US09014390B2
A communication system for communicating with at least one loudspeaker is described where the loudspeaker is connected to audio equipment over standard two-wire speaker wire operable to carry an audio signal. The communication system includes a master node in electrical communication with a signal path carrying the audio signal between the audio equipment and the loudspeaker, the master node also including an interface with the audio equipment, a data encoder operable to encode data signals, a data transceiver operable to place the data signals onto the audio signal at frequencies above audio frequencies. The communication system also includes at least one slave node in electrical communication with the audio signal and each loudspeaker, the slave node including a data transceiver operable to receive data signals from the master node, a data decoder, and an interface able to communicate with the loudspeaker.
US09014386B2
A system is provided for enhancing a sound signal produced by an audio system in a listening environment by compensating for ambient noise in the listening environment. The system receives an electrical sound signal and generates a sound output therefrom. A total sound signal is sensed representative of the total sound level in the environment, where the total sound level includes the sound output and the ambient noise. The system extracts an ambient noise signal representative of the ambient noise from the total sound signal, using an adaptive filter with an adaptive step size, in response to the total sound signal and to a reference signal derived from the electrical sound signal. The system generates a control signal in response to the ambient noise signal and adjusts the sound output of the audio system to compensate for the ambient noise level in response to the control signal.
US09014381B2
Techniques for sensing the resistance of a load. In an aspect, a sense resistor is provided in series with the load. Each terminal of the sense resistor is alternately coupled via switches to a sense amplifier. A second input of the sense resistor is coupled to a terminal of the load. The voltage drop across the load and the voltage drop across the load plus sense resistor are alternatively measured. These voltage drops may be digitized and used to compute a resistance of the load using, e.g., a digital processor.
US09014378B2
This invention relates to the field of multichannel audio. More particularly, the invention relates to a method for the provision of audio channels suitable for application to loudspeakers located above conventional front loudspeakers.
US09014375B2
A method and apparatus for brokering the enablement of the communication of encrypted media programs from a plurality of independent broadcasters to a plurality of receivers is disclosed. The system makes use of a pairing key for each provided service, which is differently encrypted by a pairing server and by the broadcaster providing the service. The encrypted versions of the pairing key are decrypted in a first receiver module using information known to the pairing service but not the broadcaster and in a second receiver module using information known to the broadcaster. The pairing key is used to cryptographically bind the first and second receiver modules.
US09014373B2
Approaches for combining different information to be transmitted into different slices of a data packet and/or encrypting the slices using different cryptographic schemes for secure transmission of the information are disclosed. In some implementations, first information and second information may be received. A first data slice representing a portion of the first information may be generated based on a first cryptographic scheme. A second data slice representing a portion of the second information may be generated based on a second cryptographic scheme different than the first cryptographic scheme. A first header may be generated such that the first header may specify the first cryptographic scheme for the first data slice and the second cryptographic scheme for the second data slice. A first data packet may be generated such that the first data packet may include the first header, the first data slice, and the second data slice.
US09014372B2
This discloses a video file encryption and decryption method, device, and mobile terminal. The encryption method can include: obtaining a to-be-encrypted video file and an encryption key, encrypting the video file using the encryption key to obtain an encrypted video file, obtaining scanned non-hidden partitions of a mobile terminal and an extended memory of the mobile terminal for storing user data, determining a partition storing the to-be-encrypted video file among the non-hidden partitions, and moving the encrypted video file to a folder in the partition storing the to-be-encrypted video file. The decryption method can include: obtaining a to-be-decrypted video file and a decryption key, decrypting the to-be-decrypted video file using the decryption key to obtain a decrypted video file, and determining a pre-encryption storage location of the to-be-decrypted video file and moving the decrypted video file to the pre-encryption storage location of the to-be-decrypted video file.
US09014371B2
Provided are a security device and a method for operating same. The security device may conceal an encryption key used for an encryption algorithm in an encryption module in correspondence to security attacks such as reading information on where the encryption key is stored in a memory by disassembling an IC chip, or extracting said information through microprobing. The encryption key may be included as a physical encryption key module in an encryption module, and a certain storage medium for storing the encryption key may be included in the encryption module. Accordingly, the encryption key is not transmitted via a bus in a security device for encryption.
US09014369B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for securing VoIP communication. A VoIP device sends a multiple pipe scrambling request, wherein the multiple pipe scrambling request includes (1) a numeric value indicating the number pipes, (2) an IP address for each pipe, and (3) a port number for each pipe. The VoIP device receives confirmation that the scrambling request was received and sends data packets randomly to one or more available pipes on a receiving VoIP device.
US09014367B2
A subscriber line interface circuit (SLIC) is herein described. In accordance with one aspect of the present proffered solution, the SLIC includes a first interface circuit operably coupled to a first subscriber loop and a second interface circuit operably coupled to a second subscriber loop. The SLIC further includes a power supply circuit that is coupled to the first and second interface circuits to provide first and second output voltages to the respective interface circuits. The power supply circuit includes a switching power converter that is operably supplied with an input voltage and is configured to provide an intermediate voltage signal at an intermediate circuit node. At least a first and a second output branch are connected to the intermediate circuit node. Each output branch includes an output capacitor that is coupled to the intermediate circuit node and that provides an output voltage signal that depends on the intermediate voltage signal. The switching power converter is configured to repeatedly set the signal level of the intermediate voltage signal to a high voltage level for a first time interval and to a low voltage level when the first time interval has elapsed.
US09014361B2
A system and associated methods for automation and management of trunk routing among switches in a telecommunications network between carriers connected to a third party tandem services provider or manager (a “neutral tandem network.”) The system and methodology can be used to, among other things, effectuate a business model for providing preferred rates, or other preferences, to a defined group of members or subscribers by managing and directing subscriber-associated call traffic from subscriber-owned switches to one or more tandem switches owned by a third-party tandem managing entity other than a LEC or ILEC.
US09014355B2
Disclosed is an improved revenue call management system for use with a telecommunication system. The revenue management system preferably includes a remote server, a user database, and a plurality of databases. When a call is placed, the revenue management system queries the user database based on the telephone number dialed to bill the appropriate account. If no account exists for the dialed telephone number, the revenue system queries a multitude of internal and external databases to determine if the dialed telephone number is billable. If the telephone number is un-billable, the collect call attempt is terminated. The revenue management system is capable of establishing accounts in real time while the caller and called party are on the line.
US09014354B2
The present disclosure is directed to updating routing patterns in an enterprise network. In some implementations, a method for routing sessions includes identifying information associated with call sessions in an enterprise network. The information includes costs to an enterprise for using carrier services during the call sessions. Routing patterns for call sessions are dynamically updated through at least a portion of the enterprise network based, at least in part, on the costs associated with the call sessions.
US09014349B2
In an instant messaging system, message latency is reduced by initiating traffic channel set-up at a receiving device concurrently while a sending device is generating the instant message. When a user begins generating an instant message, the sending device transmits a service request to a payload and connection server to indicate that an instant message is pending. Upon receipt of the service request, the payload and connection server notifies the receiving device so that the receiving device can initiate traffic channel set-up concurrently while the instant message is being recorded. When the traffic channel is established, the receiving device polls the server. If the instant message is not yet received by the payload and connection server when the polling request is received, the payload and connection server waits a predetermined period of time to receive the pending instant message and forwards the instant message when it is received.
US09014339B2
Apparatus for interrupting and/or scanning a beam of penetrating radiation, such as for purposes of inspecting contents of a container. A source, such as an x-ray tube, generates a fan beam of radiation effectively emanating from a source axis, with the width of the fan beam collimated by a width collimator, such as a clamshell collimator. An angular collimator, stationary during the course of scanning, limits the extent of the scan, and a multi-aperture unit, such as a hoop, or a nested pair of hoops, is rotated about a central axis, and structured in such a manner that beam flux incident on a target is conserved for different fields of view of the beam on the target. The central axis of hoop rotation need not coincide with the source axis.
US09014336B2
A power supply unit for an X-ray radiation source (10) comprises a high voltage generator (4) for providing a basic current for the operation of an X-ray tube (10), a waveform generator (6) and a pulse transformer (2) for providing superposable voltage peaks and a control unit (8) for generating a counterbalance at an input (12) of the pulse transformer (2) to prevent saturation effects. Providing different reference waveform patterns lead to the prevention of overshooting and ringing.
US09014331B2
A radiation tunnel of an X-ray test device is shielded in by means of a radiation protection curtain in order that no impermissible radiation emerges. The radiation protection curtain is constructed from plates which are connected to one another in a manner of a downwardly suspended flat-top chain and are produced from a plastics composite that absorbs X-rays.
US09014328B2
The present invention pertains to an apparatus and method for X-ray imaging a human patient. A vacuum bell bonded to an X-ray radiation-permeable window that can emit X-ray radiation from a plurality of spots located 1 cm from its edge, a collimator, and a detector are used. A ring of stationary X-ray sources can also be used with a stationary collimator and a rotating slot collimator and detector. An X-ray beam can be aligned in an X-ray system by establishing a position of the beam with respect to a moving collimator at a number of points in time, monitoring the velocity of the collimator, navigating the beam to a calculated position of a hole in the collimator, and correcting the alignment of the beam based on the location of the beam on the detector.
US09014325B2
A nuclear fuel assembly tie plate is provided. The nuclear fuel assembly tie plate is formed by intersecting strips delimiting between them tubular guide cells each for allowing a fuel rod to extend through the tie plate. The strips delimit between them tubular flow cells separate from the guide cells, each flow cell for allowing coolant flow through the tie plate. Guide cells and flow cells are arranged at nodes of a lattice defined by a repeating pattern comprising four corner nodes in a square lattice arrangement and a central node at the center of the four corner nodes, with one guide cell at each corner nodes, separated by a pair of parallel spaced strips intersecting a pair of parallel spaced strips, the two pairs of strips delimiting a four-walled central flow cell at the center node.
US09014324B2
Disclosed is a coolant with dispersed neutron poison micro-particles, used in a supercritical water-cooled reactor (SCWR) emergency core cooling system. Since the neutron poison micro-particles are uniformly dispersed in the coolant of the emergency core cooling system for a long period time, their fluidity is not lowered even though the polarity of water is changed in a supercritical state. Therefore, the neutron poison micro-particles absorb neutrons produced from nuclear fission in a nuclear reactor core. Accordingly, the neutron poison micro-particles can be appropriately used as a means for controlling neutrons and stopping a nuclear reactor in the SCWR emergency core cooling system.
US09014322B2
In an example embodiment, a phase-locked loop circuit may include a first circuitry to receive a reference signal and a source signal. The first circuitry may generate a correction signal for demonstrating a difference in phase between the reference signal and the source signal. The phase-locked loop may include a second circuitry to receive the correction signal. The second circuitry may generate a digital signal for demonstrating a phase-to-digital conversion of the correction signal. The phase-locked loop may include a third circuitry to receive the digital signal. The third circuitry may generate a control signal for demonstrating a converted voltage of the digital signal. The phase-locked loop may include a fourth circuitry to receive the control signal. The fourth circuitry may generate the source signal in response to the control signal.
US09014318B2
Embodiments of the invention comprise a continuous-time equalizer for reducing ISI in data received from a communication channel, and methods and circuitry for tuning or calibrating that equalizer. Selected coefficients for a transfer function of the equalizer circuit are fixed, while other coefficients are tuned by an adaptive algorithm. The adaptive algorithm minimizes errors associated with the tunable coefficients based on one or more training signals sent by the transmitter and received by the equalizer circuit at the receiver. The training signals allow for a variety of error terms to be calculated, from which the tunable coefficients are updated so as to iteratively minimize the error terms and simultaneously tune the equalizer to more accurately compensate for the degrading effects of the channel.
US09014317B2
A method for frequency performing offset estimation and channel estimation includes performing frequency offset estimation on the received data, and obtaining a frequency offset estimation result when interference signals in received data are not obtained, After the interference signals in the received data are obtained, the method includes performing frequency offset estimation on the received data according to the interference signals, and obtaining a frequency offset estimation result. Channel estimation is performed on the received data according to the frequency offset estimation result, and a channel estimation result is obtained. Interference signals are obtained according to the frequency offset estimation result and the channel estimation result, where the interference signals are used as parameters of the frequency offset estimation.
US09014310B2
An ultra-low power super-regenerative receiver and method thereof are provided. The ultra-low power super-regenerative receiver includes a quench waveform generator configured to generate a quench waveform. The ultra-low power super-regenerative receiver further includes a super-regenerative oscillator configured to generate an oscillation signal based on the quench waveform. The ultra-low power super-regenerative receiver further includes a bandwidth adjustor configured to control the quench waveform based on a bandwidth of a signal received by the ultra-low power super-regenerative receiver, to dynamically adjust a bandwidth of the oscillation signal.
US09014307B2
A multichannel radio receiver may include a radio frequency (RF) subsystem and a digital subsystem. The RF subsystem may be configured to provide analog information associated with a radio band to an analog to digital converter (ADC). The ADC samples the analog input and sends digital output to the digital subsystem. The digital subsystem may be configured with one or more channelizers and one or more decoders. A channelizer within the digital subsystem may filter and re-sample the digital output to result in a channel plan having a desired bandwidth and a desired sample rate. The sample rate may be selected for compatibility with a decoder. The decoder may have design specifications based in part on a modulation scheme to be decoded. The design specifications may indicate the desired sample rate to be provided by the channelizer.
US09014302B2
A method for mapping signals to subcarriers in a sending means of a MIMO-based wireless telecommunication network and an apparatus for the same. It is characterized in that, controlling the mapping of the signals in an input signal sequence to the subcarriers, so that the signals sent by different antennas at the same time correspond to nonadjacent signals in the input signal sequence. With the aid of the present invention, burst error due to deep fading channel can be effectively avoided, and diversity gains can be also improved.
US09014297B2
The data and/or command signal transmission device includes a first signal generator connected to a first antenna arrangement, a second signal generator connected to a second antenna arrangement, a third signal generator connected to a third antenna arrangement, and a synchronization circuit. The synchronization circuit performs data amplitude modulation by combining the signals transmitted by the antenna arrangements. The signals transmitted by the first and third antenna arrangements are in-phase in a first stable modulation state and 180° out of phase in a second stable modulation state. In a modulation state transition phase, the first and third signals delivered by the first and third generators are at a different frequency from the carrier frequency of the signals delivered by the second generator. The resonance frequency of the first and third antenna arrangements is also adapted in the transition phase.
US09014294B2
A communication system includes a first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus. The first communication apparatus generates and transmits communication data in accordance with a predetermined protocol. The second communication apparatus includes a power circuit section having a switching regulator, and is configured to receive the communication data transmitted from the first communication apparatus. The predetermined protocol includes a protocol defining that at least one portion of a bit sequence constituting the communication data should be associated with an operation of the switching regulator. The second communication apparatus causes the switching regulator to operate in a time period in which the at least one portion of the communication data is received, in a state where the communication data is received.
US09014293B2
Systems and methods for transpositional modulation and demodulation are provided. One such method for generating a signal includes the steps of providing a look-up table having a plurality of quarter-cycle waveforms, each of said quarter-cycle waveforms associated with a respective input level; receiving an input signal; and outputting quarter-cycle waveforms associated with levels of the received input signal. Systems for transpositional modulation are also provided. One such system for generating a signal includes a look-up table having a plurality of quarter-cycle waveforms. Each of the quarter-cycle waveforms are associated with a respective input level, and the look-up table is configured to receive an input signal, and output quarter-cycle waveforms associated with levels of the received input signal.
US09014282B2
An accurate non-Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (non-DOCSIS) clock signal is generated at the downstream output of a DOCSIS network. In one example method, a downstream DOCSIS Timing Protocol (DTP) client in the DOCSIS network is frequency synchronized to an upstream DTP server in the DOCSIS network. DOCSIS timing information, along with one or more timing correction factors received at the DTP client, is used to time synchronize the DTP client to the DTP server. Based on the time and frequency synchronization between the DTP server and the DTP client, the clock signal is generated at the output of the DTP client in accordance with the non-DOCSIS timing protocol.
US09014280B2
This disclosure is directed to video coding techniques that support normal single layer video coding, or scalable video coding with features such as signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) scalability and spatial scalability. A video coding device may implement these techniques in a video decoder that includes a motion compensation module and a filter. The motion compensation module decodes a prediction frame from a digital video signal, wherein the motion compensation module determines each block of the inter-coded frame from motion vectors encoded in the digital video signal. The filter adaptively filters one or more of the inter-coded blocks based on a signal either encoded or inferred from the digital video signal. In some instances, the video decoder may adaptively apply different filter functions, one in the horizontal and another in the vertical direction, based on the signal. By implementing these techniques, the video decoder may increase the visual quality of the resulting decoded digital video signal while reducing complexity.
US09014276B2
A 3-dimensional (3D) video transmitter may be operable to encode a 3D video to generate a scalable video coding (SVC) base layer and a SVC enhancement layer. A first view such as a first high-resolution view and a second view such as a second high-resolution view of the 3D video in the SVC enhancement layer may be separate frames. A first half-resolution view and a second half-resolution view of the 3D video in the SVC base layer may be packed in a single frame. The first half-resolution view in the SVC base layer may be a base-layer reference for the first high-resolution view in the SVC enhancement layer for inter-layer prediction of spatial scalable coding. The first high-resolution view in the SVC enhancement layer may be an intra-layer reference for the second high-resolution view in the SVC enhancement layer for intra-layer prediction of temporal scalable coding.
US09014275B2
A method and an apparatus for performing multi-threaded video decoding are disclosed. The method takes use of a multi-threaded scheme to process an encoded picture stream on a picture by picture basis. In the method, multiple threads are used for performing video decoding at the same time, such as one thread for the operation of parsing input bits into syntax elements of one picture implemented by the first thread, another thread for the operation of decoding the parsed syntax elements of another picture into pixel values implemented by the second thread, and the other threads for the operations of the non-reference picture, such as bidirectional predictive picture, including parsing input bits into syntax elements and the subsequent operation of decoding the parsed syntax elements into pixel values. Therefore, the decoding speed is substantially increased, and the decoding efficiency is enhanced.
US09014272B2
A method and apparatus for generating an interpolated frame are provided. The method includes: generating a motion vector for generating a third frame by performing motion estimation based on first image data and second image data, the first image data being a portion of image data of a first frame and the second image data being a portion of image data of a second frame; restoring the image data of the first frame based on the first image data and the image data of the second frame based on the second image data; and generating the third frame by performing motion compensation based on at least one of the restored image data of the first frame and the restored image data of the second frame and the generated motion vector.
US09014271B2
Described herein are a method and apparatus for determining a region-based weighted prediction with improved global brightness detection. The method includes applying a global brightness change detection methods by computing the weighted prediction parameters, determining if the brightness change is different amount of change for the different regions, if the change is not different, calculate motion estimation and setting reference index to 1 and setting reference index is set to zero when there is change, determining the best motion vector, motion vector cost and the best reference input, and determining a region-based weighted prediction with improved global brightness detection based on the motion vector data.
US09014259B2
An apparatus and method sequentially parses bitstreams based on a removal of an Emulation Prevention Byte (EPB). The apparatus and method may detect an EPB pattern from among sequentially input bitstreams, may store the bitstreams, may store a processed bitstream where the EPB pattern is removed, among the bitstreams, and may select an output of a register buffer based on an input of a buffer selection flag.
US09014248B2
Systems and methods are provided for common mode testing for a system using an Ethernet subsystem. The Ethernet subsystem generates test signals that can be introduced at various points in the system to detect the effect of noise introduced by various elements of the system. By introducing test signals at various points in a system, common mode noise introduced into the system can be more accurately determined.
US09014238B2
A method and apparatus of synchronizing pulsed wireless communication between a first transceiver and a second transceiver. It includes the steps of transmitting a pulse signal from a first transceiver to a second transceiver; transmitting a reflection signal from the second transceiver to the first transceiver if the transmitted pulse signal is received at the second transceiver within an active reception period of the second transceiver; and detecting the reflection pulse to determine synchronization between the first transceiver and the second transceiver. Embodiments of the invention also relate to an apparatus for carrying out the method. In one embodiment, the reflection signal is generated by a super-regenerative oscillator.
US09014236B2
A method for performing joint detection includes adjusting a ranking order of codes in a matched filtering result, and a ranking order of column vectors in a system submatrix according to the power. The joint detection is performed using an adjusted matched filtering result and an adjusted system submatrix, and acquires demodulated signals corresponding to the codes. The codes that have high power will be demodulated first. This ensures accuracy of demodulation, inhibits erroneous propagation effect, and improves accuracy of the joint detection.
US09014231B2
A vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) nanoscope is provided. The VCSEL nanoscope combines a VCSEL with a nano-scale aperture using a support member to separate the aperture from the VCSEL emission face. The resulting device is a useful near-field probe with a wide variety of applications.
US09014227B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor laser device by forming a semiconductor structure at least part of which is in the form of a mesa structure having a flat top. The steps include depositing a passivation layer over the mesa structure, forming a contact opening in the passivation layer on the flat top of the mesa structure; and depositing a metal contact portion, with the deposited metal contact portion contacting the semiconductor structure via the contact opening. The contact opening formed through the passivation layer has a smaller area than the flat top of the mesa structure to allow for wider tolerances in alignment accuracy. The metal contact portion comprises a platinum layer between one or more gold layers to provide an effective barrier against Au diffusion into the semiconductor material.
US09014226B2
A crystal laser including a doped crystal, and a system for cooling the crystal. This cooling system includes: a support including a first and a second surfaces; a device for fastening the crystal to the first surface of the support to form a tight cavity between a first surface of the crystal and the first surface of the support; a circuit for supplying the tight cavity with a liquefied gas; and a device for cooling the second surface of the support.
US09014222B2
A discretely tunable laser device is provided. The discretely tunable laser device comprises: a laser comprising a plurality of discrete output modes; an optical filter for receiving output from the laser but otherwise optically isolated from the laser, the optical filter comprising a plurality of transmission peaks, each separated by a transmission spacing different from a spacing of the plurality of discrete output modes such that only one discrete output mode can predominantly align with one transmission peak when the plurality of discrete output modes are tuned; and, a control apparatus for tuning the discrete output modes of the laser to align a given output mode of the plurality of discrete output modes with a given transmission peak of the plurality of transmission peaks, such that the given output mode comprises a dominant output of the optical filter.
US09014221B2
Laser devices are presented in which a graphene saturable absorber and an optical amplifier are disposed in a resonant optical cavity with an optical or electrical pump providing energy to the optical amplifier.
US09014216B2
Methods for decoding a signal encoded by a Time Encoding Machine (TEM) include defining a plurality of time-windows, each time-window corresponding to a portion of a TEM-encoded signal and made up of a plurality of trigger values, at least two of the time-windows overlapping, decoding each of the time-windows using a Time Decoding Machine (TDM) to generate a decoded time-window, and stitching the decoded time-windows together to generate a TEM-decoded signal.
US09014211B2
An embodiment may include circuitry that may facilitate, at least in part, assignment, at least in part, of at least one bandwidth reservation for at least one packet stream and/or at least one stream reservation class. The at least one bandwidth reservation may be greater than an expected communication bandwidth of the at least one packet stream. The assignment of the at least one bandwidth reservation may be made prior to commencement of communication of the at least one packet stream. The at least one bandwidth reservation may be assigned exclusively to the at least one packet stream and/or the at least one stream reservation class. Many modifications, variations, and alternatives are possible without departing from this embodiment.
US09014207B2
A system including a physical layer module and a control module. The physical layer module is configured to generate a first clear channel assessment for a first sub-channel of a communication channel and generate a second clear channel assessment for a second sub-channel of the communication channel. The first clear channel assessment indicates whether the first sub-channel is free or busy. The second clear channel assessment indicates whether the second sub-channel is free or busy. The control module is configured to, in response to the second sub-channel being busy, extend a duration of the second clear channel assessment by a predetermined period of time, and transmit data via (i) only the first sub-channel or (ii) both the first sub-channel and the second sub-channel based on (a) the first clear channel assessment, (b) the second clear channel assessment, and (c) the extended duration of the first clear channel assessment.
US09014203B2
A technique is disclosed to schedule frame transmissions in a wireless local area network. The network includes a plurality of stations configured to communicate on the same frequency channel with a plurality of access points. A central controller examines the transmission characteristics between the various stations and access points and identifies frames that may be simultaneously transmitted by a subset of the access points to their intended stations.
US09014193B2
A device that includes a plurality of transceivers configurable to simultaneously operate with a combination of bonded and unbonded transceivers. A first transceiver of the plurality of transceivers is operable at a first data rate, and a second transceiver of the plurality of transceivers is simultaneously operable at a second data rate that is different than the first data rate. The first and second transceivers are operable as bonded transceivers and wherein a third transceiver, of the plurality of transceivers, is simultaneously operable at a third data rate and the third transceiver is not bonded with any other transceiver.
US09014184B2
Under the environment that IP addresses of virtual machines overlap, it makes it possible to carry out a communication between the virtual machines and for a network manager to grasp in a communication flow condition in real time. Specifically, the physical server assigns a virtual machine ID to the virtual server under the management, and assigns a reception-side virtual machine ID and a transmission-side virtual machine ID to a bit space of a transmission packet in the form of TCP/IP packet, when a communicating between the virtual servers through a network. Then, the physical server transmits the transmission packet onto the network. A physical switch is provided on the network connecting between the physical servers, and identifies the transmission packet based on the virtual machine ID contained in a bit space other than data of the transmission packet under the environment that IP addresses of the virtual machines overlap on the network, and collects data showing a network condition.
US09014177B2
Apparatus include a communication predelivery receiver, configured to communicate with and relay both IP addressed overhead and IP addressed payload data from an originating communication device. The communication predelivery receiver includes a screener configured to, when the communication predelivery receiver is in communication with the originating communication device, receive certain data including first IP addressed data and second IP addressed data of corresponding first and second initiated communications. The communication predelivery receiver is configured and connected within a network so the first IP addressed data and the second IP addressed data are processed differently. For the first initiated communication, the first payload data is converted, after the point in time at which the screener received the first IP addressed data, from IP addressed first payload data to another network signal. For the second initiated communication, the second payload data is delivered without so converting the second payload data.
US09014168B2
Apparatus and method for recognizing Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) signals are provided. The solution comprises obtaining as an input a sampled signal; determining the 8th order moment for a group of samples of the input signal corresponding to the length of one or two frames of a GSM signal; determining peak to average power and peak to average power variance for the group of samples of the input signal corresponding to the length of one or two frames of a GSM signal; comparing the obtained 8th order moment to predetermined thresholds and the obtained peak to average power and peak to average power variance to predetermined thresholds; determining whether the input signal is a GSM-type signal on the basis of the comparisons.
US09014159B2
A device for providing radiofrequency signal connections for users comprises a plurality of access points which transmit or receive radiofrequency signals in different predetermined radiofrequency bands and are each connected via a transmission and reception signal path to at least one shared transmitting and receiving antenna, a filter being provided in the transmission and reception signal paths respectively and isolating the radiofrequency bands sufficiently from one another and from predetermined mobile radio frequency bands.
US09014156B2
Prioritizing traffic forwarding in a wireless mesh network. In a wireless mesh network using carrier detect multiple access—collision avoidance with backoff, such as mesh networks supporting IEEE 802.11 clients, access points in the mesh calculate a node rank based on downstream and upstream rank components. Access points in the mesh then generate backoff times inversely proportional to their node rank. This has the effect of prioritizing traffic at nodes that have higher rank. The downstream and upstream rank components take into account the amount of space occupied by downstream and upstream traffic, respectively, and are weighted by their position in the mesh tree.
US09014152B2
Techniques to increase capacity in a wireless communications system. Systematic non-transmission, or “blanking,” of minimal-rate frames transmitted in a communications system is provided. In an exemplary embodiment, eighth rate frames in a cdma2000 voice communications system are systematically substituted with null-rate frames carrying zero traffic bits. The receiver detects the presence of null rate or non-null rate transmissions and processes the received frames accordingly. Techniques for changing the pilot transmission gating pattern to assist the receiver in detecting null rate frames are provided. In another aspect, early termination of a signal transmission over a wireless communications link is provided. In an exemplary embodiment, a base station (BS) transmits power control groups (PCG's) for a frame over a forward link (FL) to a mobile station (MS) until accurate reception of the frame is acknowledged by the MS over a reverse link (RL), possibly before all PCG's of the frame are received.
US09014151B2
A method and apparatus for low-rate traffic signal transmission on Optical Transport Networks (OTN). The method includes: defining a frame format of the low-rate traffic optical channel data unit (ODU) signal for bearing the low-rate traffic signal; mapping the low-rate traffic signal to the low-rate traffic optical channel payload unit (OPU) of the low-rate traffic ODU signal, generating overhead bytes and filling the bytes in an overhead section of the low-rate traffic ODU to obtain the low-rate traffic ODU signal; multiplexing low-rate traffic ODU signals to an ODUk signal of which the rate matches the transmission rate rank of the OTN where the signal is transmitted, and transmitting the signal via the OTN. Based on this method, the invention provides an apparatus for the low-rate traffic signal transmission in the OTN as well. With this invention, the low-rate traffic signal transmission in the OTN can be implemented conveniently.
US09014149B2
There is provided a communication apparatus capable of effectively removing interference waves from a received signal while reducing the computation load. The communication apparatus includes a weight calculating unit. The weight calculating unit includes a calculating unit and a selecting unit. The calculating unit calculates a first weight and a second weight. The first weight is obtained, for a target known signal being an update target, by updating, using the target known signal, a weight of a first another known signal updated immediately before performing an update using the target known signal. The second weight is obtained, for a target known signal being an update target, by updating, using the target known signal, a weight of a second another known signal. The selecting unit selects one of the first weight and the second weight that has a lower estimation error.
US09014148B1
Examples are disclosed for acquiring real-time VoIP data and implementing statistical modeling techniques to perform a handoff between different telecommunication networks for a hybrid mobile device. In some examples communication link handoff logic may be executed by the processor component to receive VoIP data during a voice call mediated by a call server, the voice call between a hybrid mobile device and another communication device, the data pertaining to one or more Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communication link parameters for the communication link between the hybrid mobile device and the call server. The VoIP communication link parameters are statistically modeled and compared to a handoff profile operative to establish criteria for switching the VoIP communication link to an alternate communication link.
US09014140B2
The present invention relates to a method of performing inter System radio measurements in compressed mode. A communication device, camped on a first radio communication network, performing the method determines whether a given measurement gap coincides in time domain with a measurement position defined by the communication device. In case the measurement position coincides with the position of the measurement gap, then the communication device performs consequently during the measurement gap a first type of measurement with respect to the first communication network and a second type of measurement with respect to a second communication network.
US09014135B2
Methods of performing link adaptation in a wireless communication system for simultaneous transmission of codewords include selecting initial modulation and coding scheme (MCS) levels for the codewords, estimating a size ratio of the codewords, determining a number of scheduling blocks (SB) for the codewords with the initial MCS levels, and determining revised MCS levels for the codewords in response to the determined number of SBs. Transport block sizes are computed for the codewords, and it is determined if there is a need to increase the number of scheduling blocks in at least one of the codewords. If there is a need to increase the number of scheduling blocks in a codeword, scheduling blocks are added to the codeword, and the transport block size for the codeword is recomputed. The codewords are then simultaneously transmitted over different multiple input-multiple output (MIMO) communication channels using the same time and frequency resources.
US09014131B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication and, more specifically, to a method for transmitting an HARQ) response by a UE in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus for the same. The method includes receiving an E-PDCCH signal on at least one of a plurality of enhanced physical downlink control channel (E-PDCCH) sets, each E-PDCCH set including a plurality of resources units indexed per E-PDCCH set; and transmitting the HARQ response using a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource determined using the index of the first resource unit among one or more resource units carrying the E-PDCCH signal, wherein the index of the first resource unit is determined on the basis of the E-PDCCH set having the lowest index among the plurality of E-PDCCH sets when specific conditions are satisfied.
US09014125B2
A Circuit Switched (CS) domain codec list for Single Radio Voice Call Continuity (SR-VCC) is provided. A apparatus providing such a list can include preparing a list of include preparing a list of circuit switched capabilities of a terminal device, sending the list to a network device during attachment, receiving the list at the network device, storing the list in the network device, sending the list to a second network device, receiving the list at the second network device, and using the list in handing over the terminal device to the second network device.
US09014107B2
Provided are a data transmission method for a detached machine type communication (MTC) device and a mobile communication system providing an MTC service. The method includes sensing an MTC device performing a detachment procedure from a network, when the MTC device being detached is sensed, storing, at a first gateway (GW), context information about the MTC device being detached from the network, storing, at the detached MTC device, context information that has been lastly allocated and used before the detachment, receiving, at the first GW, downlink data transmitted from an MTC server to the detached MTC device, and buffering the received data, transmitting a paging message to the detached MTC device, and performing, at the MTC device receiving the paging message, an attachment process to the network, and receiving the DL data buffered in the first GW.
US09014099B2
A packet switched domain service processing method and device. The method is applied to a mobile terminal and includes allocating a plurality of Packet Data Protocol (PDP) link resources to a plurality of Packet Switched (PS) domain services, and using a plurality of PS domain services transmitting data on the PDP link resources allocated thereto, in order to improve data transmission rate.
US09014095B2
A method for achieving energy-saving in a mobile communication system base station, for application in an LTE system, comprising: determining the average value of a downlink sub-frame traffic load; determining, when the average value of the downlink sub-frame traffic load is below a threshold value therefore, an MBSFN downlink sub-frame which is not carrying multicast traffic; and closing the radio frequency channel corresponding to the multicast symbol in the MBSFN downlink sub-frame which is not carrying multicast traffic. By using the method, the number of downlink sub-frames required to meet the communication traffic needs of a current cell is judged according to changes in the traffic load observed by measuring the traffic load values in that cell; sub-frames which can be closed are set as MBSFN downlink sub-frames which do not send multicast traffic; radio frequency channels occupied by the multicast symbol are closed, thereby reducing energy consumption.
US09014089B2
When accepting an establishment request (Cx-LIR) for establishing an information communication path between a sending-side UE and a receiving-side UE, an HSS performs control so as to establish the information communication path between the sending-side UE and the receiving-side UE via an MGW and an existing 3G network if the receiving-side UE exists in an IMS network and is a communication interception target terminal.
US09014084B2
A transceiver system which can communicate a plurality of linked partners, and the increase in power consumption by the transceiver system can be minimized. The transceiver system includes a transceiver, and a communication controller. The transceiver is capable of performing transmitted and received data communication with terminal devices. The communication controller is capable of controlling the memory transfer of transmitted and received data. The transceiver system can be set to an operation mode selected from among intermittent- and uninterrupted-operation modes. In the intermittent-operation mode, the transceiver and the communication controller work alternately, whereas in the uninterrupted-operation mode, the transceiver and the communication controller works in parallel. The operation mode of the transceiver system is set according to unique identification data of terminal devices. In a working period of the communication controller in the intermittent-operation mode, the operation of the transceiver is stopped by the control signal.
US09014076B2
A method, device, and system for communicating with multiple users via a map over the Internet are disclosed. The device includes a processor for executing computer programs, a memory for storing data, an input module for entering user commands, a communication module for transmitting and receiving data, and a display for showing information on a screen. The device includes logic for showing at a top level multiple communities across the world for selection and further magnification of their locations by the user. Thus the user can keep track of multiple communities in a multilevel viewing environment.
US09014073B2
A method for wireless backhaul communication between a base station and a relay is disclosed. The base station enables a physical control channel to be set up, separately from the terminal that is used to transmit control information to each relay and the physical downlink control channel that has been set up. The base station can transmit data to the relay based on this control information. In a special embodiment, physical downlink control channel transmissions can be minimized by prescribing in advance the transmission of control information between the base station and the relay.
US09014067B2
A method and apparatus of communicating by a relay station a wireless communication system including a relay station is provided. The method include communicating with at least one of a base station and a user equipment through a frequency division duplex (FDD) uplink (UL) frame configured by the base station, the FDD UL frame including a UL relay zone including a plurality of UL subframes and a UL access zone including a plurality of UL subframes. The UL relay zone is a sector used for the relay station to transmit a signal to the base station, and the UL access zone is a sector used for the relay station to receive a signal from the user equipment. The UL relay zone is located before the UL access zone within the FDD UL frame.
US09014066B1
A method and system for applying a calibration procedure to match the peaks and nulls of the transmit and receive antenna patterns of a communication device are provided herein. The system may include: a plurality of antennas having tunable phases and configured for both transmitting and receiving; a plurality of radio circuits configured to transmit and receive via said antennas in a time division duplex (TDD) communication protocol; and a computer processor configured to calculate a weight setting difference between the transmit and the receive antenna pattern, wherein the antenna pattern is a peak-null pattern of the plurality of antennas operating together. The calibration value may enable the calibrated communication device to apply channel reciprocity to the beam-forming and/or nulling applications.
US09014053B2
The present invention enables a capability for packet-switched network service providers, e.g., VoIP network service providers, to monitor the CPE application usage of their subscriber to ensure that changes to the network do not interfere with these applications and to potentially provide changes to the network to enhance these premise based applications. Monitoring software will be installed in the CPE to monitor upgrades and features installed by the end users so that any potential impact to these applied applications can be assessed before a VoIP network upgrade is carried out.
US09014044B2
A method in a communication terminal for measuring one or more measurement quantities, wherein the measurement quantities correspond to a measurement identity, the method comprising: determining whether measurement of the measurement quantities can be performed in a first measurement occasion corresponding to the measurement identity; and if measurement of the measurement quantities cannot be performed in the first measurement occasion, measuring the measurement quantities using one or more other measurement occasions, wherein the one or more of the other measurement occasions correspond to at least one other measurement identity.
US09014026B2
Various embodiments are disclosed for a services policy communication system and method. In some embodiments, a network device implements a service profile for assisting control of a communications device use of a service on a network, in which the service profile includes service policy settings for the communications device; monitors use of the service by the communications device based on the service profile; and modifies a service policy setting to achieve a service usage goal.
US09014025B2
A system and method for coordinating different types of base stations in a heterogeneous communications system are provided. A method of communications controller operations includes signaling an indicator of a subset of a plurality of communications resources controlled by a communications controller to a user equipment, and receiving a report comprising channel information associated with a measurement of signals transmitted in the subset from the user equipment.
US09014023B2
Mobile network services are performed in a mobile data network in a way that is transparent to most of the existing equipment in the mobile data network. The mobile data network includes a radio access network and a core network. A first service mechanism in the radio access network breaks out data coming from a basestation, and performs one or more mobile network services based on the broken out data. A second service mechanism in the core network performs one or more mobile network services based on the network traffic remaining after the first service mechanism performs its breakout. An optional third service mechanism coupled to the core network provides one or more mobile network services in the mobile data network. An overlay network allows the first, second and third service mechanisms to communicate with each other. The overlay network is preferably a private virtual network.
US09014022B2
An optical network including a plurality of gateway nodes interconnected with a plurality of intermediate nodes with segments of fiber. The network includes a plurality of devices, such as reconfigurable optical add drop multiplexors, optimally placed at various nodes throughout the network. The device placement is optimized with an integer linear programming analysis considering span definition such that any given span involves some number of segments not exceeding a number of segments that would require wavelength regeneration, cost of placement of a device at a given node, cost of wavelength regeneration, and various parameters and constraints.
US09014019B2
The effective performance metric and achieving method of a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) communication system are provided. A number of feedback bits of channel information may be determined based on an effective spectral efficiency (ESE). The ESE may correspond to a metric of the throughput performance with respect to a total radio resource including an uplink radio resource and a downlink radio resource. User-scheduling may be based on the feedback information that is based on the ESE, and thus, the throughput performance of the communication system may be enhanced.
US09014014B2
Methods and systems for operating a physical layer device (“PHY”) in an Ethernet network include methods and systems for detecting active link partners and for selecting a mode of operation based on detected active link partners. The PHY monitors fiber link media and copper link media for active link partners. The PHY selects a mode of operation according to detected active link partners. For example, a copper mode of operation is selected, preferably through logic circuitry, when an active copper link partner is detected and an active fiber link partner is not detected. Similarly, a fiber mode of operation is selected, preferably through logic circuitry, when an active fiber link partner is detected and an active copper link partner is not detected. The PHY interfaces with the active copper link partner when the copper mode of operation is selected. Similarly, the PHY interfaces with the active fiber link partner when the fiber mode of operation is selected. The copper or fiber mode of operation can be prioritized for when active copper and fiber link partners are detected. The prioritized mode can be user selectable or factory set. The invention optionally powers down circuitry associated with an unselected mode of operation.
US09014011B2
An information handling system is provided. The information handling system includes a first network switch configurable, the first network switch having a computer processor in communication with a plurality of ports for receiving and sending frames and a memory coupled to the computer processor and including a media access control (MAC) address table. The computer processor is configured to read frames, each frame having a header, and is also configured to associate a MAC address with a parent link aggregation group (LAG) except while a downstream link failure is detected. The computer processor is configured to associate the MAC address with a sub-LAG while a downstream link failure is detected. Methods for directing traffic through a virtual link trunking (VLT) domain during failure of a downstream link are also provided.
US09014000B2
An adaptive traffic manager assembly, which includes a computing module configured to operate on a current adaptive traffic manager configuration, and includes an adapting mechanism configured to adaptively change the current adaptive traffic manager configuration according to current wireless link conditions, a current Adaptive Coding and Modification (ACM) profile, or upon detection of an ACM event, and further includes a switch assembly configured to receive a first signal over a wired link and to output a second signal over a wireless link, and configured to store the current adaptive traffic manager configuration, and is further configured to automatically change a modulation and coding scheme associated with the current adaptive traffic manager configuration upon receiving an instruction from the computing module, in response to the detection of the ACM event.
US09013996B2
Novel solutions to provide enhanced configurability of network access. Such solutions can provide, inter alia, enhanced utilization of network resources (including without limitation network aggregation devices, such as DSLAMs and the like). In an aspect of some solutions, a network aggregation device can divide an aggregate uplink bandwidth into a plurality of time slots. Some or all of the time slots can be reserved for different customers (subscribers). In another aspect of some embodiments, the time slots can be allocated in such a way as to simulate oversubscription of the aggregate uplink bandwidth.
US09013985B2
In one embodiment, a primary bidirectional LSP is established between an originating LSP packet switching device and a destination LSP packet switching device through an intermediate packet switching device. A corresponding backup LSP is also established. The originating LSP packet switching device sends a particular label switched packet to the destination LSP packet switching device over the primary bidirectional LSP. An intermediate packet switching device sends the particular label switched packet back to the originating LSP packet switching device over the primary bidirectional LSP in response to an error condition identified as affecting the primary bidirectional LSP towards the destination LSP packet switching device. The originating LSP packet switching device receives the particular label switched packet and sends it to the destination packet switching device over the backup LSP.
US09013984B1
A data network wherein network links have an assigned service weight and a restoration weight that are used as factors for respectively determining an optimum primary data path and a back-up data path through the network. The restoration path is used in the event of a failure of the primary service path and a Dijkstra or similar algorithm may be used for determining these paths. Service weights may be assigned to the links to prioritize finding the shortest possible path, whereas restoration weights may be assigned to the links to find a path with the maximum available capacity.
US09013974B2
A multiple-access MIMO WLAN system that employs MIMO, OFDM, and TDD. The system (1) uses a channel structure with a number of configurable transport channels, (2) supports multiple rates and transmission modes, which are configurable based on channel conditions and user terminal capabilities, (3) employs a pilot structure with several types of pilot (e.g., beacon, MIMO, steered reference, and carrier pilots) for different functions, (4) implements rate, timing, and power control loops for proper system operation, and (5) employs random access for system access by the user terminals, fast acknowledgment, and quick resource assignments. Calibration may be performed to account for differences in the frequency responses of transmit/receive chains at the access point and user terminals. The spatial processing may then be simplified by taking advantage of the reciprocal nature of the downlink and uplink and the calibration.
US09013969B2
A digital jukebox (14) allows for playback of a first offering and a second offering. The contents of each offering are individually licensed for public performance at a particular location where the jukebox is found. The jukebox (14) displays advertisements that are selected in response to user interaction with the jukebox or a number of other factors. The jukebox (14) features a screen (18 and 20) that allows user to interact with the jukebox to select offerings, but also to respond to advertising. Jukebox can function in cooperation with a server (12), but in the alternate, can function as an independent and stand-alone device when connection (16) to server (12) is not available.
US09013967B1
In a heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) hard disk drive, a heat-dissipating head slider assembly is described in which the slider is stepped on the disk-opposing side and a HAMR laser module is mounted on the lower surface to assist with dissipation of heat from the laser. The lower surface is a surface of the main body of the slider and is composed primarily of a first material, and the slider may include a heat-dissipating plate that forms the higher stepped surface, where the plate is composed of a second material that has a higher thermal conductivity than the first material, such as silicon.
US09013962B2
A method and related apparatus are described for generating acoustic signals for use in a vibratory seismic survey, including at least two different sweep signals for the control of at least two different types of vibrators; and matching the phases of the different sweep signals at a transition frequency from one sweep signal to another.
US09013961B1
An apparatus for repelling pests includes a vibration generator operably connected to an object that operates in a first vibrating mode and a second non-vibrating mode. An environmental sensor senses a condition external to the vibration generator. A controller receives the sensed condition and controls the vibration generator between the first and second modes in response to the received sensed condition. Vibrations from the vibration generator are transferred to the object.
US09013945B2
A memory system includes first to third memory devices each having an input terminal for receiving a token signal and an output terminal for transmitting the token signal, wherein the input terminal of each of the first to third memory devices are connected to the output terminal of another memory device through a ring topology, a subset of the first to third memory devices substantially simultaneously perform an operation of consuming a peak current in response to any one of a plurality of token signals, and each of the first to third memory devices possesses only any one of the plurality of token signals and transmits the other token signals to another memory device.
US09013942B2
Memories, sense amplifiers, and methods for amplifying a current input are disclosed, including a sense amplifier including a bias circuit configured to provide a bias voltage having a magnitude responsive to maintaining a substantially constant loop gain, and further including an amplifier stage coupled to the bias circuit to receive the bias voltage and configured to amplify a input current at an input-output node, a loop gain of the current amplifier stage is controlled at least in part to the bias voltage.
US09013937B2
A method for limiting writing of data to a specific memory cell without disconnecting a wiring of a memory cell array or placing a prober in contact with a memory cell, a row, or a column is provided. Row address data and column address data of a memory cell to which data cannot be written are stored in a register. Enable data which controls data writing is stored in the register. Next, in order to write data to a memory cell, row address data and column address data of a memory cell to which data is written, writing enable data, and the like are output from a logic circuit; thus, writing of data to a memory cell corresponding to the address data stored in the register is inhibited.
US09013932B1
A semiconductor system includes a controller and a semiconductor device. The controller outputs offset signals whose level combination is controlled according to temperature code signals including information on an internal temperature. The semiconductor device generates the temperature code signals according to a level combination of the offset signals. Further, the semiconductor device controls a refresh cycle time determined by the level combination of the offset signals.
US09013930B2
A method includes steps of: providing a first memory cell array including a plurality of first word lines, wherein a plurality of first data are stored in the first memory cell array; providing a second memory cell array including a plurality of second word lines, wherein the second memory cell array is separated from the first memory cell array, and a plurality of second data are stored in the second memory cell array; selecting one of the first word lines and one of the second word lines at a same time or an overlapping time; alternately selecting a first address of the first memory cell array and a second address of the second memory cell array to alternately read a first corresponding portion of the first data and a second corresponding portion of the second data from the first memory cell array and the second memory cell array.
US09013929B2
A flash memory device. In one embodiment, the flash memory device includes a flash memory, a diode, a controller, and a capacitor. The flash memory has a voltage source pin. The diode is coupled between a voltage source and the voltage source pin of the flash memory. The controller is coupled to the flash memory via a data bus. The capacitor is coupled between the voltage source pin of the flash memory and a ground, and supplies power to the flash memory to enable the flash memory to complete writing of at least one data page when the level of the voltage source is lowered.
US09013919B2
In a nonvolatile memory array, such as a three-dimensional array of charge-storage memory cells, data is randomized so that data of different strings along the same bit line are randomized using different keys and portions of data along neighboring word lines are randomized using different keys. Keys may be rotated so that data of a particular word line is randomized according to different keys in different strings.
US09013918B2
Two-terminal memory cell and semiconductor memory device based on different states of stable current
A two-terminal memory cell includes a first P-type semiconductor layer, a first N-type semiconductor layer, a second P-type semiconductor layer, and a second N-type semiconductor layer arranged in sequence. A first data state may be stored in the memory cell by applying a forward bias, which is larger than a punch-through voltage VBO, between the first P-type semiconductor layer and the second N-type semiconductor layer. A second data state may be stored in the memory cell by applying a reverse bias, which is approaching to the reverse breakdown region of the memory cell, between the first P-type semiconductor layer and the second N-type semiconductor layer. In this way, the memory cell may be effectively used for data storage.
US09013917B2
A semiconductor memory device is disclosed, which relates to a technology for a serial cell structure of a phase change memory (PCM). The semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of unit cells stacked with a plurality of layers, and a single bit line formed to have a vertical structure and shared by the plurality of unit cells. Each unit cell includes a switching element including a source region, a drain region, and a channel region, and a phase change resistor (PCR) element formed over the switching element.
US09013913B2
According to various embodiments, a resistive-switching memory element and memory element array that uses a bipolar switching includes a select element comprising only a single diode that is not a Zener diode. The resistive-switching memory elements described herein can switch even when a switching voltage less than the breakdown voltage of the diode is applied in the reverse-bias direction of the diode. The memory elements are able to switch during the very brief period when a transient pulse voltage is visible to the memory element, and therefore can use a single diode per memory cell.
US09013902B2
The present invention provides a multi-terminal power conversion device, a multi-terminal power transfer device, and a power network system which allows an existing power grid to be divided into a plurality of power grids that can be interconnected together and operated stably via existing or new transmission lines. An inter-power grid asynchronous interconnection network system includes a multi-terminal power conversion device characterized by connecting together a plurality of asynchronous power grids including a bulk power grid and controlling power so that the sum of inflow power and outflow power is zero. An intra-power grid synchronous network system includes a power apparatus control terminal device with means for controlling power for a power apparatus installed in an autonomous power grid. A plurality of inter-power grid asynchronous interconnection network systems are connected to an intra-power grid synchronous network system to integrate the power control with communication control.
US09013891B2
An electronics package includes one or more insulating layers and an electrically conductive transmission line. The electrically conductive transmission line includes a signal trace disposed substantially parallel to the one or more insulating layers. The electrically conductive transmission line further includes one or more signal vias electrically coupled to the signal trace. The one or more signal vias are configured to pass through at least a portion of the one or more insulating layers. The electronics package further includes one or more electrically conductive ground planes substantially parallel to the one or more insulating layers. The ground planes include one or more signal via ground cuts. The one or more signal via ground cuts provide clearance between the one or more signal vias and the one or more ground planes.
US09013883B2
A guiding mechanism includes a first guiding component, a second guiding component, a push rod, a push rod sheath and a driving component. A distance is between the second guiding component and the first guiding component and increases in a first direction. The push rod includes a rod base slidably connected to the first guiding component. The push rod sheath includes an engaging portion movably engaged with the rod base, and a guiding portion slidably connected to the second guiding component and used for pushing a flexible printed circuit board. The driving component drives the rod base to move relative to the engaging portion, so as to drive the push rod and the push rod sheath to slide relative to the first guiding component and the second guiding component.
US09013881B2
A lightweight radio/CD player for vehicular application includes a case and frontal interface formed of polymer based material molded to provide details to accept audio devices and radio receivers, as well as the circuit boards required for electrical control and display. The case and frontal interface are of composite structure, including an insert molded electrically conductive wire mesh screen that has been pre-formed to contour with the molding operation. The wire mesh provides shielding and grounding of the circuit boards via exposed wire mesh pads and adjacent ground clips.
US09013870B2
An electrical assembly having controlled impedance signal traces and a portable electronic device comprising an electrical assembly having controlled impedance signal traces are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a portable electronic device, comprising an electrical assembly, comprising: a chassis made from a conductive material and forming a first ground plane; a first dielectric substrate layer overlaying the chassis; a first signal trace overlaying the first dielectric substrate layer; and a second dielectric layer overlaying the first signal trace.
US09013866B2
A driving mechanism for driving a display module to move relative to a host module includes a display module fixing component disposed in the display module, a host module fixing component movably disposed in the host module, and a pivoting component. An end of the pivoting component is pivotally connected to the display module fixing component and another end of the pivoting component is fixed to the host module fixing component. The pivoting component drives the host module fixing component to move as being pivoted by the display module fixing component. The driving mechanism further includes at least one protruding structure disposed on the host module fixing component and capable of moving relative to an inner side of the host module in line contact manner or point contact manner as the pivoting component drives the host module fixing component to move.
US09013863B2
A protective sheath comprises a rear plate, a front plate and a wireless HMI device comprising a main portion embedded inside the rear plate, a human-machine interface embedded inside the front plate and a soft flat cable electrically connecting there-between. The front plate comprises a first folding plate, a holding component for holding a portable electronic device on the first folding plate, a position limiting hinge, and a second folding plate pivoted to the first folding plate via the position limiting hinge. Hence, the first and the second folding plates can cover a rear surface of the portable electronic device together by being relatively unfolded, and are maintained at a presetting pivoting angle by the position limiting hinge after being relatively folded. The front plate can be folded relative to the first folding plate to cover a display surface of the portable electronic device.
US09013857B2
Embodiments of a method include forming a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor including a first electrode and a second electrode and an insulator layer between the first and second electrodes, the MIM capacitor also including a reactive layer; and altering the reactive layer to change a capacitive value of the MIM capacitor.
US09013852B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided a breaker-phase-control switching system including a merging unit, a superordinate unit, and a circuit-breaker control unit. The circuit-breaker control unit includes a waveform-zero-point-calculation processing unit configured to calculate a current phase, based on absolute time kept by an internal clock and waveform data, and a predicted-breaker-operating-time-calculation processing unit configured to predict a predicted operating time. Further, a command-output-timing-determination processing unit is included which determines a timing for electrically conducting a coil from the absolute time, a preset target phase, a current phase, and a predicted operating time.
US09013848B2
A protection circuit for a power transistor includes a first transistor connected in parallel with the power transistor and having a control terminal connected to a first power supply voltage through a first resistive element; and a first set of diodes connected between a first terminal and a control terminal of the first transistor. In operation, the voltage at the first terminal of the first transistor is clamped to a clamp voltage and the first transistor is turned on to conduct current in a forward conduction mode when an over-voltage condition occurs at a first terminal of the power transistor.
US09013846B2
The invention discloses an ESD protection circuit and a method for driving the same and a display panel. The ESD protection circuit in the present invention comprises: a first TFT with a drain connected to a data signal line, a source and a gate connected together as a node; a second TFT with a drain connected to a first power supply line, a source connected to the data signal line, and a gate connected to the node; a third TFT with a drain connected to the data signal line, a source connected to a second power supply line, and a gate connected to a third power supply line; a forth TFT with a drain connected to the node, a source and a gate connected to the second power supply line; and a bootstrap capacitor connected between the node and the data signal line.
US09013841B2
An earth leakage circuit breaker includes an earth leakage detector, a rectifier, a switching part, and a controller. The switching part is installed on an electric circuit between an alternating current (AC) power supply and the rectifier, and switches between supply and interruption of the power from the AC power supply. The earth leakage detector is installed between the AC power supply and a load. The rectifier rectifies the AC power into direct current (DC) power. The controller causes the rectifier to perform half-wave rectification until earth leakage is detected by the earth leakage detector, and causes the rectifier to perform full-wave rectification when the earth leakage is detected by the earth leakage detector.
US09013834B2
A tolerance ring for a hard disc drive assembly is disclosed and can include a plurality of discrete tolerance ring panels. Each tolerance ring panel can include an arcuate sidewall that can include an unformed portion and at least one projection extending from the arcuate sidewall. The projection can be surrounded by the unformed portion of the arcuate sidewall and the tolerance ring can be configured to be deployed in an interference fit between an inner component and an outer component to provide torque coupling between an inner component and an outer component.
US09013828B1
Utilities that increase the volume of media elements that can be simultaneously loaded and/or unloaded into or from a storage library, facilitate mounting of media element magazines into a storage library, and limit access to an interior of a storage library by users during operation of robotics assemblies of the storage library. One disclosed utility includes a cartridge access port for use with a storage library that has a storage container that is pivotable (e.g., swingable) between at least first and second positions. In the first position, the storage container is adjacent an opening in the housing of the library for loading and unloading of media elements by a user into or from the container via the opening. After the storage container has swung into the second position, the storage container is spaced from the opening and faces the interior of the library for access by a robotics assembly.
US09013815B2
A cluster size measurement method includes writing a first pattern of a first size of a first number of magnetic clusters. A second pattern of a second size of a second number of magnetic clusters is written, wherein the second plurality of clusters includes clusters of the first number of clusters and a switched cluster. A cluster size of the switched cluster is automatically determined by contrasting the first size and the second size.
US09013810B2
A wide-angle image lens, in the order from the object side to the image side thereof, includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens and an image plane. The image lens satisfies the following formulas: D/TTL>0.45; CT4/ET4<2.11; Z/Y>0.06; wherein D is the maximum image diameter of the image plane; TTL is a total length of the wide-angle image lens; CT4 is a distance along an optical axis from the seventh surface to the eighth surface; ET4 is a distance along the optical axis from an outmost edge of the seventh surface to an outmost edge of the eighth surface; Z is a distance from a central point of the fifth surface to an outmost edge of the sixth surface along the optical axis; Y is a distance from the outmost edge of the sixth surface to the optical axis.
US09013808B2
An optical imaging system for pickup, sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side, comprising: the first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface, the second lens element with refractive power, the third lens element with refractive power, the fourth lens element with refractive power, the fifth lens element with refractive power the sixth lens element made of plastic, the sixth lens with refractive power having a concave image-side surface with both being aspheric, and the image-side surface having at least one inflection point.
US09013807B1
An imaging lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, and a sixth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex image-side surface. The second lens element has refractive power. The third lens element has refractive power. The fourth lens element has refractive power. The fifth lens element has negative refractive power. The sixth lens element with negative refractive power has a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof, wherein both of the surfaces thereof are aspheric, and at least one of the surfaces thereof has at least one inflection point. The imaging lens assembly has a total of six lens elements with refractive power.
US09013804B2
A zoom lens includes: a first lens group having a negative power; and a second lens group having a refractive power, in this order from an object side. The zoom lens satisfies the following conditional formulae: 1.0
US09013788B2
A system providing consistent and intense sunlight to light-guiding structures for redirecting sunlight to the interior of a building is presented. One aspect of the inventive subject matter includes an illumination system comprising a solar redirector and at least one optical converter. The solar redirector can be configured to extend outward from a wall of a building and to redirect sunlight to exterior sections of the wall below the solar redirector. The optical converter can be configured to mount on at least one of the exterior sections of the wall and to receive the redirected sunlight and distribute the redirected sunlight to an interior of the building.
US09013786B2
High power parallel fiber arrays for the amplification of high peak power pulses are described. Fiber arrays based on individual fiber amplifiers as well as fiber arrays based on multi-core fibers can be implemented. The optical phase between the individual fiber amplifier elements of the fiber array is measured and controlled using a variety of phase detection and compensation techniques. High power fiber array amplifiers can be used for EUV and X-ray generation as well as pumping of parametric amplifiers.
US09013780B2
Electrophoretic displays use motion of particles through a fluid to generate images. This invention describes the use of concerted motion of particles together with the solvent to generate optical switching.
US09013773B2
Back light unit providing direction controllable collimated light beam and 3D display using the same
A back light unit providing a direction controllable collimated light beam and a three-dimensional display using the same is described. A back light unit comprises: a light source for generating light; and a light direction controller for converting the light from the light source into a direction controlled collimated light beam having a refraction angle, the direction controlled collimated light beam emitted to a predetermined area to generate a three-dimensional holographic image. The back light unit can provide direction controllable collimation light having uniform brightness distribution over a large diagonal area of the spatial light modulator with thin and simple structure.
US09013771B2
A color conversion method, medium, and apparatus, converting a color temperature of an image to a user-set color temperature, on a pixel-by-pixel basis, based on the brightness of each pixel of the image. The color temperature conversion method may include determining a first information associated with a conversion range, determining whether the color temperature of the input pixel needs to be converted by determining, based on the first information, whether the input pixel is within the conversion range, calculating color coordinates of a target point if the input pixel is within the conversion range, and converting the color temperature of the input pixel by moving, in the same direction as the reference point to the target point an amount proportional to the reference point displacement so that the input pixel can be automatically moved along with the reference point of the conversion range.
US09013769B1
In a conveyor of an image-reading device, a first path is defined by a path from the upper path to the lower path via the curved path. A second path is defined by a path from the upper path to the extension path. A first reading unit is disposed on the upper path and reads the first surface while the original sheet is on the upper path. A second reading unit is disposed on the upper path and reads the second surface while the original sheet is on the upper path. A third reading unit is disposed on the lower path and reads the second surface while the original sheet is on the lower path. When the reading section reads the original sheet, the conveyor conveys the original sheet through the first path or the second path.
US09013766B2
An image reading apparatus includes: a base section; a reading unit; a movable body; a drive unit; and a cable. The movable body supports the reading unit and reciprocates between first and second end positions in a first direction. The drive unit is disposed on a first side where the first end position is located. The cable has one end portion fixed to a base wall of the base section and another end portion connected to the reading unit. The cable includes: a first elongated portion extending from the one end portion; a curved portion extending from the first elongated portion toward a second side where the second end position is located and then curving toward the first side; and a second elongated portion connected to the another end portion. The curved portion has a part overlapping with the drive unit in the first direction.
US09013755B2
An image processing device may calculate, by utilizing scan data obtained by a scan of a document including a natural image in accordance with a specific optical resolution, a first type of index value for classifying the document, determine an output resolution by utilizing the first type of index value, convert the scan data indicating the specific optical resolution into image data indicating the output resolution in a case where the output resolution is not identical to the specific optical resolution, and create a file including the image data indicating the output resolution.
US09013754B1
A color processing device includes: an association information acquisition section that acquires first association information obtained by associating first color information and first output color information as a target to be output from a color adjustment-subject unit, and second association information obtained by associating the first color information and second output color information for an image actually output from the color adjustment-subject unit; an output section that outputs second color information to the color adjustment-subject unit; an output color information acquisition section that acquires third output color information; a prediction section that predicts the second association information to be newly applied on the basis of the third output color information; and a conversion relationship preparation section that prepares a conversion relationship for performing a color adjustment on the color adjustment-subject unit on the basis of the predicted second association information and the first association information.
US09013751B2
A system in which when a setting of a certain sheet storing unit of a group of sheet storing units is changed, and the changed setting of the certain sheet storing unit is different from settings of other sheet storing units within the same group as the certain sheet storing unit, a user is notified accordingly, or the changed setting is set to the other sheet storing units.
US09013748B2
An input display device, a method of controlling the same, a program, and a printing apparatus that enable an intuitive change in page layout order without reducing the display area of a preview screen in a preview display of an image to be printed are provided. To accomplish this, when pages of held original data are aggregated and displayed at one time as a preview of multiple pages, if a predetermined rotation operation has been detected, the input display device changes the layout order of the displayed pages according to a combination of the orientation of the input display device and the predetermined rotation operation, and reflects the changed page layout order on the held original data.
US09013743B2
A data processing apparatus includes an assignment database. The assignment database includes a user-information registration unit configured to collect pieces of user information about users authorized to operate a plurality of information processing apparatuses, and register each piece of user information and an identifier assigned to the corresponding user in association with each other; an output destination association table in which each piece of user information is associated with a printing apparatus that is to be an output destination; and an output-destination determining unit configured to determine the output destination of the output data by referring to the user-information registration unit and the output destination association table.
US09013739B2
A device management module acquires the configuration information from the image forming apparatus and acquires product information of a product that corresponds to the image forming apparatus. The device management module determines whether the condition for validating the application that corresponds to the above-described product in the image forming apparatus is satisfied based on the acquired configuration information and the acquired product information. If the condition is satisfied, the device management module transmits license issuance request information to the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus transmits a license issuance request to the device management module to acquire a license and validates the application based on the acquired license.
US09013738B2
When it is detected that a file has been stored in a hot folder, an apparatus stands by for a predetermined period of time not to process the file based on settings associated with the hot folder. When the predetermined period of time elapses, the apparatus processes the file based on the settings associated with the hot folder.
US09013735B2
A system includes a receiving unit configured to receive an operation input concerning an imposition setting, a generation unit configured to generate a first image in which images from a plurality of pages are virtually imposed in one page based on the imposition setting, and an output unit configured to output the first image regardless of a pre-set imposition setting restriction.
US09013723B2
When a portable terminal shoots a photo of a plurality of image processing apparatuses, a maintenance order is decided based on the respective states of a plurality of image processing apparatuses in a shooting range of the portable terminal. A tag representing the maintenance order is combined with the shot image and displayed on the portable terminal.
US09013720B2
Systems and methods receive user feedback during user interaction with at least one printing apparatus to record user annoyance measurements for one or more users into memory of at least one computerized device. The systems and methods automatically calculate one or more user annoyance curves for the users from the user annoyance measurements. The annoyance curves relate to one or more performance characteristics of the printing apparatus. The systems and methods automatically select a specific annoyance curve from the annoyance curves depending upon which of the users is utilizing the printing apparatus. The systems and methods automatically determine a performance characteristic level for the printing apparatus that will maintain user annoyance below a predetermined standard for each of the users using the specific annoyance curve for each user. The systems and methods automatically set components of the printing apparatus to operate so as to achieve the identified performance characteristic level.
US09013711B2
A structured light sensor system for measuring contour of a surface includes a control module that coordinates control of both a projection system and an imaging system to operate the structured light sensor system in three different modes. The imaging system is configured to selectively capture an image of light reflected off of the surface. In point mode, the imaging system is on for a first period during which the projection system projects a point of light onto the surface. In line mode, the imaging system is on for a second period during which the projection system projects onto the surface a first plurality of points of light forming a line of light. In area mode, the imaging system is on for a third period during which the projection system projects onto the surface a second plurality of points of light forming a plurality of lines of light.
US09013706B2
An optical detecting apparatus and an operating method thereof are disclosed. The optical detecting apparatus includes a light path module, an actuating module, and a data processing module. The light path module is used to emit a light source to a substance and receive an optical signal generated by the substance reflecting the light source. The actuating module is used to actuate the substance to generate a vibration. The data processing module is used to record and analyze a detected result related to the material properties of the substance and adjust detecting parameters of the light path module and the actuating module respectively.
US09013702B2
Optical computing devices are disclosed. One optical computing device includes an electromagnetic radiation source that emits electromagnetic radiation into an optical train to optically interact with a sample and at least one integrated computational element, the sample being configured to generate optically interacted radiation. A sampling window is arranged adjacent the sample and configured to allow transmission of the electromagnetic radiation therethrough and has one or more surfaces that generate one or more stray signals. A first focal lens is arranged to receive the optically interacted radiation and the one or more stray signals and generate a primary focal point from the optically interacted radiation. A structural element defines a spatial aperture aligned with the primary focal point such that the optically interacted radiation is able to pass therethrough while transmission of the one or more stray signals is substantially blocked by the structural element.
US09013699B2
Several methods and apparatuses for determining whether a vaccine specimen has previously frozen. One method includes providing a known value correlating to the settling of vaccine known to have previously frozen, and, upon agitation of the specimen, directing light substantially through the specimen as the specimen settles. The amount of light that passes through the specimen correlates to the settling of the specimen and is compared to the known value to determine whether the specimen has previously frozen. Another method includes providing light of a predetermined wavelength and directing the light through the specimen. The intensity of the light transmitted through the specimen is compared to the intensity of light of the predetermined wavelength having passed through an amount of vaccine known to have previously frozen. Based on this comparison, a determination is made whether the specimen has previously frozen.
US09013695B2
A projection aligner comprises a projection optical system for radiating a luminous flux including ultraviolet rays onto a photomask, and projecting said luminous flux which has passed through the photomask onto a substrate to which photoresist is applied; a substrate table for mounting the substrate, and a light blocking means for covering the peripheral portion of the substrate to block luminous flux. The light blocking means (80) includes a first light blocking member (84) and a second light blocking member (86) each having a substantially semicircular opening, and moving means (82, 83) for moving the first light blocking means and the second light blocking means approaching each other and away from each other. As the first light blocking member and the second light blocking member are moved to approach each other, the first light blocking member and the second light blocking member form an annular shape and cover the peripheral portion of the substrate (CB).
US09013690B1
This disclosure provides, among other things, a nanosensor comprising a substrate and one or a plurality of pillars extending from a surface of the substrate, where the pillars comprise a metallic dot structure, a metal disc, and a metallic back plane. The nanosensor comprises a molecular adhesion layer that covers at least a part of the metallic dot structure, the metal disc, and/or the metallic back plane and a capture agent bound to the molecular adhesion layer. The nanosensor amplifies a light signal from an analyte, when the analyte is specifically bound to the capture agent.
US09013687B2
The present disclosure describes techniques for testing optical devices in a manner that, in some implementations, simulates the environment in which the devices will be used when they are integrated into the end-product or system. For example, one aspect includes providing a transparent sheet that is positioned near the optical device in a manner that simulates at least some aspects of the environment when the device is incorporated into the end-product or system. The testing can be performed, for example, while the optical devices are in production or at some other time prior to their being integrated into an end-product or system.
US09013679B2
A collector mirror assembly includes a collector mirror that includes a reflective surface and a hole having an edge. The hole extends through the reflective surface. The assembly also includes a tubular body having an inner surface and an outer surface. The tubular body is constructed and arranged to guide a gas flow in a direction substantially transverse to the reflective surface. The outer surface of the tubular body and the edge of the hole form an opening arranged to guide a further gas flow that diverges with respect the gas flow substantially transverse to the reflective surface.
US09013676B2
An individual mirror is used to construct a facet mirror. A mirror body of the individual mirror is configured to be tiltable relative to a rigid carrier body about at least one tilting axis of a tilting joint. The tilting joint is configured as a solid-body joint. The solid-body joint, perpendicular to the tilting axis, has a joint thickness S and, along the tilting axis, a joint length L. The following applies: L/S>50. The result is an individual mirror to construct a facet mirror, which can be reproduced and is precisely adjustable and simultaneously ensures adequate heat removal, in particular, heat produced by residually absorbed useful radiation, which is reflected by the individual mirror, by dissipation of the heat by the mirror body.
US09013657B2
A liquid crystal device includes a liquid crystal panel including a pair of substrates that sandwiches a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules exhibiting a parallel alignment in an initial alignment state, and a polarizing plate disposed on either side of the liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal molecules are inclined at a pretilt angle and aligned in a predetermined direction in planes of the substrates. The liquid crystal panel emits light entering through one of the polarizing plates toward the other. The liquid crystal panel emits light having the maximum intensity in a direction different from a direction normal to the substrates. The azimuth of the maximum-light-intensity direction projected onto the planes of the substrates is substantially parallel to the predetermined direction. The maximum-light-intensity direction is a direction inclined from the direction normal to the substrates toward a direction in which the maximum-light-intensity direction form a right angle with a longitudinal direction of the liquid crystal molecules inclined at the pretilt angle.
US09013648B1
The present invention provides an antistatic structure of an array substrate, which includes: an effective zone (60) of an array substrate and a plurality of dummy wires (26) surrounding the effective zone (60). The effective zone (60) includes a plurality of signal wires (22) and a plurality of shorting bars (24) respectively in electrical connection with the plurality of signal wires (22). The dummy wires (26) are set to be respectively corresponding to and adjacent to outermost ones of the shorting bars (24) of the effective zone (60). The dummy wires (26) each include an inner side (28) that is close to the shorting bars (24) and forms a saw-toothed arrangement. The present invention arranges a dummy wire adjacent to each of the outermost ones of shorting bars and the dummy wire has one side that is close to the shorting bar and forms a saw-toothed arrangement. As such, during a manufacturing process of the array substrate, particularly in dry etching operations of an insulation protection layer and an active layer, metal intersections of the shorting bar can be well protected from static electricity damage caused by abnormal discharge resulting from plasma so as to improve product quality.
US09013637B2
A set-top box is constructed including a processor, an input port, an auxiliary input port, and an output port. The input port is electrically coupled to the processor, and is configured to receive first control signals from a remote control. The auxiliary input port is also electrically coupled to the processor, and is configured to receive second control signals from an auxiliary remote control and send the second control signals to the processor. The output port is electrically coupled to the processor, and is configured to send graphical representations of a remote control to a display. The processor is configured to compose a graphical representation of the remote control, receive a second control signal, modify the graphical representation of the remote control in response to the second control signal, and send the graphical representation to the output port for display.
US09013630B2
A method for encoding a carrier signal in a video signal, the video signal having one or more frames, the frames each having a first field and a second field, the first field and the second field of each frame having a plurality of scan lines, each having a plurality of pixels with an intensity value indicating brightness, the method comprising selectively designating the plurality of scan lines of the first field of the one or more frames as up lines or down lines, calculating an optimum amount of adjustment to the pixels of the up lines and the down lines, and selectively increasing the intensity value of pixels of the up lines and decreasing the intensity value of pixels of the down lines by the optimum amount of adjustment thereby modulating the video signal with a carrier signal and creating a modulated video signal.
US09013626B2
A signal processing circuit of a solid-state imaging element which processes a signal of the solid-state imaging element having a first pixel group and a second pixel group in which a charge accumulation time or photosensitivity is different by α times from that of the first pixel group, includes a calculation unit that multiplies a signal value of a pixel of interest in the first pixel group by α times, a weighting unit that performs weighting with respect to the signal value of the pixel of interest based on a signal value of a pixel associated with the pixel of interest, and a synthesis unit that synthesizes the signal value which has been multiplied by α times in the calculation unit and on which the weighting has been performed in the weighting unit and a signal value of a pixel of the second pixel group.
US09013610B2
An apparatus comprises a readout circuit configured to be disconnected from a pixel output, and to connect a pixel reset signal received by the readout circuit to a pixel output signal received by the readout circuit. The apparatus also comprises at least one programmable gain amplifier coupled with the readout circuit. The apparatus further comprises an analog-to-digital converter coupled with the programmable gain amplifier. The readout circuit is configured to be calibrated based on a comparison of a measured output of the readout circuit to a predetermined value, the predetermined value being equal to (2n/2)−1, where n is the number of bits of the analog-to-digital converter.
US09013603B2
An image processor according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a movie generating section which generates movie data based on an image capturing signal that has been generated by an image capturing section, and a controller which determines, by reference to information concerning a shooting condition, whether or not to write the movie data (chapter(s) just before and/or right after a still picture is shot) on a memory in accordance with a shooting instruction.
US09013594B1
Distortions in digital image data, for example, radial falloff and improper white balance, are corrected without introducing artifacts in saturated regions or causing near-saturated regions to become saturated. The approach avoids pushing near-saturated colors into saturation by assuring that the total gain applied to a pixel channel is always less than 1. A spatially adaptive clamp threshold is used to clamp color values for a pixel after the color channel color values have been gain-adjusted. In this manner, saturated pixel color values that have been shifted-down into non-saturated regions are clamped to a maximum valid value and are presented as white in images generated from the gain-adjusted image data. One example embodiment may calculate an adaptive clamp threshold for each pixel in the image data. Another example embodiment may calculate an adaptive clamp threshold for each pixel in a row of pixels in the image data.
US09013588B2
A small size, low profile camera-shake correction device. A camera-shake correction device (10) corrects camera shake by moving the entire auto-focusing lens drive device (20) in a first direction (X) and a second direction (Y) which are perpendicular to the optical axis (O) and are perpendicular to each other, the auto-focusing lens drive device (20) being provided with a focusing coil (26) and a permanent magnet (28) which is disposed on the outside of the focusing coil. The camera-shake correction device (10) includes: a base (14) disposed so as to be spaced from the bottom surface of the auto-focusing lens drive device (20); suspension wires (16) which each have one end affixed to the outer peripheral section of the base, which extend along the optical axis (O), and which support the entire auto-focusing lens drive device (20) in such a manner that the auto-focusing lens drive device (20) is rockable in the first direction (X) and the second direction (Y); and a camera-shake correcting coil (18) disposed so as to face the permanent magnet (28).
US09013587B2
Methods and apparatus for correcting digital image blur caused by motion of imaging device or subject. A method comprising displaying an image in a viewfinder, designating by a processor or by the user a main subject in the displayed image, capturing multiple images of the main subject, combining multiple images. Combining the multiple images may include calculating pixel values for the corrected image based on pixel values in the combined multiple images. Method may include shifting the multiple images to align the main subject in each of the images.
US09013577B2
Examples of imaging microsatellites are described that have an imaging system and antenna system disposed within the microsatellite body when the microsatellite is in a non-deployed state. The properties of the antenna system can be adjusted such that the antenna system does not impact, contact, or displace the imaging system when the microsatellite is in the non-deployed state. The properties of the antenna system can be adjusted such that the antenna system does not contact or impact the body of the microsatellite or any other structure when the microsatellite transitions to a deployed state. The antenna system can be configured to achieve a desired gain and/or data transmission rate by adjusting properties of the antenna system based on the radiation pattern of an antenna feed and geometric constraints imposed by the imaging system. Examples of methods for designing such imaging microsatellites are provided.
US09013567B2
A method for determining the skin age of consumers and a device suitable for implementing the method. The skin age is determined by capturing a predetermined skin area optoelectronically. The image data obtained during capturing the skin area are stored in an intermediate memory. Thereafter the color distribution and/or the color space are determined by means of image analysis. The determination is performed integratively, the result also being stored in an intermediate memory.
US09013556B2
A 3D image capturing device and a controller chip thereof. The controller chip includes a first and a second sensor interface, a pixel data synchronization module, a 3D image generator and an output interface. The first and second sensor interfaces are coupled to a first and a second 2D image capturing device, respectively, to receive a first and a second image. The pixel data synchronization module synchronizes the pixel data of the first and second images. Based on the synchronized first and second images, the 3D image generator generates a 3D-image. By the output interface, the 3D-image capturing device transmits the generated 3D image to be received by a host.
US09013553B2
In embodiments, a virtual advertising platform may use a three-dimensional mapping algorithm to insert a virtual image within a digital video stream. The virtual advertising platform may apply a three-dimensional mapping algorithm to the virtual digital image, wherein the three-dimensional mapping algorithm causes the virtual digital image to be recomposited within a plurality of frames within a received two-dimensional digital data feed in place of a spatial region within the two-dimensional data feed. The mapping algorithm may enable application of analogous geometric changes to the virtual digital image that are present in the spatial region within the plurality of video frames within the two-dimensional digital video data feed, and may send the recomposited digital data feed for display to a user, wherein the recomposited digital data feed is a virtualized digital data feed that includes the virtual digital image in place of the spatial region.
US09013551B2
The present invention relates generally to methods and systems for the production of 3D motion picture subtitles adapted to image content for improved viewer experience. Some embodiments of the present invention relate to positioning subtitles at variable, scene-dependent depth. Certain aspects of the present invention may be applicable to general 3D display applications and/or digital projection of 3D motion pictures.
US09013550B2
A multi-user augmented reality (AR) system operates without a previously acquired common reference by generating a reference image on the fly. The reference image is produced by capturing at least two images of a planar object and using the images to determine a pose (position and orientation) of a first mobile platform with respect to the planar object. Based on the orientation of the mobile platform, an image of the planar object, which may be one of the initial images or a subsequently captured image, is warped to produce the reference image of a front view of the planar object. The reference image may be produced by the mobile platform or by, e.g., a server. Other mobile platforms may determine their pose with respect to the planar object using the reference image to perform a multi-user augmented reality application.
US09013543B1
Systems, methods and articles of manufacture for minimizing parallax based on depth map generation are described herein. Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to cameras positioned on a camera assembly that capture digital photographic images. The digital photographic images are stitched together into a panoramic image. In order to minimize the parallax while stitching, the procedure includes estimating a distance of a pixel corresponding to a scene point on the scene surface from a panoramic center of projection positioned on the camera assembly to the scene surface. A depth map is generated that provides the estimated depth of the pixel. Based on the estimated depth, the pixel may be projected onto each camera. A panoramic pixel corresponding to the scene point may be obtained from the values of each projected pixel. The panoramic pixel may then be mapped onto the panoramic image with parallax minimized.
US09013534B2
An apparatus and a method for providing a video telephony service in a mobile communication terminal are provided. The apparatus for providing the video telephony service in the mobile communication terminal includes a controlling unit for receiving preferred video format information from a peer mobile communication terminal during a signaling procedure with the peer mobile communication terminal for the video telephony service and for determining a video format to use in the video telephony service using the received preferred video format, and a video codec for encoding and decoding video data that is transmitted to and received from the peer mobile communication terminal, using the determined video format.
US09013526B2
A display element includes a transmission/diffusion switching layer switched between a diffusion state of diffusing visible light and a transmission state of transmitting visible light by electrical switching, and a transmission/reflection switching layer switched between a reflection state of reflecting visible light and a transmission state of transmitting visible light by electrical switching, and the transmission/diffusion switching layer and the transmission/reflection switching layer overlap each other.
US09013524B2
According to various embodiments of the invention, gamma curves for multiple pixel groups can be calibrated using look-up tables or by using reference voltage groups provided by gamma voltage generators so that the pixels can display multiple images with correct gray levels at different view angles. Therefore, color shift can be avoided or lessened without necessarily using extra circuitry on the display panel. Also, any related light transmittance or light utilization efficiency reduction may be decreased or eliminated.
US09013519B2
There is provided an organic light emitting display capable of improving the display quality of a low brightness region. The organic light emitting display includes pixels positioned at intersections of scan lines, emission control lines, and data lines, a converter for receiving data to generate brightness values, a timing controller for extracting emission time values and gamma values to correspond to the brightness values, an emission control line driver for supplying emission control signals to the emission control lines so that emission times of the pixels are controlled to correspond to the emission time values, and a gamma voltage generator for generating gamma voltages corresponding to the gamma values.
US09013516B2
An image display device expresses multiple colors including intermediate colors and an electrophoretic particle making up the image display device includes n-kinds of (n>2) charged particles each having colors and threshold value voltages each being different from one another. A specified period during which a voltage is applied includes a resetting period for applying a resetting voltage, a first, . . . , kth, . . . , nth voltage applying periods and a voltage to be applied includes a resetting voltage, 0V, first voltage (absolute value) to be applied within the first voltage applying period, 0V, kth voltage (absolute value) to be applied within kth voltage applying period, and 0V voltage, nth voltage (absolute value) to be applied within an nth voltage applying period. Relationships: |first applied voltage|>|kth applied voltage|>|nth voltage| and |first applied voltage|<|kth voltage|<|nth voltage| are satisfied.
US09013514B2
A variable speed autoscroll system is disclosed. The variable speed scrolling system includes a control device, such as a scrolling wheel or other suitable control member. A user may select a scrolling speed by displacing the control member, and a non-linear increase in scrolling speed based on the degree of displacement of the control member is achieved. The control member may be disposed in a computer mouse, keyboard, or other peripheral device. In various embodiments, the user may toggle between various sensitivity levels to achieve a greater or lesser degree of increase in scrolling speed based on the amount of displacement of the control member. Optionally, the user may input the set of parameters to determine the dynamics of the system.
US09013503B2
A device includes converters for converting first image data of an RGB-type into second image data of a YCbCr-type, into third image data of the YCbCr-type, and into fourth image data of the RGB-type, wherein a CbCr-coordinate system has six regions defined by coordinates of a reference color and of six primary colors, and when coordinates of the second image data are located in a region defined by coordinates of the reference color, a first primary color, and a second primary color, the coordinates of the second image data are determined by the coordinates of the reference color, the first primary color, the second primary color, coordinates of a target reference color corresponding to those of the reference color, coordinates of a first target primary color corresponding to those of the first primary color, and coordinates of a second target primary color corresponding to those of the second primary color.
US09013502B2
A method for viewing a simulated light output generated for a first display on a second display includes a variety of steps. First, the simulated light output is generated based on qualities of the first display. Next, the simulated light output is compensated for color differences, temporal differences, luminance differences including gamma difference, and differences in viewing environment between the first and the second display, in real-time. Then, the simulated light output that has been compensated for the differences and for viewing environment is output for the second display.
US09013494B2
A method and apparatus for software development and a method and system for analysis of graphics software are disclosed.
US09013490B2
Some embodiments of the present invention pertain to an apparatus, method, and a computer program that is configured to cause a processor to construct an upper envelope and lower envelope for an input image based on a statistically computed window parameter in a real-time system using multi-thread processing, and smooth the upper envelope and lower envelope based on a sum of elements in a window, wherein the sum of elements in the window is divided by a number of non-zero elements in the sum of elements in the window.
US09013486B2
An exemplary method includes at least one physical computing device 1) determining a first strength of communication metric representative of a strength of communications initiated by a first user towards a second user during a time period and a second strength of communication metric representative of a strength of communications initiated by the second user towards the first user during the time period, 2) generating a strength of communication graphic that graphically represents the strength of the communications initiated by the first user towards the second user relative to the strength of the communications initiated by the second user towards first user, and 3) providing the graphic for display by an access device associated with the first user. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
US09013484B1
State-of-the-art density estimation methods for rendering participating media rely on a dense photon representation of the radiance distribution within a scene. A parametric density estimation technique is used to represent radiance using a hierarchical Gaussian mixture. Coefficients of this mixture are efficiently obtained for use in a progressive and accelerated form of the Expectation-Maximization algorithm. Noise-free renderings of high-frequency illumination are created using only a few thousand Gaussian terms, where millions of photons are traditionally required. Temporal coherence is trivially supported within this framework, and the compact footprint is also useful in the context of real-time visualization. A hierarchical ray tracing-based implementation is demonstrated, as well as a fast splatting approach that can interactively render animated volume caustics.
US09013483B2
An object region detection unit (130) decides the region of a physical object of interest in a physical space image. An image manipulation unit (140) performs shading processing of an inclusion region including the decided region. A rendering unit (155) arranges a virtual object in virtual space at the position and orientation of the physical object of interest and generates a virtual space image based on the position and orientation of the user's viewpoint. A composition unit (160) generates a composite image by superimposing the virtual space image on the physical space image that has undergone the shading processing and outputs the generated composite image to an HMD (190).
US09013479B2
A tile-based rendering apparatus and method is provided. Vertex data sorted based on a tile unit may be stored in a scene buffer and be rendered. Among the stored vertex data, vertex data used several times for rendering may be temporarily stored in a memory or a cache. Vertex data having a probability of being read several times from the scene buffer may be temporarily stored in another memory.
US09013462B2
An image display device 1 includes: a liquid crystal panel 11 having a plurality of pixels; and an overdrive execution section 50 configured to determine, with respect to each of target pixels for which overdrive is performed among the plurality of pixels of the liquid crystal panel 11, a gain usage value to be used for the overdrive, based on a predetermined set gain value, and to apply, based on the gain usage value, a liquid-crystal driving voltage to the corresponding target pixel, wherein with respect to a pixel, among the target pixels, for which it is judged that a gradation value in a current frame obtained from the video signal is an intermediate gradation value, the overdrive execution section 50 performs a gain suppressing operation for determining the gain usage value as a value smaller than the set gain value.
US09013461B2
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display including a substrate main body; a driving circuit on the substrate main body; an organic light emitting element on the driving circuit; and a front substrate covering the organic light emitting element and coupled to the substrate main body, wherein the driving circuit includes a wire, the wire including a planar portion parallel to a surface of the substrate main body, and a connection portion connected to the planar portion and extending in a direction orthogonal to the substrate main body.
US09013460B2
A display device and a method of driving the display device are disclosed. The display device includes first and second data drivers. The first data driver is configured to generate data voltages for the pixels based on first image data. The second data driver is configured to generate current voltages for the pixels based on second image data. One of the first and second data drivers may be disposed outside of a display panel.
US09013456B2
A scan driver includes a plurality of scan driving blocks including a sequential input terminal, a first clock signal input terminal, a second clock signal input terminal, and a signal output terminal. The scan driving blocks include: a first block receiving a frame start signal or an output signal of an adjacent scan driving block through the sequential input terminal, receiving a first clock signal through the first clock signal input terminal, receiving a second clock signal through the second clock signal input terminal so as to output a first output signal to the signal output terminal; and a second block receiving the first output signal through the sequential input terminal, receiving the second clock signal through the first clock signal input terminal, and receiving the first clock signal through the second clock signal input terminal so as to output a second output signal to the signal output terminal.
US09013453B2
An electronic device having a touch sensitive panel has an opened and a closed state, and comprises a sensor circuit, a touch simulation facility and a comparator. The sensor circuit is for generating a touch signal indicative for a position where a touch of the touch sensitive panel is detected. The touch simulation facility is for evoking a touch signal at a position of the touch sensitive panel, and comprises a touch simulation element which in the closed state of the electronic device is arranged opposite the touch sensitive panel. The comparator is for comparing the touch signal with a reference value corresponding to the touch simulation element and for generating a correction signal for adjusting a setting of the sensor circuit for compensation of a difference detected between the position where the touch signal is evoked and the position indicated by the touch signal.
US09013452B2
A method activates different interactive functions based on a classification of vibro-acoustic signals resulting from touch events with finger parts of a user. A primary function is trigger when an interactive element on a touch screen is touched with a finger tip of the user. An auxiliary function is launched when the interactive element is touched with a knuckle or fingernail of the user. The touch events result in generating the vibro-acoustic signals. The vibro-acoustic signals are classified and used to distinguish what finger part was used based on the classification of the vibro-acoustic signals.
US09013451B1
A touch-screen monitor is described. The monitor includes an ultrasonic sensor for detecting motion of an object that is placed in contact with the monitor.
US09013446B2
A touch sensor mechanism for a touch display device, includes a cover lens made by a transparent material having a dielectric constant greater than 4.5 and a compression strength greater than 700 MPa for generating a finger's touching capacitance (CF) while a user's finger of a user touch thereon; and a sensor device module including a plurality of sensor devices having a sensor parasitic capacitance (CP). The cover lens and the sensor device module are disposed in the touch display device in such a manner that a ratio of a standard deviation value (σU) of the finger's touching capacitance (CF) of the cover lens to the sensor parasitic capacitance (CP) of the sensor device module is a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The SNR is adjusted along with the finger's touching capacitance (CF) by reducing the thickness of the cover lens.
US09013445B2
A capacitive touch device includes a capacitive touch panel, a driving control unit, k ADCs, a multiplex network and a processing unit. The capacitive touch panel has an m×n sensing point matrix formed by m driving line and n sensing lines. The driving control unit is coupled to the m driving lines. The multiplex network connects the n sensing lines and the k ADCs by time-domain multiplexing. The processing unit is coupled to the k ADCs. At least a part of the driving lines and at least a part of the sensing lines are assigned to be electrically connected. The processing unit senses according to multiple frequencies to obtain multiple signal strength values, and selects the frequency corresponding to a smallest signal value to be a sensing frequency of the capacitive touch device.
US09013440B2
A method includes sensing two successive positional inputs input via a sensor display; determining a time difference between the two successive positional inputs; and rendering, to the sensor display, a graphic between the two successive positional inputs if the time difference does not exceed a time difference threshold. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.
US09013434B2
A touch display panel, including first electrode patterns, second electrode patterns, active elements, third electrode patterns and fourth electrode patterns is provided. The second electrode patterns and the first electrode pattern are set to form pixel areas. Each of the active elements is disposed in one of the pixel areas and electrically connected to the corresponding first electrode pattern and second electrode pattern. The third electrode patterns are arranged along a direction of an arrangement direction of the second electrode patterns and divide the second electrode patterns into groups, wherein each third pattern covers columns of the pixel areas. The fourth electrode patterns are electrically insulated to the third electrode patterns. Each fourth electrode pattern is disposed in one of the pixel areas and electrically connected to the corresponding active element. A driving method of a touch display panel is also provided.
US09013432B2
A flexible display device and a data displaying method thereof are disclosed. The device includes a touch sensor to generate touch events according to touch actions, a flexible sensor to generate a bend signal as one side of the device is bent, a storage unit to store a function table, and a controller to control the components of the device. The function table is configured to define control operations to reproduce currently output contents based on the touch events and the bend events.
US09013430B2
Robot control typically requires many physical joysticks, buttons and switches. We have created a dynamically resizing, ergonomic, and multi-touch (DREAM) controller that enables a software-based operator control unit (SoftOCU) using a multi-touch screen. The DREAM controller can be formed wherever a person places his or her hand on a touch screen. We have also developed an algorithm for accurate hand and finger registration that can be used to create the DREAM controller.
US09013427B2
The present disclosure relates to communication technologies and discloses a method and terminal of displaying a contact list. The method of displaying a contact list is applied on an apparatus with a touch sensitive display, comprising: detecting a touch on the touch sensitive display, after receiving an instruction for opening a contact list; determining a touch position, when detecting the touch on the touch sensitive display; and determining a large contact group corresponding to the touch position, and displaying contacts in the large contact group by the touch sensitive display. With the present disclosure, a user can find out a contact quickly, and the user's experience can be improved.
US09013426B2
Controlling haptic feedback in a mobile communication device is provided. Metadata associated with a set of objects within requested content is parsed to identify each object within the requested content having an associated frequency pattern included in the metadata. The requested content is displayed in a display device. A touch input is received on the display device at a location of an identified object that has an associated frequency pattern within the requested content. A frequency and a duration of a vibration generated by a variable frequency vibration device simulating a tactile texture of the identified object touched within the requested content is controlled using the associated frequency pattern of the identified object.
US09013422B2
According to an aspect, a device includes a touch screen display and a controller. The touch screen display displays a screen of an application executed in the foreground. When the first gesture is performed on the touch screen display while a first application is executed in the foreground and a second application is executed in the background, the controller causes the first application to perform an operation according to the first gesture. When the second gesture is performed on the touch screen display while the first application is executed in the foreground and the second application is executed in the background, the controller executes the second application in the foreground.
US09013418B2
An apparatus, system and method are presented for improving the accessibility to self-service terminals by the visually impaired. An apparatus is provided that when attached to a touch-screen display improves accessibility. The apparatus includes touch identifiable symbols. A user operates a self-service terminal by selecting the appropriate symbol on the apparatus in response to audible instructions from the terminal.
US09013406B2
The disclosure discloses a mouse key identification circuit, a mouse key identification device and a mouse. The mouse key identification circuit comprises: N keys, M collection ports, a Light-Emitting Diode (LED) driver circuit and a grounding terminal, wherein part or all of i keys in N keys are connected to the LED port of the LED driver circuit by one respective end, while the other end of the i keys is connected to i collection ports of the M collection ports respectively, wherein i is less than N and N is a natural number; the grounding terminal is connected to one respective end of N−i keys of the N keys, and the other end of the N−i keys is connected to N−i collection ports of the M collection ports respectively. With the disclosure, the number of signal collection ports can be reduced and the cost of a mouse can be lowered.
US09013405B2
In embodiments of a touch-scrolling pad for computer input devices, a touch sensor strip detects touch contacts on a touch-scrolling pad that is implemented for vertical scrolling input and horizontal scrolling input. A selectable button positioned proximate below the touch sensor strip can be selected by an actuation depress input to the touch-scrolling pad. The touch-scrolling pad includes programmed instructions in firmware implemented to determine that a touch contact is one of a vertical scrolling input, a horizontal scrolling input, or the actuation depress input to actuate the selectable button. The touch-scrolling pad also includes a haptic system that generates haptic feedback responsive to either of the vertical scrolling input or the horizontal scrolling input.
US09013403B2
A method is provided for remote controlling of mouse cursor functions of a computer device is disclosed. The method includes: tracking movement of a handheld pointing device in a three dimensional monitoring space based on a directional carrier sent by the handheld pointing device; modulating the directional carrier with a pulse pattern based on a corresponding manual operation action at the handheld pointing device; converting the tracked movement of the handheld pointing device in corresponding movement information; converting the movement information of the handheld pointing device in valid desktop coordinates for the computer device and moving a mouse cursor to these coordinates; demodulating the directional carrier and evaluating the pulse pattern in order to determine a corresponding manual operating action at the handheld pointing device; and taking corresponding action if a defined manual operating action at the handheld pointing device is determined.
US09013399B2
To take security into account and increase user friendliness, an information processing device includes: an input unit to which information is input; an extracting unit extracting predetermined words from the information input to the input unit; a classifying unit classifying the words extracted by the extracting unit into first words and second words; and a converting unit converting the first words by a first conversion method and converting the second words by a second conversion method, the second conversion method being different from the first conversion method.
US09013398B2
In control methods for a multi-function controller, which includes a sensor having a ring operation region, the position of an object on the sensor is detected for generating a position information, and the force applied to the sensor by the object is detected for generating a force information. When the sensor detects multiple successive position information, which indicate that the object is circling along the ring operation region, a rotation information may be generated additionally. The position information, the force information and the rotation information are used to perform operation in various functional modes.
US09013396B2
A motion capture environment includes at least one sensor-tracker for tracking a location of a tracked object within the motion capture environment and one or more computers collectively operable to generate a virtual reality environment including a virtual control panel having a virtual control that, when actuated, effects a predetermined result in the virtual reality environment; determine a virtual location of the tracked object within the virtual reality environment; and determine when the virtual location of the tracked object coincides with the location of the virtual control to actuate the virtual control. The motion capture environment further includes a display device for displaying the virtual reality environment to an actor within the motion capture environment.
US09013394B2
This application is directed to an electrophoretic display device in which the common electrode is not connected to a display driver. The driving method suitable for such a display device provides a low cost solution for many display applications.
US09013390B2
A gate driver includes stages coupled to each other and outputting gate signals. Each stage includes a node driver, a pull-up unit, a node controller, a first node stabilizer, and a pull-down unit. The node driver outputs a first voltage or a second voltage to a first node in response to a first or a second input signal. The pull-up unit pulls an output terminal to high in response to a voltage of the first node. The node controller outputs an on-voltage to a second node in response to a first clock signal from a third node or a second clock signal from a fourth node. The first node stabilizer stabilizes the first node to an off-voltage in response to a voltage of the second node. The pull-down unit pulls the output terminal to low in response to the voltage of the second node or the second input signal.
US09013387B2
The present invention discloses a charge-sharing type pixel structure having a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel that each includes a transistor. The second sub-pixel further has a third transistor and a top-gate electrode. When the third transistor is switched on, original gray scale applied to a liquid crystal capacitor of the first sub-pixel varies due to charges being shared with other capacitors. The top-gate electrode change the threshold voltage of the third transistor according to biasing signal so as to further adjust the variation of the gray scale voltage applied to the liquid crystal capacitor of the first sub-pixel.
US09013386B2
A liquid crystal display (LCD) and an operating method thereof are provided. The operating method includes the following steps. It is determined whether a first frame and a second frame following the first frame are dynamic frames. When the first frame and the second frame are dynamic frames, a timing controller of the LCD performs a polarity inversion on a polarity signal, so that the polarity signal corresponding to the first frame is the same as the polarity signal corresponding to the second frame. When the second frame is written into an LCD panel of the LCD, energy written into the LCD panel is reduced.
US09013385B2
The present disclosure discloses a driving circuit of a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel, an LCD panel, and an LCD device. The driving circuit of the LCD panel includes a compensation unit coupled with a scan line of the LCD panel and outputting N different driving voltages to different gate driver chips on a side of the panel. N is equal to a number of the gate driver chips arranged on the side of the LCD panel, as distance from the driving source of the driving voltages to the gate driver chip increases, absolute value of the driving voltage outputted by the compensation unit increases.
US09013378B2
Herein disclosed an image display including: row scan lines configured to supply a control signal; column signal lines configured to supply a video signal; and pixel circuits configured to be disposed at intersections between the scan lines and the signal lines, wherein each of the pixel circuits has at least a drive transistor, a sampling transistor connected to a gate of the drive transistor, a capacitive part connected between the gate and a source of the drive transistor, and a light-emitting element connected to the source of the drive transistor.
US09013372B2
Disclosed herein is a display apparatus, including: a pixel array section including a plurality of pixels, a writing transistor, a driving transistor, a first switching transistor, a holding capacitor, and a second switching transistor; a first scanning section configured to drive the writing transistor in a unit of a row of the pixels; a second scanning section configured to drive the switching transistors in synchronism with scanning by the first scanning section; and a third scanning section configured to control the second switching transistors to a non-conducting state within a period after the image signal is written by the writing transistor until the signal writing period of the same row of the pixels ends but to a conducting state within any other period.
US09013367B2
A flexible display includes a plurality of pixel chips, chixels, provided on a flexible substrate. The chixels and the light emitters thereon may be shaped, sized and arranged to minimize chixel, pixel, and subpixel gaps and to provide a desired bend radius of the display. The flexible substrate may include light manipulators, such as filters, light convertors and the like to manipulate the light emitted from light emitters of the chixels. The light manipulators may be arranged to minimize chixel gaps between adjacent chixels.
US09013360B1
An antenna formed from one or more structures with sets of radiating elements oriented in four different, preferably orthogonal, directions. The radiating elements are further provided as multiple horizontal and vertical radiating section. The structure may be a six sided cube-like structure or a cylinder. A combining circuit provides omnidirectional, directional, and scanning/direction finding modes across a broad operating frequency range with multiple polarizations. The arrangement lends itself to implementation as a whip form factor well suited for vehicular applications.
US09013359B2
An onboard directional plane antenna comprises at least one array of radiating-slot waveguides comprising an alternating succession of three superposed metallic plates and of two dielectric substrates. The two substrates each comprise at least four adjacent waveguides, corresponding and communicating with one another pairwise by way of coupling slots. Each waveguide of the upper substrate furthermore comprises a plurality of radiating slots passing through the upper metallic plate, all the radiating slots of one and the same waveguide being parallel to one another and oriented in one and the same direction, the radiating slots of two adjacent waveguides being disposed in chevrons. Each waveguide of the lower substrate comprises an internal individual feed circuit comprising an individual electronic circuit for phase shifting and amplification.
US09013358B2
An antenna assembly includes a pair of antennas and an interconnecting portion. Each antenna includes a ground portion, a feed-in portion spaced apart from the ground portion and having a feed-in end that is configured to be fed with a RF signal, a short-circuit portion electrically connected to the ground portion and the feed-in portion, and a radiating portion electrically connected to the feed-in portion and spaced apart from the ground portion. The interconnecting portion is electrically connected between the short-circuit portions and between the ground portions of the pair of antennas, and is formed with a U-shaped main groove that has a pair of opposite ends adjacent to the pair of antennas, respectively.
US09013356B2
A handheld device is disclosed, which includes an appearance part, a system ground plane and a detachable element. The detachable element includes a carrier and a planar antenna. The system ground plane is disposed in the appearance part and has a feed point. The planar antenna is disposed on the carrier and has a connection point. The carrier is detachably connected to the appearance part. When the carrier is connected to the appearance part, the above-mentioned connection point is electrically connected to the feed point. In this way, the radiation performance of the antenna can be improved and the frequency band of the antenna of the handheld device can be changed by replacing the detachable element.
US09013350B2
In one embodiment, an area in which a mobile device may be located is determined using a satellite-based positioning system (SPS). An area in which the mobile device may be located is determined using a wireless local area network based positioning system (WLAN-PS). The area determined using the SPS is compared to the area determined using the WLAN-PS. In response to the area determined using the SPS being remote from the area determined using the WLAN-PS, it is concluded that the one or more WLAN APs have been moved to be about the area determined using the SPS. One or more locations of the one or more WLAN APs are updated in the reference database.
US09013337B2
A data input/output (I/O) device includes a plurality of data units and an I/O assembly. The plurality of data units is coupled to a global I/O (GIO) line through corresponding local I/O (LIO) lines and configured to receive or transmit a plurality of data groups through the corresponding LIO lines. At least one of the plurality of data units have a different operation speed. The I/O assembly performs serial/parallel conversion operations on the plurality of data groups including a high-speed data group and outputs results of the serial/parallel conversion operations. The high-speed data group is output from the at least one of the plurality of data units having the different operation speed.
US09013330B2
A taxi guidance system is provided for an aircraft having a primary thrust engine and an onboard electric taxi system. The taxi guidance system includes or cooperates with a source of aircraft status data for the aircraft, and a source of airport feature data associated with synthetic graphical representations of an airport field. The taxi guidance system includes a processor operatively coupled to the source of aircraft status data and to the source of airport feature data to generate, in response to at least the aircraft status data and the airport feature data, taxi path guidance information for the aircraft, start/stop guidance information associated with operation of the primary thrust engine, and speed guidance information for the onboard electric taxi system. The processor generates image rendering display commands that can be received by a display system to render a dynamic synthetic representation of the airport field that includes graphical indicia of the taxi path guidance information, the start/stop guidance information, and the speed guidance information.
US09013329B2
A lighting device, capable of identifying and marking traffic areas of airports, comprises at least one semiconductor lamp and an electronic control circuit, which is connectable to an electrical AC supply network with constant current feed. For controlling the operation of the semiconductor lamp, the control circuit has a rectifier, which is connectable without a transformer to the electrical AC supply network. It further has an internal power supply, which is connected to the rectifier, for supplying the semiconductor lamp with an electric direct current. Furthermore, the voltage supply device (3) having electronic power factor correction means, by means of which voltage and current can be kept in phase in all operating states of the lighting device (1). It furthermore re-adjusts the input voltage from the electrical AC supply network to allow the current predefined on the AC supply network to flow in the event of a small power demand of the electronic control circuit.
US09013321B2
A bipole is fitted in a warning system socket for removably receiving a hazard warning system in order to set one of at least two operating modes of the hazard warning system. An electric characteristic of the bipole can be read out electrically by an electronic control of the hazard warning system via two electric contact pairs which are in contact with each other in the received state of the hazard warning system. In particular, the bipole is used via at least one pair of electric contacts, the pair being generally provided for externally connecting an optical and/or acoustic alarm emitter, in order to read in the electric characteristic of the bipole. The bipole is preferably a passive electric resistor.
US09013310B2
A radio frequency identification (RFID) device and method of fabrication are presented. The RFID device includes an RFID antenna, a capacitor, and an RFID integrated circuit. The RFID antenna includes an elongate conductive trace disposed within an antenna area of the RFID device, and the capacitor includes an elongate capacitive structure for storing power. The elongate capacitive structure is aligned with the elongate conductive trace and embedded within the antenna area of the RFID device. The RFID integrated circuit is electrically coupled to the RFID antenna and to the capacitor, and the capacitor stores power within the antenna area of the RFID device to facilitate RFID integrated circuit functionality.
US09013307B2
A self-contained RFID-enabling drawer module includes a probe antenna to introduce a robust EM field into a container within a Faraday cage to activate RFID tags within the container, regardless of the container's resonant frequency. A receiving antenna and reader read the data of the activated RFID tags, and a processor and communications module transmit the RFID tag data to a remote processor. The RFID-enabling module is self-contained in that it needs only power and a data connection with which to operate. Where an Ethernet is used, power is obtained by PoE. The RFID-enabling module may be used to retrofit existing medication drawers of a medication cabinet or may be used during the construction of a new cabinet. The RFID-enabling system includes auto tuning of the antenna to dynamically compensate for loading changes on the EM field. Assembly and testing costs are reduced and serviceability of the system is increased.
US09013287B2
In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method of monitoring vehicles is provided, the method including: generating a debris report of an incident relating to vehicle-induced roadway debris, the debris report generated by a reporting vehicle; in a monitored vehicle distinct from the reporting vehicle, updating an incident record for the monitored vehicle based on the debris report and determining, based on the updated incident record, whether the monitored vehicle is associated with the incident or in a vicinity of the incident; and initiating a safety action to be performed on the monitored vehicle in response to a determination that the monitored vehicle is associated with the incident or in the vicinity of the incident.
US09013286B2
A driver assistance system is configured to display on a vehicle display an image of corresponding surroundings of a vehicle, having at least one image capturing camera; a viewpoint converter to generate a viewpoint converted image having a point of view looking downwardly from above the vehicle; at least one sensor configured to detect a distance or a partial shape of at least one object in surroundings of the vehicle; an image processor configured to modify the viewpoint converted image based on the detected distance or the partial shape of the at least one object looking from the vehicle to the at least one object, wherein the modification of the viewpoint converted image includes enhancing the three dimensional appearance of the at least one object in the viewpoint converted image.
US09013285B2
In a method for displaying warning signals using an electronic device while riding a bicycle, the method firstly detects any acceleration of the electronic device in three predefined axes in real time using a gravity sensor of the electronic device, and detects any angular velocity of the electronic device around any of the three predefined axes using a gyroscope of the electronic device. Secondly, the method determines a current driving condition of the bicycle according to any detected acceleration and any detected angular velocity of the electronic device. The method displays warning signals on the display screen of the electronic device according to the current driving condition of the bicycle.
US09013283B1
A smart outlet and a smart grid electrical management system, wherein the outlet is adapted to fit in a typical gang box, to swivel, to detect and retain a plug, to automatically respond to a change in electrical demand and to provide a standby mode and includes a circuit board and an operably coupled touch screen GUI display controller, and wherein the management system includes a display controller for receiving user inputs and power data, for controlling the system and for outputting information, a ZigBee enabled load controller and a wired or wireless communication network linking the display controller, the load controller and one or more outlets, power sources, and/or electrical appliances or devices.
US09013282B2
The apparatus for tracking an object and the method thereof and the method for locating a sensor are described. The subject object tracking apparatus comprises an interface receiving sensor information and object information from a sensor communicated with an object; a first storing part successively storing sensor information in chronological order; a second storing part storing a neighborhood graph displaying an object space; and a location determining part determining a location of an object using sensor information and a neighborhood graph. According to the present invention, an accessibility graph corresponding to a space is generated and a location of a sensor is determined on an accessibility graph, thereby effectively locating a sensor and tracking an object.
US09013280B2
Provided is an air conditioner that suppresses power consumption by discharging resistors for discharging residual charges of a transmission path. An analog switch is previously interposed between two discharging resistors. In sending an AMI signal to two lines of a transmission path, an MCU executes discharge control to cause the analog switch to achieve an OFF state when a high level signal voltage is output, and to cause the analog switch to achieve an ON state when a low level signal voltage is output.
US09013278B2
A method and system for responding to a request received at an object with a radio frequency identification (RFID) device is described. In one embodiment, a method for responding to a request received at an object with an RFID device is described. The method for responding to a request received at an object with an RFID device involves receiving a request at an RFID device, providing the request from the RFID device to a component of the object, and processing the request at the component of the object. Other embodiments are also described.
US09013276B2
Defining a radio frequency identification read area includes a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader operable to read RFID tags within a specified read area. An RFID transmitter is coupled with the RFID reader and is operable to radiating a modulated carrier in an area adjacent to the specified read area. The RFID reader controls the RFID transmitter to transmit the modulated carrier during a preamble transmission of the RFID reader to prevent any RFID tags in the adjacent area from recognizing an interrogation signal from the RFID reader.
US09013271B2
A biometric authentication apparatus is provided, the apparatus including: a comparator that performs authentication of the user by comparing biological information read from a user with registered biological information registered in a storage in advance; a high accuracy comparator that compares the biological information with the registered biological information with a higher accuracy instead of comparison using the comparator when the user is not authenticated by the comparator; and a comparison result storage that records a comparison result obtained by the high accuracy comparator in the storage.
US09013265B2
A method of monitoring and controlling a target operating device of a process control system. The method comprises: detecting activation of one or more parts of the target operating device with a sensor of a wireless latching unit; latching a switch of the wireless latching unit from an active state to an inactive state upon detecting the activation of the one or more parts; transmitting one or more active signals from the wireless latching unit to abuse station upon latching the switch to the active state; detecting deactivation of the one or more parts of the target operating device with the sensor of the wireless latching unit; ignoring the detected deactivation at the wireless latching unit; and continuing to transmit the one or more active signals from the wireless latching unit to the base station. A wireless monitoring and control system is also disclosed.
US09013257B2
For simplifying the handling of magnet bodies during magnetization and for inserting the magnetized magnet bodies into a component of a magnetic system such as an electromagnetic drive, a magnetic travel or angle system or the like, an apparatus is proposed which includes a plurality of cavities for receiving at least one magnet body respectively, wherein the magazine comprises a plurality of interconnected and mutually movable magazine elements. The invention further relates to a method for holding magnet bodies during their magnetization and for inserting the magnetized magnet bodies into a component of a magnetic system and to a magnet body handling system.
US09013241B2
The present disclosure relates to nanoresonator oscillators or NEMS (nanoelectromechanical system) oscillators. A circuit for measuring the oscillation frequency of a resonator is provided, comprising a first phase-locked feedback loop locking the frequency of a controlled oscillator at the resonant frequency of the resonator, this first loop comprising a first phase comparator. Furthermore, a second feedback loop is provided which searches for and stores the loop phase shift introduced by the resonator and its amplification circuit when they are locked at resonance by the first loop. The first and the second loops operate during a calibration phase. A third self-oscillation loop is set up during an operation phase. It directly links the output of the controllable phase shifter to the input of the resonator. The phase shifter receives the phase-shift control stored by the second loop.
US09013240B2
A method in a circuit comprises providing a first clock by a resistor-capacitor (RC) oscillator; demodulating a plurality of input signals to form a plurality of demodulated input signals; discriminating frequency ranges of the plurality of demodulated input signals according to the first clock; determining whether a first predetermined number of consecutive demodulated input signals among the plurality of demodulated input signals fall into a first predetermined frequency range; triggering a crystal oscillator to provide a second clock to calibrate the first clock if the first predetermined number of consecutive input signals fall into the first predetermined frequency range.
US09013236B2
An operational transconductance amplifier for connection with multiple input voltage sources includes a resistance simulation unit, two current cancellation units, a first differential output unit, two current division units, and a second differential output unit. The resistance simulation unit is to simulate resistance. The two current cancellation units are to receive and convert the voltage of the input voltage sources into two first currents. The two first currents flow to two first output ends of the first differential output unit, respectively. The two current division units are to receive and convert the voltage of the input voltage sources into two second currents. The two second currents flow to two second output ends of the two second differential output units, respectively, and include the same potential as the two first currents.
US09013235B2
Monolithic three dimensional (3D) flip-flops with minimal clock skew and related systems and methods
Monolithic three dimensional (3D) flip-flops with minimal clock skew and related systems and methods are disclosed. The present disclosure provides a 3D integrated circuit (IC) (3DIC) that has a flop spread across at least two tiers of the 3DIC. The flop is split across tiers with transistor partitioning in such a way that keeps all the clock related devices at the same tier, thus potentially giving better setup, hold and clock-to-q margin. In particular, a first tier of the 3DIC has the master latch, slave latch, and clock circuit. A second tier has the input circuit and the output circuit.
US09013234B2
A transconductance adjustment circuit includes a reference signal generation circuit that outputs a first signal and a second signal that is different by 90 degrees in phase from the first signal, a replica circuit to which the first signal and the second signal are input and which generates a first output signal and a second output signal, and an adjustment signal generation circuit that outputs a transconductance adjustment signal with respect to the adjustment-targeted circuit and the replica circuit. The reference signal generation circuit generates the first signal and the second signal that change in voltage at between a first voltage level and a second voltage level, based on a clock signal, and outputs the generated first and second signals with respect to the replica circuit.
US09013233B2
In a high-performance interface circuit for micro-electromechanical (MEMS) inertial sensors, an excitation signal (used to detect capacitance variation) is used to control the value of an actuation signal bit stream to allow the dynamic range of both actuation and detection paths to be maximized and to prevent folding of high frequency components of the actuation bit stream due to mixing with the excitation signal. In another aspect, the effects of coupling between actuation signals and detection signals may be overcome by performing a disable/reset of at least one of and preferably both of the detection circuitry and the MEMS detection electrodes during actuation signal transitions. In a still further aspect, to get a demodulated signal to have a low DC component, fine phase adjustment may be achieved by configuring filters within the sense and drive paths to have slightly different center frequencies and hence slightly different delays.
US09013229B2
A charge pump circuit includes a plurality of serially coupled stages and a plurality of clock drivers. A voltage output of a first of the stages is connected to a voltage input of a second of the stages. A voltage output of the second of the stages is boosted relative to a voltage input of the second of the stages. Each of the stages includes complementary charge pumps. Each of the charge pumps includes a pumping capacitor that stores charge in the stage. Each of the clock drivers drives a clock signal to the pumping capacitor of at least one of the stages. A voltage of the clock signal provided to the second of the stages is derived from the voltage input of the second of the stages.
US09013228B2
Embodiments described in the present disclosure relate to a method for providing power for an integrated system, including acts of: providing the system with power, ground and body bias voltages, the body bias voltages comprising a body bias voltage of p-channel MOS transistors, greater or lower than the supply voltage, and a body bias voltage of n-channel MOS transistors, lower or greater than the ground voltage, selecting by means of the system out of the voltages provided, depending on whether a processing unit of the system is in a period of activity or inactivity, voltages to be supplied to bias the bodies of the MOS transistors of the processing unit, and providing the bodies of the MOS transistors of the processing unit with the voltages selected.
US09013215B2
A signal processing apparatus includes: a signal conversion circuit, for performing a signal conversion operation on a reception signal to generate a first output signal according to a first clock signal, and performing the signal conversion operation on the reception signal according to a second clock signal to generate a second output signal; an amplitude adjustment circuit, coupled to the signal conversion circuit, for calculating an amplitude value of the reception signal according to the first output signal, and accordingly adjusting an amplitude of the reception signal; and a phase adjustment circuit, for adjusting a phase of the second clock signal according to the second output signal.
US09013214B2
A semiconductor device includes a buffer unit suitable for outputting a first signal of differential input signals as a positive signal, and a second signal of differential input signals as a negative signal in response to a setting signal, and a setting control unit suitable for generating the setting signal based on a level state of the positive signal and the negative signal in response to a reset signal.
US09013209B1
A apparatus, having a processing system and an input buffer coupled with both the processing system and one of two IO pads, and a reference buffer coupled to both the input buffer and the second of the IO pads such that the reference generator controls the input threshold of the input buffer in response to an analog voltage received from an external circuit on the second of the IO pads.
US09013208B1
Aspects of the disclosure provide a clock gate circuit for generating a clock signal. The clock gate circuit includes a multiplexer and a logic module coupled to the multiplexer. The multiplexer is configured to receive a first logic signal at a first data input, a second logic signal at a second data input, and a reference clock signal at a selector input, and to output the clock signal having a logic state selected from one of the first logic signal or the second logic signal based on transitions of the reference clock signal. The logic module includes at least one of an XNOR and an XOR module and is configured to provide an output signal that is responsive to performing at least one of an XNOR and an XOR operation of the output of the multiplexer and an enable signal that enables or disables the clock gate circuit to generate the clock signal.
US09013196B2
An electric machine includes a first active part, which has a plurality of active part segments disposed one behind the other in a direction of movement of the electric machine, with each of the active part segments including a position measuring device, and a second active part with a measuring device for identifying the respective position measuring device. Each position measuring device has at least one position measuring unit having a dielectric constant, wherein the dielectric constant of the position measuring unit in one of the active part segments is different than the dielectric constant in an adjacent one of the active part segments. The measuring device includes at least one measuring unit to determine the dielectric constant of the position measuring units.
US09013192B2
The invention relates to a measuring device for detecting absolution positions, comprising a sensor unit (N, M) as a planar coil structure and a scale having alternating areas of variable reluctance or conductivity along the measuring line. The invention is characterized in that the measuring device has at least two divisions (T1, T2) for determining the absolute position within the measuring length, the at least two divisions being coded aperiodically and in a bitwise manner and extending parallel to each other and, for each bit formation, having opposite effects on a coil element (S2, S3, S4) as part of the entire sensor structure. Preferably, each coil element (S2, S3, S4), comprising its own emitter and receiver windings (E, R), is balanced in offset, and the entire sensor structure provides approximately equal signal amplitudes for each individual bit of the absolute value at any position of the coded scale by means of compensation windings.
US09013186B2
A local coil includes a transmitter, to which magnetic resonance signals are supplied and which modulates a carrier signal oscillating at a carrier frequency using the magnetic resonance signals. The local coil includes a transmitting antenna, to which the modulated carrier signal is supplied and which sends the modulated carrier signal in a beam to a control and evaluation device of a magnetic resonance system. The beam has a mean direction of radiation. In a vertical plane containing the mean direction of radiation, the beam covers a vertical angle, and in a transverse plane containing the mean direction of radiation and running orthogonally to the vertical plane, the beam covers a transverse angle. The local coil includes an adjusting device that adjusts the mean direction of radiation independently of the orientation of the local coil relative to the vertical.
US09013177B2
A programmable analog filter includes a crossbar array with a number of junction elements and a filter circuit being implemented within the crossbar array. At least a portion of the junction elements form reprogrammable components within the filter circuit. A method for using a programmable analog filter is also provided.
US09013175B2
Reading circuit for a magnetic field sensor with sensitivity calibration, and related reading method
A reading circuit for a magnetic-field sensor, generating an electrical detection quantity as a function of a detected magnetic field and of a detection sensitivity, is provided with an amplification stage, which is coupled to the magnetic-field sensor and generates an output signal as a function of the electrical detection quantity and of an amplification gain. In particular, the amplification gain is electronically selectable, and the reading circuit is moreover provided with a calibration stage, integrated with the amplification stage and configured so as to vary a value of the amplification gain in such a way as to compensate a variation of the detection sensitivity with respect to a nominal sensitivity value.
US09013174B2
A bistable relay may include a pair of contact arms. Each contact arm is configured to have a first end and a second end, such that, when the relay is in the closed position, current flows from the first end to the second ends of each of the contact arms, and when the relay is in an open position, current does not flow from the first ends to the second ends of the contact arms. The relay further includes a motor, a pair of springs, a pair of cams driven by the motor, and a linearly actuating member configured to move the contact arms from the first configuration to the second configuration, the member including a cam follower surface.
US09013172B2
There are provided an apparatus and a method for detecting a frequency, the apparatus including a signal converting unit removing a high frequency component from an input signal and then converting the input signal into a digital signal, an edge detecting unit detecting an edge of the digital to thereby generate an edge detection signal having a predetermined magnitude, and a frequency estimating unit generating a pulse signal based on the edge detection signal and averaging the pulse signal at a predetermined interval to thereby estimate a frequency of the input signal.
US09013171B2
A method and apparatus for detecting a zero-voltage condition. In one embodiment, the method comprises generating a first current that is proportional to a voltage across a four-quadrant (4Q) switch; generating a reference current, wherein the reference current is equal to a value of the first current when of the voltage across the 4Q switch is at a predefined value; comparing the first current to the reference current; and generating an indication of a zero-voltage condition across the 4Q switch when the first current is less than the reference current.
US09013165B2
A multi-mode pulse width modulation (PWM) controller for a buck switching regulator includes a multi-mode PWM control circuit where the PWM control circuit is configured to operate in one of multiple control schemes selectable by a mode select signal. In one embodiment, the multi-mode PWM control circuit incorporates a peak current mode control scheme, a voltage mode control scheme, and a valley current mode control scheme. In another embodiment, the multi-mode PWM control circuit further incorporates a constant ON-time control scheme.
US09013164B1
A constant on-time controller, comprising a ripple generator, a comparing circuit and a logic control circuit, is provided. The ripple generator generates a ripple signal, which is injected into one of a voltage reference signal and a voltage detection signal to form a ripple modulated signal with ripple information. The comparing circuit compares the ripple modulated signal with the other of the voltage reference signal and the voltage detection signal and accordingly generates a comparison result signal. The logic control circuit generates a control signal with a fixed pulse width according to the comparison result signal. The ripple generator has a level modulation circuit for modulating an amplitude of the ripple modulated signal to make the amplitude within an preset range under different applications.
US09013158B2
A switched mode power supply provides a reduction of switching losses and increased efficiency. The switched mode power supply includes a first switch coupled to an input terminal configured to receive an input voltage, a second switch, an inductor and an output capacitor. The first switch and the second switch are coupled together at a node, the inductor is coupled between the node and an output terminal, and the output capacitor is coupled to the output terminal. The switched mode power supply further includes a transformer coupled between a control input of the first switch and the node and a pulse generator connected to a control input of the second switch. Further, the transformer includes at most two windings, in particular a primary winding and a secondary winding which are not directly connected to each other.
US09013157B2
A method and arrangement for phase-fired control is provided, in which all controllable electric switching elements are linked by a common controller that has a first input for a first control signal. A set point value is pre-defined as a first input variable and assigned to a device for controlling the controllable electric switching elements. Current flowing through each switching element is measured and transmitted to the device for controlling the switching elements as a respective second input variable. The current value of the voltage in the load is measured and transmitted to the device for controlling the switching elements as a third input variable. The device for controlling the switching elements controls all switching elements in a targeted manner by use of the first, second and third input variables. A maximum of two switching elements are active at any one time.
US09013134B2
A method for determining a commutation offset for a mover (250A) of a mover assembly (220C) that moves and positions a stage (220A) relative to a stage base (220B) includes controlling the mover assembly (220C) in a closed loop fashion to maintain the position of the stage (220A) along a first axis and along a second axis with the stage (220A) levitated above the stage base (220B). The method also includes the steps of (i) directing current to a coil array (240) of the mover assembly (220C) so that the mover assembly (220C) imparts a disturbance on the stage (220A); and (ii) evaluating one or more forces generated by the mover assembly (220C) as a result of the disturbance on the stage (220A) created by the mover (250A). Further, a method for generating a compensation map (1402) includes sequentially directing a plurality of excitation signals to the control of the mover assembly (220C) and determining the control commands that result from the plurality of excitation signals.
US09013133B2
A method of detecting a stall condition in a stepper motor with very little movement of an instrument pointer coupled to the stepper motor. The stepper motor rotates the instrument pointer in a first direction towards a pointer stop by a plurality of micro-steps. The stepper motor then rotates the pointer in the first direction at least one additional micro-step while monitoring a back electro-motive force (EMF) produced by the stepper motor. If the instrument pointer is abutting the pointer stop, then the stepper motor will be compressed slightly. If the back EMF is below a predetermined threshold, then the stepper motor is in a stall condition. The instrument pointer can then be micro-stepped in a second direction opposite the first direction to a micro-rotor offset value (μROV) position.
US09013129B2
An inverter device may include a converter unit configured to receive single phase AC power to output DC power; a capacitor unit configured to absorb the DC power; an inverter unit configured to synthesize the absorbed DC power to output the drive power of a load; and a converter controller configured to control the converter unit based on the AC power and the output DC power of the converter unit, wherein the converter controller includes a converter gate signal generator configured to control a plurality of gates contained in the converter unit; and an input line harmonic voltage generator configured to output converter additional power having a predetermined multiple of the frequency of the fundamental frequency component of the AC power with the same size as that of the fundamental frequency component of the AC power to an adder connected to the input side of the converter gate signal generator.
US09013125B2
An electric power converter of an electric rolling stock includes: a converter unit (a first electric-power converting unit) that receives a direct-current voltage and outputs a direct-current voltage controlled to a predetermined value; and an inverter unit (a second electric-power converting unit) that is connected to the output side of the converter unit and drives an electric motor. The converter unit includes a converter control unit (a first control unit) that, based on the input voltage thereof, generates an output voltage command that is a control command for controlling the condition of the output voltage of the converter unit.
US09013123B2
An apparatus for dynamic braking is disclosed. The apparatus includes a first switch connected to a first connection of a dynamic braking resistor and to a first power bus of a motor controller. The apparatus includes a second switch connected to a second connection of the dynamic braking resistor and to a second power bus of the motor controller. The motor controller provides power to and controls a motor. The apparatus includes a switch control module that controls the first and second switches to connect the dynamic braking resistor to the first and second power buses. The switch control module controls the first and second switches in response to a signal from the motor controller.
US09013122B2
Provided is an electric power steering control device which can realize a more appropriate countermeasure against heat in accordance with a thermal characteristic of a component used to supply a motor current. The electric power steering control device for assisting a steering force of a steering wheel of a vehicle including a control unit (10). The control unit (10) prestores a first overheat-protection characteristic corresponding to self-heating and a second overheat-protection characteristic corresponding to an ambient temperature for each component (12 to 15) mounted in the control unit as an overheat-protection characteristic specifying a correspondence relationship between a heat-source current value of the each component and an overheat-protection coefficient, and sequentially corrects a current upper-limit value obtained for the each component by using overheat-protection coefficients of both characteristics to continue current control in accordance with a smallest current upper-limit value of results of the correction.
US09013115B2
A power supply circuit (4) is responsive to an activating signal by supplying a discharge lamp (2) with an operating voltage on which a high voltage is temporality superposed. An insufficient current detecting circuit (46) detects abnormality of an output current supplied to the discharge lamp (2) from the power supply circuit (4). A CPU (52) stops the operation of the power supply circuit (4) in response to detection of abnormality by the insufficient current detecting circuit (46). An output nullification time period timer (50) nullifies the output of the insufficient current detecting circuit (46) for a predetermined time period measured from the supplying of the activating signal.
US09013114B2
A power control system for an illumination system has a power source to supply any one of a range of AC or DC voltages, a power conversion stage, one or more light emitting device(s) for illumination and/or wireless communication, a controller controlling an output stage to receive and send information to regulate the power and/or current to the light emitting device(s), and a programmable voltage clamping or linear regulator arrangement contained within the output stage that can be controlled to increase a dynamic dimming ratio of current and/or power through the light emitting device(s) and to enable power or current modulation for wireless optical communication of light emitting device(s). The power control system enables current and power to be provided to one or more attached light emitting device(s) with a vastly extended dynamic dimming range such that different light emitting devices can be powered using the same driver output stage(s).
US09013108B1
An LED element with a color light enhancement function is a two-terminal element for receiving a driving current to emit light and includes at least one blue LED chip, at least one red LED chip and a three-way compensator. The three-way compensator intercepts a driving current passing through the blue LED chip depending on a proportion value according to a change of working temperature and adjusts the amount of current flowing into the red LED chip. If the working temperature exceeds a default value, an input terminal of the three-way compensator is triggered to intercept the driving current and generate and output a set current to the red LED chip to compensate an attenuation of the red LED chip caused by high temperature. The LED element will not be changed its intensity after a prolonged period of usage.
US09013104B1
A periodic permanent magnet (PPM) klystron has beam transport structures and RF cavity structures, each of which has permanent magnets placed substantially equidistant from a beam tunnel formed about the central axis, and which are also outside the extent of a cooling chamber. The RF cavity sections also have permanent magnets which are placed substantially equidistant from the beam tunnel, but which include an RF cavity coupling to the beam tunnel for enhancement of RF carried by an electron beam in the beam tunnel.
US09013098B1
Discussed is an organic light emitting display panel. The organic light emitting display panel includes a plurality of unit pixels which each include first to third sub-pixels having different colors. The plurality of unit pixels, which each include first to third driving transistors respectively connected to the first to third sub-pixels, a first contact hole that connects the first sub-pixel to the first driving transistor, a second contact hole that connects the second sub-pixel to the second driving transistor, and a third contact hole that connects the third sub-pixel to the third driving transistor, are arranged in a matrix type.
US09013095B1
A spark plug for an internal combustion engine includes a center electrode, an insulator holding the center electrode inserted therein, a housing holding the insulator inserted therein, a ground electrode joined to the housing so as to form a spark discharge gap with the center electrode, and a stem electrically connected to the center electrode. The stem includes a stem body inserted and held inside the insulator and a terminal exposed from a proximal end of the insulator. The insulator includes a supported portion axially supported by the housing. A heat insulating member is interposed between the stem and the center electrode. A conductive member is disposed inside the insulator so as to pass through the heat insulating member for making electrical connection between the stem and the center electrode. The heat insulating member is located closer to a proximal side of the insulator than the supported portion is.
US09013093B2
A vibrating reed includes a vibrating body (a base portion, a vibrating arm, and a detection arm) and a support portion that supports the vibrating body via a plate-like coupling portion. In both principal surfaces of the coupling portion, grooves (a first groove and a second groove) are disposed. The first groove arranged in one of the principal surfaces of the coupling portion and the second groove arranged in the other principal surface are arranged at positions different from each other in plan view.
US09013090B2
An actuator includes an electrolytic layer, a first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer. The electrolytic layer includes a polymer and an ionic liquid included in the polymer. When a voltage that makes the first electrode layer a positive side is applied, the actuator deforms to be in a drive state, thereby driving a protruding member. In a period other than a drive period in which the protruding member is driven, a reverse voltage that makes the first electrode layer a negative side is applied, thereby rectifying the tendency of the actuator to bow or the like.
US09013085B2
A method is disclosed for producing a stator winding of an electric machine, in particular an alternator, the stator winding comprising at least one phase winding and the phase winding having a plurality of coils, the plurality of coils being wound in one direction, a given number of turns being wound and the coil having a plurality of coil sides, two coil sides of the coil transitioning integrally into coil connectors. The turns of the coil are subsequently moved relative to each other in such a way that the coil sides transitioning into coil connectors are outermost coil sides of the coil.
US09013083B2
Provided is a permanent magnet type motor including: a rotor including a rotor core and a plurality of permanent magnets; a conducting circuit including a first electric conductor extending in an axial direction of the rotor and being disposed between permanent magnets in a circumferential direction of the rotor and a second electric conductor for connecting the first electric conductors electrically; and a stator disposed so as to be opposed to the rotor, including a stator core and an armature winding. A rotation angle is detected by measuring current flowing in the armature winding. The stator core is formed to have a shape in which, a slot pitch is defined by ρs=(2×π×Rs)/Ns, where an inner radius of the stator is represented by Rs and a number of slots is represented by Ns, a value Wsn obtained by dividing a slot opening width Ws by the slot pitch ρs satisfies “0.08≦Wsn”.
US09013078B2
An automotive alternator includes a stator winding that is made of a metal other than copper and copper alloys. The alternator also includes a built-in rectifier that includes a plurality of rectifying elements and a plurality of electrical conductors. The rectifying elements and the electrical conductors together form a rectification circuit for rectifying AC power output from the stator winding into DC power. Further, at least one of the electrical conductors includes first and second portions. The first portion is connected to at least one of the rectifying elements, and made of copper or a copper alloy. The second portion is connected to the stator winding, and made of a metal containing a metallic element that is also contained in the metal of which the stator winding is made.
US09013074B2
A method for manufacturing an interior magnet rotor core motor is described herein. The method includes attaching a resilient material to an inner rigid structure configured to engage a shaft associated with the motor, engaging the structure with the motor shaft, positioning the shaft and structure assembly with respect to the rotor core, and affixing the resilient material to the rotor core.
US09013063B2
In an uninterruptible power supply system, control sections of three uninterruptible power supply units are connected to one another by communication cables to configure one integrated control unit. The integrated control unit brings three switches into conduction if a bias feeding mode is selected by one arbitrary operation section and brings three switches into conduction if an inverter feeding mode is selected. Therefore, there is no need to separately provide an operation section and a control section for operating and controlling all of the uninterruptible power supply units.
US09013058B2
The light distribution region of headlights (12) is divided into a plurality of regions, and each of the divided regions can be irradiated or non-irradiated by light, and the light distribution characteristic can be changed separately for each divided region. The radiation or non-radiation of light to each divided region is controlled by a light distribution control ECU (14). Besides, light reflection/emission regions (hatched portions in FIG. 4) are detected by detecting light regions of reflection, such as white lines, reflectors, etc., and light regions of light emission, such as street lights or the like, are detected. Then, divided regions corresponding to light distribution region irradiated by the headlights (12) which correspond to the detected light reflection/emission regions are specifically determined, and the headlights (12) are controlled so that the light radiated to the specifically determined divided regions 22 becomes dark in light distribution relative to other regions.
US09013056B2
A backup power source device includes the following elements: a capacitor; a charging circuit provided in the charging path of the capacitor and performing step-down operation; a boost circuit provided in the output path of the capacitor; and a door-lock-releasing output terminal connected to the boost circuit.
US09013051B2
Provided is a construction machine capable of achieving an energy conservation effect while restraining overcharge of an electrical storage device, including an engine, a slewing electric motor, an electrical storage device, a generator-motor, and an assist controller which causes the generator-motor to assist the engine to consume an electric power equal to or more than an electric power equal to a difference between the regeneration power and the maximum allowable charge amount, when a regeneration power regenerated by the slewing electric motor is equal to or more than a maximum allowable charge amount which is a maximum amount of an electric power within which the electrical storage device can be charged.
US09013048B2
A semiconductor device manufacturing method includes sealing a first surface of a semiconductor wafer with a resin, causing a resin-made warp suppression member to be adhered to a second surface on the opposite side of the first surface of the semiconductor wafer and causing the warp suppression member to shrink, measuring the amount of warp of the semiconductor wafer, and forming cuts in the warp suppression member in accordance with the amount of warp of the semiconductor wafer.
US09013044B2
A through wire interconnect for a semiconductor substrate includes a via extending through the semiconductor substrate from the first side to the second side thereof; a wire in the via having a first end with a bonded connection to the substrate contact and a second end proximate to the second side of the semiconductor substrate; a dielectric material in the via configured to electrically insulate the wire from the semiconductor substrate; a bonding member bonded to the first end of the wire and to the substrate contact configured to secure the wire to the substrate contact; and a contact on the second end of the wire.
US09013037B2
A flip chip structure formed on a semiconductor substrate includes a first plurality of copper pillars positioned directly over, and in electrical contact with respective ones of a plurality of contact pads on the front face of the semiconductor substrate. A layer of molding compound is positioned on the front face of the substrate, surrounding and enclosing each of the first plurality of pillars and having a front face that is coplanar with front faces of each of the copper pillars. Each of a second plurality of copper pillars is positioned on the front face of one of the first plurality of copper pillars, and a solder bump is positioned on a front face of each of the second plurality of pillars.
US09013033B2
A microelectronic assembly can include a substrate having first and second surfaces each extending in first and second transverse directions, a peripheral edge extending in the second direction, first and second openings extending between the first and second surfaces, and a peripheral region of the second surface extending between the peripheral edge and one of the openings. The assembly can also include a first microelectronic element having a front surface facing the first surface, a rear surface opposite therefrom, and an edge extending between the front and rear surfaces. The assembly can also include a second microelectronic element having a front surface facing the rear surface of the first microelectronic element and projecting beyond the edge of the first microelectronic element. The assembly can also include a plurality of terminals exposed at the second surface, at least one of the terminals being disposed at least partially within the peripheral region.
US09013030B2
A lead frame includes a die pad and a lead finger with an inner portion which is configured to be electrically connected to contact pads of a die and with an outer portion which has an attach portion. The attach portion is configured to be soldered to an external solder pad, wherein the attach portion has a width, a length and a thickness. An opening extends through the thickness of the attach portion.
US09013010B2
A pair of electrode plates can be provided by directional deposition and patterning of a conductive material on sidewalls of a template structure on a first dielectric layer. An electrode line straddling the center portion is formed. A dielectric spacer and a conformal conductive layer are subsequently formed. Peripheral electrodes laterally spaced from the electrode line are formed by pattering the conformal conductive layer. After deposition of a second dielectric material layer that encapsulates the template structure, the template structure is removed to provide a cavity that passes through the pair of electrode plates, the electrode line, and the peripheral electrodes. A nanoscale sensor thus formed can electrically characterize a nanoscale string by passing the nanoscale string through the cavity while electrical measurements are performed employing the various electrodes.
US09013009B2
The present invention addresses the problem of providing a technique capable of efficiently and stably providing a method for producing high-purity lanthanum, the method characterized in that: a crude lanthanum oxide starting material having a purity of 2N-3N, excluding gas components, is used; the material is subjected to molten salt electrolysis at a bath temperature of 450-700° C. to produce lanthanum crystals; the lanthanum crystals are subsequently desalted: and electron beam melting is then performed to remove volatile substances. The present invention also addresses the problem of providing a technique capable of efficiently and stably providing high-purity lanthanum, high-purity lanthanum itself, a sputtering target formed from high-purity material lanthanum; and a thin film for metal gates that has high purity lanthanum as the main component.
US09013006B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device having a field-effect transistor, including forming a trench in a semiconductor substrate, forming a first insulating film in the trench, forming an intrinsic polycrystalline silicon film over the first insulating film, and introducing first conductive type impurities into the intrinsic polycrystalline silicon film to form a first conductive film. The first conductive film is etched to form a first gate electrode in the trench. Next, a second insulating film is formed in the trench above the first insulating film and the first gate electrode, anda first conductivity type doped polycrystalline silicon film, having higher impurity concentration than the first gate electrode is formed over the second insulating film. The doped polycrystalline silicon film, upper part of the trench ton form a second gate electrode.
US09013004B2
A semiconductor device includes a buried layer having a first dopant type in a substrate. The semiconductor device includes a first layer having the first dopant type over the buried layer. The semiconductor device includes at least one first well of a second dopant type disposed in the first layer. The semiconductor device includes an implantation region of the second dopant type in a sidewall of the first layer, wherein the implantation region is below the at least one first well. The semiconductor device includes a first source region disposed in the at least one first well; and at least one gate disposed on top of the first well and the first layer. The semiconductor device includes a metal electrode extending from the buried layer to a drain contact, wherein the metal electrode is insulated from the first layer and the at least one first well by an insulation layer.
US09012990B2
According to an exemplary implementation, a power component includes a component substrate and a power semiconductor device electrically and mechanically coupled to the component substrate. The power component also includes at least one first peripheral contact and at least one second peripheral contact situated on the component substrate. A power semiconductor device is situated between the at least one first peripheral contact and the at least one second peripheral contact. The at least one first peripheral contact, the at least one second peripheral contact, and a surface electrode of the power semiconductor device are configured for surface mounting. The at least one first peripheral contact can be electrically coupled to the power semiconductor device.
US09012989B2
The present invention discloses a high voltage device and a manufacturing method thereof. The high voltage device is formed in a first conductive type substrate, wherein the substrate includes isolation regions defining a device region. The high voltage device includes: a drift region, located in the device region, doped with second conductive type impurities; a gate in the device region and on the surface of the substrate; and a second conductive type source and drain in the device region, at different sides of the gate respectively. From top view, the concentration of the second conductive type impurities of the drift region is distributed substantially periodically along horizontal and vertical directions.
US09012987B2
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device including a DMOS transistor, an NMOS transistor and a PMOS transistor arranged on a semiconductor substrate, the DMOS transistor including a first impurity region and a second impurity region formed to be adjacent to each other, the first impurity region being of the same conductivity type as a drain region and a source region of the DMOS transistor, forming to enclose the drain region, and the second impurity region being of a conductivity type opposite to the first impurity region, forming to enclose the source region, the manufacturing method of the semiconductor device comprising forming the first impurity region and one of the NMOS transistor and the PMOS transistor, and forming the second impurity region and the other of the NMOS transistor and the PMOS transistor.
US09012986B2
A device includes a plurality of trenches and fins defined in a substantially un-doped layer of semiconducting material, a gate insulation layer positioned on the fins and on the bottom of the trenches, a gate electrode and a device isolation structure. One method disclosed herein involves identifying a top width of each of a plurality of fins and a depth of a plurality of trenches to be formed in a substantially un-doped layer of semiconducting material, wherein, during operation, the device is adapted to operate in at least three distinguishable conditions depending upon a voltage applied to the device, performing at least one process operation to define the trenches and fins in the layer of semiconducting material, forming a gate insulation layer on the fins and on a bottom of the trenches and forming a gate electrode above the gate insulation layer.
US09012981B2
A semiconductor device includes a first pillar-shaped silicon layer formed on a planar silicon layer, a gate insulating film formed around the first pillar-shaped silicon layer, a first gate electrode formed around the gate insulating film, a gate line connected to the first gate electrode, a first first-conductivity-type diffusion layer formed in an upper portion of the first pillar-shaped silicon layer, a second first-conductivity-type diffusion layer formed in a lower portion of the first pillar-shaped silicon layer and an upper portion of the planar silicon layer, a first sidewall having a laminated structure of an insulating film and polysilicon and being formed on an upper sidewall of the first pillar-shaped silicon layer and an upper portion of the first gate electrode, and a first contact formed on the first first-conductivity-type diffusion layer and the first sidewall.
US09012980B1
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a charge compensation device structure in a semiconductor substrate. The method further includes measuring a value of an electric characteristic related to the charge compensation device. At least one of proton irradiation and annealing parameters are adjusted based on the measured value. Based on the at least one of the adjusted proton irradiation and annealing parameters the semiconductor substrate is irradiated with protons, and thereafter, the semiconductor substrate is annealed.
US09012978B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a nonvolatile semiconductor memory element including: a semiconductor substrate including: a source region; a drain region; and a channel region; a lower insulating film that is formed on the channel region; a charge storage film that is formed on the lower insulating film and that stores data; an upper insulating film that is formed on the charge storage film; and a control gate that is formed on the upper insulating film, wherein the upper insulating film includes: a first insulting film; and a second insulating film that is laminated with the first insulating film, and wherein the first insulating film is formed to have a trap level density larger than that of the second insulating film.
US09012972B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor storage device includes a semiconductor substrate; a first insulating film disposed above the semiconductor substrate; a first electrode film disposed above the first insulating film; a second insulating film disposed above the first electrode film; a second electrode film disposed above the second insulating film; a third electrode film filling a first trench and overlying the second electrode film, the first trench having a first width and a first depth and extending through the second electrode film and the second insulating film and into the first electrode film; and a first barrier metal film and a first metal film disposed above the third electrode film; wherein the third electrode film above the second electrode film has a first thickness equal to or less than ½ of the first width of the first trench.
US09012968B2
A non-volatile semiconductor memory device with good write/erase characteristics is provided. A selection gate is formed on a p-type well of a semiconductor substrate via a gate insulator, and a memory gate is formed on the p-type well via a laminated film composed of a silicon oxide film, a silicon nitride film, and a silicon oxide film. The memory gate is adjacent to the selection gate via the laminated film. In the regions on both sides of the selection gate and the memory gate in the p-type well, n-type impurity diffusion layers serving as the source and drain are formed. The region controlled by the selection gate and the region controlled by the memory gate located in the channel region between said impurity diffusion layers have the different charge densities of the impurity from each other.
US09012961B2
The disclosure relates to a method of manufacturing vertical gate transistors in a semiconductor substrate, comprising implanting, in the depth of the substrate, a doped isolation layer, to form a source region of the transistors; forming, in the substrate, parallel trench isolations and second trenches perpendicular to the trench isolations, reaching the isolation layer, and isolated from the substrate by a first dielectric layer; depositing a first conductive layer on the surface of the substrate and in the second trenches; etching the first conductive layer to form the vertical gates of the transistors, and vertical gate connection pads between the extremity of the vertical gates and an edge of the substrate, while keeping a continuity zone in the first conductive layer between each connection pad and a vertical gate; and implanting doped regions on each side of the second trenches, to form drain regions of the transistors.
US09012956B2
When forming sophisticated P-channel transistors, a semiconductor alloy layer is formed on the surface of the semiconductor layer including the transistor active region. When a metal silicide layer is formed contiguous to this semiconductor alloy layer, an agglomeration of the metal silicide layer into isolated clusters is observed. In order to solve this problem, the present invention proposes a method and a semiconductor device wherein the portion of the semiconductor alloy layer lying on the source and drain regions of the transistor is removed before formation of the metal silicide layer is performed. In this manner, the metal silicide layer is formed so as to be contiguous to the semiconductor layer, and not to the semiconductor alloy layer.
US09012955B2
A MOS transistor protected against overvoltages formed in an SOI-type semiconductor layer arranged on an insulating layer itself arranged on a semiconductor substrate including a lateral field-effect control thyristor formed in the substrate at least partly under the MOS transistor, a field-effect turn-on region of the thyristor extending under at least a portion of a main electrode of the MOS transistor and being separated therefrom by said insulating layer, the anode and the cathode of the thyristor being respectively connected to the drain and to the source of the MOS transistor, whereby the thyristor turns on in case of a positive overvoltage between the drain and the source of the MOS transistor.
US09012954B2
An Adjustable Field Effect Rectifier uses aspects of MOSFET structure together with an adjustment pocket or region to result in a device that functions reliably and efficiently at high voltages without significant negative resistance, while also permitting fast recovery and operation at high frequency without large electromagnetic interference.
US09012952B2
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to a including a substrate, a first conductive type semiconductor layer arranged on the substrate, a second conductive type semiconductor layer arranged on the first conductive type semiconductor layer, an active layer disposed between the first conductive type semiconductor layer and the second conductive type semiconductor layer, a first electrode pad electrically connected to the first conductive type semiconductor layer, a second electrode pad arranged on the second conductive type semiconductor layer, an insulation layer disposed between the second conductive type semiconductor layer and the second electrode pad, and at least one upper extension electrically connected to the second electrode pad, the at least one upper extension being electrically connected to the second conductive type semiconductor layer.
US09012948B2
A light-emitting element includes a supportive substrate; a reflective layer formed on the supportive substrate; a transparent layer formed on the reflective layer; a light-emitting stacked layer formed on the transparent layer; an etching-stop layer formed between the transparent layer and the reflective layer; and a plurality of contact parts formed between the light-emitting stacked layer and the transparent layer.
US09012946B2
A light emitting diode includes a patterned carbon nanotube layer, a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, an active layer stacked on an epitaxial growth surface of a substrate in that sequence. A first portion of the patterned carbon nanotube layer is covered by the first semiconductor layer and a second portion of the patterned carbon nanotube layer is exposed. A first electrode is electrically connected with the second semiconductor layer. A second electrode electrically is electrically connected with the second portion of the patterned carbon nanotube layer.
US09012945B2
LED dies, emitting blue light, are provided on a first support substrate to form a light emitting layer. A mixture of a transparent binder, yellow phosphor powder, magenta-colored glass beads, and cyan-colored glass beads is printed over the light emitting surface. The mixture forms a wavelength conversion layer when cured. The beads are sized so that the tops of the beads protrude completely through the conversion layer. When the LED dies are on, the combination of the yellow phosphor light and the blue LED light creates white light. When the LEDs are off, white ambient light, such as sunlight, causes the conversion layer to appear to be a mixture of yellow light, magenta light, and cyan light. The percentage of the magenta and cyan beads in the mixture is selected to create a desired off-state color, such as a neutral color, of the conversion layer for aesthetic purposes.
US09012942B2
The present disclosure provides a light-emitting device having a patterned interface composed of a plurality of predetermined patterned structures mutually distinct, wherein the plurality of predetermined patterned structures are repeatedly arranged in the patterned interface such that any two neighboring patterned structures are different from each other. The present disclosure also provides a manufacturing method of the light-emitting device. The method comprises the steps of providing a substrate, generating a random pattern arrangement by a computing simulation, forming a mask having the random pattern arrangement on the substrate, and removing a portion of the substrate thereby transferring the random pattern arrangement to the substrate.
US09012931B2
A circuit substrate includes a substrate, a first lead line, a second lead line, an insulating layer and a pad. The substrate has a pad region, a first non-pad region and a second non-pad region. The first lead line extends from the first non-pad region to the pad region. The second lead line extends from the second non-pad region to the pad region. The insulating layer is interposed between the first and second lead lines. The pads are on the pad region of the substrate and one of the pads is electrically connected to the first and second lead lines. A display panel including the circuit substrate is also provided.
US09012930B2
A semiconductor light emitting device includes a semiconductor lamination including a p-type semiconductor layer, an active semiconductor layer, and an n-type semiconductor layer; opposing electrode structure including a first electrode structure formed above the p-type semiconductor layer, and a second electrode structure formed above the n-type semiconductor layer; and brightness grade producing structure including a surface layer of at least one of the p-type semiconductor layer and the n-type semiconductor layer and producing brightness grade gradually changing from one edge to opposite edge of light output plane.
US09012929B2
A light source module includes a substrate, at least two light emitting diode (LED) chips and at least one dummy chip. The LED chips are disposed on the substrate. The dummy chip is disposed on the substrate and located between the LED chips. The LED chips, the dummy chip and the substrate are electrically connected to one another. The dummy chip is used to redirect a lateral light emitted from the LED chips.
US09012926B2
A radiation-emitting semiconductor component includes a light-emitting diode chip with at least two emission regions that can be operated independently of each other and at least two differently designed conversion elements. During operation of the light-emitting diode chips each of the emission regions is provided for generating electromagnetic primary radiation. Each emission region has an emission surface by which at least part of the primary radiation is decoupled from the light-emitting diode chip. The conversion elements are provided for absorbing at least part of the primary radiation and for re-emitting secondary radiation. The differently designed conversion elements are disposed downstream of different emission surfaces. An electric resistance element is connected in series or parallel to at least one of the emission regions.
US09012911B2
An integrated circuit, including: a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type; a plurality of regions of the first conductivity type vertically extending from the surface of the substrate, each of the regions being laterally delimited all along its periphery by a region of the second conductivity type; and a device for detecting a variation of the substrate resistance between each region of the first conductivity type and an area for biasing the substrate to a reference voltage.
US09012903B2
An organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. The organic layer includes an emission layer, and the emission layer includes at least one light-emitting material represented by one of Formulas 1 and 2. The organic layer further includes at least one hole-transporting material represented by one of Formulas 2(1) and 2(2).
US09012901B2
A photoelectric conversion element having high photovoltaic conversion efficiency is provided.The photoelectric conversion element includes a first electrode, a second electrode arranged opposite to the first electrode, and an electron transport layer provided on a face of the first electrode, and the face is opposite to the second electrode. The photoelectric conversion element further includes a photosensitizer supported on the electron transport layer and a hole transport layer interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The electron transport layer contains a perylene imide derivative of [Chemical Formula 1].
US09012898B2
An electrophoretic display device includes: a first substrate having a plurality of pixels formed in a plurality of vertical pixel rows and a plurality of horizontal pixel rows; a plurality of data lines formed at every vertical pixel row of the first substrate; a thin film transistor (TFT) formed at each pixel of the first substrate and including a source electrode, a drain electrode, an organic semiconductor layer, and a gate electrode; a passivation layer formed on the TFTs and the data lines of the first substrate and including a first contact hole exposing the drain electrode of the TFT and a second contact hole exposing the gate electrode of the TFT; a pixel electrode formed on the passivation layer at each pixel of the first substrate and connected with the drain electrode of the TFT via the first contact hole of the passivation layer; a plurality of gate lines formed on the passivation layer at every horizontal pixel row of the first substrate and connected with the gate electrode of the TFT via the second contact hole of the passivation layer; a second substrate attached to the first substrate in a facing manner; a common electrode formed on the second substrate; and an electrophoretic film formed between the first and second substrates.
US09012891B2
The present disclosure relates to a hybrid organic-inorganic thin film producing method including an interlayer connection between an inorganic cross-linked layer and an organic polymer through a molecular layer deposition (MLD) method, a hybrid organic-inorganic thin film produced by the producing method, and an organic electronic device and a thin film transistor containing the hybrid organic-inorganic thin film.
US09012889B2
Field effect transistor using graphene, phosphorus-doped graphene, and methods of producing the same
A field effect transistor using a channel layer including a phosphorus-doped graphene and a method of fabricating the same are provided. Further, a phosphorus-doped graphene and a method of producing the same are provided. The field effect transistor includes: a source electrode and a drain electrode formed on a substrate; and a channel layer comprising a phosphorus-doped graphene, the channel layer electrically connected to the source electrode and the drain electrode.
US09012888B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor light emitting device includes a first layer of n-type and a second layer of p-type including a nitride semiconductor, a light emitting unit provided between the first and second layers, a first stacked structure provided between the first layer and the light emitting unit, and a second stacked structure provided between the first layer and the first stacked structure. The light emitting unit includes barrier layers and a well layer provided between the barrier layers. The first stacked structure includes third layers including a nitride semiconductor, and fourth layers stacked with the third layers and including GaInN. The fourth layers have a thinner thickness than the well layer. The second stacked structure includes fifth layers including a nitride semiconductor, and sixth layers stacked with the fifth layers and including GaInN. The sixth layers have a thinner thickness than the well layer.
US09012887B2
The present invention relates to growth of III-V semiconductor nanowires (2) on a Si substrate (3). Controlled vertical nanowire growth is achieved by a step, to be taken prior to the growing of the nanowire, of providing group III or group V atoms to a (111) surface of the Si substrate to provide a group III or group V 5 surface termination (4). A nanostructured device including a plurality of aligned III-V semiconductor nanowires (2) grown on, and protruding from, a (111) surface of a Si substrate (3) in an ordered pattern in compliance with a predetermined device layout is also presented.
US09012886B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor light emitting device includes: a first semiconductor layer; a second semiconductor layer; and a light emitting layer provided between the first and the second semiconductor layers. The first semiconductor layer includes a nitride semiconductor, and is of an n-type. The second semiconductor layer includes a nitride semiconductor, and is of a p-type. The light emitting layer includes: a first well layer; a second well layer provided between the first well layer and the second semiconductor layer; a first barrier layer provided between the first and the second well layers; and a first Al containing layer contacting the second well layer between the first barrier layer and the second well layer and containing layer containing Alx1Ga1-x1N (0.1≦x1≦0.35).
US09012870B2
Microscopy is performed by imaging individual quantum dots (QD) using two-photon (2P) microscopy of in an aqueous environment with widefield and point-scan excitations at nanometer accuracy.
US09012863B2
Disclosed is a pixilated neutron detector including one or more pixel-cells defined by a plurality of perimeter walls, the pixel cells including a cathode and an anode, the cathode being at least one wall of the pixel-cell, the cathode being lined with an interaction material, the anode disposed inside the pixel-cell, the cathode and anode structured to provide an electrical field within the pixel-cell to collect charged particles released by neutrons interacting with the interaction material lining, and a signal processing chain communicably coupled to each of the one or more pixel cells to transmit a signal indicative of a neutron interaction event within the pixel-cell, the signal processing chain including analog signal processing electronics communicably coupled to digital signal processing electronics.
US09012854B2
When employing specular reflective material in a scintillator crystal array, light trapping in the crystal due to repetitive internal reflection is mitigated by roughening at least one side (16) of each of a plurality of pre-formed polished scintillator crystals. A specular reflector material (30) is applied (deposited, wrapped around, etc.) to the roughened crystals, which are arranged in an array. Each crystal array is coupled to a silicon photodetector (32) to form a detector array, which can be mounted in a detector for a functional scanner or the like.
US09012848B2
A laser-radiation sensor includes a copper substrate on which is grown an oriented polycrystalline buffer layer surmounted by an oriented polycrystalline sensor-element of an anisotropic transverse thermoelectric material. An absorber layer, thermally connected to the sensor-element, is heated by laser-radiation to be measured and communicates the heat to the sensor-element, causing a thermal gradient across the sensor-element. Spaced-apart electrodes in electrical contact with the sensor-element sense a voltage corresponding to the thermal gradient as a measure of the incident laser-radiation power.
US09012838B2
The present disclosure relates to functionalized nanodiamonds comprising at least one MALDI matrix covalently bonded to a nanodiamond and compositions comprising the same. The present disclosure also relates to methods of performing matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS), for example on small molecules, using matrices comprising at least one MALDI matrix covalently bonded to a nanodiamond.
US09012825B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for retaining and deploying a plurality of canards and canard covers on a projectile. The projectile includes a projectile housing defining an interior chamber and a longitudinal axis, canards rotatably mounted to the housing, canard covers, a bobbin movably disposed in the interior chamber of the housing along the longitudinal axis, and rocker arms. The canards mounted for movement from a stowed position to a deployed position. The canard covers have a hook element and are adapted to cover respective slots formed in the housing. The bobbin has first and second ends and a retaining surface proximate the second end. Rocker arms have a first and second arm end, with a canard retaining slot defined therebetween. The first arm end includes a latch element for engaging with the canard cover element, and the second arm end is positioned proximate the retaining surface.
US09012820B2
A method for dynamic wave form correction includes providing an input power signal by an AC power source and rectifying the input power signal by a frequency converter into a half waves signal whose half wave is delimited by two subsequent zero-crossings. The time lag between the two zero-crossings defines a half wave duration. The frequency converter converts the half waves signal into a working current signal for supplying an induction heating device. In a frequency shifting operation, the frequency of the working signal is first increased from a first base frequency to a maximum frequency, and is then decreased to a second base frequency different from the first base frequency within a time period smaller than the half wave duration. A zero crossing of the half wave signal is passed within the frequency shifting operation. An arrangement for dynamic wave form correction of a power supply is also provided.
US09012819B2
Improved induction heating of a rolling bearing without the risk of damaging or blocking the bearing is achieved by controlling the heating cycle as a function of the temperature difference between the inner and outer bearing rings and/or dividing the heating cycle into different portions using different power combinations of at least two induction coils.
US09012814B2
Provided are a cooking appliance, and a system and method for controlling a cooking appliance. The system includes a RF tag and a cooking appliance. The RF tag stores food information about foods as integrants of a dish and the cooking appliance having a RF reader reads the food information stored in the RF tag. The cooking appliance includes a memory, a cooking appliance controller, and a display unit. The memory stores dish information about dishes that can be cooked using the food information. The cooking appliance controller reads dish information from the memory, and the display unit displays at least one of the dish information to a user.
US09012805B2
A converging point of processing laser light is made to accurately follow a laser light irradiation surface of an object to be processed. An object to be processed 1 is irradiated with measuring laser light along a line to cut 5, astigmatism is added to a reflected light component of the measuring laser light reflected by a front face 3 of the object 1 irradiated with the measuring laser light, a displacement sensor signal corresponding to a converged light image of the reflected light component having the astigmatism added thereto is detected, and the displacement sensor signal is made to become a feedback reference value corresponding to the quantity of the reflected light component, so as to locate the converging point of the processing laser light at a predetermined position with respect to the front face 3. This allows tire converging point of the processing laser light to follow the front face 3 of the object 1 reliably and accurately even when an area exhibiting an extremely low reflectance to the measuring laser light exists in a part of the front face 3 and lowers the quantity of the reflected light component of the measuring laser light.
US09012797B2
There is provided a vehicular lever switch including an operational lever, a tubular case forming part of the operational lever, and a switch device provided in the tubular case to be operable in an axis Y direction. In addition, the switch device comprises an operational knob provided to be inserted into an opening formed in an operational component in the case, a push switch operated by the operational knob, and a knob holder provided in the case to support the operational knob to be movable forward and backward in the axis Y direction as an operational direction of the push switch. In this structure, the knob holder is fixed and supported to a side of the case.
US09012795B2
A low travel keyboard and methods of fabrication are described. The low-travel keyboard is suitable for a thin-profile computing device, such as a laptop computer, netbook computer, desktop computer, etc. The keyboard includes a key cap positioned over stacked elastomeric and metal domes. The quick force drop of the metal dome provides the crisp “snappy” feel for the user and the elastomeric dome provides the ability for longer travel than the metal dome alone. The metal dome also activates the switch circuitry of the membrane on printed circuit board. The stacking of the elastomeric metal domes takes advantage of the abrupt force drop in the metal dome buckling and applies it to the elastomeric dome force, making it possible to design a low-travel key while still maintaining or improving the tactile feeling of the key switch.
US09012787B2
An electronic board includes conducting traces having an upper surface at least partially sunken with respect to a gluing surface of the board. A surface mount technology electronic device for mounting to the board includes insulating windows that define gluing sites within one or more pins. An electronic system is formed by one or more of such surface mount technology electronic devices mounted to electronic board. The devices are attached using a wave soldering technique that flows through channels formed by the sunken conductive traces.
US09012780B2
Provided are a three-phase coaxial superconducting power cable and a structure thereof. A certain space is formed between adjacent superconducting wires of a superconducting layer (disposed at an outer portion) having more superconducting wires among a plurality of superconducting layers, and another wire is disposed in the space, or the superconducting wires of the respective superconducting layers are disposed to have different critical currents. Accordingly, a waste of superconducting wires is prevented, and the optimized three-phase coaxial superconducting power cable is provided.
US09012769B2
Provided is a photoelectric conversion device characterized by a lattice-shaped current-collection metal electrode and a depressed portion provided in opening regions of a lattice structured by the lattice-shaped current collection electrode. This structure results in the reduction in the area of a heterojunction containing a highly-doped semiconductor layer, which decreases the influence of carrier recombination promoted by the high concentration of an impurity and leads to the improved electric characteristic of the photoelectric conversion device. The lattice shape of the current collection electrode also makes it possible to exclude the use of a light-transmitting current collection electrode and allows a protective insulating layer having a high light-transmitting property to be formed over the current collection electrode, which contributes to the reduction of the light absorption loss.
US09012764B1
A portable electronic device includes a housing including an outer surface and an inner surface. A core electronic component is configured to be provided inside of the housing. A transparent material is provided at the outer surface of the housing. A solar cell is provided on the inner surface of the housing and spaced apart from the transparent material by a predetermined distance. The transparent material is configured to receive light from an external source and direct the light to the solar cell.
US09012761B2
An organic photoelectric conversion material for a photoelectric conversion element is provided, the organic photoelectric conversion material represented by formula 1 and having a molecular weight of 250 or greater but not greater than 800: wherein, A represents an electron withdrawing atomic group; R1, R2 and R3 each independently represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; L represents a divalent π conjugated substituent; D represents an electron donating aromatic substituent; and X represents O, S, or N—Ra in which Ra represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent.
US09012760B2
A thermoelectric device, a method for fabricating a thermoelectric device and electrode materials applied to the thermoelectric device are provided according to the present invention. The present invention is characterized in arranging thermoelectric material power, interlayer materials and electrode materials in advance according to the structure of thermoelectric device; adopting one-step sintering method to make a process of forming bulked thermoelectric materials and a process of combining with electrodes on the devices to be completed simultaneously; and obtaining a π shape thermoelectric device finally. Electrode materials related to the present invention comprise binary or ternary alloys or composite materials, which comprise at least a first metal selected from Cu, Ag, Al or Au, and a second metal selected from Mo, W, Zr, Ta, Cr, Nb, V or Ti. The present invention simplifies fabricating procedures, reduces the cost and avoids adverse impacts due to exposing related elements to heat and pressure for a second time.
US09012759B2
A tone effects system for use with electric instruments that allows for reduced or eliminated signal loss before sound effects are applied. A cartridge receiver and a changeover switch are integrated into the body of a desired electric instrument, while an effects cartridge is attached to the electric instrument via the cartridge receiver. The cartridge receiver provides electronic connections between the electric instrument and the effects cartridge, while the changeover switch is used to direct the electronic signal of the electric instrument through the effects cartridge. The effects cartridge provides an effects circuit for manipulating the received electronic signal, as well as an at least one effects control for adjusting the extent to which the effect is applied to the electronic signal. As the effects cartridge is attached to the electric instrument, the at least one effects control is readily accessible while the electric instrument is being played.
US09012756B1
The present invention may be used for producing vocal accompaniment with sound producing musical instruments. A hand operated unit may have a programmable processor, a display, a plurality of control switches and a control device. The hand operated unit may have a selection of human voiced letters in selected pitch and pronunciation characteristics stored in the programmable processor. An identification parameter correlated to a signal from a musical instrument that represents a sound produced by the use of the musical instrument may be stored with each selected human voice letter. When a selected human voice letter is activated, the hand operated unit may output a signal to a sound producing device. The hand operated unit may be connected to a foot operated unit that has multiple two-position foot switches and a pedal for use in control of pitch and sound level characteristics as well as selection of a human voice letter to be sound output.
US09012752B2
The present invention features apparatuses that include a wristband and a pitch pipe rotatably attached to the wristband, wherein the apparatuses are disposed to be worn on a user's wrist. The invention further features methods of use thereof.
US09012750B2
Stringed instrument having an elongated neck member optionally including a fingerboard, with a plurality of frets fixedly positioned at predetermined spaced locations along the neck. The frets include a tang and a mushroom shaped crown, each positioned and secured in a corresponding fret slot formed in the neck. The neck member includes a carbon fiber based support member that can be T-shaped. In its method aspects, the neck can be straight and of neutral strain or a desired backbow/underbow or curvature in the elongated neck member is created, such as by introducing a carbon fiber T-bar support member in the neck member in a “neutral” state while clamping the neck member in an underbow shape, or forming underbow directly into the finished neck in which a carbon fiber T-bar is already present, and then introducing crown bar style frets to wedge the neck back to an optimum playable shape.
US09012744B1
A novel maize variety designated X08D500 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing hybrid maize variety X08D500 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X08D500 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X08D500, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X08D500. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X08D500.
US09012742B1
A novel maize variety designated X95D061 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing hybrid maize variety X95D061 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X95D061 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X95D061, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X95D061. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X95D061.
US09012741B2
An inbred corn line, designated BC115, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred corn line BC115, to the plants and plant parts of inbred corn line BC115 and to methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing inbred corn line BC115 with itself or another corn line. The invention also relates to products produced from the seeds, plants, or parts thereof, of inbred corn line BC115 and/or of the hybrids produced using the inbred as a parent. The invention further relates to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line BC115.
US09012739B1
A novel sorghum variety designated PHARSVXIT and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a plant that comprise crossing sorghum variety PHARSVXIT with another plant. Methods for producing a plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PHARSVXIT through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the sorghum seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid sorghum seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the sorghum variety PHARSVXIT or a locus conversion of PHARSVXIT with another sorghum variety.
US09012734B2
The soybean variety DLL0750 is disclosed. The invention relates to seeds, plants, plant cells, plant tissue, harvested products and soybean lint as well as to hybrid soybean plants and seeds obtained by repeatedly crossing plants of variety DLL0750 with other plants. The invention also relates to plants and varieties produced by the method of essential derivation from plants of DLL0750 and to plants of DLL0750 reproduced by vegetative methods, including but not limited to tissue culture of regenerable cells or tissue from DLL0750.
US09012732B2
The soybean variety DLL0840 is disclosed. The invention relates to seeds, plants, plant cells, plant tissue, harvested products and soybean lint as well as to hybrid soybean plants and seeds obtained by repeatedly crossing plants of variety DLL0840 with other plants. The invention also relates to plants and varieties produced by the method of essential derivation from plants of DLL0840 and to plants of DLL0840 reproduced by vegetative methods, including but not limited to tissue culture of regenerable cells or tissue from DLL0840.
US09012731B2
A novel soybean variety, designated XB05L13 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XB05L13, cells from soybean variety XB05L13, plants of soybean XB05L13, and plant parts of soybean variety XB05L13. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XB05L13 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XB05L13, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XB05L13, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XB05L13. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XB05L13 are further provided.
US09012730B2
A novel soybean variety, designated XB008J12 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XB008J12, cells from soybean variety XB008J12, plants of soybean XB008J12, and plant parts of soybean variety XB008J12. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XB008J12 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XB008J12, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XB008J12, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XB008J12. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XB008J12 are further provided.
US09012723B2
This disclosure provides purified nucleic acids and polypeptides. Also provided are transgenic plants, seeds, and plant cells containing DNA for expression of the proteins that are useful for imparting enhanced agronomic trait(s) to transgenic crop plants, methods of making such plants and methods of making agricultural commodity including seeds and hybrid seeds from such plants.
US09012715B2
An absorbent article having an outer cover with an interior surface and an opposite exterior surface, an absorbent core positioned adjacent the interior surface of the outer cover, and a wetness indicator graphic located on the outer cover. The wetness indicator graphic has a permanent graphic defining at least one non-printed area and a changing graphic located within the at least one non-printed area of the permanent graphic such that the permanent graphic and the changing graphic together give the appearance of a uniform graphic.
US09012711B2
The invention is directed to purification of an aromatic hydrocarbon stream including selective removal of phenol from a process stream comprising aromatic hydrocarbon mixtures, especially aromatic hydrocarbon mixtures that contain higher-than-equilibrium paraxylene, by contact with suitable adsorbents, to provide a product stream having lower concentration of phenol than said process stream.
US09012710B2
Fuel compositions containing an isomerized component of a single carbon number may contain at least 97 wt. %, based on the total weight of the fuel composition, of an isomerized component consisting of aliphatic paraffin isomers all having the formula CnH2n+2, where 10≦n≦22 and n has the same value for each aliphatic paraffin isomer in the isomerized component. The fuel compositions have a normal alkane content of less than 10 wt. %, based on the total weight of the fuel composition. Methods for preparing the fuel compositions include hydroisomerizing a normal alkane starting material to form an isomerized mixture and subsequently removing remnant normal alkanes from the isomerized mixture by solvent dewaxing and/or distillation. Some of the fuel compositions may have freezing points at or below −47° C., making them amenable for use a surrogate fuels in the place of JP-8.
US09012708B2
A process is disclosed for making styrene by converting methanol to formaldehyde in a reactor then reacting the formaldehyde with toluene to form styrene in a separate reactor.
US09012707B2
The invention relates to a process for the autothermal gas-phase dehydrogenation of a hydrocarbon-comprising gas stream by means of an oxygen-comprising gas stream over a heterogeneous catalyst configured as a monolith to give a reaction gas mixture and regeneration of the catalyst in a reactor in the form of a cylinder or prism, wherein the reactor is operated alternately in the production mode of the autothermal gas-phase dehydrogenation and in the regeneration mode.
US09012705B2
The invention relates to a process for the preparation of formula (I) which process comprises pyrolyzing a compound of formula (II) wherein X is chloro or bromo, and to compounds which may be used as intermediates for the manufacture of the compound of formula I and to the preparation of said intermediates.
US09012689B2
The present invention relates to a compound of formula A, wherein R is alkyl. Compound A may be used as an intermediate in the preparation of O-desmethyl venlafaxine or a salt thereof, and the present invention provides such a preparation, as well as a process for preparing the compound of formula A.
US09012688B2
The present invention provides a novel fluorescent molecule having formula 1 which exhibit emission color change when in contact with moisture useful for the preparation of fluorescent paper, allowing self-erasable writing, security label for document authenticity, check and prevention of currency counterfeit. Compound of formula 1, when coated on paper, results in blue emitting surfaces on which writing is possible using water as ink. The images undergo self-erasal after 6 hours making the paper reusable or instantly with hot air. The images are visible only on illumination with a UV lamp having wavelength 365 nm. The material can be coated on any document to create security label which changes color on touching with a wet surface or water pen and will go back to the native color when the moisture is dried off after a time frame.
US09012685B2
A method for recovery of highly pure alkyl lactate and lactic acid is provided, which includes a step 1 for producing source liquid comprising lactic acid or ammonium lactate; a step 2 for dehydrating the source liquid product of step 1; a step 3 for producing liquid mixture by sequentially adding and stirring alcohol and acid solution to the dehydrated source liquid; a step 4 for separating and removing ammonium salt precipitation from the liquid mixture of step 3; a step 5 for producing alkyl lactate from ammonium salt-free liquid mixture by esterification reaction; and a step 6 for separating alcohol and alkyl lactate by distillation from the mixture of step 5.
US09012667B2
The invention relates to a process for the preparation of a compound of formula (I): wherein R1 and R2 are as defined in the description, by reaction of a compound of formula (II) with a base. Compound (I) is an intermediate useful in the preparation of gestodene.
US09012663B2
Methods for assaying α-L-iduronidase enzymatic activity and methods for screening newborns for Mucopolysaccharidosis Type-I.
US09012651B2
Disclosed herein are modulators of TRPV3 of formula (I) wherein X1, X2, R1, R2, Rx, and n are as defined in the specification. Compositions comprising such compounds and methods for treating conditions and disorders using such compounds and compositions are also presented.
US09012648B2
The invention relates to compounds of Formula I, wherein R1 and R2 are defined in the specification, useful for the synthesis of novel conjugates and immunogens derived from risperidone and paliperidone. The invention also relates to conjugates of a risperidone or paliperidone hapten and a protein.
US09012646B2
The present invention is directed to novel substituted bicyclic aromatic compounds useful as S-nitrosoglutathione reductase (GSNOR) inhibitors, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, and methods of making and using the same.
US09012644B2
Compounds of formula (I) act both as muscarinic receptor antagonists and beta2 adrenergic receptor agonists and are useful for treating and/or preventing broncho-obstructive and inflammatory diseases.
US09012639B2
The invention relates to copper(I) complexes of the formula A wherein X=Cl, Br or I (independently of one another); N*∩E=a bidentate ligand, wherein E=a phosphinyl group including a phosphorus atom or an arsenyl group including an arsenic atom, wherein the phosphinyl group or the arsenyl group is combined with R in the form of R2E (where R=alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, or phenoxy; N*=imine function which is part of an aromatic group selected from pyridyl, pyrimidyl, pyridazinyl, triazinyl, oxazolyl, thiazolyl and imidazolyl, the aromatic group optionally having at least one substituent to increase the solubility of the copper(I) complex in an organic solvent; and ∩=at least one carbon atom which is likewise part of the aromatic group. The carbon atom is located directly adjacent both to the imine nitrogen atom, coordinating to Cu in the case of a bridging ligand and to the phosphorus or arsenic atom. The invention also relates to the use of the copper(I) complexes in optoelectronic assemblies, especially in Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs).
US09012633B2
The present invention pertains generally to the field of therapeutic compounds, and more specifically to certain triazolo compounds (referred to herein as TAZ compounds), and especially certain [1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-a]pyridine and [1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-c]pyrimidine compounds, which, inter alia, inhibit AXL receptor tyrosine kinase function. The present invention also pertains to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, and the use of such compounds and compositions, both in vitro and in vivo, to inhibit AXL receptor tyrosine kinase function, and in the treatment of diseases and conditions that are mediated by AXL receptor tyrosine kinase, that are ameliorated by the inhibition of AXL receptor tyrosine kinase function, etc., including proliferative conditions such as cancer, etc.
US09012616B2
The present invention relates to recombinant cells and microorganisms of the phylum Labyrinthulomycota and their use in heterologous protein production. Novel promoter, terminator, and signal sequences for efficient production and, optionally, secretion of polypeptides from recombinant host cells and microorganisms are also encompassed by the present invention.
US09012607B2
Novel mutated humanized 12G4 antibodies, and fragments thereof, directed against the anti-Müllerian hormone type II receptor.
US09012604B2
The present invention relates to a triazanonane derivative indicated by the chemical formula 1 below, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a method for preparing same, and the triazanonane derivative according to the present invention forms a complex with a metal-fluoride and displays an effect of increasing the labeling efficiency up to 78-90% when labeling F-18, thus enabling use in various radioactive medicine labeling (In the chemical formula 1, R1, R2, A. E. X, n and m are as defined in the present description.)
US09012598B2
A new and efficient method of functionalizing high molecular weight polymers through alkylation using a metal amide base is described. This novel procedure can also be used to synthesize polymer-based macro-initiators containing radical initiating groups at the chain-ends for synthesis of block copolymers.
US09012594B2
A method of synthesizing a biocompatible hydrogel by covalently cross-linking an effective amount of a first macromonomer including a cyclic thioester group with an effective amount of a second macromonomer including a terminal cysteine group is disclosed. In addition, the synthesis and use of the following specific cyclic thioester macromonomer that can be used in the method, as well as specific hydrogels made using this macromonomer are disclosed. The disclosed method produces a biocompatible hydrogel, while producing substantially no toxic free thiol by-product. Accordingly, the method can be used in making biomedical products, such as sutures and tissue replacement biomaterials, and for encapsulating therapeutic cells and pharmaceuticals.
US09012592B2
Disclosed are multifunctional sulfur-containing polymers that are the reaction products of a sulfur-containing diol, a polyol containing at least three hydroxyl groups per polyol molecule, and an aldehyde, a ketone, or a combination thereof. Sealant compositions comprising the multifunctional sulfur-containing polymers are also disclosed.
US09012591B2
A copolymerized polycarbonate resin includes a repeat unit represented by Formula 1; a repeat unit represented by Formula 2; and a repeat unit represented by Formula 3, wherein the repeat unit represented by Formula 1 is different than the repeat unit represented by Formula 3, and wherein Formula 1, 2, and 3 are the same as defined in the specification. The copolymerized polycarbonate resin can have excellent properties in terms of chemical resistance, thermal resistance, and/or external appearance.
US09012589B2
The invention relates to a compound of following formula (I): the preparation method thereof and the use of same.
US09012584B2
In various embodiments, the present invention provides an organoboronate nanoparticle. The nanoparticle includes a polymer, which includes a repeating unit that includes at least one organoboronate functional group. Various embodiments provide compositions including the nanoparticles, surface functionalized nanoparticles, nanoparticles including an encapsulant, methods of making the nanoparticles, and methods of using the nanoparticles, such as methods of stimuli-responsive release of encapsulants.
US09012577B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing linear alpha-olefins by oligomerizing of ethylene in the presence of a first organic solvent and a homogenous catalyst in a reactor, characterized in that the reactor overhead is cooled by means of a refrigerant.
US09012575B2
The present invention relates to epoxy group-terminated polymers of the formula (I). Said epoxy group-terminated polymers are suited extremely well as impact resistance modifiers, particularly in epoxy resin compositions. They are particularly suited for use in heat-curing epoxy resin adhesives. It has been found that such epoxy resin compositions not only have excellent mechanical properties and high glass transition temperatures, but also above all improved impact resistance properties, both at room temperature and at low temperatures.
US09012569B2
The invention provides oil emulsion droplets and a general and facile method for providing same through the use of templating multilayer capsules. The oil emulsion droplets are further useful in fabricating liquid crystal droplet-based biosensors for the detection of target analytes such as bacteria or viruses in a sample.
US09012556B1
A powder coating composition comprising: (a) a first acrylic powder resin having a hydroxyl value of at least about 180; (b) a second acrylic powder resin having a hydroxyl value less than about 45; (c) a crosslinker reactive with the hydroxyl functional acrylic resins; and (d) wollastonite.
US09012555B2
This invention is directed to a polymer thick film UV-curable thermoformable dielectric composition. Dielectrics made from the composition can be used in various electronic applications to protect electrical elements and particularly to insulate and protect both the conductive thermoformable silver and the polycarbonate substrate below it in capacitive switch applications. The thermoformed capacitive switch circuit may be subsequently subjected to an injection molding process.
US09012548B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a polypropylene resin composition that is blended in a polyolefin resin to improve its surface characteristics and impart sustained water repellency and yet is low in aggregates so as not to deteriorate the visual appearance, a polyolefin resin composition containing the polypropylene resin composition, and a molded article of the polyolefin resin composition. A composition that achieves the object is a polypropylene resin composition obtained by heating and kneading a material containing (A) a polypropylene resin, (B) a polypropylene wax, (C) a polyorganosiloxane containing at least one silicon-atom-bonded alkenyl group in each molecule, and (D) an organic peroxide.
US09012540B2
A rubber composition for a tire tread includes a modified diene rubber comprising a styrene butadiene rubber and/or a polybutadiene rubber, having a functional group such as an amino group or a hydroxyl group, silica, a silane coupling agent, a lignin derivative, and a carbon masterbatch. The carbon masterbatch comprises a styrene butadiene rubber, and carbon black having iodine adsorption of from 60 to 130 g/kg, and a ratio of the amount (B) of a rubber in the carbon masterbatch to the amount (A) of the modified diene rubber is B/A=0.25 to 1. The total amount of the carbon black and the silica is from 40 to 100 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of a rubber component, the proportion of the silica in fillers is from 25 to 80% by mass, and the amount of the lignin derivative is from 0.1 to 10 parts by mass.
US09012539B2
The present invention relates to a method for the production of wood material made of fragmentation products containing lignocelluloses, wherein these wood materials have a reduced emission of volatile organic compounds, aldehydes, particularly formaldehyde. Specifically, the invention relates to methods for the production of wood materials having reduced emission of volatile organic compounds and aldehydes, wherein a certain combination of compounds is utilized in order to prevent the emission of volatile organic compounds and aldehydes, particularly formaldehydes, from the produced wood material. The present invention further relates to wood material that can be produced according this method, particularly OSB panels, particle board, and MDF panels. Finally, the present invention provides compositions suitable in the treatment of wood material to reduce the emission of aldehydes, particularly formaldehyde and volatile organic compounds.
US09012536B2
An aqueous epoxy resin system AB is described comprising an aqueously dispersed epoxy resin A having, on the average, at least one epoxy group per molecule, and a water-soluble or water-dispersible curing agent B which comprises the reaction product of an amine B1 having at least one primary and/or at least one secondary amino group, an adduct B2 of a polyalkylene ether polyol B21 and an epoxide component B22, and an aromatic compound B3 having at least one acidic group selected from the group consisting of hydroxyl and carboxyl groups, which system can be applied by rolling, spraying or brushing to provide corrosion protection on base metals.
US09012535B2
The present invention is to provide a production method of a natural rubber master batch including a step of mixing a natural rubber latex and an aqueous slurry having carbon black dispersed in water, wherein a mixing amount of the carbon black is from 10 to 100 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of a natural rubber component; and the carbon black is satisfied with the relationships expressed by (1) 120
US09012532B2
The present invention relates to an acrylic artificial marble having a granite pattern and a method of manufacturing the same, which can provide a natural marble effect by mixing and molding two or more compounds having different colors and thus can obtain a granite pattern in which patterns of the two or more compounds are smoothly mixed, and which can obtain a desired pattern remarkably similar to a pattern of natural stone by using a multicolor chip sheet.
US09012529B2
A hot-melt formulation useful as a wound dressing comprises a chemically crosslinked polymer matrix obtainable from prepolymers crosslinkable by means of photopolymerization. Hydrocolloids are embedded in the chemically crosslinked polymer, matrix. The formulation is obtainable by combining the prepolymers and hydrocolloids, and heating and processing the mixture through a slot die, wherein the mixture has a viscosity of less than 100 Pa*s and a processing temperature of less than 150° C. The prepolymers are crosslinked by means of photopolymerization by irradiation with UV light.
US09012508B2
An effective dose of intravenous ibuprofen administered every 6 hours in surgery patients is a safe and effective way to reduce both pain and the need for morphine. In preferred embodiments, the administration of intravenous ibuprofen starts with the onset of anesthesia.
US09012506B2
Fatty acid-derived biomaterials, methods of making the biomaterials, and methods of using them as drug delivery carriers are described. The fatty acid-derived biomaterials can be utilized alone or in combination with a medical device for the release and local delivery of one or more therapeutic agents. Methods of forming and tailoring the properties of said biomaterials and methods of using said biomaterials for treating injury in a mammal are also provided.
US09012505B2
The present invention relates to novel antimicrobial compounds, methods of their production as well as uses thereof.
US09012502B2
Provided is an enhancer for cancer thermotherapy not combined with photodynamic therapy. Cancer treatment not combined with photodynamic therapy is made available by using, as an enhancer for cancer thermotherapy, 5-aminolevulinic acids represented by formula (1): R2R1NCH2COCH2CH2COR3 (1) [wherein R1 and R2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an acyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an aryl group, or an aralkyl group; and R3 represents a hydroxy group, an alkoxy group, an acyloxy group, an alkoxycarbonyloxy group, an aryloxy group, an aralkyloxy group, or an amino group] or a salt thereof.
US09012500B2
The present invention aims to obtain an optical isomer of DCP-LA, which shows more superior activity and is suitable for clinical utilization, and provide an agent having a superior PKC-ε activation action, a prophylactic and/or therapeutic agent for neurotransmitter release disorders, and a prophylactic and/or therapeutic agent for neuropsychiatric diseases, which contain the isomer as an active ingredient.A compound represented by the following formula: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a selective PKC-ε activator containing same as an active ingredient, and is the like.
US09012494B2
The N-oxide forms, the pharmaceutically acceptable addition salts and the stereochemically isomeric forms thereof, wherein n is 1 or 2; L represents a C1-3alkyl linker optionally substituted with one or two substituents selected from C1-4alkyl, C1-3alkyloxy-C1-4alkyl-, hydroxy-C1-4alkyl, hydroxy, C1-3alkyloxy- or phenyl-C1-4alkyl; M represents a direct bond or a C1-3alkyl linker optionally substituted with one or two substituents selected from hydroxy, C1-4alkyl or C1-4alkyloxy; R1 and R2 each independently represent hydrogen, halo, cyano, hydroxy, C1-4alkyl optionally substituted with halo, C1-4alkyloxy- optionally substituted with one or where possible two or three substituents selected from hydroxy, Ar1 and halo; or R1 and R2 taken together with the phenyl ring to which they are attached form naphtyl or 1,3-benzodioxolyl, wherein said naphtyl or 1,3-benzodioxolyl are optionally substituted with halo; R3 represents hydrogen, halo, C1-4alkyl, C1-4alkyloxy-, cyano or hydroxy; R4 represents hydrogen, halo, C1-4alkyl, C1-4alkyloxy-, cyano or hydroxy; R5 represents hydrogen, C1-4alkyl or Ar2-C1-4alky-; R6 represents hydrogen, halo, C1-4alkyl or C1-4alkyoxy-; Ar1 and Ar2 each independently represent phenyl or naphtyl wherein said phenyl and naphtyl are optionally substituted with C1-4alkyl, C1-4alkyloxy-, or phenyl-C1-4alkyl; for use as a medicine.
US09012480B2
The invention is directed to formulations and methods of treating a migraine and/or cluster headache with a serotonin agonist, pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or derivative thereof.
US09012472B2
Provided herein are compounds according to Formulas (I) or (II) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and compositions comprising the same, for use in various methods, including treating cancer, abnormal cellular proliferation, angiogenesis, Alzheimer's disease, lung disease, osteoarthritis, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and neurological conditions/disorders/diseases.
US09012468B2
The present invention provides processes for preparing nal-opiates without the isolation of intermediates. In general, the process provides for alkylation and reduction in the same pot to give the nal-opiate.
US09012467B2
The present disclosure describes compositions for intratumoral administration which include a tissue-stabilizing agent and a therapeutic agent.
US09012464B2
Afatinib salts and crystalline forms thereof are described in the present application and processes for their preparation. Crystalline forms of Afatinib are also described in the present application and processes for their preparation. The present invention also includes pharmaceutical compositions of such Afatinib salts and crystalline forms thereof or crystalline forms of Afatinib, methods of their preparation and the use thereof in the treatment of a patient in need thereof.
US09012449B2
The present invention is related to pyrazolo pyridine derivatives of Formula (I), pharmaceutical composition thereof and to their use for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of disorders or conditions related to Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidase (NADPH Oxidase).
US09012447B2
The present invention provides 5-HT3 receptor antagonists of Formula (I): which are useful for the treatment of diseases treatable by inhibition of 5-HT3 receptor such as emesis, pain, drug addiction, neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders, and GI disorders. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds and processes for preparing such compounds.
US09012446B2
The present invention comprises a new class of compounds useful for the modulation of Beta-secretase enzyme activity and for the treatment of Beta-secretase mediated diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related conditions. In one embodiment, the compounds have a general Formula I wherein A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, R2, R7, X, Y and Z of Formula I are defined herein. The invention also includes use of these compounds in pharmaceutical compositions for treatment, prophylactic or therapeutic, of disorders and conditions related to the activity of beta-secretase protein. Such disorders include, for example, Alzheimer's Disease, cognitive deficits, cognitive impairment, schizophrenia and other central nervous system conditions related to and/or caused by the formation and/or deposition of plaque on the brain. The invention also comprises further embodiments of Formula I, intermediates and processes useful for the preparation of compounds of Formula I.
US09012431B2
Compounds and methods of treating anti-inflammatory conditions are disclosed.
US09012426B2
The present invention relates to an anti-angiogenic composition, and more particularly, to a pharmaceutical anti-angiogenic composition including a microRNA-382 inhibitor. The inventors of the present invention have confirmed that microRNA-382, the expression of which is elevated in stomach cancer cells in a low oxygen environment, affects the promotion of angiogenesis induced in a low oxygen environment. Therefore, the pharmaceutical composition of the present invention inhibits microRNA-382 and thus inhibits angiogenesis and cell proliferation, and is expected ultimately to be valuably used in the treatment of cancer.
US09012419B2
Disclosed are compositions and methods for regulating eosinophils.
US09012413B2
The invention relates to FGF receptor-activating N-acyl octasaccharides having Formula (I), wherein: R1 is an O-alkyl group optionally replaced by one or more aryl or cycloalkyl groups, R2 is an OSO3− or hydroxyl group, R3 is an alkyl, cycloalkyl, or alkyl-cycloalkyl group, R4 is a disaccharide having Formula (II), R6 is a disaccharide having Formula (III), and R8 is a disaccharide having Formula (IV), where R5, R7, and R9 are OSO3− or hydroxyl groups. The invention further relates to the preparation of said octasaccharides and to the therapeutic use thereof.
US09012405B2
The present invention concerns a chimeric polypeptide, capable of detecting the antibodies generated in rheumatoid arthritis, comprising at least two citrulinated peptide subunits: (i) one derived from the α or β chain of the fibrin and (ii) a second derived from the filaggrin. In addition, the invention comprises an antigenic composition, a method and a kit for the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis, from the detection of the autoantibodies generated during the course of said disease.
US09012403B2
The present invention relates to compounds, in particular peptides which are capable of stabilizing barrier functions of epithelium and endothelium. The peptides and other compounds of the present invention are useful in the treatment and prevention of diseases or disorders associated with a localized or systemic breakdown of epithelial and endothelial barrier functions. Particular diseases and disorders to be treated and/or prevented with the peptides or other compounds, methods and uses provided herein are burns, acute lung injury (ALI), acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), ventilator induced lung injury (VILI), systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), acute kidney injury (AKI), sepsis, multiorgan dysfunction syndrome (MODS), or edema.
US09012392B2
This document provides methods and materials related to treating liver conditions. For example, the methods and materials relating to the use of cAMP inhibitors to treat liver conditions are provided.
US09012388B2
A gel surfactant composition suitable for hard surface cleaning, washing clothes and dishes, and which can be employed for household, institutional and/or industrial applications, composed by water and a) nonionic surfactants in the range of 1 to 50%, b) a cationic surfactant or association of cationic surfactants in the range of 20 to 50% and c) optionally amphoteric surfactants.
US09012378B2
Apparatus and compositions for reducing the viscosity of a gelled fluid is provided. In one embodiment, a viscosity reducing microbe is disposed in a capsule and added to the gelled fluid. The gelled fluid may include a thickening agent adapted to increase its viscosity. Upon release from the capsule, the microbe begins to digest the thickening agent in the gelled fluid and/or releases enzymes that that breakdown the thickening agent.
US09012376B2
Methods of inhibiting corrosion of a metal surface in a well or pipeline are provided. The methods include the steps of: (a) forming a fluid of: (i) an aqueous acid solution; and (ii) inulin; and (b) introducing the fluid into the well or pipeline. The methods have wide application in various kinds of operations involved in the production or transportation of oil and gas, such as acid stimulation or remedial treatment in a pipeline.
US09012373B2
Systems and methods for processing fluid samples are disclosed. Fluid sample processing is accomplished using a series of microfluidic bump arrays include an automated and integrated system for sorting particles from a biological sample, lysing those particles to expose total RNA or DNA, purifying the RNA or DNA, processing the RNA or DNA by chemical or enzymatic modification, to select RNA or DNA molecules by size, or to generate, optionally, a sequencing library. The sequencing library is suitable for use in next generation sequencing (“NGS”).
US09012363B2
A granular agrochemical composition is disclosed including a granular core material having a water soluble portion with a first coating layer applied on the surface of the core material and a second coating layer applied on the surface of the first coating layer. The first coating layer includes a wax composition having a biologically active ingredient incorporated therein and the second coating layer includes a polymeric composition. The granular agrochemical composition exhibits a controlled rate of release of the biologically active ingredient therefrom over a period greater than about 30 days from the date of initial exposure of the granular composition to moisture whereby essentially all of the biologically active ingredient incorporated in the wax material of the first coating layer is released from the granular composition before the water soluble portion of the granular core material is released from the granular composition.
US09012359B2
Activating supports may be suitably prepared by the following procedure (a) providing a porous mineral oxide support material, (b) treating the support with a phosphorus-containing compound, (c) treating the support from step (b) with an organometallic compound, (d) heating the functionalized support from step (c) under an inert gas and then under an atmosphere comprising oxygen, (e) fluorinating the support with a fluorinating agent, and (f) recovering an activating support. The activating supports are suitable used in combination with single site catalysts for the polymerization of olefins. The supports are most preferably used in combination with metallocene complexes. The preparative route for the activating supports provides for supported polymerization catalyst systems having excellent activities.
US09012346B2
Methods of making a substantially crack-free electrode layer are described. The methods include depositing an electrode ink on a substrate; placing a solid polymer film on a surface of the wet electrode ink; drying the electrode ink; and removing the solid polymer film from the surface of the dry electrode ink to form the substantially crack-free electrode layer on the substrate.
US09012343B2
There is provided a glass for chemical strengthening having a black color tone and excelling in characteristics preferred for the purposes of housing or decoration of an electronic device, that is, bubble quality, strength, and light transmittance characteristics. A glass for chemical strengthening contains, in mole percentage based on following oxides, 55% to 80% of SiO2, 3% to 16% of Al2O3, 0% to 12% of B2O3, 5% to 16% of Na2O, 0% to 4% of K2O, 0% to 15% of MgO, 0% to 3% of CaO, 0% to 18% of ΣRO (where R represents Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba or Zn), 0% to 1% of ZrO2, and 0.1% to 7% of a coloring component having at least one metal oxide selected from the group consisting of oxides of Co, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Cr, V and Bi.
US09012338B2
In the present invention, At least one row of lens arrays, in which a plurality of lenses are arranged in a direction intersecting with the conveying direction of a substrate to correspond to the plurality of TFT forming areas set in a matrix on the substrate, is shifted in the direction intersecting with the conveying direction of the substrate, to thereby align the lenses in the lens array with the TFT forming areas on the substrate based on the alignment reference position. The laser beams are irradiated onto the lens array when the substrate moves and the TFT forming areas reach the underneath of the corresponding lenses of the lens array, and the laser beams are focused by the plurality of lenses to anneal the amorphous silicon film in each TFT forming area.
US09012337B2
A system and method for maintain a desired degree of platen flatness is disclosed. A laser system is used to measure the flatness of a platen. The temperature of the platen is then varied to achieve the desired level of flatness. In some embodiments, this laser system is only used during a set up period and the resulting desired temperature is then used during normal operation. In other embodiments, a laser system is used to measure the flatness of the platen, even while the workpiece is being processed.
US09012336B2
Disclosed are apparatus and methods for processing a substrate. The substrate having a feature with a layer thereon is exposed to an inductively coupled plasma which forms a substantially conformal layer.
US09012335B2
A silicon carbide semiconductor device having excellent electrical characteristics including channel mobility and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The method for manufacturing a silicon carbide semiconductor device includes: an epitaxial layer forming step of preparing a semiconductor film of silicon carbide; a gate insulating film forming step of forming an oxide film on a surface of the semiconductor film; a nitrogen annealing step of performing heat treatment on the semiconductor film on which the oxide film is formed, in a nitrogen-containing atmosphere; and a post heat treatment step of performing, after the nitrogen annealing step, post heat treatment on the semiconductor film on which the oxide film is formed, in an atmosphere containing an inert gas. The heat treatment temperature in the post heat treatment step is higher than that in the nitrogen annealing step and lower than a melting point of the oxide film.
US09012332B2
Disclosed are a test piece and the manufacturing method thereof The test piece includes an insulating substrate and a circuit pattern structure formed on the insulating substrate, wherein circuit pattern structure includes a first metal pattern layer, a second metal pattern layer, a third metal pattern layer, a fourth metal pattern layer, and a fifth metal pattern layer. The first metal pattern layer, the second metal pattern layer, the third metal pattern layer, the fourth metal pattern layer, and the fifth metal pattern layer have same pattern shapes and positions thereof are overlapping in a plane. The first metal pattern layer and the second metal pattern layer are nano-metal films formed by vacuum coating, therefore, the test piece has excellent uniformity of film and low resistance to provide a stable test current to prevent the judging mistakes and to improve the test efficiency.
US09012331B2
Provided is a method of selectively etching a portion of silicon existing on a surface of a substrate to be processed, which includes: loading the substrate to be processed into a chamber; and supplying an FNO gas and an F2 gas that are diluted with an inert gas into the chamber such that the FNO gas and the F2 gas are reacted with the portion of silicon existing on the surface of the substrate to be processed.
US09012330B2
The present invention provides a method of cross double pitch patterning for forming a contact printing mask. First, a first, a second and a third layer a successively deposited; a photoresist is deposited on the third layer, and then trimmed into a first pre-pattern, on which an oxide layer is deposited. The oxide layer is etched into spacers forming a first pattern that is then etched into the third layer. A second cross pattern is formed the same way on the third layer. Finally the first and second layers are etched with selectivity both patterns.
US09012328B2
Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to methods of forming epitaxial layers and devices having epitaxial layers. The methods generally include forming a first epitaxial layer including phosphorus and carbon on a substrate, and then forming a second epitaxial layer including phosphorus and carbon on the first epitaxial layer. The second epitaxial layer has a lower phosphorus concentration than the first epitaxial layer, which allows for selective etching of the second epitaxial layer and undesired amorphous silicon or polysilicon deposited during the depositions. The substrate is then exposed to an etchant to remove the second epitaxial layer and undesired amorphous silicon or polysilicon. The carbon present in the first and second epitaxial layers reduces phosphorus diffusion, which allows for higher phosphorus doping concentrations. The increased phosphorus concentrations reduce the resistivity of the final device. The devices include epitaxial layers having a resistivity of less than about 0.381 milliohm-centimeters.
US09012315B2
Systems and methods are provided for activating dopants in a semiconductor structure. For example, a semiconductor structure including a plurality of dopants is provided. One or more microwave-absorption materials are provided, the microwave-absorption materials being capable of increasing an electric field density associated with the semiconductor structure. Microwave radiation is applied to the microwave-absorption materials and the semiconductor structure to activate the plurality of dopants for fabricating semiconductor devices. The microwave-absorption materials are configured to increase the electric field density in response to the microwave radiation so as to increase the semiconductor structure's absorption of the microwave radiation to activate the dopants.
US09012308B2
A method for pseudomorphic growth and integration of an in-situ doped, strain-compensated metastable compound base into an electronic device, such as, for example, a SiGe NPN HBT, by substitutional placement of strain-compensating atomic species. The invention also applies to strained layers in other electronic devices such as strained SiGe, Si in MOS applications, vertical thin film transistors (VTFT), and a variety of other electronic device types. Devices formed from compound semiconductors other than SiGe, such as, for example, GaAs, InP, and AlGaAs are also amenable to beneficial processes described herein.
US09012302B2
A method of etching a recess in a semiconductor substrate is described. The method may include forming a dielectric liner layer in a trench of the substrate where the liner layer has a first density. The method may also include depositing a second dielectric layer at least partially in the trench on the liner layer. The second dielectric layer may initially be flowable following the deposition, and have a second density that is less than the first density of the liner. The method may further include exposing the substrate to a dry etchant, where the etchant removes a portion of the first liner layer and the second dielectric layer to form a recess, where the dry etchant includes a fluorine-containing compound and molecular hydrogen, and where the etch rate ratio for removing the first dielectric liner layer to removing the second dielectric layer is about 1:1.2 to about 1:1.
US09012299B2
In a method of fabricating a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) device, initially, a first electrode is provided. An oxide layer is provided on the first electrode, and a protective layer is provided on the oxide layer. An opening through the protective layer is provided to expose a portion of the oxide layer, and a portion of the first electrode underlying the exposed portion of the oxide layer is oxidized. A second electrode is provided in contact with the exposed portion of the oxide layer. In alternative embodiments, the initially provided oxide layer may be eliminated, and spacers of insulating material may be provided in the opening.
US09012297B2
Structures and methods of forming moisture barrier capacitor on a semiconductor component are disclosed. The capacitor is located on the periphery of a semiconductor chip and includes an inner plate electrically connected to a voltage node, an outer plate with fins for electrically connecting to a different voltage node.
US09012293B2
A method is provided for forming sandwich damascene resistors in MOL processes and the resulting devices. Embodiments include forming on a substrate a film stack including an interlayer dielectric (ILD), a first dielectric layer, and a sacrifice layer (SL); removing a portion of the SL and the first dielectric layer, forming a first cavity; conformally forming a layer of resistive material in the first cavity and over the SL; depositing a second dielectric layer over the layer of resistive material and filling the first cavity; and removing the second dielectric layer, the layer of resistive material not in the first cavity, and at least a partial depth of the SL.
US09012292B2
A method for fabricating semiconductor memory device, includes providing a semiconductor substrate; forming a lower region which includes a first data storage device, which is carried by the semiconductor substrate; forming a switching device which is carried by the first data storage device; and forming an upper region which includes a second data storage device, which is carried by the switching device. The step of forming the first storage device includes forming a first electrode having a cylindrical or pillar shape, the first electrode being connected to the switching device.
US09012283B2
Field Effect Transistors (FETs), Integrated Circuit (IC) chips including the FETs, and a method of forming the FETs on ICs. FET locations are defined on a layered semiconductor wafer, preferably a Silicon On Insulator (SOI) wafer. One or more FET locations are defined as silicon gate locations and remaining as Replacement Metal Gate (RMG) FET locations with at least one of each on the IC. Polysilicon gates are formed in all FET locations. Gates in silicon gate locations are tailored, e.g., doped and silicided. Remaining polysilicon gates are replaced with metal in RMG FET locations. FETs are connected together into circuits with RMG FETs being connected to silicon gate FETs.
US09012271B2
A method of manufacturing a substrate of a display device is disclosed. The method comprises forming a pixel electrode having a side edge that is under a patterned thermosetting insulating material layer. The method also comprises forming, from the patterned thermosetting insulating material, an insulating layer that covers the side edge of the pixel electrode by heat-treatment of the patterned thermosetting insulating material. As a result of the heat treatment of the patterned thermosetting insulating material, the patterned thermosetting insulating layer melts over the side edge of the pixel electrode.
US09012251B2
Disclosed is a method for preventing a short circuit between metal wires in an organic light emitting diode display device. The method includes: forming an inorganic layer on a substrate; forming an opening in the inorganic layer for exposing a part of the substrate; forming a metal layer on the inorganic layer, the metal layer including two metal wires respectively positioned at two sides of the opening; forming an organic layer on the two metal wires of the metal layer; and forming an indium tin oxide layer on the organic layer. The present invention can ensure that the short circuit does not occur between the metal wires by forming the opening in the inorganic layer.
US09012247B2
A method of manufacturing an ink jet printhead includes: providing a silicon substrate including active ejecting elements; providing a hydraulic structure layer; providing a silicon orifice plate having a plurality of nozzles for ejection of said ink; and assembling the silicon substrate with said hydraulic structure layer and said silicon orifice plate. Providing the silicon orifice plate comprises: providing a silicon wafer having a substantially planar extension delimited by a first and a second surfaces; performing a thinning step at the second surface so as to remove a central portion having a preset height; and forming in the silicon wafer a plurality of through holes, each defining a respective nozzle for ejection of the ink.
US09012237B2
The present invention is directed to a method for early, non-invasive, rapid, efficient, reliable and accurate diagnose of Alzheimer's disease. The present invention particularly addresses obtaining blood samples, and stabilizing platelets from healthy persons and patients with probable cognitive impairment and/or Alzheimer's disease; extracting proteins from the platelets; identifying both monomeric and oligomeric tau proteins in the platelets with at least two monoclonal antibodies against the tau proteins, quantifying the amounts of the identified tau proteins, and comparing the amounts and protein profiles of the tau molecular species in the platelets of the healthy person and the patient.
US09012219B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods for reprogramming somatic cells using purified RNA preparations comprising single-strand mRNA encoding an iPS cell induction factor. The purified RNA preparations are preferably substantially free of RNA contaminant molecules that: i) would activate an immune response in the somatic cells, ii) would decrease expression of the single-stranded mRNA in the somatic cells, and/or iii) active RNA sensors in the somatic cells. In certain embodiments, the purified RNA preparations are substantially free of partial mRNAs, double-stranded RNAs, un-capped RNA molecules, and/or single-stranded run-on mRNAs.
US09012217B2
Methods and small molecule compounds for stem cell differentiation are provided. One example of a class of compounds that may be used is represented by the compound having the structure IA or IB in the form of free base or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, solvate or N-oxide thereof: R1 is independently hydrogen or (C1-C6)alkyl; R2 is independently hydrogen, (C1-C6)alkyl, aryl, or heteroaryl; R2′ is independently hydrogen, (C1-C6)alkyl, CF3 or C2F5; R3 is independently (C1-C6)alkyl, aryl, 2-tetrahydrofurylmethyl, an aliphatic tertiary amine, or 4-methoxybenzyl; or R2 and R3 may be joined together to form a 5 or 6 member ring lactone; R4 is independently hydrogen, (C1-C6)alkyl, a 2- or 4-R5-substituted aromatic ring selected from a 4-R5-phenyl or a 2-R5-5-pyridyl, aryl, heteroaryl, aliphatic tertiary amine or halogen; and R5, R5′, R6, R6′, R7, R7′, are each independently hydrogen, (C1-C6)alkyl, aryl, optionally substituted phenyl, heteroaryl, a heterocyclic ring, an aliphatic tertiary amine, or halogen.
US09012215B2
Using the methods of the present invention, intermediate (int) levels of aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) activity reliably distinguished leukemic CD34+CD38− cells capable of engrafting immunodeficient mice, from residual normal hematopoietic stem cells that exhibited relatively higher ALDH activity. Minimal residual disease (MRD) detected during complete remission was enriched for the CD34+CD38−ALDHint leukemic cells, and the presence of these cells after therapy highly correlated with subsequent clinical relapse. The methods of the present invention can distinguish normal from leukemic CD34+CD38− cells, and identifies those AML cells associated with relapse. Methods of prediction of relapse of AML patients and methods of treatment are also provided.
US09012214B2
The invention relates to a recombinant measles virus expressing a heterologous amino acid sequence derived from an antigen of a determined RNA virus, the recombinant measles virus being capable of eliciting a humoral and/or cellular immune response against measles virus or against the RNA virus or against both measles virus and against the RNA virus. It also relates to the use of the recombinant measles virus for the preparation of immunogenic compositions.
US09012206B2
The invention provides methods of performing a sizing analysis. In the methods, a sizing ladder used in performing the sizing analysis is corrected. In one method, the sizing ladder is corrected for batch-to-batch variations in a sieving gel. In another method, the sizing ladder is corrected for a sample concentration that is different from the archival sizing ladder concentration. Methods are also provided in which the sizing ladder is corrected using a standard marker in a sample and/or using a real-time standard sizing ladder. The methods may be used individually or in combination.
US09012203B2
A microfluidic device for controlled encapsulation of particles of sub-millimetric dimensions, or clusters of such particles, the device comprising: a first duct for delivering a first liquid phase containing particles for encapsulating in suspension; a second duct for conveying a flow of a second liquid phase that is immiscible with said first liquid phase; the first duct opening out into the second duct and forming a fluidic junction therewith; at least one microfluidic duct for discharging the first liquid phase flowing in said first duct and provided with a mouth located upstream from said junction and liable to be obstructed, at least in part, by a particle in suspension, thereby causing pressure to rise in the first duct. The invention also provides a microfluidic system including such a device, and a method of encapsulation based on using such a device.
US09012199B2
Recombinant carrier molecules having amino acid sequences from thermostable enzymes and methods of use for expression, recovery and delivery of foreign sequences (peptides and polypeptides) produced in different systems (bacteria, yeast, DNA, cell cultures such as mammalian, plant, insect cell cultures, protoplast and whole plants in vitro or in vivo are provided. The recombinant carrier molecule using sequences from lichenase B (Lic B) were also made and used as part of carrier protein to express, recover and deliver a variety of target polypeptides of interest.
US09012197B2
The present invention is directed to recombinant microalgal cells and their use in production of heterologous hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN) polypeptides, as well as compositions and uses thereof.
US09012194B2
A method for producing sophorolipids having protein inducer and/or repressor activities having the steps of synthesizing the sophorolipid by fermentation of Candida bombicola in a fermentation media to form a natural mixture of lactonic sophorolipids and non-lactonic sophorolipids and then utilizing the natural mixture as a protein inducing agent, utilizing the natural mixture as a protein repressing agent, and/or utilizing the natural mixture as a combined protein induction/repressor agent. An application of the sophorolipid compound produced according to the method as a microbial media component.
US09012193B2
Systems and methods are provided for patterning biological and non-biological material at specific sites on a plate, as well as growing three dimensional structures. Preferred embodiments comprise a plate with regions that will trap gas, usually in the form of bubbles, when the plate is submerged in liquid. Other embodiment of the present invention include a method for placing materials on the plate at pre-determined locations through the use of trapped gas to prevent materials from collecting at unwanted regions. The plate has great utility for plating cells and tissues at specific sites, such as on an array. The disclosed method can also be used to coat the surface of a plate with coatings at specific locations for patterned coating applications and to build up materials to produce three dimensional structures, including micromechanical structures—where the structures may be formed from living or non-living material, tissue or non-tissue, organic or inorganic, and the like.
US09012186B2
The present disclosure provides methods for the conversion of hemicellulose into fermentable sugars using enzymes isolated from Prevotella bryantii. Hemicellulose-degrading enzymes include an endoxylanase, a β-xylosidase, a bifunctional β-xylosidase and β-glucosidase, a bifunctional arabinofuranosidase and β-xylosidase, a glucuronidase, and an acetyl xylan esterase. The enzymes can be used to release sugars present in hemicellulose for subsequent fermentation to produce value-added products such as ethanol.
US09012183B2
A method of preparing a DNA copy of a target polynucleotide using template switching is described. The method includes mixing a double stranded template/primer substrate made up of a DNA primer oligonucleotide associated with a complementary oligonucleotide template strand with a target polynucleotide in a reaction medium and adding a suitable amount of a non-retroviral reverse transcriptase to the reaction medium to extend the DNA primer oligonucleotide from its 3′ end to provide a DNA copy polynucleotide. The DNA copy polynucleotide includes a complementary target DNA polynucleotide that is synthesized using the target polynucleotide as a template. Methods of adding nucleotides to the double stranded template/primer substrate are also described. The method can be used to facilitate detection, PCR amplification, cloning, and determination of RNA and DNA sequences.
US09012181B2
A eukaryotic expression vector capable of displaying a multi-chain polypeptide on the surface of a host cell is provided, such that the biological activity of the multi-chain polypeptide is exhibited at the surface of the host cell. Such a vector allows for the display of complex biologically active polypeptides, e.g., biologically active multi-chain polypeptides such as immunoglobulin Fab fragments. The present invention describes and enables the successful display of a multi-chain polypeptide on the surface of a eukaryotic host cell. Preferred vectors are described for expressing the chains of a multi-chain polypeptide in a host cell separately and independently (e.g., under separate vector control elements, and/or on separate expression vectors, thus forming a matched vector set). The use of such matched vector sets provides flexibility and versatility in the generation of eukaryotic display libraries, for example the ability to generate and to display multi-chain polypeptides by combining and recombining vectors that express variegations of the individual chains of a multi-chain polypeptide. Entire repertoires of novel chain combinations can be devised using such vector sets.
US09012178B2
The present invention relates to the culture of animal cells in serum-free culture medium. The present invention provides particular dipeptides that can improve recombinant protein production and cell viability in such cultures, especially in the absence of peptones.
US09012173B2
The disclosed invention relates to a method of making a sterilization indicator including depositing an electronically conductive material on a substrate using an ink jet printer and depositing a biological indicator on part or all of the electronically conductive material using the ink jet printer, and further relates to a method for monitoring a sterilization process including (A) exposing an article to be sterilized and a biological indicator to a sterilization medium during a sterilization process, the biological indicator comprising a cell with a plasma membrane in which the biological indicator is positioned on part or all of an electronically conductive material positioned on a substrate; and (B) measuring the membrane potential of the cell to detect the viability of the cell.
US09012162B2
The inventors have proposed a novel panel of human serum protein biomarkers for diagnosing hepatic fibrosis and cirrhosis. Presently there is no reliable non-invasive way of assessing liver fibrosis. A 2D-PAGE based proteomics study was used to identify potential fibrosis biomarkers. Serum from patients with varying degrees of hepatic scarring induced by infection with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) was analyzed. Several proteins associated with liver scarring and/or viral infection were identified. These proteins include the inter-α-trypsin inhibitor heavy chain H4 fragments, complement factor H-related protein 1, CD5L, Apo L1, and β2GPI. Increased and decreased thiolester cleavage of a2M and Complement C3, respectively, was also detected. The concentrations of these novel biomarkers can be determined using an immunoassay where the concentrations would reflect the extent of fibrosis. A fibrosis scoring scale for each of the novel biomarkers is proposed. The additive result from the scores of all the novel biomarkers would give a more reliable indication of the degree of fibrosis rather than examining individual biomarkers.
US09012161B2
The present invention provides methods for identifying a molecule that provides or enhances a sweet taste in the mouth and compositions containing such molecules. The methods involve determining the effect of a variety of known or new compounds on expression or functional activity of a glucose-transporter protein of the activity of an ATP-gated K+ channel (KATP) in a mammalian oral cell, taste cell, or heterologous cell that expresses the protein or channel.
US09012160B2
The present invention relates to methods and kits for evaluating the severity of a burn injury, which are based on the detection in a clinical fluid sample of skin metabolism products, such as collagen peptides which are released upon collagen degradation or synthesis.
US09012152B2
Isolated peptides comprising no more than ten amino acids and having anti-bacterial properties are disclosed. In one embodiment the peptides have a consensus amino acid sequence X1X2X3X4X5, wherein X1 and X5 comprise polar amino acids. In another embodiment, the peptides have a consensus amino acid sequence X1X2X3X4X5, wherein X2 and X4 are asparagine (N) residues and X3 is tryptophan (W). Compositions comprising same are also disclosed and uses thereof.
US09012149B2
Improved methods that increase the specificity and sensitivity of detection of small RNAs, including miRNAs, using oligonucleotide primers and nucleic acid amplification, are provided. Reaction conditions that result in preferential decrease in cDNA synthesis of RNAs other than the small RNA molecules targeted for detection during miRNA tailing and reverse transcription reactions are described. Using these reaction conditions greater sensitivity and specificity of amplification of small RNAs including miRNAs is achieved.
US09012148B2
Disclosed is a method for amplifying RNA and/or DNA from immune cell populations and using the amplified products to produce an immune response profile and evaluate the possible correlation between a normal or abnormal immune response and the development of a disease such as an autoimmune disease, cancer, diabetes, or heart disease.
US09012146B2
The present invention relates to a method for selectively enriching and/or isolating microbial and optionally additionally viral nucleic acids from samples that contain a mixture of microbial cells, freely circulating nucleic acids and higher eukaryotic cells, and optionally additionally viruses, in a liquid, and to a kit for selectively enriching and/or isolating intracellular and extracellular microbial nucleic acids, and optionally additionally viral nucleic acids, from samples that contain a mixture of microbial and higher eukaryotic cells, freely circulating nucleic acids, in particular extracellular microbial nucleic acids, and optionally additionally viruses in a liquid.
US09012144B2
The invention provides methods for sequencing a polynucleotide comprising stopping an extension cycle in a sequence by synthesis reaction before the reaction has run to near or full completion.
US09012142B2
A method for detecting the presence of a target nucleotide sequence in a sample of DNA is described herein in which a test sample comprising single stranded DNA is exposed to a DNA probe and a nicking endonuclease under conditions that would permit sequence-specific hybridization of the probe to a complementary target sequence. The probe comprises a sequence complementary to the target sequence to be detected and this sequence also includes a recognition sequence for the nicking endonuclease. If the sample contains the target sequence, the probe hybridizes to the target and is cleaved by the nicking endonuclease, which leaves the target intact. Observing the presence of probe cleaved by the nicking endonuclease indicates the presence of the target nucleotide sequence in the sample of DNA.
US09012140B2
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a nucleic acid target-dependent adapter linked to a nucleic acid sequence. The adapter comprises linked together a biosensor having a specific sequence complementary to a target sequence of a substrate, the biosensor improving the specificity of the nucleic acid sequence for the substrate, and a blocker stem sequence complementary to a portion of the nucleic acid sequence. In absence of the target sequence of the substrate, the blocker stem sequence forms an intramolecular stem with the nucleic acid sequence linked thereto, preventing exposition of the sequence of the nucleic acid sequence, thus locking the nucleic acid sequence so linked to the adapter in an inactive conformation, and in presence of the target sequence, the blocker stem sequence dissociating from the nucleic acid sequence, thus exposing the nucleic acid sequence linked to the adapter in an active conformation.
US09012127B2
The invention includes a novel light-activated polymerizable composition, wherein reversible crosslinks may be converted into irreversible crosslinks using a fully controllable physical and/or chemical process. The invention further includes methods of photofixing a light sensitive material or patterning an article comprising a light sensitive material.
US09012113B2
White toner contains a binder resin, a white pigment, and a releasing agent, wherein the white pigment is coated with the releasing agent and dispersed in the binder resin.
US09012111B2
A photo-curable resin composition comprising an epoxy-containing polymer, a photoacid generator in the form of an onium salt having tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)borate anion, a solvent, and optionally an epoxy resin crosslinker forms a coating which serves as a protective film for the protection of electric/electronic parts.
US09012106B2
Fluorine containing ionomer composite with ion exchange function, preparation method and use thereof
Provided is a composite which is comprised of one or more ion exchange resin(s) and a porous fluorine containing polymer membrane (2), wherein the porous membrane and the resin form a carbon-chain crosslinked structure, so that the film prepared from the composite is of good airtightness and stability, as well as high ion exchange capacity and high conductivity. The preparation method of the composite, the product prepared from this composite and the application thereof are also provided.
US09012103B2
A TPRD for a high pressure storage vessel including an integrated pressure sensor cooperative with an activation mechanism and a method of monitoring a TPRD for use in a fuel cell system. The TPRD comprises a release piston, moveable between an open and a closed position, which controls the flow of gas from a fuel storage vessel through a gas outlet port. The thermally activated activation mechanism comprises a gas-inlet chamber and a liquid-filled bulb having an air bubble. Upon activation, the release piston moves from the closed position to the open position. The integrated pressure sensor detects the pressure within the TPRD. A difference in pressure between that of the fluid within the fuel storage vessel and the pressure within the TPRD provides indicia of impaired movement of the release piston.
US09012079B2
A composite electrode includes an active component directly bonded to a current collector. The direct bonding provides a low resistance contact between the current collector and the active material. The active component can be provided as fibers of silicon. The fibers can be free or attached to a support.
US09012077B2
A positive electrode and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same, the positive electrode including a current collector and a positive active material layer disposed on the current collector. The positive active material layer includes a positive active material and a binder including an ion conductive polymer including a carboxylate group.
US09012074B2
An electrode for a lithium secondary battery, including a surface having surface roughness of about 800 nm to about 1000 nm, and a lithium secondary battery including the same. In one embodiment, the lithium secondary battery has improved cycle-life characteristics.
US09012070B2
A secondary battery including an electrode assembly; a pouch case accommodating the electrode assembly and including an unsealed part and a sealed part at a wing portion of the pouch case; and an electrode tab including a first side electrically connected to the electrode assembly, and a second side drawn out from the pouch case through the wing portion, and the unsealed part includes a first unsealed part at an outer periphery of the wing portion which is directed toward the second side of the electrode tab, and a second unsealed part at an inner periphery of the wing portion which is directed toward the electrode assembly, and the sealed part is between the first unsealed part and the second unsealed part.
US09012069B2
A single cell for a battery includes electrodes, preferably electrode foils, which are arranged within a cell housing. A current output lug is electrically connected to each electrode, and at least electrodes of opposite polarity are separated and electrically insulated from one another by a separator, preferably a separator foil. Current output lugs having the same polarity are electrically conductively connected to a pole, wherein the respective poles are guided from the interior of the cell housing to the outside. Each pole is electrically conductively connected to an electrically conductive area on an outer side of the cell housing, wherein the relevant two areas of different polarity are electrically insulated from one another. The pole lugs which are arranged on the relevant areas project in a free-standing manner out of the cell housing.
US09012056B2
Disclosed is a high voltage battery pack apparatus for a vehicle which includes a cooling device having first and second battery packs which are installed in a center console of the vehicle. The first and second battery packs may be uniformly cooled through a distribution duct to improve cooling performance which minimizes the number of cooling fans that are used. Since the number of cooling fans is minimized and a discharging duct is not used, weight reduction and cost savings can be achieved.
US09012055B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a battery cell. The battery cell includes a set of layers including a cathode with an active coating, a separator, and an anode with an active coating. The battery cell also includes a pouch enclosing the layers, wherein the pouch is flexible. The resistance of the battery cell to mechanical stress may be improved by removing material from one or more of the layers to form one or more apertures within the battery cell and placing a mechanical support in each of the apertures.
US09012054B2
A secondary battery including: spirally wound electrode body in which positive electrode and negative electrode are laminated via separator and spirally wound, wherein the positive electrode includes an inner circumference side positive electrode active material layer and an outer circumference side positive electrode active material layer while including a single side active material layer formation region, the ratio A/(A+B) of an area density A of the inner circumference side positive electrode active material layer and an area density B of the outer circumference side positive electrode active material layer, an inner diameter C of the coil opening portion, and the ratio D/E of a thickness D of the positive electrode and a thickness E of the positive electrode collector satisfy the relationship expressed in Formula 1, and a length F of the single side active material layer formation region satisfies the relationship expressed in Formula 2.
US09012051B2
Disclosed is a battery pack including a battery module array including battery modules arranged in two or more rows, a pair of side support members (a front support member and a rear support member) configured to respectively support a front and a rear of the battery module array, lower end support members configured to support a lower end of the battery module array, two or more first upper mounting members coupled to upper ends of the side support members and to lower ends of the inverted battery modules, a second upper mounting member configured to vertically intersect the first upper mounting members, the second upper mounting member being coupled to upper ends of the first upper mounting members, and a rear mounting member located at a rear of the battery module array.
US09012050B2
A rechargeable battery including an electrode assembly; a case housing the electrode assembly; a cap assembly including a cap plate having a short-circuit hole and sealing an opening of the case; and a short-circuiting member including a short-circuiting plate arranged at the short-circuit hole and a connection plate covering at least a portion of the short-circuit hole at an exterior side, the connection plate being spaced apart from the cap plate and electrically connected to the electrode assembly, and the case and the cap assembly are electrically insulated from the electrode assembly.
US09012047B2
The shape and number of surface defects are controlled so that the occurrence of failure is suppressed in an HDD device in which a magnetic head with a very small flying height, such as a DFH head, is mounted.A magnetic disk substrate is characterized in that when laser light with a wavelength of 405 nm and a laser power of 25 mW is irradiated with a spot size of 5 μm and scattered light from the substrate is detected, the number of defects detected to have a size of 0.1 μm to not more than 0.3 μm is less than 50 per 24 cm2 and, with respect to the defects, there is no defect in which, in a bearing curve obtained by a bearing curve plot method using an atomic force microscope, a portion from an apex of the defect to 45% thereof is located in an area of defect height higher than a virtual line connecting from the apex of the defect to 45% thereof.
US09012041B2
A light-emitting element includes an EL layer between an anode and a cathode, and a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer between the cathode and the EL layer. The first layer provided between the cathode and the second layer is in contact with the cathode and the second layer, and includes a substance having a hole-transport property and an acceptor substance. The second layer provided between the first layer and the third layer is in contact with the first layer and the third layer, and includes a phthalocyanine-based material. The third layer provided between the second layer and the EL layer is in contact with the second layer and the EL layer, and includes an alkali metal, an alkaline-earth metal, a rare-earth metal, an alkali metal compound, an alkaline-earth metal compound, or a rare-earth metal compound.
US09012039B2
A compound for an organic photoelectric device and an organic photoelectric device including the same, the compound being represented by the following Chemical Formula 1:
US09012034B2
An organic electroluminescence element includes at least a light-emitting layer between a pair of electrodes, wherein the light-emitting layer is divided into at least three layers, an intermediate layer containing an electron blocking material or a hole blocking material is disposed between the divided light-emitting layers, an Ea value of the electron blocking material is smaller than an Ea value of a host material of the divided light-emitting layer adjacent on a cathode side or an Ip value of the hole blocking material is larger than an Ip value of a host material of the divided light-emitting layer adjacent on the anode side of the intermediate layer, and a difference of ΔEa or ΔIp is controlled to specific range.
US09012031B2
To provide a steel fuel conveying pipe which has high resistance to corrosive fuel and maintains reliability without damaging a direct-injection engine, and connects a high-pressure pump and a direct-injection rail with each other in a gasoline direct-injection engine system, and a fuel conveying pipe suitable as a bypass pipe for coupling direct-injection rails with each other in a V-type gasoline engine. A steel fuel conveying pipe for conveying gasoline is characterized in that a Ni-plated layer is provided on the whole inner circumferential face of the fuel conveying pipe, and an anti-rust film layer composed of a Zn-plated layer and a Zn-based alloy-plated layer is further provided on the Ni-plated layer at at least one end of the fuel conveying pipe.
US09012030B2
A substrate processing chamber component comprising a chamber component structure having an yttrium-aluminum coating. The yttrium-aluminum coating comprises a compositional gradient through a thickness of the coating.
US09012025B2
The present teachings disclose a fuser member comprising a substrate, a functional layer disposed on the substrate and an outer layer disposed on the functional layer. The outer layer comprises a cross-linked perfluorinated polyether.
US09012019B2
A card body for a portable data carrier, in particular a chip card or magnetic strip card, and a method for manufacturing a card body. The card body includes at least a coextruded foil having at least two areas with different material properties. By using coextruded foils a card body consisting of a plurality of alternating opaque and transmissive strips as well as a card body with a window can be formed in a simple fashion.
US09012007B2
A reticular tubular structure formed by extruded filaments of synthetic plastic material extending in two oppositely tilted directions with respect to an axial direction of the tubular reticular structure. The filaments cross one another to form a tubular net of interconnected rhomboid meshes, vertices of the rhomboid meshes being formed by crossover points between two filaments fused together, while sides of the rhomboid meshes are formed by said filaments outside the crossover points. The tubular reticular structure is molecularly oriented in both longitudinal and transverse directions thereof, and is calendered so that the crossover points, at the vertices of the rhomboid meshes, and the filaments, at the sides thereof, have the same common thickness.
US09012003B2
A composite seam system including a narrow weld bead joining two panels of fabric and a seam tape applied thereon. The applied seam tape comprises a top layer, a reinforcing layer and an adhesive layer melted through the reinforcing layer and connecting the top layer to the fabric panels over the weld bead. The narrow weld bead and the small seam allowance of the fabric panels it joins allows the seam tape to be secured over the weld bead to the fabric panels while lying in a flat plane. The use of a narrow reinforcing layer of woven polyester, nylon or non-woven ultra-fine fibrous material in the seam tape allows the seam tape to be flexible enough to move with the fabric it joins, reducing the incidence of tape edge abrasion.
US09012001B2
The invention relates to an unbonded, flexible pipe having a length and comprising from inside out, a tubular inner sealing sheath, at least one metal armor layer and an outer sealing sheath of a sealing material. The unbonded, flexible pipe comprises at least one stiffened length section comprising a stiffening cover partially or totally surrounding the outer sealing sheath in the stiffened length section. The stiffening cover comprises a layer of a stiffening material having a flexural modulus which is higher than the flexural modulus of the sealing material, wherein the flexural modulus is determined according to ISO 178.
US09011994B2
A gas-barrier multilayer film including: a base member; and at least one thin film layer formed on at least one surface of the base member, wherein at least one layer of the thin film layer(s) satisfies at least one of requirements (A) and (B).
US09011993B2
An optical compensation structure and a display device are disclosed. The former comprises a front side polarizer and a rear side polarizer arranged at both sides of a VA liquid crystal unit; the front side polarizer includes a front side polarization unit and a first front side TAC film; the absorption axis of the front side polarization unit is perpendicular to the horizontal normal of the VA liquid crystal unit; the rear side polarizer includes a rear side polarization unit and a biaxial film; and the absorption axis of the rear side polarization unit is parallel to the horizontal normal. The region having serious dark-state light leakage can be transferred from a horizontal viewing angle to a vertical viewing angle, which improves the display effect. Meanwhile, there is no addition of the number of layers of the biaxial film which reduces the cost.
US09011987B2
A liquid crystal display including a first substrate; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a thin film transistor disposed on the first substrate; an organic layer disposed on the thin film transistor; a pixel electrode disposed on the organic layer; a lower alignment layer disposed on the pixel electrode; a common electrode disposed on the second substrate; and an upper alignment layer disposed on the common electrode, wherein a first free radical included in the organic layer and a second free radical included in at least one of the lower alignment layer and the upper alignment layer are radical bonded.
US09011985B2
A process for producing a multilayer film which, even when bent, is less apt to decrease in barrier property or electrical conductivity. The process comprises forming a barrier film and a transparent conductive film on a resin film to produce a multilayer film. The barrier film is formed by a plasma enhanced CVD method which uses electric discharge between rolls. The transparent conductive film is preferably formed by physical vapor deposition. The resin film preferably is a polyester resin film or a polyolefin resin film.
US09011977B2
Microencapsulated chemical(s), as water-soluble solid particles, are embedded in at least one the paint layers on the surface of a magnesium article used in an automobile. If the protective paint film is scratched or otherwise mechanically disturbed to expose the surface of the magnesium article the capsules will be ruptured. This will expose the encapsulated chemical(s) to ambient water enabling them to dissolve and form an aqueous solution capable of reacting with the exposed magnesium to form a protective passivating layer on the exposed magnesium to resist corrosion. In a second embodiment the encapsulated chemicals include a deliquescing compound for extraction of moisture from the atmosphere sufficient to induce dissolution of the passivating layer-forming chemical(s) and trigger the formation of the passivating layer in the absence of ambient water.
US09011971B2
A shoe ornament structure, comprises: a base layer, a sub-base layer, a ground color layer, a ornamental layer, a blocking wall and a transparent layer. The ground color layer has a predetermined thickness and is formed on the sub-base layer. The ornamental layer is formed with different grains or color or materials and located on the ground color layer. The blocking wall of a height 0.5-0.7 mm is formed on ornamental layer, and the transparent layer is formed in the area defined by the blocking wall.
US09011969B2
Embodiments provided herein describe a low-e panel and a method for forming a low-e panel. A transparent substrate is provided. A metal oxynitride layer is formed over the transparent substrate. The metal oxynitride layer includes a first metal and a second metal. A reflective layer is formed over the transparent substrate.
US09011961B2
Disclosed are methods for producing esterified propoxylated glycerols and eutectic mixtures containing one or more esterified propoxylated glycerols and one or more digestible fats. Food products containing the eutectic mixtures are also disclosed.
US09011957B2
The present invention relates to oil-containing meal-based products, preferably emulsion-type meat-based products, minced or coarsely comminuted meal-based products, pale and fresh (raw) sausages, comprising besides the standard ingredients commonly foreseen for the particular meat-based products a reduced amount of additives selected from emulsifying agents, stabilizing agents and/or thickening agents. Preferably, the oil-containing meat-based products of the present invention contain a maximum of only one single additive selected from emulsifying agents, stabilizing agents and/or thickening agents. More preferably, the meat-based products of the present invention contain no additives, i.e. no emulsifying agents, no stabilizing agents and no thickening agents. Moreover, the present invention pertains to a process for preparing said oil-containing meat-based products.
US09011942B2
The invention discloses a new solvent-free process for obtaining phospholipids and neutral lipids enriched krill oils containing DHA and EPA poly-unsaturated fatty acids and astaxanthin. The process includes cooking fresh krill at high temperature—without agitation and or grinding; decanting the cooked krill for obtaining a partial de-fatted and de-watered solid and a liquid; squeezing the obtained solid to obtain a press liquid and a solid fraction; centrifuging the press liquid to obtain the phospholipids enriched krill oil; centrifuging of the decanter liquid obtained to obtain the neutral lipid enriched krill oil and stickwater.
US09011940B2
The present invention relates to a bitter-taste inhibitor containing indigestible maltodextrin, and to a ginseng composition comprising the bitter-taste inhibitor. According to the present invention, the particular bitter taste of ginseng may be eliminated without the loss of a marker component found in ginseng, thereby enabling the easy intake of ginseng.
US09011939B2
The present invention relates to polysaccharides selected from sulphated arabinogalactans, apiogalacturonans and sulphated heteroglycans intended to be used as a drug for the preventive or curative treatment of an influenza virus, as well as to the pharmaceutical compositions including, in particular in combination with at least one pharmaceutically acceptable carrier: either an extract of Codium fragile, including sulphated arabinogalactans, or an extract of Zostera marina or Lemna minor, including apiogalacturonans, or an extract of Caulerpa racemosa, including sulphated heteroglycans.
US09011928B2
Compositions and methods of using the compositions are provided for forming an embolus within a region of an anatomical lumen for a transitory period in order to achieve a therapeutic effect.
US09011927B2
Novel pentablock polymers comprising PGA-PCL-PEG-PCL-PGA or PEG-PCL-PLA-PCL-PEG, wherein PEG is polyethylene glycol, PCL is poly(ε-caprolactone), PGA is poly(glycolic acid), and PLA is poly(lactic acid).
US09011915B2
This invention provides for biocompatible and biodegradable syringeable liquid, implantable solid, and injectable gel pharmaceutical formulations useful for the treatment of systemic and local disease states.
US09011914B2
A two-component, molecular-recognition gelation strategy that enables cell encapsulation without the need for environmental triggers is provided. The two components, which in one example contain WW and polyproline-rich peptide domains that interact via hydrogen bonds, undergo a sol-gel phase transition upon simple mixing. Hence, physical gelation is induced by the mixing of two components at constant environmental conditions, analogous to the formation of chemically crosslinked epoxies by the mixing of two components. Variations in the molecular-level design of the two components are used to predictably tune the association energy and hydrogel viscoelasticity. These hetero-assembly physical hydrogels encapsulate neural progenitor cells at constant physiological conditions within 10 seconds to create uniform 3D cell suspensions that continue to proliferate, differentiate, and adopt well-spread morphologies.
US09011909B2
A composition for vaginal insertion is in the form of a softgel, a two-part gelatin capsule, a tablet, or a suppository. The composition is designed to promote the growth of native vaginal flora, but does not promote the growth of Gardenerella vaginalis and Candida albicans. The composition includes a prebiotic in a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient and is essentially free of probiotics, lactoferrin, and plant extracts containing isoflavones.
