US08526194B2
The invention provides an anti-UV electronic device and fabrication method thereof. The anti-ultraviolet (anti-UV) electronic device includes an integrated circuit die, wherein the integrated circuit die has an ultraviolet (UV) light erasable memory; and an anti-UV light layer is formed on and covers the ultraviolet (UV) light erasable memory.
US08526192B2
A boss for securing a pair of mainboards includes a circular top and a plurality of first flexible legs. The first flexible legs are disposed on one side of the circular top and are separated from each other. Each of the first flexible legs includes a tilted wall and a pressing component. The tilted wall is formed on a surface of the first flexible leg that faces another first flexible leg. The pressing component is formed on one end of the first flexible leg away from the circular top. The tilted walls of all the first flexible legs cooperatively define a tapered channel. The tapered channel can be expanded.
US08526183B1
A system for cooling a computer data center includes a computer data center building; a plurality of computer racks arranged in a plurality of linear rows inside the computer data center building, with particular ones of the racks housing a plurality of computer systems; a plurality of cooling fluid conduits; and a plurality of cooling plants arranged outside the computer data center building along an exterior wall of the computer data center building. At least one of the cooling plants corresponds to one or more particular ones of the cooling fluid conduits and provides cooling for the corresponding conduit.
US08526182B2
A cooling circulation system of a server includes a cabinet assembly, a plurality of first fan modules, a plurality of second fan modules, and two air guide hoods. The first fan modules and the second fan modules are disposed on the cabinet assembly. The first fan modules blow a first airflow towards a first direction, and the second fan modules blow a second airflow towards a second direction. The air guide hoods are respectively installed on two ends of the cabinet assembly. The first airflow and the second airflow join each other through the air guide hoods, so as to form a cooling circulation loop inside the cabinet assembly.
US08526179B2
A laptop computer user thermal isolation apparatus is provided for inhibiting the transfer of waste heat from internal heat generating components to a user. The thermal isolation apparatus includes a casing substantially enclosing the heat generating components, the casing including at least one panel having a sealed enclosed cavity disposed between the heat generating components and an outer surface of the casing.
US08526178B2
An apparatus includes a processing portion and a user interface portion. The user interface portion is slidably coupled to the processing portion along a first axis. The apparatus also includes a stand that is hingedly coupled to the user interface portion. The stand rotates about a second axis orthogonal to the first axis. In some embodiments, the stand includes a U-bar. When the stand is coupled to the processing portion in an open position, the U-bar is able to receive cables therethrough. When the stand is coupled to the processing portion in a closed position, the stand is positioned within a recess, adapted to receive the stand, of the processing portion. In some embodiments, the user interface portion is removable from the processing portion.
US08526175B2
An information processing device includes: a casing including a side surface having an opening part and a bottom surface orthogonal to the side surface; a frame provided at the bottom surface; a disk drive main body capable of being attached to and detached from the frame through the opening part; a disk tray which is operable to hold a disk, is capable of being inserted into and drawn out of the disk drive main body through the opening part, and has a hatch operable to close the opening part when the disk tray is inserted in the disk drive main body; and a coupling part through which the frame and the disk drive main body are coupled to each other in the vicinity of the opening part.
US08526169B2
A weatherproof box enclosure adapted to be secured on one of an outside wall and roof location of a multi-tenant building structure supporting roof-mounted solar panel or wind turbine generators including a multiple pole control unit receiving and distributing received alternating current voltages from the generators, which is disengagable by a normally open override switch when supplied voltages fall below a predetermined level, when servicing of the components of the safety box enclosure is to be had, and automatically in the event of an emergency as representative of a closing of the override switch by a ground level control.
US08526168B2
A power outlet box for housing electronics and powering electronic displays suspended in a retail environment may include a first housing portion including a first set of vertical support features and a second set of vertical support features. A second housing portion may include a third set of vertical support features and a fourth set of vertical support features. The power outlet box may have (i) a closed configuration when the first and third sets of vertical support features are aligned and (ii) an open configuration when the second and fourth set of vertical support features are in contact with one another. The second set of vertical support features may be adapted to support the fourth set of vertical support features when the power outlet box is in the open configuration. A power supply device may be fixedly positioned within the power outlet box when in the closed configuration.
US08526164B2
A laminated ceramic capacitor which provides favorable properties and characteristics such as dielectric characteristics, insulation properties, temperature characteristics, and high temperature load characteristics and provides favorable thermal shock resistance, even when dielectric ceramic layers are reduced in layer thickness to increase the number of layers has dielectric ceramic layers containing, as their main constituent, a barium titanate based compound represented by the general formula ABO3 and internal electrodes containing Ni as their main constituent, which are stacked alternately. A crystalline oxide containing at least Mg and Li is present in at least either one of the internal electrodes and the dielectric ceramic layers. The crystalline oxide is preferably present mostly in contact with Ni in the internal electrodes.
US08526160B2
An electrically insulated covering applied to specific parts of electric stun device darts that will negate the protective properties of electrically conductive garments designed to nullify the debilitating effects of electric stun devices and rendering such devices inoperable thus protecting the electric circuitry of the and permitting proper operation of the electric stun device.
US08526148B2
A semiconductor device includes a first interconnect connected to a high voltage side power supply voltage, a second interconnect connected to the high voltage side power supply voltage, a switching transistor, and a protective element connected in parallel with the switching transistor between the high voltage side power supply voltage and a low voltage side power supply voltage. A first end of the switching transistor is connected to the first interconnect, and a second end is connected to an output terminal. The protective element includes a first p-type semiconductor region connected to the first interconnect, an n-type semiconductor region in contact with the first p-type semiconductor region and connected to the second interconnect, and a second p-type semiconductor region in contact with the n-type semiconductor region, spaced from the first p-type semiconductor region, and connected to the low voltage side power supply voltage.
US08526147B2
In an LVTSCR, an avalanche diode based control circuit controls both the base of the internal PNP of the LVTSCR as well as the gate of the LVTSCR.
US08526145B2
A circuit interrupting device, such as a GFCI receptacle device, is provided that automatically resets itself when power is initially applied to the device, for example, when the device is first installed or when power is reapplied after a power outage occurs. When power is applied correctly to the line side of the device, as opposed to the load side, a voltage is generated that turns on a switching device. Turning on the switching device allows a low level of electric current to flow which, in turn, allows a higher level electric current to flow which closes the latching mechanism of the device and places the device in the reset condition.
US08526135B2
A servo signal in which a magnetic pattern composed of a first portion magnetized in one direction that is one of two opposite thickness directions and a second portion magnetized in a direction opposite to the one direction is repeatedly arranged in a longitudinal direction of the tape at predetermined intervals is read out and a waveform of the servo signal is acquired from the readout servo signal. In the acquired waveform of the servo signal, a unit waveform having a pair of peaks of opposite polarities corresponding to the magnetic pattern appears periodically. A crest or trough portion of the waveform containing one of the peaks located rearwardly in the tape transport direction in a time of writing the servo signal is selected from the unit waveform contained in the acquired waveform of the servo signal. Tracking control or servo signal verification is performed based on the selected portion.
US08526134B2
A servo system according to one embodiment includes at least one servo sensor for sensing a lateral position of a magnetic head with respect to at least one defined servo track of a longitudinal tape; a fine actuator configured to translate the magnetic head laterally with respect to the longitudinal tape; a coarse actuator configured to translate the fine actuator laterally with respect to the longitudinal tape; and a servo control. The servo control is configured to perform various operations that may be used to estimate a midpoint of lateral tape excursion of a flangeless tape path for calibrating a tape drive. Additional systems are also presented.
US08526133B2
Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for calculating and/or modifying fly height. For example, a circuit for calculating fly height is disclosed that includes: a first pattern detector circuit, a second pattern detector circuit, a first pattern fly height calculation circuit, a second pattern fly height calculation circuit, a first averaging circuit, a second averaging circuit, and a combining circuit.
US08526131B2
Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for determining head polarity. As an example, a head polarity detection circuit includes: a first computation circuit, a second computation circuit, and an inversion determination circuit. The first computation circuit is operable to sum an absolute value of each sample of a first subset of a series of data samples corresponding to a first phase of an analog input to yield a first sum, and the second computation circuit is operable to sum an absolute value of each sample of a second subset of the series of data samples corresponding to a second phase of the analog input to yield a second sum. The first phase is more than ninety degrees offset from the second phase.
US08526130B2
An oscillating actuator drive unit includes an oscillator unit that generates an oscillating signal having a first frequency; an amplifier unit that amplifies the oscillating signal based on a first amplification factor and generates a first amplified oscillating signal as a driving signal for driving an oscillating actuator; a voltage detecting unit that detects a first voltage associated with the first amplified oscillating signal; and a signal control unit that receives the first voltage from the voltage detecting unit and computes a second amplification factor with reference to at least the first voltage, the signal control unit supplying the second amplification factor to the amplifier unit to allow the amplifier unit to amplify the oscillating signal based on the second amplification factor, the amplified oscillating signal having a second voltage, the second voltage being closer to a target voltage than the first voltage.
US08526125B2
A lens system includes a first lens with positive refractive power and a second lens with positive refractive power, and an image plane. The first lens includes a first surface and a second surface from the object-side to the image-side of the lens system. The lens system satisfies the conditions: D/TTL>1.18; 1.5
US08526122B2
A lens barrel includes a zoom optical system in which a focal distance is changeable; a first group frame moving together with the first lens group; and first and second cam mechanisms transmitting drive force to the first group frame. In a zoom region, each of a first group cam groove and a cam slot includes a first section, a second section which adjoins the first section and has an absolute value of a gradient smaller than that of the first section, and the third section which adjoins the second section and has the absolute value of the gradient larger than that of the second section, and in which a sign of the gradient is the same as that of the first section. A distance from an imaging surface to the first group frame in the optical axis direction has a local minimum in the second section.
US08526121B2
A zoom lens includes first and second lens units having positive and negative refractive powers, an aperture stop, and third and fourth lens units having positive and negative refractive powers in order from an object side to an image side. During zooming from a wide angle end to a telephoto end, the first lens unit remains fixed, and the second and fourth lens units move. The first lens unit includes negative, positive, negative, positive, and positive lenses in order from the object side to the image side, the third and fourth lens units include two or more lenses. Focal lengths of the first and third lens units and of the entire system at the wide angle end, the thickness of the first lens unit on an optical axis, and the distance between principal points between the first and the second lens units at a wide angle end are appropriately set.
US08526119B2
A zoom lens includes a first lens group including an optical path change member that changes an optical path, a second lens group including at least one negative lens and at least one positive lens, and lens groups having a positive refractive power. The first lens group is closer to an object side of the zoom lens and is fixed relative to an image plane during a zooming operation. The second lens group is adapted to move during the zooming operation. Each of the lens groups includes at least one positive lens, and the lens groups are closer to an image plane side of the zoom lens. The zoom lens satisfies vdLP>71, vdL2p<40, and ndL2m>1.71, wherein “vdLP” is an Abbe number, “vdL2p” is an Abbe number, and “ndL2m” is a refractive index.
US08526100B2
The invention provides a display method for displaying an image by deposition of metal fine particles. The display method includes at least depositing metal fine particles, from an electrolytic solution that has at least a metal ion of the metal particles and that is provided between a pair of substrates having at least one translucent substrate, onto a surface of any one of the pair of substrates by imparting one stimulus. A concentration of the metal ion of the metal fine particles in the electrolytic solution after imparting the stimulus is about 200 mmol/l or less. The invention further provides a display device which uses the display method.
US08526099B2
A method for manufacturing microcapsules is provided. The microcapsules each include an electrophoretic dispersion liquid containing at least one type of electrophoretic particles in a dispersion medium, and a capsule body made of an organic polymer and containing the electrophoretic dispersion liquid. The method includes forming droplets of the electrophoretic dispersion liquid by dispersing the electrophoretic dispersion liquid in an polar dispersion medium, and forming the capsule bodies by mixing a polymerization initiator and a polymerizable surfactant having a hydrophilic group, a hydrophobic group and a polymerizable group with the polar dispersion medium so as to coat the droplets with the polymerizable surfactant and induce a polymerization reaction to form the organic polymer.
US08526098B2
The invention relates to a microsystem having at least one micromirror (1) and at least one micromirror actuator (2) for pivoting the at least one micromirror (1) about at least one axis from a relaxed resting position, comprising a frame chip and a transparent cover (3) disposed on the frame chip, wherein the frame chip has a chip frame (10), on which the at least one micromirror (1) is articulated in an elastically pivoting manner, wherein the at least one micromirror (1) is further disposed within the chip frame (10) and in a cavity (11) that is formed between the transparent cover (3) and a carrier layer. To this end, the at least one micromirror (1) is articulated on a frame (14) pivotally about the at least one axis, the frame (14) in turn being pivotally articulated on the chip frame (10), wherein the frame (14) is permanently pivoted out of a chip plane defined by the carrier layer such that the micromirror (1) in the resting position thereof is tilted about a non-pivoting angle relative to the chip plane. The invention further relates to a method for the production of such a microsystem.
US08526078B2
There is provided a sensor driving circuit that includes: an image sensor that converts light reflected from an original to be read into electric signals; a driver circuit that drives the image sensor; and a timing generator circuit that outputs timing signals for use in control of the image sensor. The driver circuit includes a first inverting buffer circuit and a second inverting buffer circuit that are equivalent to each other and arranged in series connection of two stages with the first inverting buffer circuit at the first stage of the two stages. The timing signal output from the timing generator circuit has the same polarity as the polarity of an input signal fed to the image sensor.
US08526077B2
A scanning system having a brightness compensation apparatus and method thereof are described. The brightness compensation apparatus includes a statistics window control unit, a brightness statistics logic unit, and a comparing logic unit. The statistics window control unit sets a statistics window setting area. The brightness statistics logic unit generates the current brightness statistics data corresponding to the current page. The comparing logic unit compares the current brightness statistics data with brightness target value to determine whether the brightness compensation apparatus compensates the brightness of next page based on the comparison result and/or image gain of the current page for adjusting the brightness of the scanning system according to the compared result between the brightness statistic data and the brightness target value.
US08526069B2
A document reading apparatus is provided, which includes a housing having an opening in a reading surface, an imaging portion, arranged within the housing, that reads a document via the opening, and a position detection portion arranged within the opening.
US08526067B2
The present invention relates to a scanner and more particularly pertains to a handheld portable scanner with integrated technologies which effectively combines lighting, electronics and mechanical technologies and has a small size and convenient portability, which comprises a scanner housing, a battery, scanning components and image processing components. The scanning components are composed of an optical scanning head and a scanning rod. The image processing components are composed of scan-speed testing components which are coupled with the scanning rod, a processing chip for processing of data scanned by the optical scanning head and image processing, and a scanner circuit. The present invention provides a handheld portable scanner which has a convenient portability and extensive functions. More importantly, with the coordination of the speed testing components and the processing chip, the present invention can correct scanning errors caused by uneven speed of manual scanning by means of computation of the chip, thereby ensuring that the scanning output is the same as the original document. To ensure the quality of the scanned document, reminder function is also available in case the dragging speed of the scanner is too fast.
US08526064B2
Disclosed is a computer readable storage medium storing a program to make a computer realize functions of an image storage unit to store image data for generating a tint block image, a tint block image generation unit to generate the tint block image based on the image data, a script generation unit to generate a script for forming the tint block image based on the tint block image generated by the generation unit, a script adding unit to add the script to print data and a print data input unit to input the print data in which the script is added by the adding unit to an image forming apparatus.
US08526061B2
An image processing apparatus includes an object type determining unit that determines whether a drawing object in the input image data includes a color character group; a background area extracting unit that extracts the background area on which the color character group is formed in the drawing object; a monochromatic conversion unit that, when the drawing object is determined to include the color character group, generates monochromatic image data by performing monochromatic conversion of the input image data with minimum luminance of a main color; a pattern generating unit that, when the drawing object is determined to include the color character group, generates, according to the hue of the color character group, pattern image data to be added to the background area of the post-monochromatic-conversion color character group; and a synthesizing unit that synthesizes the monochromatic image data and the pattern image data.
US08526058B2
An image forming apparatus including: a forming section; a correction section configured to measure at least one of a position and a density of a formed image and perform a correction function for adjusting an image forming condition based on the measurement; a determination section configured to determine whether a color condition is satisfied; and a control section configured to selectively perform a first mode or a second mode if there is a print request while a correction execution condition satisfied, wherein in the first mode, the correction section is caused to perform the correction function, before a printing process begins in response to the print request, and wherein in the second mode, the correction section is caused to perform the correction function at least before the printing process to the color page data, on condition that the determination section determines that the color condition is satisfied.
US08526053B2
In a data processing apparatus of the present invention, a disk unit storing a disk is mounted on the apparatus such that the surface of the disk is parallel to the direction of a shock or an impact. This protects the disk unit and therefore the disk from the influence of shocks and impacts as far as possible.
US08526052B2
A print data processing apparatus includes a first processor configured not to execute a command to convert print data to intermediate data when a resource is rasterized in accordance with a command to rasterize the resource of the print data, and to convert the print data which is not converted to the intermediate data to the intermediate data when rasterizing of the resource of the print data is finished, a management unit configured to manage the resource rasterized by the first processor so that a processor except the first processor can refer to the resource when the print data is converted to the intermediate data, and a second processor configured not to execute a command to rasterize the resource of the print data and to convert the print data to the intermediate data with reference to the resource managed by the management unit.
US08526050B2
A data processing device that processes image data to be supplied to a recording head is provided. The device includes a first storage section configured to store image data for at least a single line; and a processor that reads image data corresponding to each of discharge nozzles of each of discharge groups from the image data of a single line stored in the first storage section and causes the read image data to be stored in a continuous storage region of a second storage section for storing image data to be supplied to the recording head.
US08526048B1
Described herein is a facsimile to voice over IP adapter for the real-time reliable transmission of audio messages using HTTP, the voice over IP adapter having audio adapter interfaces, the audio adapter interfaces capable of receiving a audio encoded facsimile data stream; ethernet adapter interfaces, the ethernet adapter interface capable of transmitting an HTTP encoded facsimile image; a fax processor, the real-time fax processor capable of receiving a one or more audio streams from the audio adapter interface and packetizing the one or more audio streams into an HTTP encode facsimile image; where the facsimile is capable of being transmitted from a source facsimile machine through an voice over IP adapter, and further transmitted to a destination facsimile machine.
US08526047B1
A print control apparatus includes the following components. A receiving unit receives a print request. A print data generating unit generates print data for outputting images on print sheets on the basis of the received print request. An obtaining unit obtains information on the printing speed of a printer that is to print the images on the print sheets on the basis of the generated print data. A deciding unit decides, on the basis of the obtained information on the printing speed, page intervals at which reduced-size images are to be generated. A reduced-size image generating unit generates, on the basis of the received print request, at the decided page intervals, reduced-size images of the images to be output on the print sheets. A display unit displays the generated reduced-size images.
US08526034B2
A data output device according to the present invention comprises: an output device capable of outputting an image and/or a sound; a memory which stores a plurality of types of output data for outputting the image and/or the sound; a receiver for receiving, from a slot machine, a trigger signal including specification information for specifying the output data; and a controller, the controller programmed to conduct the processes of: (A) receiving the trigger signal from the slot machine through the receiver; and (B) extracting, from the memory, an output data corresponding to the specification information included in the trigger signal and causing the output device to output the image and/or the sound based on the extracted output data.
US08526033B2
An image forming device, a host device and a method of driving the same. The image forming device is connected to the host device through the network to perform a printing as requested by the host device and includes a light emitting unit and a controller. The light emitting unit emits a color light beam. The controller controls the host device to display a color mapped with the color of the light beam emitted from the light emitting unit during the printing. Thus, a user can easily know a position of the image forming device performing the printing and distinguish the printing processed by the image forming device, through the light beam emitted from the light emitting unit formed on an outer surface of the image forming device.
US08526031B2
An information processing apparatus includes an allowable output amount storage unit that stores allowable output amounts of respective combinations of a user and a predetermined totalization period; a total output amount recording unit that records total output amounts of the respective combinations of a user and a predetermined totalization period; and a processing unit that receives, from a user, an instruction that designates image forming information and an instruction to perform image formation on the basis of the designated image forming information, and performs image-formation-related processing for the designated image forming information if a value obtained by adding together an output amount of the image-formation-instructed image forming information, a sum of total output amounts of the user, and a sum of output amounts of pieces of particular image forming information specified by the user is smaller than or equal to an allowable output amount of the user.
US08526030B2
An image forming apparatus includes a reading unit reading an original document and generating image data; a power source unit supplying power to the reading unit; a power source switching signal output unit outputting a switching signal for switching between supply and shut-off of the power for any one of an image pickup element and an image processing unit; a measuring unit measuring a power stopping time while the power is shut off; a judging unit determining whether to carry out only a first initial setting when the measured power stopping time is less than a predetermined time and whether to carry out both the first initial setting and a second initial setting when the measured power stopping time is the predetermined time or more; and an initial setting unit carrying out only the first initial setting or the second initial setting also upon the determination by the judging unit.
US08526029B2
An image forming apparatus includes a receiving unit, a paper information storing unit, an initializing unit, a paper information comparing unit, a temporary stopping unit, and a printing unit. The receiving unit receives print jobs. The paper information storing unit stores paper information preset in the printed page. The initializing unit initializes the paper information stored in the paper information storing unit during a certain period. The paper information comparing unit compares the paper information of the page to be printed in the print job with the stored paper information. The temporary stopping unit temporarily stops printing according to the result of the comparison. The printing unit prints the print data of the page to be printed in the case that the paper information of the page to be printed is the same as the stored paper information or the stored paper information has been initialized.
US08526016B2
Printing systems and methods for user-selectable dynamic soft font and print stream data template control processing in a printer driver are provided. The system utilizes a print job driver screen that provides the user with a selectable option to convert soft fonts into graphics that are transferred to the printer. When using multi-byte fonts, and in particular when using multi-byte fonts in a character mangling operating system, printer memory may be rapidly allocated and consumed. However, soft fonts persist in printer memory for the length of the print job. The printer system provided herein allows the user to dynamically select an option to forgo soft font loading for the entire print job and instead transmit appropriate font graphics that are discarded from memory after use after a character threshold has been reached.
US08526013B2
A batteryless absolute encoder determines the accuracy of absolute position information to be output when electric power is turned on and outputs an alarm signal in the case of abnormality. The batteryless absolute encoder includes an absolute position computing section, an absolute position storing section, and a determining section. The absolute position computing section computes the absolute position of a spindle to be detected, including the number of revolutions of the spindle, based upon detection signals output from four reluctance resolvers. The absolute position storing section stores the absolute position output from the absolute position computing section when electric power is turned off. The determining section compares an absolute position output from the absolute position computing section when electric power is turned on and the stored absolute position and outputs an alarm signal if a difference between the two absolute positions is larger than a predetermined value.
US08526011B2
The present invention describes a device for surveying a surface (104) in a real world coordinate system (111). The device comprises a pattern projecting unit (101) adapted for projecting a predefined pattern (105) onto the surface (104), an optical measurement system (102) adapted for determining positional and image data of a projected pattern (106) on the surface (104), wherein the positional and image data are indicative of the predefined pattern (105) in a measuring coordinate system (112), and a processing unit (103) adapted for determining transformation data based on the predefined pattern (105) and the determined positional and image data of the projected pattern (106). The transformation data allow a transformation between the real world coordinate system (111) and the measuring coordinate system (112) to thereby survey the surface (104).
US08526009B2
A low coherent light from a white light source is emitted to a sample surface. A detour distance in a detour section is adjusted such that an optical path difference between a reference light and a sample light is equal to or shorter than a coherence length of interference light. The interference light is incident on an image sensor only when an inclination angle of a diffraction grating plate and a wavelength of the interference light satisfy a predetermined condition. Thus, an interference fringe image is formed. Based on each of the interference fringe images taken on a wavelength-by-wavelength basis of the interference light and an optical distance between a reference surface and the sample surface along an optical path of a measuring light at the time of taking the interference fringe image, a shape of the sample surface is measured.
US08526005B1
A system and method of calibrating an optical measurement system utilizing polarization diversity is disclosed. A waveplate having a rotation axis is provided. A first light polarization component and a second light polarization component are caused to propagate in the waveplate while the waveplate is rotated about the rotation axis. An equal common phase shift is caused in the first and second light polarization components while a differential phase shift in the first and second light polarization components is maintained. A relative phase between the first and second light polarization components is sensed. At least one calibration parameter is determined based on the relative phase.
US08525998B2
An optical phase processing system for a scattering medium. A first beam has a direction and a wavefront and the first beam is configured to enter a holographic recording medium. A scattering medium is illuminated by a signal beam generating at least one scattered beam. An interference pattern is recorded from the at least one scattered beam and the first beam. A second beam is generated in a direction opposite to the direction of the first beam, the second beam having a wavefront and a phase substantially opposite to a phase of the wavefront of the first beam, and the second beam is configured to enter the holographic recording medium. The second beam and the interference pattern interact to generate at least one reconstructed beam having a phase substantially opposite to a phase of the at least one scattered beam, and the at least one reconstructed beam is configured to be viewable through the scattering medium.
US08525994B2
A method and system to measure misalignment error between two overlying or interlaced periodic structures are proposed. The overlying or interlaced periodic structures are illuminated by incident radiation, and the diffracted radiation of the incident radiation by the overlying or interlaced periodic structures are detected to provide an output signal. The misalignment between the overlying or interlaced periodic structures may then be determined from the output signal.
US08525989B2
A spectroscopic measurement apparatus comprises an integrating sphere in which a sample is located, an irradiation light supplying section supplying excitation light via an entrance aperture to the interior of the integrating sphere, a sample container holding the sample in the interior of the integrating sphere, a spectroscopic analyzer dispersing the light to be measured from an exit aperture and obtaining a wavelength spectrum, and a data analyzer performing data analysis of the wavelength spectrum. The analyzer includes a correction data obtaining section which obtains correction data of the wavelength spectrum considering light absorption by the sample container, and a sample information analyzing section which corrects and analyzes the wavelength spectrum to obtain sample information. This realizes a spectroscopic measurement apparatus, a measurement method, and a measurement program which can preferably perform spectroscopic measurement of the sample held by the sample container in the integrating sphere.
US08525987B2
A method for operating an optical filter in multiple modes. In one embodiment, an optical filter may be operated in a sensitivity mode to thereby generate a white light image representative of a region of interest. The optical filter may then be operated in a specificity mode to thereby generate a hyperspectral image representative of said region of interest. The white light image and the hyperspectral image may be fused to generate a hybrid image that provides morphological and hyperspectral data. The white light image and the hyperspectral image may be generated using a single detector, eliminating the need for image realignment.
US08525985B2
The invention makes it possible to measure binding of a biochemical substance with a high throughput and with high sensitivity using a small cell capable of being filled with a small amount of chemical solution. A space between a first substrate and a second substrate such that probes are immobilized on their mutually facing planes is used as a cell that houses a specimen solution. Light is irradiated from a first substrate side, and reflected light is subjected to spectroscopy. Binding of the target with the probe is detected by a wavelength shift in the refection spectrum.
US08525980B2
This invention provides a body fluid detection method by using surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy. In this method, some biological macromolecules in body fluid samples could be separated with membrane electrophoresis technique firstly. Next, samples are cut off along with the substrates and touched with glacial acetic acid. Transparent colloid formed while incubating. Then add enhancing substrates and continue to incubate and stir. When solid impurities precipitated, stop incubating and stand for layering. In the end, take upper layer resulted to be tested using SERS detection method and build SERS database. This invention successfully eliminated disturbance of other complex components on the SERS detection of protein, DNA and RNA. High quality SERS spectrum obtained is beneficial to the analysis and process of SERS spectrum. Thus body fluid can be differentiated by comparing body fluid SERS spectrum belonging to the healthy people and patients.
US08525978B2
The invention relates to a binocular observation device, in particular a field glass, with two visual optical paths and with a laser distance meter with a laser transmitter and a laser receiver and with an opto-electronic display element. A part of an optical path of the laser transmitter is integrated in a first visual optical path and a part of an optical path of the laser receiver is also integrated in the first visual optical path.
US08525975B2
A detector device includes a detector module and a lens module. The detector module includes an optical emitter and a photon detector spaced apart from the optical emitter. The lens body includes a first light-transmissive surface, a second light-transmissive surface, and a third light-transmissive surface. The optical emitter is operable to emit a light beam passing through the first light-transmissive surface and the second light-transmissive surface toward a surface so as to define a field of emission on the surface. The photon detector is aligned with the first and third light-transmissive surfaces so as to define a field of view on the surface. An extent of overlap between the field of view and the field of emission varies in accordance with a distance between the optical emitter and the surface.
US08525965B2
A unit pixel of a liquid crystal display panel includes a plurality of domains formed using a photoalignment process technology. The domains have different domain alignment vectors, and major axes of liquid crystal molecules on alignment layers are aligned in parallel to transmission axes of the liquid crystal display panel. In addition, the unit pixel has a pixel electrode including slits. The slits have a slit angle at which the slits cross alignments of the domains at a predetermined angle, and the slit angle is less than 45°. As a result, transmittance of the unit pixel may increase, ensuring high image quality.
US08525961B2
A polarizing plate is provided. The polarizing plate includes a polarizing layer having a first and a second opposite sides; a parallax barrier layer configured above one of the first and the second sides of the polarizing layer, and a top surface protecting layer configured above the parallax barrier layer.
US08525955B2
A heater for a display such as a liquid crystal display (LCD). The heater includes a transparent film, a transparent conductive layer formed on a surface of the transparent film, and an optically clear adhesive (OCA) disposed over the conductive layer. The heater may be laminated directly to a rear transparent (e.g., glass) plate of an LC cell of the LCD using the OCA in a manner that is substantially free of air gaps or bubbles between the heater and the LC cell. Front and rear polarizers may be respectively disposed on outside surfaces of the LC cell and the heater.
US08525944B2
An array substrate for an in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device includes a substrate, a gate line disposed along a first direction on the substrate, a data line disposed along a second direction and crossing the gate line to define a pixel region, a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line, pixel electrodes disposed in the pixel region and connected to the thin film transistor, common electrodes disposed in the pixel region and alternating with the pixel electrodes, a semiconductor layer underlying the data line and including a portion having a width greater than a width of the data line, and a first blocking pattern comprising an opaque material and disposed under the semiconductor layer.
US08525942B2
This disclosure describes stereoscopic flat panel display systems based on the polarization encoding of sequentially displayed left and right eye images. The systems comprise line-by-line addressed liquid crystal display (LCD) panels, illuminating back light units and polarization control panels (PCPs). Right and left eye images are written sequentially onto the LCD whose polarization is controlled by a substantially synchronously driven PCP. The backlight may be continuously illuminated, or modulated temporally, spatially or both, as can the PCP.
US08525932B2
Analog TV signal receiving circuit for reducing signal distortion using equalizer configuring method
An analog television (TV) signal receiving circuit and method and an associated equalizer coefficient configuration apparatus and method are disclosed for correcting a distortion problem occurred in a reception process of an analog TV signal by configuring an equalizer in the analog TV signal receiving circuit. The analog TV signal receiving TV includes a tuner, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and a demodulator. The tuner receives an analog radio-frequency (RF) TV signal to generate an analog frequency down conversion signal. The ADC generates a digital frequency down conversion signal according to the analog frequency down conversion signal. The demodulator includes a front-end circuit for generating a digital demodulated signal according to the digital frequency down conversion signal, and an equalizer for generating a digital receiving signal according to the digital demodulated signal. The equalizer includes a plurality of correction coefficients that are generated according to a predetermined rule.
US08525931B2
A method and apparatus for isolating a noise intolerant device, e.g., a phase-lock loop of a tuner within a television receiver, from source of noise. In one embodiment, the apparatus isolates a phase-lock loop integrated circuit (IC) from the bus, by providing an isolation buffer that allows the receiver to only pass data to the tuner's phase-lock loop IC when a tune command is issued by a processor. When not being tuned, the IIC lines to the tuner are held HIGH by a buffer until needed again to perform the tuning function. This allows the demodulation circuitry to use a setting for a carrier tracking-loop that optimizes bit error rate performance.
US08525919B2
An image-pickup apparatus is disclosed which is capable of performing focus controls by plural AF methods and causing a user to confirm the focus control operation by each of the plural AF methods. The apparatus includes a controller which performs a first focus control and a second focus control by a method different from that of the first focus control, and an information output device which outputs information for causing a user to distinguish whether the first or second focus control is currently performed. The controller performs the second focus control after performing the first focus control, and the information output device outputs the information when the first focus control is performed and does not output the information when the second focus control is performed.
US08525912B2
Method and apparatus for photographing an image of digital camera in a mobile communication terminal
A method is provided for photographing an image in a digital camera. The method includes, upon power-on of the camera, disabling a camera function unit that photographs and processes an image, and displaying a preset screen; enabling the camera function unit and displaying a preview screen, if a key for displaying a preview screen is input; stopping displaying the preview screen by disabling the camera function unit, if the key for displaying a preview screen is released; and enabling the camera function unit and performing photographing, if a key for photographing is input.
US08525911B2
Disclosed herein is a solid-state imaging device including: a plurality of common pixel sections arranged in a matrix form so that pixel signals of a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in the same row can be output; a plurality of row address lines used to select some of the photoelectric conversion elements in each row; and a scan section that allows for the pixel signals of the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements to be output through addressing adapted to select the plurality of row address lines one at a time in sequence, in which the plurality of row address lines are connected to the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in the same row in each of the common pixel sections so that the scan section can individually select the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in the same row in each of the common pixel sections during addressing.
US08525898B2
A method and device for detecting a potential defect in an image comprises acquiring a digital image at a time; storing image acquisition data, wherein the image acquisition data includes at least one of a position of a source of light relative to a lens, a distance from the source of light to the lens, a focal length of the lens, a distance from a point on a digital image acquisition device to a subject, an amount of ambient light, or flash intensity; determining dynamic anthropometric data, wherein the dynamic anthropometric data includes one or more dynamically changing human body measurements, of one or more humans represented in the image, captured at the time; and determining a course of corrective action based, at least in part, on the image acquisition data and the dynamic anthropometric data.
US08525881B2
The invention relates to an imaging system comprising at least two sensors surveying one or more fields of vision, at least one imaging sensor chip comprising an array of light-sensitive elements, wherein image information provided by the at least two sensors are projected on the at least one imaging sensor chip. The imaging sensor chip provides dedicated sensor areas, wherein each dedicated sensor area is assigned to one dedicated sensor.
US08525878B2
The invention relates to a method for processing film images which are deviated from the film-recording optical path of a moving picture camera and which are converted into digital assist signals (AS) with the aid of an image sensor which is arranged in the assist optical path (S4) of the moving picture camera which is periodically interrupted according to the image-recording frequency of the moving picture camera. Said assist signals are fed to a data processing device at an image frequency corresponding to the image-recording frequency of the moving picture camera. Said data processing device processes the assist images derived from the digital assist signal (AS) at the image-recording frequency of the moving picture camera. In order to display the assist images at an assist frequency or the image-recording frequency of the moving picture camera, the data processing device transmits the digital assist signals (AS) to a digital storage device or transmits them to a monitor in order to display the assist images at a standardized image frequency, e.g. 24 images/sec. The camera assist device is adapted to the peculiarities of the moving picture camera and enables, in particular, representation of special effects such as slow motion and quick motion which are generated with the aid of a moving picture film.
US08525875B2
An adapter for endoscope includes: an image pickup device driving signal generation circuit; an image signal output circuit; an endoscope identification information reception circuit receiving endoscope ID information; a ROM storing adapter ID information about the adapter; a flash memory storing parameters for adjustment; and a control section performing control to store the parameters for adjustment into the flash memory according to a command from a processor to write the parameters for adjustment, and read the parameters for adjustment stored in the flash memory and output the parameters for adjustment stored in the flash memory to the processor according to a command from the processor to read the parameters for adjustment.
US08525865B2
An optical scanning apparatus includes a housing, light source, deflector, imaging lens, reflective mirrors, a synchronization detector and synchronization detection mirror. The housing has a plate to partition the housing. The deflector deflects a light beam emitted from the light source. The imaging lens converts the deflected light beam into a constant speed scanning light beam. The reflective mirrors reflect the constant speed scanning light beam to a photoreceptor. The synchronization detector detects timing for starting scanning of the photoreceptor. The synchronization detection mirror reflects the light beam to the synchronization detector. At least one of the reflective mirrors is disposed midway in a synchronization detection light path extending from the deflector to the synchronization detection mirror. The light beam reflected by the synchronization detection mirror is reflected again by at least one of the reflective mirrors, such that the light beam is guided to the synchronization detector.
US08525862B2
A lens integrated light emitting diode array, a line printer head using the light emitting diode array, and a method of manufacturing the light emitting diode array. The light emitting diode array includes a plurality of light emitting diodes formed on a surface of a transparent substrate and a plurality of lenses formed on another surface opposite to the surface of the transparent substrate, wherein the plurality of light emitting diodes are divided into a plurality of groups to be arranged to respectively correspond to the plurality of lenses.
US08525861B2
A drive circuit is provided for supplying a drive current to drive a plurality of driven elements each having two main electrodes. The drive circuit includes a switch circuit for receiving a drive signal; and a constant current circuit connected to the switch circuit for adjusting the drive current at a constant level. The constant current circuit is formed of a depletion type MOS transistor.
US08525858B2
Printers and methods of printer operation are disclosed for detecting print line loss. Embodiments include at least one stable frame element and a print head that is moveable with respect to the stable frame element; and at least two optical elements mounted on one or more of the stable frame element and the print head, the optical elements oriented with respect to one another so as to detect motion of the print head.
US08525851B2
Method of displaying labels on maps of wireless communications devices using pre-rendered characters
Labels can be rendered on a map displayed on a wireless communications device by using pre-rendered characters. The pre-rendered characters can be pre-rotated to one of a number of angular orientations and stored as a variable transparency bitmap for rapid overlaying on the map. The bitmap can include an array or grid of characters wherein each row has a unique orientation, for example, ranging from zero to ninety degrees. Rotations of 90 to 360 degrees can then be achieved by reflecting the characters about vertical or horizontal axes. Overlaying pre-rotated characters is more computationally efficient than computing rotations for each character when rendering the label.
US08525845B2
A display control apparatus which controls display of information about a group of data having a predetermined relevance, the apparatus may include a means for generating a three dimensional model for display in accordance with a first item of information of the information about the group; and a means for controlling display of a second item of information that is the information about the group and different from the first item of information so as to be overlaid on a three dimensional image displayed based on the model.
US08525842B1
A semaphore system, method, and computer program product are provided for use in a graphics environment. In operation, a semaphore is operated upon utilizing a plurality of graphics processing modules for a variety of graphics processing-related purposes (e.g. for example, controlling access to graphics data by the graphics processing modules, etc.).
US08525838B2
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to update a filleted curve in a computer graphics application. A drawing having a first input curve and a second input curve is displayed. The first and second input curves are selected. A fillet curve is calculated, created, and displayed between the two input curves. A property of the first input curve is modified. Automatically, without additional user input, the fillet curve is recalculated based on the modified property. The recalculated fillet curve is displayed.
US08525818B2
A display system includes a display device, a driving circuit, a flexible printed circuit (FPC), a charge pump circuit and a control circuit. The driving circuit is disposed on the display device, and utilized for driving the display device. The FPC is externally coupled to the display device. The charge pump circuit is disposed on the FPC, and utilized for generating at least an output voltage to the driving circuit. The control circuit is disposed on the display device and coupled to the driving circuit, and utilized for generating a control signal to control the charge pump circuit. The charge pump circuit has a control pin coupled to the control circuit for receiving the control signal generated from the control circuit.
US08525812B2
Provided is a touch panel including an analog switch area and a fixed switch area. An input device of the present invention includes: a touch panel; a case including an opening capable of housing the touch panel; a transparent resin film bonded to the top surface of the case; and an adhesive applied to the back surface of the transparent resin film in the opening. It is possible to make the case and the touch panel flush with each other, and accordingly to offer a seamless supporting structure by covering the top surfaces of the case and the touch panel with the transparent resin film. In addition, since the touch panel includes the analog switch area and the fixed switch area, it is possible to offer the input device which includes all the operation switches in the touch panel.
US08525808B1
The invention provides a method and system to launch and manage an application which operates on a touch screen or touch panel device, replacing traditionally used HIDs such as a mouse, mouse stick, trackball or touch pad. Variants of the system comprise a viewable screen area splitting module for indicating which target areas of the viewable screen will be used for launch and display of a new application, by an application launch module deciding which applications to launch and display in the previously selected target areas and by an application management module defining in which display mode and state of an already running application will be displayed or otherwise closed. A list of icons displays within the new target area designated for launch of the application. Selection of an icon within the target area, informs the system which application to display in the target area.
US08525805B2
A system is provided for controlling the scroll direction and speed of a User Interface list via a continuous back and forth motion along a single-axis input mechanism. A method, graphical user interface, computer program product and use is also provided.
US08525804B2
An information processing apparatus is provided with a signature window data generating unit that, by combining template window data stored in a template data storage unit with confirmation note item data and confirmation note content data acquired by a confirmation note data acquiring unit, generates signature window data indicating a signature window on which the confirmation note item data and the confirmation note content data are displayed in at least a portion of an input area, and a signature window display unit that causes a display apparatus to display the signature window indicated by the signature window data generated by the signature window data generating unit.
US08525799B1
An apparatus and a method for resolving locations of two or more substantially simultaneous touches on a split touch-sensor device. The method may include detecting multiple substantially simultaneous touches on a touch-sensor device having multiple sections in at least one dimension of the touch-sensor device, and resolving locations of the multiple substantially simultaneous touches on the touch-sensor device without an all-points-addressable (APA) array. Resolving the multiple locations includes resolving a first location in a first section of the multiple sections and resolving a second location in a second section that is adjacent to the first section of the touch-sensor device. The apparatus may include a first set of sensor elements disposed in a first axis in a plane of a touch-sensor device, and a second set of sensor elements and a third set of sensor elements disposed in a second axis in the plane.
US08525795B2
An apparatus and method for inputting Hindi characters in a terminal. A touch screen displays a first key set and a second key set. The first key set includes first letter keys with all consonants and a combination lock key for entering a compound consonant. The second key set includes a first letter selected from the first key set and second letter keys with predetermined vowels combinable with the first letter. Upon selection of the first letter from the first key set, a controller controls the touch screen to display the second key set and receives at least one letter from the first and second key sets.
US08525794B2
Embodiments of the invention provide an effective keypad assembly and keypad layout for mobile computing devices. In particular, embodiments of the invention provide keyboard layouts and designs. Additionally, embodiments described herein provide for stack components to make keyboards operable on small-form factor devices.
US08525789B2
An optical navigation device includes an optical transmission element, operable in use to transmit light from an illumination source to a sensor via a mousing surface, and a housing unit. The optical transmission element may have an alignment shaft. Ideally the optical transmission element and housing unit are assembled to a substrate by snap-fit. The alignment shaft ensures that the optics are properly aligned to the substrate and the light source and sensor thereon.
US08525787B2
A video device displays video in one of a plurality of contexts in an onscreen display area. In response to the menu command, the video device generates a menu overlay within the onscreen display area while maintaining the video within the menu overlay, and generates within the menu overlay a context icon based on the selected context.
US08525786B1
A multi-directional remote control system and method is adapted for use with an entertainment system of a type including a display such as a monitor or TV and having display functions employing a mouse type control. The remote controller includes an IR LED which is operated as a modulated transmitter to control conventional remote functions and in a substantially continuous mode for tracking operation. The remote control system and method images the controller to detect the LED in tracking mode for control of a cursor or other GUI interface with mouse type functionality.
US08525784B2
A methods and systems for use of an input device with a display system are disclosed. In an example embodiment, a projection device configured to project a displayed image is provided where the displayed image includes one or more selectable items. The projection system further includes an input device which may be movable in free space and may be configured to point to the selectable items. The input device may be enabled to provide a double-click input to effect one or more changes in a graphical user interface that corresponds with a selection of a particular one of the selectable items at which the input device is pointed. The double click input may be identified such that movement of the input device after initiation of the double-click input may be ignored by the graphical user interface until completion of the double click input.
US08525782B2
In one or more embodiments, vector-specific movement can be imparted to a user interface device (UID) to provide vector-specific haptic feedback. In at least some embodiments, this vectored movement can be based on input received by the UID. The input can include information associated with the user's interaction with an associated device integrated with or communicatively linked with the UID, and or with an application implemented on the associated device. In at least some embodiments, the UID can be configured with a controller, a microprocessor(s), and a vector-specific actuator that includes an electrically-deformable material.
US08525770B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel including a liquid crystal display panel provided a plurality of data lines; a data distributor distributing input data; a first and second memories equally storing data to be supplied to an odd-numbered data line among data distributed by the data distributor; a third and fourth memories equally storing data to be supplied to an even-numbered data line among data distributed by the data distributor; and a clock generator generating a divided clock reading and outputting a data stored at the first and second memories or the third and fourth memories.
US08525769B2
A liquid crystal display apparatus includes color filters, a display signal voltage application circuit, a common voltage application circuit, and a polarity inversion circuit. Each color filter corresponds to one of sub-pixels arranged two-dimensionally in a display section. The display signal voltage application circuit applies a display signal voltage to a pixel electrode of each of the sub-pixels. The common voltage application circuit applies a common voltage to a common electrode of each of the sub-pixels. The polarity inversion circuit inverts a polarity indicating a magnitude relationship between a pixel electrode voltage and the common voltage that is applied to the common electrode. The polarity inversion circuit makes the polarity of at least one of the sub-pixels arranged in a row of the display section different from the polarity of another sub-pixel of the same color arranged in the same row of the display section.
US08525767B2
The present invention directs to a method for automatically compensating a common electrode voltage, comprising: calculating an average shift amount of a common electrode voltage according to gray scale data in a line on a displayed image, processing the average shift amount of the common electrode voltage to be a digital signal then converting it into an analog signal then into an average shift amount voltage waveform, and superposing it with a common electrode voltage waveform to form a new output signal waveform for driving the common electrode; the present invention also directs to a device for automatically compensating a common electrode voltage, comprising a data input module, a looking up module, a data operation module, a data encoding and converting module, a waveform generator and an operational amplification module. In the method and device for automatically compensating the common electrode voltage according to the present invention, a common electrode is driven at same time when a pixel electrode in one line on a liquid crystal display screen is driven, charges on the common electrode are compensated, such that common electrode voltage delay is avoided and image quality displayed by the liquid crystal display screen is improved dramatically.
US08525764B2
An LCD panel with function of compensating feed-through effect includes plural groups of pixels, a gate-driving circuit, a data-driving circuit, and a gamma voltage generator. Each group of pixels includes first pixel and second pixel. The first pixel and the second pixel share a data line, and are respectively coupled to first gate line and second gate line. When the gate-driving circuit drives the first gate line, the gamma voltage generator provides un-compensated gamma voltages for the data-driving circuit writing data to the first pixel. When the gate-driving circuit drives the first and the second gate lines at the same time, the gamma voltage generator provides gamma voltages compensated by a compensating voltage level for the data-driving circuit writing data to the second pixel. In this way, the feed-through effect suffered by the second pixel is compensated, so that each pixel of the LCD panel can display with correct brightness.
US08525761B2
A display device and a method of driving the same are provided. The display device includes a scan driver that generates a plurality of scanning signals, a data driver that generates a data voltage, and a plurality of pixels that receive the data voltage according to the scanning signal and that display luminance corresponding to the data voltage. Each pixel receives its own data voltage and a data voltage of other pixels while displaying a black color when its own scanning signal is in a first state, and stops reception of the data voltage and displays luminance corresponding to its own data voltage when its own scanning signal is in a second state.
US08525759B2
A voltage-driving pixel unit comprises a voltage-driving pixel circuit and an organic light emitting diode (OLED) driven by the voltage-driving pixel circuit is provided. The voltage-driving pixel circuit comprises a gate line, a data line, a power source line, a ground terminal, a switching transistor, a driving transistor, a compensating transistor, a blocking transistor and a storage capacitor.
US08525756B2
An organic light emitting display capable of displaying an image with uniform luminance regardless of deterioration of an organic light emitting diode and threshold voltage/mobility of a drive transistor is disclosed. The organic light emitting display senses deterioration of the organic light emitting diode and the threshold voltage and/or mobility of a drive transistor and modifies the data supplied to the pixel according to the sensed parameters.
US08525752B2
Described are systems and methods for automatically adjusting a set of display settings. At least one image sample is displayed at a first display according to display settings of the first display. Electromagnetic radiation generated from the first display is collected. The electromagnetic radiation includes first image data related to the at least one image sample at the first display. An image sample is displayed at a second display according to display settings of the second display. Electromagnetic radiation generated from the second display is collected. The electromagnetic radiation includes second image data related to the image sample at the second display. A margin of error is determined between the first image data and the second image data. The display settings of the second display are adjusted to reduce the margin of error.
US08525750B2
A varying angle antenna design can be used with an electromagnetic radiation dissipation device to reduce exposure to electromagnetic radiation. The antenna captures radiation from an active emission source, such as a cellular telephone as it transmits. The device converts the captured radiation into an electric current and dissipates the collected current by spending it to operate a thermal, mechanical, or electrical device. The varying angle antenna is a printed circuit board trace antenna comprising a microstrip having several serially connected meandering segments. One or more meandering segments include 90-degree bends in the microstrip, and one or more meandering segments include bends of more and less than 90 degrees. Portions of the microstrip that are horizontally oriented are all parallel, while portions of the microstrip that are vertically oriented can be parallel or angled, depending on the bend angle. Near the center of the antenna, the microstrip segments are narrower.
US08525746B2
An antenna system connectable to a vehicle includes an exterior antenna, an interior antenna, and a data transmission line. The vehicle has a wall including an outer surface and an inner surface that generally opposes the outer surface, where the inner surface and the outer surface cooperate together to create an aperture. The wall defines an exterior environment and an interior cabin. The exterior antenna is located within the exterior environment and is connectable to the vehicle. The interior antenna is located within the interior cabin defined. The data transmission line transmits RF signals and is in communication with both the exterior antenna and the interior antenna. The transmission line passes through the aperture located in the plate between the exterior antenna and the interior antenna.
US08525745B2
Antenna system embodiments are illustrated that include a planar, top-loaded dipole antenna and a planar elliptical dipole antenna arranged substantially coplanar and within the top-loaded dipole antenna. These antenna structures facilitate their combination with tuning coil chains, baluns and impedance matching circuits to operate over multiple frequency bands. System embodiments exhibit high gain and selectivity and may be digitally tuned over wide frequency bands (e.g., 30-600 MHz). The embodiments may be digitally tuned to support operational modes such as frequency hopping to thereby realize a secure communication system. Because these embodiments are configured to operate in the absence of a ground plane, they are especially suited for mounting on various portions of an aircraft's structure. For example, they may be configured as winglets and situated far out on wingtips to thus free the remainder of an aircraft's structure for other operational systems.
US08525727B2
A GNSS navigation system and navigation method for determining user position, user velocity, and improved uncertainty metrics for position and velocity. A measurement engine in an applications processor of the system determines pseudorange and delta range values over each time period for each received satellite signal, and also determines measurement noise variances for both pseudorange and delta range for the individual signals. The satellite-specific pseudorange and delta range measurement variances are used to determine the position and velocity uncertainties by a position engine, either by way of a least-squares linearization or by way of an enhanced Kalman filter. The uncertainties may be communicated to the system user, or used in generating an integrated position and velocity result from both the GNSS navigation function and an inertial navigation system result.
US08525726B2
A multi-standard GNSS receiver, handle different global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs), determines with respect to a current time instant, the earliest broadcast timing based on corresponding satellite broadcast cycles for satellites in the different GNSSs. The multi-standard GNSS receiver acquires fresh broadcast ephemeris at the determined earliest broadcast timing to determine its own first position. A search order is determined based on the corresponding satellite broadcast cycles and the current time instant. The multi-standard GNSS receiver may selectively utilize appropriate satellite receivers such as the GPS receiver and the GLONASS receiver to search for satellite signals based on the determined search order. Channels for different GNSSs are scanned to identify transmitting satellites based on the corresponding satellite broadcast cycles for ephemeris downloading. The satellite search is prioritized by comparing the current time instant with the corresponding satellite broadcast cycles.
US08525723B2
A GPS enabled radar detector incorporated in a general purpose navigation device dynamically handles radar sources based upon previously-stored geographically-referenced information on such sources and data from the GPS receiver. The detector may ignore detections received in an area known to contain a stationary source, or may only ignore specific frequencies or may handle frequencies differently based upon historic trends of spurious police radar signals at each frequency. Notification of the driver may take a variety of forms depending on the stored information, current operating modes, and vehicle speed. The device includes navigational functions as well. In one embodiment, the detector uses a transparent touch screen and a readily aligned mounting.
US08525719B2
The invention includes a successive approximation register, a digital-to-analog converter, a comparator and a control stage. The control stage initially sets the successive approximation register to a first digital value. The digital-to-analog converter converts the digital value stored in the successive approximation register to an analog value. The comparator compares the converted digital value with an analog input value. The control stage restricts subsequent analog-to-digital conversion for the analog input value to a search interval above or below the first digital value depending on whether the analog input value is greater or lower than the converted analog value of the first digital value.
US08525718B2
Disclosed herein is a differential amplifier including: an input terminal configured to receive an input signal; an output terminal configured to output an output signal obtained as a result of amplifying the input signal; an amplification part configured to amplify the input signal to generate the output signal; a load circuit which is connected between the amplification part and a power-supply terminal, and is provided with a first-conduction transistor, and a changeover switch configured to switch a connection between a gate electrode of the first-conduction transistor and a drain electrode of the first-conduction transistor to a connection between the gate electrode and the output terminal or vice versa; and a leak cancel switch configured to generate a leak cancel current for reducing an off leak current flowing through the changeover switch.
US08525717B2
A half-bandwidth based quadrature analog-to-digital converter (ADC) includes in-phase circuitry, quadrature-phase circuitry, and digital complex processing circuitry. The in-phase circuitry includes an in-phase pair of ADCs, which provide an in-phase pair of sub-quadrature output signals, based on an analog in-phase input signal. Similarly, the quadrature-phase circuitry includes a quadrature-phase pair of ADCs, which provide a quadrature-phase pair of sub-quadrature output signals based on an analog quadrature-phase input signal. The digital complex processing circuitry combines, filters, and restructures the in-phase pair of sub-quadrature output signals and the quadrature-phase pair of sub-quadrature output signals to provide a digital in-phase output signal and a digital quadrature-phase output signal. Each of the in-phase pair of ADCs has about an ADC bandwidth. The in-phase circuitry has an input bandwidth, which is about equal to two times the ADC bandwidth in one embodiment of the in-phase circuitry.
US08525708B2
A decoding device has a buffer configured in memory to store N code streams and N decoders connected in series. Each of N decoders decodes a corresponding code steam and sequentially generates partial symbols of M bit width each unit cycle. Among the N decoders, i (i>=2) stage decoders stores multiple probabilistic models in the memory. In each unit cycle, the decoder receives an input of i−1 partial symbols which contains partial symbols generated by the i−1 stage decoder in the former unit cycle, selects one probabilistic model among the multiple probabilistic models based on i−1 partial symbols which are entered previously, generates one partial symbol using previously selected probabilistic models, and outputs the previously generated one partial symbol along with previously entered i−1 partial symbols.
US08525700B2
The various embodiments herein provide a system and method for managing information display for vehicles on cross roads. The system includes at least one panel to display a traffic regulatory information and advertisements, a central server, a programmable logic controller (PLC) connected to the central server, a plurality of sensors to detect the at least one panel position and any moving foreign objects. A display unit is managed online from a traffic control center to receive and display a real-time traffic information and a plurality of timers are provided for calculating a time schedule information of the traffic lights based on the traffic. The sensors control and transmit the time schedule information to the PLC. The time schedule information and traffic algorithms are transmitted by the PLC to a central control system for processing and estimating an optimum time schedule of traffic lights.
US08525699B2
A device for aiding flight for an aircraft includes means for locating the localities situated in the operational area for rescue missions. The device is able to present to the crew a landmark of the positions of the localities in relation to the position of the aircraft, this landmark also indicating information connected with navigation and to flight regulations for each of the localities. The device relates to operations aircraft and more particularly rescue helicopters.
US08525698B2
The security gate device is the one that has the ability to deter and seize unauthorized vehicles to enter and that attempt to envade the place; this can be done automatically without giving human being orders. The device is equipped with a room consisting of bumpers and anti-blast walls to protect the facility and the workers from damage caused by such an explosion. Meanwhile, this device can arrest the intruders of the gate.
US08525690B2
A top drive assembly may comprise a drive motor that provides rotational torque to a drill string for driving the drill string into the earth. A sensor and a transmitter may be located on a section of the drill string or on a device that can be incorporated into a drill string. The sensor may take measurements of the drill string that is rotating during the drilling operation. If the sensor is located near the top drive assembly, the sensor may take measurements of an upper portion of the rotating drill string during the drilling operation. The transmitter may wirelessly transmit the sensor information in real-time to a coordinator or main radio. The transmitter may also be located near the top drive assembly and during the drilling operation, may transmit from the rotating drill string while located in a position above the earth's surface.
US08525682B2
A bed includes a frame, a controller coupled to the frame, and a patient position detection system coupled to the frame and coupled to the controller. The patient position detection system has multiple modes of operation of varying sensitivities for determining whether a person supported on the frame has moved by a sufficient amount to activate an alarm. The frame includes a plurality of barriers. An alert light is coupled to one of the barriers.
US08525681B2
A method of location based proximity alert retrieves, from a location based proximity alert physical server, a current location of wireless client devices and determines if it is within a given area. The method accesses, from the location based proximity alert physical server, a physical law enforcement database comprising a restraining order target identifier and a restraining order limit identifier. A geo-proximity alert message is transmitted if the current location of the restraining order target identifier matches the restraining order limit identifier.
US08525680B2
A person monitoring system is operable to predict the onset of an adverse condition of a person. The system receives first information corresponding to a feature of a person support apparatus and second information corresponding to a physiological characteristic of the person. The system calculates a condition score as a function of the first and second information. In some instances, the system alerts a caregiver if the condition score exceeds a predetermined threshold. Alternatively or additionally, the person monitoring system alerts a caregiver when a person supported on a person support apparatus is regaining consciousness by monitoring one or more of a change in position, a heart rate, and a respiration rate. A person monitoring system that monitors a person's quality of sleep and presents information concerning the quality of sleep to one or more interested parties is also disclosed.
US08525678B2
A storage element stores identification information identifying to-be-monitored objects (TBMO) and prohibited behavior conditions indicating behaviors respectively prohibited to the TBMO in an area. Entry monitoring elements monitor as specific TBMO, TBMO which enter the area, and judge whether or not specific identification information identifying the specific to TBMO exists in the identification information stored in the storage element. When identification information coincident with the specific identification information exists in the identification information, behavior monitoring element monitor based on the specific identification information, the specific TBMO which behave in the area, and generate behavior information indicating behaviors of the specific TBMO. Behavior judging element select specific prohibited behavior conditions corresponding to the specific identification information from the plurality of prohibited behavior conditions stored in the storage element, and produce an alarm when behaviors indicated by the specific prohibited behavior conditions coincide with behaviors indicated by the behavior information.
US08525672B2
A passive entry and/or passive go system and am associated operating method is provided. According to an embodiment of the invention, the following steps are performed in an electronic key of the passive entry and/or passive go system: generation of a reference input value, supplying the antenna circuit with the reference input value, measurement of the characteristic parameters, while the antenna circuit is supplied with the reference input value, storage of the characteristic parameters, measurement of a first output value of the antenna circuit, and determination of the field strength from the first output value and the characteristic parameters, whereby an effect of the characteristic parameters on the field strength is compensated. Use, for example, in motor vehicles.
US08525657B2
Various embodiments may include methods and systems for determining a tire pressure status. The system may include at least one computer. An input defining an inflation status of one or more vehicle tires, as well as tire inflation data of the one or more tires, may be received. A specific value associated with an inflation event of the one or more vehicle tires may be calculated based on the inflation data. Further, one or more messages for outputting the specific value from one or more vehicle components may be generated and transmitted to the one or more vehicle components. The specific value may be output as one or more messages from the vehicle.
US08525648B1
A backscatter passive wireless control system and method employs frequency coding using frequency components generated from an interrogating field using a passive nonlinear element such as a diode in a passive transponder tag. In particular, InterModulation Distortion (IMD) frequency components may be generated which are shifted in frequency from the interrogating signal to assist in backscatter detection at a receiver but are still in band, e.g., in an ISM band. The shifted frequency components may be swept or stepped over a range and passive elements in the tag encode a tag ID by selecting specific frequencies to be backscattered. A manually operated switch may couple an antenna to the transponder to allow battery free control.
US08525644B1
A license detector system enables a person such as a police officer to monitor vehicles on the road to ensure drivers have valid licenses. Within each valid license is an RFID tag which contains specific information and each RFID tag is able to send that information to a detector when requested. To use the system, the police officer aims the detector at a vehicle, initiates the signal to be received by the RFID tag within the license and waits to receive a signal back from the RFID tag. If a signal is received, then a valid license has been detected within the vehicle. However, if no signal or an invalid signal is received by the detector, then no one, specifically the driver of the car, has a valid license. Upon discovering such information, the police officer should be justified in stopping the vehicle and taking the necessary police action.
US08525642B2
A sending device generates a MAC frame to be transmitted over a wireless network. The MAC frame indicates a frame transmission type. A payload portion of the MAC frame is defined in accordance with a payload specification of a distributed asset management protocol corresponding to the indicated frame transmission type. The MAC frame is transmitted over the wireless network and received by a receiving device that is defined to recognize the MAC frame as the indicated frame transmission type. The receiving device is defined to process the payload portion of the MAC frame in accordance with the payload specification of the distributed asset management protocol corresponding to the indicated frame transmission type. Network discovery includes successively transmitting the MAC frame at a defined interval during a first period of time. Then, the MAC frame transmission is ceased for a second period of time. Then, transmission of the MAC frame resumes.
US08525635B2
A method for producing a surface mount device includes providing a plurality of layers including a B-staged top layer and bottom layer, and a C-staged middle layer with an opening. A core device is inserted into the openings, and then the top and bottom layers are placed over and under, respectively, the middle layer. The layers are cured until the layers become C-staged. The core device is substantially surrounded by an oxygen-barrier material with an oxygen permeability of less than approximately 0.4 cm3·mm/m2·atm·day.
US08525633B2
A fuse element includes a substrate disposed between first and second terminals. The substrate includes an electrically insulative material. A conductive film is disposed on a first surface of the substrate and in electrical contact with the first terminal and second terminals.
US08525632B2
Provided is a reactor having a small size. A reactor 1α includes a coil 2α and a magnetic core 3α in which the coil 2α is disposed. The magnetic core 3α includes an internal core portion 3i that is inserted through the coil 2α and a couple core portion 3o that covers the outer periphery of the coil 2α, and these core portions form a closed magnetic path. The reactor 1α satisfies 1<(B1/B2) and 0.17×(B1/B2)+0.42≦(S1×B1)/(S2×B2)≦0.50×(B1/B2)+0.62, where S1 is the cross-sectional area of the internal core portion, B1 is the saturation magnetic flux density of the internal core portion, S2 is the cross-sectional area of the couple core portion, B2 is the saturation magnetic flux density of the couple core portion, (B1/B2) is the saturation magnetic flux density ratio between the core portions, and (S1×B1)/(S2×B2) is the magnetic flux ratio between the core portions. The cross-sectional area of the internal core portion 3i can be reduced because 1<(B1/B2) is satisfied, and the size of the reactor 1α can be reduced because (S1×B1)/(S2×B2) is adjusted to be in a specific range.
US08525631B2
An underwater power connection system (10) has at least two separable magnetic cores (40, 50) which are operable when coupled together to form a magnetic circuit, where the at least two cores (40, 50) are provided with respective one or more windings, and said cores (40, 50) include a transverse magnetic member arrangement (60, 80) supporting magnetic limbs (70, 90), where the limbs (70, 90) are elongate and are adapted to intermesh with their lateral sides mutually abutting for providing the magnetic circuit when the system (10) is in its assembled state (210), and where the limbs (70,90) are of tapered form towards their distal ends.
US08525623B2
Electromechanical relays and semiconductor structures and microelectromechanical systems including at least part of an electromechanical relay are presented. For example, an electromechanical relay includes an electrically conductive terminal within a printed circuit board, one or more electrically conductive contacts, and one or more magnetic actuators. The one or more magnetic actuators are respectively associated with the one or more electrically conductive contacts and each magnetic actuator includes (i) a magnetic core within at least one via extending through one or more layers of the printed circuit board, and (ii) an electrical coil around at least a portion of the magnetic core and within one or more layers of the printed circuit board. Activation of the one or more actuators causes electrical contact between the terminal and an associated one of the one or more electrically conductive contacts.
US08525620B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, devices and methods for improving both the bandwidth of a BAW resonator bandpass filter and the suppression of out-of-band frequencies above the passband. In various embodiments of the invention, blocker inductors are located in series between the filter input and the filter output to realize both bandwidth enhancement and improved out-of-band frequency rejection. For example, a first blocker inductor may be located at the input and a second blocker inductor may be located at the output of a BAW resonator bandpass filter.
US08525615B2
In an elastic wave duplexer, a reception elastic wave filter element and a transmission elastic wave filter element are flip-chip mounted to a principal surface of a substrate. A sealing member is disposed on the principal surface of the substrate to cover and seal off at least one of the reception elastic wave filter element and the transmission elastic wave filter element. The sealing member has different thicknesses between a reception-element-covering region, which faces the reception elastic wave filter element on the side opposite from the substrate with respect to the reception elastic wave filter element, and a transmission-element-covering region, which faces the transmission elastic wave filter element on the side opposite from the substrate with respect to the transmission elastic wave filter element.
US08525614B2
According to an embodiment of the invention, a coupler has a first line that includes a coiled main line and a second line that includes a coiled secondary line arranged to oppose the main line via an insulating layer. The coupler also has a plurality of vias that connect the separate portions of the first line arranged in the different layers and connect the separate portions of the second line arranged in the different layers, and a plurality of terminals each connected to an end of the first and second lines. The vias include an extension via connected to the main line or the secondary line that extends through the insulating layer, and the extension via wires the first line and the second line to the same side of the insulating layer.
US08525610B2
An electronic component is mounted on a substrate so as to be in contact with a non-reciprocal circuit element. Therefore, there is no risk of the electronic component, which is arranged so as to be in contact with the non-reciprocal circuit element, being displaced as a result of being shifted by the magnetic force of permanent magnets included in the non-reciprocal circuit element and displacement of the electronic component as a result of being shifted by the magnetic force of the permanent magnets can be prevented. Therefore, since there is no risk of the electronic component being displaced by being shifted by the magnetic force of the permanent magnets, a space in which to mount a member that would function as an electromagnetic shield, such as a yoke, need not be provided on the substrate and the composite electronic module can be reduced in size and profile.
US08525608B2
A PLL frequency synthesizer provides improved phase noise characteristics. In an ADPLL frequency synthesizer, a frequency characteristic adjusting unit compares a predetermined threshold to the difference between the fractional portion of a DCO control signal and the closest integer value, and generates an adjustment signal. A supplementary varactor shifts the oscillating frequency characteristics based on the adjustment signal. By setting the predetermined threshold to a value defining the range in which the possibility of incrementing or decrementing is high, the oscillating frequency characteristics are shifted in cases when the target value of the fractional portion of the DCO control signal is in the range in which the possibility of incrementing or decrementing is high. By shifting the oscillating frequency characteristics, the target value of the fractional portion of the DCO control signal are shifted to a range in which the possibility of incrementing or decrementing is low.
US08525596B2
A reference buffer amplifier within an integrated circuit includes a first output terminal connected to a first bond pad, the first bond pad being connected to a first external pin of the integrated circuit chip, the first external pin to allow an external capacitance to be connected to the output terminal. The reference buffer further includes a variable, settable resistance sub-circuit connected to a second bond pad, the second bond pad also being connected to the first external pin. The resistance sub-circuit is configured to be set to exhibit a resistance value to critically dampen a response of the reference buffer amplifier.
US08525589B2
A disclosed pop sound reduction circuit reducing generation of pop sound at activation or deactivation of an audio amplifier includes a reference voltage circuit generating a reference voltage, a differential amplifier circuit having first and second inputs to amplify the audio signal based on a comparison between the first and second inputs, a triangular voltage generator circuit generating a triangular voltage, a voltage current convertor circuit generating a current proportional to the triangular voltage, a capacitor charged with the generated current to generate a voltage corresponding to the generated current, a constant voltage circuit generating a constant voltage, and a control circuit switching the triangular voltage into the constant voltage to be applied to the voltage current convertor circuit so as to increase the generated voltage if the voltage generated by the capacitor is below the reference voltage when the triangular voltage is equal to or below a predetermined voltage.
US08525575B2
A system includes a pass switch circuit and a first pass switch activation circuit. The pass switch circuit includes an impedance circuit and a pass transistor having a first source/drain connection, a second source/drain connection, and a gate input. The pass switch circuit passes an electronic signal from the first source/drain connection to the second source/drain connection in response to activation of the gate input. An impedance transfer function of the pass switch circuit is determined at least in part by an impedance of the impedance circuit and the impedance is sized to minimize attenuation of the electronic signal due to the impedance transfer function of the pass switch circuit. The first pass switch activation circuit provides a first activation signal to the gate input in response to an enable signal.
US08525572B2
A level-up shifter circuit is suitable for high speed and low power applications. The circuit dissipates almost no static power, or leakage current, compared to conventional designs and can preserve the signal's duty cycle even at high data rates. This circuit can be used with a wide range of power supplies while maintaining operational integrity.
US08525571B2
A voltage amplitude limiting circuit of a full differential circuit is provided for limiting voltage levels of a differential signal. The voltage amplitude limiting circuit includes a reference voltage generating unit and a replacing circuit. The reference voltage generating unit generates a high reference voltage and a low reference voltage. The replacing circuit is coupled to the reference voltage generating unit, a first input terminal and a second input terminal. When voltage at the first input terminal is greater than the high reference voltage, the replacing circuit uses the high reference voltage to replace the voltage at the first input terminal to serve as an output. When voltage at the first input terminal is less than the low reference voltage, the replacing circuit uses the low reference voltage to replace the voltage at the first input terminal to serve as an output.
US08525568B2
A clock generation circuit, includes a first current source, a resistor connected to the first current source, a second current source, a first demux circuit connected to the second current source, a second demux circuit connected to the second current source, a capacitor connected to the first demux circuit and the second demux circuit, a first comparator connected to the first current source and the capacitor, a second comparator connected to the first current source and the capacitor, and a RS trigger connected both to the first comparator and the second comparator. The present invention has simple structure, small process variation, and lower cost, and is able to improve the accuracy of the clock with maximum possibility.
US08525566B2
A repeater circuit is disclosed. The circuit includes an input stage configured to receive an input signal and a clock signal. An output stage is configured to drive an output signal on an output node to a first state responsive to a first transition of the input signal on the input node concurrent with a first phase of the clock signal. The input stage is configured to activate a first driver circuit of the output stage responsive to a first transition of the input signal. A reverse stage is configured to assert a first inhibit signal at a delay time subsequent to activation of the first driver circuit, which is configured to be deactivated responsive to assertion of the first inhibit signal. Assertion of the first inhibit signal is prevented responsive to a second transition of the input data signal occurring before the delay time has elapsed.
US08525559B2
A non-overlap circuit includes a first delay circuit configured to receive a first input signal and output a first control signal to a driver circuit, sensing circuitry configured to sense a current generated in response to the first control signal coupled through bulk semiconductor of a semiconductor substrate and produce a feedback signal response, and a second delay circuit. The second delay circuit configured to receive the feedback signal from the sensing circuitry and a second input signal and output a second control signal to the driver circuit based on the sensed feedback signal and the second input signal.
US08525557B1
Various methods and structures related to tristate multiplexer circuits are disclosed. An embodiment provides a selection circuit in which selectively enabled input circuits are coupled to an output circuit through an output enable circuit such that a selected one of the selectively enabled input circuits is operable to provide a pathway for charging and discharging currents used to charge and discharge an output circuit transistor gate. This and other detailed embodiments are described more fully in the disclosure.
US08525554B2
The present invention provides a high-side signal sensing circuit. The high-side signal sensing circuit comprises a signal-to-current converter, a second transistor and a resistor. The signal-to-current converter has a first transistor generating a mirror current in response to an input signal. The second transistor cascaded with the first transistor is coupled to receive the mirror current. The resistor generates an output signal in response to the mirror current. Wherein, the level of the output signal is corrected to the level of the input signal.
US08525550B2
A circuit implementing multiplexer, storage, and repeater functions is disclosed. The circuit includes first and second input stages having first and second data inputs, respectively. An output stage is configured to drive an output signal. The first input stage is configured to activate the output stage responsive to a first condition, while the second input stage is configured to activate the output stage responsive to a second condition. An intermediate stage is configured to deactivate the output stage at a first delay time subsequent to one of the first or second input stages activating the output stage. The repeater circuit also includes a storage element configured to store a state of the output signal, and further configured to cause the output node to be held at the state of the output signal subsequent to deactivation of the output stage.
US08525546B1
Methods and structures for configuring an integrated circuit including repeated cells that are divided into banks having a respective power assist and a respective operational assist are provided. A method includes configuring the banks without power assist and operational assist. The method further includes selecting the power assist for a bank based on a determination that a weak cell remains in the bank after configuring the bank with the respective operational assist.
US08525545B1
Power isolation during sensitive operations is disclosed. In one embodiment, a programmable chip package includes a programmable chip configured to perform a sensitive operation, and a switch configured to selectively couple a main power source to the programmable chip. The programmable chip package may also include an alternate power source and a controller that is configured to control the switch to decouple the main power source from the programmable chip prior to the sensitive operation, wherein the programmable chip is configured to draw power from the alternate power source during the sensitive operation. The controller is further configured to control the switch to couple the main power source to the programmable chip after the sensitive operation.
US08525538B2
Provided are an apparatus and a method of testing a semiconductor device. A horizontal maintaining unit provided inside a test head applies load to a probe card in a direction perpendicular to the probe card to hold the probe card in a horizontal state.Probe needles of the probe card are uniformly placed on a central region of pads of the semiconductor device, thereby providing an apparatus and a method of testing a semiconductor device capable of improving productivity and reducing a yield loss of a test process.
US08525532B2
A sync signal generator for a capacitive sensor includes a charge amplifier having an input for coupling to an inactive receive line in the capacitive sensor, a first comparator having a first input for receiving a first threshold voltage, a second input coupled to an output of the charge amplifier, and an output for providing a first sync signal, and a second comparator having a first input for receiving a second threshold voltage, a second input coupled to the output of the charge amplifier, and an output for providing a second sync signal. The charge amplifier includes an operational amplifier having a feedback circuit including a capacitor and a switch. The first threshold voltage is provided by a first digital-to-analog converter, and the second threshold voltage is provided by a second digital-to-analog converter.
US08525528B2
A method for evaluating the electric performances of an FDSOI transistor, including the steps of: measuring capacitance and/or conductance of the FDSOI transistor, by applying a voltage VBG>0 on a substrate composed of semiconductor of the FDSOI transistor when the FDSOI transistor is NMOS or a voltage VBG<0 on the substrate composed of semiconductor of the FDSOI transistor when the FDSOI transistor is PMOS, depending on a voltage VFG applied between a gate and source and drain regions of the FDSOI transistor.
US08525519B2
A method for estimating the capacity of a vehicle battery while in service. The method includes providing a previous battery state-of-charge, battery temperature and integrated battery current amp-hours, and determining that battery contactors have been closed after they have been opened and disconnected from a load. The method determines if the battery has been at rest for a long enough period of time while the contactors were open, where the battery rest time is based on battery temperature, and determines an initial battery voltage from a last time step when the battery contactors were closed prior to the contactors being open during the battery rest time. The method determines a present battery state-of-charge from the initial battery voltage and the battery temperature and calculates the battery capacity based on the battery integrated current amp-hours divided by the difference between the present battery state-of-charge and the previous battery state-of-charge.
US08525517B2
A storage unit stores coil positional information that indicates a physical position of an element coil relative to a representative position set on a receiving coil. A creating unit creates profile data that indicates a distribution of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) signals in a coil-arrangement direction. A calculating unit calculates the position of a representative position set on the receiving coil by performing a regression analysis by using the coil positional information and the profile data. A control unit causes a display unit to display the position of each element coil based on the calculated position of the representative position.
US08525516B2
This atomic clock comprises means for applying two mutually perpendicular oscillating magnetic fields (9, 10), governed by a control device (5) that makes them apply a static or nearly static magnetic field for compensating the ambient magnetic field in order to cancel sub-level energy variations of the matter, which disrupt the frequency of the returned photons and the reference provided by the clock. Traditional magnetic shielding may be omitted. Said device can also operate as a magnetometer.
US08525511B2
A system monitors alternating current and includes a magneto-optical current transducer (MOCT) adapted to modulate an optical signal corresponding to magnitude of the alternating current. Beam splitters are in communication with the MOCT which are in turn connected to respective channels. Each channel includes an LED that is powered by a constant current source.
US08525508B2
A method enables adjustment of a current sense voltage for accurate measurement of an operating temperature for an electrical motor. The method includes identifying a DC input voltage to a motor winding and a duty cycle corresponding to the DC input voltage, the duty cycle being identified with reference to a linear relationship between two inverter loss factors established for different DC input voltages within a range of voltages for the DC input voltage. A voltage across the motor winding is identified with reference to the identified duty cycle, the identified voltage not including voltage dropped across an inverter used to apply the DC input voltage to the motor winding. The identified voltage across the motor winding is used to identify a resistance change for the motor winding.
US08525504B2
A switching power supply includes a power switch, an adjusting circuit and a limit signal generator. The power switch operates according to a switch control signal. The adjusting circuit adjusts the turn-on time of the switch control signal according to a limit signal and a detecting signal which corresponds to the current passing the power switch. When the detecting signal exceeds or is equal to the limit signal, the limit signal generator samples a reference signal and updates the limit signal according to the sampled reference signal.
US08525501B2
A power factor correction device includes a rectifier for converting an AC input voltage into a DC input voltage, an output module for generating and outputting a DC output voltage, an intermediate inductor coupled between the rectifier and the output module, a power switch for controlling an inductor current of the intermediate inductor and generating a source voltage, a reset module for generating a reset instruction according to the DC input voltage, the DC output voltage and the source voltage, an SR flip-flop for outputting a latch result according to a set instruction and the reset instruction, and a set module for generating the set instruction in response to variation of the intermediate inductor or variation of the latch result.
US08525491B2
The vehicle generator includes an armature winding, a switching section constituted as a bridge circuit including a plurality of pairs of an upper arm and a lower arm to rectify phase voltages of the armature winding, each of the upper and lower arms being constituted of a switching element parallel-connected with a diode, and a control section for controlling on/off timings of the switching elements. The control section is configured to perform switching operation to switch the switching section between a first operation state where each upper arm is turned off when the phase voltage is higher than a voltage of a vehicle battery, and a second operation state where each upper arm is turned off after the phase voltages becomes lower than the battery voltage, and configured to delay off timings of the switching elements stepwise when the switching section is in the second operation state.
US08525482B2
An overcurrent protection circuit of a rechargeable battery includes a current detection terminal and an overcurrent return resistor connecting part. A voltage converted from a discharge current of the rechargeable battery is detected at the current detection terminal. The overcurrent return resistor connecting part connects the current detection terminal to overcurrent detection resistors having different resistances in accordance with a level of the voltage detected at the current detection terminal when the voltage detected at the current detection terminal is equal to or greater than a discharge overcurrent detection voltage and a discharge overcurrent state in which an overcurrent flows from the rechargeable battery is detected.
US08525477B2
According to one aspect there is disclosed an apparatus. The apparatus may include a first battery module. The first battery module may include a switch configured to open or close a first current path from a first terminal of a battery to a second terminal of the battery when a second battery module is coupled to the first battery module; a current sensor configured to sense a current in a second current path, the second current path different from the first current path; and a local controller configured to control a state of the switch to open or close the switch, wherein closing the switch is configured to close the first current path, the local controller is further configured to detect the sensed current in the second current path, and the local controller is further configured to receive and store an identifier based at least in part on the current detected in the second current path.
US08525456B2
Provided is an electric pump device that can continue to supply hydraulic pressure to hydraulically actuated equipment and that is also of reduced size. An electric pump device is provided with an oil pump that supplies oil to a stepless transmission device, a brushless motor that drives the oil pump, and a control device that controls the brushless motor. The control device is provided with a power supply part that supplies drive power to the brushless motor, and an out-of-synch determination part that determines whether or not the brushless motor is out of synch. The control device is provided with a drive control part that controls the power supply part so that supply of power to the brushless motor is stopped, and then controls the power supply part so that the brushless motor is started, when the out-of-synch determination part determines that the brushless motor is out of synch.
US08525450B2
Drive circuits that provide power factor correction and input current waveform shaping for controlling the speed and torque in a switched reluctance machine (SRM). The machine's phase windings are split into two segments, one of which is used for active power factor correction, input ac current waveform shaping and partial torque generation and the other of which is used for torque generation.
US08525448B2
The circular accelerator comprises: a bending electromagnet that generates a bending magnetic field; a radio-frequency power source that generates a radio-frequency electric field in accordance with an orbital frequency of charged particles; a radio-frequency electromagnetic field coupling part connected to the radio-frequency power source; an acceleration electrode connected to the radio-frequency electromagnetic field coupling part; and an acceleration-electrode-opposing ground plate provided to form an acceleration gap between the plate itself and the acceleration electrode, for generating the radio-frequency electromagnetic field in an orbiting direction of the charged particles; wherein the bending electromagnet generates the bending magnetic field varying in such a way that the orbital frequency of the charged particles varies in a variation range of 0.7% to 24.7% with respect to an orbital frequency at the charged-particles' extraction portion, during a time of injection to extraction of the particles.
US08525441B2
A device is designed for channeling electricity to a lamp, and adjusts downwards the amount of power channeled to the lamp as a function of available electrical energy in the source. In so doing, a reduction in the available energy in the source causes a less proportionate reduction in luminosity of the lamp. This might be accomplished by passing the electricity through a passive network of resistors and diodes on its way down to the lamp. In one example, the electrical energy source may be a battery that is powered by one or more solar panels. In that case, the device may also perform the function of protecting the battery from being overly charged. It channels downwards a greater daily lamp's energy consumption than that of daily electrical charging from the solar panels, when the available battery energy is near its full capacity.
US08525419B2
A plasma source for processing or imaging a substrate, for ion source for proton therapy, for ion thrusters, or for high energy particle accelerators includes a coolant circuit passing adjacent to a plasma ion reactor chamber and RF antenna coils. In a method for operating the plasma ion source having an induction coil adjacent to a reaction chamber for inductively coupling power into the plasma from a radio frequency power source, the method comprises pumping a dielectric fluid into contact with induction coils of the plasma ion source along the coolant circuit. Use of the dielectric fluid both electrically insulates the plasma chamber, so that it can be biased to 30 kV and up, and efficiently transfers heat away from the plasma chamber.
US08525409B2
A lamp includes a light transmissive envelope comprising two spaced apart elliptical portions that together form a hollow interior. The envelope has sealed end portions. Leads are in electrical contact with the filament near the end portions of the envelope for providing power to the lamp. There is a central portion of the envelope that spaces apart the elliptical portions. An electrically conductive filament is disposed in the interior of the envelope. The filament includes coiled-coil portions disposed in the elliptical portions in a coiled-coil shape and a single coil interval portion disposed between the coiled-coil portions at the central portion of the envelope. At least one filament support positions the filament near a center of the envelope. Gas is contained in the interior of the envelope.
US08525405B2
Electronic devices may be provided with displays having polarizer structures. Polarizer structures may incorporate flexible layers of glass. The flexible glass layers may be laminated to other sheets of material in the polarizer structures using roll-to-roll lamination equipment. After the polarizer structures are cut into panels, the panels may be laminated to liquid crystal display structures, organic light-emitting-diode display structures or other display structures using sheet-to-sheet lamination tools. Ultraviolet-light-blocking material may be incorporated into a display to prevent damage to the polarizer layers in the polarizer structures. Coatings such as antireflection coatings, antistatic coating, and anti-smudge coatings may be provided on the polarizer structures. Displays may use the flexible glass layers and additional protective layers to prevent a polarizer layer from being exposed to excessive moisture. A birefringent layer may be incorporated into a display and may serve as a protective layer for a polarizer.
US08525404B2
An OLED display includes: a thin film transistor including a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode; a planarization layer on the thin film transistor and including a contact hole at least partially exposing the drain electrode; a pixel electrode on the planarization layer and coupled to the drain electrode of the thin film transistor through the contact hole; a pixel defining layer on the planarization layer and having an opening that exposes the pixel electrode; an organic emission layer on the pixel electrode; and a common electrode on the organic emission layer and the pixel defining layer. The pixel defining layer includes a corner-cube pattern facing the common electrode.
US08525400B2
A luminescent element includes a luminescent glass and a metal layer with a metal microstructure formed on a surface of the luminescent glass; wherein the luminescent glass has a chemical composition: aR2O.bZnO.cSiO2.nMnO2, wherein R represents the alkali metal element, a, b, c, and n are, by mole parts, 9.5˜40, 8˜40, 35˜70, and 0.01˜1, respectively. A preparation method of a luminescent element and a luminescence method are also provided. The luminescent element has good luminescence homogeneity, high luminescence efficiency, good luminescence stability and simple structure, and can be used in luminescent device with ultrahigh brightness.
US08525397B2
The invention relates to an OLED device (1) comprising a light emitting layer stack (3) on top of a substrate (2) encapsulated by an encapsulating cover (4), where at least the edges of the substrate (2) and the encapsulating cover (4) are covered with a protection cover (5) made of a moldable material and to an OLED system (10) comprising at least one OLED device (1) and at least one electronic board (81, 82) connected to the at least one OLED device (1) by suitable connectors (85), preferably further comprising a cooling body (9) thermally connected to the OLED device (1). The invention further relates to a method to manufacture an OLED device (1) or an OLED system (10) comprising the step of applying a protection cover (5) to the OLED device (1) or the OLED system (10) by a plastic molding technique to at least partly cover the OLED device (1) or the OLED system (10).
US08525396B2
An illumination source includes a heat sink with a planar inner core region and an outer core region having structures to dissipate heat from the inner core region. An LED assembly is affixed to the planar substrate and an adhesive layer between the planar substrate and the planar inner core region conducts heat from the LED assembly to the inner core region.
US08525391B2
A piezoelectric power apparatus comprises a first case, at least one piezoelectric module and a rotating member, wherein the first case has a bottom surface and at least one hollow chamber recessed into the bottom surface, and the piezoelectric module is disposed into the hollow chamber. The piezoelectric module comprises at least one frame body, a moving member and a plurality of piezoelectric portions. The moving member is penetrated into the frame body. Each of the piezoelectric portions comprises a first end and a second end, each of the first ends is fixed at the frame body, each of the second ends is fixed at the moving member, and the moving member is moved back and forth in the frame body. The moving member is pivotally disposed at the rotating member.
US08525390B2
An embodiment of a fluid power generation system has a generator comprising an electrical-charge-producing material and a pair of end boundary constraints. One of the end boundary constraints of the pair of end boundary constraints is physically coupled to the electrical-charge-producing material adjacent to an end of the electrical-charge-producing material and the other one of the pair of end boundary constraints is physically coupled to the electrical charge-producing material adjacent to an opposite end of the electrical-charge-producing material. For some embodiments, the end boundary constraints may be active or passive. For other embodiments, at least one of the end boundary constraints may be electrically coupled to a controller for adjusting vibration characteristics of the generator.
US08525384B2
A vibration motor includes: a core pivotally supported on a shaft; a commutator for supplying electric current to a coil; a commutator holder having through holes extending in an axial direction of the shaft; and chip type varistors fitted into the through holes. The commutator is provided with conductors extending in the axial direction of the shaft, and the conductors are inserted into the through holes and press-fixed to end electrodes of the chip type varistors. A first protrusion is provided on a first wall surface forming each through hole, and a second protrusion facing the first protrusion is provided on a second wall surface.
US08525383B2
A first slip ring and a second slip ring are put from both ends of a slip ring shaft, respectively, and are attached by shrink-fitting, the slip ring shaft being provided separately from a rotor shaft; the shaft diameter of a lead connecting portion is formed larger than the shaft diameters of respective slip ring attaching portions; and a coupling, which is attached by shrink-fitting to a shaft end portion on the rotor shaft side of the slip ring shaft after the first slip ring is attached by shrink-fitting, is provided.
US08525380B2
A vacuum mechanical rotation-transmitting apparatus is disposed on a hollow member that defines a vacuum chamber. The apparatus includes an input shaft assembly, an outer shaft assembly extending into the input shaft assembly and the vacuum chamber, a spacer member disposed between the input and output shaft assemblies, a plurality of first magnetic units disposed on the input shaft assembly, and a plurality of second magnetic units disposed on the output shaft assembly. A magnetic attractive force is produced between the first and second magnetic units to allow for co-rotation of the output shaft assembly with the input shaft assembly.
US08525379B2
A motor including a motor case, a rotary shaft, and a connector module. The rotary shaft is accommodated and rotated in the motor case. The connector module includes a connector unit, which is electrically connected to an external device and supplies power, and a flat control circuit substrate, which controls rotation of the rotary shaft. The motor case includes an insertion opening into which the connector module is inserted along an insertion direction. The connector module includes a connector housing, which accommodates at least part of the control circuit substrate, and a flat relay, which electrically connects the control circuit substrate and the connector unit and is arranged at a right angle relative to the control circuit substrate.
US08525377B2
The actuator is of the roto-linear type and comprises a sleeve, a clevis and an operating rod which transmits the load. An electromagnetic sensor that measures and controls the load is placed inside the actuator, at the shoulder of the clevis. This sensor is associated with measurement means for processing the signals from the said winding, which winding are torus-shaped and arranged inside a field frame which is magnetically closed by an armature.
US08525361B1
An energy harvesting device may include a pneumatic system inlet configured to receive a pressurized gas; a pneumatic-to-electrical (PN/E) transducer that converts a flow of the pressurized gas into generated electrical energy; and an electrical device coupled to receive the electrical energy of the PN/E transducer.
US08525359B2
An engine generator is provided having an improved cooling effect realized by cooling air while ensuring a compact arrangement of components in a housing. The engine generator includes an engine 2, a generator 3, an inverter 4, a control device, a fuel tank 7, an air cleaner 16, a muffler 18, a radiator 6, and a housing 5 accommodating the foregoing components. The engine generator includes cooling air inlets 12 and 11 and a cooling air outlet 14 on sides of the housing 5 with a cooling air passage disposed between the inlets and outlet. The generator 3, the inverter 4, and the air cleaner 16 are disposed further upstream than the engine 2 along a cooling air passage. The fuel tank 7, the radiator 6, and the muffler 18 are disposed further downstream than the engine 2 along the cooling air passage. Ambient air is incorporated as cooling air into the housing 5 through the cooling air inlets 12 and 11, allowed to flow from an upstream toward a downstream of the cooling air passage, and discharged to outside the housing 5 through the cooling air outlet 14.
US08525351B2
A semiconductor device includes a die pad, a semiconductor element which is loaded on the die pad, and a sealing resin. A plurality of electrically conductive portions each having a layered structure including a metal foil comprising copper or a copper alloy, and electrically conductive portion plating layers provided at both upper and lower ends of the metal foil are arranged around the die pad. The die pad has a lower die pad plating layer, and the semiconductor element is loaded on the die pad comprising such a die pad plating layer. Electrodes provided on the semiconductor element are electrically connected with top ends of the electrically conductive portions via wires, respectively. The lower electrically conductive portion plating layers of the electrically conductive portions and the die pad plating layer of the die pad are exposed outside from the sealing resin on their back faces.
US08525348B2
A fabrication method of a chip scale package includes providing electronic components, each having an active surface with electrode pads and an opposite inactive surface, and a hard board with a soft layer disposed thereon; adhering the electronic components to the soft layer via the inactive surfaces thereof; pressing the electronic components such that the soft layer encapsulates the electronic components while exposing the active surfaces thereof; forming a dielectric layer on the active surfaces of the electronic components and the soft layer; and forming a first wiring layer on the dielectric layer and electrically connected to the electrode pads, thereby solving the conventional problems caused by directly attaching a chip on an adhesive film, such as film-softening, encapsulant overflow, warpage, chip deviation and contamination that lead to poor electrical connection between the electrode pads and the wiring layer formed in a subsequent RDL process and even waste product.
US08525336B2
This disclosure provides a semiconductor package and a method of fabricating the same. The semiconductor package includes an insulating layer; a plurality of traces and connection pads disposed in the insulating layer and protruded from the insulating layer; a plurality of bumps formed on the plurality of traces; a semiconductor chip disposed on the bumps; and an encapsulant formed on the insulating layer to encapsulate the semiconductor chip, the plurality of bumps, traces and connection pads. When the encapsulant is formed, voids can be prevented from being generated in the traces and the connection pads and thus the yield of process is significantly increased.
US08525335B2
A semiconductor construct includes a semiconductor substrate and connection pads provided on the semiconductor substrate. Some of the connection pads are connected to a common wiring and at least one of the remaining of the connection pads are connected to a wiring. The construct also includes a first columnar electrode provided to be connected to the common wiring and a second columnar electrode provided to be connected to a connection pad portion of the wiring.
US08525328B2
The disclosure relates to a power device package structure. By employing the metal substrate of the power device package structure serve as a bottom electrode of a capacitor, the capacitor is integrated into the power device package structure. A dielectric material layer and a upper metal layer sequentially disposed on the metal substrate.
US08525327B2
A microelectronic package can include a substrate and a microelectronic element having a face and one or more columns of contacts thereon which face and are joined to corresponding contacts on a surface of the substrate. An axial plane may intersect the face along a line in the first direction and centered relative to the columns of element contacts. Columns of package terminals can extend in the first direction. First terminals in a central region of the second surface can be configured to carry address information usable to determine an addressable memory location within the microelectronic element. The central region may have a width not more than three and one-half times a minimum pitch between the columns of package terminals. The axial plane can intersect the central region.
US08525326B2
An integrated circuit (IC) package with a plurality of chip capacitors placed on a surface of a die is disclosed. The chip capacitors may be placed on top of the die with an interposal substrate layer. Placing chip capacitors on top of the die may reduce the size of the packaging substrate required. One or more wires may be used to connect the chip capacitors on the interposal layer to the packaging substrate. The IC package may include a lid and a thermal interface material (TIM) placed on top of the die. The lid may be shaped such that a protruding portion of the lid contacts the die directly through the TIM to improve heat dissipation.
US08525322B1
A semiconductor package has a first substrate having a plurality of electrically conductive patterns formed thereon. A first semiconductor die is coupled to the plurality of conductive patterns. A second semiconductor die is coupled to the first semiconductor die by a die attach material. A third semiconductor die is coupled to the second semiconductor die by a die attach material. A second substrate having a plurality of electrically conductive patterns formed thereon is coupled to the third semiconductor die. A plurality of contacts is coupled to a bottom surface of the first substrate. A connector jack is coupled to the second substrate. A plurality of leads is coupled to the second semiconductor die by conductive wires.
US08525316B2
A disclosed semiconductor fabrication process includes forming a first bonding structure on a first surface of a cap wafer, forming a second bonding structure on a first surface of a device wafer, and forming a device structure on the device wafer. One or more eutectic flow containment structures are formed on the cap wafer, the device wafer, or both. The flow containment structures may include flow containment micro-cavities (FCMCs) and flow containment micro-levee (FCMLs). The FCMLs may be elongated ridges overlying the first surface of the device wafer and extending substantially parallel to the bonding structure. The FCMLs may include interior FCMLs lying within a perimeter of the bonding structure, exterior FCMLs lying outside of the bonding structure perimeter, or both. When the two wafers are bonded, the FCMLs and FCMCs confine flow of the eutectic material to the region of the bonding structure.
US08525290B2
A memory device includes an access device including a first doped semiconductor region having a first conductivity type, and a second doped semiconductor region having a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type. Both the first and the second doped semiconductor regions are formed in a single-crystalline semiconductor body, and define a p-n junction between them. The first and second doped semiconductor regions are implemented in isolated parallel ridges formed in the single-crystal semiconductor body. Each ridge is crenellated, and the crenellations define semiconductor islands; the first doped semiconductor region occupies a lower portion of the islands and an upper part of the ridge, and the second doped semiconductor region occupies an upper portion of the islands, so that the p-n junctions are defined within the islands.
US08525283B2
A wafer lens array comprising a plurality of lens sections arranged one-dimensionally or two-dimensionally, a substrate section connecting the lens sections, and gap sections, wherein the lens surfaces in the lens section each have one or more curved surfaces; the gap section is a part projecting from outside than the inner edge of the lens section; and the inner surfaces of the gap sections are spread from a side near the lens section to the other side.
US08525276B2
The invention provides combination semiconductor and plasma devices, including transistors and phototransistors. A preferred embodiment hybrid plasma semiconductor device has active solid state semiconductor regions; and a plasma generated in proximity to the active solid state semiconductor regions. Devices of the invention are referred to as hybrid plasma-semiconductor devices, in which a plasma, preferably a microplasma, cooperates with conventional solid state semiconductor device regions to influence or perform a semiconducting function, such as that provided by a transistor. The invention provides a family of hybrid plasma electronic/photonic devices having properties previously unavailable. In transistor devices of the invention, a low temperature, glow discharge is integral to the hybrid transistor. Example preferred devices include hybrid BJT and MOSFET devices.
US08525274B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a semiconductor, a first surface passivation film including nitride, a second passivation film, a gate electrode, and a source electrode and a drain electrode. The semiconductor layer is provided on the substrate. The first surface passivation film including nitride is provided on the semiconductor layer and has at least two openings. The second surface passivation film covers an upper surface and a side surface of the first surface passivation film. The gate electrode is provided on a part of the second surface passivation film. The source electrode and the drain electrode are respectively provided on the two openings. In addition, the second surface passivation film includes a material of which melting point is higher than the melting points of the gate electrode, the source electrode, and the drain electrode.
US08525271B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor structure with a channel stack includes forming a screening layer under a gate of a PMOS transistor element and a NMOS transistor element, forming a threshold voltage control layer on the screening layer, and forming an epitaxial channel layer on the threshold control layer. At least a portion of the epitaxial channel layers for the PMOS transistor element and the NMOS transistor element are formed as a common blanket layer. The screening layer for the PMOS transistor element may include antimony as a dopant material that may be inserted into the structure prior to or after formation of the epitaxial channel layer.
US08525266B2
A semiconductor body comprising a first connection for feeding an upper supply potential and a first and a second terminal cell, which are situated at a distance from each other. The semiconductor body further comprises an arrester structure, which is arranged between the first and second terminal cells in a p-doped substrate. The arrester structure comprises a first and a second p-channel field-effect transistor structure, each of which is set in a respective n-doped well substantially parallel to the first and second terminal cells, and a diode structure with a p-doped region set in a further n-doped well between the n-doped wells of the first and second p-channel field-effect transistor structures. The diode structure is designed to activate the first and second p-channel field-effect transistor structure as arrester elements during an electrostatic discharge in the semiconductor body.
US08525265B2
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit, suitable for an input stage circuit including a first N channel metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS) transistor, is provided. The ESD protection circuit includes an P channel metal oxide semiconductor (PMOS) transistor and an impedance device, in which the PMOS transistor has a source coupled to a gate of the first NMOS transistor, and a drain coupled to a source of the first NMOS transistor, and the impedance device is coupled between a gate of the PMOS transistor and a first power rail to perform a initial-on ESD protection circuit. The ESD protection circuit formed by the PMOS transistor and the resistor is capable of increasing the turn-on speed of the ESD protection circuit and preventing the input stage circuit from a CDM ESD event.
US08525258B2
The present invention discloses a method for controlling the impurity density distribution in semiconductor device and a semiconductor device made thereby. The control method includes the steps of: providing a substrate; defining a doped area which includes at least one first region; partially masking the first region by a mask pattern; and doping impurities in the doped area to form one integrated doped region in the first region, whereby the impurity concentration of the first region is lower than a case where the first region is not masked by the mask pattern.
US08525251B2
A nonvolatile programmable logic switch according to an embodiment includes: a memory cell transistor including: a first source region and a first drain region of a second conductivity type formed at a distance from each other in a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type; a first insulating film, a charge storage film, a second insulating film, and a control gate stacked in this order and formed on the first semiconductor region between the first source region and the first drain region; a pass transistor including: a second source region and a second drain region of a second conductivity type formed at a distance from each other in a second semiconductor region of the first conductivity type; a third insulating film, a gate electrode stacked in this order and formed on the second semiconductor region between the second source region and the second drain region, the gate electrode being electrically connected to the first drain region; and an electrode for applying a substrate bias to the first and second semiconductor regions.
US08525250B2
According to certain embodiments, a non-volatile memory device on a semiconductor substrate having a semiconductor surface layer comprises a channel region that extends in a first direction between the source and drain regions. The gate is disposed near the channel region and the memory element is disposed in between the channel region and the gate. The channel region is disposed within a beam-shaped semiconductor layer, with the beam-shaped semiconductor layer extending in the first direction between the source and drain regions and having lateral surfaces extending parallel to the first direction. The memory element comprises a charge-trapping stack so as to embed therein the beam-shaped semiconductor layer in a U-shaped form.
US08525248B2
Some embodiments include memory cells that contain floating bodies and diodes. The diodes may be gated diodes having sections doped to a same conductivity type as the floating bodies, and such sections of the gated diodes may be electrically connected to the floating bodies. The floating bodies may be adjacent channel regions, and spaced from the channel regions by a dielectric structure. The dielectric structure of a memory cell may have a first portion between the floating body and the diode, and may have a second portion between the floating body and the channel region. The first portion may be more leaky to charge carriers than the second portion. The diodes may be formed in semiconductor material that is different from a semiconductor material that the channel regions are in. The floating bodies may have bulbous lower regions. Some embodiments include methods of making memory cells.
US08525246B2
A non-volatile semiconductor storage device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a semiconductor layer formed on the semiconductor substrate; a first device isolation/insulation film formed in a trench, the trench formed in the semiconductor layer, with a first direction taken as a longitudinal direction; a device formation region formed by separating the semiconductor layer by the first device isolation/insulation film with the first direction taken as a longitudinal direction; and a memory transistor disposed on the device formation region. The first device isolation/insulation film and the device formation region have an impurity of a first conductivity type. An impurity concentration of the impurity of the first conductivity type in the first device isolation/insulation film is higher than that in the device formation region.
US08525242B2
A solid-state image pickup device including: a pixel region on a semiconductor substrate, the pixel region including: a sensor region for photoelectrically converting incident light; a vertical CCD formed on one side of the sensor region with a readout region interposed between the sensor region and the vertical CCD; and a channel stop region formed on a side opposite from the sensor region with the vertical CCD interposed between the sensor region and the channel stop region; and a vertical transfer electrode on the vertical CCD with an insulating film interposed between the vertical transfer electrode and the vertical CCD. The vertical transfer electrode is formed above the vertical CCD such that width of the vertical transfer electrode and width of a channel region of the vertical CCD are substantially equal to each other.
US08525233B1
A pnp SiGe heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) reduces the rate that p-type dopant atoms in the p+ emitter of the transistor out diffuse into a lowly-doped region of the base of the transistor by epitaxially growing the emitter to include a single-crystal germanium region and an overlying single-crystal silicon region.
US08525226B2
A field effect transistor having a channel, a gate, and a structure for decreasing a gate-to-channel capacitance of the transistor as an operating frequency of the transistor increases. The structure can comprise, for example, a barrier disposed between the gate and the channel, which has a dielectric permittivity and/or a conductivity that varies with an operating frequency of the transistor. In an embodiment, the barrier comprises a layer of conducting material, such as conducting polymer, conducting semiconductor, conducting semi-metal, amorphous silicon, polycrystalline silicon, and/or the like.
US08525225B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of electrodes arranged on a compound semiconductor layer grown on a substrate, and a surface protection film that protects a surface of a semiconductor layer on the compound semiconductor layer between the electrodes. A refractive index of the surface protection film is controlled so that a stress caused by the surface protection film on the surface of the semiconductor layer is minimized.
US08525216B2
A circuit structure includes a carrier substrate, which includes a first through-via and a second through-via. Each of the first through-via and the second through-via extends from a first surface of the carrier substrate to a second surface of the carrier substrate opposite the first surface. The circuit structure further includes a light-emitting diode (LED) chip bonded onto the first surface of the carrier substrate. The LED chip includes a first electrode and a second electrode connected to the first through-via and the second through-via, respectively.
US08525210B2
A vertical semiconductor light emitting device which can alleviate a concentration of current inside a semiconductor film without impairing the electrical connection between an ohmic electrode and the semiconductor film. The semiconductor light emitting device includes the semiconductor film in contact with a support; a first electrode for partially covering the surface of the semiconductor film opposite to the contact surface with the support; and a second electrode provided on the contact surface side of the semiconductor film with the support. The second electrode includes first and second transparent electrodes made of the mutually same metal oxide transparent electrical conductor and electrically connected to each other, and the second transparent electrode is located to be opposed to the first electrode with the semiconductor film interposed therebetween and has a higher contact resistance with the semiconductor film than the first transparent electrode does.
US08525183B2
A semiconductor display device is formed including an interlayer insulating. Specifically, a TFT is formed and then a nitrogen-containing inorganic insulating film that transmits less moisture compared to organic resin film is formed so as to cover the TFT. Next, organic resin including photosensitive acrylic resin is applied and an opening is formed by partially exposing the organic resin film to light. The organic resin film where the opening is formed, is then covered with a nitrogen-containing inorganic insulating film which transmits less moisture than organic resin film does. Thereafter, the gate insulating film and the two layers of the nitrogen-containing inorganic insulating films are partially etched away in the opening of the organic resin film to expose the active layer of the TFT.
US08525180B2
A thin film transistor (TFT) array panel includes: first and second pixel electrodes neighboring each other; a data line extending between the first and the second pixel electrodes; first and second gate lines extending perpendicularly to the data line; a first TFT including a first gate electrode connected to the first gate line, a first source electrode connected to the data line, and a first drain electrode facing the first source electrode and connected to the first pixel electrode; and a second TFT including a second gate electrode connected to the second gate line, a second source electrode connected to the data line, and a second drain electrode facing the second source electrode and connected to the second pixel electrode. The first source electrode has the same relative position with respect to the first drain electrode as the second source electrode with respect to the second drain electrode.
US08525168B2
A test probe head for probing integrated circuit (IC) chips and method of making test heads. The test head includes an array of vias (e.g., annular vias or grouped rectangular vias) through, and exiting one surface of, a semiconductor layer, e.g., a silicon layer. The vias, individual test probe tips, may be on a pitch at or less than fifty microns (50 μm). The probe tips may be stiffened with SiO2 (and optionally silicon) extending along the sidewalls. A redistribution layer connects individual test probe tips externally. The probe tips may be capped with a hardening cap that also caps stiffening SiO2 and silicon along the tip sidewall.
US08525158B2
The present invention relates to an anthracene derivative and an organic electroluminescent device using the same. More specifically, the present invention relates to: a novel compound which has a core (for example, an indenoanthracene core) where both an anthracene moiety with excellent device characteristics and a fluorene moiety with excellent fluorescent properties are fused, wherein substituents (for example, a heterocyclic group such as a benzimidazole group, a benzothiazole group, a benzoxazole group, a pyridinyl group or a bipyridinyl group) with an electron transfer capacity are substituted to the core; and an organic electroluminescence element which has improved luminous efficiency, brightness, thermal stability, driving voltage, and lifetime, by comprising an organic layer which is positioned between a positive electrode and negative electrode and contains the novel compound.
US08525154B2
Provided is a light-emitting device which has a simple structure and can be manufactured in a simple process, has increased light coupling efficiency and brightness, and can reduce adverse effects of optical resonance on a view angle and emission spectrum. The light-emitting device includes a substrate; a light-emitting diode formed on the substrate; and an optical resonance layer formed outside the light-emitting diode that induces resonance of light emitted from the light-emitting diode.
US08525151B2
Embodiments of an apparatus and methods of providing a quantum well device for improved parallel conduction are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US08525145B2
Phase change memory elements, devices and systems using the same and methods of forming the same are disclosed. A memory element includes first and second electrodes, and a phase change material layer between the first and second electrodes. The phase change material layer has a first portion with a width less than a width of a second portion of the phase change material layer. The first electrode, second electrode and phase change material layer may be oriented at least partially along a same horizontal plane.
US08525144B2
A device comprises a heater, a dielectric layer, a phase-change element, and a capping layer. The dielectric layer is disposed at least partially on the heater and defines an opening having a lower portion and an upper portion. The phase-change element occupies the lower portion of the opening and is in thermal contact with the heater. The capping layer overlies the phase-change element and occupies the upper portion of the opening. At least a fraction of the phase-change element is operative to change between lower and higher electrical resistance states in response to an application of an electrical signal to the heater.
US08525123B2
An ultra low-k dielectric material layer is formed on a semiconductor substrate. In one embodiment, a grid of wires is placed at a distance above a top surface of the ultra low-k dielectric material layer and is electrically biased such that the total electron emission coefficient becomes 1.0 at the energy of electrons employed in electron beam curing of the ultra low-k dielectric material layer. In another embodiment, a polymeric conductive layer is formed directly on the ultra low-k dielectric material layer and is electrically biased so that the total electron emission coefficient becomes 1.0 at the energy of electrons employed in electron beam curing of the ultra low-k dielectric material layer. By maintaining the total electron emission coefficient at 1.0, charging of the substrate is avoided, thus protecting any device on the substrate from any adverse changes in electrical characteristics.
US08525122B2
An imaging detector includes processing electronics (208) with a thermal coefficient about equal to a negative of a summation of thermal coefficients of a photosensor array (204) and a scintillator array (202) of the detector. In another instance, the imaging detector includes an A/D converter (302) that alternately converts first charge corresponding to impinging radiation into a first signal and second charge corresponding to decaying charge into a second signal and a logic unit (308) that corrects the first signal based on the second signal. In another instance, the imaging detector includes an A/D converter (302), an integrator offset voltage signal determiner (318), and a logic unit (308), wherein the determiner (318) induces an electrical current via an offset voltage, the A/D converter (302) measures the current, and the logic unit (308) calculates a resistance of the photosensor array (204) based on the reference voltage and the measured current.
US08525120B2
A light emitting film is transferred to a light emitting plate serving as a transfer destination member, by a transfer method. The light emitting plate contains a first scintillator material for detecting β ray. The light emitting film includes a protective layer, a light tight layer and a light emitting layer. The light emitting layer contains an adhesive material, and a second scintillator material added thereto for detecting α ray. The light emitting film may be directly formed on a surface of a transparent member, a light receiving surface of a photomultiplier tube or the like by a transfer method. The light tight layer and the light emitting layer are arranged between the protective layer and the transfer destination member, and thus the light tight layer and the light emitting layer are protected physically.
US08525118B2
In a disclosed imaging method, the instantaneous speed or data acquisition dwell times of a detector head is optimized as a function of position along a path of the detector head around a subject. The optimization is respective to an expected radioactive emission profile of a region of interest that is less than the entire subject. The detector head is traversed along the path using the optimized instantaneous speed or data acquisition dwell times. During the traversing, imaging data are acquired using the detector head. The acquired imaging data are reconstructed to generate a reconstructed image of at least the region of interest. A gamma camera configured to perform the foregoing imaging method is also disclosed.
US08525117B2
Multiplexing for radiation imaging is provided by using optical delay combiners to provide distinct optical encoding for each detector channel. Each detector head provides an optical output which is encoded. The encoded optical signals can be optically combined to provide a single optical output for all of the detectors in the system. This single optical output can be coupled to a fast photodetector (e.g., a streak camera). The pulse readout from the photodetector can decode the arrival time of the event, the energy of the event, and which channels registered the detection event. Preferably, the detector heads provide coherent optical outputs, and the optical delay combiners are preferably implemented using photonic crystal technology to provide photonic integrated circuits including many delay combiners.
US08525114B2
The present invention may include methods and apparatus for the detection of explosives using near infrared or infrared spectroscopy to detect nitro or even carbonyl groups. Embodiments may include, at least one radiation emitter may emit at least one wavelength towards a target. At least one reflected wavelength may be generated after the wavelength collides with the target. A reflected wavelength may then be detected by at least one detector and analyzed with an analyzer.
US08525112B2
A method and associated apparatus for topographically characterizing a workpiece. The workpiece is scanned with a scanning probe along a first directional grid, thereby scanning a reference surface and an area of interest subportion of the reference surface, at a variable pixel density including a first pixel density outside the area of interest and a second pixel density inside the area of interest to derive a first digital file characterizing topography of the workpiece. The workpiece is further scanned along the reference surface and the area of interest with the scanning probe along a second directional grid that is substantially orthogonal to the first directional grid and at a constant pixel density to derive a second digital file characterizing topography of the workpiece. A processor executes computer-readable instructions stored in memory that generate a topographical profile of the workpiece in relation to the first and second digital files.
US08525103B2
A method for estimating a property of an earth formation, the method includes: conveying a carrier through a borehole penetrating the earth formation; irradiating the formation with neutrons from a neutron source disposed at the carrier; detecting a first signal from the formation due to the irradiating using a first radiation detector, the first signal being related to a saturation of a fluid in the formation; detecting a second signal from an element in the formation due to the irradiating using a second radiation detector, the second signal being related to an element emitting the second signal in the formation; and estimating the property from the first signal and the second signal.
US08525099B2
Methods and systems may include a motion sensor and logic to sample an output signal of the motion sensor. The logic can also be configured to track an amount of time the motion sensor is triggered based on the output signal, and transmit the amount of time over a wireless link on a periodic basis.
US08525085B2
The melter includes a vessel and structure for introducing waste material into the vessel. Waveguide structure is provided for introducing millimeter wave electromagnetic radiation into the vessel to heat the waste material. A gyrotron is a preferred source for the millimeter wave electromagnetic radiation.
US08525078B2
A welding gun precludes moisture from penetrating inside of a motor housing due by preventing development of negative pressure inside the motor housing. The welding gun includes a feed screw mechanism that is coupled to a servo motor and has a hollow rod that reciprocally moves in a predetermined direction by way of torque applied by the servo motor, and a moveable electrode tip that is connected to a leading end portion of the hollow rod and opens and closes relative to a fixed electrode tip according to the reciprocal movement of the hollow rod. The servo motor has a motor housing in which a motor housing hollow part accommodating a portion of the hollow rod to be reciprocally moveable is formed. A vent that ventilates the motor housing hollow part with ambient air is formed in the motor housing.
US08525077B2
Welding systems and programming tools are described, in which a touch screen-based welding system configuration tool is provided having a touch screen display for designing welding power source waveforms or for configuring a system sequence controller, where the touch screen may be integrated into a welding system component. The touch screen displays information related to a switching type welding power source and/or a welding system sequence controller, as well as one or more touch activation indicia to allow a user to numerically or graphically configure the power source or the sequence controller by touching the touch activation indicia.
US08525072B2
By irradiating laser light 20 obliquely onto a substrate 6, the laser soldering apparatus reduces the laser light passing through an insertion hole 61a in the substrate 6 and prevents damage to low-heat-resistance portions of a component 62 disposed on the rear surface side of the substrate 6. Moreover, the substrate 6 can be observed from a normal direction with a camera 23. Therefore, even if the insertion hole 61 for inserting a component lead or the like is provided in the substrate 6, the laser light does not leak out to the side of a component mounting surface 17 of the substrate 6.
US08525059B2
A handpiece for a medical instrumentation device is formed with manually deformable ribs on an outer sleeve. The ribs align with conductive surfaces inside the handpiece that make contact with an internal flexible electronic circuit to activate the device when force is applied to the ribs. Removing the force deactivates the device.
US08525044B2
Contactless payment cards with on-card microchips are transported in mailers with RF shielding. The RF shielding is designed to prevent communication with and skimming of information from the contactless cards enclosed in the mailers while in transit.
US08525025B2
A direct current cable termination apparatus for terminating a high voltage direct current cable. The apparatus includes a current-carrying device including a terminal portion of the direct current cable, the cable including an electrical conductor, an electrically insulating layer located outside of the electrical conductor, and a conductive shield located outside of the insulating layer and the electrical conductor; and a housing including a tubular outer shell with an inner periphery and formed by an electrically insulating and polymer-containing material. The current-carrying device is adapted to extend in the axial direction of the outer shell. Along at least a part of the axial extension of the current-carrying device the outer shell extends axially with a space between its inner periphery and the current-carrying device.
US08525023B2
A cooled current lead for conducting electrical current into a cooled vessel. The current lead comprises an electrical conductor (22) comprising a region (29) which, in use, is heated by electrical current flowing through it; a cooled component (31) situated above a the region (29) and which is provided with a path for removal of heat; and a thermo-siphon comprising a cavity (35) in thermal contact with both the region of the electrical conductor and the cooled component, said cavity containing a fluid (35).
US08525019B2
A method for forming a reduced conductive area in transparent conductive. The method includes providing a transparent, electrically conductive, chemically reducible material. A reducing atmosphere is provided and concentrated electromagnetic energy from an energy source is directed toward a portion of the transparent, electrically conductive, chemically reducible material to form a reduced conductive area. The reduced conductive area has greater electrical conductivity than the transparent, electrically conductive, chemically reducible material. A thin film article and photovoltaic module are also disclosed.
US08525018B2
A solar cell is discussed. The solar cell includes a substrate of a first conductive type, an emitter region of a second conductive type opposite the first conductive type that is positioned on the substrate, a first field region of the first conductive type that is positioned on the substrate to be separated from the emitter region, a first electrode electrically connected to the emitter region, a second electrode electrically connected to the first field region, and an insulating region positioned on at least one of the emitter region and the first field region.
US08525012B1
A system and method are provided for mixing song data based on measure groupings. A player or program may recognize measure groupings in a song through identifying cuepoints. The player or program may use the cuepoints and/or other identifiers of measure groupings to generate a transition between the song and other songs. Parts of one or both songs may be time-stretched, or frames may be added or deleted, such that the beats in both songs are substantially aligned during the transition. The system and method may also involve altering the sequence of frames in one or both of the songs, so that the transition may have various sonic qualities as desired by a user. A choice of transition modes may be provided via a user interface that allow the user some control over when and how transitions between songs are executed.
US08525006B2
An input device including: a first operation detecting section which is provided on one stick and detects acceleration based on movement of the one stick; a second operation detecting section which is provided on an other stick and detects acceleration based on movement of the other stick; a first strike judging section which judges whether or not the one stick and the other stick have struck against one another, based on the acceleration detected by the first operation detecting section and the acceleration detected by the second operation detecting section; and an instructing section which instructs to produce a sound corresponding to striking of the one stick and the other stick against one another, when the first strike judging section judges that the one stick and the other stick have struck against one another.
US08525003B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV126318. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV126318, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV126318 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV126318 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV126318.
US08524997B1
A novel maize variety designated PH1CRD and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH1CRD with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH1CRD through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PH1CRD or a locus conversion of PH1CRD with another maize variety.
US08524995B1
Basically, this invention provides for an inbred corn line designated NPAF3107, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line NPAF3107, with plants of another corn plant. The invention relates to the various parts of inbred NPAF3107, including culturable cells. This invention also relates to methods for introducing transgenic transgenes into inbred corn line NPAF3107, and plants produced by said methods.
US08524993B2
A celery cultivar, designated ADS-20, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of celery cultivar ADS-20, to the plants of celery cultivar ADS-20 and to methods for producing a celery plant by crossing the cultivar ADS-20 with itself or another celery cultivar. The invention further relates to methods for producing a celery plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic celery plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to celery cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from celery cultivar ADS-20, to methods for producing other celery cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from celery cultivar ADS-20 and to the celery plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid celery seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar ADS-20 with another celery cultivar.
US08524991B2
The invention provides seed and plants of pepper hybrid PX11435810 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid PX11435810 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a pepper plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another pepper plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
US08524988B1
The present invention is in the field of soybean variety NE0912636 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety NE0912636 and its progeny, and methods of making NE0912636.
US08524986B1
A novel soybean variety, designated XB56R11 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XB56R11, cells from soybean variety XB56R11, plants of soybean XB56R11, and plant parts of soybean variety XB56R11. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XB56R11 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XB56R11, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XB56R11, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XB56R11. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XB56R11 are further provided.
US08524982B1
According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated XB22B08. This invention thus relates to the seeds of soybean variety XB22B08, to the plants of soybean XB22B08 to plant parts of soybean variety XB22B08 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing plants of the soybean variety XB22B08 with another soybean plant, using XB22B08 as either the male or the female parent.
US08524981B2
According to the invention, there is provided a novel romaine lettuce cultivar, designated Solid King. ‘Solid King’ is described as a vigorous romaine cultivar with large frame size and heavier weight, short core length, savoyed and glossy leaf color, corky root rot resistance, no fringe burn on mature leaves and also yellower heart leaf color with a solid mid rib. This invention thus relates to the seeds of lettuce cultivar Solid King, to the plants of lettuce cultivar Solid King, to plant parts of lettuce cultivar Solid King, to methods for producing a lettuce cultivar by crossing the lettuce cultivar Solid King with another lettuce cultivar, and to methods for producing a lettuce cultivar containing in its genetic material one or more backcross conversion traits or transgenes and to the backcross conversion lettuce plants and plant parts produced by those methods.
US08524969B2
A method for the dehydrogenation of hydrocarbons to alkenes, such as n-pentene to piperylene and n-butane to butadiene at pressures less than atmospheric utilizing a dehydrogenation catalyst are disclosed. Embodiments involve operating the dehydrogenation reactor at a pressure of 1,000 mbar or less.
US08524963B2
Solid supported organoiridium catalysts, a process for preparing such solid supported organoiridium catalysts, and the use of such solid supported organoiridium catalysts in dehydrogenation reactions of alkanes is provided. The catalysts can be easily recovered and recycled.
US08524951B2
Disclosed is a process for producing 1-hydroxy-4-aminoadamantane.
US08524946B2
A production method of a compound containing a primary, secondary, or tertiary aminomethyl aromatic ring of the present invention includes: using a fluoroboron compound or a dimer thereof, or solvates thereof, which are represented by a formula (I): Ra(Rb)N—CH2—BF3M (I) as an aminomethylating agent for an aromatic ring; and reacting the aminomethylating agent with an aromatic ring-containing compound, which can react with the aminomethylating agent, under the presence of a metal catalyst such as a palladium compound so as to perform the direct aminomethylation of the aromatic ring.
US08524921B2
The invention relates to a tetracarboxylic dianhydride represented by the following formula (1). [In formula (1) R1, R2, R3 and R4 each independently represent an alkyl group having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms, m represents a number from 1 to 30, all of the silicon atoms bonding to the norbornane rings are in an exo-configuration with respect to the norbornane rings, and all of the dicarboxylic anhydride groups bonding to the norbornane rings are in an exo-configuration with respect to the norbornane rings.]
US08524916B2
The present invention relates to novel dithiinetetra(thio)carboximides, to processes for preparing these compounds, to compositions comprising these compounds, and to the use thereof as biologically active compounds, especially for control of harmful microorganisms in crop protection and in the protection of materials and as plant growth regulators.
US08524907B2
Novel methods of preparing a compound of Formula I which is an inhibitor of Factor Xa and its maleate salt, are described herein.
US08524895B2
The present invention provides a method for preparing amides, in which an amino acid ionic liquid is used as both a reaction medium and a catalyst to catalyze Beckman rearrangement of a ketoxime, so as to produce an amide. In the method, the rearrangement is conducted by catalyzing a ketoxime with an amino acid ionic liquid having the asymmetric property at a moderate reaction temperature during a short reaction time, so as to produce an amide without adding other catalysts such as concentrate sulfuric acid. The method has advantages such as avoiding corrosion in equipments with pipelines, the high conversion rate of ketoximes and the high selectivity of amides.
US08524886B2
An outer layer having an entanglement comprising an intermingling of cloaked hydrophilic guest and a hydrophobic polymer host, wherein molecules of the guest have been crosslinked with each other. Under certain circumstances, using complexes of the guest may be desirable or even necessary. The intermingling of the guest and host includes a physical tangling, whether it also comprises crosslinking by primary bonding (e.g., chemical/covalent bonding) there-between. Also a method of producing an outer layer having such an entanglement, including the steps of: temporarily cloaking at least a portion of the hydrophilic groups of the guest; intermingling at least a portion of the cloaked groups with a porous polymeric structure by diffusing the guest with cloaked groups into at least a portion of the structure's pores; within the pores, crosslinking at least a portion of the molecules of the guest with the guest; and removing the cloaking. Cloaking may be performed by silylation or acylation. Intermingling may be performed by producing a mixture of guest and host (whether in solution, powdered, granular, etc., form); next, a crosslinking of the guest with itself is performed; then, the mixture is molded into the outer layer.
US08524879B2
The present invention is directed to small interfering RNA molecules (siRNA) targeted against nucleic acid sequence that encodes huntingtin or ataxin-1, and methods of using these siRNA molecules.
US08524878B1
This disclosure features methods of identifying an organism. In certain embodiments, the invention provides methods of distinguishing virulent and non-virulent strains of Listeria monocytogenes.
US08524877B2
The present invention provides oligonucleotide probes and oligonucleotide probe collections for detecting or localizing a plurality nucleic acid target genes within a cell or tissue sample. Specifically, the invention provides collections of oligonucleotide probes for use in in situ hybridization analyses in which each probe has a label-domain with the sequence formulas of (CTATTTT)nCT, (AAAATAG)n or (TTTTATC)n or (GATAAAA)n in which all cases “n” would equal 1 or greater. The present invention also provides collections or “cocktails” of oligonucleotide probes for detecting or localizing specific nucleic acid target genes within a cell or tissue sample.
US08524865B2
Anti-CD22 antibodies and immunoconjugates thereof are provided. Methods of using anti-CD22 antibodies and immunoconjugates thereof are provided.
US08524863B2
The invention relates provides a novel crystal structure of the fibrillogenic part of amyloid β-peptide (Aβ). More specifically the crystal structure is Aβ-IgNAR and, accordingly the present invention also relates to selecting and/or designing compounds that modulate amyloid β-peptide (Aβ) activity using techniques such as in silico screening and crystal soaking experiments. The invention further relates to compounds and methods for inhibiting interaction between amyloid β-peptide (Aβ) monomers, more particularly, inhibiting or disrupting amyloid β-peptide (Aβ) oligomer formation and toxic activity.
US08524862B2
The present invention refers to muteins of the C5a anaphylatoxin (C5a) which are C5a receptor antagonists, to nucleic acid molecules comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding such muteins of C5a anaphylatoxin, to host cells containing a nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding such muteins of the C5a anaphylatoxin as well as to a pharmaceutical composition comprising a mutein of the C5a anaphylatoxin acting as a C5a receptor antagonists. A mutein of the invention is a C5a receptor antagonist wherein the amino acid residue naturally occurring at sequence position 69 is mutated.
US08524859B2
In the production of isobutylene-based elastomers the product obtained from the polymerization process is often in the form of a stream. Described herein are an apparatus and a process for removal of hydrocarbon liquids from the elastomer. The process comprises the steps of obtaining a stream comprising hydrocarbon liquids, either solvents or diluents, and an isobutylene-based elastomer; passing the stream through a kneader to volatize the hydrocarbon liquids from the elastomer.
US08524852B2
Golf balls containing at least one layer made from a thermoset polyurethane or polyurethane-urea that is the reaction product of a polyisocyanate with moisture-resistant polyol and a curing agent are provided. The moisture-resistant polyol may be prepared by dimerizing unsaturated aliphatic monocarboxylic acid or ester containing 10 to 60 carbon atoms followed by reacting it with a monomeric, oligomeric, or polymeric diol. In one preferred version, the moisture-resistant polyol is a branched polyester polyol containing 36 carbon atoms. The composition can be prepared using prepolymer or one-shot manufacturing techniques. The thermoset composition has good cross-link density. The resulting golf ball has desirable playing performance properties including high resiliency, toughness, impact durability, moisture-resistance, and soft feel.
US08524836B2
A pre-adhesive syrup copolymer composition comprising an acid functional acrylate solute copolymer, a monomer solvent mixture, and a polyaziridine crosslinking agent is disclosed.
US08524834B2
Disclosed are solvent borne thermosetting coating compositions that contain a curable polyester resin blended with an acrylic copolymer, a crosslinker, and a solvent. The polyester resin contains 2,2,4,4-tetramethyl-1,3-cyclobutanediol and exhibits good dry time, compatibility with acrylic resins, sag resistance and hardness development in a coating composition. The coating compositions can be used to prepare clear coat or pigmented coatings for automotive OEM, auto refinish, and other applications.
US08524827B2
Method for stabilizing polyvinylpyrrolidones, which comprises treating the polyvinylpyrrolidones with sulfur dioxide, sulfurous acid or alkali metal sulfites and then with free-radical scavenger, and converting the solutions treated in this way into the powdered polyvinylpyrrolidones by drying.
US08524826B2
The invention relates to acrylic alloy compositions that are transparent and have excellent chemical and impact resistance. The acrylic alloy is especially useful in bio-pharmaceutical and medical applications in which the composition needs a resistance to isopropyl alcohol, lipids and impact. The acrylic alloy containing is a melt blend of a high molecular weight acrylic copolymer, polyvinylidene fluoride, optional impact modifier and other additives.
US08524817B2
The present invention relates to plasticizer preparations based on benzoic ester with monohydric alcohols and aryl alkanesulphonates and use of these as plasticizers in plastics.
US08524815B2
Flame retardant thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) compositions are disclosed having a flame retardant package comprising an organo-phosphinate component, an organo-phosphate component, and a polyhydric alcohol. The flame retardant components may be present in an amount from about 5 to about 40 weight percent of the phosphinate compound; from about 5 to about 20 weight percent of the phosphate compound, and from about 0.1 to about 15 weight percent of the polyhydric alcohol, based on the total weight of the TPU composition. Processes are disclosed to make the TPU compositions and to make wire and cable constructions employing the TPU compositions as the jacket of the wire and cable constructions. The TPU compositions exhibit excellent flame retardant capabilities as measured by Limited Oxygen Index testing and/or UL 94 Vertical Burn tests.
US08524814B2
The present invention provides for compounds comprising at least one phosphonate or phosphinate moiety; and at least one moiety selected from an aromatic nitroso or an aromatic nitroso precursor and combinations thereof. Adhesive compositions comprising the compounds may find utility in bonding polymers to metal and or hydroxylated surfaces such as glass. Suitable polymers include natural and synthetic rubbers. The aromatic nitroso precursor may be a nitrosobenzene precursor such as at least one of a quinone dioxime or a quinone oxime.
US08524809B2
This invention provides stable aqueous compositions including stable coating compositions, and methods of their production. The stable aqueous compositions and stable aqueous coating compositions comprise i) an aqueous dispersion of one or more emulsion-polymerized addition polymer comprising polymerized units of one or more carboxylester monomer, wherein at least one carboxylester monomer is a vinyl ester monomer; ii) one or more carboxylesterase enzyme; iii) one or more mono-alcohol with a formula molecular weight of less than 76; iv) optionally, acetaldehyde; and v) optionally, one or more organic carboxylester with a normal boiling point of less than 150° C.; and wherein the aqueous composition has a headspace volatile organic compound (VOC) content, as measured by headspace gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) at 33° C., characterized by a content of less than 10 ppm of acetaldehyde, and less than 10 ppm of the one or more organic carboxylester, and more than 50 ppm of the one or more mono-alcohol. Preferably, the ester hydrolysis activity in the composition is less than 0.010 micromole/minute.
US08524805B2
The invention pertains to a particle comprising a composition containing a matrix and a peroxide or azo radical initiator, wherein the particle is a fiber or fibrid selected from aramid, polyester, polyamide, cellulose, and glass. The invention further relates to particle-elastomers comprising said composition, and skim products, tires, tire treads, and belts comprising these particle-elastomers.
US08524795B2
A radiation curable ink composition has improved adhesion towards rigid recording media, good jetting behavior and no or minimal health and safety risks. The radiation curable ink has a viscosity of 30 mPa·s, or less, at 50° C., has at least two monofunctional monomers, the two monofunctional monomers including a first monomer selected from an N-vinyl amide and a second monofunctional monomer being isobornyl acrylate, a difunctional acrylate monomer being propoxylated (or ethoxylated) neopentyl glycol di acrylate (SR 9003), at least one multifunctional monomer selected from the group consisting of a trifunctional acrylate monomer, a tetrafunctional acrylate monomer, a pentafunctional acrylate monomer, a trifunctional epoxide monomer, a tetrafunctional epoxide monomer, a pentafunctional epoxide monomer, a trifunctional oxetane monomer, a tetrafunctional oxetane monomer, a pentafunctional oxetane monomer, a trifunctional vinylether monomer, a tetrafunctional vinylether monomer and a pentafunctional vinylether monomer, the ink further includes at least one photoinitiator and a colorant.
US08524793B2
A composition comprising at least the following: A) an interpolymer comprising, in polymerized form, ethylene, an α-olefin and a nonconjugated polyene, and wherein the interpolymer comprises less than, or equal to, 5 weight percent of the polyene, based on the total amount of polymerized monomers, and wherein the interpolymer has a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) less than 3; B) an interpolymer comprising, in polymerized form, ethylene, an α-olefin and a nonconjugated polyene, and wherein the interpolymer comprises greater than, or equal to, 5 weight percent of the polyene, based on the total amount of polymerized monomer; and wherein the total polyene content is less than 7 weight percent.
US08524788B2
An exemplary method for producing a catalyst is provided where the catalyst includes a catalyst support on which a metallic compound is loaded. An impurity content of the catalyst can be in a range of approximately 0.01 mass % to 0.15 mass %. In particular, the exemplary method can include pre-treating the catalyst support to lower an impurity concentration of the catalyst support, and loading the metallic compound on the catalyst support after the pretreatment procedure.
US08524787B2
The disclosure relates to petrochemistry, gas chemistry, coal chemistry, particularly to a synthesis of hydrocarbons C5 and higher from CO and H2 under the Fischer-Tropsch reaction; the invention relates to a process and a system for producing synthetic liquid hydrocarbons. A process for producing synthetic liquid hydrocarbons is provided by catalytic converting syngas under the Fischer-Tropsch reaction on a fixed catalyst bed in a vertical shell and tube reactor with coolant supply into shell wherein as soon as the syngas conversion degree achieves 60-80%, a pressure gradient along the tubes is reduced below 0.1 bar/m and this value is maintained during the whole process. A reactor for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis is provided comprising tubes with catalyst in a shell, the ratio of the tube diameter at the tube outlet to the diameter at the inlet is from 1.5/1 to 2.5/1. The invention gives a possibility to achieve the optimum temperature range in the catalyst bed; it improves heat and mass-transfer and shut out an accumulation of the liquid products in the bottom of the tubes.
US08524782B2
The present invention provides a scalable process for the preparation of stilbenes by (i) condensing 3,5-dialkylbenzyl phosphonates with 4′-O-tetrahydropyranyl benzaldehyde to get 3,5-alkyl-4′-O-tetrahydropyranyl Stilbene and (ii) deprotecting the obtained 3,5-Dialkyl-4′-O-tetrahydropyranylstilbene to yield stilbenes. The present invention also provides a novel intermediate 3,5-Dialkyl-4′-O-tetrahydropyranyl stilbene, which is a key intermediate for the synthesis of stilbenes such as Pterostilbene and Resveratrol. The present invention also provides characteristics of various solid forms of Pterostilbene, methods for their preparation, as well as dosage forms containing the same for administration to or consumption by humans.
US08524778B2
The present invention pertains generally to the field of therapeutic compounds, and more specifically to certain aryl sulfonamides and related compounds (collectively referred to herein as ‘BPSAAA compounds’), as described herein, and including, for example, biphenyl-4-sulfonic acid (hydroxyalkyl-phenyl)-amides and related compounds. 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, in treatment and/or prevention, for example, of inflammation and/or joint destruction and/or bone loss; of disorders mediated by excessive and/or inappropriate and/or prolonged activation of the immune system; of, inflammatory and autoimmune disorders, for example, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), atherosclerosis, inflammatory bowel disease, ankylosing spondylitis, and the like; of disorders associated with bone loss, such as bone loss associated with excessive osteoclast activation in rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis, cancer associated bone disease, Paget's disease and the like.
US08524769B2
The invention relates to a process for producing a fraction enriched upto 100% of 3-O-acetyl-11-keto-β-boswellic acid. An organic solvent extract of gum resin from Boswellia species is first subjected to oxidation and then acetylation or vice versa. This converts the less potent boswellic acids present in the fraction to AKBA. This treated fraction is subjected to further purification and separation by chromatographic separation techniques to enhance its purity and to remove contaminants therefrom. This process provide an access to a fraction enriched in 10-100% AKBA for therapeutic applications.
US08524768B2
Antioxidant compositions for the treatment and prophylaxis of illnesses associated with oxidative stress and lack of oxygen in the human body, comprising a complex of a metal selected from the group consisting of iron, copper, zinc and manganese with rutin and ascorbic acid and/or dihydroascorbic acid. Methods for synthesizing the antioxidant compositions and granulates, tablets and capsules containing antioxidant compositions are also provided.
US08524767B2
Compounds of the present invention and pharmaceutically acceptable compositions thereof, are useful as modulators of ATP-Binding Cassette (“ABC”) transporters or fragments thereof, including Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (“CFTR”). The present invention also relates to methods of treating ABC transporter mediated diseases using compounds of the present invention.
US08524760B2
The present invention provides compounds, pharmaceutically acceptable compositions thereof, and methods of using the same.
US08524757B2
The present invention is related to novel benzimidazole compounds of formula (I) having cannabinoid receptor agonistic properties, pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, chemical processes for preparing these compounds and their use in the treatment of diseases linked to the mediation of the cannabinoid receptors in animals, in particular humans.
US08524756B2
The invention relates to compounds of formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, clathrate, or prodrug thereof wherein X, Y, A, Z, L and n are defined herein. These compounds are useful as immunosuppressive agents and for treating and preventing inflammatory conditions and immune disorders.
US08524755B2
Compositions, such as pharmaceutical compositions, comprising specific diarylhydantoin and diarylthiohydantoin compounds, or salts or solvates thereof, are provided. Isolated and purified forms of the compounds are also described, as are unit dosage forms, compositions of substantially pure compound and kits comprising the compounds. The compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof may find use in the prevention and/or treatment of a variety of conditions, including prostate cancer, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and others.
US08524753B2
Novel compounds of formula 1 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof inhibit cytochrome P450 monooxygenase.
US08524747B2
The object of the present invention is to provide a pharmaceutical composition that inhibits expression of iNOS and COX-2 without inhibiting NF-κB. The pharmaceutical composition that inhibits expression of iNOS and COX-2 without inhibiting NF-κB contains DTCM glutarimide of the Formula (I) as an effective ingredient, thereby being able to inhibit nitric oxide (NO) production and prostaglandin production.
US08524743B2
Bis(difluoromethyl)pyrazole derivatives of the formula (I) in which the symbols R1, X and G are each as defined in the description, and agrochemically active salts, metal complexes and N-oxides thereof, and use thereof for controlling phytopathogenic harmful fungi, and also processes for preparing compounds of the formula (I).
US08524732B2
Compounds of the formula (I), in which R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, X, Y, W, Q1, Q2, Z, s and m have the meanings indicated in Claim 1, can be employed, inter alia, for the treatment of tumors.
US08524731B2
The invention provides methods of attenuating, e.g., inhibiting or reducing, cellular proliferation and migration, particularly endothelial cell proliferation and migration, including that associated with angiogenesis, using opioid antagonists, including, but not limited to, those that are peripherally restricted antagonists.
US08524730B2
The invention relates to a compound of a general formula (I): wherein A represents a linking group; Ar1 represents a group formed from an aromatic ring; R1 and R2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a cyano group, a C2-C6 alkenyl group, a C1-C6 alkoxy group, a halo-C1-C6 alkoxy group, a cyclo-C3-C6 alkyloxy group, a C2-C7 alkanoyl group, a halo-C2-C7 alkanoyl group, a C2-C7 alkoxycarbonyl group, a halo-C2-C7 alkoxycarbonyl group, a cyclo-C3-C6 alkyloxycarbonyl group, an aralkyloxycarbonyl group, a carbamoyl-C1-C6 alkoxy group, a carboxy-C2-C6 alkenyl group, or a group of -Q1-N(Ra)-Q2-Rb; a C1-C6 alkyl group optionally having substituent(s); an aryl or heterocyclic group optionally having substituent(s); or a C1-C6 alkyl group or a C2-C6 alkenyl group having the aryl or heterocyclic group; T and U each independently represent a nitrogen atom or a methine group; and V represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or an imino group. The compound of the invention is useful as therapeutical agents for various ACC-related diseases.
US08524716B2
The present invention relates to inhibitors of HCV replication of formula (I), the N-oxide forms, the pharmaceutically acceptable addition salts, the quaternary amines and the stereochemically isomeric forms thereof, wherein R1; R3; and R4 have the meaning defined in the claims. The present invention also relates to processes for preparing said compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in HCV therapy.
US08524710B2
The invention relates to a compound of formula (I) wherein A1 to A4 and R1 to R6 are defined as in the description and in the claims. The compound of formula (I) can be used, for example, as inhibitors of the cysteine protease cathepsin.
US08524708B2
The present invention provides methods of use of oxadiazoanthracene derivatives of the formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein A, B, C, R, R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are as herein described, and wherein said methods of use include uses for the treatment and/or prevention of disorders and diseases, such as diabetes.
US08524700B2
The disclosure relates to tetrahydroisoquinoline sulfonamide compounds of formula I: wherein R1, R2, n and B are as defined in the disclosure, their preparation and their use in therapies for the treatment of central nervous system diseases such as vigilance and sleep disorders, narcolepsy, Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, Parkinson's disease, attention disorders in hyperkinetic children, memory and learning disorders, epilepsy, schizophrenia, moderate cognitive disorders, depression, anxiety, sexual dysfunction, dizziness and travel sickness.
US08524693B2
The invention relates to processes for obtaining steroids with a spirolactone group in position 17, particularly to industrially obtaining 6β,7β; 15β,16β-dimethylene-3-oxo-17α-pregn-4-ene-21,17-carbolactone, commonly known as Drospirenone, as well as to intermediates useful in said process.
US08524686B2
Provided is a composition for prophylaxis or treatment of an eye disease comprising a compound represented by General Formula I: S-(MS)p-(MS)q General Formula I wherein S represents sialic acid, and (MS)p and (MS)q independently represent a monosaccharide residue. The compound used as the active ingredient inhibits expression of MMP-9 and inflammation-mediated cytokines (IL-1β, TNF-α, etc.) in corneal epithelial cells and inhibits VEGF-mediated VEGFR-2 activation in human retinal endothelial cells (HREC), thereby exhibiting prophylactic or therapeutic activity for eye diseases such as dry eye syndrome, inflammatory eye disease, neovascularization-associated eye disease and side effects of wearing of contact lenses. Also, because it has no cytotoxicity or skin side effect, the provided composition may be safely used as a pharmaceutical composition, a neutraceutical composition or a food composition. In addition, the composition may be used as a cleaner or a lubricant for contact lenses since it has nonbacterial antiinflammatory activity and ocular contact lubricating activity.
US08524685B1
Preparation of nano-conjugated Tunicamycin enhances the efficacy of the drug Tunicamycin. The invention provides several nanoformulations such as Tunicamycin encapsulated in peptide nanotubes, nanotubes bound to gold nanoparticles conjugated with Tunicamycin, Tunicamycin conjugated with nanotubes, gold nanoparticles bound to tubes and conjugated with Tunicamycin, and gold nanoparticles conjugated with Tunicamycin.
US08524681B2
Modification formats having modified nucleotides are provided for siRNA. Short interfering RNA having modification formats and modified nucleotides provided herein reduce off-target effects in RNA interference of endogenous genes. Further modification formatted siRNAs are demonstrated to be stabilized to nuclease-rich environments. Unexpectedly, increasing or maintaining strand bias, while necessary to maintain potency for endogenous RNA interference, is not sufficient for reducing off-target effects in cell biology assays.
US08524673B2
A pharmaceutical formulation for a PKC modulatory peptide and a transport moiety comprising the aforementioned components and an anti-aggregant.
US08524664B2
The present invention provides methods of treating overproduction of cortisol in a subject by administering to the subject a peptide that antagonizes adrenocorticotropin hormone (ACTH) to block the activation of melanocortin 2 receptors.
US08524656B2
A conjugate protein comprising a GM-CSF or a fragment thereof and a truncated CCL2 is described. The conjugate protein has unexpected immune suppressive, anti-obesity and tumoricidal properties and is useful in a variety of therapeutic applications.
US08524652B2
The invention pertains to methods for using chimeric polypeptides of the formula: B-X wherein B represents the B fragment of Shiga toxin or a functional equivalent thereof, and X represents one or more polypeptides of therapeutic significance. Compositions for therapeutic use comprising the polypeptide B-X are also included.
US08524649B2
An aqueous dispersion of a copolymer with copolymerized units a) of at least one ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid, b) of at least one nonionic ethylenically unsaturated surfactant monomer, c) of at least one C1-C2-alkyl methacrylate, d) of at least one C2-C4-alkyl acrylate, where the alkyl chain length averaged over the number of alkyl groups of the alkyl acrylate is 2.1 to 4.0, is described. Following neutralization with alkali, the dispersion serves as associative thickener, in particular for liquid detergent and cleaner formulations. The thickeners are characterized by high transparency and high thickening effect coupled with high shear dilution.
US08524641B2
A composition for providing a stable foam with high tolerance to hydrocarbons includes (a) an aqueous liquid; (b) at least one water soluble or dispersible silicon-containing polyether foamant contained within the aqueous liquid; and (c) a non-aqueous liquid. The aqueous liquid includes water and brine. The non-aqueous liquid includes liquid hydrocarbons.
US08524637B2
A pest controlling composition comprising clothianidin and metconazole as active ingredients.
US08524636B2
A synergistic antimicrobial composition containing a glyphosate compound and 3-iodo-2-propynyl-butylcarbamate is provided. Also provided is a method of inhibiting the growth of or controlling the growth of microorganisms in a building material by adding such a synergistic antimicrobial composition. Also provided is a coating composition containing such a synergistic antimicrobial composition, and a dry film made from such a coating composition. Also provided is a method of making zinc glyphosate.
US08524633B2
The invention relates to a novel security feature in the form of a luminescent marking for integration in a recording material. The security feature comprises a radiation layer (21) with luminescent components and a masking layer (2) with cavity pigments at least partly masking the radiation layer. The pigments in the masking layer (2) are fused by locally defined heal treatment into the form of a marking. The invention particularly relates to a heat-sensitive recording material comprising, in a preferred embodiment, at least one substrate (10), a heat-sensitive recording layer (30), an intermediate layer (21), between the substrate and the heat-sensitive recording layer in the form of a radiation layer with luminescent components and a masking layer with cavity pigments (2), the pigments of the masking layer (2) being fused in the form of a marking by locally defined fusion.
US08524626B2
The present invention provides polymerization catalyst compositions employing novel dinuclear metallocene compounds. Methods for making these new dinuclear metallocene compounds and for using such compounds in catalyst compositions for the polymerization and copolymerization of olefins are also provided.
US08524624B2
One aspect of the present invention relates to mesostructured zeolites. The invention also relates to a method of preparing mesostructured zeolites, as well as using them as cracking catalysts for organic compounds and degradation catalysts for polymers.
US08524620B2
A method of forming an exterior surface protective structure (12) for an aircraft (10) includes uniting a loaded surfacer (52) having a carrier (51) to a hybrid prepreg substrate (32). The prepreg substrate (32) includes a carbon fabric (44) with an integral conductive component (48) having conductivity with in a metal conductivity range and is united to a base substrate (30). The loaded surfacer (52) and the prepreg substrate (32) are cured, which includes interfacially adhering matter between the loaded surfacer (52) and the prepreg substrate (32). A protective fabric system (12) for an exterior (14) of an aircraft (10) includes the base substrate (30). The hybrid prepreg substrate (32) is coupled to the base substrate (30). The loaded surfacer (52) with the carrier (51) is interfacially adhered to the prepreg substrate (32).
US08524614B2
The present disclosure reduces and, in some instances, eliminates the density of interface states in III-V compound semiconductor materials by providing a thin crystalline interlayer onto an upper surface of a single crystal III-V compound semiconductor material layer to protect the crystallinity of the single crystal III-V compound semiconductor material layer's surface atoms prior to further processing of the structure.
US08524605B1
Self-aligned sextuple patterning (SASP) processes and mask design methods for the semiconductor manufacturing are invented. The inventions pertain to methods of forming one and/or two dimensional features on a substrate having the feature density increased to six times of what is possible using the standard optical lithographic technique; and methods to release the overlay requirement when patterning the critical layers of semiconductor devices. Our inventions provide production-worthy methods for the semiconductor industry to continue device scaling beyond 15 nm (half pitch).
US08524592B1
One illustrative method disclosed herein includes removing a portion of a sacrificial sidewall spacer to thereby expose at least a portion of the sidewalls of a sacrificial gate electrode and forming a liner layer on the exposed sidewalls of the sacrificial gate electrode. In this example, the method also includes forming a sacrificial gap fill material above the liner layer, exposing and removing the sacrificial gate electrode to thereby define a gate cavity that is laterally defined by the liner layer, forming a replacement gate structure, removing the sacrificial gap fill material and forming a low-k sidewall spacer adjacent the liner layer. A device is also disclosed that includes a gate cap layer, a layer of silicon nitride or silicon oxynitride positioned on each of two upstanding portions of a gate insulation layer and a low-k sidewall spacer positioned on the layer of silicon nitride or silicon oxynitride.
US08524587B2
Provided is a method of planarizing a semiconductor device. The method includes providing a substrate. The method includes forming a first layer over the substrate. The method includes forming a second layer over the first layer. The first and second layers have different material compositions. The method includes forming a third layer over the second layer. The method includes performing a polishing process on the third layer until the third layer is substantially removed. The method includes performing an etch back process to remove the second layer and a portion of the first layer. Wherein an etching selectivity of the etch back process with respect to the first and second layers is approximately 1:1.
US08524584B2
Methods and carbon ion precursor compositions for implanting carbon ions generally includes vaporizing and ionizing a gas mixture including carbon oxide and methane gases in an ion source to create a plasma and produce carbon ions. The ionized carbon within the plasma is then extracted to form an ion beam. The ion beam is mass analyzed with a mass analyzer magnet to permit the ionized carbon to pass therethrough and implant into a workpiece.
US08524576B2
In a wafer processing method, the back side of a wafer having a plurality of devices on the front side thereof is ground, thereby reducing the thickness of the wafer to a predetermined thickness. The back side of the wafer is polished after performing the back grinding step, thereby removing a grinding strain, and a silicon nitride film is formed on the back side of the wafer. The thickness of the silicon nitride film to be formed in the silicon nitride film forming step is set to 6 to 100 nm. Thus, the silicon nitride film having a thickness of 6 to 100 nm is formed on the polished back side of the wafer from which a grinding strain has been removed. Accordingly, each device constituting the wafer can ensure a sufficient die strength and a sufficient gettering effect.
US08524571B2
Disclosed is a vacuum wafer level packaging method for a micro electro mechanical system device, including: forming a plurality of via holes on an upper wafer for protecting a micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) wafer; forming at least one metal layer on inner walls of the plurality of via holes and regions extended from the plurality of via holes; arranging and bonding the upper wafer and the MEMS wafer at atmospheric pressure; applying solder paste to the regions extended from the plurality of via holes; filling a solder in the plurality of via holes by increasing the temperature of a high-vacuum chamber to melt the solder paste; and changing the solder in the plurality of via holes to a solid state by lowering the temperature of the high-vacuum chamber.
US08524569B2
In a method of forming an isolation layer, first and second trenches are formed on a substrate. The first and the second trenches have first and second widths, respectively, and the second width is greater than the first width. A second isolation layer pattern partially fills the second trench. A first isolation layer pattern and the third isolation layer pattern are formed. The first isolation layer pattern fills the first trench, and the third isolation layer pattern is formed on the second isolation layer pattern and fills a remaining portion of the second trench.
US08524555B2
Methods and apparatus for providing constant emissivity of the backside of susceptors are described. Provided is a method comprising: providing a susceptor in a deposition chamber, the susceptor comprising a susceptor plate and a layer comprising an oxide, a nitride, an oxynitride, or combinations thereof, the layer being stable in the presence of the reactive process gases; and locating the wafer on a support surface of the susceptor plate. The method can further comprise selectively depositing an epitaxial layer or a non-epitaxial layer on a surface of the wafer. The method can also further comprise selectively etching to maintain the oxide, nitride, oxynitride, or combinations thereof layer.
US08524538B2
A method of manufacture of an integrated circuit packaging system includes: providing a substrate; mounting an integrated circuit over the substrate, the integrated circuit having an inactive side and a non-horizontal side; mounting a mold chase having a buffer layer over the integrated circuit; forming an encapsulation between the substrate and the buffer; and removing the mold chase, leaving the encapsulation having a recess exposing a portion of the non-horizontal side.
US08524536B2
Nip rollers 11 and 12 each including a pair of upper and lower rollers are disposed on an upstream side and a downstream side with a portion to be cut of an optical film F located therebetween. In the nip roller 12, a center axis C of the upper roller 12b is displaced relative to a center axis L of the drive roller 12a in a direction away from the portion to be cut. Upon cutting of the polarizing film F, the upper rollers 11b and 12b are simultaneously moved downward, so that a timing at which the downstream nip roller 12 nips the polarizing film F is delayed. Further, the nip roller 12 pulls the polarizing film F in the direction away from the portion to be cut, so that tension is applied to the polarizing film F. In this state, the polarizing film F is cut by a laser device 10.
US08524520B2
First and second sacrificial materials are deposited on a substrate. The first and second patterns are respectively formed in the first and second sacrificial materials. The first pattern made from the first sacrificial material is arranged on the second pattern made from a second sacrificial material. The first pattern leaves an area of predefined width free on the periphery of a top surface of the second pattern. The active layer covers at least the whole of the side walls of the first and second patterns and said predefined area of the second pattern. The active area is patterned so as to allow access to the first sacrificial material. The first and second sacrificial materials are selectively removed forming a mobile structure comprising a free area secured to the substrate by a securing area.
US08524516B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel divided into a non-display area and a display area where pixel cells are arranged in a matrix, a backlight for supplying light to the liquid crystal panel, and a photo-sensing device in the non-display area for sensing an external light to control light output from the backlight in accordance with the sensed the external light.
US08524510B2
A method for manufacturing a magnetic memory chip device comprises the steps of: writing information in each of a plurality of magnetic memory chips formed on a silicon wafer; adhering a high magnetic permeability plate on a back face of the silicon wafer after writing information, the high magnetic permeability plate having a higher magnetic permeability than silicon and having a thickness of 50 um or more; dicing the silicon wafer into respective magnetic memory chips after adhering the high magnetic permeability plate.
US08524503B2
The present invention relates to dyes in general. The present invention provides a wide range of dyes and kits containing the same, which are applicable for labeling a variety of biomolecules such as nucleic acids, cells and microorganisms. The present invention also provides various methods of using the dyes for research and development, forensic identification, environmental studies, diagnosis, prognosis, and/or treatment of disease conditions.
US08524500B2
Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for targeted cleavage of a genomic sequence, targeted alteration of a genomic sequence, and targeted recombination between a genomic region and an exogenous polynucleotide homologous to the genomic region. The compositions include fusion proteins comprising a cleavage domain (or cleavage half-domain) and an engineered zinc finger domain and polynucleotides encoding same. Methods for targeted cleavage include introduction of such fusion proteins, or polynucleotides encoding same, into a cell. Methods for targeted recombination additionally include introduction of an exogenous polynucleotide homologous to a genomic region into cells comprising the disclosed fusion proteins.
US08524499B2
The present invention relates to an enhancer which functions only in human brain and/or spinal cord motor neurons, where the enhancer comprises a nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 5, SEQ ID NO: 10, or SEQ ID NO: 16. The enhancer can be utilized as part of a nucleic acid construct which also has a nucleic acid encoding a marker protein or a therapeutic protein, a 3′ control region, and, optionally, a basal promoter, where these components are positioned with respect to one another to permit expression of the marker protein or the therapeutic protein. The enhancer of the present invention is useful in a method of isolating an enriched or purified population of motor neurons from a mixed population of human brain and/or spinal cells. In addition, the enhancer of the present invention can be used in a method of therapeutically targeting motor neurons.
US08524494B2
The present invention is directed to a method of producing compositions including embryonic proteins. The method includes culturing cells under hypoxic conditions on a biocompatible surface in vitro. The culturing method produces both soluble and non-soluble fractions, which may be used separately or in combination to obtain physiologically acceptable compositions useful in a variety of medical and therapeutic applications.
US08524493B2
The present invention is directed to methods of detecting viable epithelial cells in a sample. The method includes isolating the sample comprising cells from a patient and culturing the cells for a time sufficient for an epithelial cell-specific marker to be released from the cells. The marker includes a substantially full-length cytokeratin. The method further includes detecting the released marker. Detection of the marker indicates the presence of disseminated epithelial cells. Methods are also directed to identifying disseminated epithelial tumor cells.
US08524490B2
Provided herein is a portable thermocycler, comprising: (i) a case; (ii) a rotary plate in the case; (iii) a plurality of heating blocks arranged in a geometric pattern disposed on the rotary plate; and (iv) at least one vessel adapted to move and contact at least two of the plurality of heating blocks; wherein each of the heating blocks comprises a heating plate maintained at a set temperature over a thermally insulating material; wherein the geometric pattern comprises a number of center heating blocks arranged in a shape defining a polygon and a number of outside heating blocks disposed around the periphery of the rotary plate; and wherein the rotary plate includes a plurality of rotating wheels adapted to rotate at least one of the vessels into contact with each of the heating blocks.
US08524485B2
Methods for increasing C18 to C20 elongation conversion efficiency and/or Δ4 desaturation conversion efficiency in long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid [“LC-PUFA”]-producing recombinant oleaginous microbial host cells are provided herein, based on over-expression of acyl-CoA:lysophospholipid acyltransferases [“LPLATs”] (e.g., Ale1, LPAAT, LPCAT). Production host cells and oils produced by the methods of the invention are also claimed.
US08524483B2
The object of the present invention is to provide a method for efficiently producing vinegar that contains a higher concentration of acetic acid, wherein a gene involved in the acetic acid fermentation ability is obtained, the acetic acid fermentation ability of an acetic acid bacterium is improved by reducing or deleting the function of the protein encoded by the gene. An acetic acid bacterium with a remarkably improved acetic acid fermentation ability was obtained by obtaining genes encoding an acyl homoserine lactone synthase and an acyl homoserine lactone receptor-type transcription factor that are involved in the quorum-sensing system in the acetic acid bacterium, and modifying the genes so as to reduce or delete the function of the quorum-sensing system. Further provided is a method for more efficiently producing vinegar containing a higher concentration of acetic acid by using the acetic acid bacterium.
US08524480B2
This invention relates to altered forms of members of the RNase A superfamily. An RNase A can be modified to be cytotoxic by altering its amino acid sequence so that it is not bound easily by the ribonuclease inhibitor while still retaining catalytic properties. While earlier work had identified some modifications to RNase A that would result in cytotoxicity, the use of the FADE algorithm for molecular interaction analysis has led to several other locations that were candidates for modification. Some of those modifications did result in RNase A variants with increase cytotoxicity.
US08524475B1
The present disclosure generally relates to polypeptides having colanic acid-degrading activity and methods of using the same. Polynucleotides encoding such polypeptides are also described. The polypeptides may be used, for example, in processes for degrading colanic acid, processes for the removal of endotoxins from biological samples, and processes for purifying plasmid DNA.
US08524474B2
Methods for obtaining concentrated sugar solution from polysaccharide enriched biomass by contacting biomass with water and at least one nucleophilic base to produce a polysaccharide enriched biomass comprising a solid fraction and a liquid fraction and then contacting the solid fraction with saccharification enzyme consortium to produce a saccharification product comprising at least about 7 percent by weight sugars in 24 hours. The methods include optionally adding at least one additive selected from the group consisting of polyethylene glycols, fatty acid esters, fatty acid ethoxylates, nonionic surfactants derived from polyethoxylated sorbitan and a fatty acid, sodium lauriminodipropionate, sodium cocoamphoacetate, sodium tridecyl ether sulfate and a combination of these, such that enzyme loading of the saccharification enzyme consortium can be reduced.
US08524472B2
This invention is intended to produce 2-butanol with excellent productivity via a fermentation process. Recombinant microorganisms into which the acetoacetyl-CoA synthase gene and a group of genes (i.e., genes involved in 2-propanol synthesis) encoding a set of enzymes synthesizing 2-propanol from acetoacetyl-CoA have been introduced are cultured, so that, in addition to 2-propanol, 2-butanol is produced at a high level in a medium.
US08524469B2
The present invention provides a two-step Gram staining method. The method is conducted by using a clean slide, followed by adding 10˜30 μl primary stain from a reagent kit, adding an equivalent amount of specimens uniformly on said slide, then immediately adding 30˜60 μl counter-stain on said slide for incubating 15 seconds, rinsing with water, and finally examining under a microscope, the result appears color contrast on the center of the slide between the Gram-negative bacteria performing light red color and the Gram-positive bacteria performing deep purple color.
US08524460B2
The invention provides a novel prostate cell-surface antigen, designated Prostate Stem Cell Antigen (PSCA), which is widely over-expressed across all stages of prostate cancer, including high grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN), androgen-dependent and androgen-independent prostate tumors.
US08524453B2
This invention is related, in part, to assays for analyzing the lectin complement pathway (LCP) as well as to compositions and methods related thereto.
US08524447B2
The object of the present invention is to provide a substance, which is easy to handle and enables the measurement of ATP with a high sensitivity regardless of the concentration of protein, and further a measuring method of ATP using the substance. Such object is solved with a fluorescence labelled fusion protein obtained by attaching two types of fluorescent substances of potential donor and acceptor for fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) respectively to a protein which can cause structural changes depending on ATP binding, namely ε protein, which is the subunit of ATP synthetase, and further solved by contacting the fluorescence labelled fusion protein with a subject substance and then measuring the fluorescence spectra.
US08524446B2
A method for detecting and isolating AAV sequences in a sample of DNA obtained from tissue or cells is provided, which sample contains DNA and proviral AAV. The method involves subjecting the sample containing DNA to amplification via polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using a first set of primers which specifically amplify a first AAV region. The first AAV region is characterized by having at least 250 nucleotides of AAV capsid nucleic acid sequence, a variable sequence flanked by a sequence of at least 18 nucleotides at the 5′ end of the first AAV region and a sequence of at least 18 nucleotides at the 3′ end of the first AAV region. Each of the 5′ and 3′ at least 18 nucleotides is the same over at least 9 consecutive nucleotides relative to corresponding sequences in an alignment of at least two AAV serotypes. Each of the sets of primers consist of a 5′ primer and a 3′ primer. The method is further useful for identifying AAV sequences in the sample by the presence of amplified proviral AAV sequences.
US08524443B2
A method for printing a desired pattern into a photosensitive layer that includes providing a mask bearing a pattern of linear features that are parallel to a first direction, arranging the layer parallel to and separated from said mask, generating substantially monochromatic light, and illuminating the mask pattern with said light over a range of angles of incidence in a plane parallel to said first direction, at substantially a single angle in an orthogonal plane of incidence and so that the light of each angle of incidence transmitted by the mask forms a light-field component at the layer whereby the integration of said components prints the desired pattern, wherein the range of angles is selected so that the integration of said components is substantially equivalent to an average of the range of transversal intensity distributions formed between Talbot image planes by light at one of the angles of incidence.
US08524442B1
A combined laminating and exposing apparatus for exposing a photosensitive printing blank to actinic radiation in a printing plate manufacturing system and a method of using the same are disclosed. The photosensitive printing blank comprises a backing layer, at least one photocurable layer disposed on the backing layer, and a laser ablatable mask layer disposed on the at least one photocurable layer, wherein the laser ablatable mask layer is laser ablated to create an in situ negative in the laser ablatable mask layer. The exposing apparatus comprises: (a) a laminating apparatus for laminating an oxygen barrier layer to a top of the laser ablated mask layer; (b) a conveyor; (c) a first exposing device for imagewise exposing the at least one photocurable layer to actinic radiation, and (d) a second exposing device for exposing the at least one photocurable layer to actinic radiation through the backing layer.
US08524436B2
In the image forming method, a color toner image and a transparent toner image are formed using a first developing device containing a first developer including color toner and carrier, and a second developing device containing a second developer including transparent toner and carrier. At least the second developing device includes a developer bearing member bearing the second developer for developing an electrostatic image; a developer supplying passage supplying the developer to the developer bearing member while feeding the developer in a first direction; and a developer feeding passage separated from the developer supplying passage at a central portion thereof and feeding the developer used for development in a direction parallel to the first direction. The transparent toner includes a resin and a lubricant and has viscoelastic property such that loss tangent has a peak with height of not less than 3 at a temperature of from 80° C. to 160° C.
US08524430B2
The present invention relates to an electrophotographic photosensitive member obtained by providing, on a conductive support, a conductive layer containing conductive particles having a volume-average particle diameter of 0.1 μm or more, an intermediate layer, and a photosensitive layer in the stated order in which the conductive layer contains a polyolefin resin containing a specific repeating structural unit at a specific ratio, and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus each having the electrophotographic photosensitive member.
US08524426B2
A method for correcting a position error of a lithography apparatus comprises inputting position data of exposure pattern, irradiating laser light onto a position reference mask from a position measurement laser system, calculating actual position data of the laser light irradiated onto the position reference mask, and comparing the position data of the exposure pattern with the actual position data of the laser light irradiated onto the position reference mask. With this method, circuit patterns can be accurately formed at predetermined positions on a photomask, and the circuit patterns on the photomask can be accurately formed at predetermined positions on a wafer.
US08524425B2
Compounds of the formula (I) and (II) M1, M2 and M3 independently of one another are no bond, a direct bond, CO, O, S, SO, SO2 or NR14; provided that at least one of M1, M2 or M3 is a direct bond, CO, O, S, SO, SO2 or NR14; M4 is a direct bond, CR″3R″4, CS, O, S, SO, or SO2; Y is S or NR18; R1 for example is hydrogen, C3-C8cycloalkyl, phenyl or napthyl, both of which are optionally substituted; R2 for example is C1-C20alkyl; R″2 has one of the meanings given for R2; R3 and R4 are for example hydrogen, halogen, C1-C20alkyl; R′3, R′4, R″3 and R″4 independently of one another have one of the meanings given for R3 and R4; and R5 is for example hydrogen, halogen, C1-C20alkyl; provided that in the compounds of the formula (I) at least two oxime ester groups are present and provided that at least one specified substituent R2 or R″2 is present; exhibit an unexpectedly good performance in photopolymerization reactions.
US08524424B2
An optical proximity correction (OPC) photomask is provided. The photomask includes two opening patterns and a pair of scattering bar patterns. The two patterns are arranged on a substrate along a first direction and separated from each other by a predetermined distance. The pair of scattering bar patterns is arranged on the substrate along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and adjacent to two opposing sides of each opening pattern. Each scattering bar pattern does not overlap with the opening patterns on the first and second directions as viewed from a cross sectional perspective. A phase shift of 180° exists between each opening pattern and each scattering bar pattern.
US08524421B2
In a mask blank for manufacturing a transfer mask, the mask blank has a light-shielding film on a transparent substrate. The light-shielding film is made of a material containing tantalum as a main metal component and includes a highly oxidized layer which has an oxygen content of 60 at % or more and which is formed as a surface layer of the light-shielding film. The highly oxidized layer is placed on a side opposite to a transparent substrate side.
US08524415B2
A high surface area support material is formed of an intimate mixture of carbon clusters and titanium oxide clusters. A catalytic metal, such as platinum, is deposited on the support particles and the catalyzed material used as an electrocatalyst in an electrochemical cell such as a PEM fuel cell. The composite material is prepared by thermal decomposition and oxidation of an intimate mixture of a precursor carbon polymer, a titanium alkoxide and a surfactant that serves as a molecular template for the mixed precursors.
US08524413B2
A manifold for distributing and supplying a fluid to solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) cells. The manifold may include at least one opening disposed at one side surface of a housing to allow the fluid to flow into the housing therethrough. A plurality of second openings are disposed at another side surface of the housing to allow the fluid to be discharged out from the housing therethrough. A porous member is disposed to partition an internal space of the housing between the first opening and the plurality of second openings. In the manifold, the porous member is formed so that the first opening ratio per unit area at a first portion positioned adjacent to the first opening varies with increasing distance toward a second portion positioned distant from the first opening.
US08524410B2
An apparatus for water management in a fuel cell. The apparatus includes a fuel cell having a first porous electrode layer, a second porous electrode layer, a proton-conducting membrane positioned between the first electrode and second electrode layers, and a first and second bi-polar distribution plate, wherein the first bi-polar distribution plate is positioned on a top of the first electrode layer and defining a first gas flow channel, and wherein the second bi-polar distribution plate is positioned on a bottom of the second electrode layer and defining a second gas flow channel. The apparatus further includes a mechanism for oscillating liquid water formed in the gas flow channel and configured to remove the liquid water.
US08524409B2
A fuel-cell flow regulator is placed in a fuel cell having two entrances, each of which is formed at one of two sides of the fuel cell. The fuel cell is composed of a plurality of single cells, each of which includes a fuel inlet and a fuel passage in communication with the fuel inlet. The fuel passages jointly define a fuel tunnel in communication with all of the entrances. The flow regulator is located at the fuel tunnel and movable back and forth along the fuel tunnel.
US08524403B2
The water content estimation apparatus for a fuel cell includes an estimating unit for estimating a residual water content distribution in a reactant gas flow channel and a moisture content distribution in an electrolyte membrane in a cell plane of a single cell while taking into consideration water transfer that occurs between an anode electrode and a cathode electrode via the electrolyte membrane between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode. The fuel cell system performs control based on an estimation result by the estimating unit so that the fuel cell assumes a predetermined water condition.
US08524399B2
Disclosed is a non-aqueous electrolyte including an electrolyte salt and an electrolyte solvent, the non-aqueous electrolyte further including a compound containing both a carboxy group and a (meth)acrylic group, and a secondary battery including the non-aqueous electrolyte. The use of the compound containing both the carboxy group and the (meth)acrylic group as a component for an electrolyte significantly reduces the increase of battery thickness at high temperature storage.
US08524396B2
A method of manufacturing an active material having a sufficient discharge capacity at a high discharge current density, an active material obtained thereby, an electrode using the same, and a lithium-ion secondary battery equipped therewith are provided. The method of manufacturing an active material comprises a step of polymerizing a mixture containing an Fe ion, an Li ion, a PO4 ion, a hydroxy acid, and a polyol, the mixture containing the polyol by a molar ratio 1.3 to 16 times that of the hydroxy acid, so as to yield a polymer; and a step of heating the polymer, so as to yield an active material containing an active material particle and carbon. The active material particle is mainly composed of LiFePO4.
US08524393B2
A method for producing an electrode laminate including a current collector using aluminum as the material and an electrode layer laminated on the current collector, where the method includes the steps of: laminating an electrode layer forming composition, which contains at least a sulfide-based solid electrolyte and an active material and no binding agent, on the current collector; and f heating the current collector and the electrode layer forming composition at a temperature of not less than 60° C. and adhering them.
US08524383B2
A power generating system includes: a plurality of cells forming a fuel cell battery for generating power; a cell temperature measuring unit provided for each cell; a thermoelectric converter provided for each cell; a heating unit which heats the plurality of cells; a first control unit which controls the heating unit; and a second control unit, provided for each thermoelectric converter, for controlling the thermoelectric converter, wherein the first control unit controls the heating unit so as to bring the temperature of the heating unit to within a predetermined control temperature range, and the second control unit performs control so that if the temperature of the cell lies outside a predetermined operating temperature range, the thermoelectric converter is switched to the thermal transfer mode and is controlled so as to bring the temperature of the cell to within the predetermined operating temperature range, and if the temperature of the cell lies within the predetermined operating temperature range, the thermoelectric converter is switched to the power generation mode.
US08524381B2
An organometallic complex represented by Formula 1 is provided. An organic light-emitting diode using the organometallic complex exhibits improved current and power efficiency and long lifetime.
US08524376B2
In an Sn-plated strip in which a copper alloy containing 15 to 40 mass % of Zn in terms of an average concentration is used as an alloy strip and the layers of an Sn phase, an Sn—Cu alloy phase and an Ni phase constitute a plating film from the surface to the alloy strip, the Zn concentration of the surface of the Sn phase is adjusted to a range of 0.1 to 5.0 mass %. The alloy may further contain 0.005 to 3.0 mass % in total of an arbitrary constituent selected from Sn, Ag, Pb, Fe, Ni, Mn, Si, Al and Ti. Moreover, the alloy may be a copper base alloy containing 15 to 40 mass % of Zn, 8 to 20 mass % of Ni, 0 to 0.5 mass % of Mn and a balance of Cu and unavoidable impurities, and may further contain 0.005 to 10 mass % in total of the above arbitrary constituent. There is provided a Cu/Ni double layer base reflowed Sn-plated Cu—Zn alloy strip in which generation of whiskers is suppressed.
US08524351B2
A door panel 1 has a peripheral frame 10 of extruded aluminum and a honeycomb core of plastics material tubes 11. An outer skin 2 of fiber-reinforced polyetherimide material is recessed with a pattern 3 formed in a preliminary operation of vacuum/pressure forming at elevated temperature. An inner skin 4 is plane. Edge channel members 5 of similarly formed, but thicker material are arranged around the edges of the door, enclosing the aluminum frame. A non-woven, polyester based scrim 6 extends across either side of the core and over the flanges 7 of the edge channels.For bonding of the core, skin and edge channels together, the assembly is placed in a jig and compressed at elevated temperature in a heated press. The core is crushed at the recessed pattern 3 and the scrim melts and acts as a hot melt adhesive. On cooling of the press platens, the assembled door is removed from the jig.
US08524350B2
A mat is described which is suitable for placement over the threshold of an opening for protecting the threshold and nearby floor or other surface from excessive wear caused by pets or foot traffic. The perimeter edge of the mat in one embodiment includes a cutout or contour that is sized and shaped to at least partially engage the side post or jamb near the opening. One or both ends of the mat may include a contour that is shaped to engage the side jamb. The contour in another embodiment includes a slot that at least partially engages the wall near the opening. Engagement between the contoured edge of the mat and the side post or wall helps resist unintended movement of the mat when in place. The mat may also include downward protrusions for engaging with the floor or floor covering.
US08524345B2
A temporary part is fixed to a base by using an adhesive layer to which fillers are mixed at a predetermined density. When the temporary part is heated, heat is applied to the fillers and the adhesive layer. At a temperature equal to or higher than the glass-transition temperature of the adhesive agent, the heated adhesive layer is thermally contracted so as to release remaining stress, and on the other hand, the heated fillers are thermally expanded. In this manner, the peel-off strength between the adhesive layer and the base (or the temporary part) is reduced, and the disassembly is facilitated.
US08524344B1
A polymeric vessel includes a first shell formed from a thermoplastic polymer and including a weld stub, and a second shell formed from the thermoplastic polymer and including a weld anvil matable with the weld stub. The polymeric vessel also includes a friction weld joint joining the weld stub and the weld anvil, and a coupling element interconnecting the first shell and the second shell and spaced apart from the friction weld joint.
US08524340B2
The preform of the biaxially drawn, blow-molded bottle comprises polyethylene terephthalate layers 2 and at least a gas barrier layer 3 laminated with the polyethylene terephthalate layers. The gas barrier layer 3 extends downward from a level halfway to the height of the neck 4 including the neck ring 5, or at least from above the neck ring 5, down virtually to the lower end of body 6. The gas barrier layer 3 inside the wall of the neck 4 has an average thickness corresponding to a third (⅓) or less of the maximum thickness of the gas barrier layer 3 inside the wall of the body 6, allowing most of the gas barrier material to be located in the wall of the body 6. Thus, the gas barrier material is effectively utilized, and in the case of the heat-resistant bottle, the neck has the predetermined dimensions without fail after the whitening treatment.
US08524337B2
Certain example embodiments of this invention relate to articles including anticondensation and/or low-E coatings that are exposed to an external environment, and/or methods of making the same. In certain example embodiments, the anticondensation and/or low-E coatings may be survivable in an outside environment. The coatings also may have a sufficiently low sheet resistance and hemispherical emissivity such that the glass surface is more likely to retain heat from the interior area, thereby reducing (and sometimes completely eliminating) the presence condensation thereon. The articles of certain example embodiments may be, for example, skylights, vehicle windows or windshields, IG units, VIG units, refrigerator/freezer doors, and/or the like.
US08524335B2
The present invention is directed to a system and method for adjusting the relative stiffness of a synthetic turf system's synthetic ribbons. A stiffening agent is applied to the synthetic turf system such that its synthetic ribbons that are responsive to the stiffening agent will stiffen subsequent to the application of the stiffening agent.
US08524331B2
A substrate processing method effectively suppresses non-uniformity in deposition degree on a surface of a substrate. The substrate processing method includes depositing a deposit on a sidewall of each opening of a resist pattern, which is formed on an antireflection film on an etching target film of the substrate and is provided with a plurality of openings, before etching the etching target film of the substrate. Plasma is generated in the depositing process by introducing a CHF-based gas into the processing chamber at a flow rate equal to or higher than about 1000 sccm while a pressure in the processing chamber is set to equal to or higher than about 100 mTorr.
US08524325B2
A method of producing a photocatalytic coating material which includes: the steps of coating the surface of a base material having hydrophobic substances on its surface with a photocatalytic coating material including at least (a) photocatalytic oxide particles, (b) a hydrophobic-resin emulsion, (c) water, and (d) silica particles, and hardening the coated material. The average sizes of the ingredient (a) and the ingredient (d) are smaller than that of the emulsified particles of the hydrophobic resin dispersed in the ingredient (b), ingredient (a) constitutes 1 to <5% by weight of the total solid matter of the coating material, ingredient (d) constitutes 1 to 90% by weight of a total solid matter of the coating material, and once the coating material is applied onto a base material, the photocatalytic oxide particles and the silica particles move upward and a coating film 1 μm to 1 mm thick is formed.
US08524323B2
Disclosed is a surface treatment liquid containing no chromium compound, which is capable of imparting a zinc-based material with adequate corrosion resistance without coating, namely adequate bare corrosion resistance. Specifically disclosed is a surface treatment liquid for zinc-based metal materials, which contains the following component (A) and component (B): (A) at least one metal element selected from the group consisting of Ti, Zr and Hf; and (B) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of allylamino compounds, imino compounds, amino polysaccharides, amino-modified phenols and derivatives of them. The total concentration of the metal elements of the component (A) is 500-2000 mg/L, and the total concentration of the compounds of the component (B) is 300-3000 mg/L.
US08524320B1
Methods, processes, compositions and systems for preventing leaching effects from drinking water service pipes (such as lead, steel and copper) having an inner diameter of at least approximately 12 mm and the pipe coatings. 2-step thermoset resin coating is applied to pipe interiors and inner surfaces of fittings/valves, and exterior ends of the pipes that fit within the fittings/valves “in place” without dismantling the pipes from fittings where the curing agent can be phenol free and plasticizer free adduct. The coating can reduce heavy metals, such as lead, from leaching from installed pipes and fittings to less than approximately 10 μg/L (10 ppb). When cured, specific leachates, Bisphenol A and Epichlorohydrin from the coatings will be (less than) <1 μg/L (1 ppb) with overall TOC levels measured at (less than) <2.5 mg/L (2.5 ppm). Pipes can be returned to service from at least approximately 1 to approximately 2 hours.
US08524318B2
The present invention relates to a method for reducing gas hydrate adhesion to the interior surface of a conduit and associated equipment transporting or processing a fluid stream in oil and gas exploration and production, petroleum refining and/or petrochemistry, by providing the conduit interior surface with a coating layer exhibiting a static contact angle of the sessile water drop on the coating layer in air higher than 75° at ambient air conditions, as measured according to ASTM D7334-08, wherein said coating layer comprises diamond like carbon (DLC) comprising fractions of one or more components selected from the group consisting of silicon (Si), oxygen (O) and fluor (F).
US08524312B2
An applicator for spraying an elastomeric material comprises an applicator body having an internal bore and a fluid inlet for receiving a supply of the elastomeric material. A nozzle is coupled to the applicator body and has a discharge end with a spray outlet in fluid communication with the fluid inlet via a fluid passageway. A needle valve is slidably mounted within the internal bore for movement between a closed position for closing the fluid passageway, and an open position for opening the fluid passageway so as to spray the elastomeric material. An air cap is coupled to the applicator body adjacent the nozzle for providing an atomizing airflow and a fan control airflow. The needle valve has a tip portion shaped to extend through the nozzle so as to be substantially flush with the discharge end of the nozzle when the needle valve is in the closed position.
US08524311B1
Polymer materials make useful materials as electrode array bodies for neural stimulation. They are particularly useful for retinal stimulation to create artificial vision. Regardless of which polymer is used, the basic construction method is the same. A layer of polymer is laid down. A layer of metal is applied to the polymer and patterned to create electrodes and leads for those electrodes. A second layer of polymer is applied over the metal layer and patterned to leave openings for the electrodes, or openings are created later by means such as laser ablation. Hence the array and its supply cable are formed of a single body. A method for manufacturing a flexible circuit electrode array, comprises: a) depositing a metal trace layer on an insulator polymer base layer; b) applying a layer of photoresist on said metal trace layer and patterning said metal trace layer and forming metal traces on said insulator polymer base layer; and c) activating said insulator polymer base layer and depositing a top insulator polymer layer and forming one single insulating polymer layer with said base insulator polymer layer; wherein the insulator polymer layers were treated at a temperature from 80-150° C. and then at a temperature from 230-350° C.
US08524302B2
The present invention pertains to the use of certain flavor enhancing compounds obtainable from an Allium species. In one embodiment, seeds from chives, leeks, ramson and other onions are used for conveying strong kokumi flavor enhancing effects on food products without imparting an onion or garlic-like off taste. These flavor enhancing compounds are also useful for the preparation of Amadori products, which are also used as kokumi flavor enhancing compounds.
US08524295B2
In some embodiments there is a composition including a thermally stabilized active composition and a high molecular weight polymer. The thermally stabilized active composition is resistance to degradation at higher temperatures such as those used for conducting extrusion with high molecular weight polyvinyl acetate.
US08524292B2
A cosmeceutical formulation is provided that includes a mixture of a refined, bleached, deodorized (RBD) palm oils and red palm olein. The resulting formulation is a homogeneous blend with a considerable shelf life. The formulation may be a cream, lotion, sunscreen, or a soap and may be formulated to include additional beneficial oils and EFAs. If a cream formulation is desired, RBD palm stearin is the preferred palm oil for producing a creamy texture. If a lotion is desired, RBD palm oil may be used and chemically modified to produce a tailored oil with a desired melting point and consistency. The formulation may be used to treat a variety of skin conditions including adverse and age-related skin conditions or as an effective moisturizer for the prolonged maintenance of ordinary skin.
US08524286B2
The present invention pertains to methods of extracting cardiac glycosides from cardiac glycoside containing plant material, such as Nerium oleander, through use of aloe. It further provides for compositions resulting from such extractions, pharmaceutical compositions, cosmetic compositions, and methods of treating skin conditions.
US08524284B2
Dispersion containing, in addition to water, 0.5 to 20 wt. % of hydrophobic silica, 0.01 to 10 wt. % of a gelling or viscosity-increasing additive, 0.1 to 1 wt. % of a preservative and 0 to 1 wt. % of a surface-active substance. It is prepared by a procedure in which the individual components are dispersed successively or together into the water and in this procedure the individual components are deaerated before and/or during the addition or the dispersion is deaerated during the individual dispersing steps. The dispersion can be employed as an insecticide.
US08524266B2
It is a polymer formed of fluorinated monomers and hydrocarbon monomers and another biocompatible polymer.
US08524254B2
A bioresorbable polymer is obtained by reacting together (a) a prepolymer comprising co-polymerised units of a caprolactone and poly(alkylene oxide) moieties; (b) a polycaprolactone diol comprising co-polymerised units of a caprolactone and a C2-C6 diol; and (c) a diisocyanate. The polymer may be loaded with a pharmaceutically active agent to produce a drug delivery device.
US08524251B2
The invention provides proteins from Neisseria meningitidis, including the amino acid sequences and the corresponding nucleotide sequences. The proteins are predicted to be useful antigens for vaccines and/or diagnostics.
US08524249B2
A composition comprising an isolated fowl adenovirus (FAdV), wherein the FAdV is a strain selected from FAdV-2, FAdV-7, FAdv-8a, FAdV-8b, FAdV-8a/8b or FAdV-11 serotype strains; and a suitable carrier and methods for inducing protective immunity in a subject and/or its progeny.
US08524246B2
The present invention relates to the treatment of autoimmune and allergic diseases by mucosal delivery by micro-organism, in particular Lactococcus lactis, of secreted immunodominant antigens.
US08524241B2
The invention features recombinant exotoxins from Vibrio cholerae are for the therapeutic treatment of a variety of human diseases, particularly diseases characterized by an abundance or excess of undesired cells.
US08524239B2
The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods of killing cells in vitro or in vivo. In particular examples, the method includes contacting a cell having a cell surface protein with a therapeutically effective amount of an antibody-IR700 molecule, wherein the antibody specifically binds to the cell surface protein. In particular examples the antibody recognizes a tumor-specific antigen on the surface of a tumor cell. The cell is subsequently irradiated, such as at a wavelength of 660 to 740 nm at a dose of at least 1 J cm−2, thereby killing the cell. Also provided are wearable devices that include an article of clothing, jewelry, or covering; and an NIR LED incorporated into the article, which can be used with the disclosed methods.
US08524234B2
The present invention provides compositions, methods, and assays for treating an inflammatory and/or autoimmune disease, and/or transplanted tissue rejection using anti-αβ TCR antibodies and antibody fragments. Anti-αβ TCR antibodies are antibodies which bind to a αβ TCR. Anti-αβ TCR antibodies produced by the hybridoma TOL101 MCB are also provided. Methods for treatment of an inflammatory disease, an autoimmune disease and for tissue transplant rejection using therapeutic dosing regimen of anti-αβ TCR antibodies and antibody fragments and for upregulating the numbers of Treg T-cells are also provided.
US08524222B2
Bacillus isolates and methods of their use to protect against plant pathogens and virus transmission
Methods of inducing systemic acquired resistance to infection in a plant are provided. The methods comprise applying a composition comprising a Bacillus control agent to said plant wherein said plant is capable of producing defense proteins. Also provided are, methods for controlling one or more plant diseases, methods for preventing plant virus transmission, methods for preventing and/or treating soil-borne plant pathogens using the Bacillus control agent of the present invention, and methods of generating bacterial spores. In addition, synergistic biocontrol combinations and methods of using the same are provided.
US08524217B2
The present invention provides, in part, MCP1-Ig fusion polypeptides exhibiting surprisingly beneficial properties as well as methods for treating various diseases (e.g., inflammatory diseases) by administering any of such fusions.
US08524210B2
The present invention describes novel plant derived elastin-like peptides and peptidomimetics that may serve as functional ligands for elastin receptors and stimulate elastogenesis. The novel plant derived peptides provide an alternative (non-animal derived) source of GXXPG (SEQ ID NO. 2) containing peptides. The present invention also describes therapeutic compositions containing novel plant derived peptides or peptidomimetics useful in stimulating elastogenensis and capillary dilatation. The therapeutic compositions of the present invention that comprise novel plant derived peptides or peptidomimetics may be combined with other therapeutic agents.
US08524200B2
A tooth whitening product is provided. The tooth whitening product has a backing layer and a tooth whitening composition. The tooth whitening composition includes first and second water soluble polymers, water, and a tooth whitening agent, wherein the first water soluble polymer is polyethelene oxide and the second water soluble polymer is polyvinyl alcohol.
US08524198B2
A kit for promoting oral hygiene, and a method for using such a kit are disclosed. The kit may comprise several compositions or a single composition, each of which comprises an effective amount of xylitol. For example, the kit may comprise a chewing gum composition, a morsel composition, a paste-like composition, and an oral rinse composition; or any one of the above compositions; or any combination thereof. It will be appreciated that a novel method for using such a kit for promoting oral hygiene may include: brushing a user's teeth with the paste-like composition comprising at least about 0.05 g to about 0.75 g of xylitol at least in the morning and in the evening, administering at least about 0.75 g of xylitol after consumption of nutrition by chewing a gum composition or by partaking of a morsel composition, and rinsing the user's oral cavity with an oral rinse composition comprising at least about 0.75 g of xylitol at least before bedtime.
US08524195B2
Iron oxide nano contrast agents for Magnetic Resonance Imaging which have superior T2 contrast effect, and also can be used as a storage or a carrier for drugs and so on, are disclosed. The iron oxide nano contrast agents can be prepared by the steps of: coating surfaces of hydrophobic FeO nanoparticles with a coating material selected from the group consisting of polyethylene glycol-phospholipid conjugate, dextran, chitosan, dimercaptosuccinic acid and mixtures thereof in an organic solvent to form hydrophilic FeO nanoparticles having hydrophilic surfaces and dispersibility in water; dispersing the hydrophilic FeO nanoparticles in water to oxidize FeO; and exposing the oxidized hydrophilic FeO nanoparticles to an acidic buffer to dissolve and remove interior unoxidized FeO portions, and thereby to form Fe3O4 nanoparticles having an interior space.
US08524191B2
A process for preparing aluminum oxide with a low calcium content, in which (1) crude alpha- and/or gamma-aluminum oxide with a total calcium content in the range from 50 to 2000 ppm, based on the crude alpha- and/or gamma-aluminum oxide, is mixed with an aqueous solution or suspension comprising the compounds selected from the group of inorganic acid, organic acid and complexing agent, (2) the mixture from step (1) is admixed with a flocculating aid, (3) in the mixture of step (2), the solids are separated from the liquid, (4) the solids separated are mixed with water in the presence or in the absence of a flocculating aid, (5) in the mixture of step (4), the solids are separated from the liquid, (6) optionally, steps (4) and (5) are repeated once or more than once, (7) optionally, the solids separated optionally after addition of further compounds, are dried.
US08524186B2
A carbon-based catalyst for flue gas desulfurization is brought into contact with a flue gas containing at least SO2 gas, oxygen and water vapor so that the SO2 gas can react with the oxygen and the water vapor to form sulfuric acid which is to be recovered. On a surface of the carbon-based catalyst, iodine, bromine or a compound thereof is added, ion exchanged or supported and a water-repellent treatment is applied. The carbon-based catalyst can also be used as a mercury adsorbent for flue gas treatment for adsorbing and removing metallic mercury from a flue gas containing metallic mercury, SO2 gas, oxygen and water vapor.
US08524183B2
A composition is described that includes oxides of zirconium, cerium and another rare earth different from cerium, having a cerium oxide content not exceeding 50 wt % and, after calcination at 1000° C. for 6 hours, a maximal reducibility temperature not exceeding 500° C. and a specific surface of at least 45 m2/g. The composition can be prepared according to a method that includes continuously reacting a mixture that includes compounds of zirconium, cerium and another rare earth having a basic compound for a residence time not exceeding 100 milliseconds, wherein the precipitate is heated and contacted with a surfactant before calcination.
US08524182B2
Disclosed is a catalyzed soot filter with layered design wherein the first coating of the filter comprises an oxidation catalyst comprising platinum (Pt) and optionally palladium (Pd), wherein the second coating of the filter comprises an oxidation catalyst comprising Pd and optionally Pt, wherein the Pt concentration in the second coating is lower than the Pt concentration in the first coating, and wherein the weight ratio of Pt:Pd in the second coating is in the range of from 1:1 to 0:1; and wherein the first coating and the second coating are present on the wall flow substrate at a coating loading ratio in the range of from 0.25 to 3, calculated as ratio of the loading of the first coating (in g/inch3 (g/(2.54 cm)3)): loading of the second coating (in g/inch3 (g/(2.54 cm)3)).
US08524177B2
A process for separating zinc from a feedstock containing a mixture of metals and metal compounds. The process includes leaching a zinc-containing feedstock with a concentrated basic solution, optionally diluting the slurry with an amount of water sufficient to reduce the viscosity of the slurry thereby facilitating separation of a pregnant liquor containing dissolved zinc from insoluble materials, separating the insoluble materials from the pregnant liquor, and precipitating zinc oxide from the pregnant liquor by adding an anti-solvent to the pregnant liquor. The described process also provides for recycling of the basic solution and the anti-solvent.
US08524176B2
A method is described to produce high purity rare earth oxides of the elements La, Ce, Tb, Eu and Y from phosphor, such as waste phosphor powders originating in various consumer products. One approach involves leaching the powder in two stages and converting to two groups of relatively high purity mixed rare earth oxides. The first group containing Eu and Y is initially separated by solvent extraction. Once separated, Eu is purified using Zn reduction with custom apparatus. Y is purified by running another solvent extraction process using tricaprylmethylammonium chloride. Ce is separated from the second group of oxides, containing La, Ce and Tb by using solvent extraction. Subsequently, La and Tb are separated from each other and converted to pure oxides by using solvent extraction processes. A one-stage leaching process, wherein all rare earths get leached into the solution and subsequently processed, is also described.
US08524175B2
A reactor system for gas phase reacting of at least two fluid feed streams, where the reactor system has an injectively-mixed backmixing reaction chamber in fluid communication with a tubular-flow reactor. The injectively-mixed backmixing reaction chamber has a bulkhead that slides during real-time operation to either diminish or expand the internal volume of the backmixing reaction chamber. In one embodiment, the effective passageway space through the bulkhead is also variably adjustable. In another embodiment, the tubular-flow reactor shares the bulkhead so that axial bulkhead movement commensurately expands one reaction space while diminishing the other reaction space. Input gas streams enter the backmixing reaction chamber with sufficient velocity to turbulently agitate the contents of the injectively-mixed backmixing reaction chamber by injective intermixing of the alkane-containing gas feed stream and the oxygen-containing gas feed stream. A focal application is for direct (partial) oxidative conversion of natural gas to alkyl oxygenates.
US08524171B2
A device for separating heavier and lighter fractions of a fluid sample is provided, the device including a container and a unitary separator located therein, the separator having an overall density between the heavier and light fractions. The separator is capable of moving between the fractions upon centrifugation, and sealing the fractions from one another when centrifugation ends.
US08524169B2
A fluid sample collection device for a disk-based fluid separation system is disclosed. The disk-based separation system includes a compact microfluidic disk with at least one flow channel pattern formed on a side surface of the disk. At least one orifice is formed on an outflow boundary of the disk and is designed in fluid communication with the flow channel pattern through a communication channel. The fluid sample collection device includes at least one collection tube having an open end serving as a fluid receiving end and corresponding to the orifice of the disk with a distance. When the disk is rotated, at least a portion of fluid sample in a sample processing reservoir formed on the disk is delivered by centripetal force through the communication channel and the orifice, and finally the expelling fluid sample is collected in the collection tube.
US08524168B2
A device for holding a medical test strip is provided. The device comprises a receiving casing having an opening for receiving the medical test strip and a first stopping portion protruding from an upper surface of the receiving casing; an ejection base having a cover and a pusher beneath the cover, the cover downwardly extending a second stopping portion for sliding against the upper surface of the receiving casing; and an elastic member located between the receiving casing and the ejection base. When the pusher moves toward the opening by an external force to eject the test strip from the opening, the elastic member is compressed and the second stopping portion slides away from the first stopping portion. When the external force disappears, the second stopping portion slides toward the first stopping portion by a resilient force of the elastic member until the first stopping portion and the second stopping portion are engaged.
US08524165B2
A pipe reactor, especially for production of UAS, includes a tubular body and a reactor head, wherein the reactor head has a device for axial injection of acid, a device for injection of ammonia, a device for supply of urea and a reaction chamber, where acid and ammonia can react before coming into contact with urea.
US08524164B2
A method for removing contaminants from an process stream that includes the use of reticulated material to filter the process stream. The reticulated material also facilitate process stream flow distribution in process units. The reticulated material can be packed with a void space between a substantial number of the reticulated material that can be varied to enhance filtration and flow distribution. The method of filtering also provides a method of removing contaminants leaving process equipment. The methods can be used on a variety of process streams and process equipment. The reticulated material can include ceramics, metallic materials, and chemical vapor deposition elements. The reticulated material can be of various shapes and sizes, and can also be catalytically active.
US08524153B2
In a clinical laboratory of a hospital, an enormous amount of effort has been required to maintain the quality of an analyzer, standard solution and control samples. An object of the present invention is to provide a control method for controlling a clinical laboratory with reduced cost, and a control apparatus using the same.In order to control data of an analyzer, standard solution, and a control sample, a support center is connected to each analyzer located in each hospital through a network line. Various kinds of analysis parameters and the result of measurements are exchanged so as to provide each clinical laboratory with a control situation in real time.
US08524145B2
A device for introducing dust into a molten bath of a pyrometallurgical installation is provided. An electrodeless plasma torch includes an essentially tubular housing, wherein the housing allows a passage of a carrier gas containing dust particles, and wherein the housing is coaxially surrounded by an inductive load coil which forms a heating zone.
US08524140B2
A container having a plurality of orifices in an outer peripheral wall and having a space communicating with the orifices is rotated to extrude an electrically charged raw material liquid containing a polymer material from the space through the orifices by centrifugal force. This allows the electrically charged raw material liquid to form a fibrous material. At this time, the raw material liquid is supplied to the space in which the raw material liquid is filled by a raw material liquid pump so that the raw material liquid is extruded from the orifices at a predetermined pressure. That is, the raw material liquid in the space is pressurized. Also, the shape of the space in the container is set so that the centrifugal force exerted on the raw material liquid is constant.
US08524129B2
A method of producing a fuel cell separator includes pressing a compact part-forming material that includes a carbonaceous powder and a thermosetting resin binder at a temperature equal to or higher than the softening temperature of the thermosetting resin binder and less than the curing temperature of the thermosetting resin binder to obtain a compact part-forming preformed sheet, preparing a porous part-forming powder that includes a carbonaceous powder and a thermosetting resin binder, placing the compact part-forming preformed sheet and the porous part-forming powder in a forming die that has a concave-convex forming surface corresponding to the shape of a gas passage so that the concave-convex forming surface faces the porous part-forming powder, and hot-pressing the compact part-forming preformed sheet and the porous part-forming powder using the forming die at a temperature equal to or higher than the curing temperature of the thermosetting resin binder included in the compact part-forming material or the curing temperature of the thermosetting resin binder included in the porous part-forming powder, whichever is the higher.
US08524128B2
The invention provides a method of producing a porous ceramics material. The method comprises preparing a slurry by dispersing a ceramics raw material in a medium, filling the slurry in a container, inserting the container in a given direction into a cooling medium having a temperature not higher than the freezing point of the slurry such that the slurry freezes unidirectionally from one end side, drying the frozen slurry to give a green body, and firing the green body.
US08524124B2
The invention provides a process for producing an aqueous dispersion of zirconium oxide comprising: reacting a zirconium salt with an alkali in water to obtain a slurry of particles of zirconium oxide; filtering, washing, and repulping the slurry; adding an organic acid to the resulting slurry in an amount of one mole part or more per mole part of the zirconium in the slurry; hydrothermally treating the resulting mixture at a temperature of 170° C. or higher; and washing the resulting aqueous dispersion of particles of zirconium oxide.
US08524122B2
A production method capable of producing ITO particles without using a solvent with a high boiling point as a solvent used in the producing step by a simple treatment method without through a heating process in an atmosphere which disadvantageously causes sintering among the ITO particles to coarsen the ITO particles. An ITO powder suitable for a coating material for a transparent electroconductive material, being produced by a first step of dissolving salt containing indium and salt containing tin into an organic solvent, then adding to this organic solvent, an organic solvent containing a basic precipitant, to thereby manufacture a mixture of a precursor containing indium and tin, and the organic solvent; and a second step of applying heat treatment to the mixture of the precursor containing indium and tin, and the organic solvent in a pressurizing vessel at 200° C. or more and 300° C. or less, to generate ITO particles.
US08524094B2
The object of the present invention is to provide a masking material for dry etching, which is suitable for fine processing of a magnetic film as thin as a few nm such as NiFe or CoFe constituting a TMR film and capable of simplifying the process for producing a TMR element and reducing production costs related to facilities and materials. This object was solved by a masking material for dry etching of a magnetic material by using a mixed gas of carbon monoxide and a nitrogenous compound as etching gas, which comprises a metal (tantalum, tungsten, zirconium or hafnium) with a melting or boiling point increasing upon conversion thereof into a nitride or carbide.
US08524082B2
Apparatus and methods are disclosed for mechanical axial vibration in membrane separation treatment processes. The apparatus includes a separation membrane element having an axial dimension, a membrane support structure having the element therein, and means for vibrating the membrane element (hydrodynamically or using motors) in the axial dimension.
US08524081B2
Separation media, separation modules and methods are provided for separating water from a water and hydrocarbon emulsion and include a fibrous nonwoven coalescence layer for receiving the water and hydrocarbon emulsion and coalescing the water present therein as a discontinuous phase to achieve coalesced water droplets having a size of 1 mm or greater, and a fibrous nonwoven drop retention layer downstream of the coalescence layer having a high BET surface area of at least 90 m2/g or greater sufficient to retain the size of the coalesced water droplets to allow separation thereof from the hydrocarbon.
US08524066B2
Methods and systems for electrochemical production of urea are disclosed. A method may include, but is not limited to, steps (A) to (B). Step (A) may introduce carbon dioxide and NOx to a solution of an electrolyte and a heterocyclic catalyst in an electrochemical cell. The divided electrochemical cell may include an anode in a first cell compartment and a cathode in a second cell compartment. The cathode may reduce the carbon dioxide and the NOx into a first sub-product and a second sub-product, respectively. Step (B) may combine the first sub-product and the second sub-product to produce urea.
US08524062B2
An electrodeionization apparatus includes an anode compartment provided with an anode and a cathode compartment spaced from the anode compartment and provided with a cathode, wherein the anode and cathode are configured for coupling to a DC power source to effect an electric potential difference between the anode and the cathode and thereby influence transport of ionic material in liquid media and ion exchange media by the influence of the electric potential difference. The electrodeionization apparatus also includes a feed inlet receiving a feed solution, a product water outlet and a plurality of anion exchange membranes and a plurality of cation exchange membranes alternately arranged between the anode compartment and the cathode compartment. The electrodeionization apparatus also includes a plurality of spacers, wherein the spacers and the anion and cation exchange membranes are arranged to form a first diluting compartment receiving feed solution from the feed inlet, a second diluting compartment in series with the first diluting compartment and delivering product water to the product water outlet, a first concentrating compartment and a second concentrating compartment. The first and second diluting compartments are bounded by an anion exchange membrane on the side closest to the anode and by a cation exchange membrane on the side closest to the cathode. The first and second concentrating compartments are bounded by a cation exchange membrane on the side closest to the anode and by an anion exchange membrane on the side closest to the cathode.
US08524056B2
An electrochemical corrosion potential sensor (ECP sensor) has an electrode cap, an electrode fixing body, a tubular insulator, a tubular metallic housing, and a conductive wire. Both ends of the tubular insulator are connected to the electrode fixing body and the tubular metallic housing respectively. A conductive wire passes through the tubular insulator and the tubular metallic housing, and is connected to an inner surface of the electrode fixing body. The electrode cap 11 disposed to cover an outer surface of the electrode fixing body. The ECP sensor with such a construction can lengthen the lifetime.
US08524054B2
A sputtering device includes a main body and a loading device received in the main body. The main body includes a top portion, a bottom portion, and a sidewall connected between the top portion and the bottom portion, an upper bearing mounted on the top portion, and a lower bearing mounted on the bottom portion. The loading device includes an outer frame, an inner frame received in the outer frame, and a gear device arranged between the outer frame and the in inner frame. The outer frame is rotatably connected to the upper bearing and includes a plurality of first rods arranged in a first circle. The inner frame is rotatably connected to the lower bearing and includes a plurality of second rods arranged in a second circle. The gear device is configured for bringing the outer frame and the inner frame to rotate in opposite directions.
US08524039B2
A screen for producing two-level watermarks is produced by completely closing part of the screen with a viscous sealing compound, which is subsequently cured actively or passively. At the thus closed partial areas of the screen, paper deposit is hindered during papermaking so that the finished paper appears light in transmission in the areas. A mask is used for exactly positioning the sealing compound in the partial areas of the screen and/or for curing the sealing compound only in the given partial areas, whereby in the latter case the uncured areas of the sealing compound are washed out.
US08524031B2
The invention relates to a lining method and a lining installation for the production of multi-layer products which are used, for example, to produce floor or wall coverings or interior trim for passenger transport vehicles, such as cars, railroad cars, ship cabins and aircraft cockpits.
US08524029B2
A mounting system and method to elastically attach an object to a support structure with an elastic membrane. The elastic membrane allows the object attached thereto to elastically extend in a direction away from the support structure as force is exerted on the object. The elastic membrane includes two surface areas, the first surface area extending peripherally along a perimeter a bottom surface of the elastic membrane and a remaining second surface area. The first surface area being thermally bonded to the support structure, while the second surface area remaining separable from the support structure.
US08524028B2
An example method of sealing a laminate assembly includes preloading a laminate assembly having a plurality of laminations, pressurizing the laminate assembly, and pressurizing an enclosed volume disposed adjacent an end portion of the laminate assembly to hold the laminations in sealed positions.
US08524018B2
A primer composition that includes stabilized, encapsulated red phosphorus, at least one oxidizer, at least one secondary explosive composition, at least one light metal, and at least one acid resistant binder. The stabilized, encapsulated red phosphorus may include particles of red phosphorus, a metal oxide coating, and a polymer layer. The metal oxide coating may be a coating of aluminum hydroxide, bismuth hydroxide, cadmium hydroxide, cerium hydroxide, chromium hydroxide, germanium hydroxide, magnesium hydroxide, manganese hydroxide, niobium hydroxide, silicon hydroxide, tin hydroxide, titanium hydroxide, zinc hydroxide, zirconium hydroxide, or mixtures thereof. The polymer layer may be a layer of epoxy resin, melamine resin, phenol formaldehyde resin, polyurethane resin, or mixtures thereof. A percussion cap primer that includes the primer composition, a tertiary explosive composition, and a cup is also disclosed, as are ordnance devices including the primer composition.
US08524017B2
A process for manufacturing a component with a base of Co—Cr—Mo alloys having values of average ultimate elongation at 800° C. greater than 10% and of average yielding load at 800° C. greater than 400 MPa, comprising: obtaining a sintered component by additive sintering of powders of Co—Cr—Mo alloys containing carbides irregularly dispersed in the molten matrix; Conducting a first heat treatment on the sintered component for solubilization of the carbides at a temperature of between 1100° C. and 1300° C. for at least 2 hours to form a solubilization intermediate; and cooling the solubilization intermediate at a cooling rate at least equal to that of cooling in air to form a cooled intermediate; and conducting a second heat treatment on the cooled intermediate at a temperature of between 700° C. and 1000° C.
US08524013B2
There are provided a permanent magnet and a manufacturing method thereof capable of manufacturing metal alkoxide in better work environment, simpler production facilities and easier manufacturing process and also reducing the manufacturing costs. An electrolytic solution is obtained through dissolving chloride or injecting hydrogen chloride gas into alcohol which is same alcohol as is a constituent element of metal alkoxide to be manufactured. Then, electrolysis is performed on the electrolytic solution while using, for an anode, a ferroalloy that contains iron and metal which is a constituent element of the metal alkoxide to be manufactured in a predetermined weight ratio (such as 1:1), and, for a cathode, the same ferroalloy, carbon, platinum or stainless steel, so as to obtain an alcohol solution of the metal alkoxide. Then, a permanent magnet is manufactured using the alcohol solution of the metal alkoxide thus obtained.
US08524010B2
A transportable wash unit comprises a wash fluid delivery system for delivering wash fluid to a desired washing location; a power supply for providing power to components of the transportable washing unit; a unit controller for controlling one or more components of the transportable wash unit; and a mobility unit for mobilizing the transportable wash unit.
US08524005B2
A heat-transfer structure which can keep a consumable component at a temperature of 225° C. or less during etching of a substrate. The heat-transfer structure is disposed in a chamber where plasma processing is performed on a wafer as the substrate under a reduced pressure. The heat-transfer structure is comprised of a focus ring having an exposed surface exposed to plasma, a susceptor and an electrostatic chuck that cool the consumable component, and a heat-transfer sheet interposed between the focus ring and the electrostatic chuck and made of a gel-like material. The ratio of hardness of the heat-transfer sheet expressed in Asker C to thermal conductivity of the heat-transfer sheet expressed in W/m·K is less than 20.
US08524002B2
Silicon wafers doped with nitrogen, hydrogen and carbon, have a plurality of voids, wherein 50% or more of the total number of voids are bubble-like shaped aggregates of voids; a V1 region having a void density of over 2×104/cm3 and below 1×105/cm3 which occupies 20% or less of the total area of the silicon wafer; a V2 region having a void density of 5×102 to 2×104/cm3 which occupies 80% or more of the total area of said silicon wafer; and a bulk micro defect density which is 5×108/cm3 or more, have excellent GOI characteristics and a high C-mode pass rate. The wafers are cut from a single crystal pulled by a method in which carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen dopants are controlled, and the crystal is subjected to rapid cooling.
US08524000B2
Methods for producing multicrystalline silicon ingots by use of a Czochralski-type crystal puller and pulling assemblies that include a plurality of seed crystals for pulling multicrystalline silicon ingots.
US08523989B2
Embodiments of the present subject matter provide a compound and material that may be used as a lead-free primary explosive. An embodiment of the present subject matter provides the compound copper(I) nitrotetrazolate. Certain embodiments of the present subject matter provide methods for preparing lead-free primary explosives. The method includes: providing cuprous salt; providing water; providing 5-nitrotetrazolate salt; combining the cuprous salt, water and 5-nitrotetrazolate salt to form a mixture; and heating the mixture. The method may also include providing cuprous chloride and providing sodium 5-nitrotetrazolate. Certain embodiments of the present subject matter also provide methods for preparing copper(I) nitrotetrazolate. The method includes: providing cuprous salt; providing water; providing 5-nitrotetrazolate salt; combining the cuprous salt, water and 5-nitrotetrazolate salt to form a mixture; and heating the mixture. The method may also include providing cuprous chloride and providing sodium 5-nitrotetrazolate.
US08523988B2
A particulate estimation system is configured for estimating a mass of particulate matter accumulated in a particulate filter of an exhaust system. The system includes a memory device, an interface, and a controller. The memory device stores a plurality of modules. Each of the plurality of modules is configured to uniquely estimate an amount of the particulate matter accumulated within the particulate filter over a period of time. The interface receives a plurality of input signals. The plurality of input signals correspond to a plurality of modules that are stored in the memory device. The controller derives a hybrid model based on the input signals. The hybrid model is configured to provide an output that is an estimation of the amount of particulate matter accumulated within the particulate filter over the period of time as a function of the plurality of input signals.
US08523987B2
A dust arrester includes a housing with air inlet and air outlet, wherein the ambient air containing dust particles can be introduced into the housing via the air inlet and discharged from the housing via the air outlet. The dust arrester further includes a water trough placed in the bottom of the housing and a chaos effect generator including a nozzle and a material. The nozzle can spray water supplied from the water trough. The water sprayed interacts with the material to generate a chaos condition, so that the dust particles can be removed from the introduced air under the chaos condition.
US08523986B2
In a gas scrubber, a gas stream containing at least one sublimed substance is brought in contact with a liquid or melt stream containing at least one thermally convertible substance, which has a lower temperature than the gas stream. For the intensive and intimate mixing of the gas stream with the liquid or melt stream, an orifice plate with a plurality of holes each surrounded by a retaining edge is provided in the upper part of the gas scrubber, and above the orifice plate inlets for the gas stream and the liquid or melt stream are provided.
US08523985B2
In a bubble-column vapor mixture condenser, a fluid source supplies a carrier-gas stream including a condensable fluid in vapor phase. The condensable fluid in liquid form is contained as a bath in a chamber in each stage of the condenser, and the carrier gas is bubbled through the bath to condense the fluid into the bath. Energy from condensation is recovered to a liquid composition in a conduit that passes through the liquid in the stages of the condenser. The bubble-column vapor mixture condenser can be used, e.g., in a humidification-dehumidification system for purifying a liquid, such as water.
US08523984B2
Water circulation systems with air stripping arrangements to treat and remove undesirable disinfectant byproducts from potable water in municipal water tanks, ponds, and other bodies of water. The systems include a flotation platform, dish, draft tube, and an impeller to draw water from the depths of the tank up through the draft tube to be discharged outwardly of the dish to create a primary circulation pattern and an induced, inner or secondary circulation pattern. Each system additionally includes an air stripping arrangement positioned adjacent and about the upper portion of the draft tube and adjacent an upper portion of the secondary flow. The air stripping arrangement includes a plurality of submerged sets of air manifolds wherein pressurized air is supplied to the air manifolds and driven out of them in bubbles to create a treatment zone immediately above each set of manifolds.
US08523981B2
The invention relates to a hydrophobic, integrally asymmetrical hollow-fiber membrane made of a vinylidene fluoride homopolymer or copolymer, wherein the wall of the membrane has a microporous supporting layer having a sponge-like, open-pored, essentially isotropic pore structure without finger pores, the supporting layer extending across at least 90% of the wall thickness and having pores with an average diameter of less than 0.5 μm. The hollow-fiber membrane is characterized in that it has a separating layer adjacent to the supporting layer on its outer surface and that it has an outer surface with a homogeneous, uniform structure without pores, a porosity in the range from 40 to 80 vol. %, a wall thickness from 25 to 100 μm, a diameter of the lumen of the hollow-fiber membrane from 100 to 500 μm, a permeability for nitrogen of at least 25 ml/(cm2·min·bar), and an elongation at break of at least 250%. The invention further relates to a method for producing hollow-fiber membranes of this type.
US08523953B2
The present invention relates to the use of amine and quaternary ammonium compounds for protecting hair color of artificially colored hair with respect to the washing, according to general structure R1-A-R2—B Wherein R1, A, R2 and B are defined in the claims and in the specification or —R2-A-R1 Wherein R1, A, R2 have the above meaning.
US08523947B2
An implant assembly is disclosed, and includes an implant member and a plate configured to be coupled with the implant member. The plate defines a horizontal plane and includes at least one bore through the plate. The bore has an inlet aperture and at least one exit aperture. The inlet aperture has a curvilinear seat. A fastener is configured for insertion through the at least one bore, and the fastener has a curved portion. The curved portion of the fastener is configured to contact the contact the curvilinear seat to secure the plate to the implant member.
US08523935B2
The present invention refers to a tubular support prostheses (stent) for vessels or intercorporeal lumina comprising at least two adjacently arranged expandable support rings connected to one another on at least one joint, said support rings being formed by a filament wound in a meander-like manner to form several arcs of curvature. The expansion behavior of such a support prosthesis is to be improved. For this purpose at least one arc of curvature of a first support ring and an arc of curvature of an adjacent second support ring overlap laterally, whereby the joint in the overlapping portion is formed.
US08523930B2
Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for cooling tissue, and in particular for applying therapeutic hypothermia to the spinal canal, tissue disposed within the spinal canal, and nerve roots extending from the spinal canal. Bone screws, intervertebral implants, stabilization rods, spinous process spacers, and other devices are described which define a chamber through which a chilled fluid, expandable gas, or other coolant means can be circulated, delivered, or activated to cool adjacent tissue. The degree of cooling can be regulated using a controller, which can be configured to increase or decrease the cooling effect based on any of a variety of measured or predicted physiological or thermodynamic properties. Methods are disclosed for implanting cooling instruments and for carrying out various treatment regimens that involve cooling tissue using such instruments.
US08523922B2
A device for attaching an elongated member to a vertebral member and provide for dampened movement of the elongated member. The device may include a receiver that receives an elongated member. The receiver may be movably attached to an anchor that may be attached to a vertebral member. A dampener may be positioned within the receiver. Further, one or more slots may be positioned in the receiver. The dampener and/or slots dampen the translational movement of the receiver and attached elongated member relative to the anchor in first and second directions, and may also buffer forces applied into the spine.
US08523920B2
A system for stabilizing a portion of the spine comprising an elongate plate attached to one or more vertebrae by a number of bone anchors, with the system including one or more features that provide visualization of an implant disposed within a vertebral space and/or the interface between the implant and the adjacent vertebral tissue. A holding instrument is included that is engageable to the plate for positioning the plate adjacent the spinal column.
US08523915B2
A set screw for use in association with spinal implant assemblies. The set screw includes a threaded base portion extending along a longitudinal axis and formed of a first material, and a friction member extending from a distal end of the threaded base portion and formed of a second material different from the first material. In one embodiment, the spinal implant assembly includes a connector member having a passage and an opening in communication with the passage, and an elongate support member positioned within the passage of the connector member. The set screw is threadedly engaged to the connector member and at least partially positioned within the opening, with a distal end portion of the friction member extending into the passage and compressed against an outer surface of the elongate support member to inhibit movement of the elongate support member within the passage.
US08523912B2
Dynamic posterior stabilization systems and methods of stabilizing vertebrae are described. A dynamic posterior stabilization system may include a first bone fastener configured to couple to a first vertebra, a second bone fastener configured to couple to a second vertebra, and a dampener system attached to the first bone fastener and the second bone fastener. The dampener system may include a first dampener set and a second dampener set. Compression of the first dampener set provides resistance to movement of the first bone fastener towards the second bone fastener. Compression of the first dampener set and the second dampener set provides resistance to movement of the first bone fastener away from the second bone fastener.
US08523908B2
Bone implantable devices and methodologies permit careful application of biologically active substances and management of bone growth processes. The device includes a body defining a carrier receiving area for locating adjacent bone. Carrier material is located in the carrier receiving area. Substance is delivered onto carrier material through a port. A pathway delivers substance from the carrier receiving area to the bone surface. The body may be in the form of a spinal fusion cage, facet fusion screw, artificial joint, bone fixation plate, interbody graft, IM nail, hip stem, or other bone-to-bone appliances or bone-to-device appliances. In use, carrier is installed in the carrier receiving area of the device. The device is then implanted adjacent a bone. The substance is applied to the carrier for subsequent delivery to the bone. By doping carrier material after device implantation, inadvertent contact of the substance with non-target bone is more easily eliminated.
US08523898B2
A forceps includes an end effector assembly having first and second jaw members. Each jaw member includes a proximal flange having an inwardly-facing surface. The proximal flanges are coupled to one another for moving the jaw members relative to one another between a first position and a second position for grasping tissue therebetween. The inwardly-facing surfaces of the proximal flanges are disposed in abutting relation relative to one another. A knife is configured to move along a knife path defined along an outwardly-facing surface of one of the proximal flanges. The knife is movable between a retracted position and an extended position, wherein the knife extends between the jaw members to cut tissue grasped therebetween.
US08523894B2
The present invention relates to a compression device for stimulating the efflux of a body fluid from a body part. The device has a compression unit with a pressure-application region made of a deformable material, the region being formed to generate a repulsive force between the body part and the compression unit. The repulsive force passes through a force maximum then decreases to serve as an indication that the body part is guided sufficiently firmly and far enough onto the compression unit.
US08523886B2
Endoscopic devices and methods used for fastening multiple tissue layers, such as, for example, an endoscopic fundoplication procedure, are disclosed. The endoluminal device includes a tissue fastener, a flexible needle having means for grasping and releasing a portion of the tissue fastener, and a deflector for deflecting and guiding the needle toward the multiple tissue layers.
US08523882B2
A surgical clip applier and methods for applying surgical clips to a vessel, duct, shunt, etc., during a surgical procedure are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a surgical clip applier is provided having a housing with a trigger movably coupled thereto and a shaft extending therefrom with opposed jaws formed on a distal end thereof. The trigger is adapted to advance a clip to position the clip between the jaws, and to move the jaws from an open position to a closed position to crimp the clip positioned therebetween. The surgical clip applier can include a variety of features to facilitate use of the device, including features to align a clip with the jaws, features to prevent unintentional migration of a clip, and features to prevent clip fallout during formation.
US08523873B2
A neural monitoring enabled insulating sleeve for use with a surgical instrument during a surgical procedure on a patient in patient body tissue includes a tubular portion having a proximal end, a distal end, and a bore extending therethrough. The bore is configured to receive the surgical instrument. The tubular portion being formed of a material that electrically insulates the surgical instrument from the patient body tissue and having a flexible portion configured to flex between a locked and an unlocked condition. A camming component is configured to interface at the proximal end of the tubular portion. It is configured to cam the flexible portion between the locked and unlocked condition.
US08523868B2
A hand-held surgical cutting instrument for cutting bone material with a surgical micro-saw blade has a plurality of openings formed therein. The surgical cutting instrument includes a hand-graspable body for manipulating the cutting instrument and a blade coupling mechanism attached to the body and being configured to attach to the surgical micro-saw blade. The blade coupling mechanism includes a first coupling member including a first blade-contacting surface. The first blade-contacting surface has at least one first protrusion extending therefrom and is configured to engage a first opening in the surgical saw blade. The blade coupling mechanism includes a second coupling member including a second blade-contacting surface facing the first blade-contacting surface of the first coupling member. The second blade-contacting surface having at least one second protrusion extending therefrom and configured to engage a second opening in the surgical saw blade.
US08523867B2
An orthopaedic reamer is provided for preparing a bone socket, such as the glenoid of the scapula, to receive a prosthetic glenoid component. The orthopaedic reamer includes an elongate shaft and an oblong cutting head, such as a cutting head having an oval or elliptical shape.
US08523866B2
A reamer for medical applications comprising a shaft portion, a disposable tapered hollow reamer sleeve and a modular pilot. The shaft portion has a proximal end for attachment to a drill, a central cone element with one or more slots and a distal threaded end. The reamer sleeve has attached one or more torque transmitting tabs at the larger end and a collet taper at the smaller end and slides over the shaft engaging tabs with the slots. The modular pilot has a threaded central aperture engaging shaft thread and a collet taper mating with the collet taper of the reamer sleeve substantially coinciding their centerlines. The disposable hollow cutter sleeve has a plurality of cutting elements and apertures that discharge bone and bone cement debris into the space between the reamer and the shaft. With this construction, the reamer transmits reliable reaming torque in an efficient manner.
US08523862B2
A drill guide system for a bone plate having holes includes a guide block having at least two drill guide bores alignable with a bone screw receiving hole in a bone plate. A locking element extending through at least one drill guide block bore into the bone plate bone screw receiving hole, the locking element having a partially threaded bore portion and having a bifurcated tip surrounding the threaded bore portion. The bifurcated tip capable of engaging an inwardly extending protrusion formed on an internal wall of a bone screw receiving hole in the bone plate. An axially moveable threaded rod has a head for contacting an outer surface of the guide block and an end portion engaging a portion of the bore in the bifurcated tip of the locking element for separating sections of the bifurcated tip on axial movement of the rod prior to the head contacting the second surface of the drill guide block.
US08523853B2
An electrosurgical return electrode is disclosed. The return electrode includes an intermediary layer formed from a dielectric material, the intermediary layer having a top surface and a patient-contacting surface. The return electrode also includes a capacitive return electrode formed from a conductive material disposed on the top surface of the intermediary layer and a resistive monitoring electrode formed from a conductive material disposed on the patient-contact surface of the intermediary layer.
US08523835B2
A pant-type disposable absorbent hygiene article (2), comprises a waist edge (20), continuous in the circumferential direction thereof and forming a waist opening, and leg openings (8a,b), a front piece (6) and a back piece (4) having longitudinal side edge sections (16,18), and a crotch region (10), disposed between the front piece (6) and the back piece (4). The waist edge (20), continuous in the circumferential direction thereof, and the leg openings (8a,b) are produced by joining, on the manufacture end, the longitudinal side edge sections (16,18) of a front piece (6) and a back piece (4). The hygiene article also comprises an absorbent body (22). Every leg opening (8a,b) has an elastic leg opening section (81). Cuff elements (7) are provided on both sides of the absorbent body (22) and extend in the longitudinal direction (28) thereof, each cuff element (7) having an elastic cuff element section (9), and a) every cuff element (7) having at least one non-elastic cuff element section (11) and, when the product is placed on the body of the user, the elastic leg opening section (81) crosses the respective non-elastic cuff element section (11) or b) the length of the respective cuff element (7) being chosen in such a manner that, when the product is placed on the body of the user, the elastic leg opening section (81) does not cross the respective cuff element (7).
US08523831B2
Caps can be used to cover and disinfect medical connectors. Some caps can create a seal with the medical connectors to prevent antiseptic from entering a fluid paths defined by a connector. Support members can aid in creating or maintaining the seal.
US08523818B2
An enteral feeding assembly is described which includes a base and a catheter positioned through the base. A portion of the catheter extends distally away from the base, and has a retainer provided on a distal end of the catheter. The retainer includes a plurality of struts having a flexible, preformed configuration which cooperate to form at least a portion of a spherical shape with openings between the struts. A shroud is positioned over at least a proximal portion of the struts to prevent the struts from causing irritation or embedding in a body lumen. The retainer is movable between an insertion configuration and a deployed configuration. An obturator and actuator are used to move the retainer between positions. A method for inserting and removing an enteral feeding assembly is also provided.
US08523817B2
A laparoscopic instrument for forming an incision in a body cavity, insufflating the body cavity with gas, and suturing the incision at the completion of the surgery includes a set of jaws at the distal end of the Veress needle or cannula. The jaws are pivoted to one another for motion between an open position or a closed position in which they may be used to grasp a suture in the body cavity for removal from the cavity for knotting. A push mechanism at the proximal end of the instrument moves the jaws between their open and closed position on successive actuations of a pushbutton and retains them in that state until the next push. An illumination source is provided for the distal end of the instrument to provide illumination through the walls of the body cavity so that the surgeon can determine the degree of penetration of the instrument into the body cavity and can identify any major arteries which should be avoided in the formation of other laparoscopic openings.
US08523815B2
A pump for the delivery of a fluid includes a core, a restrictor, and an expandable bladder. The core is configured to extend longitudinally along an axis of the pump. The restrictor is configured to limit the longitudinal extension of the core to a predetermined maximum length. The expandable bladder is attached to the support core in at least one position and configured to receive a fluid.
US08523810B2
A pneumatic retractable syringe has a plunger having an interior retraction lumen. The plunger and syringe barrel have cooperating locking elements so that the plunger is locked after use within the syringe barrel. After injection of medicament is completed, the needle is retracted into the lumen by compressed gas that is released from a gas cell within the syringe when the gas cell is ruptured just before the plunger reaches the end of its downstream path of travel.
US08523809B2
A safety device for shielding a sharp tip of a tubular needle includes a shaft sized and shaped for being received into the passage of the tubular needle through a first end of the passage and extending to a second end of the passage. A shield is associated with the shaft and is constructed for receiving and substantially shielding the sharp tip of the needle. A catch is associated with the shaft. The catch prevents the withdrawal of the shaft from the passage of the needle when the shield is shielding the sharp tip of the needle.
US08523807B2
A transfer and mixing device which utilizes a by-pass cartridge and a syringe. After mixing the dry component and the diluent in the by-pass cartridge, the mixture can be passed to a syringe which includes a syringe plunger having a fluid passageway therein with a hydrophobic membrane covering the passageway. The mixture can be transferred back and forth between the by-pass cartridge and the syringe through a small bore to achieve mixing, particularly in the case of microspheres held in suspension.
US08523796B2
The inflatable splint is formed of an inner shell of thin, semi-rigid material and at least one pneumatically inflated ply surrounding the inner shell. A second pneumatically inflated ply may be placed around the first pneumatically inflated layer. The inner shell may be lined with a soft fabric material, or a soft fabric sock or sleeve may be applied over the injured limb for comfort. The innermost semi-rigid ply of the splint may be formed in two halves that attach removably to one another to allow the assembly to be removed from the wearer from time to time for hygiene, therapy, and/or other reasons as required. The pneumatically inflatable outer plies are each formed as a single wrap. An inflation device may be provided with the assembly, for the convenience of the wearer to adjust the inflation pressure of the outer pneumatic ply or plies.
US08523789B2
An apparatus and method evaluate the power of a muscle or a muscle group by initializing a resistance element to a first resistance level. An engagement assembly coupled to the resistance element is moved at a highest achievable velocity through an exercise stroke while a representative velocity at which the engagement assembly is moved through the exercise stroke is measured. At the completion of the exercise stroke, the resistance level of the resistance element is increased and the exercise stroke is repeated. The resistance level is increased until the resistance level is sufficient to preclude moving the engagement assembly through a complete exercise stroke. The power for each exercise stroke, the maximum power and the velocity and resistance at which the maximum power is produced are calculated based on the resistance level for each exercise stroke and the representative velocity for each exercise stroke.
US08523784B2
The invention concerns an analytical device containing a lancet comprising a lancet needle and a lancet body, the lancet needle being movable relative to the lancet body and the lancet body being composed, at least in the area of the tip of the lancet needle, of an elastic material in which the tip of the lancet needle is embedded, and an analytical test element which is permanently connected to the lancet body. In addition the invention concerns an analytical device containing a lancet comprising a lancet needle and a lancet body which is in the form of a hollow body in the area of the tip of the lancet needle and surrounds the tip of the lancet needle, the lancet needle being movable relative to the lancet body and the hollow body being composed at least partially of an elastic material, and an analytical test element which is permanently connected to the lancet body. Finally the invention concerns a process for manufacturing such an analytical device.
US08523783B2
A method includes actuating a lever to move a cannula of a medical instrument from a first extended position to second retracted position; and actuating the lever to move a stylet of the medical instrument from a third extended position to a fourth retracted position. Actuating the lever comprises moving the lever from a first lever position spaced apart from a housing of the medical instrument to a second lever position closer to the housing.
US08523773B2
A long term analyte sensor for measuring at least one analyte in the body of a user and which includes a housing, a plurality of analyte contacting sensor elements and at least one structure for relaying information away from the sensor. This plurality of analyte contacting sensor elements are typically disposed in an array. The analyte sensor further includes at least one sensor protection membrane that is controllable in a manner such that sensor elements may be activated (e.g. exposed to the external environment) at different times so as to extend the useful life of the sensor. In illustrative analyte sensors, the analyte is glucose.
US08523767B2
A retractor assembly for percutaneous surgery in a patient that includes first and second retractor portions positionable opposite one another in an incision of the patient. A working channel extends between the first and second retractor portions and provides access to a location within the patient adjacent to distal ends of the first and second retractor portions. The first and second retractor portions are movable relative to one another to adjust the size of the working channel. An add-on retractor element is provided that is mounted to the first and second retractor portions and spans the gap between the first and second retractor portions to prevent creep of soft tissue into the working channel when the retractor portions are separated.
US08523763B2
A probe apparatus adapted for movement through a lumen, comprising: a linearly extendible and retractable element adapted for selective extension and retraction to provide the movement; a front balloon positioned forward of the linearly extendible and retractable element and adapted for selective inflation and deflation; a rear balloon positioned backward of the linearly extendible and retractable element and adapted for selective inflation and deflation; and, a twisting element adapted to twist at least one of the linearly extendible and retractable element, front balloon and rear balloon during inflation and deflation of the advancement balloon.
US08523762B2
An endoscope system includes: an endoscope including an elongated insertion portion provided with a bendable bending portion, the insertion portion being inserted into a duodenum; and a first balloon to a fourth balloon for moving a one-side surface of a distal end portion located nearer to a distal end side than the bending portion in the insertion portion in parallel with respect to a field of view direction S of an objective lens which is a diameter direction of the insertion portion, separately from bending of the bending portion, the one-side surface being located in a circumferential direction along an insertion direction W of the insertion portion and parallel to a central axis P of the insertion portion.
US08523758B1
A system configured to provide breathing cues to a patient to alleviate insomnia or sleeplessness. In one embodiment, the system comprises a pressure support apparatus, a patient monitor, and a processor. The pressure support apparatus is configured to provide a pressurized flow of gas for delivery to an airway of the patient. The patient monitor configured to generate one or more signals that convey information related to one or more physiological functions of the patient. The processor in operative communication with each of the pressure support apparatus and the patient monitor. The processor is configured (i) to determine whether the patient is asleep or awake based at least in part on the one or more signals generated by the patient monitor, and (ii) to control the pressure support apparatus such that if the patient is determined to be awake, one or more properties of the flow of gas are varied according to a first predetermined algorithm designed to provide breathing cues to the patient that prompt the patient to breathe at a target breathing rate.
US08523757B2
An arterial device, system and method are provided for use with a patient undergoing a cardiac procedure. The system is configured for enabling one or more arterial devices to be accommodated in the aorta of the patient in use of the system, and a perfusion lumen arrangement provides therethrough a target perfusion flow into the aorta having a target perfusion flow rate that is significantly greater than a nominal perfusion flow rate, by an excess perfusion flow rate. A suction lumen arrangement provides therethrough a suction flow out of the aorta at a suction flow rate. The target perfusion flow rate and the suction flow rate may be concurrently and selectively controlled to cause embolic debris that may be present in the aorta to be diverted to the suction inlet, while providing the nominal flow rate to the body circulation of the patient.
US08523750B2
A centrifugal blood processing apparatus comprising a centrifuge rotor, a separation chamber, a tubing set for conducting blood components and fluids and a method for controlling the blood processing apparatus comprising separating a blood component in a separation chamber; flowing the blood component out of the separation chamber and into a concentration chamber; concentrating the blood component in the concentration chamber; and flushing the blood component out of the concentration chamber. The method further comprising simultaneously flowing a solution, such as a wash solution or PAS, into the concentration chamber between the separation chamber and the concentration chamber.
US08523748B2
A charging member is provided which has a surface layer that can more surely keep bleeding from occurring. It is a charging member having a substrate, an elastic layer and a surface layer; the surface layer containing a high-molecular compound having a constituent unit represented by the following formula (1) and a constituent unit represented by the following formula (2), and having an Si—O—Zr linkage.
US08523747B2
A hollow roller, which is heatable with steam, has an inner wall. It is rotatably mounted and has a steam supply channel opening into the interior and a siphon pipe, which opens into the interior coaxially to a centre longitudinal axis, with a suction opening located adjacent to the inner wall. The siphon pipe is held in a rotary feed-through, which is pivotable relative to the centre longitudinal axis of the hollow roller about a pivot angle α in such a way that the spacing b of the suction opening from the inner wall is adjustable.
US08523733B1
The present disclosure relates to a vehicle driveline differential with improved efficiency during vehicle cold starts, the differential includes: a pinion; and a pinion bearing journaled onto a shaft of the pinion. The pinion bearing includes a thermal-insulation sleeve.
US08523732B2
A double shock-absorbing steering wheel, in particular for automobile vehicles, including a primary inertia mass connected to an engine shaft (12), a secondary inertia mass (14) connected by clutch E to a gearbox BV, and a torsion damper (18) rotatably connecting the two inertia masses (10, 14). The torsion damper includes an epicycloidal gear train whose outer crown wheel (22) engages with a spring (28) for absorption of vibrations and rotation acyclisms. The spring is mounted around the crown wheel (22) in a fixed frame (26).
US08523727B2
A multi ratio drive including a first drive chain having a first drive chain engaged state and a first drive chain disengaged state; and a second drive chain having a second drive chain engaged state and a second drive chain disengaged state. The first drive chain drives the axle with a first gear ratio between the drive shaft and the axle when the first drive chain is in the first drive chain engaged state and the second drive chain is in the second drive chain disengaged state; the second drive chain drives the axle with a second gear ratio between the drive shaft and the axle when the second drive chain is in the second drive chain engaged state and the first drive chain is in the first drive chain disengaged state; and the first gear ratio is different from the second gear ratio.
US08523722B2
Disclosed is a pulley capable of meeting requirements for both enhancement in friction coefficient, and maintenance of abrasion resistance, required of a belt CVT (continuously variable transmission).The pulley is a pulley of the continuously variable transmission for effecting power transmission between an element and the pulley, being composed of a steel stock containing a predetermined amount of Mn, wherein the surface of the steel stock has a surface-hardened layer of either a nitriding layer or a carbonitriding layer, containing the predetermined amount of Mn, and the surface-hardened layer has properties for stably securing friction coefficient not lower than 0.115, exceeding the friction coefficient of SCr420H steel currently in use, and maintaining abrasion resistance equivalent to the abrasion resistance of the SCr420H steel, or improving the same.
US08523705B2
A hollow golf club head with a concave portion is disclosed and claimed. The club head includes a metallic portion and a light-weight portion, which may be formed of plastic, composite, or the like. The concave portion allows the club designer to make a club head having very thin portions while still maintaining the requisite structural integrity. Convex bulges may optionally be provided to house weight inserts to enhance the playing characteristics of the golf club. The metallic portion of the club head may take on the appearance of a frame, into which several light-weight inserts are positioned. These light-weight inserts may be positioned in the crown, skirt, and sole of the club head. The club head may be formed by co-molding, eliminating the need for welding or adhesives, freeing mass to be used in more beneficial ways. The club head may be large to increase playability and forgiveness.
US08523694B2
A playing surface for a gaming table includes a composite sheet including concrete and at least one fiber component. The composite sheet has a density of approximately one to two grams per cubic centimeter (1-2 g/cm3).
US08523693B2
MEASURE YOUR SHOT (M.Y.S.) is a methodology and technology of two billiard balls, each ball including nine (9) one quarter inch (¼″) lines scribed 360 degrees, the lines are scaled to diamonds on rails of a billiard table. With the aid of the diamonds and lines it becomes simple for a user and spectators to recognize the type of shot. The training balls provide a tool for improving a user's shot.
US08523680B2
An approach is provided for providing a service using an on-line game capable of, maximizing effects of services associated with the on-line game, and recording media recording a program for implementing the service providing method. The service providing method may include, for example, storing, in a rendering region, game object drawing information of a game screen for the on-line game in response to a request for reproducing the game screen; hooking the rendering region to change the game object drawing information so that service object information provided from a game server is included in the game object drawing information; storing the changed game object drawing information in the rendering region; and providing the game screen by rendering the game object drawing information including the service object information stored in the rendering region.
US08523667B2
In a motion capture system having a depth camera, access to an electronic media device such as personal computer or a game console with Internet connectivity is controlled. The age group of a person in a field of view of the camera can be determined based on metrics of a 3-D body model. The metrics can relate to, e.g., a relative size of a head of the body, a ratio of arm length to body height, a ratio of body height to head height, and/or a ratio of head width to shoulder width. The metrics are particularly indicative of age group. Based on the age group, a profile of the user is automatically updated with various parental control settings which control access to the electronic media device. Also, currently output content can be replaced by substitute content when a person in a lower age group enters the field of view.
US08523665B2
A gaming system including a central server linked to a plurality of gaming machines. The gaming system includes at least one and preferably a plurality of progressive awards wherein upon a suitable initiating event, a wager amount or value is randomly generated from at least one predetermined range of wager amounts or values. Upon a suitable triggering event, such as an accumulated wager pool incrementing to the randomly generated wager amount or value, a designated award, such as a progressive award, is provided to a player. In one such embodiment, upon the occurrence of the triggering event, an independent determination occurs regarding which one of the plurality of progressive awards will be provided to a player.
US08523642B2
A gaseous constituent supply device for supplying an air vortex ring containing a gaseous constituent includes a first chamber for holding the gaseous constituent, a compressing portion for compressing air in the first chamber, and a second chamber communicating with the first chamber through an opening. The second chamber holds the gaseous constituent therein. The air vortex ring is generated in the second chamber such that air blown from the first chamber into the second chamber through the opening takes in the gaseous constituent in the second chamber. The second chamber has an emitting outlet, through which the generated air vortex ring is emitted, and the emitting outlet is provided opposite to the opening.
US08523639B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a slurry delivery and rinse system for a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) apparatus which is capable of self-cleaning, and which can adjustably deliver the slurry agent and rinse agent over a polishing pad. In one embodiment, the fluid delivery system has a distributed slurry delivery arm (DSDA) which contains at least one manifold, usually two or more manifolds attached to the lower surface of the delivery arm. Each DSDA manifold contains a plurality of slurry nozzles disposed along the length of the manifold. The delivery arm also contains a plurality of high pressure rinse nozzles extending from the lower surface of the delivery arm and disposed along the length of the delivery arm, parallel to each DSDA manifold. In one example, the delivery arm contains two DSDA manifolds disposed parallel to each other and a plurality of high pressure rinse nozzles disposed between the manifolds.
US08523633B2
A method for producing a semi-finished product for a plus or minus power lens having a toroidal or atoroidal back that is configured as a prescription surface. According to the method, a blank having a diameter DR and a front having a radius of curvature rV is fixed on its front for the purpose of machining the back and is subjected to cutting, the prescription surface being produced only across a part of the diameter D. Deviating from the curvature of the prescription surface a dimension is left, thereby producing an additional surface, either in the areas of the back in which the generation of the base radius rB would result in the thickness hB of the edge being smaller than the minimum dimension hmin, so that the thickness of the semi-finished product is not smaller than the minimum dimension hmin at any point, and the maximum thickness hB of the edge being five times as large as the thinnest point S of the semi-finished product, or in the areas of the back where the generation of the cylinder radius rZ would result in the edge being thicker than a thickness hB of the edge of the semi-finished product in a plane EB of the base radius rB, the thickness is reduced so that the thickness of the semi-finished product so produced does not exceed the maximum dimension hB at any point.
US08523626B2
A light emitting device has a light emitting element, a mounting portion and a sealing part. On the mounting portion, the light emitting element is mounted and a circuit pattern is formed to supply power to the light emitting element. The sealing part is formed on the mounting portion, sealing the light emitting element, and formed of a glass and a phosphor uniformly dispersed in the glass. The phosphor is adapted to emit a wavelength-converted light by being excited by a light emitted from the light emitting element.
US08523619B2
A terminal fitting (10) is provided with a box-shaped main portion (11) capable of receiving a tab (61) of a mating terminal fitting (60) and a resiliently deformable resilient contact piece (12) arranged in the main portion (11) to be connected to the tab (61) inserted into the main portion (11). The resilient contact piece (12) includes a supporting portion (40) for resilient deformation in the main portion (11). The main portion (11) includes a base portion (18) facing the resilient contact piece (12) in a resilient deforming direction of the resilient contact piece (12). The base portion (18) includes a recess (46) formed within the thickness range thereof the base portion (18), and the supporting portion (40) is in contact with the bottom surface of the recess (46).
US08523618B2
A high frequency adapter electrically connecting a docking device to a circuit board. The high frequency adapter includes an insulating body, a high frequency signal terminal conductively connected to the circuit board, and two grounding terminals located at two sides of the high frequency signal terminal and conductively connected to the circuit board. Lateral projections of the high frequency signal terminal and the two grounding terminals are approximately the same and overlapping. Both the high frequency signal terminal and the two grounding terminals are pressed by the docking device.
US08523609B2
A photovoltaic connector assembly includes a housing that has a mating end and a cable end. The housing has a securing feature that is configured to secure the housing to another photovoltaic connector assembly. The housing has a cavity that extends between the mating end and the cable end. A terminal is received in the cavity. The terminal is configured to be mated to a corresponding terminal of the other photovoltaic connector assembly. The terminal is configured to be terminated to a cable. A cable locator is configured to be coupled to the cable rearward of the terminal. The cable locator has wings that extend from opposite sides of the cable locator. The cable locator is received in the cavity. The wings engage the housing to position the cable locator within the cavity.
US08523593B2
A standard receptacle connector has an insulating housing, multiple first terminals, multiple second terminals, a plug detecting terminal and a shell. The first and second terminals and the plug detecting terminal are mounted on the insulating housing. The shell covers the insulating housing and all of the terminals. The plug detecting terminal is capable of being connected to a controlling circuit incorporated in a PCB on which the standard receptacle connector is mounted and selectively activates the controlling circuit to provide power to an external plug connector that is inserted in and connected to the standard receptacle connector.
US08523590B2
A cable includes at least one conductor to transmit electrical signals and a shield layer positioned about the at least one conductor. The shield layer shields an environment external to the cable from electromagnetic radiation generated by the electrical signals. The cable also includes a first retention sleeve positioned about the shield layer and a second retention sleeve coupled with the first retention sleeve and to the shield layer.
US08523579B2
A spring contact assembly having a first plunger with a tail portion having a flat contact surface and a second plunger having a tail portion with a flat contact surface wherein the flat contact surfaces are overlapping and are surrounded by an external compression spring such that the sliding engagement of the flat surfaces increases during compression of the spring.
US08523575B2
A method of testing and improving recall information using an automated device. An item of information is connected to an initial prompt by a relationship link. The device presents the initial prompt to the user who recalls information and links to the prompt. The device reviews the information and links and the user compares the reviewed intended information with the recalled information. The user provides inputs to the device indicating an ability to recall the information and links. The inputs provided by the user are used to calculate a re-testing interval for each item of information. The device automatically re-test the user after the interval calculated for each item of information has elapsed. A longer interval is used for items of information recalled exactly than the interval for items of information not recalled exactly. At re-testing information not yet done for re-testing is presented to the user.
US08523574B1
An educational word game for play on a cell phone or hand held device that utilizes the linguistic concept of onsets and rimes in order to teach and develop skills in pairing and forming appropriate sets of said onset and rimes in order to form full words.
US08523573B1
A mathematical education game including a first series of cards to be dealt to a plurality of players containing the result of a mathematical operation, and another series of cards each containing a mathematical operation corresponding to a least one of the results on the first series of cards, whereby one of said series of cards is designated as the set of “answer” cards and a plurality of said answer cards are distributed to the players while the other is designated as the set of “question” cards to be asked serially by a judge, whereupon in each round the players having a correct answer to the displayed question may transfer their matching card to the judge, with the winner being the first player to turn in all of his or her cards to the judge, and whereupon during successive games the sets of question and answer cards are reversed.
US08523572B2
A touch language to be used by handicapped persons, such as deaf people, blind people, and deafblind people, is provided by the present invention. A method for communicating visual images, such as those of a television program, to a handicapped person comprises the steps of providing at least one device for physically transmitting information about the visual images to the handicapped person and delivering a key word describing a portion of the visual images to the handicapped person using the at least one device.
US08523557B2
The present invention relates to a hollow blow needle for introducing a pressurized fluid into an extruded parison enclosed by two mold halves, the needle comprising: a body portion having an inner first diameter; a neck portion having an inner second diameter, wherein the inner second diameter is less than the inner first diameter; and a tip portion comprising a first angled portion, a second angled portion that is a different angle relative to the first angled portion, and an orifice.
