL1). Also, at least a portion of the outer surface of the fusion portion (35) is located within the axial hole (4), and, the distance between a forward-end-side opening of the axial hole (4) and the rearmost end of the outer surface of the fusion portion (35), measured along the axis (CL1), is equal to or greater than 0.1 mm. Thus, in the ignition plug (1) which generates high-frequency plasma, corrosion of the fusion portion can be suppressed effectively, whereby durability is improved.
US08907551B2
A light emitting device package including a substrate; a light emitting device on the substrate; a first heatsink between the substrate and the light emitting device to transfer heat generated from the light emitting device; a second heatsink disposed below the first heatsink; and an electrode between the first heat sink and the light emitting device. Further, the substrate is disposed between the first and second heatsinks and is narrower at a position between the first and second heatsinks than at a position not between the first and second heatsinks, a material of the substrate is the same at the position between the first and second heatsinks as not between the first and second heatsinks, and the substrate at the position not between the first and second heatsinks surrounds the first and second heat sinks.
US08907550B2
An LED array is mounted on a base that is thermally coupled to a heat spreader. At least one aperture is provided between the support area and an edge of the heat spreader. The heat spreader may be coupled to a thermal pad which has sufficient thermal conductivity and is sufficiently thin to allow the thermal resistivity between the heat spreader and a corresponding heat sink to be below a predetermined value.
US08907548B2
A resonator element includes: a base portion provided on a plane including a first axis and a second axis orthogonal to the first axis; a vibrating arm extending from the base portion in the first axis direction; an excitation electrode provided on the vibrating arm so as to excite the vibrating arm; and a first mass portion provided on the vibrating arm so as to adjust the frequency of the vibrating arm, wherein the vibrating arm performs flexural vibration in a direction perpendicular to the plane and wherein the first mass portion is provided in a region exceeding ½ of the entire length in the first axis direction of the vibrating arm from the end of the vibrating arm close to the base portion and is formed from a material whose density D (in units of 103 kg/m3) is in the range of 2.20≦D≦8.92.
US08907547B2
A composite substrate according to the present invention includes a piezoelectric substrate that is a single-crystal lithium tantalate or lithium niobate substrate, a support substrate that is a single-crystal silicon substrate, and an amorphous layer joining together the piezoelectric substrate and the support substrate. The amorphous layer contains 3 to 14 atomic percent of argon. The amorphous layer includes, in order from the piezoelectric substrate toward the composite substrate, a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer. The first layer contains a larger amount of a constituent element (such as tantalum) of the piezoelectric substrate than the second and third layers. The third layer contains a larger amount of a constituent element (silicon) of the support substrate than the first and second layers. The second layer contains a larger amount of argon than the first and third layers.
US08907541B2
A slot liner is configured for association with a tooth of an electro-dynamic machine core having an annular rim and circumferentially spaced teeth radially extending from the annular rim. The slot liner includes sidewalls configured to line circumferential surfaces of the tooth, first and second tabs formed by bends in the sidewalls, the first tab being configured to line a portion of the annular rim adjacent to the tooth and the second tab being configured to overlap with a tab of an adjacent slot liner and a retainer configured to retain the sidewalls against a radially inward portion of the tooth.
US08907535B2
An electric motor (10) for a machine tool or the like. The electric motor (10) is provided with a shaft (12) on which an encoder disk (15) is arranged. A first bushing (17) is provided and is connected to the encoder disk (15). The encoder disk (15) is arranged with a sliding fit on the shaft (12), and rests on a stop in the axial direction. A second bushing (18) is provided, which is arranged adjacent to and at a distance from the first bushing (17) on the shaft (12), and is arranged with an interference fit on the shaft (12). A compression spring (19) is arranged between the first bushing (17) and the second bushing (18) such that the first bushing (17) is pushed against the stop.
US08907532B2
A voice coil motor (VCM) includes a fixed assembly and a movable assembly. The fixed assembly includes a fixed bracket and a coil group. The fixed bracket is substantially tri-columnar in shape and includes three sidewalls supporting the coil group thereon, and defines a first receiving cavity between the three sidewalls. The coil group is arranged on the three sidewalls. The movable assembly includes a movable barrel movably received in the first receiving cavity, and a magnet group. The movable barrel is also substantially tri-columnar in shape and includes three external surfaces. The magnet group is arranged on the three external surfaces of the movable barrel and spatially opposite to the coil group.
US08907528B2
There is provided a semiconductor device in which an influence of a power source noise is suppressed and the number of pins and the area of the semiconductor device are reduced. A power source line for a first internal circuit and a power source line for a second internal circuit are coupled to a common pin terminal. A ground line for the first internal circuit and a ground line for the second internal circuit are coupled to another common pin terminal. A power source noise generated on the power source line for the first internal circuit during an operation of the first internal circuit is absorbed by a P-channel MOS transistor and a capacitor. A power source noise generated on the ground line is absorbed by an N-channel MOS transistor and the capacitor.
US08907527B2
In order to provide contactless power-feed equipment that can avoid excessive energy consumption upon switching, a primary side includes a DC power-supply device 11, a power-feed device 12, and a power-feed unit 13 and a secondary side includes a power-receiving unit 15. The power-feed device 12 includes: an insulating transformer 24 including a primary coil 22 with a center tap 22a fed with a DC current and a secondary coil 23 connected to the power-feed unit 13; a resonance capacitor 25 connected in parallel with the secondary coil 23 of the insulating transformer 24; a first diode 26 and a first Zener diode 29 that are connected to one end 22b of the primary coil 22; a second diode 27 and a second Zener diode 32 that are connected to the other end 22c of the primary coil 22; a first transistor 35 connected to the first diode 26, and a second transistor 36 connected to the second diode 27.
US08907524B2
Systems and methods of semi-centralized power storage and distributed power generation comprise at least one power storage facility at a first location, at least one distributed power generation facility at a second location different than the first location, and at least one mobile stored power transportation unit. The power storage facility includes a power storage medium comprising liquid air, nitrogen, oxygen, or a combination thereof. The mobile stored power transportation unit is configured to carry at least a portion of the power storage medium to the distributed power generation facility. In exemplary embodiments, the power storage facility is an air separation plant. The power storage facility may also function as an energy service company.
US08907517B2
A power transmission system for a wind turbine comprises a gearbox and generator. The gearbox includes a gearbox housing and gearbox output member. The generator includes: a generator housing having a drive-end side and non-drive-end side, the drive-end side being coupled to the gearbox housing; a stator supported by the generator housing; a rotor having a rotor shaft coupled to the gearbox output member and a rotor body coupled to the rotor shaft; a non-drive-end shield coupled to the non-drive-end side; a spindle extending from the non-drive-end shield in the axial direction; and at least one generator bearing positioned between the rotor shaft and spindle. The generator bearing(s) support the gearbox output member and rotor shaft. A method of assembling or servicing such a power transmission system is also provided.
US08907516B2
A power generation system including an airborne electricity generator, a tether assembly configured to carry electricity from the generator to land, the tether assembly having a first end portion coupled to the generator, and a winch assembly configured to reel the tether assembly onto a drum, wherein the winch assembly is configured to apply a reel tension to the tether assembly reeled onto the drum that is lower than a tension in the first end portion of the tether assembly.
US08907506B2
Multi-Mechanism Energy Harvesters (MMEHs) combining magnetostrictive and inductive mechanisms with a shape and size similar to an AA battery. Included are MMEHs with (a) an inductive mode: a cylindrical tube, a rod lengthwise within the tube, permanent magnets with opposing polarities at opposing ends of the tube, an annular oscillatory magnet in the tube and between the magnets and around the rod; and a primary coil around the tube and oscillatory magnet, such that relative movement between the magnet and coil induces electrical current in the coil; and (b) a magnetostrictive mode comprising: piezoelectric cymbal transducers on opposing ends of the tube and comprising a magnetostrictive material surrounded by a secondary coil, such that movement of the magnetostrictive material induces voltage in the secondary coil. During use, electrical energy can be harvested from the relative motion between the magnet and coil and from the magnetostrictive material.
US08907503B2
A method for manufacturing an underfill in a semiconductor chip stack having a cavity between a first surface and a second surface includes providing at least one access hole in one of the first or second surface; providing at least one vent hole in the one of the first or second surfaces; and applying a viscous filling material through the at least one access hole into the cavity thereby squeezing out air or gas through the at least one vent hole.
US08907501B2
A method of attaching a die to a substrate is disclosed. A major surface of the die has an array of electrical contacts, and is covered with a tape segment having an array of apertures in register with the contacts. Solder balls are inserted into the apertures. The die is positioned against a substrate with the solder balls in register with the die pads on the surface of the substrate, and a heat treatment process is performed to bond the conductive elements to the corresponding bond pads.
US08907492B2
Power supply plugs, which couple a power supply active region to a power supply metal interconnect, include a plurality of first plugs, which are arranged at first pitches of a predetermined length, and a second plug, which is spaced apart from the closest one of the first plugs by a center-to-center distance different from an integral multiple of the predetermined length. Among the power supply plugs, the second plug is closest to a third plug, which is an interconnect plug closest to the power supply active region and the power supply metal interconnect.
US08907488B2
Embodiments described herein generally relate to connections for integrated circuit (IC) dies. For example, in an embodiment an integrated circuit (IC) die is provided. The IC die includes a plurality of clusters of pads formed on a surface of the IC die, each cluster being associated with a respective circuit formed in the IC die. Each cluster includes a plurality of micropads each electrically coupled to the circuit associated with the cluster through a respective via and a sacrificial pad coupled to the circuit through the plurality of micropads, the sacrificial pad being larger than each of the micropads.
US08907485B2
An integrated circuit wire bond connection is provided having an aluminum bond pad (51) that is directly bonded to a copper ball (52) to form an aluminum splash structure (53) and associated crevice opening (55) at a peripheral bond edge of the copper ball (54), where the aluminum splash structure (53) is characterized by a plurality of geometric properties indicative of a reliable copper ball bond, such as lateral splash size, splash shape, relative position of splash-ball crevice to the aluminum pad, crevice width, crevice length, crevice angle, and/or crevice-pad splash index.
US08907483B2
An approach for forming a semiconductor device is provided. In general, the device is formed by providing a metal layer, a cap layer over the metal layer, and an ultra low k layer over the cap layer. A via is then formed through the ultra low k layer and the cap layer. Once the via is formed, a barrier layer (e.g., cobalt (Co), tantalum (Ta), cobalt-tungsten-phosphide (CoWP), or other metal capable of acting as a copper (CU) diffusion barrier) is selectively applied to a bottom surface of the via. A liner layer (e.g., manganese (MN) or aluminum (AL)) is then applied to a set of sidewalls of the via. The via may then be filled with a subsequent metal layer (with or without a seed layer), and the device may the then be further processed (e.g., annealed).
US08907482B2
A system may include a package defining a cavity and an integrated circuit (IC) disposed within the cavity. The package may include a first electrically conductive package contact and a second electrically conductive package contact. The IC may include a first electrically conductive IC contact and a second electrically conductive IC contact. The system also may include a wire bond extending between and electrically connecting the first electrically conductive package contact and the first electrically conductive IC contact. The system further may include an electrically conductive adhesive extending between and electrically connecting the second electrically conductive package contact and the second electrically conductive IC contact. Use of wire bonds and electrically conductive adhesive may increase an interconnect density between the IC and the package, while not requiring an increase in size of the IC or a decrease in pitch between wire bonds.
US08907481B2
A stack of a first and second semiconductor structures is formed. Each semiconductor structure includes: a semiconductor bulk, an overlying insulating layer with metal interconnection levels, and a first surface including a conductive area. The first surfaces of semiconductor structures face each other. A first interconnection pillar extends from the first surface of the first semiconductor structure. A housing opens into the first surface of the second semiconductor structure. The housing is configured to receive the first interconnection pillar. A second interconnection pillar protrudes from a second surface of the second semiconductor structure which is opposite the first surface. The second interconnection pillar is in electric contact with the first interconnection pillar.
US08907476B2
A semiconductor wafer contains a plurality of semiconductor die separated by a saw street. An insulating layer is formed over the semiconductor wafer. A protective layer is formed over the insulating layer including an edge of the semiconductor die along the saw street. The protective layer covers an entire surface of the semiconductor wafer. Alternatively, an opening is formed in the protective layer over the saw street. The insulating layer has a non-planar surface and the protective layer has a planar surface. The semiconductor wafer is singulated through the protective layer and saw street to separate the semiconductor die while protecting the edge of the semiconductor die. Leading with the protective layer, the semiconductor die is mounted to a carrier. An encapsulant is deposited over the semiconductor die and carrier. The carrier and protective layer are removed. A build-up interconnect structure is formed over the semiconductor die and encapsulant.
US08907475B2
Provided are a bonded structure by a lead-free solder and an electronic article comprising the bonded structure. The bonded structure has a stable bonding interface with respect to a change in process of time, an enough strength and resistance to occurrence of whiskers while keeping good wettability of the solder. In the bonded structure, a lead-free Sn—Ag—Bi alloy solder is applied to an electrode through an Sn—Bi alloy layer. The Sn—Bi alloy, preferably, comprises 1 to 20 wt % Bi in order to obtain good wettability of the solder. In order to obtain desirable bonding characteristics having higher reliability in the invention, a copper layer is provided under the Sn—Bi alloy layer thereby obtaining an enough bonding strength.
US08907470B2
Various embodiments include wafer level chip scale package (WLCSP) structures and methods of tuning such structures. In some embodiments, the WLCSP structure includes: a printed circuit board (PCB) trace connection including at least one PCB ground connection connected with a PCB ground plane; a set of ground solder balls each contacting the printed circuit board trace connection; a set of chip pads contacting each of the ground solder balls in the set of ground solder balls; a chip ground plane connecting the set of chip pads; and a signal interconnect interposed between two of the set of ground solder balls, the signal interconnect including: a signal trace connection electrically isolated from the PCB ground plane; a signal ball contacting the signal PCB trace connection; a chip pad contacting the signal ball, and a signal trace connection on a chip contacting the chip pad.
US08907462B2
An integrated circuit package includes a digital logic die disposed on a substrate; and an interposer die stacked vertically with the digital logic die on the substrate. The interposer die includes at least one vertical transistor configured to selectively provide electrical power to a portion of the digital logic die.
US08907459B2
A three-dimensional semiconductor integrated circuit device is provided. A first semiconductor chip includes a solid-state circuit and is smaller than a base, and is stacked on the base. The first chip is buried by a first filling material having approximately the same contour as the base. Buried electrodes that penetrate through the first chip along its thickness direction are formed in the first chip. A second semiconductor chip includes a solid-state circuit and is smaller than the base, and is stacked on the first chip. The second chip is buried by a second filling material having approximately the same contour as the base. Buried electrodes that penetrate through the second chip along its thickness direction are formed in the second chip. The first and second filling materials have processibilities required for forming the buried electrodes and thermal expansion coefficients equivalent to those of the first and second chips, respectively.
US08907456B2
A method of fabricating integrated circuits is described. A multi-material hard mask is formed on an underlying layer to be patterned. In a first patterning process, portions of the first material of the hard mask are etched, the first patterning process being selective to etch the first material over the second material. In a second patterning process, portions of the second material of the hard mask are etched, the second patterning process being selective to etch the second material over the first material. The first and second patterning processes forming a desired pattern in the hard mask which is then transferred to the underlying layer.
US08907454B2
A transistor includes: a semiconductor substrate; a first electrode on the semiconductor substrate and having first and second portions; a second electrode on the semiconductor substrate and spaced apart from the first electrode; a control electrode on the semiconductor substrate and disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a first heat sink plate joined to the second portion of the first electrode without being joined to the first portion of the first electrode.
US08907450B2
Methods and apparatus for metal semiconductor wafer bonding for high-Q devices are provided. An exemplary capacitor includes a first plate formed on a glass substrate, a second plate, and a dielectric layer. No organic bonding agent is used between the first plate and the glass substrate, and the dielectric layer can be an intrinsic semiconductor. A extrinsic semiconductor layer that is heavily doped contacts the dielectric layer. The dielectric and extrinsic semiconductor layers are sandwiched between the first and second plates. An intermetallic layer is formed between the first plate and the dielectric layer. The intermetallic layer is thermo compression bonded to the first plate and the dielectric layer. The capacitor can be coupled in a circuit as a high-Q capacitor and/or a varactor, and can be integrated with a mobile device.
US08907443B2
In order to suppress an off leak current of an off transistor for ESD protection, in an NMOS for ESD protection whose isolation region has a shallow trench structure, a drain region is placed apart from the shallow trench isolation region so as not to be in direct contact with the shallow trench isolation region in a region where the drain region of the NMOS transistor for ESD protection is adjacent to at least a gate electrode of the NMOS transistor for ESD protection.
US08907440B2
The present specification discloses front-side contact back-side illuminated (FSC-BSL) photodiode array having improved characteristics such as high speed of each photodiode, uniformity of the bias voltage applied to different photodiode, low bias voltage, reduced resistance of each photodiode, and an associated reduction in noise. The photodiode array is made of photodiodes with front metallic cathode pads, front metallic anode pad, back metallic cathode pads, n+ doped regions and a p+ doped region. The front metallic cathode pads physically contact the n+ doped regions and the front metallic anode pad physically contacts the p+ doped region. The back metallic cathode pads physically contact the n+ doped region.
US08907429B2
A semiconductor device includes a silicon substrate; an element isolation region; an element region including a first well; a contact region; a gate electrode extending from the element region to a sub-region of the element isolation region between the element region and the contact region; a source diffusion region; a drain diffusion region; a first insulating region contacting a lower end of the source diffusion region; a second insulating region contacting a lower end of the drain diffusion region; and a via plug configured to electrically connect the gate electrode with the contact region. The first well is disposed below the gate electrode and is electrically connected with the contact region via the silicon substrate under the sub-region. The lower end of the element isolation region except the sub-region is located lower than the lower end of the first well.
US08907427B2
A semiconductor device may include a substrate, source and drain regions in the substrate, a recessed epitaxial channel layer in the substrate between the source and drain regions, and a high-K gate dielectric layer overlying the recessed epitaxial channel layer. The semiconductor device may further include a gate electrode overlying the high-K gate dielectric layer, a dielectric cap layer in contact with top and sidewall portions of the gate electrode, the dielectric cap layer having a lower dielectric constant than the high-K gate dielectric layer, and source and drain contacts coupled to the source and drain regions.
US08907419B2
A laterally double diffused metal oxide semiconductor device includes a well region having a first conductivity, a first carrier redistribution region having the first conductivity type, wherein the second well region is under the well region, and a highly doped buried layer under the second well region. The highly doped buried layer has the first conductivity type and has a dopant concentration less than that of the well region and less than that of the first carrier redistribution region, and the buried layer is tied to the first well region. In addition, a method for forming the laterally double diffused metal oxide semiconductor device, which may use epitaxial growth, is disclosed.
US08907414B2
Aspects of the present disclosure describe high voltage fast recovery trench diodes and methods for make the same. The device may have trenches that extend at least through a top P-layer and an N-barrier layer. A conductive material may be disposed in the trenches with a dielectric material lining the trenches between the conductive material and sidewalls of the trenches. A highly doped P-pocket may be formed in an upper portion of the top P-layer between the trenches. A floating N-pocket may be formed directly underneath the P-pocket. The floating N-pocket may be as wide as or wider than the P-pocket. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
US08907413B1
A dual trench MOS transistor comprises of the following elements. A plurality of trenches are formed in an n− epitaxial layer on a heavy doped n+ semiconductor substrate and spaced to each other by one mesa. Each the trench has a trench oxide layer formed on a bottom and sidewalls thereof. A first polysilicon layer is formed in the trenches. A plurality of recesses are formed in the mesas and spaced to each other with one sub-mesa. Each the recess has a recess oxide layer formed on a bottom and sidewalls thereof. A second polysilicon layer for serving as a gate is formed in the recesses. The mesas are implanted to have implanted areas at two side of the gate. The implanted areas and the first polysilicon layer are applied to serve as the source. The rear surface of the substrate is served as the drain.
US08907407B2
The invention prevents a semiconductor device from warping due to heat when it is used. The invention also prevents a formation defect such as peeling of a resist layer used as a plating mask and a formation defect of a front surface electrode. A source pad electrode connected to a source region is formed on a front surface of a semiconductor substrate forming a vertical MOS transistor. A front surface electrode is formed on the source pad electrode by a plating method using a resist layer having openings as a mask. The semiconductor substrate formed with the front surface electrode is thinned by back-grinding. A back surface electrode connected to a drain region is formed on the back surface of the semiconductor substrate. The front surface electrode and the back surface electrode are made of metals having the same coefficients of linear expansion, preferably copper. The front surface electrode and the back surface electrode preferably have the same thicknesses or almost the same thicknesses.
US08907405B2
Semiconductor structures with dual trench regions and methods of manufacturing the semiconductor structures are provided herein. The method includes forming a gate structure on an active region and high-k dielectric material formed in one or more trenches adjacent to the active region. The method further includes forming a sacrificial material over the active region and portions of the high-k dielectric material adjacent sidewalls of the active region. The method further includes removing unprotected portions of the high-k dielectric material, leaving behind a liner of high-k dielectric material on the sidewalls of the active region. The method further includes removing the sacrificial material and forming a raised source and drain region adjacent to sidewalls of the gate structure.
US08907394B2
In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a multi-portion shield electrode structure formed in a drift region. The shield electrode includes a wide portion formed in proximity to a channel side of the drift region, and a narrow portion formed deeper in the drift region. The narrow portion is separated from the drift region by a thicker dielectric region, and the wide portion is separated from the drift region by a thinner dielectric region. That portion of the drift region in proximity to the wide portion can have a higher dopant concentration than other portions of the drift region.
US08907392B2
A semiconductor memory device which includes a memory cell including two or more sub memory cells is provided. The sub memory cells each including a word line, a bit line, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, and a transistor. In the semiconductor device, the sub memory cells are stacked in the memory cell; a first gate and a second gate are formed with a semiconductor film provided therebetween in the transistor; the first gate and the second gate are connected to the word line; one of a source and a drain of the transistor is connected to the bit line; the other of the source and the drain of the transistor is connected to the first capacitor and the second capacitor; and the first gate and the second gate of the transistor in each sub memory cell overlap with each other and are connected to each other.
US08907389B2
The semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a ferroelectric film and an electrode stacked on the ferroelectric film. The electrode has a multilayer structure of an electrode lower layer in contact with the ferroelectric film and an electrode upper layer stacked on the electrode lower layer. The electrode upper layer is made of a conductive material having an etching selection ratio with respect to the materials for the ferroelectric film and the electrode lower layer. The upper surface of the electrode upper layer is planarized.
US08907379B2
A semiconductor device has a semiconductor region including a gate electrode disposed over the semiconductor region, a first electrode portion, a second electrode portion standing substantially perpendicular to a surface of the semiconductor region and a substantially constant dimension in a direction parallel to the surface of the semiconductor region. The semiconductor device has a tapered portion disposed between the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion and has a dimension parallel to the surface of the semiconductor region increasing in the direction from the second electrode portion to the first electrode portion. Further, the semiconductor device includes a source and a drain electrode at both sides of the gate electrode over the semiconductor region and an insulating layer that covers a portion of the surface of the semiconductor region. Additionally, the second electrode portion may be positioned closer to one of the drain electrode and the source electrode.
US08907374B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an IGBT, which relates to the field of integrated circuit manufacturing, and may improve a problem of tail current when the IGBT is turned off. The IGBT includes a cell region on a front surface, a terminal region surrounding the cell region, an IGBT drift region of a first conductivity type, and an IGBT collector region on a back surface. The IGBT collector region is connected to the IGBT drift region and under the IGBT drift region. The IGBT drift region includes a first drift region under the cell region and a second drift region under the terminal region. The IGBT collector region includes a cell collector region of a heavily doped second conductivity type under the first drift region and a non-conductive isolation region adjacent to the cell collector region.
US08907373B2
A protection device includes a triac and triggering units. Each triggering unit is formed by a MOS transistor configured to operate at least temporarily in a hybrid operating mode and a field-effect diode. The field-effect diode has a controlled gate that is connected to the gate of the MOS transistor.
US08907372B2
A thyristor includes a base region, a pair of first doping regions, at least one second doping region, at least one third doping region, and a pair of metal layers. The first doping regions are formed in two opposite sides of the base region and touch the base region. The second doping region is formed between the base region and one of the first doping regions. The second doping region touches the base region and the first doping region. The third doping region is formed in one of the first doping regions and touches the first doping region. The type of the first doping region is different from the types of the second doping region, the third doping region, and the base region. The metal layers touch the first doping regions respectively. The first doping regions and the third doping region are located between the metal layers.
US08907369B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor component includes a substrate that has an upper side and an under side lying opposite the upper side. The substrate is formed with an electrically conductive mounting region, an electrically conductive connection region and an electrically isolating oxidation region. An optoelectronic part is arranged on the upper side of the substrate in the region of the mounting region. The oxidation region electrically isolates the mounting region from the connection region. The oxidation region extends, without interruption, from the upper side of the substrate to the underside of the substrate. The mounting region and the connection region are formed with aluminum and the oxidation region is formed with an oxide of the aluminum. The mounting region, the oxidation region and the connection region being are designed contiguously to form an entity.
US08907366B2
Semiconductor light emitting devices, such as light emitting diodes, include a substrate, an epitaxial region on the substrate that includes a light emitting region such as a light emitting diode region, and a multilayer conductive stack including a current spreading layer, on the epitaxial region. A barrier layer is provided on the current spreading layer and extending on a sidewall of the current spreading layer. The multilayer conductive stack can also include an ohmic layer between the reflector and the epitaxial region. The barrier layer further extends on a sidewall of the ohmic layer. The barrier layer can also extend onto the epitaxial region outside the multilayer conductive stack. The barrier layer can be fabricated as a series of alternating first and second sublayers.
US08907365B2
An organic light emitting diode comprising a light extraction substructure and a diode superstructure is provided. The light extraction substructure comprises a light expulsion matrix distributed over discrete light extraction waveguide elements and a waveguide surface of the glass substrate. The light expulsion matrix is distributed at varying thicknesses to enhance the planarity of a diode superstructure-engaging side of the light extraction substructure and to provide light expulsion sites at the waveguide element termination points of the discrete light extraction waveguide elements. In operation, light originating in the organic light emitting semiconductor material of the diode superstructure is coupled to the discrete waveguide elements of the light extraction substructure as respective coupled modes characterized by an approximate coupling length defined as the propagation distance required for an optical mode to be coupled from the superstructure waveguide to one of the discrete waveguide elements of the light extraction substructure.
US08907362B2
In accordance with certain embodiments, semiconductor dies are embedded within polymeric binder to form, e.g., freestanding white light-emitting dies and/or composite wafers containing multiple light-emitting dies embedded in a single volume of binder.
US08907355B2
The present invention discloses a diode and a manufacturing method thereof and a display apparatus. The diode comprises a composite anode, a transparent metal oxide layer, a basic stack layer, and a composite cathode. The composite anode comprises a transparent anode layer and a first transparent metal layer. The first transparent metal layer is formed on the transparent anode layer. The transparent metal oxide layer is formed on the first transparent metal layer. The basic stack layer is formed on the transparent metal oxide layer. The composite cathode comprises two second transparent metal layers. The two second transparent metal layers are formed on the basic stack layer. Both transmittance and efficiency of the diode are significantly improved. The reliability of the diode is improved to elongate the lifetime of the diode.
US08907348B2
As a display device has higher definition, the number of pixels is increased and thus, the number of gate lines and signal lines is increased. When the number of gate lines and signal lines is increased, it is difficult to mount IC chips including driver circuits for driving the gate lines and the signal lines by bonding or the like, whereby manufacturing cost is increased. A pixel portion and a driver circuit for driving the pixel portion are provided on the same substrate, and at least part of the driver circuit comprises a thin film transistor including an oxide semiconductor sandwiched between gate electrodes. A channel protective layer is provided between the oxide semiconductor and a gate electrode provided over the oxide semiconductor. The pixel portion and the driver circuit are provided on the same substrate, which leads to reduction of manufacturing cost.
US08907333B2
Composite of layers which comprises a dielectric layer and a layer which comprises pyrogenic zinc oxide and is bonded to the dielectric layer. Process for producing the composite of layers, in which the pyrogenic zinc oxide is applied to the dielectric layer in the form of a dispersion in which the zinc oxide particles are present with a mean aggregate diameter of less than 200 nm, and the zinc oxide layer is dried and then treated at temperatures of less than 200° C. Process for producing the composite of layers, in which the pyrogenic zinc oxide is applied to a substrate layer or a composite of substrate layers in the form of a dispersion in which the zinc oxide particles are present with a mean aggregate diameter of less than 200 nm to form a zinc oxide layer, and then the zinc oxide layer and the substrate layer are treated at temperatures of less than 200° C., and then a dielectric layer is applied to the zinc oxide layer. Field-effect transistor which has the composite of layers.
US08907330B2
An organic light emitting diode display including a substrate, a first electrode on the substrate, a light-emitting layer on the first electrode, a second electrode on the light-emitting layer, and a p-doping layer between the first electrode and the light-emitting layer.
US08907317B2
The present application describes a crossbar memory array. The memory array includes a first array of parallel nanowires of a first material and a second array of parallel nanowires of a second material. The first and the second array are oriented at an angle with each other. The array further includes a plurality of nanostructures of non-crystalline silicon disposed between a nanowire of the first material and a nanowire of the second material at each intersection of the two arrays. The nanostructures form a resistive memory cell together with the nanowires of the first and second materials.
US08907315B2
A method of forming a memory cell includes forming programmable material within an opening in dielectric material over an elevationally inner conductive electrode of the memory cell. Conductive electrode material is formed over the dielectric material and within the opening. The programmable material within the opening has an elevationally outer edge surface angling elevationally and laterally inward relative to a sidewall of the opening. The conductive electrode material is formed to cover over the angling surface of the programmable material within the opening. The conductive electrode material is removed back at least to an elevationally outermost surface of the dielectric material and to leave the conductive electrode material covering over the angling surface of the programmable material within the opening. The conductive electrode material constitutes at least part of an elevationally outer conductive electrode of the memory cell. Memory cells independent of method of manufacture are also disclosed.
US08907310B2
In a first aspect, a method of fabricating an EUV light source mirror is disclosed which may comprise the acts/steps of providing a plurality of discrete substrates; coating each substrate with a respective multilayer coating; securing the coated substrates in an arrangement wherein each coated substrate is oriented to a common focal point; and thereafter polishing at least one of the multilayer coatings. In another aspect, an optic for use with EUV light is disclosed which may comprise a substrate; a smoothing layer selected from the group of materials consisting of Si, C, Si3N4, B4C, SiC and Cr, the smoothing layer material being deposited using highly energetic deposition conditions and a multilayer dielectric coating. In another aspect, a corrosion resistant, multilayer coating for an EUV mirror may comprise alternating layers of Si and a compound material having nitrogen and a 5th period transition metal.
US08907309B2
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for control of a charged particle cancer therapy system. A treatment delivery control system is used to directly control multiple subsystems of the cancer therapy system without direct communication between selected subsystems, which enhances safety, simplifies quality assurance and quality control, and facilitates programming. For example, the treatment delivery control system directly controls one or more of: an imaging system, a positioning system, an injection system, a radio-frequency quadrupole system, a ring accelerator or synchrotron, an extraction system, a beam line, an irradiation nozzle, a gantry, a display system, a targeting system, and a verification system. Generally, the control system integrates subsystems and/or integrates output of one or more of the above described cancer therapy system elements with inputs of one or more of the above described cancer therapy system elements.
US08907305B2
A charged particle beam system for imaging and processing targets is disclosed, comprising a charged particle column, a secondary particle detector, and a secondary particle detection grid assembly between the target and detector. In one embodiment, the grid assembly comprises a multiplicity of grids, each with a separate bias voltage, wherein the electric field between the target and the grids may be adjusted using the grid voltages to optimize the spatial distribution of secondary particles reaching the detector. Since detector lifetime is determined by the total dose accumulated at the area on the detector receiving the largest dose, detector lifetime can be increased by making the dose into the detector more spatially uniform. A single resistive grid assembly with a radial voltage gradient may replace the separate grids. A multiplicity of deflector electrodes may be located between the target and grid to enhance shaping of the electric field.
US08907299B2
The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing film member for laser-driven ion acceleration, a film target, and a method of manufacturing the same, so that only the film member exists at a laser focusing point on the film target, allowing repeated ion acceleration from the film member by focusing high power laser beams thereon. The method includes preparing a film member solution containing a film material to be used for laser-driven ion acceleration; forming a film member on a base substrate by using the film member solution; and separating the film member from the base substrate by dipping the base substrate having the film member formed thereon into a film parting solvent.
US08907297B2
A photocathode system includes a plurality of photocathodes, and at least one combining device. The photocathodes have individually adjustable voltages, and each photocathode generates an individual electron bunch at an emission period. The combining device combines the individual electron bunches, generated at each emission period, into a combined bunch along a combined axis. The timing of the individual electron bunches is independently adjustable, so that an electron bunch with a lower energy arrives at the combined axis earlier in time compared to another electron bunch with a higher energy, thereby allowing the combined beam of electron bunches to be longitudinally compressed. The photocathodes may be distributed along a 1D column, or a 2D array, or a 3D array, or any arbitrary configuration. A linac is located near a longitudinal focusing point to boost beam energy and therefore freeze bunch length and emittance.
US08907293B2
The present invention includes an apparatus and method for neutron radiation detection. The apparatus comprises combining thin walled, boron-coated straw tubes with a plastic moderator material interspersed around the tubes. The method involves using such an apparatus through application of voltage to a central wire running inside the tubes and collecting electrical pulses generated thereby.
US08907289B2
A subatomic particle detection apparatus includes a scintillator to scintillate if struck by subatomic particles, and to scintillate if subjected to mechanical stresses, the scintillator to emit an electrical discharge if scintillating due to the mechanical stresses. A detector is optically coupled to the scintillator to detect scintillations by the scintillator. Furthermore, an antenna is associated with the scintillator and/or the detector to detect the electrical discharge. In addition, circuitry is coupled to the detector and the antenna to determine whether the scintillator scintillated due to the mechanical stresses, based upon the antenna detecting the electrical discharge.
US08907286B2
A system includes a cold cell tube configured to receive a mixture of a target gas and a buffer gas to cool the target gas to a temperature at which a partial pressure of the target gas is greater than the saturated vapor pressure of the target gas while maintaining at least a portion of the target gas in the gas phase. The system also includes a spectroscopic module configured to detect the cooled target gas in the cold cell tube; and an analysis module configured to determine a characteristic of the target gas based on the results of the detecting.
US08907280B1
Various technologies described herein pertain to compressive sensing electron microscopy. A compressive sensing electron microscope includes a multi-beam generator and a detector. The multi-beam generator emits a sequence of electron patterns over time. Each of the electron patterns can include a plurality of electron beams, where the plurality of electron beams is configured to impart a spatially varying electron density on a sample. Further, the spatially varying electron density varies between each of the electron patterns in the sequence. Moreover, the detector collects signals respectively corresponding to interactions between the sample and each of the electron patterns in the sequence.
US08907278B2
Provided is a charged particle beam applied apparatus for observing a sample, provided with: a beam-forming section that forms a plurality of charged particle beams on a sample; an energy control unit that controls the incident energy of the plurality of charged particle beams that are irradiated onto the sample; a beam current control unit that controls the beam current of the plurality of charged particle beams that are irradiated onto the sample; and a beam arrangement control unit that controls the arrangement in which the plurality of charged particle beams is irradiated onto the sample. The beam-forming section includes a beam splitting electrode, a lens array upper electrode, a lens array middle electrode, a lens array lower electrode and a movable stage, and functions as the beam current control unit or the beam arrangement control unit through selection, by the movable stage, of a plurality of aperture pattern sets.
US08907276B2
A method for measuring the population of atoms in a vapor cell comprises collecting a sample of atoms, applying radio frequency (RF) spectroscopy to the sample such that a first portion of the atoms are in an upper ground state and a second portion of the atoms are in a lower ground state, and applying light to the sample to produce a first fluorescence such that all atoms are left in the lower ground state. The method further comprises measuring a population of the atoms in the upper ground state based on the first fluorescence, applying an RF pulse to the sample to transfer the atoms in the lower ground state to the upper ground state, and applying light to the sample after the RF pulse is applied to produce a second fluorescence. A population of all the atoms in the sample is then measured based on the second fluorescence.
US08907275B1
A method and an apparatus are described to improve the separation capacity of an ion analyzer incorporating at least two stages of ion mobility analysis. The new invention utilizes possible use of different mixtures of gases and dopants in each stage, control over different concentrations of gases and dopants in each stage, and allowance of passage of the selected ions from one stage to the next while avoiding the mixing of the gases and dopants among stages. The new invention also includes a method to reduce the time required to identify the physical properties in a set of ion filters where at least one of the filters is a scannable ion mobility analyzer. The present invention also includes how to provide a set of scannable ion mobility analyzers operating in series, wherein each stage can be operated as a filter, or allowing for the passage of all ions.
US08907273B1
An ion manipulation method and device is disclosed. The device includes a pair of substantially parallel surfaces. An array of inner electrodes is contained within, and extends substantially along the length of, each parallel surface. The device includes a first outer array of electrodes and a second outer array of electrodes. Each outer array of electrodes is positioned on either side of the inner electrodes, and is contained within and extends substantially along the length of each parallel surface. A DC voltage is applied to the first and second outer array of electrodes. A RF voltage, with a superimposed electric field, is applied to the inner electrodes by applying the DC voltages to each electrode. Ions either move between the parallel surfaces within an ion confinement area or along paths in the direction of the electric field, or can be trapped in the ion confinement area. A predetermined number of pairs of surfaces are disposed in one or more chambers, forming a multiple-layer ion mobility cyclotron device.
US08907268B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods where an electron focusing device can be combined with a scintillation detector to better focus the electrons generated by a light sensing device. The scintillation detector can include a scintillation crystal that is covered by an inner light-reflecting coating layer where the scintillation crystal may emit photons due to measurement radiation(s). The light sensing device can include a photomultiplier that may receive the photons emitted by the scintillation crystal and convert them into the electrons generated. The electron focusing device can include a metal ring magnet or one or more conducting coils encircling the scintillation crystal that may create a magnetic field so as to focus the electrons generated by the light sensing device.
US08907264B2
An optoelectronics apparatus selectively drives a light source, and includes four electrically isolated photodetector (PD) segments that detect light that has reflected off an object. Each of the four PD segments produces a corresponding signal, referred to as signals A, B, C and D, indicative of the light detected by the respective PD segment. Circuitry is used to produce a first motion signal indicative of a sum of the signals A plus B minus a sum of the signals C plus D, i.e., the first motion signal is indicative of (A+B)−(C+D). Further circuitry produces a second motion signal indicative of (B+C)−(A+D). Additional circuitry produces a signal and/or data that is indicative of a direction and/or rate of motion of an object, in dependence on the first and second motion signals.
US08907263B2
There is provided a position detecting device using reflection type photosensors in which a position sensing of lens located not less than 1 mm apart from a sensor can be conducted.A pair of reflection type photosensors PR1 and PR2 are oppositely arranged, a double sided reflector 5 attached on a movable body is movably arranged between the pair of reflection type photosensors and a position of the double sided reflector 5 is detected from the outputs of these reflection type photosensors. In the position detecting device of the present invention, an operating formula in which linear values are obtained depending on a moving distance of the double sided reflector can be used. For example, when an output of one of the pair of reflection type photosensors is Vo1, and an output of the other is Vo2, the position detecting is conducted using the operating formula of (Vo1−Vo2)/(Vo1+Vo2).
US08907257B2
The present invention relates to a contactlessly chargeable heater. In one example, the contactlessly chargeable heater includes: an induction patch emitting magnetic field by means of current applied to an inner coil; and a heating body, receiving the magnetic field from the charging patch to perform a contactless charging operation, and including a conductive metal yarn for emitting heat via the power generated through the contactless charging operation. The conductive metal yarn is woven together using threads within the heating body.
US08907254B2
A heating control system which allows a plurality of heaters to heat an object without depending on a variation in characteristics among a plurality of heater power sources includes: a thermocouple which detects a temperature of an object to be heated; temperature control means that receives a target temperature and a current temperature, and carries out electric power control so that these temperatures match; electric current and voltage detecting means for detecting an electric power value and a current electric power; and target electric power calculating means that receives the electric power value, and calculates the target electric power by multiplying the electric power value by a given ratio. The temperature control means receives the target electric power and the current electric power, and carries out electric power control so that the current electric power matches the target electric power.
US08907247B2
A thermal processing apparatus and method in which a first laser source, for example, a CO2 emitting at 10.6 μm is focused onto a silicon wafer as a line beam and a second laser source, for example, a GaAs laser bar emitting at 808 nm is focused onto the wafer as a larger beam surrounding the line beam. The two beams are scanned in synchronism in the direction of the narrow dimension of the line beam to create a narrow heating pulse from the line beam when activated by the larger beam. The energy of GaAs radiation is greater than the silicon bandgap energy and creates free carriers. The energy of the CO2 radiation is less than the silicon bandgap energy so silicon is otherwise transparent to it, but the long wavelength radiation is absorbed by the free carriers.
US08907239B2
A circuit interrupter includes an indicator apparatus having a pair of movable elements and a connection apparatus that enables the pair of movable elements to be cooperable. One of the movable elements is connected with an indicator element that indicates an OPEN and/or a CLOSED condition of the circuit interrupter. A pair of engagement structures are situated on the pair of movable elements and enable the pair of movable elements to be engageable with one another. A biasing element extends between the pair of movable elements and is configured to absorb some of the kinetic energy of a trip event, which resists breakage of the indicator apparatus. The indicator element changes states when the set of separable contacts are at a relatively small amount of separation and does not require the set of separable contacts to reach the end of their travel before changing state.
US08907236B2
A floating contact assembly for use in a circuit breaker includes a contact, a floating member, a bearing element, a jaw member, and a flexible conductor. The floating member includes a joint surface and the contact is electrically connected to a surface of the floating member opposite the joint surface. The bearing element is configured to abut the joint surface of the floating member such that the floating member is configured to rotate about a first axis that passes through the bearing element. The jaw member is configured to electrically connect the floating contact assembly to an external electrical component and the flexible conductor electrically couples the jaw member to the floating member.
US08907225B1
A method and an apparatus for mitigating electrical failures caused by intrusive structures. Such structures can be tin whiskers forming on electrical circuits. In an illustrative embodiment, nano-capsules are filled with some type of insulative and adhesive fluid that is adapted to bind to and coat an intrusive structure, e.g., a whisker, making the whisker electrically inactive and thereby reducing the electrical faults that can be caused by the whisker. In another illustrative embodiment, randomly oriented nano-fibers having an elastic modulus higher than tin or any other whisker material is used to arrest a growth or movement of a whisker and further reduce a likelihood that a whisker can cause an electrical fault.
US08907222B2
A cover apparatus can cover an electrical insulator and an electrical conductor. The cover apparatus includes one or more leg sections for covering a portion of the electrical conductor. The cover apparatus includes a cover section coupled to the one or more leg sections and covering a portion of the electrical insulator. The cover section includes a body portion and an adjustable portion coupled to the body portion at a coupling location. The adjustable portion can be adjusted such that a dimension of the adjustable portion is adjusted according to a dimension of the electrical insulator. An example method of forming a cover apparatus for covering an electrical insulator and an electrical conductor is also provided.
US08907218B2
The invention relates to a cable having a conductor surrounded by at a least one polymer layer having a polymer composition of the invention which has a polymer component and optionally a carbon black (CB) component, to a production process of the cable and to a polymer composition of the invention which has a polymer component and optionally a carbon black (CB) component and which is for use in a cable layer.
US08907212B2
A junction box includes a cable connecting box and a cover covering the cable connecting box. The cable connecting box includes an insulative block, a plurality of contacting foils retained in the insulative block and a plurality of diodes. Each diode connects with two neighborly contacting foils. The contacting foils are insert-molded with the insulative block. Based on thermal radiation properties of the plastic material is superior to that of the metal material, as the contacting foils transfer the heat to the insulative block, the insulative block would deliver the heat to the cable connecting box, then the heat would be delivered to the cover. Such that, the heat dissipates outside quickly from the junction box.
US08907205B2
A solar cell comprising a semiconductor solar cell of a first band gap; a buffer layer formed on a surface of the semiconductor solar cell; and at least one layer of a multiferroic or a ferroelectric material formed on the buffer layer; wherein the at least one layer of a multiferroic or a ferroelectric material has a second bang gap, the first band gap being smaller than the second band gap.
US08907196B2
A sound analysis and associated sound synthesis method is provided. A first input sound signal is received and analyzed, to determine its corresponding impulse response representative of a timbre of the input sound signal. A second input sound signal is received and processed into a form which the corresponding impulse response is susceptible to being applied, wherein the processing includes generating a “pink noise” equivalent frequency spectrum of the second input sound signal. The impulse response is applied to the processed second input sound signal to generate an output signal, wherein the output sound signal includes at least timbral nuances of the first input sound signal.
US08907190B2
The present invention includes a first rotating operation unit which is arranged in one end section of an instrument main body such that a portion thereof protrudes from the top surface of the instrument main body, and switch-operated by the protruding portion being rotated by the thumb of a left hand, and a second rotating operation unit which is arranged posterior to the first rotating operation unit such that a portion thereof is exposed on a side surface side of the end section, and switch-operated by the exposed portion being rotated by a finger other than the thumb. Accordingly, when the left hand is placed on the end section, the thumb is placed corresponding to the first rotating operation unit, and the other finger is placed corresponding to the second rotating operation unit, whereby these rotating operation units can be rotated separately by only the left hand.
US08907183B2
A novel soybean variety, designated XB32AK13 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XB32AK13, cells from soybean variety XB32AK13, plants of soybean XB32AK13, and plant parts of soybean variety XB32AK13. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XB32AK13 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XB32AK13, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XB32AK13, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XB32AK13. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XB32AK13 are further provided.
US08907179B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated A1037420. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety A1037420. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety A1037420 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety A1037420 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US08907176B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated A1037390. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety A1037390. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety A1037390 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety A1037390 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US08907164B2
The invention provides coding and promoter sequences for a VS-1 and AP-2 gene, which affects the developmental process of senescence in plants. Vectors, transgenic plants, seeds, and host cells comprising heterologous VS-1 and AP-2 genes are also provided. Additionally provided are methods of altering nutrient allocation and composition in a plant using the VS-1 and AP-2 genes.
US08907159B1
A novel maize variety designated PH24DM and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH24DM with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH24DM 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 PH24DM or a locus conversion of PH24DM with another maize variety.
US08907142B2
The process of the current invention relates to the production of ethanol from a crude ethanol product obtained from the hydrogenation of acetic acid and ethyl acetate in the presence of a catalyst. Conversion of ethyl acetate may be improved by adding water to the reactor. At least 0.01 wt. % water may be added to the reactor. The crude ethanol product is separated in one or more columns to yield an ethanol product.
US08907141B2
A process for recovering ethanol obtained from the hydrogenation of acetic acid. The crude ethanol product is separated in a column to produce a distillate stream comprising acetaldehyde and ethyl acetate and a residue stream comprising ethanol, acetic acid, ethyl acetate and water. Unreacted acetic acid can be reduced or removed through configurations of esterification secondary reactors. The ethanol product is recovered from the residue stream.
US08907136B2
Provided is a method for preparing a diaryl ether compound through the dehydration of an aromatic alcohol compound in the presence of a dehydration catalyst. The dehydration catalyst comprises an oxide of yttrium.
US08907119B2
In the acid-catalyzed esterification of mercaptoalkyl alcohols by means of carboxylic acids to form mercaptoalkly carboxylates, formation of undesirable, usually sparingly soluble by-products usually occurs. The process of the invention in the absence of acid catalysts avoids the formation of such by-products. Particularly when the esterification of the invention is carried out as reactive distillation using reactive column and residence vessel, good degrees of conversion can also be obtained without acid catalyst and at the same time the formation of the by-products can be largely avoided.
US08907115B2
A compound that is useful for forming a metal by reaction with a reducing agent is described by formula (I): wherein M is a metal selected from Groups 3 through 12 of the Periodic Table; R1 and R2 are each independently H or C1-C6 alkyl; and R3 is H or C1-C8 alkyl.
US08907099B2
New compounds of formula I are described. The compounds have potentially valuable pharmaceutical properties in the treatment of some central and peripheral nervous system disorders.
US08907096B2
Novel substituted benzamide based inhibitors, their use in therapy, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, the use of said compounds in the manufacture of medicaments, and therapeutic methods comprising the administration of said compounds are described. The present compounds modulate the activity of 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (11βHSD1) and are accordingly useful in the treatment of diseases in which such a modulation is beneficial, such as the metabolic syndrome.
US08907095B2
The present invention relates to Bicyclic Heterocycle Derivatives, compositions comprising a Bicyclic Heterocycle Derivative, and methods of using the Bicyclic Heterocycle Derivatives for treating or preventing obesity, diabetes, a metabolic disorder, a cardiovascular disease or a disorder related to the activity of GPR119 in a patient.
US08907094B2
Compounds of formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof: wherein R2, W, A, Y and R1 are as defined in the specification, are p38 MAPK inhibitors, and are useful as anti-inflammatory agents in the treatment of, inter alia, diseases of the respiratory tract.
US08907093B2
Carboxylic acid derivatives having an oxazolo[4,5-c]pyridine ringThe invention therefore relates to compounds of the formula I in which X, Y, R1, R2 and R3 have the given meanings. The compounds of the formula I are suitable, for example, for wound healing.
US08907089B2
The present invention provides a fused heterocycle derivative having a strong Smo inhibitory activity, and use thereof.Specially, the present invention relates to a compound represented by the formula wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification, or salt thereof, and a medicament containing the compound or a prodrug thereof, which is an Smo inhibitor or an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of cancer.
US08907087B2
Provided herein are Heteroaryl Compounds having the following structure: wherein R1-R4 are as defined herein, compositions comprising an effective amount of a Heteroaryl Compound and methods for treating or preventing cancer, inflammatory conditions, immunological conditions, neurodegenerative diseases, diabetes, obesity, neurological disorders, age-related diseases, or cardiovascular conditions, comprising administering an effective amount of a Heteroaryl Compound to a patient in need thereof. Furthermore, provided are methods of preparing a compound of formula (III), Furthermore, provided are methods of preparing a compound of formula (VI),
US08907085B2
The present invention relates to a hydrate of sulfonylurea compound represented by formula (I): having herbicidal activity, a process for producing the same, a suspension formulation containing the same, and the like.
US08907079B2
The invention provides novel chemical entities based on sugar alcohols. These new chemical entities are biocompatible and biodegradable. The molecules can be made in a single and pure form. The molecular weights of these molecules range from small (<1000 Da) to large (1000-120,000 Da). The sugar alcohol-based molecules can have functional groups throughout the molecule for crosslinking compounds, such as the preparation of antibody-drug conjugates, or to facilitate the delivery of therapeutic proteins, peptides, siRNA, and chemotherapeutic drugs. Also provided are new conjugate entities prepared through sugar alcohol molecules. Methods of synthesizing sugar alcohol-based molecules and conjugates are also within the scope of the invention.
US08907076B2
The present invention relates to the design of the Antisense-oligonucleotide complementary to the specific region of peptide deformylase gene from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The use of this Antisense-oligonucleotide on mycobacterial culture inhibits the production of the peptide deformylase enzyme by hybridizing within the region, which is found to be responsible for maintaining stability as well as retaining the functionality of the enzyme and thus in turn affecting the growth of the cells. This invention also establishes the essentiality of the peptide deformylase enzyme in mycobacteria and claims it as a drug target in this microorganism.
US08907075B2
Compositions and methods for modulating the expression of a protein of interest are provided.
US08907066B2
Disclosed are antibody fusion proteins with a modified FcRn binding site and nucleic acid molecules encoding them. The antibody fusion protein include two polypeptide chains, wherein the first polypeptide chain includes a biologically active molecule linked to at least a portion of an immunoglobulin constant region. The second polypeptide chain includes at least a portion of an immunoglobulin constant region. One of the polypeptide chains includes a mutation in the FcRn binding site that reduces binding to FcRn. Also disclosed are methods of producing the fusion proteins and methods of using the fusion proteins for treating diseases and conditions alleviated by the administration of the fusion proteins.
US08907064B2
Modified human four helical bundle (4HB) polypeptides and uses thereof are provided.
US08907058B2
Described herein are prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) binding conjugates that are useful for delivering therapeutic, diagnostic and imaging agents. Also described herein are pharmaceutical composition containing them and methods of using the conjugates and compositions. Also described are processes for manufacture of the conjugates and the compositions containing them.
US08907054B2
Disclosed are compositions and methods for modulating Dpy-30 binding activity. The compositions may include peptides or peptidomimetics thereof that are related to radial spoke protein 3 (RSP3) or absent, small, homeotic discs 2-like protein (Ash2L) and that bind to Dumpy-30 protein (Dpy-30).
US08907053B2
The present invention provides immunosuppression compounds capable of inhibiting the programmed cell death 1 (PD1) signalling pathway. The present invention further provides peptide based compositions for treatment of cancer or treatment of infections via immunopotentiation caused by inhibition of immunosuppressive signaling induced by PD-1, PD-L1, or PD-L2 and therapies using them, immunopotentiative substrates included as the active ingredient. Further, the invention provides an application of the compositions containing the peptide moieties for preventive and/or therapeutic agents for cancer, cancer metastasis, immunodeficiency, an infectious disease or the like and an application of peptide moieties as a testing or diagnostic agent or a research agent for such a disease.
US08907039B2
Lateral hydroxymethyl-substituted organopolysiloxanol are prepared by reacting a silanol-stopped organosiloxane with a hydrolyzable methyleneoxy-group-containing organosilicon compound.
US08907037B2
A method of preparing a polymeric methylene diphenyl diisocyanate-polydialkylsiloxane resin by mixing at a temperature between 25° C. and 100° C.: (i) a polymeric methylene diphenyl diisocyanate with (ii) a polydialkylsiloxane selected from hydroxyalkyl dialkyl terminated polydialkylsiloxane having a viscosity of from 5 to 500 000 cSt at 25° C. or (hydroxyalkoxy)alkyl dialkyl terminated polydialkylsiloxane having a viscosity of from 5 to 500 000 cSt at 25° C. in an amount such that from 1 to 99% by weight of the total weight of (i) and (ii) is component (ii), optionally in the presence of a solvent; and subsequently extracting the solvent, if present.
US08907035B2
A multimodal ethylene copolymer having the following properties: i) density comprised in the range from 0.880 to 0.955 g/cm3; ii) total comonomer content ranging from 6% to 25% by weight; iii) content of 1-butene derived units ranging from 0 to 2% by weight; iv) Mw/Mn comprised from 4 to 20; v) intrinsic viscosity (decalin at 135° C. as determined according to EN ISO 1628-312003) comprised between 1.0 and 4.0 dL/g; said multimodal ethylene copolymer comprises from 10% to 80% by weight of a first polyethylene component and being detected at the Crystaf® apparatus at a temperature higher than 75° C. and from 90% to 20% by weight of a second polyethylene component being a copolymer being detected at a Crystaf® apparatus at a temperature lower than 75° C.; wherein said multimodal ethylene copolymer being fractionated into 12 fractions by means of the Holtrup analysis, the fractions containing more than 2% by weight of the total amount of material meet the following relationship: Cf/HDPE>−0.0075HDPE+0.58; wherein Cf is the amount (% wt) of comonomer of formula CH2═CHT in the copolymer of the fraction and HDPE is the amount (% wt) of the homopolymer component present in the fraction.
US08907033B2
A polymeric material including units capable of having a cationic charge at a pH of from about 4 to about 12; provided that the polymeric material has an average cationic charge density from about 2.75 or less units per 100 daltons molecular weight at a pH of from about 4 to about 12. The polymeric material is a suds enhancer and a suds volume extender for hand dishwashing compositions and personal care products such as soaps, shaving cream foam, foaming shaving gel, foam depiliatories and shampoos. The polymers are also effective as a soil release agent in fabric cleaning compositions. The polymers are also useful in agrochemical foam, fire-fighting foam, hard surface cleaner foam, and coagulant for titanium dioxide in paper making.
US08907030B2
Ethylene/alpha-olefin interpolymer suitable for use in fiber applications, and fibers made therefrom
The instant invention provides an ethylene/alpha-olefin interpolymer suitable for use in fiber applications, and fibers made therefrom. The ethylene/alpha-olefin interpolymer according to the present invention has a CDBI of less than 60%, and comprises at least two fractions in crossfractionation of the ethylene/alpha-olefin interpolymer, eluting from 85° C. to 90° C. and from 90° C. to 95° C., comprising a weight fraction ratio of >0.68 and a molecular weight homogeneity index of greater than 0.65; wherein the weight fraction ratio is the ratio of the weight of polymer in each fraction divided by the weight of polymer eluting between 95° C. and 100° C. and the molecular weight homogeneity index is the ratio of the weight average molecular weight of the polymer in the fraction divided by the weight average molecular weight of the polymer eluting between 95° C. and 100° C., and wherein the ethylene/alpha-olefin interpolymer has a density in the range of from 0.920 to 0.965 g/cm3, and a melt index (I2) in the range of from 0.5 to 100 g/10 minutes, and melt flow ratio (I10/I2) in the range of from 5.8 to 8.
US08907027B2
Moisture curable adhesives of high tensile shear strength contain an alkoxysilyl-terminated polymer and an alkoxy-functional silicone resin.
US08907025B2
The present invention is to provide an adhesive agent composition, including: a main agent containing a polyether polyurethane polyol and a bisphenol A-type epoxy resin; and a curing agent, wherein the polyether polyurethane polyol is obtained by reacting a polyalkylene glycol including repeating units each having a carbon number of 3 or 4 and an alkane diol monomer with an organic diisocyanate at an equivalent ratio (NCO/OH) of 0.7 or more but less than 1, a weight average molecular weight thereof is in the range of 20,000 to 70,000, and an urethane bond equivalent thereof is in the range of 320 to 600 g/eq, and wherein a number average molecular weight of the bisphenol A-type epoxy resin is in the range of 400 to 5,000, and the bisphenol A-type epoxy resin is of a solid state or a semisolid state at normal temperature.
US08907021B2
Disclosed is a method for producing a water absorbent resin, by which a surface-crosslinked water absorbent resin having excellent physical properties can be efficiently obtained at low cost, while assuring high productivity. When the production scale is increased to a continuous production at 1 t/hr or more, the physical properties are improved and stabilized (for example, standard deviation of the physical properties is reduced) by a surface-crosslinking treatment, and the absorption against pressure (AAP) and liquid permeability (SFC) are further improved. Specifically disclosed is a method for producing a water absorbent resin, which is characterized in that the stirring shaft of the continuous mixing apparatus for the surface-crosslinking agent is heated during the mixing step of the surface-crosslinking agent or that the continuous mixing apparatus for the surface-crosslinking agent is operated at a pressure that is reduced relative to the ambient pressure and a gas flow is passed through the mixing apparatus during the mixing of the surface-crosslinking agent so that the gas flow in the mixing apparatus is 40° C. or more (when defined with respect to the gas temperature at the exit).
US08907012B2
Provided is a production method for particle boards or fiber boards which achieves production efficiency greater than that of conventional production methods. A production method for a particle board or a fiber board, comprising the step of adding polycarboxylic acid into a plant-derived product that has been segmented or formed into fibers, and further comprising the step of adding a small amount a compound having one or more types of an isocyanate group to the plant-derived product and/or the polycarboxylic acid.
US08907010B2
A non aqueous dispersion is disclosed containing: a shell polymer; a core polymer, and a continuous phase solvent, wherein said shell polymer is soluble and said core polymer is insoluble in the continuous solvent. Also disclosed is a method for improving the setting properties of a sheet fed offset ink by adding to the ink the above non aqueous dispersion.
US08907006B1
Liquid silicone rubber base polymer compositions having improved color are prepared by reaction of fumed silica reinforcing filler with a silazane, and without drying the silazane-treated filler, an aliphatically unsaturated silicone is added, heated to above 80° C., and then further aliphatically unsaturated silicone is added. The compositions have improved whiteness and color reproducibility.
US08907005B2
The present invention provides emulsion copolymers and coating compositions containing the same having improved room temperature and hot block resistance in coatings wherein the copolymers have a broad measured glass transition temperature and are the copolymerization product of a vinyl monomer composition A and a softer vinyl monomer composition B having a Hansch parameter of at least 3.2, and containing one or more vinyl monomer M, such that each of which vinyl monomer(s) M would when homopolymerized provide a homopolymer having a measured Tg of 20° C. or less, such as, for example, 2-ethylhexyl acrylate. In addition, the present invention provides methods for making the emulsion copolymers by a powerfeed process comprising feeding vinyl monomer composition A into a reactor from a feed vessel while feeding, simultaneously or after a delay, vinyl monomer composition B into the feed vessel while polymerizing the monomers in the reactor.
US08907000B2
A nanocomposite having a nanomaterial dispersed into a polymer matrix, in one embodiment exfoliated nanoclay dispersed in a polyurea matrix. A method of making PU-nanocomposites for coatings for improved mechanical properties, in one embodiment the method comprises obtaining and treating a nanomaterial, dispersing the nanomaterial into a pre-polymer matrix, mixing the pre-polymer matrix under heating to form a coating; and depositing the coating on a substrate.
US08906998B2
This invention relates to white reflective polymer particles prepared by a reverse emulsion solvent removal process, electrophoretic fluids comprising such particles, and electrophoretic display devices comprising such fluids.
US08906994B2
Dioxolane compound film-forming agents are formulated into surface coating compositions such as paints and varnishes, in particular industrial, graphic and architectural paints, and serve as coalescence agents and/or drying retardants.
US08906989B2
A pressure-sensitive adhesive layer contains a base polymer and has properties of (1) and (2) below: in a case where a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet A is laminated to an adherend X surface, they are left to stand at a temperature of 23° C. and a humidity of 30% for 12 hours, and the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet A is then separated, (1) a water contact angle A on the adherend X surface from which the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet A has been separated is 70° or less, and (2) a pressure-sensitive adhesive strength of a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape B with respect to the adherend X surface from which the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet A has been separated is higher than that of the pressure-sensitive adhesive tape B with respect to the adherend X surface not subjected to any treatment.
US08906980B2
The present invention relates to a water-soluble polymer composition which comprises a water-soluble poly(meth)acrylic polymer and a gelation rate retarding agent, and a composition for forming a plaster layer of a skin patch which is obtainable by adding a polyvalent metal compound to the water-soluble polymer composition. When a polyvalent metal compound is added, the aforesaid water-soluble polymer composition shows an appropriate induction period before the start of the hardening of the gel. When the water-soluble polymer composition is used for forming a plaster layer of a skin patch, therefore, additive ingredients can be uniformly mixed and the procedure for coating to a support can be facilitated.
US08906978B2
The present application is generally directed to activated carbon materials and methods for making the same. The disclosed methods comprise rapidly freezing synthetically prepared polymer gel particles. The methods further comprise drying, pyrolyzing, and activating steps to obtain an activated carbon material of high porosity. The disclosed methods represent viable manufacturing processes for the preparation of activated carbon materials.
US08906971B2
The present invention provides a novel process and system in which a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen synthesis gas, or syngas, is converted into hydrocarbon mixtures composed of high quality gasoline components, aromatic compounds, and lower molecular weight gaseous olefins in one reactor or step. The invention utilizes a novel molybdenum-zeolite catalyst in high pressure hydrogen for conversion, as well as a novel rhenium-zeolite catalyst in place of the molybdenum-zeolite catalyst, and provides for use of the novel catalysts in the process and system of the invention.
US08906967B2
The present invention relates to the use of sesquiterpenes and derivatives thereof as components of animal feed or feed additives for the improvement of animal performance as well as to the corresponding animal feed or feed additives containing them.
US08906960B2
A transdermal fluid is provided wherein the main ingredient is tocotrienol and curcumin is added to enhance the anti-cancer effects of tocotrienols. The composition is useful for the treatment or prevention of a cancer, a tumor or an inflammatory disorder, particularly breast cancer.
US08906941B2
The present invention relates to novel carboxamide compounds and their use as a medicament. The carboxamide compounds are inhibitors of calpain (calcium dependant cysteine proteases). The invention therefore also relates to the use of these carboxamide compounds for treating a disorder associated with an elevated calpain activity and to a method for the therapeutic and/or prophylactic treatment by administering an effective amount of at least one of these carboxamide compounds.The carboxamide compounds are compounds of the general formula I in which W—R2 is selected from and R1, R2, R3a, R3b, Y1, Y2, Y3, Y4, X, Q, m, k, Rw and Rw* have the meanings mentioned in the claims, the tautomers thereof and the pharmaceutically suitable salts thereof. Of these compounds those are preferred wherein Y1, Y2, Y3 and Y4 are CRy, or one or two of the variables Y1 to Y4 are a nitrogen atom and the remaining variables are CRy, wherein the radicals Ry may be identical or different and have the meanings mentionend in the claims.
US08906940B2
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.
US08906937B2
Methods of treating, preventing, and/or ameliorating a Flavivirus infection in a subject are disclosed. The methods comprise administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a Flavivirus inhibitor, e.g., a Flavivirus serine protease inhibitor. These methods are useful in treating, preventing, and/or ameliorating Flavivirus infections such as, for example, West Nile Virus, Dengue Virus, and Japanese Encephalitis Virus.
US08906936B2
The invention provides a pharmaceutical combination comprising: a) compounds that inhibit the binding of the Smac protein to IAPs; and b) a taxane, and a method for treating or preventing a proliferative disease using such a combination.
US08906935B2
The present invention relates to substituted thiazolyl- and oxazolyl-isoquinolinones that act, for example, as modulators of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP). The present invention also relates to processes for the preparation of substituted thiazolyl- and oxazolyl-isoquinolinones and to their use in treating various diseases and disorders.
US08906927B2
The present invention provides a series of penta-substituted tetrahydropyrimidines with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) characteristics and preparation method and use thereof. The AIE penta-substituted tetrahydropyrimidines have structures shown as formula (I). R1 is selected from a group consisting of linear or branched alkyls and substituted alkyls. R2 and R4 is respectively selected from a group consisting of linear or branched alkyls, substituted alkyls, cycloalkyls, substituted cycloalkyls, aryls, substituted aryls, polycyclic aryls, substituted polycyclic aryls, heterocyclyls, substituted heterocyclyls, aromatic heterocyclyls and substituted aromatic heterocyclyls. R3 is selected from a group consisting of aryls, substituted aryls, polycyclic aryls, substituted polycyclic aryls, aromatic heterocyclyls and substituted aromatic heterocyclyls. The penta-substituted tetrahydropyrimidines can be prepared by multi-component reactions (MCR). There are 1˜3 aryls in the structure of the penta-substituted tetrahydropyrimidines. The penta-substituted tetrahydropyrimidines possess strong AIE properties and can be used for preparing organic electro-luminescence or photo-luminescence devices, or chemical and biological fluorescent sensors or probes.
US08906925B2
This disclosure is directed to pyrido[4,3-b]indoles having rigid moieties. The compounds in one embodiment are pyrido[4,3-b]indoles having an unsaturated hydrocarbon moiety. The compounds in another embodiment are pyrido[4,3-b]indoles having a cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl or heterocyclyl moiety. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds are also provided, as are methods of using the compounds in a variety of therapeutic applications, including the treatment of a cognitive disorder, psychotic disorder, neurotransmitter-mediated disorder and/or a neuronal disorder.
US08906924B2
The disclosure relates to (heterocycle-tetrahydropyridine)(piperazinyl)-1-alkanone and (heterocycle-dihydropyrrolidine)(piperazinyl)-1-alkanone derivatives of formula (I): wherein A, B, m, n, W, and R2 are as defined in the disclosure; to the methods of preparing said derivatives, and to the therapeutic uses thereof.
US08906923B2
The present invention is related to novel compounds of formula (I) that inhibit the activity of the FabI enzyme which are therefore useful in the treatment of bacterial infections. It further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, and chemical processes for preparing these compounds.
US08906919B2
The present invention relates to a method for slowing the development of mammalian organ, tissue and cellular damage and death by using a persistent sodium current blocker (or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or derivative thereof). The present invention further relates to a method for preventing damage and death in mammalian organs, tissues and cells or reducing the extent of damage and death in mammalian organs, tissues and cells. In particular the invention relates to a method for the treatment, amelioration or prevention of non-neuronal and non-myocardial cell or tissue damage or death and for reducing the pain associated with non-neuronal and non-myocardial cell or tissue damage.
US08906918B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure, in one aspect, relate to a 2,4-diaminoquinazoline compound, pharmaceutical compositions including a 2,4-diaminoquinazoline compound, methods of treatment of a condition (e.g., infection) or disease, methods of treatment using compositions or pharmaceutical compositions, and the like.
US08906916B2
Compounds of the formula (I), in which R1, R2 and R3 have the meanings indicated in Claim 1, are kinase inhibitors and can be employed, inter alia, for the treatment of tumors.
US08906914B2
Certain ethylene diamine compounds of Formula (I) are described, which are useful as FAAH inhibitors. Such compounds may be used in pharmaceutical compositions and methods for the treatment of disease states, disorders, and conditions mediated by fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) activity, such as anxiety, pain, inflammation, sleep disorders, eating disorders, energy metabolism disorders, and movement disorders (e.g., multiple sclerosis). Methods of synthesizing such compounds are also disclosed.
US08906909B2
The instant application relates to deazapurines, thienopyrimidines and furopyrimidines with zinc-binding moiety based derivatives and their use in the treatment of phosphoinositide 3-kinase related diseases and disorders such as cancer. The instant application further relates to the treatment of histone deacetylase related disorders and diseases related to both histone deacetylase and phosphoinositide 3-kinase.
US08906895B2
Substantially optically pure (S)-trans-{4-[({2-[({1-[3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]ethyl}{5-[2-(methylsulfonyl)ethoxy]pyrimidin-2-yl}amino)methyl]-4-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl}(ethyl)amino)methyl]cyclohexyl}acetic acid, or a salt thereof, or a solvate thereof, which has actions of reducing amount of PCSK9 protein and increasing amount of LDL receptor.
US08906886B2
A method of treating a subject and preventing in a subject age-dependent basal forebrain cholinergic dysfunction related neurodegenerative disorders, comprising: administering a lipid composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of highly enriched 1-acyl chains/2-docosahexaenoic acid containing molecular species of highly pure phospholipids to promote survival of aged basal forebrain cholinergic neurons, the phospholipids selected from the group consisting of phosphatidylserine, phosphatidylethanolamine, and phosphatidyl-monomethylethanolamine. A composition for treating a subject and preventing in a subject age-dependent basal forebrain cholinergic dysfunction related neurodegenerative disorders, the composition comprising: a lipid composition comprising: a therapeutically effective amount of highly enriched 1-acyl chains/2-docosahexaenoic acid containing molecular species of highly pure phospholipids to promote survival of aged basal forebrain cholinergic neurons, the phospholipids selected from the group consisting of phosphatidylserine, phosphatidylethanolamine, and phosphatidyl-monomethylethanolamine. A process for preparing a lipid composition comprising a therapeutically amount of natural source-based highly enriched 1-acyl chains/2-docosahexaenoic acid containing molecular species of highly pure phosphatidylserine to promote survival of aged basal forebrain cholinergic neurons; the process comprising: purifying a natural source-based phosphatidylcholine by silica chromatography; obtaining a related lysophosphatidylserine species by phospholipase A2 catalysis of transphosphatidylated natural source-based phosphatidylserine species; acylating the lysophosphatidylserine species with natural docosahexaenoic acid to form 1-acyl chains/2-docosahexaenoic acid containing phosphatidylserine species; and purifying the 1-acyl cgains/2-docosahexaenoic acid containing phosphatidylserine species by silica chromatography.
US08906877B2
Disclosed are methods for identification of agents that modulate cell attachment, cell migration and cell viability. Cancer and primary cells adhered to a matrix are treated with agent(s) that modulate ActRII signaling and cell adhesion. Agents are tested that modulate cell adhesion, detachment, invasion and viability. Agents that modulate the expression, phosphorylation, function and translocation of ActRII signaling pathway members also can predict agents that modulate cell adhesion, detachment, invasion and viability. The methods have utility in tissue engineering as well as identifying agents that prevent cancer cell metastasis, wound dehiscence, aortic dissection and aid retina attachment and skin replacement and fertility. Examples of tissue engineering include techniques that allow for the generation of biological substitutes that restore, maintain, or improve tissue function or a whole organ.
US08906876B2
The present invention concerns methods for controlling insect infestation via RNAi-mediated gene silencing, whereby the intact insect cell(s) are contacted with a double-stranded RNA from outside the insect cell(s) and whereby the double-stranded RNA is taken up by the intact insect cell(s). In one particular embodiment, the methods of the invention are used to alleviate plants from insect pests. Alternatively, the methods are used for treating and/or preventing insect infestation on a substrate or a subject in need of such treatment and/or prevention. Suitable insect target genes and fragments thereof, dsRNA constructs, recombinant constructs and compositions are disclosed.
US08906869B2
The inventors have determined, contrary to the prior art and experience, how to successfully use triciribine to treat ovarian cancer by one or a combination of (i) administering triciribine only to patients which according to a diagnostic test described below, exhibit enhanced sensitivity to the drug; (ii) use of a described dosage level that minimizes the toxicity of the drug but yet still exhibits efficacy; or (iii) use of a described dosage regimen that minimizes the toxicity of the drug. The invention further encompasses a number of miRNAs, which are altered in human ovarian cancer, with the most significantly deregulated miRNAs being miR-214, -199a*, -200a, -100, -12Sb, and let-7 cluster. Further, the invention illustrates that frequent deregulation of miR-214, -199a*, -200a and -100 in ovarian cancers and their alterations are associated with high grade and late stage tumor.
US08906867B2
The production method prepares a solid preparation by dissolving water-insoluble and/or water indissolvable alkaline active pharmaceutical ingredient in an acidifier-containing acid solution to obtain medicated acid liquid; homogeneously mixing alkalizer, adjuvants and the medicated acid liquid, and carrying out wet granulation. The alkalizer is a reagent to reduce the acidity of the mixture of the alkalizer and the medicated acid liquid relative to the acidity of the medicated acid liquid. The preparation method avoids the problems in mechanical pulverization, such as environmental pollution, great loss and serious security risks. This method is simply operated, has high safety coefficient and is convenient for industrialized production. Also disclosed is the solid preparation produced by the method. The solid preparation produced by the method has better dissolution performance than that produced by prior art, and has better or at least equivalent stability and content uniformity with prior art.
US08906864B2
The invention concerns the identification and use of neogenin receptor-binding domains of members of the repulsive guidance molecule (RGM) protein family as well as polypeptide fragments derived therefrom. The inventive domains, i.e. peptide fragments are suited as agents for the active or passive immunization of individuals as well as diagnostic and therapeutic agents for use with diseases or pathological conditions in whose origin or progression, a member of the RGM family and a cellular receptor assigned to this molecule are involved. The invention also concerns monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies directed against the inventive binding domains and against the polypeptides derived therefrom, and to method for producing the inventive domains, polypeptides and antibodies.
US08906855B2
A pharmaceutical composition comprising an amphiphilic emulsifier, a polar liquid carrier and, optionally, a lipid component. The amphiphilic emulsifier form free-moving, optionally lipid-carrying, micelles (LMs) in the polar liquid carrier. The pharmaceutical composition is free of hemoglobin and fluorocarbon and can be used for treating conditions related to lack of blood supply and to raise the blood pressure and correct hypovolemia.
US08906853B2
The present invention relates to novel cyclosporine analogues having antiviral activity against HCV and useful in the treatment of HCV infections. More particularly, the invention relates to novel cyclosporine analogue compounds, compositions containing such compounds and methods for using the same, as well as processes for making such compounds.
US08906830B2
The present disclosure relates to capture agents for the detection and/or separation of one or more targets in a sample. Described herein are multi-ligand capture agents comprising two or more ligands, and related compositions, methods and systems. In certain embodiments, the capture agents disclosed herein can be used for performing assays, including but not limited to assays for the detection and/or separation of targets.
US08906827B2
The invention relates to compositions and methods for controlling amaranth by application of flumioxazin and gibberellic acid to an area in need of weed control.
US08906820B2
A method of converting nitrogen oxides in a gas to nitrogen by contacting the nitrogen oxides with a nitrogenous reducing agent in the presence of a zeolite catalyst containing at least one transition metal, wherein the zeolite is a small pore zeolite containing a maximum ring size of eight tetrahedral atoms, wherein the at least one transition metal is selected from the group consisting of Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ce, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, Mo, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, In, Sn, Re, Ir and Pt.
US08906819B2
This invention is directed to a method for removing calcium material from a substrate or catalytic converter. In particular, this invention is directed to a method for removing calcium material, particularly in the form of calcium-containing fly ash, from a substrate using a partially protonated or non-protonated polycarboxylic acid treatment material.
US08906814B2
One aspect of the invention relates to a method of preparing metal oxide coated substrates for various potential applications, and the coated substrate formed thereby.
US08906812B2
A method of removing non-noble metal oxides from material (e.g., semiconductor material) used to make a microelectronic device includes providing the material comprising traces of the conducting non-noble metal oxides; applying a chemical mixture (or chemical solution) to the material; removing the traces of the non-noble metal oxides from the material; and removing the chemical mixture from the material. The non-noble metal oxides comprise MoOx, wherein x is a positive number between 0 and 3. The chemical solution comprises any one of HNO3-based chemicals, H2SO4-based chemicals, HCl-based chemicals, or NH4OH-based chemicals.
US08906807B2
Fin-defining spacers are formed on an array of mandrel structure. Mask material portions can be directionally deposited on fin-defining spacers located on one side of each mandrel structure, while not deposited on the other side. A photoresist layer is subsequently applied and patterned to form an opening, of which the overlay tolerance increases by a pitch of fin-defining spacers due to the mask material portions. Alternately, a conformal silicon oxide layer can be deposited on fin-defining spacers and structure-damaging ion implantation is performed only on fin-defining spacers located on one side of each mandrel structure. A photoresist layer is subsequently applied and patterned to form an opening, from which a damaged silicon oxide portion and an underlying fin-defining spacer are removed, while undamaged silicon oxide portions are not removed. An array of semiconductor fins including a vacancy can be formed by transferring the pattern into a semiconductor layer.
US08906805B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a stacked structure in which 2n (here, n is an integer which is 2 or more) deposited sacrificial layers and 2n deposited insulating layers disposed on the 2n deposited sacrificial layers respectively are alternately deposited in a third direction perpendicular to a first direction and a second direction on a substrate having an upper surface extending in the first and second directions which are perpendicular to each other. Methods include forming a recess group including 2n−1 first recesses penetrating 20 through 2n−1 deposited sacrificial layers and forming a buried insulating layer group including 2n−1 buried insulating layers filling the 2n−1 first recesses respectively. A contact plug group including 2n contact plugs penetrating an uppermost deposited insulating layer of the 2n deposited insulating layers and the 2n−1 buried insulating layers may be formed.
US08906804B2
Methods for depositing nanomaterial onto a substrate are disclosed. Also disclosed are compositions useful for depositing nanomaterial, methods of making devices including nanomaterials, and a system and devices useful for depositing nanomaterials.
US08906797B2
Processes of assembling microelectronic packages with lead frames and/or other suitable substrates are described herein. In one embodiment, a method for fabricating a semiconductor assembly includes forming an attachment area and a non-attachment area on a lead finger of a lead frame. The attachment area is more wettable to the solder ball than the non-attachment area during reflow. The method also includes contacting a solder ball carried by a semiconductor die with the attachment area of the lead finger, reflowing the solder ball while the solder ball is in contact with the attachment area of the lead finger, and controllably collapsing the solder ball to establish an electrical connection between the semiconductor die and the lead finger of the lead frame.
US08906796B2
A method of producing a semiconductor transistor involving formation of an ohmic electrode on an active layer composed of a GaN-based semiconductor includes a process of forming a first layer 11 composed of tantalum nitride on an active layer 3 and a second layer 12 composed of Al layered on the first layer 11 and a process of forming ohmic electrodes 9s and 9d in ohmic contact with the active layer 3 by heat treating the first layer 11 and the second layer 12 at a temperature of from 520° C. to 600° C.
US08906795B2
A semiconductor device manufacturing method allows stably forming a plating layer at low cost on one main surface side of a substrate, while preventing unintended plating layer deposition on the other main surface side. Emitter and collector electrodes are respectively formed on the front and back surfaces of a semiconductor substrate. A first film is attached to the back surface. A notch portion of the substrate is filled with a resin member. A second film is attached to an outer peripheral portion of the substrate, straddling the substrate from the front surface to the back surface. The first and second films push out air remaining between the first and second films and the substrate. An electroless plating process is carried out while the first and second films are attached to the substrate, thereby sequentially forming a nickel plating layer and a gold plating layer on the front surface side.
US08906794B1
A method for performing silicidation of gate electrodes includes providing a semiconductor device having first and second transistors with first and second gate electrodes formed on a semiconductor substrate, forming an oxide layer on the first and second gate electrodes and the semiconductor substrate, forming a cover layer on the oxide layer, and back etching the cover layer to expose portions of the oxide layer above the first and second gate electrodes while maintaining a portion of the cover layer between the first and second gate electrodes. Furthermore, the exposed portions of the oxide layer are removed from the first and second gate electrodes to expose upper portions of the first and second gate electrodes, while maintaining a portion of the oxide layer between the first and second gate electrodes, and a silicidation of the exposed upper portions of the first and second gate electrodes is performed.
US08906788B2
A method for making an epitaxial structure is provided. The method includes the following steps. A substrate is provided. The substrate has an epitaxial growth surface for growing epitaxial layer. A first carbon nanotube layer is placed on the epitaxial growth surface. A first epitaxial layer is epitaxially grown on the epitaxial growth surface. A second carbon nanotube layer is placed on the first epitaxial layer. A second epitaxial layer is epitaxially grown on the first epitaxial layer.
US08906778B2
The present invention related to a method for manufacturing a semiconductor, comprising steps of: providing a growing substrate; forming a semiconductor substrate on the growing substrate; forming a first structure with plural grooves and between the growing substrate and the semiconductor substrate; and changing the temperature of the growing substrate and the semiconductor substrate.
US08906775B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a first semiconductor wafer, in which a circuit part and a first bonding layer are stacked, on a first semiconductor substrate, forming a second semiconductor wafer, which includes structures and an insulating layer for gap-filling between the structures, on a second semiconductor substrate, the structures including a pillar and bit lines stacked therein, bonding the first semiconductor wafer with the second semiconductor wafer so that the first bonding layer faces the insulating layer, and separating the second semiconductor substrate from the bonded second semiconductor wafer.
US08906771B2
Some embodiments include methods of forming isolation structures. A semiconductor base may be provided to have a crystalline semiconductor material projection between a pair of openings. SOD material (such as, for example, polysilazane) may be flowed within said openings to fill the openings. After the openings are filled with the SOD material, one or more dopant species may be implanted into the projection to amorphize the crystalline semiconductor material within an upper portion of said projection. The SOD material may then be annealed at a temperature of at least about 400° C. to form isolation structures. Some embodiments include semiconductor constructions that include a semiconductor material base having a projection between a pair of openings. The projection may have an upper region over a lower region, with the upper region being at least 75% amorphous, and with the lower region being entirely crystalline.
US08906766B2
A semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The method includes forming a cell structure where a storage node contact is coupled to first and second channel layers formed on sidewalls and upper portions of a plurality of gates, thereby simplifying the manufacturing process of the device. The semiconductor device includes a bit line buried in a semiconductor substrate; the gates disposed over the semiconductor substrate buried with the bit line; a first plug disposed in a lower portion between the gates and coupled to the bit line; and a second plug coupled to the second channel layer.
US08906763B2
A DRAM device includes a substrate including an active region having an island shape and a buried gate pattern. A mask pattern is over an upper surface portion of the substrate between portions of the buried gate pattern. A capping insulating layer fills a gap between portions of the mask pattern. A first pad contact penetrates the capping insulating layer and the mask pattern, and contacts a first portion of the substrate in the active region. Second pad contacts are under the capping insulating layer, and contact a second portion of the substrate in the active region positioned at both sides of the first pad contact. A spacer is between the first and second pad contacts to insulate the first and second pad contacts. A bit line configured to electrically connect with the first pad contact, and a capacitor configured to electrically connect with the second pad contacts, are provided.
US08906760B2
Techniques disclosed herein include systems and methods for an aspect ratio dependent deposition process that improves gate spacer profile, reduces fin loss, and also reduces hardmask loss in a FinFET or other transistor scheme. Techniques include depositing an aspect ratio dependent protective layer to help tune profile of a structure during fabrication. Plasma and process gas parameters are tuned such that more polymer can collect on surfaces of a structure that are visible to the plasma. For example, upper portions of structures can collect more polymer as compared to lower portions of structures. The variable thickness of the protection layer enables selective portions of spacer material to be removed while other portions are protected.
US08906759B2
A method of forming a FinFET structure which includes forming fins on a semiconductor substrate; forming a gate wrapping around at least one of the fins, the gate having a first surface and an opposing second surface facing the fins; depositing a hard mask on a top of the gate; angle implanting nitrogen into the first and second surfaces of the gate so as to form a nitrogen-containing layer in the gate that is below and in direct contact with the hard mask on top of the gate; forming spacers on the gate and in contact with the nitrogen-containing layer; and epitaxially depositing silicon on the at least one fin so as to form a raised source/drain. Also disclosed is a FinFET structure.
US08906753B2
The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure, which comprises: providing an SOI substrate, forming a gate structure on the SOI substrate; etching an SOI layer of the SOI substrate and a BOX layer of the SOI substrate on both sides of the gate structure to form trenches, the trenches exposing the BOX layer and extending partly into the BOX layer; forming sidewall spacers on sidewalls of the trenches; forming inside the trenches a metal layer covering the sidewall spacers, wherein the metal layer is in contact with the SOI layer which is under the gate structure. Accordingly, the present invention further provides a semiconductor structure formed according to aforesaid method. The manufacturing method and the semiconductor structure according to the present invention make it possible to reduce capacitance between a metal layer and a body silicon layer of an SOI substrate when a semiconductor device is in operation, which is therefore favorable for enhancing performance of the semiconductor device.
US08906751B2
Silicon controlled rectifiers (SCR), methods of manufacture and design structures are disclosed herein. The method includes forming a common P-well on a buried insulator layer of a silicon on insulator (SOI) wafer. The method further includes forming a plurality of silicon controlled rectifiers (SCR) in the P-well such that N+ diffusion cathodes of each of the plurality of SCRs are coupled together by the common P-well.
US08906748B2
The present application provides a method and semiconductor packaging structure comprising a conductive substrate having a first surface, a first lateral surface and a second lateral surface adjacent to the first surface. A first electrode line with two ends are provided on the first surface and the first lateral surface, and a second electrode line with two ends are provided on the first surface and a second lateral surface respectively. A semiconductor device is provided on the first surface of the conductive substrate which electrically connected to the first electrode line and the second electrode line, a protective plate with through holes covers the first surface, and a sheathing overlays the semiconductor device.
US08906726B2
A method for making light emitting diode, the method includes the following steps. First, a substrate having an epitaxial growth surface is provided. Second, a carbon nanotube layer is suspended above the epitaxial growth surface. Third, a first semiconductor layer, an active layer and a second semiconductor layer are grown on the epitaxial growth surface in that order, wherein the first semiconductor layer includes a buffer layer, an intrinsic semiconductor layer, and a doped semiconductor layer stacked in that order. Fourth, the doped semiconductor layer is exposed by removing the substrate, the buffer layer, and the intrinsic semiconductor layer. Fifth, a first electrode is prepared on the first semiconductor layer and a second electrode is prepared on the second semiconductor layer.
US08906725B2
A method and apparatus for forming a crystalline semiconductor layer on a substrate are provided. A semiconductor layer is formed by vapor deposition. A pulsed laser melt/recrystallization process is performed to convert the semiconductor layer to a crystalline layer. Laser, or other electromagnetic radiation, pulses are formed into a pulse train and uniformly distributed over a treatment zone, and successive neighboring treatment zones are exposed to the pulse train to progressively convert the deposited material to crystalline material.
US08906720B1
A device having one or more optical elements and an ambient light sensor integrated on a single substrate (e.g., wafer) and a method (e.g., process) for making same is described herein. The process includes the step of forming the ambient light sensor on a first surface of the substrate. The process further includes the step of forming a plurality of recesses in a second surface of the substrate, the second surface being located opposite the first surface. The process further includes depositing silicon dioxide into the plurality of recesses. The process further includes etching a pattern into the silicon dioxide (e.g., glass) to form the optical elements.
US08906718B2
On a surface of a substrate (3) on which surface a vapor-deposited film is to be formed, a photoresist (13) is formed so as to have an opening in a sealing region including a display region (R1) which sealing region is formed by a sealing resin (11) of a frame shape. Then, luminescent layers (8R, 8G, and 8B) having a striped pattern are formed. Subsequently, the photoresist (13) is removed with the use of an exfoliative solution so as to form the luminescent layers (8R, 8G, and 8B) patterned with high definition.
US08906714B2
A method of manufacturing a light emitting device is provided which requires low cost, is easy, and has high throughput. The method of manufacturing a light emitting device is characterized in that: a solution containing a light emitting material is ejected to an anode or cathode under reduced pressure; a solvent in the solution is volatilized until the solution reaches the anode or cathode; and the remaining light emitting material is deposited on the anode or cathode to form a light emitting layer. A burning step for reduction in film thickness is not required after the solution application. Therefore, the manufacturing method, which requires low cost and is easy but which has high throughput, can be provided.
US08906713B2
Many thousands of micro-LEDs (e.g., 25 microns per side) are deposited on a substrate. Some of the LEDs are formed to emit a peak wavelength of 450 nm (blue), and some are formed to emit a peak wavelength of 490 nm (cyan). A YAG (yellow) phosphor is then deposited on the LEDs, or a remote YAG layer is used. YAG phosphor is most efficiently excited at 450 nm and has a very weak emission at 490 nm. The two types of LEDs are GaN based and can be driven at the same current. The ratio of the two types of LEDs is controlled to achieve the desired overall color emission of the LED lamp. The blue LEDs optimally excite the YAG phosphor to produce white light having blue and yellow components, and the cyan LEDs broaden the emission spectrum to increase the CRI of the lamp while improving luminous efficiency. Other embodiments are described.
US08906712B2
A method includes providing an LED element including a substrate and a gallium nitride (GaN) layer disposed on the substrate. The GaN layer is treated. The treatment includes performing an ion implantation process on the GaN layer. The ion implantation process may provide a roughened surface region of the GaN layer. In an embodiment, the ion implantation process is performed at a temperature of less than approximately 25 degrees Celsius. In a further embodiment, the substrate is at a temperature less than approximately zero degrees Celsius during the ion implantation process.
US08906704B2
A lower electrode film is formed above a substrate. A ferroelectric film is formed above the lower electrode film. An amorphous intermediate film of a perovskite-type conductive oxide is formed above the ferroelectric film. A first upper electrode film comprising oxide of at least one metal selected from a group of Pt, Pd, Rh, Ir, Ru, and Os is formed on the intermediate film. The intermediate film is crystallized by carrying out a first heat treatment in an atmosphere containing an oxidizing gas after the formation of the first upper electrode film. After the first heat treatment, a second upper electrode film comprising oxide of at least one metal selected from a group of Pt, Pd, Rh, Ir, Ru, and Os is formed on the first upper electrode film, at a temperature lower than the growth temperature for the first upper electrode film.
US08906703B2
A method for immobilizing an amino-containing material to a substrate is described. The method involves providing a tethering compound with two reactive groups: a substrate reactive group and a fluoroalkoxycarbonyl group. The method further involves preparing a substrate-attached tethering group by reacting the substrate reactive group of the tethering compound with a complementary functional group on the surface of a substrate. The substrate-attached tethering group has a fluoroalkoxycarbonyl group that can be reacted with an amino-containing material to form an immobilization group that connects the amino-containing material to the substrate.
US08906697B2
A method and a device for the assessment of at least one parameter of particles in a liquid analyte material are disclosed. The method comprises providing a device having a sample compartment with an exposing domain, an inlet through which a volume of a liquid sample representing the analyte material can been introduced, and a flow system comprising at least a channel allowing at least a portion of the volume of the liquid sample to flow within the device. The volume of the liquid sample passes into the exposing domain of the sample compartment, which can quantitatively detect spatial image data and process the detected image electromagnetic signals from the sample in the exposing domain of the device. A spatial image representation of the exposing domain, and processing the detected image presentation obtaining the assessment of the at least one parameter is generated in the device.
US08906690B2
A method for estimating characteristics of a formation including collecting a formation sample, preparing the sample, and analyzing the sample using FTIR comprising identifying the kerogen lineshape and intensity. The method includes using the lineshape to obtain kerogen maturity, using the maturity to obtain the kerogen spectrum, and using the kerogen spectrum to obtain the mineralogy and kerogen content.
US08906684B2
Provided are methods of the production of patterned 3-dimensional biopolymer scaffolds containing living cells. The methods include selective photopolymerization of biopolymers to create patterned structures and the patterning of cells within relatively homogenous slabs of biopolymer using dielectrophoresis. Also provided are patterned 3-dimensional biopolymer scaffolds generated by the methods and their use.
US08906671B2
A chilled reagent container comprises a reagent vessel containing part for containing therein a plurality of reagent vessels, a container lid including a container lid hole through which the reagent vessels contained by the reagent vessel containing part are accessible, and a cooling block for cooling the reagent vessels contained by the reagent vessel containing part, wherein the container lid slides to be changeable between an opened situation wherein the reagent is accessible from an outside and a closed situation wherein the reagent is prevented from being accessed from the outside, wherein the chilled reagent container further comprises a reagent container packing including another hole through which the reagent vessels are accessible and arranged between the container lid and the reagent vessel containing part to be pressed against the container lid.
US08906658B2
The invention features methods for producing isoprene from cultured cells wherein the cells in the stationary phase. The invention also provides compositions that include these cultured cells and/or increased amount of isoprene. The invention also provides for systems that include a non-flammable concentration of isoprene in the gas phase. Additionally, the invention provides isoprene compositions, such as compositions with increased amount of isoprene or increased purity.
US08906656B2
Polypeptides were identified among translated coding sequences from a metagenomic cow rumen database, that were shown to provide xylose isomerase activity in yeast cells. The xylose isomerase activity can complete a xylose utilization pathway so that yeast can use xylose in fermentation, such as xylose in biomass hydrolysate.
US08906635B2
Methods of diagnosing Clostridium difficile infection and compounds used in the methods are provided. The diagnostic methods are specific and sensitive methods for detecting a host cell response and, in some aspects, a target response, i.e. a Clostridium difficile toxin, in an individual infected with Clostridium difficile. The methods comprise detecting in a stool specimen or fluid exposed to the stool specimen a Clostridium difficile toxin, or a fragment thereof, and an increase in a colonic epithelial cell protein exemplified by a non-muscle tropomyosin. Also provided are kits comprising reagents for detecting host cell proteins and Clostridium difficile toxins.
US08906634B2
Compositions and methods for modulating human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection involving substances that inhibit the ability of high mobility box 1 (HMGB1) protein to interact with natural killer (NK) cells. Therapeutic compositions comprising antibodies and drugs, such as glycyrrhizin, which bind to HMGB1. Methods of detecting or monitoring HIV infection involving detection or quantitation of HMGB1 or antibodies specific for HMGB1 in a biological sample.
US08906633B2
The invention describes methods and kits for detecting and determining current and future synthetic cannabinoids from the JWH and CP families. Unique antibodies derived from novel immunogens enable said methods and kits.
US08906617B2
The invention provides apparatuses and methods of use thereof for sequencing nucleic acids subjected to a force, and thus considered under tension. The methods may employ but are not dependent upon incorporation of extrinsically detectably labeled nucleotides.
US08906615B2
Oligonucleotides with a novel sugar-phosphate backbone containing at least one 2′-arabino-fluoronucleoside and an internucleoside 3′-NH—P(═O)(OR)—O-5′ linkage, where R is a positively charged counter ion or hydrogen, and methods of synthesizing and using the inventive oligonucleotides are provided. The inventive phosphoramidate 2′-aribino-fluorooligonucleotides have a high RNA binding affinity to complementary nucleic acids and are base and acid stable.
US08906614B2
Labeled reactant compositions, and particularly labeled nucleic acid reaction compositions, that include structural components that maintain potentially damaging labeling components sufficiently distal from the reactant portion of the molecule such that damaging effects of the label group on other reaction components, such as enzymes, are reduced, minimized and/or eliminated.
US08906607B2
The present invention concerns a method for modulating double-strand break-induced homologous recombination through the identification of effectors that modulate said double-strand break-induced homologous recombination by uses of interfering agents; these agents are capable of modulating double-strand break-induced homologous recombination through their respective actions on said effectors. The present invention also concerns the uses of these effectors and interfering agents and derivatives, respectively, by introducing them in an eukaryotic cell in order to modulate and more particularly to increase double-strand break-induced homologous recombination and gene targeting efficiency. The present invention also relates to specific derivatives of identified effectors and interfering agents, vectors encoding them, compositions and kits comprising such derivatives in order to modulate and more particularly to increase double-strand break-induced homologous recombination and gene targeting efficiency.
US08906606B2
A signature for breast cancer tissue derived from a patient is established that is indicative of the virulence and risk of lung metastasis by determining the expression levels to define a sample signature, and comparing this sample signature to a reference signature. This determination is used to define appropriate treatment and monitoring options for the patient. Risk of metastasis to the lung can be reduced by treatment with a therapeutic combination that either (1) contains a first agent effective to inhibit epiregulin activity and a second agent effective to inhibit activity of a protein selected from the group consisting of MMP1, MMP2 and PTGS2, or (2) contains a therapeutic agent or combination of agents effective to inhibit activity MMP1, MMP2 and PTGS2. Agents that inhibit the CXCL1 pathway also can be used individually or in combination with these combinations.
US08906600B2
A resist pattern forming method includes: in the following order, (1) a step of forming a film on a substrate by using a positive resist composition; (2) a step of exposing the film; and (4) a step of performing development by using an alkali developer after the exposing, wherein the positive resist composition contains (A) a polymer compound having a repeating unit represented by the following formula (I) as defined in the specification, a thickness of the film formed in the step (1) is from 15 to 40 nm, and an alkali component concentration in the alkali developer is from 0.5 to 1.1 mass %.
US08906594B2
Disclosed are compositions for negative-working thick film photophotoresists based on acrylic co-polymers. Also included are methods of using the compositions.
US08906586B2
A coating fluid for photosensitive-layer formation having high productivity and stability and a process thereof are provided. Also provided are a high-performance electrophotographic photoreceptor and an image-forming apparatus which are capable of forming high-quality images even in various use environments and are less apt to cause image defects such as black spots or color spots. The objects are accomplished with a process for producing a coating fluid which is for forming a photosensitive layer of an electrophotographic photoreceptor and comprises a charge-generating material and a binder resin, wherein a dispersing medium having an average particle diameter in the range of from 1.0 μm to 350 μm is used as a dispersing medium for dispersing the charge-generating material in the coating fluid for photosensitive-layer formation. The coating fluid for photosensitive-layer formation produced by this process is preferable as a photosensitive layer of an electrophotographic photoreceptor. The charge-generating material preferably comprises a phthalocyanine pigment and the phthalocyanine pigment in the coating fluid preferably has a 50% cumulative particle diameter (D50) of 0.13 μm or smaller as determined by a dynamic light scattering method.
US08906577B2
The present invention relates to an anode supported solid-oxide fuel cell based flame fuel cell that enable the generation of both electricity and heat from a flame (i.e. flame is used as a heat source and a fuel source for the fuel cell's operation, while supplying a useful heat for other thermochemical systems) and, more particularly, to an anode supported solid-oxide fuel cell based flame fuel cell that uses hydrocarbon/air mixture as a fuel source and includes a catalyst layer that can act as a protective layer for the anode layer, an anode layer, a cathode layer, an electrolyte layer, and an interlayer between the cathode layer and the electrolyte layer.
US08906574B2
A fuel cell membrane-electrode assembly having a fuel electrode and an oxidant electrode has a non-supported-catalyst containing catalyst layer that contains a metal catalyst nanoparticle of 0.3 nm to 100 nm in primary particle diameter that is not supported on a support, and an electrochemically active surface area of the metal catalyst nanoparticle is 10 m2/g to 150 m2/g, and a layer thickness of the non-supported-catalyst containing catalyst layer is less than or equal to 10 μm.
US08906572B2
A polymer-electrolyte membrane is presented. The polymer-electrolyte membrane comprises an acid-functional polymer, and an additive incorporated in at least a portion of the membrane. The additive comprises a fluorinated cycloaliphatic additive, a hydrophobic cycloaliphatic additive, or combinations thereof, wherein the additive has a boiling point greater than about 120° C. An electrochemical fuel cell including the polymer-electrolyte membrane, and a related method, are also presented.
US08906555B2
A negative active material for a rechargeable lithium battery includes: a crystalline carbon core including pores; an amorphous carbon shell positioned on the core surface; metal nanoparticles dispersed inside the pores; and amorphous carbon inside the pores, wherein a first particle diameter difference (D50−D10) of the nanoparticles is from about 70 to about 150 nm and the second particle diameter difference (D90−D50) of the nanoparticles is from about 440 to about 520 nm.
US08906545B2
A crimped portion of a positive electrode external terminal is crimped on its upper end side to be electrically connected to a positive electrode terminal plate. This crimped portion is welded to the positive electrode terminal plate by applying high energy beams. The negative electrode side has a configuration similar to that of the positive electrode side. The contact area between the positive electrode terminal plate and the crimped portion of the positive electrode external terminal is set smaller than the corresponding contact area on the negative electrode side, and the volume of the crimped portion of the positive electrode external terminal is set larger than that of the corresponding crimped portion on the negative electrode side. Thus, a prismatic secondary battery is provided that shows strong joining strength between the external terminal and the terminal plate, suppressed internal resistance variations, and improved reliability.
US08906541B2
A controller identifies a condition of a hazardous internal short by comparing patterns of series element voltages to the last known balance condition of the series elements. If the loaded or resting voltage of one or more contiguous series elements uniformly drop from the previously known condition by an amount consistent with an over-current condition, an over-current internal short circuit fault is registered. The desired response is to prevent the affected series elements from heating to a hazardous temperature by summoning the maximum heat rejection capability of the system until the short ceases and the affected elements cool, the cooling function is no longer able to operate due to low voltage, or the affected series string has drained all of its energy through the short. Also includes are responses that allow the battery pack to continue to power the cooling system even though it may enter an over-discharged state.
US08906540B2
The invention relates to a biaxially oriented microporous film composed of at least three coextruded layers encompassing an internal cut-off layer and two external layers, wherein all three layers contain a mixture of propylene homopolymer and propylene block copolymer and β-nucleation agent. The propylene block copolymer I of the external layers has a melting point exceeding 140° C. and the propylene block copolymer II of the internal layer has a melting range starting at a temperature ranging from 50 to 120° C. and the melting point of the propylene block copolymer I is greater than the melting point of the propylene block copolymer II.
US08906528B2
A bicycle electric power source assembly comprises a tubular member, an electric power source member and a restricting member. The tubular member includes an inner peripheral surface, an outer peripheral surface and a through hole that passes through the tubular member between the inner peripheral surface and the outer peripheral surface. The electric power source member is disposed inside the tubular member. The electric power source member includes a restriction accepting part. The restricting member is disposed in the through hole. The restricting member includes a restricting part that engages with the restriction accepting part to restrict relative movement of the electric power source member with respect to the tubular member in an axial direction of the tabular member.
US08906527B2
A multi-layer composite getter is described. Also described is a method for the manufacturing of the multi-layer composite getter and electrochemical devices for energy storage that employ the multi-layer composite getter.
US08906522B2
Described are hybrid articles comprising at least one hard non-oxide or oxide ceramic component of at least 95% of theoretical density directly bonded to, and different from, a hard non-oxide or oxide ceramic composite component comprising a tribology enhancing component. The at least one hard non-oxide or oxide ceramic component comprises a member of the group consisting of silicon carbide, pressureless sintered silicon carbide, liquid phase sintered silicon carbide, reaction bonded silicon carbide, tungsten carbide, aluminum oxide, and silicon nitride. The at least one hard non-oxide or oxide ceramic composite component comprises a member of the group consisting of silicon carbide, pressureless sintered silicon carbide, liquid phase sintered silicon carbide, reaction bonded silicon carbide, tungsten carbide, aluminum oxide, and silicon nitride.
US08906519B2
An oligoaniline compound represented by the formula (1) can provide a charge transporting thin film which shows a suppressed coloration in the visible range. Use of this thin film makes it possible to ensure a color reproducibility of a device without lowering the color purity of an electroluminescent light or a light having passed through a color filter. wherein R1 to R10 independently represent each a hydrogen atom, a halogen, etc.; m and n independently represent each an integer of 1 or more while satisfying the condition m+n≦20; and X is a structure represented by any of the following formulae (4) to (10), etc.; wherein R21 to R36 independently represent each a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, etc.; p and q represent each an integer of 1 or more while satisfying the conditions p≦20 and q≦20; and W1s independently represent each —(CR1R2)p-, —O—, —S—, etc.
US08906516B2
A galvannealed steel sheet having high corrosion resistance after painting includes, on a mass percent basis, C: 0.05% to 0.15%, Si: 0.1% to 1.0%, Mn: 0.5% to 2.7%, Al: ≦1.00%, P: ≦0.025%, S: ≦0.025%, and Cr: 0% to 0.8% as chemical components, the remainder being Fe and incidental impurities. The galvannealed steel sheet includes a galvannealed layer in an amount of 20 to 120 g/m2 per side, a percentage of exposed zinc metal of the galvannealed layer surface being 20% or more and less than 80%, and an amount of internal oxidation in a region disposed not more than 5 μm from the surface of the steel sheet is 0.02 g/m2 or more and 0.1 g/m2 or less: Si≦0.68%, Cr≦−1.25Si+0.85, and Si>0.68%, Cr=0, wherein Si and Cr denote respective contents (mass %) of Si and Cr.
US08906512B2
A metal material of the present invention is composed of an underlying metal and a phosphate compound-based film which is disposed on the surface of the underlying metal and has a surface part, in which the surface part of the phosphate compound-based film contains Zr.
US08906511B2
Provided is a bimetallic tube for transport of hydrocarbon feedstocks in a petrochemical process unit and/or refinery process unit, including: i) an outer tube layer being formed from a steam cracker alloy including at least 18.0 wt. % Cr and at least 10.0 wt. % Ni; ii) an inner tube layer being formed from an alumina forming bulk alloy including 5.0 to 10.0 wt. % of Al, 18.0 wt. % to 25.0 wt. % Cr, less than 0.5 wt. % Si, and at least 35.0 wt. % Fe with the balance being Ni, wherein the inner tube layer is formed plasma powder welding the alumina forming bulk alloy on the inner surface of the outer tube layer; and iii) an oxide layer formed on the surface of the inner tube layer, wherein the oxide layer is substantially comprised of alumina, chromia, silica, mullite, spinels, or mixtures thereof.
US08906499B2
In accordance with the present teachings, there are composite materials, fuser members comprising the composite materials, and methods of making the composite materials. In various embodiments, the composite material can include a polyimide resin having a thermal conductivity and a plurality of passivated aluminum nitride particles substantially uniformly dispersed in the polyimide resin to provide the composite material with a thermal conductivity of about 0.4 W/mK to about 2.5 W/mK, and wherein each of the plurality of passivated aluminum nitride particles can include a passivation layer disposed over an aluminum nitride particle core to inhibit oxidation and thermal degradation of a surface of the aluminum nitride particle core.
US08906492B2
A formed article includes a gas barrier layer that is formed of a material including at least an oxygen atom and a silicon atom, a surface area of the gas barrier layer having an oxygen atom content rate of 60 to 75%, a nitrogen atom content rate of 0 to 10%, and a silicon atom content rate of 25 to 35%, based on the total content of oxygen atoms, nitrogen atoms, and silicon atoms, and having a film density of 2.4 to 4.0 g/cm3. A method of producing a formed article includes implanting ions into a surface layer part of a polysilazane compound-containing layer of a formed body that includes the polysilazane compound-containing layer in its surface layer part. An electronic device member includes the formed article. An electronic device includes the electronic device member. The formed article exhibits an excellent gas barrier capability, excellent folding resistance, and excellent transparency.
US08906490B2
The invention relates to a process for forming a stacked transparent structure comprising providing a support, coating one side of said support with a multicolored mask, coating the other side of the support with a layer curable by visible light, and exposing the light-curable layer through the mask with visible light to cure the layer curable by light in exposed portions to form a cured pattern.
US08906487B2
In a base material with a single-crystal silicon carbide film according to an embodiment of the invention, a plurality of recessed portions is formed on the surface of a silicon substrate, an insulating film including silicon oxide is formed across the surface of the silicon substrate including the inner surfaces of the recessed portions, the top surfaces of side wall portions of recessed portions of the insulating film form flat surfaces, a single-crystal silicon carbide film is joined on the flat surfaces, and the recessed portions below the single-crystal silicon carbide film form holes.
US08906485B2
Processes for the production of high strength polyethylene tape articles from high strength ultra-high molecular weight multi-filament yarns, and to the tape articles, fabrics, laminates and impact resistant materials made therefrom.
US08906483B2
An article has a panel of textile having an outer edge formed with a cutout. A permanent magnet is held in the cutout between a pair of flaps of a flexible material significantly more durable than the textile of the panel. The flaps flank the magnet, close the cutout, and overlapping the panel around the cutout. These flaps are secured by stitching or the like to the panel around the cutout to form the flaps into a pocket containing the magnet.
US08906481B2
A prepreg assembly comprising resin and fibers and comprising an uppermost curable resin surface layer such that when the assembly is cured, the uppermost surface layer has a sandability of at least 0.30 mg/cycle over 200 cycles, as measured according to ASTM D4060 using a Taber 5151 Abrasion Tester fitted with H18 wheels and a 1.0 kg weight is provided.
US08906473B2
A liquid crystal display device includes: a pair of substrates at least one of which is transparent; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the pair of substrates; an electrode group formed on at least one substrate of the pair of substrates, for applying an electric field to the liquid crystal layer; a plurality of active elements connected to the electrode group; and a liquid crystal alignment film disposed on at least one substrate of the pair of substrates, in which the liquid crystal alignment film, which is formed by a photo-alignment process, contains polyimide formed using tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride and/or diamine each having a specific chemical structure.
US08906472B2
The nematic liquid crystal composition exhibits a negative dielectric anisotropy (Δ∈), the liquid crystal composition being useful as a liquid crystal display material, and a liquid crystal display element using the same. The liquid crystal composition of the present invention has a large absolute value of the dielectric anisotropy thereof and a low viscosity. By using this liquid crystal composition, it is possible to provide a liquid crystal display element which has a high contrast, high-speed responsiveness, and good display quality in which image sticking and display defects are not generated. The liquid crystal display element using the liquid crystal composition is a useful display element which realizes both high-speed response and suppression of display defects. In particular, the liquid crystal display element is useful as a liquid crystal display element for active-matrix driving, and can be applied to, for example, a VA-type or PSVA-type liquid crystal display element.
US08906465B2
This invention provides a method for forming multilayer coating film excelling in smoothness and distinctness of image, by 3-coat-1-bake system in which a step of applying onto a coating object a water-based intermediate paint (X) to form an intermediate coating film; a step of adjusting the solid content of the intermediate coating film to 70-100 mass %; a step of applying onto the intermediate coating film a water-based base coating paint (Y) containing 30-55 mass parts of alcoholic solvent having a boiling point of 170-250° C., to form a base coating film; a step of adjusting the solid content of the base coating film to 70-100 mass %; a step of applying a clear paint (Z) comprising 40-60 mass parts of carboxyl-containing compound and 60-40 mass parts of polyepoxide onto the base coating film to form a clear coating film; and heating the intermediate coating film, base coating film and clear coating film at 100-120° C. for 3-10 minutes and thereafter further heating them at 130-160° C. for 10-30 minutes; are successively carried out.
US08906457B2
Methods for deposition of metal films consisting essentially of Co, Mn, Ru or a lanthanide on surfaces using metal coordination complexes are provided. The precursors used in the process include a 2-methylimine pyrrolyl ligand and/or N,N′-diisopropylformamidinato ligand. The precursors may also contain cyclopentadienyl, pentamethylcyclopentadienyl or pyrrolyl groups.
US08906451B2
A method for producing coated water-soluble particles in a manner to form two or more coating layers on surfaces of the water-soluble particles, characterized by including: a step A wherein after supplying a first coating material that contains a polyol component and an isocyanate component, a second coating material is additionally supplied to surfaces of first coating bodies that have coating layers formed of the first coating material that has not been sufficiently cured, so that second coating bodies that are provided with coating layers of the second coating material are obtained.
US08906450B1
A powder spray nozzle includes an inlet portion having an inlet diameter and an inlet length and an outlet portion having outlet diameter and an outlet length. The nozzle also includes an interface region between the inlet portion and the outlet portion having an interface diameter. A ratio of the inlet diameter to the inlet length is in a range of about 0.15 to 0.5.
US08906442B2
A process and a plant are proposed for producing dark chocolate which make it possible to produce dark chocolate, in particular also single-variety dark chocolate, having a high cocoa content without cocoa powder needing to be produced and/or added. By means of a partial defatting of the cocoa mass in a process step which is connected upstream of the mixing, grinding and/or conching, the fat content in the cocoa mass is reduced to the extent that dark chocolates can be produced having a high cocoa content without cocoa powder needing to be added. The partial defatting of the cocoa mass is preferably carried out using a decanter (50). The cocoa butter fraction (2) according to the invention occurs on decanting as a high-fat fraction which still contains a fraction of 17 to 21% by weight, a maximum of 30% by weight, of fat-free cocoa dry matter. In the novel process according to the present invention, the expenditure for producing a highly defatted cocoa powder is avoided, since the cocoa mass (11) is only defatted to the point that the mass produced therefrom can be comminuted without problem using rollers (30) and can subsequently be conched. The cocoa butter fraction is added during conching after the comminution in a ball mill.
US08906440B2
A coffee filter basket includes a filter retainer having an outer shell with an upper end having open top and a bottom including an opening, an insert having an upper collar of a less than the diameter than the upper end of the retainer to fit therein and having a lower extension which when a filter is disposed within the retainer and the insert is disposed within the filter, the insert press-fits within the retainer to retain the filter adjacent the retainer shell, and a removable top having an outer perimeter lip portion of at least that of the diameter of the upper end of the retainer and a lower collar portion of a diameter less than the diameter of the upper collar and configured to press-fit therein to secure the insert in the retainer, wherein the removable top has an opening. A method of use is provided.
US08906432B2
The present invention relates to a composition comprising an NFκB-inhibitor and a non-retinoid collagen promoter.
US08906425B2
The invention relates to the stimulation of the synthesis and of the activity of an isoform of lysyl oxidase, and more particularly of the LOXL (lysyl oxidase-like) isoform. The invention relates notably to a method of identifying an active principle which stimulates the formation of elastic fibers. The aim of the invention is mainly to provide such a method of identification so as to provide compositions which enable stimulating the formation of elastic fibers.
US08906424B2
This invention provides a highly concentrated licorice polyphenol preparation with high bioavailability. Further, this invention is intended to maintain high transparency of a composition without deterioration of the indigenous properties of an aqueous substance, even when such composition is added thereto. Such licorice polyphenol preparation comprises a hydrophobic licorice extract comprising licorice polyphenol as a primary component, medium-chain fatty acid triglyceride, and polyoxyethylene sorbitan fatty acid ester, and the ratio of the total weight of the hydrophobic licorice extract and medium-chain fatty acid triglyceride to the weight of polyoxyethylene sorbitan fatty acid ester is between 1:1 and 1:10.
US08906423B2
The present invention concerns a phytotherapic compound for the treatment of herpes based on Uncaria tomentosa characterized by the presence of: (a) A therapeutically efficient amount of an Herbal Extract from Uncaria tomentosa (Willd) DC Rubiaceae, (b) a pharmaceutically acceptable vehicle, (c) at least one pharmaceutically acceptable excipient, and, (d) optionally, pharmaceutically acceptable adjuvants. It also concerns a process of extraction for obtaining the Herbal Extract from Uncaria tomentosa (Willd) DC Rubiaceae, active ingredient of the phytotherapic compound for the treatment of herpes of the present invention.
US08906422B2
The invention provides a method for treating cancers that are dependent on cyclin D1 for proliferation, survival, metastasis and differentiation, involving administering a composition containing an effective amount of arsenic trioxide to an affected patient. The arsenic trioxide can be administered orally, for example, as a solution, suspension, syrup, emulsion, tablet, or capsule. The composition can also contain one or more pharmaceutically acceptable carriers and/or excipients.
US08906410B2
Methods and compositions for treating 25-hydroxyvitamin D insufficiency and deficiency in a patient are described herein. The method includes orally administering to the patient a delayed, sustained release formulation including a first ingredient selected from the group consisting of 25-hydroxyvitamin D2, 25-hydroxyvitamin D3, or a combination of 25-hydroxyvitamin D2 and 25-hydroxyvitamin D3, or it includes gradually administering to the patient a sterile intravenous formulation including a first ingredient selected from the group consisting of 25-hydroxyvitamin D2, 25-hydroxyvitamin D3, or a combination of 25-hydroxyvitamin D2 and 25-hydroxyvitamin D3.
US08906408B2
The invention relates to octenidine or a pharmaceutical salt thereof, in particular octenidine dihydrochloride, which is intended for mutual therapeutic administration of the octenidine in solution with a polyalcohol of formula 1: (H—C—OH)a(HO—C—OH)b(H—C—H)c, where a, b, c are whole numbers, where a+b is at least 2, preferably at least 3, c is selected from 0, 1 or a number from 2 to a+b, optionally in addition to one or more aldehyde groups provided that they form (cyclic) acetals with one of the hydroxy groups or one or more keto groups optionally as acetal with one of the hydroxy groups, optionally in addition to one or more carboxylic acid groups if the polyalcohol is a cyclic acetal or acetal, preferably with ring sizes of 5 to 7 atoms, or a polymer, polyether or polyester thereof, provided that the polyalcohol exists as a polymer, polyether or polyester with at least two units of formula 1 if a+b is 2 or 3. The invention also relates to kits containing these ingredients, and use thereof for treating infections and wounds.
US08906407B2
Active compound formulations for animal nutrition of amino acids, vitamins, enzymes and pigments, which are suitable for providing the active compounds in protected form for the nutrition of stock animals, in particular ruminants, and a process for the preparation of these protected active compound formulations.
US08906402B2
One embodiment of the present invention is directed to compositions and methods for enhancing attachment of soft tissues to a metal prosthetic device. In one embodiment a construct is provided comprising a metal implant having a porous metal region, wherein said porous region exhibits a nano-textured surface.
US08906400B2
An insecticidal polymer matrix containing Piperonyl Butoxide (PBO) and deltamethrin (DM), wherein the ratio between the content of PBO and the content of DM in terms of weight is higher than 3.
US08906390B2
Compositions and methods for delivering cargo to cells are provided. One aspect provides a synthetic vesicle containing caveolin 1 or a fragment thereof in an amount effective to form lipid rafts in the vesicle. The synthetic vesicles can be used to deliver polynucleotides, proteins, therapeutic agents, or a combination thereof to specific membrane-bound compartments of a cell. In certain aspects, the synthetic vesicles can deliver cargo to cellular organelles such as mitochondria.
US08906371B2
This invention provides antibodies that interact with or bind to human interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) and methods for treating IFN-γ mediated diseases by administering a pharmaceutically effective amount of antibodies to IFN-γ. Methods of detecting the amount of IFN-γ in a sample using antibodies to IFN-γ are also provided.
US08906367B2
Provided are novel specific binding molecules, particularly human antibodies as well as fragments, derivatives and variants thereof that recognize neoepitopes of disease-associated proteins which derive from native endogenous proteins but are prevalent in the body of a patient in a variant form and/or out of their normal physiological context. In addition, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such binding molecules, antibodies and mimics thereof and methods of screening for novel binding molecules, which may or may not be antibodies as well as targets in the treatment of neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease are described.
US08906366B2
Methods for preparing Factor X, activated Factor X, inactivated factor X and inactivated factor Xa, compositions comprising Factor X and Factor Xa, inactivated Factor X and inactivated Factor Xa and methods of medical treatment using Factor X, Factor Xa, activated Factor X and inactivated Factor Xa are disclosed. The preparation methods comprise a chromatography step using an immobilised metal ion affinity chromatography substrate.
US08906352B2
The invention concerns a method for straightening keratinous fibers including: (i) a step of applying on the keratinous fibers a hair straightening composition containing at least one alpha-hydroxy and/or keto acid derivative, the pH of said composition being not more than 9 (ii) a step of increasing the temperature of the keratinous fibers, using heating means, to a temperature ranging between 110 and 250° C.
US08906344B2
The invention relates to 18F-labeled compounds of formula (I), hydrates, isomers, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, process for their preparation and pharmaceutical compositions. The invention relates to the methods of diagnosing kidney function in humans by PET imaging.
US08906335B2
Broad-area synthesis of aligned and densely-packed carbon nanotubes (CNT) is disclosed. CNT are repeatedly synthesized and then drawn together to locally and globally achieve increased packing densities. The process synthesizes an aligned, relatively sparse forest of CNT on a catalyzed sacrificial substrate. The catalyst is removed, thereby releasing the CNT but leaving them in place on the substrate. A liquid-induced collapse produces regions of more densely packed CNT and regions where no CNT remain. A fresh catalyst is deposited on the exposed regions of the substrate and a sparse forest of aligned CNT is regrown in these regions. The CNT also may form on the tops of the densified regions of CNT. The top-growth CNT may be removed or incorporated into the solid such that the solid is expanded axially. This process, e.g., growth then densification, is repeated to form a near-continuous solid of aligned and densely packed CNT.
US08906333B1
An air quality control system (AQCS) useful for treating flue gas, such as flue gas produced by a fossil fuel fired boiler, is described. In addition to flue gas treatment, the AQCS provides for air preheater flue gas outlet flue gas temperature reduction and air preheater corrosion prevention while reducing capital costs, increasing reliability and increasing operating flexibility with regard to fuel selection.
US08906331B2
Ag/Al2O3 materials may be packaged in a suitable flow-through reactor, close coupled to the exhaust manifold of a diesel engine, and upstream of other exhaust gas treatment devices, such as a diesel oxidation catalyst and a selective reduction catalyst for NOx. The silver/alumina catalyst material uses hydrogen in a cold-start engine exhaust and serves to oxidize NO to NO2 in the relatively low temperature, hydrocarbon-containing, exhaust during a short period following the engine cold start, and to temporarily store NOx during the start-up period. After the exhaust has heated downstream catalytic devices, the silver yields its nitrogen oxides for conversion to nitrogen by the then-operating devices before NOx is discharged to the atmosphere.
US08906329B2
A catalyst composition is provided having a zeolite material of a CHA crystal structure and a silica to alumina mole ratio (SAR) of about 10 to about 25 and preferably having a mean crystal size of at least 1.0 microns; and a non-aluminum base metal (M), wherein said zeolite material contains said base metal in a base metal to aluminum ratio (M:Al) of about 0.10 to about 0.24.
US08906324B2
An automatic inoculating system for depositing a sample on a substrate in a predetermined pattern. A turret is rotatable about a vertical axis, and an arm retained by the turret is pivotable about a horizontal axis. A stylus retained at a distal portion of the arm sucks up and dispenses the sample, such as by use of a pumping system in fluidic communication with the stylus. A support rotatably retains the substrate. The arm can be raised and lowered, such as by a cylinder on which the arm rests without a retaining mechanical connection therebetween. The arm can thus freely lift off the cylinder as when the stylus contacts the surface of the substrate. The sample can thus be deposited on the substrate in a predetermined pattern by a dispensing from the stylus in combination with rotation of the turret and the substrate and a pivoting of the arm.
US08906320B1
A biosensor is provided including a detection device and a flow cell mounted to the detection device. The detection device has a detector surface with a plurality of reaction sites. The detection device also includes a filter layer that is configured to at least one of (a) filter unwanted excitation light signals; (b) direct emission signals from a designated reaction site toward one or more associated light detectors that are configured to detect the emission signals from the designated reaction site; or (c) block or prevent detection of crosstalk emission signals from adjacent reaction sites.
US08906311B2
A process unit, comprising: a) an alkylation reactor; and b) a control system that enables the alkylation reactor to be operated in an alkylate mode and in a distillate mode; wherein the alkylation reactor can switch back and forth from operating in the alkylate mode to the distillate mode.
US08906306B2
The present invention provides a fluid transfer control method, the method based on measurements of intensities of dyes within the fluid to be transferred. In more detail, the present invention makes use of control dyes and quencher molecules for the fluid transfer controls.
US08906305B2
An instrument adapted to determine an analyte concentration of a fluid sample using a test sensor is disclosed. The instrument comprises a display adapted to display information to a user, a user-interface mechanism adapted to allow the user to interact with the instrument, a first test-sensor cartridge, and a body portion including at least a first opening and a second opening formed therein. The first opening is adapted to receive a test sensor from the first test-sensor cartridge. The second opening is adapted to store at least one additional test-sensor cartridge.
US08906304B2
Reaction containers (110) each comprising a plurality of treatment parts (wells) (501-506) are placed side by side in a reaction container set so as to be movable independently of each other in the direction of arrangement of the treatment parts (wells). A plurality of stems (401) correspond to the respective reaction containers (110) and are disposed above the reaction containers to be vertically movable and disposed in the direction crossing the direction of movement of the reaction containers. Control is performed so that when the reaction containers (110) and a stem mechanism (111) are operated together and one of the treatment parts (501-506) of each of the reaction containers (110) comes immediately below the stem mechanism (111) in accordance with a treatment procedure, a stem (401) corresponding thereto, a magnetic chip (402) attached thereto, or the cover (405) thereof can go into and out of the treatment part.
US08906302B2
A reagent preparing device for preparing a reagent to be supplied to a measurement device for measuring a specimen, comprising: a first liquid storage unit for storing a first liquid; a reagent storage unit for storing a prepared reagent, including the first liquid and a second liquid different from the first liquid; a first liquid discarding unit for discarding the first liquid stored in the first liquid storage unit; and a controller configured for measuring an accumulated time of the first liquid in the first liquid storage unit; and controlling the first liquid discarding unit to discard the first liquid stored in the first liquid storage unit when the accumulated time reaches a predetermined time is disclosed. A specimen measuring device and a reagent preparing method are also disclosed.
US08906291B2
A piston rod and cylinder seal device includes a cylinder defining a piston chamber extending between first and second cylinder heads. The second cylinder head has a spud receiving bore, a pressure passage communicating with the spud receiving bore, and a bore supply/vent passage. A first piston is disposed in the piston chamber. A piston rod is connected to the piston, the piston rod having a piston rod spud extending beyond the first piston and including a blind shaft receiving bore. A second piston slidably disposed in the blind shaft receiving bore has a seal member connected thereto. A contact member connected to the second cylinder head in the spud receiving bore has a central passage extending therethrough in communication with the bore supply/vent passage. The seal member when contacting the contact member acts to seal the central passage.
US08906286B2
Methods of manufacturing polymeric intraluminal prostheses include annealing the polymeric material to selectively modify the crystallinity thereof. Annealing may be utilized to selectively modify various properties of the polymeric material of an intraluminal prosthesis, including: selectively increasing the modulus of the polymeric material; selectively increasing the hoop strength of the intraluminal prosthesis; selectively modifying the elution rate (increase or decrease) of a pharmacological agent subsequently disposed on or within the annealed polymeric material; selectively increasing/decreasing stress in the intraluminal prosthesis; and selectively modifying the polymeric material such that it erodes at a different rate.
US08906285B2
An stable electrohydrodynamic filament is obtained by causing a straight electrohydrodynamic filament formed from a liquid to emerge from a Taylor cone, the filament having a diameter of from 10 nm to 100 μm. Such filaments are useful in electrohydrodynamic printing and manufacturing techniques and their application in liquid drop/particle and fiber production, colloidal deployment and assembly, and composite materials processing.
US08906284B2
A wrinkled adhesive surface is prepared by swelling a laterally confined elastomer layer with a polymerizable monomer composition. Swelling the elastomer layer spontaneously produces a wrinkled surface, and the wrinkles are then stabilized by polymerizing the polymerizable monomer composition. The stabilized wrinkled surfaces prepare by the method can exhibit substantially enhanced adhesion relative to smooth surfaces of the same material. The stabilized wrinkled surfaces can also exhibit adhesion that is repeatable through many cycles of contact with and separation from another surface. The adhesive characteristics of the stabilized wrinkled surfaces can be tailored by manipulating the size of the wrinkles.
US08906278B2
Processes for producing carbon fiber, the filament thereof and pre-oxidized fiber are provided. In one embodiment, the gel spinning of polyacrylonitrile filament is achieved by using small-molecule gelling agent, and the carbon fiber obtained thereby is increased by 15% to 40% in tensile strength and by 20% to 35% in toughness. In another embodiment, the melt spinning process of polyacrylonitrile is conducted by using imidazole type ion liquid as plasticizer, the process reduces environment pollution, is suitable for industrial production and the fiber produced thereby is improved in its strength. In yet another embodiment, polyacrylonitrile pre-oxidized fiber is produced by melt spinning, so low cost and controllable pre-oxidization of polyacrylonitrile can be achieved. In a further embodiment, high strength carbon fiber is manufactured by using polymer thickening agent. In another further embodiment, low cost and controllable pre-oxidization of polyacrylonitrile is achieved by conducting pre-oxidization before spinning, minimizing skin-core structure, so as to produce high performance carbon fiber, and reduce the production cost of carbon fiber greatly.
US08906275B2
A method of manufacturing a textured element may include (a) collecting a plurality of filaments upon a textured surface to form a non-woven textile and (b) separating the non-woven textile from the textured surface. Another method of manufacturing a textured element may include depositing a plurality of thermoplastic polymer filaments upon a first surface of a polymer layer to (a) form a non-woven textile and (b) bond the filaments to the polymer layer. A textured surface may then be separated from a second surface of the polymer layer, the second surface being opposite the first surface, and the second surface having a texture from the textured surface.
US08906273B2
A method of making a thermoplastic composition comprises melt extruding a poly(arylene ether) powder to form a first pelletized poly(arylene ether); and melt extruding the first pelletized poly(arylene ether) to form a second pelletized poly(arylene ether), wherein the second pelletized poly(arylene ether) has a level of butyraldehyde less than the first pelletized poly(arylene ether) and the second pelletized poly(arylene ether) has a level of trimethylanisole less than the first pelletized poly(arylene ether).
US08906270B2
The invention relates generally to a polymeric composition and a method for making and using the polymeric composition, more specifically to a polymeric composition and a method for making and using the polymeric composition in the form of a membrane.
US08906264B2
The invention relates to compounds of the general formula (I) EA2-xEuxSiO4.aM2B4O7 (I) where EA stands for two or more elements selected from Ca, Sr, Zn and Ba, M stands for Li, Na or K, and a stands for a value from the range 0.01≦a≦0.08, and x stands for a value from the range 0.01≦x≦0.25.
US08906256B2
A nanometal dispersion and a method for preparing a nanometal dispersion are provided. The method comprises mixing a metal seed crystal aqueous solution, a polysaccharide aqueous solution, and a metal compound aqueous solution, followed by allowing the resulting mixture to conduct a reduction-oxidation reaction to form a nanometal. The produced nanometal dispersion comprises a polysaccharide and a nanometal. The polysaccharide is composed of N-actyl-D-glucosamine and glucuronic acid, and the nanometal has multimorphology.
US08906248B2
A method etching features through a stack of a silicon nitride layer over a silicon layer over a silicon oxide layer in a plasma processing chamber is provided. The silicon nitride layer is etched in the plasma processing chamber, comprising; flowing a silicon nitride etch gas; forming the silicon nitride etch gas into a plasma to etch the silicon nitride layer, and stopping the flow of the silicon nitride etch gas. The silicon layer is, comprising flowing a silicon etch gas, wherein the silicon etch gas comprises SF6 or SiF4, forming the silicon etch gas into a, and stopping the flow of the silicon etch gas. The silicon oxide layer is etched in the plasma processing chamber, comprising flowing a silicon oxide etch gas, forming the silicon oxide etch gas into a plasma, and stopping the flow of the silicon oxide etch gas.
US08906232B2
A flexible, water-permeable filter basket may be used to collect and remove debris from a sump in a drain-entry structure (e.g., a catch-basin). The filter basket includes a basket floor having a perimeter of substantially the same size and shape as a sump floor, at least one basket sidewall corresponding to at least one sump sidewall, and one or more handles collectively affixed to the at least one basket sidewall, the at least one basket sidewall collectively including a resilient frame. The filter basket may be used as a deformable sump insert to collect debris falling into a drain-entry structure for removal without use of a vactor truck.
US08906223B2
A process is presented for increasing the aromatics content in a reformate process stream. The process modifies existing processes to change the operation without changing the reactors or heating units. The process includes bypasses to utilize heating capacity of upstream heating units, and passes the excess capacity of the upstream heating units to downstream process streams.
US08906222B2
The present invention relates to a management method for a wax fraction storage tank that stores a wax fraction produced by Fischer-Tropsch synthesis until the wax fraction is hydrocracked, the management method including maintaining the temperature inside the tank at 90° C. to 130° C. and maintaining the atmosphere inside the tank to be an inert gas atmosphere.
US08906219B2
The present invention relates to an electrolytic process, methods and apparatus for the preparation of carbon monoxide and in particular to electrolysis of molten carbonates to yield carbon monoxide which may be used for chemical storage of electrical energy and further as chemical feedstock for other organic products.
US08906217B2
There is provided a method and composition for applying a wear resistant composite coating onto a metal surface of an electrical component. The method comprises contacting the metal surface with an electrolytic plating composition comprising (a) a source of tin ions and (b) non-metallic particles, and applying an external source of electrons to the electrolytic plating composition to thereby electrolytically deposit the composite coating onto the metal surface, wherein the composite coating comprises tin metal and the non-metallic particles.
US08906215B2
A mechanism is provided for manipulating a molecule. The molecule is driven into a nanochannel filed with electrically conductive fluid. A first vertical electric field is created inside the nanochannel to slow down the molecule and/or immobilize the molecule. The molecule is stretched into non-folded linear chains by the first vertical electric field and a horizontal electric field. Monomers of the molecule are sequentially read.
US08906212B2
A method to evaluate the corrosion resistance of a can to a content includes filling the can with the content to form a specimen, setting the specimen in an apparatus capable of blocking an outside atmosphere from entering the specimen, optionally saturating the content with nitrogen gas to expel dissolved oxygen present in the content, thereafter while maintaining the temperature of the content at a constant temperature in the range of 25 to 60° C., applying a constant potential that is more anodic than an immersion potential by 50 mV to 200 mV to the can of the specimen, and evaluating the corrosion resistance of the can to the content based on the accumulated amount of electricity generated during a time appropriately selected from 6 to 48 hours immediately after the application of the constant potential.
US08906208B2
A sputtering apparatus includes a substrate holder which holds a substrate to be rotatable in the plane direction of the processing surface of the substrate, a substrate-side magnet which is arranged around the substrate and forms a magnetic field on the processing surface of the substrate, a cathode which is arranged diagonally above the substrate and receives discharge power, a position detection unit which detects the rotational position of the substrate, and a controller which controls the discharge power in accordance with the rotational position detected by the position detection unit.
US08906192B2
Preparing a polyurethane with polyurethane-polyether and polyurethane-polyester blocks with at least 2 polyurethane-polyester end blocks joined to an alkoxysilane end group, by reaction of a polyether polyol (A) with a stoichiometric excess of an aliphatic diisocyanate (B), then reaction of the polyurethane formed with a stoichiometric excess of a polyester polyol, then reaction of the polyurethane formed with a stoichiometric amount of an isocyanatosilane (D); polyurethane formed by said method; corresponding adhesive composition, further comprising a crosslinking catalyst method of assembly of 2 substrates employing the composition.
US08906187B2
The method comprises an automated technique for making and inserting flexible laminate film barrier liners into the shoulder/nozzles of product tube packaging. The shoulder/nozzles are made and oriented with the shoulder opening to be facing the laminate film. The film is fed to a station that forms the nozzle aperture, die cuts the laminate film to fit into the shoulder of the shoulder/nozzle, and inserts this laminate film into the shoulder/nozzle. The laminate film can be heat bonded to the shoulder nozzle at this station or in a subsequent sealing station. After the shoulder/nozzle leaves the station that forms and inserts the laminate film into the shoulder/nozzle there can be a detection station to determine if the laminate film is properly aligned in the shoulder/nozzle. There also can be a detection station after a subsequent sealing station. Shoulder/nozzles with sealed laminate film liner are then sent to tube making. The laminate film will have a polymer layer and a barrier layer comprising ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymers, polyethylene terephthalate polymers, polyethylene naphthalate polymers and acrylonitrile methyl-acrylate copolymers The tube packages produced using these shoulder/nozzles are very useful for products which contain flavorants, such as dentifrices.
US08906172B2
The present disclosure discloses an amorphous alloy composite material comprises an amorphous and continuous matrix phase, and a plurality of equiaxed crystalline phases as reinforcing phases dispersed in the matrix phase. Oxygen content in the amorphous alloy composite material may be less than 2100 ppm. The present disclosure also discloses a method of preparing the same. With the equiaxed crystalline phases dispersed in the matrix phase, the plasticity of the amorphous alloy composite material may be improved considerably.
US08906170B2
An alloy casting having a protective layer disposed on a surface of the casting is provided. The protective layer is resistant to liquid metal attack, and wherein the protective layer includes an oxide of an element present in the alloy. A method of forming a protective layer on a surface of the alloy casting is also provided. The method includes disposing the alloy in a mold, and oxidizing an element of the alloy to form a protective layer on the surface of the casting.
US08906168B2
An assisted-movement system is provided for an appliance, such as a dishwasher including a tub portion defining a forward opening, a door pivotally engaged therewith for selectively engaging the forward opening, and a rack movable into and out of the tub portion through the forward opening. A biasing device is operably engaged between the tub portion and one of the door, via a hinge mechanism, and the rack. The biasing device is extendable between contracted and extended positions. A position control device is operably engaged between the tub portion and one of the door, the rack, and the biasing device, and is configured to cooperate with the one of the door, the rack, and the biasing device to at least one of maintain the door in a closed position and maintain the rack within the tub portion, with the biasing device in the contracted position. Associated dishwashers are also provided.
US08906162B2
Metal organic chemical vapor deposition equipment is metal organic chemical vapor deposition equipment for forming a film on a substrate by using a reactant gas, and includes a susceptor heating the substrate and having a holding surface for holding the substrate, and a flow channel for introducing the reactant gas to the substrate. The susceptor is rotatable with the holding surface kept facing an inner portion of the flow channel, and a height of the flow channel along a flow direction of the reactant gas is kept constant from a position to a position, and is monotonically decreased from the position to the downstream side. It is thereby possible to improve film formation efficiency while allowing the formed film to have a uniform thickness.
US08906151B2
A calcium phosphate composition comprising tetracalcium phosphate particles (A), calcium hydrogen phosphate particles (B) and at least one kind of inorganic particles (C) selected from silica particles or titania particles, wherein the mixing ratio (A/B) of (A) to (B) is from 45/55 to 55/45 in molar ratio, the inorganic particles (C) have an average particle diameter of from 0.002 to 0.5 μm, and the inorganic particles (C) are contained in an amount of 0.1 to 20 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of (A) and (B) in total. Thereby provided is a calcium phosphate composition such that when it is used as a material for bone repair, a formed bone has high mechanical strength and a high bone replacement rate is achieved.
US08906147B2
A degassing apparatus 1 includes a housing 2 having a degassing chamber 22, a rotor 3 rotatably provided in the housing 2 and a decompressing mechanism 4 for decompressing the degassing chamber 22 of the housing 2. The housing 2 further includes a conduit line 21 and a cylindrical portion 23. The degassing chamber 22 is provided in a middle part of the conduit line 21. An upper end of the conduit line 21 constitutes an inlet port 24 and a lower end of the conduit line 21 constitutes an outlet port 25. The rotor 3 is rotatably provided inside the cylindrical portion 23 so that a passage between the outlet portion 25 and the degassing chamber 22 can be hermetically separated by the rotor 3. The rotor 3 has four partitioning plates 31 which partition the inside of the cylindrical portion into four spaces 231-234.
US08906145B2
A compressed air supply device is provided for a utility or commercial vehicle. The device includes a valve housing and an air dryer cartridge which has a housing. A drying agent box, which is filled with drying agent, is arranged in the housing of the air dryer cartridge. The drying agent can be compressed by an elastic device.
US08906121B2
A fluidized bed apparatus having a plurality of inlet holes for the introduction of fluidizing medium into a fluidized bed, wherein at least two, and preferably more, of the inlet holes have different cross sectional areas.
US08906115B2
A method for the antimicrobial finishing of synthetic fibers, in which an aqueous solution of an organic primer component (P), such as, for example, gallic acid, and, as antimicrobial component (K), at least one organic quaternary ammonium compound, and a metal salt component (M) are applied at the same time or at a different time to the fibers, permits permanent antimicrobial finishing.
US08906114B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed for detecting the removal of a device connected to a network. The present invention generates an alarm on a protected device when an unauthorized user disconnects the device from a network connection. The network connection is monitored and an alarm is generated if the protected device is disconnected from the network connection without proper notification to the theft protection utility. A number of fail-safe features can optionally be employed to ensure that the theft protection aspects of the present invention are not bypassed. For example, the theft protection utility process can employ speaker, volume and/or power control features to ensure that the alarms generated by the present invention, or the theft protection feature itself, cannot be bypassed.
US08906113B2
The invention relates to a prosthesis with a prosthesis socket which has an inner face and is designed to be arranged on an amputation stump after a liner has been pulled over the latter, such that the inner face is directed toward the liner and a volume is enclosed between the inner face and the liner, and with a pump for generating an underpressure in the volume when the prosthesis socket is arranged on the amputation stump, characterized in that the pump is a peristaltic pump (1).
US08906103B2
A prosthesis may include a stem, an adaptor and a head. The stem may include a longitudinal axis. The adaptor may include a first taper having a first taper axis of symmetry. The head may be rotatably supported by the adaptor and may include a semispherical articulating surface defined by a central axis of symmetry that is angled relative to the first taper axis of symmetry. The head may be coupled to the first taper and may be positionable relative to the stem through relative rotation between the head and the stem about the first taper axis of symmetry to adjust a radial offset of the head relative to the longitudinal axis of the stem. The head may be adapted to be received in a glenoid cavity of a scapula.
US08906102B2
Trials for a reverse shoulder system are described. The trials generally include an insert housed within a humeral cup. The insert has a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end having a concave recess therein adapted to receive a glenosphere prosthesis. The distal end of the insert includes a shaft, the shaft is substantially housed within the confines of the humeral cup. A distal end of the humeral cup is inserted in a humeral stem.
US08906092B2
Devices and methods for the treatment of abnormal spinal stability and stenosis of the spinal canal by the implantation of orthopedic devices between skeletal segments. In one embodiment, a device is disclosed to rigidly fixate the spinous processes of two vertebral bones relative one another. A first member of the device is advanced across an interspinous space, rotated, and/or advanced onto the contralateral side of the spinous processes. A second member of the device is also advanced onto the ipsilateral side of the spinous processes and forcibly captures the spinous processes between the first and second members. A protrusion extends from the first and/or second devices configured to embed into the bone of the spinous processes thereby increasing the immobilization strength of the device. The implant may be further configured to contain a bone forming material to form a fusion between the first and the second vertebral bones.
US08906088B2
This invention discloses methods and apparatus for providing a Variable Optic Insert into an Ophthalmic Lens. An energy source is capable of powering the Variable Optic Insert included within the Ophthalmic Lens. In some embodiments, an Ophthalmic Lens is cast-molded from a silicone hydrogel. The various Ophthalmic Lens entities may include electroactive Liquid Crystal layers to electrically control refractive characteristics.
US08906065B2
An implantable device and method for fixation of spinous processes is presented. The device has first and second spaced plates, the first plate having a surface facing a surface of the second plate. The plates are configured for placement on either side of two adjacent spinous processes. The plates are held in place adjacent each side of the two spinous processes by a post connected to each of the plates and extending substantially therefrom the facing surface of the first plate to at least the facing surface of the second plate.
US08906063B2
Superior and/or inferior facets of one or more facet joints may be replaced by superior and/or inferior facet joint prostheses. In one embodiment, a kit of superior or inferior prostheses is provided, in which the prostheses have at least two dimensions that vary among members of the kit independently of each other. Each prosthesis may have a bone engaging surface having a surface that is polyaxially rotatable against a corresponding resection of a vertebra. Each prosthesis may also have an articulating surface shaped such that, after attachment to the spine, the replaced or partially replaced facet joints provide a larger medial-lateral range of motion when the spine is flexed than when the spine is extended. Crosslinks may be used to connect left and right prosthesis together in such a manner that they are stabilized in a position in which they are seated directly against the vertebra.
US08906062B2
The present invention includes an apparatus for securing a spinal rod with an anchoring device, the apparatus including a tubular body defining a longitudinal axis from a proximal end to a distal end; a connecting element positioned within the tubular body and along the longitudinal axis, the connecting element engaged by a first internal shaft and a second internal shaft, the tubular body, first internal shaft and second internal shaft coaxial with one another; the first internal shaft rotatably engages the connecting element such that rotation of the first internal shaft results in axial translation of the connecting element; and the second internal shaft engages the connecting element such that rotation of the second internal shaft results in rotation of the connecting element.
US08906060B2
A bone anchor having a rivet having a proximal end and a head distal to an elongate body, a sleeve having an internal channel for slidably receiving the body, and an expansion nut having a channel therethrough for slidably receiving said body, proximal of said sleeve is provided. The sleeve further has a shoulder provided within the internal channel in the region of the proximal end for engaging the expansion nut. The rivet, sleeve and expansion nut are arranged such that movement of the rivet from a first position to a second position causes the sleeve to cam over the rivet head and expansion nut until said expansion nut engages said shoulder, forcing the sleeve to expand into a wall of a bone hole.
US08906057B2
This invention is a device and method for reducing blood flow into an aneurysm, especially a cerebral aneurysm, in order to promote therapeutic embolization of the aneurysm. The device comprises: at least one core member that is inserted into the aneurysm; and at least one longitudinal flexible member that is wound repeatedly around the core member within the aneurysm. The longitudinal flexible member is wound around the core member until the rotational accumulation of the flexible member reduces blood flow into the aneurysm and promotes therapeutic embolization of the aneurysm.
US08906044B2
A knot pusher device for deploying a plurality of pretied knots to a surgical site is provided. In one embodiment, the knot pusher device comprises a shaft, an inner tubular member, and an inner rod, each having a proximal end and a distal end. The inner tubular member is provided within the shaft and is radially translatable with respect to the shaft. The inner rod is provided within the inner tubular member and is slidably coupled to the inner tubular member and is axially translatable with respect thereto.
US08906038B2
Devices and methods for forming and securing tissue folds and elongated invaginations in gastric tissue are used as a treatment for obesity. In several embodiments, a plurality of tissue folds is formed along the greater curvature of the stomach using laparoscopic tissue anchor deployment devices. Additional embodiments include various combinations of tissue folds, elongated invaginations, and other reconfigurations of stomach tissue using laparoscopic devices or laparoscopic devices in combination with endoscopic devices.
US08906037B2
A device for forming a tissue fold includes a recess and an opening at the end of the recess. Tissue is drawn into the recess and through the opening using a tissue engaging element. As the tissue is drawn through the opening, the tissue layers are compressed together. A fastener is used to secure the tissue fold.
US08906028B2
The present invention relates to a device and method for delivery of bone graft material to any portion of a patient which requires bone graft material. The device according to various embodiments delivers bone graft to a bone graft receiving area. The bone graft delivery device is formed such that a hollow tube and plunger selectively and controllably place bone graft material in or adjacent to the bone graft receiving area.
US08906024B2
An intramedullary nail includes an elongated body extending along a central longitudinal axis. The intramedullary nail includes a straight proximal end portion along with a straight distal end portion extending proximally from a distal end of the nail by a predetermined length and a central portion extending proximally from a proximal end of the distal end portion to a distal end of the proximal end portion. The central portion includes a first curved portion having a first length with a first radius of curvature and a second curved portion having a second length shorter than the first length and a second, non-zero radius of curvature smaller than the first radius of curvature.
US08906017B2
A combination tissue coagulation and cutting apparatus, system and method for coagulating and cutting tissue. A clamp element includes first and second clamp members having respective first and second porous electrodes, such as sintered metal electrodes. A portion of tissue, such as a blood vessel, is held between the porous electrodes, and fluid from a fluid source can pass through the porous electrodes. The tissue portion can be coagulated when electrical current is applied to the first and second porous electrodes, and an adjustable cutting element that is associated with the clamp members is positioned to cut a segment or all of the coagulated tissue portion. In this manner, the same surgical instrument is used to coagulate and cut tissue.
US08906016B2
A surgical instrument for supplying energy to tissue can comprise an end effector comprising a first jaw member and a second jaw member, wherein at least one of the first jaw member and the second jaw member is movable relative to the other to clamp tissue intermediate the first jaw member and the second jaw member. The instrument can further include an electrode configured to generate heat when electrical energy is supplied to the electrode and, in addition, at least one steam path within the electrode, wherein the at least one steam path is configured to vent steam generated when the tissue is heated by the electrode.
US08906015B2
A system and method for simultaneously heating a plurality of discrete skin volumes to a coagulation temperature. The system comprises an applicator containing an electrode having a plurality of spaced apart protruding conducting elements configured to contact the skin surface at a plurality of discrete locations. A controller applies a voltage to the electrode so as to simultaneously heat a plurality of skin volumes to a coagulation temperature when the applicator is applied to the skin surface.
US08906012B2
The invention provides an electrosurgical device and methods of use thereof. In one embodiment, the device may comprise a handle, a shaft distal to the handle, a first electrode tip and a second electrode tip adjacent a distal end of the shaft, with the first electrode tip spaced from the second electrode tip and wherein the first electrode tip comprises a first U-shaped electrode and the second electrode tip comprises a second U-shaped electrode, and at least one fluid outlet. In another embodiment, the device may comprise a handle, a shaft distal to the handle, and a first electrode and a second electrode adjacent a distal end of the shaft with the first electrode coplanar with the second electrode and comprising a wire electrode having a U-shape which surrounds a perimeter of the second electrode and is spaced from the second electrode by an aperture.
US08906009B2
Apparatus and methods for delivering electromagnetic energy to a patient's tissue with a reduction in the pain experienced by the patient. The tissue treatment apparatus includes a delivery device configured to transfer electromagnetic energy through the skin surface to a region of tissue and a vibration device mechanically coupled with the delivery device. The vibration device is configured to transfer mechanical vibrations through the skin surface to the region of tissue.
US08906006B2
An apparatus and method for performing non-invasive treatment of the human face and body by electroporation in lieu of cosmetic surgery is provided. The apparatus comprises a high voltage pulse generator and an applicator having two or more electrodes in close mechanical and electrical contact with the patient's skin for applying the pulses to the patient's skin. The applicator may consist of two pieces with one electrode having a sharp tip and another having a flat surface. High voltage pulses delivered to the electrodes create at the tip of the sharp electrode an electric field high enough to cause death of relatively large subcutaneous fat cells by electroporation. Moving the electrode tip along the skin creates a line of necrotic subcutaneous fat cells, which later are metabolized by the body. Multiple applications of the electrode along predetermined lines on the face or neck create shrinkage of the skin and the subcutaneous fat volume underlying the treated area.
US08906004B2
A cryosurgical instrument including: a shaft having a closed distal end defining an expansion chamber and an open proximal end that receives an inflow of cryogen and to exhaust a flow of expanded cryogen; and a heat exchanger with a cryogen delivery tube that spirals around a core disposed along longitudinal axis thereof. The cryogen delivery tube, at least where it spirals, is in fluid tight contact with the inner surface of the shaft so as to form spiraling cryogen exhaust pathways that extend along a portion of a length of the cryosurgical instrument from the distal end of the shaft. The cryogen delivery tube forces a two-phase flow of cryogen to undergo phase separation by centrifugal forces and urges the liquid phase against the external walls of the spiral coil and the outer surface of the spiral gap. Heat exchanging, through boiling, occurs close to the external wall of the instrument.
US08906000B2
Embodiments of a material delivery device including a deformable reservoir and associated controllable output mechanism are described. Methods of use and control of the device are also disclosed. According to some embodiments, a material delivery device may be placed in an animal in order to controllably dispense at least one material into the animal. The material delivery device may include a programmable mechanism to control the release of the material into the animal. In selected embodiments, a remote controller may be used to program or to control the material delivery device. Some embodiments are described wherein a magnetic field, an electric field, or electromagnetic control signal may be used.
US08905999B2
Described herein are a method and apparatus for introducing instrumentation into the lymphatic system that can be used for physiological monitoring and/or delivery of therapy. Such instrumentation, for example, may include one or more sensors for measuring physiological variables and/or one or more instruments for delivering therapy that is adapted to be disposed within a lymphatic vessel.
US08905996B2
A set of instruments configured to deliver a therapy to a bone can include a cannulated syringe. The cannulated syringe can extend along a longitudinal axis between a proximal and a distal end. The cannulated syringe can have an inner tube and an outer tube that are interconnected at the distal end as a single fixed unit. A first cannulation can be formed along the longitudinal axis of the cannulated syringe within the inner tube and a second cannulation can be formed within an annular space between the inner and outer tubes. The outer tube can define an opening through a sidewall thereof. The cannulated syringe can be closed from fluid communication between the inner and outer tubes.
US08905991B2
A process for providing a package of prefastened articles includes manufacturing an article having a chassis with an absorbent assembly located between an outer cover and a body side liner. The chassis also includes a first waist region and a second waist region; a refastenable seam joining a first distal portion of the first waist region to a first distal portion of the second waist region; a first refastenable bond connecting the first distal portion of the first waist region and the first distal portion of the second waist region. The first distal portion of the first waist region is folded and bonded to itself with a releasable bond having a first releasable bond peel strength. The first refastenable bond peel strength is greater than the first releasable bond peel strength. The process also includes rupturing the releasable bond and packaging the article.
US08905982B2
The invention is to provide a gas mist pressure bath system, which is possible to control the amount of gas and liquid, pressure and others, and cause a gas mist to be absorbed through a skin and mucous membrane of a human living body under an optimum condition. The present system comprises a gas supply means 11, a liquid supply means 21, a gas mist supply means 31 for generating and supplying the gas mist by storing the liquid inside thereof and while injecting a gas into the stored liquid, concurrently applying supersonic vibration to this liquid, and a living-body cover member 41 for covering the skin and mucous membrane of the living body and sealing inside the gas mist supplied from the gas mist supply means, and the gas mist supply means 31 comprises a supersonic vibrator 33, and a storage 32 having the gas mist generating tank 321 and a supersonic transmission tank 322, and the gas mist within the living-body cover member is caused to contact the skin and mucous membrane of the living body at pressure of not less than a predetermined value.
US08905975B2
The present invention relates to a container comprising: a body; a pusher movable with respect to the body between an initial position and an end-of-use position; a locker located on the pusher and forming an abutment so as to be able to abut against the body between the initial position and the end-of-use position, wherein, the abutment abuts against the body to limit distal movement of the pusher relative to the body to a pusher locking position located between the initial position and the end-of-use position; a locking arrangement capable of, temporarily, locking the locker on the pusher so as to define a locker locking position of the locker on the pusher, the locker locking position establishing the position of the abutment relative to the pusher so as to set the pusher locking position; and, an unlocking arrangement designed so that, with triggering, the locking arrangement is released so as to allow the locker to be displaced relative to the pusher and for the pusher to be moved past the pusher locking position toward the end-of-use position.
US08905966B2
The present invention relates to a novel type of a needle-free drug delivery system in which strong energy such as a laser beam is focused inside liquid contained in a sealed pressure chamber to cause bubble growth and the volume expansion in the sealed pressure chamber due to the bubble growth so as to elongate an elastic membrane, so that an instantaneous pressure is applied to a drug solution contained in a drug microchamber adjacent to the elastic membrane to allow the drug solution to be injected in the form of a liquid microjet, thereby enabling the drug solution to rapidly and accurately penetrate into the bodily tissues of the patient.
US08905959B2
A medical apparatus comprises a machine for treatment of fluids provided with means (3) for treating a patient's blood which exhibit a control unit (4) for sending command signals and receiving information relating to the treatment under way on the patient. A remote unit (7) is included which enable the remote unit (7) to selectively take control of a predetermined number of functions of the medical machine. The control unit (4) of the medical machine is predisposed to selectively inhibit the remote control means (10) from taking or maintaining control of the functions of the medical machine in consequence of the operating configuration of the machine.
US08905952B2
A simple, lightweight, portable, lumbar spinal distraction device is provided which employs a frame having concave left and right hand upper leg contacting members for asserting forces against substantially vertically oriented left and right upper leg portions of a user assuming a substantially horizontal position. The user pushes the portable frame forward by manually grasping a pair of handles, causing the left and right contacting members to press against the vertically oriented left and right upper leg portions respectively. Increased unilateral traction ability is produced by simply having the user apply extra force to one handle or the other. This will permit users suffering from unilateral pain in the buttocks, hip or leg to obtain a little extra pressure on the symptomatic side. Anyone who has suffered low back pain can relate to the fact that some days the pain feels more right sided and some days more left sided.
US08905946B2
A guide wire for use in a medical procedure having a shapeable tip integral with and made from the distal end of a superelastic nitinol distal section of the guide wire, wherein the shapeable tip can be finger kinked. Such a guide wire includes an elongated core made from a superelastic nitinol alloy at the distal end, the distal end of the elongated core having a tapered section leading to a shapeable distal tip. The shapeable tip is an extension of the distal end of the nitinol distal section, and includes permanent strain hardening from at least two different radial directions imparting crystallographic texture in the radial directions that eliminate superelasticity so that permanent deformation can be achieved with finger pressure.
US08905942B2
An apparatus for outputting heart sounds includes an implantable system and an external system. The implantable system includes a sensor for generating sensed signals representing detected heart sounds, an interface circuit and a control circuit for receiving the sensed signals, generating data representing the heart sounds therefrom, and transmitting the data to the external system via the interface circuit. The external system includes an interface circuit for communicating with the implantable system, and a control circuit for receiving the data representing the heart sounds and for generating control signals that cause an output device to generate outputs representing the sounds. The implantable system may also include a sensor(s) for detecting cardiac electrical signals. In this case, outputs representing the cardiac electrical signals are also output.
US08905940B2
A flow rate control valve includes a casing provided with an inlet port and an outlet port through which a fluid, the flow rate of which should be controlled, flows in and out, a diaphragm that partitions a space inside the casing into a flow space in which the fluid flows and a working space in which a working medium is present, and a valve body provided on a portion of the diaphragm that opposes the inlet port. The diaphragm is displaced in accordance with a change in the internal pressure of the working space, and the valve body is accordingly moved. This results in a change in the distance between the valve body and the inlet port, and thus the flow rate of the fluid flowing into the flow space through the inlet port is adjusted. Therefore, the flow rate of the fluid flowing out through the outlet port is variably controlled.
US08905939B2
A method and apparatus for determining a cardiovascular parameter including receiving an input signal corresponding to an arterial blood pressure measurement over an interval that covers at least one cardiac cycle, determining a propagation time of the input signal, determining at least one statistical moment of the input signal, and determining an estimate of the cardiovascular parameter using the propagation time and the at least one statistical moment.
US08905929B2
A remote sleep quality detecting system and its method provide a portable detecting device for detecting an examinee's physical activity while the examinee is sleeping, analyzing a detected activity signal by a signal processing module to generate a statistical value, and comparing a result of the computed statistical value with a sleep state index to obtain sleep quality information, and then storing the activity signal and the sleep quality information in a storage unit. The system and method also provide a remote monitoring device including a sleep information reading module for providing a user interface, connecting the portable detecting device via the Internet and receiving the sleep quality information produced by the portable detecting device after a command from the portable detecting device is received, such that the examinee's sleep quality information can be examined from a remote location for a long term without disturbing the examinee's sleep.
US08905925B2
Systems and methods permit remotely-monitored rehabilitation of a patient. A system can comprise a patient monitor configured to monitor a patient's physiological data. The patient monitor can monitor using a first monitoring mode. A patient communication device can be configured to present, to the patient, an option to perform an exercise regimen, and to receive a response indicating whether the patient will perform the exercise regimen. A configuration module coupled to the patient communication device can be configured to activate a second monitoring mode when the response indicates that the patient will perform the exercise regimen. When the exercise regimen is complete, the first monitoring mode can be re-established. When the response indicates that the patient will not perform the exercise regimen, the response can be recorded as a negative response, and the option to perform the exercise regimen can be presented again.
US08905924B2
The present invention relates to an illuminated dental prop for holding a patient's mouth open during dental procedures. The illuminated dental prop is completely disposed within the patient's mouth during use and includes a body portion and a lighting assembly that is selectively detachable from the body to allow for intense sterilization of the components after use. Under certain embodiments of the invention, the body portion and/or the lighting assembly will be disposable after a single use.
US08905923B2
A surgical retractor configured for use in surgical procedures to repair patient wrist distal radius bone fractures. The retractor includes an elongated handle portion, a wing portion coupled to the handle portion, and a hook portion at a working end of the retractor. The hook portion is configured to engage the radius bone of a surgical patient during a procedure. The wing portion is positioned intermediate the hook portion and the elongated handle portion and configured with a sufficient width to retract the patient's pronator quadratus muscle, while having a height such that the wing portion does not contact the median nerve of the surgical patient. A portion of the retractor above the wing portion is configured to contact the median nerve while being sufficiently narrow so as not put excessive pressure on the median nerve to cause nerve damage.
US08905908B2
A lubricant supplying method for supplying a lubricant to a sliding portion between a cylindrical rotatable member for use in an electrophotographic image forming apparatus and a supporting member for slidably supporting an inner peripheral surface at one end side of the rotatable member with respect to a rotational axis direction of the rotatable member, includes a step of engaging the supporting member, including a hollow portion and an opening which communicates with the hollow portion and is provided at a position in which the opening opposes the sliding portion, with the rotatable member at the one end side; and a step of supplying the lubricant from the hollow portion toward the sliding portion through the opening.
US08905903B2
A pulling rope fixing structure includes a handle, a grip rope, a fixing device, an elastic element and a pulling rope. The handle is a hollow tubular body with the grip rope passed through the handle; the grip rope has first and second ends with first and second openings respectively; the fixing device includes a retaining ring and a fastening element, and the fastening element has a hollow sleeve passed into the first and second openings and operated with the retaining ring to fix the grip rope. The elastic element is installed in the hollow sleeve and has a penetrating hole for passing the pulling rope and separating the pulling rope from the fixing device. The pulling rope not in a direct contact with the metal fixing device will not be worn directly during exercises, and the service life of the pulling rope can be extended effectively.
US08905899B2
In at least one embodiment, a weight-bearing health equipment system for use with a user, the user being within the middle 90th percentile of dimensions of a user class. The weight-bearing health equipment system includes a fitness equipment base having a plate having a periphery and extending from a front end to a back end. The weight-bearing health equipment system further includes a framework connected to the plate including a first pair of elongated members, a second pair of elongated members, and a third pair of elongated members connected to the first and second pair of elongated members. The first pair elongated members are adapted to prevent contact with the user when the user enters, exits, or engages the system. The third pair elongated members are adapted to be outside the ergonomic sweep of the user's arms.
US08905890B2
A range-change transmission having a main transmission, an upstream splitter group and a downstream range group. The main transmission comprises planetary gearsets (PS2, PS3). A ring gear of gearset (PS2) is rotationally fixed to an input shaft of the main transmission. A planetary carrier of gearset (PS2) is fixed, via an intermediate shaft, to the sun gear of gearset (PS3). By way of one dual shifting element, the sun gear of gearset (PS2) can be selectively locked to the housing or rotationally fixed to the intermediate shaft. By way of two single shifting elements, the planetary carrier of gearset (PS3) can be locked to the housing or rotationally fixed to the output shaft of the main transmission. By way of another dual shifting element, the ring gear of gearset (PS3) can be locked to the housing or rotationally fixed to the output shaft of the main transmission.
US08905877B2
A tensioning device for an endless traction element in an engine. The tensioning device has a housing, a plunger, which can he moved in the housing, a compression spring arranged in the plunger, a nonreturn valve arranged between the plunger and the housing, a cylinder arranged in the plunger, and an engagement element. The plunger and the cylinder are connected to one another by a latching system via engagement of the engagement element, and the cylinder is connected materially to the nonreturn valve.
US08905852B2
A roadside personalized entertainment system will be inside a building that may be positioned on major highways or Interstates, or other areas of high vehicular traffic. The system will provide short audio-visual entertainment for travelers while they remain in their vehicle.
US08905850B2
A transmission for a vehicle and a shaft assembly for transferring a fluid in the transmission of the vehicle are disclosed. The shaft assembly includes an input member rotatable about a longitudinal axis. The input member defines a cavity along the longitudinal axis. The shaft assembly further includes a shaft rotatable about the longitudinal axis and extending to a first end facing the input member. The shaft and the input member are spaced from each other along the longitudinal axis to define a gap therebetween. The shaft assembly also includes a cap attached to the shaft, with the cap extending through the gap into the cavity of the input member. The cap defines an aperture in fluid communication with the cavity for delivering the fluid from the shaft to the cavity of the input member.
US08905848B2
A server system that is communicably connected to a game device that is installed in a game operating entity includes a game data storage section, a read section that reads user data about a player, a transmission section that transmits the user data to the game device before the player starts playing the game, a reception section that receives game result data from the game device after the player has finished playing the game, a write section that writes the game result data into the game data storage section, and a charging section that performs a charging process that charges the game operating entity for at least one of a load process and a save process, the load process reading the user data and transmitting the user data to the game device, and the save process receiving the game result data from the game device and writing the game result data into the game data storage section.
US08905843B2
An adapter interface apparatus has a user input device and an associated video display. The user selects a distinguishable visual image representation for association into an audiovisual presentation, such as where that user is identified. For example, color, size graphics or shape can be used to distinguish users. In one embodiment a digitized image of each user's face is used as the distinguishable representation. Alternatively, the user can create an original image or select one of a predetermined set of visual images as the user's identification for use in the audiovisual presentation. In one embodiment, the adapter interface is coupled to an audiovisual presentation system and a storage card containing User Images. The adapter interface system integrates a selected User Image from the Storage Card into the audiovisual presentation.
US08905835B2
A method for conducting bingo games includes using a server to collect game play requests from a plurality of electronic player stations. The server determines if a group of the collected game play requests meets one or more predefined conditions for establishing a quorum, and if so conducts a game with the group of game play requests. Even after the game is started, the server continues to collect game play requests in preparation for conducting additional games. When enough game play requests are collected, the server starts the next game, even if previous games are still in progress.
US08905827B1
A dehider tool has first and second blades arranged in contact with each other that rotate in opposite directions on a common blade axis. A drive assembly having a pneumatic motor and respective drive belts drives the blades in opposite directions about the common blade axis. The blades each have an outer cutting edge in the shape of a regular convex polygon, such as a decagon. The blades have an inner opening for coupling with a blade holder of the drive assembly. The inner opening has the shape of a regular convex polygon, such as a pentagon. The blades are covered with a hard surface coating to extend their service life.
US08905802B2
An extendable buoyant board with pairs of telescoping sections which are secured in an extended relation to one another by internal pressure from an inflatable pneumatic bladder enclosed within the sections. By retaining each of the inboard ends of successively smaller pairs of extension sections within the adjacent next larger section, the multisection board, when extended, provides substantial rigidity and strength. The telescoping arrangement is preferably provided by a central tubular section with an opening at each end, and an internal cross-sectional area which diminishes from the center to each opening. A first pair of opposed telescoping tubular extension sections is slidably and non-removably engaged within the outboard end of the interior of the central section.
US08905791B2
A lead frame assembly having a lead frame made of a single layer, a housing substantially surrounding the lead frame, and a plurality of leads formed as part of the lead frame. The lead frame assembly also includes a plurality of interfaces, allowing various devices to interact with the lead frame, such as sensors, thermistors, solenoids, engine controllers, or electronic control units, or the like. The interfaces may be formed as part of the lead frame, oriented in different directions, and may be located in different planes, making the lead frame assembly suitable for applications with different packaging requirements. The interfaces may be a plurality of connectors, where at least one of the plurality of connectors are disposed in the same plane as the lead frame, and another of the plurality of connectors is disposed in a different plane from the lead frame.
US08905788B2
Each of the signal terminal and the ground terminal includes a first extending portion extending toward its tip end, and a second extending portion extending in a direction opposite to the first extending portion. The first extending portion is formed such that a width thereof is smaller than a width of the second extending portion. The housing includes a first housing into which the first extending portions are inserted, and a second housing into which the second extending portions are inserted. The second housing is formed separately from the first housing, and the first housing includes a wall portion located between the first extending portion of the signal terminal and the first extending portion of the ground terminal.
US08905784B2
The invention relates to a device for producing a sealed electrical connection through an engine block crankcase wall in order to connect a sensor or actuating unit contained in the engine block to a central unit comprising a connector provided with at least one bore, which is intended to be arranged in an opening of said wall, at least one electrical contact connected to a wiring harness, said electric contact being surrounded by at least one O-ring seal and arranged in the bore of the connector, said device also comprising an over-moulded part on the wiring harness, an end of the electrical contact connected to the wiring harness and an end of the connector, such that, after the device has been mounted in the opening, the junction between said over-moulded part and the connector is situated on one side of the wall.
US08905781B2
A coaxial connector assembly comprises a cable coaxial electrical connector and a board coaxial electrical connector mounted on a PCB and connecting to the cable coaxial electrical connector. The cable coaxial electrical connector defines a pair of retaining arms extending toward the board coaxial electrical connector, thereby the pair of retaining arms locking with the board coaxial electrical connector or the PCB to ensure a good engagement of the two coaxial connectors.
US08905780B2
One exemplary aspect comprises an apparatus comprising: (a) a first housing comprising an electrical plug; (b) a second housing comprising an electrical receptacle; and (c) a first electrical cord connecting the first housing to the second housing; wherein the second housing is configured to accept the electrical cord being wound around the second housing. In an exemplary embodiment, the apparatus further comprises a third housing comprising an electrical receptacle; and a second electrical cord connecting the second housing to the third housing; wherein the third housing is configured to accept the second electrical cord being wound around the second housing.
US08905778B2
The present invention relates to a contacting assembly for conductors that are present on flat structures, in particular glass panels, and have a contact point in the connection section. According to the invention, an end of a connecting cable or of another connecting means, for example, a connecting plug, is connected electrically and mechanically to a pad made of a conductive nonwoven fabric. The connecting cable thus assembled is introduced into a casting block which is open on one side and which has a frame that is provided with adhesive and encloses the nonwoven fabric. The surface of the conductive nonwoven fabric which is delimited laterally by the frame is matched to the area of the contact point, in order to produce, via an adhesive bond between the frame and the flat structure, a contacting connection created by surface pressing between the contact point and the nonwoven fabric surface, wherein the frame together with the casting body seals the contact point with respect to the surrounding area.
US08905770B2
Two connectors (20, 40) are separated until an initially connected state is reached by rotating a nut (70) in a loosening direction to release the nut (70) from a threadedly engaged state in a properly connected state of the two connectors (20, 40), and an interlock circuit is turned off during this time to set a power supply circuit to a cut-off state. A partial locking mechanism (80) is provided between the two connectors (20, 40) for preventing any further separation by locking the power-supply side connector (40) when the power-supply side connector (40) is separated up to an initial connection position and enabling the power-supply side connector (40) to be completely separated when a specified force or larger is applied to the power-supply side connector (40).
US08905769B2
A housing for a computer system which can be opened at at least one first housing wall for access into the housing and an opening for an external connecting plug is disposed at a second housing wall and where 1) the housing has a locking device to lock the first housing wall and prevent opening of the housing, the locking device is disposed at the opening for an external connecting plug and is actuatable via an external connecting plug so that the first housing wall is locked when an external connecting plug is inserted into the opening and the first housing wall is unlocked if no external connecting plug is inserted into the opening.
US08905767B2
A cable assembly including a communication cable. The communication cable includes insulated conductors, a shielding layer that surrounds the insulated conductors, and a drain wire that extends along the shielding layer. The insulated conductors, the shielding layer, and the drain wire extend along a length of the cable to a terminating end of the cable. The cable assembly also includes a ground ferrule that is coupled to the terminating end of the cable. The ground ferrule is intimately engaged with the drain wire along a contact zone, wherein the ground ferrule and the drain wire are laser-welded together for at least a portion of the contact zone.
US08905763B1
A demonstration device that provides interactive demonstrations receives user input during a demonstration session. The demonstration device causes a demonstration account or demonstration credential to be generated for a user based on the user input, the demonstration account or demonstration credential being associated with the demonstration session. The demonstration device transmits demonstration session information for the demonstration session to a demonstration server. The user is able to continue the demonstration session from another demonstration-capable device based on the demonstration account or demonstration credential.
US08905755B2
A bite-correcting orthodontic appliance attaches directly to the elements of braces (i.e., brackets and archwires); flexes in its distal 25-45% to stay away from the food bolus; has a smooth rectangular profile for patient comfort; and introduces gentle force vectors to the patient's upper and lower teeth that sweep in an arch to lift up on the front of the molar and down on the lower front teeth as the appliance tries to return to its preinstalled (passive) state, resulting in rapid, yet gentle changes unseen in the orthodontic industry. A lock-and-key attachment member is disclosed allowing for ease of installment in the patient's mouth.
US08905748B2
A compact deformation-based micro-texturing apparatus and method employ flexure bearing houses for rotatably supporting opposite ends of each of a first (e.g. upper) roll and a second (e.g. lower) roll to provide a working roll gap between the rolls, wherein at least one of the rolls has one or more micro surface features to plastically deform a surface of a workpiece deformed by rolling action in the roll gap. An electrical current may be passed through the workpiece to assist micro deformation. A roll gap adjusting device is operably associated with the first and second flexure bearing houses for adjusting the roll gap dimension to the final depth of the micro surface features to be imparted to the surface of the workpiece by the rolling action.
US08905744B2
A transport container for use in a device for producing a three-dimensional object of selective solidification of a build-up material deposited in layers, in which the device has a process chamber closed during operation, where the three-dimensional object is produced in layers. The transport container has a container, in which a height-adjustable platform is arranged, on which the three-dimensional object is produced in layers. The process chamber has first and second sections in which the second section can be separated from the first section and operated in a separate state independently from the device and also can be connected to the first section to produce an operating state of the device.
US08905741B2
In an injection molding nozzle with an elongated base body through which a channel for conducting a melt extends and which includes a heating element for the introduction of heat into the base body with temperature controlling heating coils disposed at the two ends of the temperature control element, means are provided for reducing the introduction of heat into the base body.
US08905738B2
An example revolving vane expander includes a cylinder. A rotor is housed within the cylinder to establish a working chamber between the cylinder and the rotor. The rotor is eccentrically mounted relative to the cylinder. A vane is secured to the cylinder or the rotor. The vane is slidably receivable within a slot established in the other of the cylinder or the rotor. The vane is configured to link rotational movement of the cylinder and the rotor.
US08905737B2
A revolving vane compressor comprising: a cylinder having a cylinder longitudinal axis of rotation, a rotor mounted within the cylinder and having a rotor longitudinal axis of rotation, the rotor longitudinal axis and the cylinder longitudinal axis being spaced from each other for relative movement between the rotor and the cylinder; a vane operatively engaged in a slot for causing the cylinder and the rotor to rotate together, the vane being mounted in the slot with a two degree-of-freedom motion relative to the slot for enabling the rotor and the cylinder to rotate with each other.
US08905734B2
A compressor is provided having an accumulator that may form an accumulating chamber at an internal space of a shell, thereby reducing a size of the compressor, and simplifying an assembly process. A stationary shaft having a refrigerant suction passage may be directly connected to the accumulator to prevent leakage of refrigerant. Further, a center of gravity of the accumulator may correspond to a center of gravity of the compressor to reduce vibration noise of the compressor caused by the accumulator. Furthermore, an oil collecting plate may be installed at an upper end of an upper bearing to supply oil between a vein and vein slot, thereby preventing compression loss. Also, an installation area of the compressor including the accumulator may be minimized to enhance design flexibility of an outdoor device employing the compressor and minimize interference with other components, thereby facilitating installation of the outdoor device.
US08905733B2
A progressing cavity pump/motor includes a stator (12) having a metal interior surface (14) and one or more spiraling internal lobes (16). The rotor (18) has a metal exterior surface (20) and one or more spiraling external lobes (22) for cooperating with the stator to form progressing cavities between the stator and the rotor during rotation of the rotor. At least one of the stator interior surface and the rotor exterior surface include a plurality of spaced grooves (30) in the respective surface, such that fluid flowing to a gap between the stator and the rotor is disrupted by the spaced grooves to reduce fluid leakage between the stator and the rotor.
US08905723B1
A marine jet pump with an adjustable venturi. An annularly compressible ring is affixed coaxially to the aft end of the pump housing. A collar coaxial to the ring is moveable coaxial to the ring. In a constricted mode the collar is mechanically forced over the aft end of the ring thereby reducing the diameter of the ring. In a dilated mode the collar is mechanically withdrawn to a predetermined degree from over the aft end of the ring allowing the ring to revert to it naturally dilated state. The transition between dilated mode and constricted mode can occur under full power.
US08905720B2
An arrangement for monitoring a supply within a platform. A sensor is arranged to generate sample values relating to a fluid characteristic variable, wherein the fluid is fed by the supply within the platform. A processor is arranged to receive a plurality of sample values from the sensor. The processor, is arranged to generate an absolute value of a difference between each of the received plurality of sample values and a subsequent associated sample value, wherein the received sample values are generated during a predetermined time period. The processor is arranged to determine an indication number corresponding to the number of the generated absolute values which are greater than a predetermined threshold value. The sample collecting process is only active when a criterion comprising a stable pump in a no load condition and all hydraulic consumers are in a resting position or close to a resting position is fulfilled. The processor is arranged to generate a piece of indication information depending upon a result of a comparison between the determined indication number and a predetermined comparison value.
US08905717B2
A retention system for a plurality of turbine buckets located in respective mating slots in a turbine rotor wheel includes a plurality of first circumferentially-oriented retention slots formed in outer peripheral portions of the turbine wheel; a plurality of second circumferentially-oriented retention slots formed in wheel mounting portions of said buckets, the first and second circumferentially-oriented retention slots aligned to form an annular lockwire retention slot; and a lockwire located within the annular lockwire retention slot. A first surface feature on one or both of the turbine rotor wheel and one or more of said plurality of turbine buckets is adapted to engage a second surface feature on the lockwire for preventing rotation of the lockwire beyond predetermined limits.
US08905710B2
A turbomachine rotor wheel including blades made of composite material; an annular mounting plate; a plurality of composite material blades mounted on the mounting plate, each blade also including a top platform at its tip carrying radial labyrinth teeth; an orientation disk fastened coaxially around the mounting plate and including at its outer periphery a plurality of axial slots that are open at one end, each slot presenting a cross-section that matches the cross-section of a blade root so as to hold it angularly in position by co-operation of shapes; and a variable-diameter spring ring housed in part in an axial notch formed in each blade root and projecting axially relative thereto, the spring ring to come into radial abutment against an inside surface of the orientation disk during radial outward movement of the blades relative to the mounting plate.
US08905700B2
An inspection apparatus includes an inspection chamber in which low-temperature inspection of an inspection object is performed; and a transfer chamber including therein a transfer device. The transfer device includes a transfer arm for transferring the inspection object to the inspection chamber; an arm-receiving compartment having a gateway via which the transfer arm is moved into or out of the arm-receiving compartment; and a gas supply means having a first and a second supply part for supplying a low-dew-point gas to the arm-receiving compartment from different locations. Herein, the first supply part is configured to supply the low-dew-point gas toward the inspection object introduced into the arm-receiving compartment by the transfer arm.
US08905698B2
A retaining clip (4) comprising a substantially planar annular sector portion (14) with a sector angle of over 180° and having a recess (15) at each end of the sector arc. Also, a retaining ring comprising a pair of the retaining clip (13), wherein the recessed ends cooperate such that the pair of clips form a complete annulus. Also, a method of installing a retaining ring in a groove formed in a component, comprising inserting a first retaining clip into the groove in a substantially radial direction from a first side of the groove, an inserting a second retaining clip into the groove in a substantially radial direction from a second side of the groove opposite the first.
US08905695B2
A fastening arrangement includes a threaded fastener (5) including a head (11), a shank (9) and a laterally expandable member (17). A bridging member (7) is provided on the shank of the fastener, the bridging member having an aperture through which the shank passes. The aperture has a dimension greater than the dimension of the shank (9) but less than the dimension of the head (11), and an outer dimension greater than a dimension of the laterally expandable member (17) in a first configuration but less than the dimension of the laterally expandable member in a second configuration.
US08905693B2
A retention clip for hardware may include a support surface having an aperture extending through the support surface. The support surface may surround an entire perimeter of the aperture. The clip may further include at least one anti-rotation surface extending from the support surface in a non-parallel direction, and a plurality of angled tabs extending from the support surface in non-parallel directions towards the aperture. At least a portion of each angled tab may be disposed directly below the aperture. The tabs may be elastic below a preset load placed on the tabs, and the tabs may deform and lose their elasticity above the preset load.
US08905689B2
A machining system that includes an ultrasonic machining assembly, wherein the ultrasonic machining assembly further includes a machining tool; a collet adapted to receive the machining tool; and an ultrasonic transducer, wherein the ultrasonic transducer is operative to transmit acoustical vibrations to the machining tool; and a machining apparatus, wherein the machining apparatus is adapted to receive and secure the ultrasonic machining assembly, and wherein the machining apparatus is operative to transmit torque to the machining tool by applying rotary motion to the ultrasonic machining assembly.
US08905683B2
A cutting tool has a cutting insert removably secured to a tool body by a fastening member. The cutting insert includes a clamping bore having at least two upper and at least two lower clamping portions intersecting a first and a second horizontal plane, respectively, the first and second horizontal planes being perpendicular to a central axis and spaced apart from each other, and the clamping bore being non-circular at cross-sections taken in the first and second horizontal planes. Upper and lower imaginary lines tangential to the at least two upper and the at least two lower clamping portions, respectively, form zero or acute first and second clamping angles with the central axis, the first and second clamping angles being different. Exactly two upper and exactly two lower clamping portions are in simultaneous clamping contact with an equal number of corresponding clamping zones on the fastening member.
US08905680B2
An improved silicon wafer transport system. More particularly, this invention relates to providing new wafer-transport apparatus having geometries configured to minimize damage to the wafer while assisting in maintaining multi-orientation positioning of the wafer during transport by the tool.
US08905676B2
A marine pipeline installation system is provided for laying a pipeline and/or installing a subsea riser. The system includes a pipeline guide supported at an elevated position by the tower for guiding the pipeline from a first trajectory extending between the reel and the pipeline guide to the firing line along said tower. The pipeline guide is supported by the tower via an associated guide support frame, the support frame being adapted to allow for displacement of the pipeline guide between a pipelaying position, wherein one end of the pipeline guide is positioned in the firing line, and a retracted, non-operable position. The guide support frame allows movement of the pipeline guide in a combined upward direction and direction towards the reel, such that in the retracted position of the guide support frame the length of the first trajectory is essentially the same as in the pipelaying position.
US08905674B2
An integrated heating and comb unit and method of mechanized asphalt raking in which a mechanized asphalt comb comprised of a rake attachment and an arm is attached to an engineering vehicle via a terminating end of the arm. The engineering vehicle can control and manipulate the mechanized asphalt comb into a raised inactive position, a lowered active position, and a plurality of positions between the raised inactive position and the lowered active position. When in the lowered active position, the mechanized asphalt comb applies a fixed downward pressure and depth of penetration to the applied surface.
US08905668B2
A cosmetic applicator comprises a body defining a handle, the body being arranged to receive the cosmetic product, a rotatable applicator element attached to a distal end of the body, the applicator element extending transversely relative to the body and being located proximate the cosmetic product, and a driving arrangement to rotate the applicator element, thereby loading the cosmetic product for subsequent application. In an embodiment, the body is elongate so as to define a longitudinal axis, with the applicator element extending perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the body. In an embodiment, the cosmetic applicator comprises an actuating arrangement to allow a user to selectively control the position of the cosmetic product with respect to the applicator element, thereby allowing a controlled quantity of cosmetic product to be loaded onto the applicator element.
US08905665B2
A retractable writing/erasing piece against sliding back includes a holding pipe, an internal pipe, a sleeve pipe, a slide base and a writing/erasing piece. At least a pair of stepped guide grooves is disposed on a pipe wall of the internal pipe and the stepped guide grooves have multiple guide groove windows. At least a pair of spiral guide slots is disposed on an internal wall of the sleeve pipe. At least a pair of guide protrusions is disposed on the slide base. The pair of guide protrusions is contained in the pair of spiral guide slots. The guide protrusions are abutted against a blocking wall of a guide groove window therein, so that an accident sliding back of the writing/erasing piece and the slide base can be avoided.
US08905664B2
A cutter device includes: a first cutter provided on a front surface side of a medium being fed to be cut; a second cutter that is provided on a back surface side opposite the front surface side and cuts the medium in cooperation with the first cutter; a carriage that retains the first and second cutters and moves in a width direction of the medium; a guide portion that guides the carriage in the width direction; and a post-cut guide portion that is provided on the carriage and comes into contact with the back surface to guide the medium on the downstream side of the first and second cutters in a medium feed direction after cutting to the front surface side.
US08905662B2
Methods and devices include a patterning device positioned along a processing path. The patterning device forms one or more holes through workpieces at a contact location of the workpieces. A transport device is positioned along the processing path. The transport device removes the workpieces from the processing path and stacks the workpieces by simultaneously moving at least two of the workpieces together in workpiece sets. The transport device comprising a vacuum device that contacts the contact location of the top workpiece within each of the workpiece sets. The vacuum device applies vacuum through the holes of the top workpiece to the bottom workpiece within each of the workpiece sets to maintain the workpieces together in the workpiece sets when performing the removing and the stacking.
US08905651B2
An optical communication system comprising: an optical circuit board comprising an optical interface having a transmission region, an optical coupling device comprising: a first optical interface having a first transmission region optically coupled to a corresponding transmission region of the optical interface of the optical circuit board, a second optical interface having a second transmission region adapted to be optically coupled to a corresponding transmission region of an optical interface of a mating optical device, a fixation part, wherein the optical communication system comprises a support element glued to the fixation part of the optical coupling device and removably mounted on the optical circuit board.
US08905642B2
A rolling bearing which has excellent performance at high-temperatures and has high-speed durability and quietness, is capable of effectively preventing hydrogen brittleness-caused peeling from occurring on a rolling surface thereof, and has a low environmental load. The rolling bearing (1) is constructed of an inner ring (2) having a rolling surface on its peripheral surface, an outer ring (3) having a rolling surface on its inner peripheral surface, a plurality of rolling elements (4) disposed between both rolling surfaces, and a cage (5) retaining the rolling elements (4). The inner ring (2), the outer ring (3), the rolling elements (4) or the cage (5) are metal-made bearing members. Film-coating treatment is conducted on a sliding surface or a rolling surface of at least one of these metallic bearing members with plant-derived polyvalent alcohol compounds such as curcumin, quercetin, chlorogenic acid or the like.
US08905629B2
A gyroscopic paint mixer having a rotatable frame with a clamp lock providing automatic transfer from an unclamping to a clamping condition, providing silent operation through the use of one way clutches, the mixer also having a vertical stop apparatus coupled to an access door for stopping and holding the rotatable frame in an upright position, the mixer also having a bail retainer supported by a carriage assembly mounted for rotation on a clamp plate with a cam urging the bail retainer to the side of the frame when the bail retainer is released from the paint container with the paint container in an upright position in the rotatable frame.
US08905624B1
A system and method for controlling a mixing system at a peak energy efficiency point, maximum response point or reduced sound generation point based on displacement, velocity, acceleration or jerk operating conditions.
US08905618B2
The present invention provides a combined backplane and a backlight module using the combined backplane. The combined backplane includes a body and a first bracket coupled to the body. The body includes a base plate. The first bracket includes a first bottom plate and a first side plate perpendicularly connected to the first bottom plate. The first bottom plate has an end distant from the first side plate and coupled to an end of the base plate. The base plate and the first bracket are made of different materials. The combined backplane of the present invention is formed by combining a body with a bracket. The body is made of a high-strength material to improve overall strength of the backplane and the bracket is made of a material of high thermal conductivity to improve overall thermal conductivity of the whole backplane.
US08905616B2
The present invention provides a back frame of a flat panel display device, which includes at least two assembling pieces. The at least two assembling pieces are joined to form the back frame. The back frame further includes a bracing piece. An end of the bracing piece is fixed to the assembling piece and an opposite end of the bracing piece suspends. The present invention also provides a backlight system of flat panel display device. With this arrangement, the back frame and the backlight system of the flat panel display device of the present invention have a mold for the back frame is of a simple structure, the cost of back frame mold is reduced, the material used for back frame is saved, and the manufacturing cost of flat panel display device is lowered down. Further, the bracing piece has an end fixed to the assembling piece and an opposite end suspending so that the structure of the back frame is simple, the material for the back frame is saved, and thus, the weight and cost of the flat panel display device are reduced.
US08905603B2
The present invention provides a coupling and methods of use of the coupling. In one aspect the invention provides a coupling for use with a lamp fitting operated by a power supply, which coupling allows mounting/dismounting of the fitting without electrical isolation from the supply said coupling comprising: a) a mounting member having a first electrical connector element with shielded contact points connectable to the power supply, said member being suitable for fixing to a structure; and engageable with said mounting member; b) a holder member suitable for holding a lamp fitting said member having a second electrical connector element able conduct power to a lamp fitting; c) wherein engagement of the first and second members allows the first and second electrical connector elements to come into contact and disengagement allows electrical contact to be broken without exposure of the contact points.
US08905602B2
A recessed light fixture includes an LED module, which includes a single LED package that is configured to generate all light emitted by the recessed light fixture. For example, the LED package can include multiple LEDs mounted to a common substrate. The LED package can be coupled to a heat sink for dissipating heat from the LEDs. The heat sink can include a core member. A reflector housing may be coupled to the heat sink and configured to receive a reflector. The reflector can have any geometry, such as a bell-shaped geometry including two radii of curvature that join together at an inflection point. An optic coupler can be coupled to the reflector housing and configured to cover electrical connections at the substrate and to guide light emitted by the LED package.
US08905601B2
A lighting apparatus is disclosed. The lighting apparatus may include a heat sink, an LED module provided on the heat sink, an enclosure provided over the heat sink to surround the LED module, an insulator provided between the heat sink and the enclosure, a power module provided below the heat sink to provide power to the LED module, a housing attached to the heat sink to house the power module, and a power socket mounted to the housing and electrically connected to the electronic module. The heat sink may include a channel formed to correspond to a shape of the enclosure and the insulator may be provided in the channel, the insulator and the enclosure being formed of different materials.
US08905594B2
According to one implementation of the disclosed technology, a lens is provided. The lens includes one or more pieces of optical film configured for attaching to and modifying light from a light emitting device. The one or more pieces of optical film define: a lens aperture; a front light-emitting side of the lens; a back light-receiving side of the lens; and two or more edge trusses. The edge trusses are disposed towards the back light-receiving side of the lens. Each of the two or more edge trusses include one or more sides configured from a corresponding fold in the one or more optical films, wherein at least one of the one or more sides of each of the two or more edge trusses is configured at an angle relative to the lens aperture plane to impart support to the lens and to resist deflection of each edge truss.
US08905590B2
A lamp assembly (500) may include a linear light-emitting array (100) and a reflecting surface (101) arranged to limit the angular distribution of direct light while supplementing with reflected light the intensity of the direct light on a flat surface (102) of an object being illuminated. The reflecting surface (101) may be shaped to cause the distribution of the total illumination over the illuminated portion of the flat surface (102) to be uniform or to be linearly tapered or to have another desired profile. The reflecting surface (101) may be part of a heat-sinking reflector (300) that may include a mounting surface (302), a blind (303), oblong mounting holes (304) allowing rotational adjustment, heat sink mounting holes (305), and/or one or more exit holes (307), and that may have end pieces (400) attached to it.
US08905586B2
A natural lighting apparatus using sunlight is provided. The natural lighting apparatus includes a second light condensing device provided in a focal region of a first light condensing device to convert sunlight condensed in the focal region by the first light condensing device into straight parallel light rays through the second condensing device to provide sunlight having a high luminous flux to an indoor space. This natural lighting apparatus may be used together with an artificial illumination apparatus in a hybrid illumination system.
US08905582B2
A decorative system includes a base, a first frame assembly, a second frame assembly, a decorative covering, and a mount assembly, wherein the decorative system can be placed in a use state and a collapsed state. The base provides the foundation of the decorative system. The first frame assembly comprises a first frame, which generally is a skeleton or support framework. The second frame assembly comprises a second frame, which also is generally a skeleton or support framework. The decorative covering includes a covering having a decorative feature, for example, transparent, translucent, and opaque portions. The mount assembly provides support, and can be in communication with the first and second frame assemblies for assembly of the decorative system. The decorative system can further comprise a light string system that can be carried by at least one of the first frame assembly, the second frame assembly and/or the decorative covering.
US08905575B2
An indirect troffer-style lighting fixture that is particularly well-suited for use with solid state light sources. An elongated heat sink with a mount surface for light sources runs longitudinally along the fixture. To facilitate heat dissipation, a portion of the heat sink is exposed to the ambient room environment. An elongated specular reflector also runs along the device proximate to the heat sink. The heat sink and the specular reflector are mounted such that a spatial relationship is maintained. Some of the light from the sources impinges directly on the specular reflector and is redirected towards a back surface. The back surface defines a luminous surface that receives light directly from the sources and redirected light from the specular reflector. The back surface and the heat sink mechanically obscure any images of the light sources in the specular reflector such that they are not visible in a viewing area.
US08905573B2
A portable light may comprise: a light body having a light source near one end for emitting light in a substantially transverse direction; a switch actuator near the end of the light body for controlling the light source; and a stowable hanger affixed to the light body near the end thereof. The light body may have an external opening and a given cross-sectional shape and size for receiving a light source module having an exterior of the given cross-sectional shape and size. The light source module may comprise: a light source, a reflector, a heat sink thermally coupled to the light source, a lens, reflector, and a lens ring holding the lens. The portable light may also comprise: a clip extending adjacent the light body in a longitudinal direction, wherein the clip is rotatably mounted so as to be movable about the light body.
US08905571B2
A detectable warning panel including an illumination feature. The warning panel includes an array of raised domes as for prior art warning panels. The tops of at least a portion of the domes are illuminated. Preferably the tops of all the domes are illuminated. While the illumination feature may remain on at all times, in the preferred embodiment the illumination feature is switched on and off according to ambient lighting conditions.
US08905560B1
A magnifying spot mirror releasably attachable to a flat surface includes a circular concave mirror plate mounted on the front surface of a lenticular-shaped support body which has a convex, arcuately curved rear surface from which protrude satellite suction cups that have circular bases which lie in a convex plane and are radially spaced equidistant from the center of the support body and an optional center suction cup. Applying finger pressure to the center of the mirror causes a pair of centrally located suction cups and/or the optional center cup to hermetically grip a flat surface with the mirror parallel to the surface. Pressing on the mirror at a location offset from the center exerts a tensional unsealing force on radially inwardly located suction cups, and compressional sealing forces on outer satellite suction cups, thus re-positioning the mirror at a different orientation angle.
US08905553B2
A method of detecting a scanning angle range of a laser beam of a laser projector is provided. First, a photo sensor is disposed between first and second positions on a projection mirror. Then, a laser beam emitted from the laser projector scans back and forth between the first and second positions, so that the photo sensor receives the laser beam sequentially at first and second scanning time points to generate first and second sensing signals, respectively. If an actual time interval between the first and second sensing signals conforms to an expected time interval, an actual scanning angle range of the laser beam is determined as normal. If the actual time interval does not conform to the expected time interval, the actual scanning angle range of the laser beam is determined as abnormal and the laser projector stops emitting the laser beam. A laser projector is also provided.
US08905542B2
Techniques for providing eyewear with electrical components are disclosed. The electrical components can provide electrical technology to eyewear (e.g., eyeglasses) without having to substantially compromise aesthetic design principles of the eyewear. Often, the electrical components can be attached to the eyewear as an after-market enhancement. The electrical components can operate independently or together with other electrical components provided elsewhere.
US08905533B2
The invention provides an ink composition including: (a) a polymer including a repeating unit (a1) having a group represented by the following Formula (1) and a repeating unit (a2) having a hydrophilic group; (b) a radical polymerizable compound; (c) water; and (d) a colorant; wherein, in Formula (1), each of Ra and Rb independently represents an alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms; Ra and Rb may be bound to each other to form a 4- to 6-membered alicyclic structure; and * represents a bonding site.
US08905522B2
According to one embodiment, an ink-jet head includes an insulated substrate, a plurality of piezoelectric elements which are formed on the insulated substrate in the form of a line, a pressure chamber formed between the two adjacent piezoelectric elements to which ink is supplied, an electrode formed on a surface of the piezoelectric element and a surface of the insulated substrate, an organic protection film to cover a face of the electrode contacting the ink, a hydrophilic film which is formed to cover the organic protection film at a temperature of not more than 100° C., a frame which is provided on the electrode on the insulated substrate to surround the line of the piezoelectric elements, and a nozzle plate provided on the frame having nozzles each opening into the pressure chamber.
US08905519B2
A printhead is provided having an elongate support having a plurality of internal webs protruding from a base section to define a plurality of parallel fluid supply channels, a shim supported by the support and defining a plurality of rows of openings through which fluid from respective supply channels is supplied, and a plurality of elongate printhead modules supported serially on the shim. Each module defines a plurality of fluid supply passages through which fluid passes to fluid ejection nozzles from respective rows of the openings. Either end of each module defines complementary formations such that adjacent modules nest together.
US08905505B2
A liquid ejecting apparatus, including: a liquid ejecting head having an ejection surface; a platen; a capping mechanism including: a first member opposed to the ejection surface with the platen interposed therebetween when image recording is performed; and a second member disposed around the head so as to cooperate with the first member to hermetically close an ejection space; a distance adjusting mechanism for adjusting a distance between the ejection surface and the first member; a platen moving mechanism for moving the platen between the facing position and a non-facing position at which the platen does not face the ejection surface; and a controller configured to control the platen moving mechanism such that the platen is located at the non-facing position and controls the distance adjusting mechanism such that the distance is equal to a members-abuttable distance that allows the second and first members to abut on each other.
US08905502B2
A refrigerator includes a pressure adjustment device that passes through an inner case and an outer case such that the inside and outside of the refrigerator communicate with each other, and the pressure adjustment device is opened and closed according to opening and closing of a door so as to remove a pressure difference between the inside and outside of the refrigerator, thereby facilitating opening of the door.
US08905498B2
A retracting device retracts a movably supported furniture part to the closed end position relative to a furniture body. The device includes a carrier, which can be detachably coupled to the movable furniture part and which is movably supported along a movement path that is linear at least in some sections, and at least one spring device for applying force to the carrier. The spring device can be tensioned by a spring retainer that is separate from the carrier, and the spring retainer is movably supported against or on the carrier. A coupling device is provided in order to couple motion between the carrier and the spring retainer. By the coupling device, the articulated attachment point of the spring device on the spring retainer falls back relative to the position of the moving carrier when the carrier is pulled out, so that the motion of the articulated attachment point of the spring device on the spring retainer is slower than the motion of the carrier.
US08905486B2
In developing an underground mine a mine shaft 80 is formed by excavating earth and removing excavated material from the shaft 80 by a material transport system comprising skips 36 movable up and down on skip guides within the shaft. Tunnels 82 are launched from a bottom part of shaft 80 by excavating a cavern 81 in which a tunnel boring machine is assembled and operated to bore the tunnels 82. Material from the tunnel excavation is transported from the tunnels via conveyor 87 to the material transport system established within the shaft during formation of the shaft which is operated to transport that material to an earth surface region.
US08905480B2
A fitting for a vehicle seat includes a first fitting part, a second fitting part, and an eccentric, which is rotatably supported and is driven by a carrier and rotates in the circumferential direction, for driving a relative rolling motion of a spur gear and a ring gear. The eccentric has two wedge segments, which each have a convexly curved outer surface, a concavely curved inner surface, and two lateral surfaces. The lateral surfaces have a distance from each other and the inner surface and/or outer surface has a width that is less than the distance, and a transition area, which reduces the local axial dimension of the particular wedge segment from the distance to the width, is provided between at least one of the two lateral surfaces and the inner surface or the outer surface.
US08905470B2
A seat unit includes a seat and a dining board is slidably and pivotably connected to the back of the backrest of the seat. A display device such as a flat-board computer, a table PC, or an In-Flight Entertainment device, is connected to the bottom face of the dining board. The dining board is connected with two links which are pivotably connected to the legs of the backrest so that the dining board is pivoted and positioned horizontally. The dining board has operation members on two sides thereof so as to be slidably engaged with grooves in the reception member on the backrest. The dining board can be slid and stored in the reception member and the passenger behind the backrest can operate and enjoy the In-Flight Entertainment device.
US08905468B2
A sunshade apparatus includes: a light blocking sheet to block light at an opening of a vehicle and open the opening; a winding member to which a first edge of the sheet is fixed and which is capable of winding and unwinding the sheet; turning members disposed on both sides of the opening in the width direction; a single rope member adjustably engaged with a second edge of the sheet in the operating direction, extending from both end portions of the second edge respectively toward the light-blocking side in the operating direction, and turning at both of the turning members respectively toward the opening side in the operating direction, and whose both side terminals are respectively fixed to both end portions of the winding member to be capable of being wound and unwound by the winding member; and an urging member to urge the winding member to rotate.
US08905467B2
A sunroof apparatus includes a supporting bracket configured to support a movable panel, the movable panel opening and closing an opening portion, a guide rail extending in a vehicle front/rear direction, a sliding member connected to the supporting bracket and driven to be movable along the guide rail, a driving member driving the sliding member and causing the movable panel to move upwardly and downwardly and to perform a sliding movement in the vehicle rear direction, a gutter member which extends in the vehicle width direction and is movable along the guide rail and an engaging/disengaging portion provided at the movable panel or at the supporting bracket and being disconnected from the gutter member in a fully-closed state and being connected to the gutter member in a tilt-down state.
US08905458B2
An access port cover is described. The access sport cover may seal an aperture located in a vehicle body whereby the access port cover may also provide access to a terminal located within the body. The access port cover may include a cover, a hinge mechanism and a linkage mechanism. The cover may include an outer portion and an inner portion, wherein the inner portion may include a first and a second end. The hinge mechanism may be located on each end of the inner portion. The linkage mechanism may be connected to the hinge mechanism, wherein the linkage mechanism may the said cover towards and away from the aperture. The cover and the linkage mechanism may be rotated into and stored within the body when the cover is not sealing the aperture in a closed position.
US08905457B2
The sliding device (1), in particular for vehicle sun visor (2), arranged so as to pivot about a rod (3) intended to be connected to a stationary element such as, in particular, the passenger compartment of a vehicle. The sliding device (1) comprises a sliding carriage (4) slidably mounted inside a tubular profile member (6). The sliding carriage (4) and the tubular profile member (6) comprise respectively complementary male and female fitting members with a substantially triangular cross-section that define at least two bearing surfaces of the sliding carriage (4) on the tubular profile member (6) in the direction of the return force of the return member (7). The bearing surfaces are symmetrical and inclined by an angle (α) with respect to the longitudinal plane of symmetry (P) of the sliding device (1).
US08905449B2
A carabiner includes a carabiner body, and a gate assembly coupled to the carabiner body. The carabiner includes a sleeve bracket, which includes first and second sleeve bracket bodies coupled to the gate assembly, and a stationary bracket, which includes first and second stationary bracket bodies coupled to a distal portion of the carabiner body. An elongate member extends through the sleeve bracket and stationary bracket, wherein the gate assembly is moveable between open and closed conditions in response to apply a force to the elongate member.
US08905448B2
A size-adjustable, pivotable triple-connection device is disclosed. The device has a first element with an upper hole and a lower hole and a second element with an upper hole and a lower hole. The second element is pivotable in relation to an axis of alignment of upper holes of the first and second elements, and aligning, when not connected by its lower hole, in relation to a vertical axis of the first element. The device also has a shackle with a pin that traverses the axis defined by the alignment of the upper holes of the first and second elements.
US08905441B2
A drain hub can include a housing, a base, and a damming device. The housing has a cavity that traverses its length and can include a top housing portion, a middle housing portion having at least one wall and a number of drainage apertures that traverse the wall, and a bottom housing portion. The base is rotatably disposed within the housing cavity and has a base cavity traversing its length. The base can include a top base portion having a number of slotted features disposed along a top surface. The base can also include a bottom base portion that extends beyond an aperture in the bottom housing portion. The damming device can be disposed within the housing cavity adjacent to the top base portion and the top housing portion, where the damming device has an elastomeric material and at least one aperture through which at least one conductor traverses.
US08905437B2
A cross member extends in a vehicle width direction and has opening portions at end portions in the vehicle width direction. The cross member includes a cross member main body, a closing plate, and a cylindrical spacer. The end portion of the cross member main body in the vehicle width direction includes a recessed portion on a side of the cross member main body opposite to a side on which the cross member main body is opened, the recessed portion being recessed toward the inner surface side.
US08905431B1
A vehicle seat includes a seatback having a support structure with a rigid frame member that extends within a side of the support structure. A side airbag assembly includes an airbag coupled with the frame member. First and second trim pieces engaged along a seam to conceal the airbag. A flange protrudes along an edge of the first trim piece and a cavity extends along the second trim piece to matably engage the flange. A retention slot is disposed on a wall of the cavity and an attachment element protrudes adjacent to the flange to frictionally engaging the retention slot. The attachment element is configured to disengage from the retention slot upon deployment of the airbag forward through the seam.
US08905430B2
The present invention provides a cover body for airbag device that is capable of easily mounting an emblem that is provided with an emblem body having a narrow portion while ensuring its related mounting strength. A lock pin is protruded at a main body portion with a relatively large width of the emblem body. A hook pin is protruded at a narrow portion with a relatively small width of the emblem body. The lock pin is inserted into a first door portion and then is inserted into a thorough hole of a back plate on a rear face side. The hook pin is inserted into the first door portion, and is hooked therewith.
US08905417B2
A stabilizer link and a production method therefor are provided in which a jig for attaching a forming die to a subassembly has a simple structure and which can effectively prevent leakage of a resin to the outside. In insert molding, a ring member is used. An outer peripheral side surface of a ball seat of a subassembly is abutted to an inner peripheral surface of a hole of the ring member. An outer peripheral side radial direction surface of a fixing portion of a dust cover is pressed toward the flange portion of the ball seat by a surface of the ring member, and the fixing portion is held by the surface and the flange portion. An end portion of a die body is abutted to another surface of the ring member.
US08905414B2
A stabilizer arrangement for a chassis of a motor vehicle, having at least one actuator which compensates for vehicle movements entirely or partially in the region of a wheel suspension which is connected to the stabilizer arrangement, wherein the actuator can be actuated via flexible lines. The actuator is connected to a central control unit via flexible lines to be routed from the central control unit, via openings which are arranged in a stabilizer bearing, to the actuator which interacts with a stabilizer, wherein the flexible lines are arranged around the stabilizer in a helical manner, and operation of the actuator causes a change in the diameter of the helix or the helix shape of the flexible lines which are laid in a helical manner.
US08905395B2
A sheet processing apparatus performs predetermined processing on a sheet or a sheet bundle. The sheet processing apparatus includes: a conveying unit that conveys a sheet along a conveying path; an aligning unit that, each time a sheet is conveyed by the conveying unit, aligns the sheet; a stacking unit that reverses a conveying direction of a sheet to convey the sheet backward to a branch path branched from the conveying path, and stacks the sheet in the branch path; and a binding unit that binds a sheet bundle aligned by the aligning unit, in the conveying path.
US08905386B2
A spring system that includes at least an inner spring and an outer spring disposed around the inner spring. The inner spring exhibits a stiffness (k1) and the outer spring exhibits a stiffness (k2) in an uncompressed state. The inner spring exhibits a stiffness (k3) and the outer spring exhibits the stiffness (k2) in an intermediate compressed state, and the inner spring exhibits the stiffness (k3) and the outer spring exhibits a stiffness (k4) in a fully compressed state. In this manner, the spring system of the present disclosure may provide a vehicle with variable rates of compression that assist in providing a smooth ride at lower loads or jounce levels.
US08905385B2
The device is of the frustum dispersion type having a housing forming a conical cavity, sealed at its large end, tapering to a discharge orifice at the other end. There is a fluid inlet, which tangential to the cavity near the sealed end. There is a hollow, tapered helix cut cone shape in the center of the cavity, affixed to the sealed end, with the point thereof axially aligned with the discharge orifice to help enable the continuous swirling motion of the contained fluid and to act as a gas inlet port to start the formation of a gas vortex. As fluid in the cavity approaches the discharge orifice, it is accelerated because of the reduction of area inside the cavity as it tapers. The change in specific gravities between the fluid and the gas causes a swirling centrifugal force on the liquid and a centripetal inner swirling of the gas. The result is at the point of discharge, the fluid is heavily loaded with small bubbles of gas.
US08905381B2
A hoisting assembly for lifting or lowering a heavy object includes an upper fixed block, an upper movable block being suspended from the upper fixed block by at least one first rope which is reeved into one or more first rope lengths between the upper fixed block and the upper movable block, a lower movable block being connected to the upper movable block by at least one second rope which is reeved into one or more second rope lengths between the upper fixed block and the upper movable block. The first and second ropes are reeved in such a way that in use the upper movable block can be positioned at a distance greater than zero from the upper fixed block and at a distance greater than zero from the lower movable block by controlling the lengths of the first and second ropes.
US08905380B2
A control system is provided for one or more chain drives. The control system includes a automation control system or control device in communication with a control board installed on one or more chain drives. The control board can include a microprocessor and a memory device. The memory device stores one or more computer programs or algorithms executable by the microprocessor to generate a plurality of commands to control the operation of a component, e.g., a motor, of the chain drive in response to receiving an operational command from the automation control system or control device.
US08905378B2
A hydraulic tensioning device (1) for a flexible drive element, particularly for a chain or a belt, is provided, and includes a housing (2) that has a cylindrical inner surface (3) at least in some regions, a piston (4) is arranged in the housing (2) in an axially displaceable manner, and an inner chamber (5) is formed by the housing (2) and the piston (4) for receiving hydraulic fluid. At least one vent hole (6) is integrated in the housing (2) and/or in the piston (4) is in contact with the surroundings (U). In order to provide a reliably ventilated system that has a simple design and that can be implemented in a cost-effective manner, a sealing element (7) is arranged in a region of the vent hole (6), and the sealing element is permeable to gas but not to hydraulic fluid.
US08905374B2
The invention provides a double disc gate valve where the discs are movable in a casing by a disc manipulation structure which can change an orientation of at least one of the valve discs relative to the center plane away from an initial orientation by movement of an outer disc carrier relative to an inner disc carrier. The relative movement between the disc carriers is initiated automatically during opening and closing of the valve. The change in orientation facilitates sealing between the discs and valve seats by a gradually established contact between the discs and the seats and the required opening and closing force may therefore be reduced.
US08905369B2
The invention relates to a vibration isolation module (101) for a lithographic apparatus or an inspection apparatus. The module comprises a support frame (102), an intermediate body (103) and a support body (104) for accommodating the lithographic apparatus. The intermediate body is connected to the support frame by means of at least one spring element such that the intermediate body is a hanging body. The support body is connected to the intermediate body by means of at least one pendulum rod (108) such that the support body is a hanging body. The invention further relates to a substrate processing system comprising such vibration isolation module.
US08905366B2
A back frame module includes a base plate, two locking plate members, a cable organizing plate, and a stowage plate. The base plate is adapted to be provided on a rear face of a display. The locking plate members, the cable organizing plate, and the stowage plate are selectively connected to the base plate. The locking plate members are adapted for mounting of a computer device therebetween. The cable organizing plate is adapted to stow a cable of the display or of the computer device. The stowage plate is adapted to stow an adapter of the display or other accessories. The locking plate members, the cable organizing plate, and the stowage plate can be selectively substituted by a support plate. The back frame module thus has various states of use to satisfy different user requirements.
US08905352B2
An aircraft nose structure includes a fuselage and a pressuretight bulkhead fixed at its periphery to the fuselage and transversely dividing the fuselage into a pressurized upper zone and an unpressurized lower zone for accommodating retractable nose landing gear. The pressuretight bulkhead includes a floor of the pressurized upper zone, and a substantially flat rear panel extending between a rear edge of the floor and the fuselage. The floor and the rear panel are fixed laterally to the fuselage. The fuselage includes an exterior wall and reinforcing transverse frames to which the exterior wall is fixed. In line with the pressuretight bulkhead, at least some of the transverse reinforcing frames extend along the outline of the pressurized upper zone and constitute members that reinforce the pressuretight bulkhead.
US08905345B2
A fixed spool fishing reel having a spool shaft with a coaxial hollow rotor shaft rotatable thereabout. The reel is further provided with a handle shaft which extends transversely of and is offset relative to the spool shaft. First and second mutually orthogonal gears are coupled for rotation with the handle shaft, the first gear having an axis of rotation which is transverse of and offset from the spool shaft. Likewise for third and fourth gears, with the third gear being on the opposite side of the spool shaft relative to the first gear. The axis of the third gear is closer to the spool than that of the first gear. Likewise the fourth is closer than the second. The rotor shaft can be driven by the handle shaft selectively via the first or the third gear to change the gearing ratio.
US08905333B1
A method and apparatus are disclosed for inducing a supercavitating flow inside a fuel injection nozzle orifice to reduce the penetration length of the fuel spray, maintain high levels of fuel atomization, and improve uniformity of the fuel spray exiting the nozzle such that high-pressure injectors can be used on small engines. This reduction in penetration length is accomplished without any reduction in upstream fuel pressure.
US08905326B2
A high-volume sprinkler head includes a barrel with a nozzle; a fixed portion and a relatively movable portion adapted for pivoting movement relative to the fixed portion. The barrel is mounted on an upper support base rotatable on a lower stationary base in opposite directions through an arc about a vertical axis. A fluid-operated actuator pivots the relatively movable portion of the barrel relative to the fixed portion of the barrel between first and second reaction angles that cause the barrel and the annular upper support base to rotate in opposite directions, about the substantially vertical axis, respectively, when a stream is emitted from the nozzle. A three-way valve in combination with adjustable stops on the stationary base may be used to pilot the actuator, with the adjustable stops determining the arcuate extent of the rotational movement of the sprinkler head.
US08905321B2
An apparatus is provided that quickly elevates and maintain a construction equipment engine coolant to operating temperature in order to lower the dwell time for the operator's cab to reach a comfortable temperature level during a period when the engine is in idle and main crane functions are not operated. The apparatus includes an auxiliary hydraulic circuit for rapidly bringing engine coolant temperature up to operating temperature. Engine coolant operating temperature is achieved by inducing a hydraulic load to the engine. By inducing a hydraulic load, a horsepower load is exerted on the engine causing the engine to generate heat sufficient to raise the engine coolant to operating temperature for heating the cabin. A pressure reducing relieving valve and a pilot operated relief valve result in precise hydraulic horsepower load to the construction equipment engine. Operation of the pilot operated relief valve also warms hydraulic fluid for a hydraulic reservoir.
US08905318B2
A composite type multi-mode electronic seal includes the bolt, the bolt male pedestal and the communication control part, and the advantage of the composite type multi-mode electronic seal containing the passive electronic seal containing the bolt and the bolt male pedestal and the active electronic seal containing bolt, the bolt male pedestal and the communication control part. Thereby, the present invention has the advantages and preferred result of the active and passive electronic seal, and can help the container cars, bonded cars, trucks and the like to perform the goods transmission, and it still perform the data read and data report according to the different RFID identification equipments built by every country's custom so to achieve the purpose of effectively recording the broken elements, instantly reporting and preventing smuggling.
US08905316B2
A wireless IC device includes a dielectric body, a metal pattern that is provided on a surface of the dielectric body and that defines a radiator, and a wireless IC element coupled to feeding portions of the metal pattern. A plurality of slits are provided on at least one surface of the dielectric body so as to provide flexibility for the dielectric body.
US08905314B2
A barcode decoding system and method are disclosed that use a data-driven classifier for transforming a potentially degraded barcode signal into a digit sequence. The disclosed implementations are robust to signal degradation through incorporation of a noise model into the classifier construction phase. The run-time computational cost is low, allowing for efficient implementations on portable devices. Implementations are disclosed for intelligent preview scaling, barcode-aware autofocus augmentation and multi-scale signal feature extraction.
US08905310B2
A contactless device including a transmission antenna configured to transmit a transmission signal; a pickup antenna configured to detect a field generated by a pickup signal, which comprises a response signal transmitted from another contactless device and the transmission signal; and a cancellation circuit configured to subtract a voltage of the transmission antenna from a voltage of the pickup antenna.
US08905308B2
A card medium processing device is controlled by means of the control method including: a first judgment step for judging whether or not a card medium having been inserted is detected by a first detection means for detecting the card medium having been inserted; a second judgment step for judging whether or not the card medium having been inserted is detected by a second detection means for detecting the card medium having been inserted, the second detection means being placed at a position behind the first detection means further away toward a rear side in an inserting direction for the card medium; and a processing step for carrying out a predetermined process, supposing that the first detection means has an error, under a situation where the first judgment step does not detect the card medium having been inserted while the second judgment step detects the card medium having been inserted.
US08905307B2
The present invention relates to target acquisition and related devices, and more particularly to telescopic gunsights and associated equipment used to achieve shooting accuracy at, for example, close ranges, medium ranges and extreme ranges at stationary and moving targets.
US08905302B1
A new credit card system which enables improved reading and other operations. Reading can be done in the short edge of the credit card thereby shortening the aspect ratio and size of the card reader. The reader can be electrical, reading information via contacts, or can be optical readers.
US08905299B1
An automated banking machine controlled responsive to data bearing records includes a card reader that reads identifying data from a user card. A host banking system authorizes operation of an automated banking machine responsive to computer verification of the identifying data. The automated banking machine can dispense cash to an authorized machine user in a cash dispensing transaction, and have the user's bank account charged for the cash amount dispensed. The automated banking machine can acquire image and magnetic data read from deposited checks to determine the genuineness of checks and the authority of a user to receive cash for the checks. Cash can be dispensed from the machine to a user in exchange for a deposited check.
US08905285B2
An electric stapler is provided with: a driver unit including a driver for striking out a staple to be penetrated through sheets of paper; and a clincher unit including a clincher for bending leg portions of the staple penetrated through the sheets of paper. The driver unit is provided with: a staple storage portion for storing therein a large number of connected staples; a head portion for striking out the staple; a drive portion configured to drive said driver provided slidably in the head portion; and a head raise/lower mechanism configured to relatively move the head portion with respect to the staple storage portion toward the clincher unit to thereby clamp the sheets of paper.
US08905276B2
Vehicle trunk mounting systems and methods are disclosed. A mounting system comprises a frame adapted to be secured within the trunk and a platform adapted to support a device thereon. The frame comprises a hinge portion and a guide portion. The platform is movably secured within the frame. The frame is rotatable around the hinge portion between a first position in which the platform is substantially horizontal and a second position in which the platform is substantially upright. The platform is slidable within the guide portion when the frame is in the first position. A mounting method comprises mounting the device on the platform, slidably repositioning the platform within the frame, and rotating the frame between the first position and the second position.
US08905269B2
A device is disclosed for dispensing pourable materials packaged in a pail or bulk container. The device comprising: a) a container holder comprising an angled shelf, a spring loaded locking clasp, a pair of support bands and a catch plate to support and hold the pail or bulk container in position when the device is in either the loading or dispensing position, b) locking catches to maintain the dispenser in an upright position allowing the pail or bulk container to be loaded into the dispenser; c) a base plate, on which the dispenser pivots and which is shaped so as to hold the dispenser in a rigid position on a mounting surface, such as a counter top or other flat surface, wherein the base plate comprises a locking device that tightens onto the surface to hold the dispenser in position, alternatively the base plate may be fitted with non-slip feet that prevent the device from moving during use, d) means to release the locking catches, e) means to pivot the dispenser forward so that the bulk container is in a horizontal position for dispensing the product.
US08905262B2
A combined container holder opener and cap, having an end portion with at least a pair of locking tabs. Holding the holder container in a first position the end portion serves as a base for holding a beverage container in drinking mode, and holding the holder container in a second, inverted position the end portion is a cap for holding the beverage container in capped mode.
US08905258B2
A flexible cover (1) for a food container (4) comprising a flexible film (2) and an elastic thread (3) is presented. The elastic thread (3) is attached to the peripheral edge (8) of the flexible film (2) by a channel (5) formed of the flexible film (2) around the elastic thread (3). The channel (5) exerts a circumferential, compressive force on the elastic thread (3), whereby the elastic thread (3) is fixed to the flexible film (2) by friction between the flexible film (2) and the elastic thread (3), and the elastic thread (3) forms a loop around the peripheral edge (8) of the flexible film (2), the loop having two ends (6, 7) overlapping and abutting in a longitudinal direction of the elastic thread (3). A method for manufacturing a flexible cover (1) is also presented.
US08905255B2
A container for a flexible bag of liquid that supports the bag during transportation, storage and use in dispensing of the liquid. The container is made from two generally similar pans that form lower and upper parts of the container. Each pan includes a plurality of generally similar multiple projections that function to support the container on a surface as well as in a stable stacked formation.
US08905252B2
Drink containers include a liquid container and a cap assembly removably coupled to the liquid container. Cap assemblies include a base, a drink spout extending from the base, a closure configured to be removably coupled relative to the drink spout in a closed position to selectively restrict dispensing of drink liquid through the drink spout and to selectively permit dispensing of drink liquid through the drink spout when removed from the drink spout. Cap assemblies further may include a handle extending from the base and configured to selectively retain the closure in a stowed position when the closure is selectively removed from the drink spout. In some embodiments, the handle defines a closed perimeter and the closure is received within the closed perimeter when positioned in the stowed position. Some embodiments further include a tether that couples the closure to the cap assembly or to the liquid container.
US08905240B2
A package for nail polish appliqués includes a carton having a front wall defining an aperture therein, and an insert sized and shaped to fit inside the carton. The insert has a front wall and a window that projects outwardly from its front wall and through the aperture of the carton when the insert is inserted into the carton. The insert contains a packet of nail polish appliqués, and an object that displays a design corresponding to the design of the nail polish appliqués, wherein the object is displayed through the window. A method for assembling the package is also disclosed.
US08905236B2
Disclosed is a pouch having at least one sealed compartment containing a first composition. At least one wall of the at least one sealed compartment is made from a water-soluble film having any suitable thickness. The water-soluble film comprises PVOH polymer such that when the film has a thickness of about 76 microns the film is characterized by a Dissolution Index of about 620 to about 920, or of about 665 to about 920, or about 710 to about 920; and a Stress Index of about 145 to about 626, or about 155 to about 480, or about 165 to about 325.
