US07756193B2
A method for operating a Radio Frequency (RF) receiver of a wireless terminal. During a first time interval, an RF front end is enabled and the RF receiver receives and processes an RF signal, e.g., a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) signal, to produce a baseband signal and to store samples of the baseband signal. During a second time interval that differs from the first time interval, the RF front end is disabled and the RF receiver processes the plurality of samples of the baseband signal of the first time interval to measure signal strengths of a plurality of pilot signals present in the baseband signal of the first time interval. Finally, during a third time interval that differs from the first time interval and the second time interval, the RF front end is enabled and the RF receiver receives and processes an RF signal of the third time interval to extract data there from. Memory is shared between the first, second, and third time intervals for different uses.
US07756188B2
A semiconductor laser device (5) comprising at least one semiconductor laser chip (7) is provided, wherein the semiconductor laser chip (7) contains an active layer that emits electromagnetic radiation. Further, at least one corner reflector (1) is formed in the semiconductor laser chip (7). The corner reflector (1) has a first and a second reflective surface (14, 15), wherein the first and the second reflective surface (14, 15) are arranged at an angle of less than 90 degrees with respect to one another. This results in an improved emission characteristic of the radiation emitted by the semiconductor laser device (5).
US07756178B2
A quantum cascade laser 1, which generates infrared light or other light of a predetermined wavelength by making use of intersubband transitions in a quantum well structure, is arranged by forming, on a GaAs substrate 10, an AlGaAs/GaAs active layer 11 having a cascade structure in which quantum well light emitting layers and injection layers are laminated alternately. Also, at the GaAs substrate 10 side and the side opposite the GaAs substrate 10 side of active layer 11, is provided a waveguide structure, comprising waveguide core layers 12 and 14, each being formed of an n-type GaInNAs layer, which is a group III-V compound semiconductor that contains N (nitrogen), formed so as to be lattice matched with the GaAs substrate 10, and waveguide clad layers 13 and 15, each formed of an n++-type GaAs layer. A quantum cascade laser, with which the waveguide loss of generated light in the laser is reduced, is thereby realized.
US07756173B2
A laser diode driver with means for adjusting the compliance voltage to allow a current source to accurately reproduce a current command while simultaneously minimizing the power dissipation of the current source. For a slowly-varying or DC current command, the compliance voltage is continuously adjusted to limit the power dissipation of the current source to below a predetermined minimum. For a pulsed current waveform, the compliance voltage is maximized during periods of zero or low current demand so that sufficient energy is stored to faithfully reproduce the leading edge of a pulsed current command, and reduced during the plateau portion of a pulsed current command to minimize the power dissipation of the current source.
US07756171B2
A laser control system contains an oscillator gas chamber and an amplifier gas chamber. A first voltage input is operatively connected to deliver electrical pulses to a first pair of electrodes within the oscillator gas chamber and a second pair of electrodes within the amplifier gas chamber. An output of the gas chambers is an energy dose calculated by a trapezoidal window. A control circuit connects to the first voltage input for modifying the first voltage input. A feedback control loop communicates an output of the gas chambers to the control circuit for modifying the first voltage input.
US07756155B2
A server computer system includes a keep-alive autonomic adjustment mechanism that monitors current operating conditions and dynamically adjusts the keep-alive specification to optimize the keep-alives for the current operating conditions. The keep-alive autonomic adjustment mechanism monitors the total number of clients, and the average number of requests per client. The value of a keep-alive specification that determines how log to keep a connection open may be dynamically and autonomically adjusted by the keep-alive autonomic adjustment mechanism according to the monitored current operating conditions. The keep-alive autonomic adjustment mechanism may also include the ability to autonomically enable and disable the keep-alives. In this manner the performance of the server may be tuned to optimize the effect of using keep-alives according to current operating conditions.
US07756147B2
The present invention provides a VLAN-based data packet transmission method and an Ethernet bridge device. The method includes: learning a member port corresponding to a VLAN according to a data packet received by an Ethernet bridge device, and storing a correspondence between a VLAN and the learnt member port; and forwarding the data packet by the Ethernet bridge device according to the correspondence between each VLAN and its member port that is stored.
US07756142B2
The present invention discloses a method for realizing signalling agent based on a media gateway control protocol, which comprises the following steps of: providing an agent equipment between media gateways and a media gateway controller that locate in different networks, the agent equipment providing signalling agent and network address translation between different networks; requesting for registering to the media gateway controller from a media gateway; for a MGCP/MEGACO signalling that is not related to media between the media gateway controller and the media gateway, directly replacing a transaction number by the agent equipment and then forwarding; for a MGCP/MEGACO signalling that is related to media, processing a media identifier correspondingly by the agent equipment and then forwarding. According to the present invention, transparent traversing of MGCP/MEGACO protocol among different networks can be realized to make a media gateway controller control media gateways not matter which network they locate in, in which messages on media gateways are dynamically generated by the agent equipment according to MGCP signallings, and operation maintenance cost decreases.
US07756140B2
The relay device, comprising an address correspondence holding section which holds, for each of the terminals, the IP address and real MAC address of the terminal and a virtual MAC address being a MAC address that is virtual; a proxy reply section which, when a first ARP request frame that seeks the acquisition of the virtual MAC address from the terminal is received, reads the virtual MAC address of the corresponding terminal from the address correspondence holding section and sends back the virtual MAC address to the terminal; a MAC address conversion section which receives a first frame addressed to the virtual MAC address when the first frame is sent and received between the terminals, performs conversion of the virtual MAC address and real MAC address for the MAC address of the first frame, and sends back a converted second frame; and a security check section.
US07756139B2
An apparatus and a method for megaco protocol conversion is provided. The apparatus includes: a plurality of first protocol execution units for receiving a plurality of protocol packets, executing operations according to the received protocols, analyzing the received protocols, and generating protocol execution parameters. Databases store connection information between the objects and protocol conversion functions. A protocol conversion unit interfaces first protocol execution unit and the megaco protocol execution unit, and searches for destination objects and the protocol conversion functions in the database, and converts the generated protocol execution parameters to protocol types of the destination objects, based on condition modes of objects which transmitted the protocol packets.
US07756126B2
According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for providing VLAN mobility that comprises at least two operations. A first operation involves determining whether a unique identifier of the second network device is within an Association listing. The Association listing includes unique identifiers of networks devices associated with the first network device and virtual local area network (VLAN) identifiers for the network devices associated with the first network device. A second operation involves determining if the unique identifier of the second network device is within a Bridge listing if the unique identifier of the second network device is not located within the Association listing.
US07756120B2
A private communications network and method of managing calls in a private communications network. A Session Border Controller (SBC) listens for private network voice communications originating from private communications devices, e.g., Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) devices sending/receiving Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications such as SIP messages. The SBC assigns a unique port to each registering communications device and adds a path header with a single, common SBC port to the SIP register messages. A softswitch responds by adding a route header to identified voice communications. Thereafter, all identified voice communications pass through a single, common SBC port.
US07756115B2
A method for providing a stateless Session Interface Protocol (SIP) back to back user agent (B2BUA) comprising receiving a SIP message and determining if the SIP message is a SIP request. The SIP request further comprises a request to create an original SIP dialog or a request for an existing SIP dialog. Method further comprises determining if the SIP message is a SIP response. The SIP response may further comprise a provisional SIP response or a final SIP response. Method is suitable for transforming the SIP request, transforming the SIP response, transmitting the transformed SIP request to a new destination, and transmitting the transformed SIP response to a request originator.
US07756104B1
A system includes the ability to establish a communication session between stations using protocol capabilities of an external transcoder. The stations may establish a communication session by exchanging protocol capabilities which include a protocol capability of at least one remotely located transcoder. The communication session may then be established using appropriate signalling protocol, including peer-to-peer signalling protocols.
US07756100B2
A baseband controller system creates and maintains a schedule of synchronized events and reviews the schedule as a part of determining whether to initiate a transmission of a non-synchronous event (one that is not time sensitive, for example, e-mail). One aspect of the present invention is to create a system and method that avoids a possibility of collision between synchronized and non-synchronized communication events. A synchronized event is a scheduled transmission of time sensitive data such as what is often known as continuous bit rate data. Examples include video and voice wherein a collision (inability to transmit the continuous bit rate data) may result in degradation of signal quality at the receiving end. The inventive system and method evaluate the schedule of synchronized events in relation to the present time and determine whether a non-synchronized event may be transmitted without the likelihood of a collision. Making the determination that such a transmission may occur includes evaluating future time periods to see if a synchronized event is scheduled during a time period in which the non-synchronized event would continue to be transmitted for those non-synchronized events that span two or more defined time periods in length.
US07756088B2
A frame synchronizing unit of a slave base station synchronizes its own frame with a frame of the master base station, reception control slot setting control unit sets, as a reception control slot, a predetermined reception slot in its own frame matching in timing with a reception control slot in the frame of the master base station. A reception level obtaining unit of each of the base stations obtains a reception level of the reception control slot thus set when a link channel establishment request message is received in the set reception control slot. A traffic channel allocation control unit allocates a traffic channel with respect to a mobile station transmitting the link channel establishment request message to predetermined transmission and reception slots in the frame according to a traffic channel allocation instruction.
US07756075B2
Method and apparatus for data access for a mobile terminal comprising a module for determining whether first and second modes of wireless network coverage is available, a module for selecting the first mode if available, a module for attempting access via the second mode on failure to establish access via the first mode and a module for monitoring availability of the first mode. Even when a connection is established via the second mode, availability of the first mode is monitored and access attempted, when second mode connection is idle.
US07756058B2
A wireless system (100) and method (401-403) includes a medium access control (MAC) layer adapted to request and receive measurement reports from wireless devices (102) operating in restricted channels.
US07756054B2
A PT (e.g., Push-To-Talk, Push-To-View or Push-To-Data) service, and more particularly, to a method and device for controlling a floor (talk burst authority, permission to send media burst, etc.) in a PT service, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the method for controlling a state of a Push-To (PT) server, includes transiting, by a PT server in a second state, to a first state when a media burst release message is received by the PT server; and remaining, by the PT server, in the first state, if the PT server in the first state receives a media packet from a PT client and if the PT server in the previous second state has received the media burst release message.
US07756051B2
A content distribution mechanism that relies on cooperative desktop PCs to distribute content is disclosed. The mechanism distributes content in a robust manner by allowing at least one intermediate network node (i.e., between a source and client) to generate and send packets that contain a linear combination of the portions of content available at the node. Such linear combinations may be created by the source and client using at least a portion of the original content file in either encoded or unencoded form. After the client has received enough linearly independent combinations of packets, the original content may be reconstructed.
US07756049B2
An apparatus, system, and method are provided for controlling link status changes across multiple independent control modules. The apparatus includes a copy services module configured to control multiple link adapters, each configured to establish multiple communication links between a source and a target storage device. The adapter transmits a link status change notification to the copy services module and starts a timer upon transmitting the link status change notification. The copy services module simultaneously processes link status change notifications from a plurality of communication links. The system includes a communications network and a plurality of storage devices having the above described apparatus. The method includes controlling a plurality of link adapters configured to establish multiple communication links between storage devices, transmitting a link status change notification, starting a timer upon transmitting the link status change notification, and simultaneously processing link status change notifications from a plurality of communication links.
US07756045B2
An optical signal connection apparatus comprising a first node and a second node connects first and second optical signal transmission lines to respective first and second routers. The first node includes a first port coupled to the first router via the first optical signal transmission line, and is configured to handle a first type of optical signals associated with the first router. The second node includes a second port coupled to the second router via the second optical signal transmission line, and is configured to handle a second type of optical signals associated with the second router. The information regarding the first type of optical signal is compared with information regarding the second type of optical signal to determine whether or not the first and second optical signal transmission lines are compatible to each other.
US07756042B2
A method and virtual private network (VPN) system for providing bandwidth guaranteed provisioning in network-based mobile VPN services. The method and system include identifying a set of VPN customers, at least one mobile access point (MAP) and at least one customer premise equipment (CPE) associated with each VPN customer, and at least one Internet Protocol (IP) service gateway (IPSG) for facilitating VPN tunneling between a MAP and a CPE, wherein each MAP is geographically remote from each IPSG. A subset of IPSGs is selected to maximize total profit resulting from provisioning a subset of VPN customers on the selected IPSGs. Total profit from all the customers includes the sum of profits from each customer, where for each customer, the customer profit equals weighted revenue less cost, wherein the cost per customer includes a total tunnel bandwidth cost from the MAP to the CPE, and a cost of provisioning an IPSG node.
US07756029B2
Load balancing for layer-2 link aggregation involves initial assignment of link aggregation keys (LAGKs) and reassignment of LAGKs when a load imbalance condition that merits action is discovered. Load conditions change dynamically and for this reason load balancing tends to also be dynamic. Load balancing is preferably performed when it is necessary. Thus an imbalance condition that triggers load balancing is preferably limited to conditions such as when there is frame drop, loss of synchronization or physical link capacity exceeded.
US07756022B1
A hidden pathway to a host is provided in an internetwork having an egress router coupled to the host. A selected port of the egress router is connected to the host as a hidden access port. A label table in the egress router is configured to associate the selected port with a predetermined label. Distribution of the predetermined label is restricted to one or more controlled access points so that access to the hidden pathway is restricted to the controlled access points. The controlled access points may reside at the users themselves, but are preferably contained within proxy devices coupled to the internetwork using secure connections.
US07756020B2
A radio resource control method in a mobile communication system for determining a transmission rate of user data transmitted by a mobile station via an uplink based on a maximum allowable transmission rate, include: notifying, at a radio network controller, an averaging period or a forgetting factor to a radio base station; calculating, at the radio base station, an averaging value of the maximum allowable transmission rates or an averaging value of parameters relating to the maximum allowable transmission rate, based on the averaging period or the forgetting factor; signaling, at the radio base station, the calculated averaging value to the radio network controller; and controlling, at the radio network controller, a radio resource in the radio base station, based on the signaled averaging value.
US07756018B2
System and method for providing fast protection in a passive optical network (“PON”) including two central hubs and a plurality of network nodes, wherein the network nodes are connected to a first of the central hubs by a first optical path and to a second of the central hubs by a second optical path. The method comprises setting the first and second central hubs to master mode and slave mode, respectively, such that only the first central hub transmits traffic to and from the network nodes; detecting a failure in the first optical path; exchanging status information between the first and second central hubs; and if no failure has occurred in the second optical path, setting the first and second central hubs to slave mode and master mode, respectively, such that only the second central hub transmits traffic to and from the network nodes.
US07756014B1
A method and device for handling catastrophic switch routing errors. Upon receiving a communication packet in a packet switching device, a port in the switching device is matched with the destination address of the communication packet and a routing code is generated to direct routing of the communication packet internally to the packet switching device. The routing code is analyzed to determine whether a catastrophic routing condition exists in the routing code. If no catastrophic routing condition exists, the routing is executed. However, when there is a catastrophic routing condition, execution of the routing of the communication packet is prevented.
US07756013B2
A packet switching system capable of ensuring the sequence and continuity of packets and further compensating for delays in transmission is disclosed. Each of two redundant switch sections has a high-priority queue and a low-priority queue for each of output ports. A high-priority output selector selects one of two high-priority queues corresponding to respective ones of the two switch sections to store an output of the selected one into a high-priority output queue. A low-priority output selector selects one of two low-priority queues corresponding to respective ones of the two switch sections to store an output of the selected one into a low-priority output queue. The high-priority and low-priority output selectors are controlled depending on a system switching signal and a packet storing status of each of the high-priority and low-priority queues.
US07756011B2
A digital television (DTV) transmitter and a method of processing data in the DTV transmitter/receiver are disclosed. In the DTV transmitter, a pre-processor pre-processes the enhanced data by coding the enhanced data for forward error correction (FEC) and expanding the FEC-coded data. A packet formatter generates one or more groups of enhanced data packets, each enhanced data packet including the pre-processed enhanced data and known data, wherein the data formatter adds burst time information into each group of enhanced data packets. And, a packet multiplexer generates at least one burst of enhanced data by multiplexing the one or more groups of enhanced data packets with at least one main data packet including the main data, each burst of enhanced data including at least one group of enhanced data packets.
US07756009B1
A call setup and restoration schema is disclosed for providing an improved priority-based call setup and restoration schema in an optical communications system, allowing higher priority connections access to bandwidth by user-definable parameters. The call setup and restoration schema includes allowing higher priority connections to claim the resources of lower priority connections, and restoring them when bandwidth is available, or bumping another, even lower priority, connections. This aids in providing access to bandwidth by high priority services and in preventing outages or connection delays for high priority connections.
US07755994B2
When it is determined that the disc loaded on a player is a hybrid next generation DVD, the DVD layer is reproduced with a red laser light. In parallel with this reproduction process, a process for notifying the presence of the HDDVD layer is performed. That is, determination is made on whether the notification timing defined in advance has been reached. If the notification timing has been reached, a control instruction is output from a controller to an AV processing circuit, and the image information including the image notifying the presence of the HDDVD layer is output from the AV processing circuit. Thus, the user may learn that the HDDVD layer can be reproduced.
US07755990B2
Accurate calibration of recording power is performed without exceeding a rated output value of a laser diode even if recording speed is increased and high recording power is required. An information recording apparatus records information on an information recording medium such as a DVD-R/RW or a DVD+R/RW by applying a laser light onto the information recording medium. A pickup has a laser light source. A light receiving unit for detecting the amount of light by receiving the laser light emitted from the laser light source is provided, and the power of the laser light is controlled based on the power of the detected laser light. Before the actual information recording, a test emission is performed during calibration to determine an adequate recording power, and the emission duty of the laser light is controlled within the range not exceeding the rated output value of the laser light source.
US07755985B2
An advantage of the present invention is that it provides an optical pickup device including a first condensing member that condenses light from a first light source; a second condensing member that condenses light from a second light source; a holder that has the first and second condensing members attached thereto; a plurality of tracking coils that drive the holder in a tracking direction of an optical disk; and a plurality of focus coils that drive the holder in a focus direction of an optical disk. The plurality of focus coils are disposed in the holder such that virtual center axes for winding coil are set to be substantially perpendicular to the optical axes of the first and second condensing members, and are disposed in four direction such that the region in which the first and second condensing members are attached is surrounded in a rectangular shape. The tracking coils are disposed in the holder such that virtual center axes for winding coil are set to be substantially perpendicular to the optical axes of the first and second condensing members, and are disposed between the first and second condensing members in a tangential direction.
US07755970B2
Methods are described for actively steering a towed marine seismic component using one or more actively controllable control members; reducing the actively steering of the control members during duration of a time window of recording seismic reflections from a sub-surface geological feature of interest; and resuming the actively steering of the control members after the time window. The marine seismic component may be a streamer, a source, or both. Other methods allow measuring initial orientation of a streamer based on measuring static control surface angle of a control surface of an inline steerable bird. This abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract, and allow a reader to ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
US07755969B2
An address receiving circuit for a semiconductor apparatus includes a controller that, in response to a semiconductor apparatus initialization-related command, generates a control signal having an activation cycle corresponding to the standard of cycle time of the semiconductor apparatus initialization-related command, and an address buffer that receives an address according to the control signal.
US07755965B2
A memory device that includes at least one memory cell, the memory cell includes: a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ); and a transistor, wherein the transistor is operatively coupled to the MTJ; a bit line; a source line; and a word line, wherein the memory cell is operatively coupled between the bit line and the source line, and the word line is operatively coupled to the transistor; a temperature sensor; and control circuitry, wherein the temperature sensor is operatively coupled to the control circuitry and the control circuitry and temperature sensor are configured to control a current across the memory cell.
US07755955B2
Provided are an apparatus and method for controlling a data strobe signal. The apparatus includes a period measurement unit measuring a period of an input clock signal or data strobe signal; a controller determining a read delay time, a setup margin delay time, and a hold margin delay time of the data strobe signal on the basis of the period; a delay circuit unit outputting signals generated by delaying the data strobe signal by the read delay time, the setup margin delay time, and the hold margin delay time; a flip-flop unit latching and outputting input data by using the signals output from the delay circuit unit; and a comparator comparing outputs from the flip-flop unit and feeding a result of the comparison back to the controller. Accordingly, it is possible to stably read data recorded in a memory.
US07755951B2
A data output apparatus converts input data into data that changes less than the input data, and outputs the converted data to a memory.
US07755948B2
A nonvolatile memory comprising an array of memory cells and sense amplifiers, each sense amplifier using a keeper circuit to provide an amount of current to compensate for bit line leakage current in the memory array. The amount of current from the keeper depends on the temperature of the memory and the speed of the process used to make the memory.
US07755947B2
A semiconductor memory device including: a package; a first semiconductor chip provided in the package; a first nonvolatile memory provided on the first semiconductor chip; a second semiconductor chip provided in the package; a second nonvolatile memory provided on the second semiconductor chip; a system bus provided in the package, the system bus connecting the first and second nonvolatile memories; a plurality of data terminals exposed to outside of the package, the data terminals being connected to the first and second nonvolatile memories through the system bus; and an enable terminal exposed to the outside of the package, the enable terminal being connected to the first and second nonvolatile memories.
US07755946B2
Temperature effects in a non-volatile storage device are addressed by providing a data state-dependent, and optionally temperature dependent, sense current during verify and read operations. A different sense current is provided for each data state, so that a common temperature coefficient is realized for storage elements with different data states. The temperature coefficient for higher states can be reduced to that of lower states. During sensing, a sense time can be adjusted to achieve a desired sense current when a selected storage element is in a conductive state. A fixed voltage trip point may be maintained. During the sense time, a pre-charged capacitor discharges into a selected storage element such as via a bit line and NAND string, when the selected storage element is in a conductive state. The discharge level is translated to a current which is compared to a state-dependent, and optionally temperature dependent, reference current.
US07755945B2
A page buffer and method of programming and reading a memory are provided. The page buffer includes a first latch, a second latch, a data change unit and a program control unit. The first latch includes a first terminal for loading data of the lower page and the upper page. The second latch includes a first terminal for storing the data of the lower page and the upper page from the first latch. The data change unit is coupled to a second terminal of the first latch for changing a voltage of the second terminal of the first latch to a low level. The program control unit is coupled to the first terminal of the second latch and the cells, and controlled by the voltage of the first terminal of the first latch for respectively programming the data of the lower page and the upper page to a target cell.
US07755942B2
A memory cell array includes a plurality of memory cells disposed in matrix. A plurality of word lines extend in the row direction, and the gates in the memory cells disposed in each row are commonly connected to one of the word lines. A plurality of sub bit lines extend in the column direction, and the sources in the memory cells disposed in a first column and the drains in the memory cells disposed in a second column, which is adjacent to the first column, are commonly connected to one of the sub bit lines. A plurality of pairs of transistors are provided, each having a source selector and a drain selector. Each transistor pair is disposed at one of the locations at both ends of the sub bit lines, which are adjacent to each other, in a manner such that the transistor pairs sandwich the word lines from alternating sub bit ends.
US07755941B2
In a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device storing data by accumulating charges in a floating gate, memory units, each of which includes a first MOS transistor as a read device, a bit cell composed of a first capacitor as a capacitance coupling device and a second capacitor as an erase device, and a decode device including a second MOS transistor and a third MOS transistor, are arranged in array. This attains nonvolatile memory capable of bit by bit selective erase arranged in array to thus reduce the core area remarkably.
US07755937B2
A semiconductor device, includes a memory cell including a thyristor element with a gate having a pnpn structure formed on a semiconductor substrate and having first and second terminals, and an access transistor formed on the semiconductor substrate and having first and second terminals connected to a bit line and the first terminal of the thyristor element, respectively, and a control section including a load current element whose load current flows, upon reading out operation, to the second terminal side of the thyristor element and configured to carry out access control to the memory cell.
US07755934B2
A resistance change memory device including: a substrate; cell arrays stacked thereabove, each including a matrix layout of memory cells; a write circuit configured to write a pair cell constituted by two neighboring memory cells; and a read circuit configured to read complementary resistance value states of the pair cell as one bit of data, wherein the memory cell includes a variable resistance element for storing as information a resistance value, which has a recording layer composed of a composite compound containing at least two types of cation elements, at least one type of the cation element being a transition element having “d”-orbit, in which electrons are incompletely filled, the shortest distance between adjacent cation elements being 0.32 nm or less.
US07755933B2
A spin-transfer MRAM is described that has two sub-cells each having a conductive spacer between an upper CPP cell and a lower MTJ cell. The two conductive spacers in each bit cell are linked by a transistor which is controlled by a write word line. The two CPP cells in each bit cell have different resistance states and the MTJ cell and CPP cell in each sub-cell have different resistance states. The MTJ free layer rotates in response to switching in the CPP free layer because of a large demagnetization field exerted by the CPP free layer. An improved circuit design is disclosed that enables a faster and more reliable read process since the reference is a second MTJ within the same bit cell. When RMTJ1>RMTJ2, the bit cell has a “0” state, and when RMTJ1
US07755932B2
An object of the present invention corrects fluctuation of a writing current between cells in a magnetic random access memory using spin torque magnetization reversal. The present invention includes a magneto-resistive effect element that is disposed between a bit line and a word line, a first variable resistance element that is connected to one end of the bit line, a second variable resistance element that is connected to the other end of the bit line, a first voltage applying unit that applies voltage to the first variable resistance element, and a second voltage applying unit that applies voltage to the second variable resistance element, when a writing operation is performed, an offset magnetic field is applied to a free layer of the magneto-resistive effect element by flowing a variable current between the first voltage applying unit and the second voltage applying unit based on a predetermined resistance value.
US07755927B2
A memory device of SRAM type has a memory plan constituted by base memory cells organized in lines and in columns. Each cell of a column is connected between two bit lines which are precharged during a reading operation. Circuitry is provided for generating a precharge voltage of the bit lines which is less than a nominal supply voltage of the device.
US07755924B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a memory element, a method of constructing a memory element, a method of operating a memory cell, an SRAM cell and an integrated circuit. In one embodiment, the memory element includes a pair of cross-connected CMOS inverters having first and second storage nodes. Additionally, the memory element also includes a capacitive component connected between the first and second storage nodes and configured to provide a supplemental capacitance to extend a read signal for sensing a memory state of the inverters.
US07755914B2
A power supply apparatus and method of regulating is provided. A converter circuit includes a primary switching element and an auxiliary switching element. The auxiliary switching element is for transferring a reflected voltage signal. A transformer includes a primary and a secondary, the primary is coupled with the converter circuit. The primary and secondary each include a single winding. An output rectifier circuit is coupled with the secondary of the transformer. A resonant circuit is included in the converter circuit and is coupled with the primary. The resonant circuit includes one or more resonance capacitors that are configured for providing a transformer resonance. The transformer resonance comprises the reflected voltage signal, the capacitance of the one or more resonance capacitors and a parasitic capacitance of the transformer. The reflected voltage signal is reflected from the secondary to the primary. The resonant circuit converts a pulse train to produce a voltage potential, the voltage potential varying in proportion to an output voltage, the pulse train comprising a duty cycle proportional to a load current. A virtual output voltage feedback loop is provided. The converter circuit is responsive to a virtual output voltage reference signal in regulating an output voltage.
US07755913B2
A disk drive cage comprises a bracket (3) and a shielding member (1). The bracket comprises a top wall (31) and a securing wall (32) parallel to the top wall. The securing wall defines a plurality of securing holes (321) therein. The shielding member comprises a shielding cover (20) and a bezel (10) attached to the shielding cover. The shielding cover defines a plurality of cross-shaped slots (23). Each cross-shaped slot comprises a first slot (231) and a second slot (232) crossing the first slot. A receiving area (236) is defined in a crossing portion formed by the first and second slots. The bezel comprises a plurality of securing posts (12) interferentially engaging with the plurality of cross-shaped slots, and a plurality of hooks (162) engaging with the securing holes of the securing wall of the bracket. Each securing post comprises a securing portion (124). The securing portion is larger in cross-section than the receiving area. The shielding member is mounted between the top wall and the securing wall.
US07755912B2
A printed circuit board unit includes a first board and a second board. First electrically-conductive terminals are fixed and exposed on the front surface of the first board in a matrix. Second electrically-conductive terminals are arranged in a matrix and supported on the front surface of the second board. The second electrically-conductive terminals have flexibility. Each of the second electrically-conductive terminals is disengageably brought in contact with the corresponding first electrically-conductive terminal. A static pressure member is received on the back surface of the first board within an area corresponding to the specific area to generate a static pressure. An urging plate is overlaid on the static pressure member so that the static pressure member is interposed between the urging plate and the first board. The urging plate exhibits an urging force applied to the first board toward the second board.
US07755911B2
A printed wiring board which can certainly prevent damage of conductive pattern caused by the terminal. The printed wiring board has a board, a conductive pattern, a through-hole and a non-conductive area. A lead wire of resistance mounted on the printed wiring board is inserted into the through-hole 4. The lead wire projects from a surface of the board, and is bent close to the surface. The non-conductive area is formed into a fan-shaped shape enlarging toward a tip of the lead wire from a center of the through-hole. Because the bent lead wire is arranged on the non-conductive area, the non-conductive area can prevent damage of the conductive pattern which is caused by touching the lead wire to the conductive pattern.
US07755908B2
A circuit constituent 10 comprises a circuit board 11 on which a switching member 13 is implemented and a bus bar 12 wired along the circuit board 11, and a case 20 is provided with a frame 21 arranged on the circuit board 11 and fixed along its peripheral edge and a cover 24 assembled to the frame 21 so as to cover the circuit board 11. A plurality of first terminal portions 14 constructed by bending the ends of the bus bar 12 substantially in the L shape are arranged side by side along the frame 21, and a falling restriction portion 36 provided at a front edge portion 24F of the cover 24 restricts falling deformation of the first terminal portion 14. By locking displacement restricting portions 30, 37 provided at the outer edge portions of the frame 21 and the cover 24 with each other, displacement of the cover 24 in the direction separated from the first terminal portion 14 with respect to the frame 21 is restricted, and falling deformation of the first terminal portion 14 can be surely prevented.
US07755907B2
An upper lid and a bottom lid are fastened to flange portions formed in outer side surfaces of a casing main body. A metal collar to which a screw serving as pressing means (a fastening member) is inserted is embedded in each flange portion. Both end portions of each of the metal collars protrude at a predetermined length toward the upper lid and the bottom lid from the flange portion. A predetermined interval corresponding to the length of the protruding portion of the metal collar is created between the casing main body and the upper lid and between the casing main body and the bottom lid, by bringing the upper lid and the bottom lid into contact with the protruding portions of each of the metal collars at a time of assembling.
US07755899B2
The present invention is a thermally controlled switch with high thermal or electrical conductivity. Microsystems Technology manufacturing methods are fundamental for the switch that comprises a sealed cavity formed within a stack of bonded wafers, wherein the upper wafer comprises a membrane assembly adapted to be arranged with a gap to a receiving structure. A thermal actuator material, which preferably is a phase change material, e.g. paraffin, adapted to change volume with temperature, fills a portion of the cavity. A conductor material, providing a high conductivity transfer structure between the lower wafer and the rigid part of the membrane assembly, fills another portion of the cavity. Upon a temperature change, the membrane assembly is displaced and bridges the gap, providing a high conductivity contact from the lower wafer to the receiving structure.
US07755896B2
An information processing device includes: an object to be cooled (51, 52) as a heat-generating body; a cooling unit (32) that is provided on a first side of the object (51) to be in contact therewith; and a plate spring (36) disposed on a second side of the object (51) opposite to first side and attached to the cooling unit (32), the plate spring biasing the cooling unit (32) in a direction for the cooling unit (32) to be pressed to the object (51). Since the object (51) and the cooling unit (32) can be brought in closer contact with each other, the heat on the object (51) can be efficiently transferred to the cooling unit, thereby radiating the heat. Accordingly, the heat generated on the object (51) can be efficiently cooled. The object (51) is sandwiched by the plate spring (36) and the cooling unit (32), unidirectional load is not applied on the object (51), so that deformation of the object (51) can be restrained.
US07755895B2
A heat sink for an electronic component includes a structure that is bendable.
US07755889B2
A central air manifold for an electronic module enclosure includes a front section and a rear section. The front section includes openings adapted to communicate with electronic modules and the rear section includes openings adapted to communicate with fans. The openings of the front section can be open when electronic modules are installed in the front section and the openings in the rear section can be open when operating fans are installed in the rear section.
US07755888B2
An exemplary mounting apparatus for an electronic device includes a base, a cover covering the base, and an ejection mechanism. The base includes a first receptacle portion for receiving the electronic device, and a second receptacle portion for receiving the ejection mechanism. The ejection mechanism includes a retaining member having a resilient tab slantingly extending therefrom, a button member, and a push member. The push member is slidably attached in the second receptacle portion and includes a push block movably abutting the electronic device, and a protrusion detachably engaging with the resilient tab. The button is moved to disengage the push member from the retaining member so that the push member pushes the electronic device out of the base.
US07755878B2
A blast key which includes a body and a blast energy generator in or on the body. The blast key may include a body in the form of a small housing and may further comprise a switch connected to the energy generator.
US07755876B2
A washer, a fastening assembly including the washer and a composite structure including the washer sealing the assembly for internal lightning strike protection. The washer includes one or more concentric ribs that are dielectric rings on both sides. When used (e.g., with a nut and bolt) internal to a structure, especially a composite structure, the washer seals the fastener hole (i.e., that the bolt passes through) and contains any sparking and hot gasses that may arise in the fastener hole from entering the structure.
US07755871B2
An ESD protection circuit including a clamping module and a detecting module is provided. The clamping module is coupled between a positive power line and a negative power line. The detecting module includes a triggering unit, a resistor, and a MOS capacitor. An output terminal of the triggering unit is used for triggering the clamping module. The resistor is coupled between the positive power line and an input terminal of the triggering unit. The MOS capacitor has a first end and a second end. The first end is coupled to the input terminal of the triggering unit. During a normal power operation, a switching terminal of the triggering unit enables the second end of the MOS capacitor to be coupled with the positive power line. Thereby, the gate tunneling leakage is eliminated and the problem of mistriggering is prevented.
US07755863B2
Aspects include readers for magnetic storage media. Each reader is operable to read multiple tracks from the storage media simultaneously by using a plurality of active regions, each active region for reading a different track. The active regions may be disposed in rows of columns, and between rows, each active region in a row may be separated from other active regions in that row to prevent interference between those active regions. Active regions of different rows may be offset from each other such that no active region overlaps with another active region over the same data track. Active regions may share shielding and/or sense current conductors. Active regions may comprise AMR, CIP GMR, CPP GMR, including spin valve and tunneling varieties of flux sensors. Multiple active regions in a row may be defined from a single MR element by spaced apart voltage tabs. Readers may be integrally fabricated in layers.
US07755861B1
A method and system for providing a magnetic recording medium is disclosed. The magnetic recording medium includes a plurality of regions. Each region corresponds to a bit and includes at least one grain. The grain(s) include a plurality of magnetic layers and at least one interlayer between the magnetic layers. The grain(s) have a thickness less than an exchange length of each of the magnetic layers. In addition, at least one of the magnetic layers has a coercivity different from another of the magnetic layers.
US07755858B2
A lens assembly includes a first lens and a second lens. The first lens includes a first optically active portion, a first optically inactive portion surrounding the first optically active portion and a first optical axis. The first optically inactive portion includes a first inclined surface relative to the first optical axis. The second lens includes a second optically active portion, a second optically inactive portion and a second optical axis. The second optically inactive portion includes a second inclined surface relative to the second optical axis. The second lens is coupled to the first lens in such a manner that the first inclined surface is in contact with the second inclined surface, and a gap is maintained between the second optically inactive portion of the second lens and the first optically inactive portion of the first lens.
US07755856B2
A lens module includes a first lens. The first lens includes a first central round portion and a first peripheral portion. The first peripheral portion has a first radially extending portion surrounding the first central round portion, and a first axially extending portion extending axially from the first radially extending portion. The first radially extending portion comprises a first surface. The first axially extending portion comprises a first cylindrical side surface and a second side surface. The first cylindrical side surface is interconnected between the second side surface and the first surface. The first cylindrical side surface is coaxially aligned with a principal axis of the first central round portion and the second side surface is inclined relative to the principal axis of the central round portion.
US07755849B2
An exemplary lens includes an optical axis, an optically active part, and an optically inactive part surrounding the optically active part. The optically inactive part includes a base and a peripheral sidewall extending in a direction parallel to the optical axis. The base is connected with the active part. The side wall is a hollow cylinder. The sidewall has an internal thread formed on an internal surface thereof.
US07755847B2
A zoom lens system comprising a first lens unit having negative power, a second lens unit having positive power and a third lens unit having positive power, wherein: the first lens unit comprises a first lens element having a concave surface at least on the image side and negative power and a second lens element having a convex surface at least on the object side and positive power; the second lens unit comprises a single third lens element, a cemented lens element of two lens elements having power of mutually different signs and a single sixth lens element; in zooming, all of the lens units move along an optical axis; and conditions (1): 5.0<αiW<20.0 and (I-2): n11≧1.9 (where, 3.2
US07755845B2
A zoom lens system includes a first lens unit having a positive optical power, a second lens unit having a negative optical power which moves during zooming, a third lens unit having a positive optical power which does not move for zooming, and a fourth lens unit having a positive optical power which moves during zooming. The first lens unit, the second lens unit, the third lens unit, and the fourth lens unit are arranged in order from the object side to the image side. A back focus of the zoom lens system and a focal length of the third lens unit are adequately set.
US07755839B2
Very high aperture microlithography projection objectives operating at the wavelengths of 248 nm, 193 nm and also 157 nm, suitable for optical immersion or near-field operation with aperture values that can exceed 1.4 are made feasible with crystalline lenses and crystalline end plates P of NaCl, KCl, KI, RbI, CsI, and MgO, YAG with refractive indices up to and above 2.0. These crystalline lenses and end plates are placed between the system aperture stop AS and the wafer W, preferably as the last lenses on the image side of the objective.
US07755835B2
A zero order diffractive filter for polarised or unpolarised polychromatic light, comprises a grating line (10) microstructure (1) formed by a surrounding medium (12) with low index of refraction nlow and a waveguiding layer (11) with high index of refraction nhigh, the grating lines (10) having a period length Λ that is smaller than the wavelength of light for which the filter is designed. A plurality of single nanostructures (2) with dimensions in the nanometre range is superposed on a first interface (13) between the surrounding medium (12) and the waveguiding layer (11).
US07755834B2
The present invention provides a wavelength-selective diffraction element, configured such that light having a plurality of wavelengths are incident thereon as incident light, which is provided with: a transparent substrate; a concavo-convex part, formed on the transparent substrate such that concave portions and convex portions are cyclically extended in one direction, and comprised of a first material which is optically isotropic; and a filling part, filling at least the concave portions and comprised of a second material which is optically isotropic. The first material and the second material have no absorbance with respect to the wavelengths of the incident light. The first material and the second material have an identical refractive index with respect to light having a first wavelength which is at least one of the wavelengths of the incident light. The first material and the second material have different refractive indices with respect to light having a second wavelength which is at least one of the wavelengths of the incident light and different from the first wavelength.
US07755829B2
The thermally switched reflective optical shutter is a self-regulating “switchable mirror” device that reflects up to 100% of incident radiant energy above a threshold temperature, and reflects up to 50% of incident radiant energy below a threshold temperature. Control over the flow of radiant energy occurs independently of the thermal conductivity or insulating value of the device, and may or may not preserve the image and color properties of incoming visible light. The device can be used as a construction material to efficiently regulate the internal temperature and illumination of buildings, vehicles, and other structures without the need for an external power supply or operator signals. The device has unique aesthetic optical properties that are not found in traditional windows, skylights, stained glass, light fixtures, glass blocks, bricks, or walls. The device can be tailored to transmit sufficient visible light to see through in both the transparent and reflective states, while still providing significant control over the total energy transmission across the device.
US07755815B2
An image reading apparatus has a reading portion configured to read the image of the original at the reading position located on a supporting surface for supporting the original, an original feeding portion configured to convey an original to the reading position, a movable guide portion which faces the supporting surface and guides the original conveyed by the original conveying portion to the reading position, and a biasing member configured to apply a biasing force to the guide portion toward the supporting surface, wherein the movable guide portion has a rib portion, the rib portion projects toward the supporting surface and is formed along the original conveying direction, and the rib portion presses an original, that is read by the reading portion while the original is conveyed by the conveying portion, to the supporting surface by the biasing force of the biasing member.
US07755809B2
A laser scanning optical system converts a plurality of beams emitted from the laser diode (LD) into parallel light using a collimator lens, shapes the parallel light using an aperture, and executes exposure of a plurality of lines simultaneously on a photoreceptor drum. To cause a necessary emitting point interval d determined uniquely from the magnification of the optical system to coincide with an emitting point interval of the LD used, the LD is rotated by an angle θ against the main optical axis plane thereof. In this case, a converting device that converts the aspect ratio of a profile of the light beam emitted from the LD is provided. A conversion characteristic of the converting device is adjusted such that the characteristic is matched with a condition within a predetermined region following a characteristic of the optical system.
US07755796B1
A system that selectively converts color values for objects within a document based on color profiles, wherein a color profile defines a conversion for color values between a source color space and a destination color space. During operation, the system determines whether an object-level color profile exists for an object in a document. If so, the system determines whether an object-level flag for the object is set to honor the object-level color profile. If so, the system uses the object-level color profile and an output color profile to convert color values for the object in the document.
US07755791B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image input device that reads an image to obtain image data and a printer engine that forms an image on a medium based on image data. A bus of a PCI Express standard is used to transfer data. Storage areas serving as end points of the standard and hardware resources that transmit data and receive image data to and from the storage areas are connected to an identical switch according to the PCI Express standard. Specifically, an input/output area, an image input device, and a printer engine are connected to one switch, and a storage area, a compressor, and a hard disk is connected to another switch.
US07755788B2
A system and method, for communicating data between a multi-function peripheral (MFP) device and a plurality of networked printing entities, is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises selecting, at an MFP device, a plurality of networked printing entities, wherein information associated with printing, being compatible with the MFP device, is stored on the MFP device, and wherein the print associated information includes at least a location data of each of the selected printing entities. The method also comprises i) receiving, at the MFP device, a single print request for a document to be printed in the selected printing entities, and ii) sending the single print request to the selected printing entities based on the location data and the print associated information such that a copy of the same document is printed in all selected printing entities. In one embodiment, each of the plurality of networked printing entities includes one of the following: a single printer, a group of printers including at least one printer, and the combination thereof.
US07755786B2
Systems and methods are described for support of various computing device and target entity capabilities. In an implementation, a method includes determining one or more processing capabilities of a computing device to process data for rendering by a rendering device. A selection is made, based on the determining, of one or more filters to provide data configured for rendering by the rendering device and that provides at least one processing capability that is not included in the one or more processing capabilities of the computing device.
US07755785B2
A method and system for printing documents based on Java commands. A Java printer receives page layout requests and converts the requests into a rasterized image which is transferred to a recording medium. Page layout can be interactively modified. The Java printer also monitors print requests and is configurable using a World Wide Web interface.
US07755780B2
A personal computer is an information processing apparatus including: a browser which obtains data from a resource and displays an image corresponding to the data; and a printer driver section for carrying out control of printing operation. The printer driver section includes an UI processing section for instructing the browser to obtain setting image data from a content item storage section which stores the setting image data which corresponds to a setting image by which a user sets printing conditions, and to display the setting image expressed by the setting image data in a display apparatus. In this way, the present invention realizes an information processing apparatus capable of easy modification of the setting image for setting printing conditions.
US07755779B2
When the image forming apparatus shifts to the reduced power consumption mode, the image forming apparatus transmits an agency request command for requesting the server apparatus to respond to a status request, on behalf of the image forming apparatus, and the latest status thereof to the server apparatus. When there is a change in the status of the image forming apparatus in the reduced power consumption mode, the image forming apparatus transmits a changed status thereof to the server apparatus. The server apparatus receives a status request sent from an information processing apparatus connected to the network to the image forming apparatus, on behalf of the image forming apparatus. The server apparatus responds to the information processing apparatus in response to the status request, based on the status received beforehand from the image forming apparatus.
US07755776B2
There is a need for inspecting a heightwise variation in a sample. A holder holds a sample. A charge control unit charges the sample held by the holder. A retarding power supply applies a voltage to the sample held by the holder. An electro-optic system radiates an electron beam to the sample applied with a voltage by the retarding power supply and images a mirror electron returning near the surface of the sample. An image processing unit processes a mirror image resulting from imaging the mirror electron. The image processing unit outputs information corresponding to a difference between mirror images, i.e., a mirror image acquired by imaging the mirror electron and a mirror image for a prepared standard preparation, as a heightwise variation in a sample.
US07755774B2
An on-board, noncontact measurement system and method is disclosed for measuring track quality, vertical track stiffness and vertical track modulus for a portion of track underlying the rail vehicle. The system comprises first and second optical emitters mounted to the vehicle and configured to emit beams of light that are detectable on the underlying surface; a camera mounted to the vehicle for recording the distance between the beams of light as the vehicle travels along the surface, a mechanism for measuring the distance between the beams of light for a particular portion of the surface; and a mechanism for determining the vertical track stiffness or vertical track modulus for a particular portion of the track.
US07755765B2
An inertial sensor consisting of an electrodynamic trap for suspending one or more charged particles and a readout device for measuring variations in the position or motion of the particles when the trap is subjected to acceleration forces. Particle may be measured by optical interferometry, optical leverage, resonant electric field absorption, or by producing an image of the particle motion and processing the image data to obtain values representing the acceleration forces on the trap in one to six degrees of freedom. The electrodynamic trap employs electrodes to which a time-varying potential are applied to produce a quadupole field that constrains the charged particles to a specific location between said electrodes by a substantially linear, tunable restoring force.
US07755764B2
An optical method and system for measuring characteristics of a sample using a broadband metrology tool in a purge gas flow environment are disclosed. In the method a beam path for the metrology tool is purged with purge gas at a first flow rate. A surface of the sample is illuminated by a beam of source radiation having at least one wavelength component in a vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) range and/or at least one wavelength component in an ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) range. A flow rate of a purge gas is adjusted between the first flow rate for metrology measurements made when the source radiation is in the VUV spectral region and a second flow rate for metrology measurements made when the source radiation is in the UV-Vis spectral region. The system includes a light source, illumination optics, collection optics, detector, a purge gas source and a controller. The purge gas source is configured to supply a flow of purge gas to a beam path in the light source and/or illumination optics and/or sample and/or collection optics and/or detector. The controller is configured to control a flow rate of the purged gas flow in response to an output signal from the detector.
US07755759B2
Methods and systems for evaluating pigment dispersions with desired characteristics. More specifically, methods and systems for evaluating particle size of colorless or light color dispersions using a novel parameter described as particle size related scattering index (PSRSI).
US07755747B2
The invention relates to a device for checking the authenticity of an anti-forgery marking with colors which change depending on the angle of observation, comprising a) several first light sources, emitting in a given spectral range, whereby the light sources are different from each other with regard to the wavelength of the emission maximum thereof and the first light sources (1) are housed in a housing (5) such as to irradiate the surface (O), with the housing (5) placed thereon, at a given first angle (α1), b) a first means (2) for measuring the intensity of the light reflected from the surface (O) arranged at a second angle (α2) and c) a means (7) for the automatic comparison of measured intensities with the reference intensities stored for at least one given color for each light source (1).
US07755746B2
A non-destructive tire testing device has at least one measuring head, a positioning means for moving the measuring head between a park position (I) and a measuring position (II), a pressure chamber in which the test object can be subjected to a prescribed pressure, and a sub-frame on which the test object can be mounted during the test. The sub-frame is supported on a first vibration reducing bearing element. The pressure chamber has a hood which is supported separately from the sub-frame on a second vibration reducing bearing.
US07755740B2
An exposure apparatus exposing a plurality of shot areas on a substrate to light through a liquid includes a movable stage including a chuck configured to hold the substrate and a plate arranged around of the chuck, a projection optical system configured to project a light through an original onto the substrate held by the chuck, a first liquid supply nozzle arranged along a periphery of a final optical element of the projection optical system, and a plurality of second liquid supply nozzles arranged on the stage. The exposure apparatus supplies the liquid to a gap between the final optical element and the substrate through the first liquid supply nozzle. The exposure apparatus selects a nozzle for supplying the liquid from among the plurality of the second liquid supply nozzles based on a location of an exposure shot area on the substrate.
US07755739B2
An array substrate for an LCD device and a manufacturing method thereof. The array substrate includes: a gate line, a gate electrode, a gate pad, and a pixel electrode formed on the substrate; a gate insulation layer formed on the substrate to expose the gate line and the pixel electrode; a source electrode connected to a data line crossing the gate line, a drain electrode facing the source electrode with a channel interposed, a data pad formed at one end of the data line, and a capacitor electrode overlapping portions of the pixel electrode and the gate line; a semiconductor layer constituting the channel between the source electrode and the drain electrode; first, second, third, and fourth contact holes formed in the gate pad, the data pad, the capacitor electrode, and the drain electrode, respectively; and first through fourth contact electrodes formed in the first through fourth contact holes, respectively.
US07755738B2
An LCD device has an LCD panel having a peripheral region, a heating layer disposed on the LCD panel, and two first flexible printed circuits (FPCs) electrically connected to the heating layer, and adapted to transmit voltage to the heating layer so that the heating layer can generate heat. At least one of the FPCs has a wide portion and a narrow portion being fixed in the peripheral region of the LCD panel and being connected to the heating layer.
US07755736B2
An exemplary liquid crystal display panel (20) includes a pair of substrates (210, 220) spaced from each other in a vertical direction, a liquid crystal layer (230) sandwiched between the substrates, a plurality of spacers (250) evenly distributed between the substrates to resist compression forces in the vertical direction, and a plurality of pixel regions. Each of the pixel regions defines a reflection region and a transmission region, and each of the spacers includes a reflective layer (252).
US07755726B2
A transparent polymer film satisfying Re<5, |Rth|<20, |Re(700)−Re(400)|<5, |Rth(700)−Rth(400)|<20, |Re(10%)−Re(80%)|<5, and |Rth(10%)−Rth(80%)|<15, and having a moisture permeability of at least 500 g/(m2·day) in terms of the thickness of 80 μm. The file is excellent in moisture resistance and having a small amount of optical anisotropy and capable of being directly stuck to a polarizing film.
US07755725B2
A transflective liquid crystal display panel is disclosed. The liquid crystal display panel includes an array substrate and a storage capacitor disposed on the array substrate. The array substrate includes a transmitting region and a reflecting region, in which the storage capacitor is disposed on the reflecting region of the array substrate. The storage capacitor also includes a first transparent conducting layer disposed on the array substrate, a dielectric layer disposed on the first transparent conducting layer, and a reflective conducting layer disposed on the dielectric layer.
US07755714B2
A liquid crystal display apparatus, which is in contact with a surface, includes a liquid crystal display module and a supporter. The liquid crystal display module has a display side and a back side, which is disposed opposite to the display side. The liquid crystal display module further has a first pivoting portion. The supporter is installed on the back side, and is in contact with the surface. The supporter has a second pivoting portion pivoting on the first pivoting portion of the liquid crystal display module. The liquid crystal display module rotates about an axis, and moves between a first position and a second position with respect to the supporter. A distance exists between the liquid crystal display module and the surface.
US07755712B2
An array substrate, and method for repairing thereof, and display panel and apparatus comprising the same are provided. The array substrate includes a base, a plurality of signal lines, and at least one repair structure. The base has an active region and a peripheral region adjoining to the active region. The signal lines are disposed on the base. The repair structure, is disposed on the peripheral region, and has at least one first repair line and at least one second repair line. The second repair line has a first sub-line and a second sub-line. The first sub-line is located between the first repair line and the second sub-line.
US07755707B2
The present invention relates to a display device with a birefringent lens system having cylindrical lenses, extending in a main direction. The polarization of light modulated by a LC layer is twisted by a rotator layer (25′) in order to be perpendicular or parallel with this main direction. A birefringent compensation layer (26) is used to remove any ellipticity introduced by the rotator layer (25′). This provides improved contrast when the display device is used e.g. in a switchable 2D/3D display.
US07755691B2
Screen noise caused by variations of dark current between light sensitive pixels of a solid-state imaging device are suppressed. In an exposure period E after an electronic shutter operation completion time t2, information charges are accumulated while shifting a potential well. With a frame-transfer CCD image sensor in which transfer electrodes G1-G3 to which transfer clocks φi1-φi3 are applied are provided for each light sensitive pixel, at the start of the exposure period E, a potential well is formed for a period α under the electrode G2. Then, the potential wells are formed sequentially under the electrode G1 for a period 2α, under the electrode G2 for a period α, and under the electrode G3 for a period 2α. That is, regarding dark current contained in the information charges accumulated in each pixel, dark currents under the electrodes G1-G3 correspond to the same period. Thus, the amounts of dark current accumulated in each pixel become position-wise averaged values within the pixel and variations in the dark current between the pixels are reduced.
US07755689B2
An imaging system includes a row and column array of active pixels, each having an associated pitch. In response to respective control signals, each pixel outputs a reset level which includes noise components, or a signal level which includes signal and noise components. Multiple column buffers, each having a pitch equal to or less than that of a pixel, convey the outputs of respective pixel columns to a bus line. Each buffer comprises ‘odd’ and ‘even’ S&H/CDS circuits, which process the pixel outputs of odd and even rows, respectively. Each S&H/CDS circuit subtracts pixel reset level from signal level to produce an output in which correlated noise is suppressed. Each column buffer includes a buffer amplifier which conveys the output to the bus line. A gain amplifier separate from the column buffers is coupled to the bus line such that it amplifies the outputs of a multiple column buffers.
US07755683B2
The method is for reading a capacitive sensor and may be implemented by a circuit for biasing and reading capacitances that includes circuits for selecting a column line and a row line, and a charge amplifier producing an output voltage representing the capacitance of the selected capacitor intercepted by the selected column and row lines. The method includes preliminarily resetting the output voltage of the charge amplifier, connecting all the deselected row and column plates of the array to a reference voltage and connecting a feedback capacitor and the selected capacitor to an inverting input of the amplifier, applying a step voltage on the capacitor that is connected to the inverting input of the amplifier, and reading the output voltage at steady-state.
US07755680B2
A deficiency candidate detection circuit detects a deficient pixel candidate by comparing the image signal of a target pixel with the image signals of peripheral pixels, and address information of the deficient pixel candidate is stored in a position memory circuit. A deficiency determining circuit repeats the determination of a deficient pixel a number of times based on the address information stored in the position memory circuit, and determines address information of a deficient pixel from the continuity of the determination results. A deficiency registering circuit registers the determined address information in the position memory circuit. A deficiency correction circuit corrects the image signal of the deficient pixel according to the registered address information of the deficient pixel.
US07755678B2
Systems and methods for implementing programmable anti-aliasing in cameras are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment the method may comprise characterizing at least one image for existing aliasing, and characterizing existing blur in the at least one image. The method may also include introducing blur during image capture operations by the camera based on the aliasing and existing blur in the at least one image.
US07755676B2
The multi-band image photographing method and apparatus photograph a subject by dividing a photographing wavelength region into plural bands and obtain spectral images of the subject corresponding to the respective divided plural bands. The method and apparatus detect a sensitivity balance among the respective plural bands from photographing data of each of the spectral images obtained by preliminary photographing performed prior to main photographing, determine photographing conditions for the respective plural bands based upon the detected sensitivity balance, and perform the main photographing in accordance with the determined photographing conditions to photograph a multi-band image. The program is used to cause a computer to execute this method or part thereof.
US07755662B2
A digital imaging system is provided that includes a digital camera and a color printer. The digital camera comprises: a housing; an image sensor adapted to capture analog image data; an analog-to-digital converter adapted to convert the analog image data; an image processor adapted to perform first processing and compression of the digital image data to create a first-processed digital image file; a digital memory in the camera housing having a plurality of the first-processed digital image files stored in the digital memory; and a color printer interface to which a digital image file, which is selected from the digital memory, is applied. The color printer comprises: a color-marking apparatus, and a digital camera interface, wherein the image processor in the digital camera is adapted to perform second processing on the selected digital image file before the selected digital image file is applied.
US07755655B2
An exposure device for exposing the charged surface of a photoconductive drum is provided with a light source for emitting light based on image information; a rotary multifaceted mirror for reflecting the light emitted from the light source to scan the surface of the photoconductive drum; a driving mechanism for drivingly rotating the rotary multifaceted mirror; an inner casing for covering at least the driving mechanism and the rotary multifaceted mirror; and an outer casing for covering the inner casing from the outside. An air vent for communicating the inside and outside of the inner casing is formed in a part of the inner casing facing the rotary multifaceted mirror.
US07755646B2
In a method for image management, image data for an image containing objects is accessed. Graphical representations of the objects are generated and the centroids and the sizes of the graphical representations are determined. The locations of the centroids are determined and the morphologies of the graphical representations based upon the locations of the centroids are determined. Human readable lexical representations of the locations of the centroids, the sizes, the colors and morphologies of the graphical representations are assigned and are stored in a database, which is searchable through human readable lexicon.
US07755644B1
Methods and apparatus implementing systems and techniques for revealing a clipped portion of an image. In general, in one implementation, the techniques include presenting a visual representation of an image object having a clipped portion hidden from view in the visual representation, and during an edit operation, revealing the clipped portion of the image object as a transparent image overlay in the visual representation. In another aspect, the techniques include drawing a first visual representation of an image object in an edit mode that reveals a clipped portion of the image object in the first visual representation, the first visual representation allowing at least a portion of an object lower in a drawing order and underneath the revealed clipped portion to show through the revealed clipped portion, and in response to termination of the edit mode, drawing a second visual representation of the image object in which the clipped portion of the image object is hidden, such that the at least a portion of the lower of object is visible and unobscured by the clipped portion.
US07755639B2
The image processing apparatus executes a prescribed basic color space conversion regardless of content of the color space identification information when a reduced image is a processing target. The image processing apparatus executes a specified color space conversion utilizing a color space specified by the color space identification information when a main image is a processing target.
US07755633B2
A system includes internal memory and external memory. A display controller reads a frame from the external memory. At least one of a processor and a graphics chip copies the frame from the external memory to the internal memory while the frame is read from the external memory by the display controller. After the frame is copied to the internal memory, the frame is stored in both the internal memory and the external memory.
US07755631B1
Disclosed are an apparatus, a method, a programmable graphics processing unit (“GPU”), a computer device, and a computer medium to facilitate, among other things, the generation of parallel data streams to effect parallel processing in at least a portion of a graphics pipeline of a GPU. In one embodiment, an input of the apparatus receives graphics elements in a data stream of graphics elements. The graphics pipeline can use the graphics elements to form computer-generated images. The apparatus also can include a transposer configured to produce parallel attribute streams. Each of the parallel attribute streams includes a type of attribute common to the graphics elements. In one embodiment, the transposer can be configured to convert at least a portion of the graphics pipeline from a single data stream to multiple data streams (e.g., executable by multiple threads of execution) while reducing the memory size requirements to implement such a conversion.
US07755630B2
A method, medium, and apparatus controlling a 3D graphics accelerator. The apparatus may include a voltage controller to determine a voltage and frequency supplied to the 3D graphics accelerator by using the 3D graphics data, so that a frames per second (FPS) of the image does not exceed a predetermined threshold, and a voltage supplier to supply a voltage and the frequency to the 3D graphics accelerator. The voltage and frequency supplied to the 3D graphics accelerator may be adjusted by a DVS technique so that the FPS of the generated image does not exceed the predetermined threshold. Accordingly, it is possible to control power consumption of the 3D graphics accelerator while maintaining performance at or above a given level. In particular, it is possible to very efficiently process a small amount of 3D graphics data with low power in a portable device.
US07755625B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for rendering volume data in an ultrasound diagnostic system. A method for rendering volume data including an object space and an empty space acquired from ultrasound data, comprises the following steps: a) casting a virtual ray from at least one pixel comprising a viewing plane into the volume data; b) sampling voxels of the volume data along the virtual ray in a first sampling interval; c) checking whether a currently sampled voxel corresponds to the object space or the empty space by using opacity based on a voxel value of a sampled voxel; d) at step c), if it is determined that the currently sampled voxel corresponds to the object space, then returning to the previously sampled voxel and sampling voxels in a second sampling interval shorter than the first sampling interval; e) checking whether accumulated opacity calculated based on the sampled voxels along the virtual ray is greater than a critical value; f) at step e), if it is determined that the accumulated opacity is greater than the critical value, then completing the sampling process for the current virtual ray and calculating a rendering value by using the voxel values and the opacity of the sampled voxels; and g) repeating the steps a) to f) until the sampling process for the pixels comprising the viewing plane is completed.
US07755619B2
Systems and methods perform automatic 3D face modeling. In one implementation, a brief video clip of a user's head turning from front to side provides enough input for automatically achieving a model that includes 2D feature matches, 3D head pose, 3D face shape, and facial textures. The video clip of the user may be of poor quality. In a two layer iterative method, the video clip is divided into segments. Flow-based feature estimation and model-based feature refinement are applied recursively to each segment. Then the feature estimation and refinement are iteratively applied across all the segments. The entire modeling method is automatic and the two layer iterative method provides speed and efficiency, especially when sparse bundle adjustment is applied to boost efficiency.
US07755608B2
Systems and methods of interfacing with a machine are described. In one aspect, sets of contemporaneous images of an interactive space are acquired from multiple respective fields of view. An input target is detected in the acquired images. Coordinates of the input target detected in the acquired images are computed. A spatiotemporal input data structure linking input target coordinates computed from contemporaneous images to respective reference times is constructed. The spatiotemporal input data structure is processed to identify an input instruction. The identified input instruction is executed on a machine. In another aspect, an image is displayed at a display location disposed between a viewing space and an interactive space, wherein the displayed image is viewable from a perspective in the viewing space. Images of the interactive space are acquired from at least one field of view. An input target is detected in the acquired images. Coordinates of the input target detected in the acquired images are computed. An input instruction is identified based on the computed input coordinates. The identified input instruction is executed on a machine.
US07755598B2
The present invention provides an image processing method for a display device. The method includes: calculating an average brightness of an image; adjusting the average brightness to generate an adjusted average brightness; utilizing Brightness Preserving Bi-Histogram Equalization (BBHE) and the adjusted average brightness to process the image; and displaying the image.
US07755591B2
A display panel includes a first row line, a second row line, a first column line, a first transistor, and a second transistor. The second row line is parallel to the first row line. The first column line is vertical to the first row line and the second row line. The first transistor includes a first terminal, a second terminal, and a first control terminal coupled to the first row line. The second transistor includes a third terminal coupled to the first column line, a fourth terminal coupled to the first terminal, and a second control terminal coupled to the second row line.
US07755588B2
A method is applicable to an LCD for transmitting control signals and pixel data signals to source drivers. First, control signals are transmitted to each of source drivers in parallel during a control period. Pixel data signals for driving a horizontal pixel line are transmitted to each of the source drivers in parallel during plural pixel data periods. The control signals and the pixel data signals are transmitted through a same set of channels connected to each of the source drivers according to a pixel clock signal.
US07755585B2
A pixel for displaying an image with uniform brightness is provided. The pixel includes an organic light emitting diode (OLED) that is driven by a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit is coupled to a data line, two scan lines, and an emission control line of a display device. The pixel is provided with power from external power supply sources and an initialization voltage source. The pixel circuit includes transistors and a storage capacitor that maintains a voltage at a gate of a driving transistor masking any variation between the threshold voltages of the driving transistors used in various pixels. An alternative embodiment, modifies a leakage path from the gate of the driving transistor to the initialization voltage source. Substantial impact of the leakage is shifted from the gate to drain of the driving transistor. As a result, a substantially uniform brightness is maintained in each pixel.
US07755583B2
Provided is an electro-optic device having reduced power consumption. More specifically, an electro-optic device is provided comprising: a liquid crystal layer between a pair of opposing transparent substrates; a patterned electrode set positioned between the liquid crystal layer and the inward-facing surface of the first transparent substrate; a conductive layer between the liquid crystal layer and the inward-facing surface of the second transparent substrate; and means for applying voltage to the patterned electrode set and the conductive layer, wherein the voltage applied to the conductive layer is below the threshold voltage (the RMS voltage difference above which the optical transmission of the liquid crystal layer changes).
US07755576B2
In a PDP, a waveform which has a reset function, an address function, and a sustain discharge function to a scan electrode while a sustain electrode is biased at a constant voltage. The waveform includes a voltage which corresponds to a difference between a voltage applied to the scan electrode and a voltage applied to the sustain electrode in the general driving waveform. As a result, a board for driving the sustain electrode is eliminated, and a combined board is realized.
US07755575B2
Provided is a plasma display apparatus. The plasma display apparatus includes a first electrode and a second electrode formed in parallel on an upper substrate, and a third electrode formed on a lower substrate to intersect with the first electrode and the second electrode. A driving signal is applied to the first electrode, the second electrode, and the third electrode in a reset period, an address period, and a sustain period per one subfield. The reset period comprises a setdown period. A difference between a setdown lowest voltage of the driving signal applied to the first electrode and a voltage applied to the second electrode in the setdown period is 1.2 times to 1.5 times of a sustain voltage.
US07755574B2
In a plasma display device, a second terminal of a first transistor, whose first terminal is connected to an electrode, is connected to a power source for supplying a first voltage. A first driver is adapted to drive the first transistor to change the voltage of the electrode, and a second driver adapted to sustain the voltage of the electrode substantially at a second voltage differing from the first voltage by intercepting a path between the first transistor and the power source when the voltage of the electrode is changed into the second voltage in a first period, and to change the voltage of the electrode substantially back to the first voltage in a second period. In this way, it is possible to supply two or more voltages having a different voltage level by one power source.
US07755567B2
An image display apparatus which is capable of optimizing the image quality of a plurality of display devices having different optical characteristics when carrying out processing of an image signal supplied to the display devices, without providing a dedicated display driving circuit for each display device. The image display apparatus comprises a plurality of liquid crystal display panels (10, 11) having different optical characteristics. A liquid crystal driving circuit (2) processes an image signal outputted to the liquid crystal display panels (10, 11). Operative states of the liquid crystal display panels (10, 11) are detected. At least one processing characteristic of the liquid crystal driving circuit (2) is changed according to the detected operative states.
US07755564B2
A deployable microwave phasing structure having a plurality of planar sub-panels, each of the planar sub-panels having a reflective surface configured to reflect microwaves. In one embodiment, the phasing structure includes a plurality of joints configured to inter-connect the plurality of planar sub-panels to provide a first reflective surface geometry. In one embodiment, the deployable microwave phasing structure includes a plurality of joints configured to inter-connect the plurality of planar sub-panels to provide a first reflective surface geometry. According to another aspect of the invention, the phasing structure includes a phasing arrangement configured to provide an electromagnetic response of a second reflective surface geometry.
US07755562B2
A pre-engineered, packaged RF transparent barrier for non-penetrating installation on a roof, ground, or other surface can be pre-fabricated in different heights and or widths such that customizable barriers can be implemented without manufacturing costs typical of designing custom antenna gate structures. RF transparent materials reduce potential barrier-caused problems such as interference or reflection of RF signals. The barrier balances RF degradation potential, structural integrity, and cost considerations in its design, fabrication, and installation. A method of fulfilling the requirements for an antenna barrier installation is described.
US07755556B2
The invention relates to a wireless communication device that is coupled to an energy source, such as a battery, capacitor, or solar cell. The wireless communication device is coupled to an antenna of the energy source for wireless communication. The antenna receives communication signals from an interrogation reader or other communication device. The wireless communication device may be attached to a device or container for purposes such as communicating information regarding identification, manufacturing, tracking, and the like. The wireless communication device may also be coupled to the energy source for power.
US07755554B2
An antenna (100) disposed on a first substrate (10) and a second substrate (20) includes a feeding portion (110) and a radiating portion (120). The feeding portion (110) is disposed on a first surface of the first substrate (10), for feeding electromagnetic signals. The radiating portion (120) connected to the feeding portion (110) for transceiving electromagnetic signals includes a first radiator (121), a second radiator (122) and a third radiator (123). The first radiator (121) is disposed on the first surface and connected to the feeding portion (110). The second radiator (122) is disposed on a second surface of the second substrate (20). The third radiator (123) includes a first cylinder portion (1231) and a second cylinder portion (1232) connected to the first cylinder portion (1231). The first cylinder portion (1231) and the second cylinder portion (1232) are connected to the first radiator (121) and the second radiator (122), respectively.
US07755552B2
A space efficient magnetic antenna is disclosed for use in tracking, positioning and other applications. In a preferred embodiment, a space efficient magnetic antenna system comprises a first magnetic antenna with a first null axis aligned within a predetermined plane and a second magnetic antenna having a second null axis aligned substantially orthogonal to a first null axis. A second magnetic antenna system lies in a minimal coupling orientation with respect to a first magnetic antenna system. Additionally, a first magnetic antenna may further comprise a plurality of interconnected magnetic antenna elements. A space efficient magnetic antenna system may include an RF module. An RF module may alternately utilize a first magnetic antenna and a second magnetic antenna, or an RF module may drive a second magnetic antenna in phase quadrature with respect to a first magnetic antenna. In still further embodiments, a space efficient magnetic antenna system may further include a third mutually orthogonal magnetic antenna.
US07755550B2
Disclosed is a system and method for determining the far-field radiation pattern of an antenna within a composite radiator. The method involves performing a near-field scan at an angular sample spacing corresponding to a minimum sphere centered at the crossing of two rotational axes encompassing the composite radiator, computing coefficients based on the near-field scan, adding a phase adjustment to the far field based on a translation from the scan origin to a point within the antenna, re-computing the coefficients, and truncating the re-computed coefficients, thereby retaining a number of coefficients corresponding to the diameter of a minimum sphere encompassing the antenna only. In doing so, the far-field radiation pattern of the antenna may be determined from the truncated set of coefficients with interference effects of the composite radiator substantially mitigated.
US07755543B2
Provided are an apparatus and a method of correcting a moving direction of a pedestrian, which can estimate a pedestrian location accurately by correcting error components that are included in a moving direction angle, detected by a terrestrial magnetism sensor. The apparatus for correcting a pedestrian moving direction, including a signal receiving unit which estimates a pedestrian location using a satellite signal from a satellite, a sensor unit which detects a first moving direction angle using a terrestrial magnetism sensor, and a control unit which calculates a second moving direction angle using a pedestrian location estimated by using a satellite signal of good reception quality and corrects the first moving direction angle detected by the terrestrial magnetism sensor by using the calculated second moving direction angle.
US07755537B2
A direction detection apparatus transmits radar waves, with resultant reflected waves being received as incident waves by elements of an array antenna. Normally the direction of a target object is calculated based on analyzing respective received signals from the antenna elements, in calculations utilizing an estimated total number of incident wave directions. In an antenna direction adjustment mode, an actual number of target objects, and hence actual number of incident wave directions, is utilized in place of the estimated value, thereby enabling direction detection information to be obtained which does not fluctuate with time, thus facilitating the adjustment.
US07755534B2
A radar sensor receives a radar wave signal through a radome in each of antennas while judging existence of an attenuating thing in a detecting unit. This unit extracts a maximum level channel from receiving channels assigned to the antennas every modulation period, calculates a difference in signal level between the maximum level channel and each receiving channel every modulation period, sets each receiving channel corresponding to large level differences in one measuring period including plural modulation periods as a candidate channel every measuring period, increments a preliminary variable of each candidate channel every measuring period, increases a final variable each time the preliminary variable of at least one receiving channel reaches or exceeds a preliminary value in one measuring period, and judges in response to the final variable reaching a final value that the attenuating thing attenuates the radar wave directed toward the random.
US07755532B2
Methods and apparatus for assignment and maintenance of unique aircraft addresses for TIS-B services
Methods and apparatus for assigning a pseudo address to an aircraft not equipped with an ADS-B transponder and maintaining the assigned pseudo address over a number of regions each supported by different TIS-B systems. In an exemplary embodiment, each TIS-B system is assigned a range of addresses particular to the region in which the TIS-B system is located.
US07755522B1
Apparatuses, methods, and circuits for analog signal adjustment (or baseline loop cancellation) are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus for adjusting an analog input signal includes a first mixer for combining the analog input signal and an adjustment signal; an analog signal conditioning circuit that receives an output from the first mixer and provides a conditioned analog signal; an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that converts the conditioned analog signal to a first digital signal; a first logic block that provides a correction signal and the adjustment signal; and a second mixer that combines the first digital signal and the correction signal, and provides a digital output signal.
US07755516B2
A aircraft traffic display system, aircraft including the display system and a method of displaying aircraft and vehicle traffic in the display system. The system includes an ownship location finder determining ownship location and maps, including airport maps stored in map storage. A traffic information collector collecting information on airport and other traffic. A local display displays ownship on a moving map at a selected range and all airport traffic within range, or a filtered subset thereof. An off-scale traffic processor monitors off-scale traffic beyond the selected range and identifies of-interest off-scale traffic. The local display also provides an indication of any of interest off-scale traffic. The indication may visibly indicate status (e.g., air or ground) of respective said off-scale traffic and may include traffic specific information.
US07755510B2
A novel vehicular traffic management system that requires no special equipment in any vehicle is disclosed. More specifically, the novel system may be used when approaching a lane closure or lane reduction. The system comprises sequencing signaling devices along the roadway and a central controller. The controller commands the signaling devices to flash (or signal) according to a calculated trajectory. Vehicles traveling along side the signaling devices can pace their speed with cues from the signaling devices. Through this pacing, the system can position the vehicles such that they can merge safely and efficiently. The system can be expanded to merge more than just two lanes. Further refinements to the system include external connections that may include GPS tracking and Internet down/uploading. A feasibility condition/determination can be used with the system to make the system even more robust and efficient.
US07755509B2
Actual traffic conditions of a roadway segment are predicted by providing a plurality of historical roadway condition patterns of the roadway segment in a database, obtaining an electronic representation of a current roadway condition pattern of the roadway segment, identifying one or more of the historical roadway condition patterns that closely matches the current roadway condition pattern, and predicting the future actual traffic conditions of the roadway segment by using the conditions associated with the one or more identified historical patterns.
US07755503B2
An incorrect connection of an information handling system graphics cable to a display peripheral is automatically detected with an error message presented by the display peripheral. For instance, a graphics projector accepts a VGA input from an information handling system through a VGA cable and port to project information for display. The graphics projector includes a graphics output loop that sends inputted VGA signals to an output port for communication to other peripherals, such as monitor. A cable connector detector associated with the VGA output port detects the incorrect coupling of a cable carrying an incoming graphics signal and displays an error message from the projector that the cable is connected to an incorrect port, such as a depiction of the input and output ports or a video showing disconnection of the cable from the outbound port and reconnection of the cable to the inbound port.
US07755499B2
A detecting apparatus for detecting operation of a fan, includes a first current module disposed at an airflow path of the fan, a second current module insulated from the airflow, and an indicating module for giving an indicating signal, having a LED, and a transistor. The first and second current modules being mirror-images of each other. When the fan does not operate, the first and second current modules operate the same. The transistor of the indicating module is turned off, and the LED to be lit. When the fan operates, current flow of the first and second modules are different from each other producing a voltage greater than zero, the transistor of the indicating module is turned on, and the LED does not light.
US07755496B1
A system for directing a lost person to a predetermined location for pickup including a tethered balloon or other highly visible signal deployed at the pickup location. A manned or remotely controlled aircraft is provided for flying over the area in which the lost person is presumed to be located. The aircraft is equipped with a downward directed loudspeaker broadcasting an audible message instructing the lost person to walk towards the balloon or other signal at the rescue location. The aircraft may be a fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft, and airship such as a dirigible or blimp, an ultralight, or a hybrid aircraft.
US07755493B2
Predefined electrical signals, produced by an electrical equipment in the building during a change of electrical operating state of said equipment, are detected on the building's power supply system. By analyzing each detected electrical signal, tracking data is generated including information relating to the date of detection, the electrical equipment originating the signal and the corresponding change in electrical state. At least one parameter representative of the activity carried out by said person is determined, in the form of a probability of an activity or a type of activity being carried out, based on tracking data generated during a predefined period of time.
US07755492B2
Methods and systems of tagging objects and reading tags coupled to objects. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are systems comprising a reading antenna, a tag reader coupled to the reading antenna, and a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag comprising a tag antenna electromagnetically coupled to the reading antenna. The RFID tag couples to an object such as the body of a living organism or a metallic article. Moreover, the tag antenna has a far-field radiation pattern in a direction away from the object that is substantially unaffected by proximity of the RFID tag to the object, and substantially unaffected by which surface of the RFID tag faces the object.
US07755483B2
An apparatus is provided for holding articles, such as keys, which is attachable to a person's clothing, handbag or a purse, and wherein a physical or electronic tether is used to allow the user to use the articles stored thereupon without removing them from the holder or from their clothing, handbag, purse, briefcase or other hand carried item. The tension on the tether is manageable by the use of a tension management system, so that the tension of the tether will not damage the article or the mechanism that the article is used with and the article is tracked by use of the tether so that the user does not lose the article. Infrared, radio frequency, and transponder and polling versions of the invention are also disclosed.
US07755475B2
A device for controlling the brake lights in a motor vehicle having a brake system, designed to be operated by outside forces, is described. The device includes a control device for actuating the brakes of the vehicle in such a manner that an automatic braking operation can be carried out as a function of the vehicle operating conditions, and at least one brake lamp which can be actuated by the control device or by a separate control unit. The control device or the control unit may be designed in such a manner that during an automatic braking operation, the brake lamp is switched on below a predefined boundary speed, as a function of a braking pressure determined in the activated brake of the vehicle, or as a function of a parameter correlating to the braking pressure.
US07755473B2
An active safety system for a vehicle includes an external object sensor system arranged on a host vehicle. The sensor system designed to sense objects external to the host vehicle and generate input data relating to the objects, wherein the input data includes an object position ((R, ψrel)(t)). Additionally, a threat indicator is included to assign a threat level (Tk(t)) to each external object (k) detected by the sensor system.
US07755471B2
A self-contained motion sensitive audio module includes a sensor circuit coupled to a pyroelectric infrared sensor with two sensing elements configured for reliably sensing passersby. The module also includes a power supply, a timing circuit, an audio circuit, a speaker and optionally an LED. The sensor circuit produces an amplified trigger signal when a passerby is sensed. The sensor circuit includes an amplifier to amplify the trigger signal. The timing circuit produces an activation signal upon receiving a trigger signal from the sensor circuit. In playback mode, the audio circuit produces an audible sign message output upon receiving an activation signal from the timing circuit. The module may be attached to the back side of a sign with apertures for receiving the sensor, speaker and optionally an LED.
US07755468B2
A chip resistor includes a resistive element (1), an insulation layer (4) formed in a back surface of the flat surface, and two electrodes (3) spaced from each other via the insulation layer. Each electrode (3) makes contact with the insulation layer (4). Each electrode (3) has a lower surface formed with a solder layer (39).
US07755448B2
Matching network circuits and a method are shown for suppressing a harmonic frequency in a matching network. The circuits and method involve impedance matching first and second differential input nodes to a single ended output node using a first reactive impedance selected to pass a resonant frequency. They also involve suppressing a harmonic frequency of a common mode signal presented at the first and second differential input nodes by providing a series resonance from the first and second differential input nodes to a radio frequency ground potential, where the series resonance is selected to pass the harmonic frequency to the radio frequency ground potential.
US07755447B2
A multilayer balun comprises first and second transmission lines that constitute a half-wave transmission line are opposed in adjacent layers, with a dielectric substance therebetween, so that, during use, the current of the first transmission line and the current of the second transmission line flow in the same direction. Thus, magnetic shield is formed between the first and second transmission lines. This eliminates the need for a grounding electrode layer for preventing magnetic interference between the first and second transmission lines.
US07755429B2
A system and method for dynamic adjustment of drain or collector voltage of a power amplifier (PA), including a PA having a voltage input, a temperature sensor measuring ambient temperature of the PA, and an adaptive PA control processor that dynamically changes the input voltage based on the ambient temperature, achieving a desired peak power when the system is subjected to high temperatures. In a further embodiment, a power sensor measures output power of the PA, and the control processor dynamically changes the voltage based on output power when the system serves a large cell in a mobile communication infrastructure employing high power. In a further embodiment, a multistage PA and method include amplifier stages having drain or collector voltage inputs, wherein a voltage applied to the inputs are set so as to be proportional to the peak power requirements of each stage, enhancing overall efficiency.
US07755411B2
A DC current reduction circuit of the present invention that reduces a DC component in an output current of a current output element in which an AC current and a DC current are superimposed includes a low-pass filter for extracting a current component of a frequency lower than a cutoff frequency from the output current and a reduction unit that reduces the extracted current component from the output current. The low-pass filter has a frequency changing unit that changes the cutoff frequency from higher to lower as a continuous function over time.
US07755405B2
A delay locked loop (DLL) circuit includes a first delay control unit configured to generate a first delay control signal in response to a first phase detection signal to control a delay amount of a first delay line and to output a first delay amount information signal, a second delay control unit configured to generate a second delay control signal in response to a second phase detection signal to control a delay amount of a second delay line and to output a second delay amount information signal, and to control the delay amount of the second delay line again in response to the first delay control signal and a half cycle information signal, a half cycle detecting unit configured to receive the first delay amount information signal and the second delay amount information signal to extract half cycle information of a reference clock signal, thereby generating the half cycle information signal, and a duty cycle correcting unit configured to combine an output clock signal from the first delay line and an output clock signal from the second delay line, thereby outputting a duty ratio correction clock signal.
US07755404B2
Delay locked loop circuits and methods are disclosed. In the embodiments, a delay locked loop may include a phase detector to detect a phase difference between a clock signal and a reference clock signal, and a charge pump that receives the detected phase difference. A low pass filter may filter an output from the charge pump. The delay locked loop may further include a delay line having a plurality of delay elements, the plurality of delay elements including a first selectable group and a second selectable group that is larger than the first selectable group. A first clock signal from the first group of delay elements may be provided to the phase detector to first synchronize the delay locked loop, and following the synchronization, a second clock signal from the second group may be employed to synchronize the delay locked loop.
US07755395B2
An inverter circuit for generating an output signal at an output node obtained by inverting an input signal level at an input node includes a common-source MOS transistor having a gate node connected to the input node, a source connected to a predetermined voltage and a substrate gate, a load resistor connected in series with the MOS transistor, and a resistor connected between the gate node and the substrate gate of the MOS transistor.
US07755374B2
An apparatus for testing semiconductor devices includes a first member configured as a drawer to be movable in and out of the housing and to receive a tray assembly containing semiconductor devices having exposed electrical contacts. The tray assembly includes a top portion and a bottom portion. The bottom portion includes structures for retaining the semiconductor devices in fixed positions and tray openings providing access to the electrical contacts. The top portion includes surfaces for contacting the semiconductor devices and a stress relief structure on the top. A second member moves the first member in a vertical direction to a tester pack. The tester pack sends and receives electrical signals to and from the semiconductor devices by way of the electrical contacts. A test computer provides instruction to the tester pack allowing the tester pack to test the semiconductor devices and return test information to the test computer.
US07755371B2
A system for obtaining an accurate, real-time determination of the characteristic impedance of a length of a power line that measures the operating conditions (e.g., voltage and current) for at least two locations on the power line. These measurements are synchronized so that they represent the same instant of time. The data obtained from the synchronized measurements are fitted to a circuit model of the power line to obtain a characteristic impedance for the power line, which can be used to increase the efficiency of the use of the power line and to perform real-time assessment of the power line.
US07755368B2
A Method and an apparatus for measuring the mass and/or moisture of the contents of incompletely filled capsules, containing, in particular, medicinal products, pharmaceutical products, vitamins and similar products, with the aid of microwaves is disclosed. The displacement of the resonant frequency and broadening of the resonance curve caused by the capsules in at least one resonator is determined and evaluated. Measurements are made integrated over the whole capsule as well as with high local resolution for various portions and cross sections of the capsule.
US07755361B2
A modular downhole apparatus to determine a formation property, the apparatus being incorporated into a drill string comprising one or more downhole tools and drill pipe, the drill pipe being of the same or various lengths, the modular downhole apparatus comprising a first module having one or more antennas, wherein the first module has connectors on both ends adapted to connect with the drill string; and a second module having one or more antennas, wherein the second module has connectors on both ends adapted to connect with the drill string; wherein the first module and the second module are spaced apart on the drill string; and wherein one or more of the one or more antennas of one or both of the modules has a dipole moment that is tilted or transverse.
US07755355B2
An automated image processing technique is disclosed that evaluates pixels of a phase-difference image to determine those pixels corresponding to inflowing phase data and background phase data. Phase-difference images are generated from a first acquisition and a second acquisition. Non-zero spatially varying background phase from the phase-difference images that are due to eddy currents induced by flow encoding gradients used to generate the phase-difference images is determined. This non-zero spatially varying background phase is removed from the phase-difference images to determine phase associated with flowing spins and phase associated with stationary spins.
US07755354B2
System and methods for using nuclear magnetic resonance (MR) T1 measurements for wireline, LWD and MWD applications and down-hole NMR fluid analyzers. The T1 measurements are characterized by insensitivity to motion, as the detrimental effects arising from tool motion or fluid flow are effectively reduced or eliminated. T1 measurements alone or in combination with other standard oil field measurements are shown to provide efficient data acquisition resulting in compact and robust data sets, the potential for substantially increased logging speeds, and simple methods for fluid typing, including direct and robust identification of gas.
US07755349B2
Method and apparatus improve sensing accuracy and reduce bias shift in anisotropic magneto-resistive sensors using paired integrators and sampling switches for processing outputs of the sensor on applied set and reset signals with high immunity to temperature variations.
US07755335B2
A feed controller adopted to be included in a battery drive type device, the feed controller adopted to supply power to a predetermined load from a battery holder that obtains rated electromotive force from plural rated number of batteries having predetermined specification and connected in series while held by the battery holder, the feed controller includes: an outer casing attached to the battery holder in place of one of the plural batteries and having shape and size appropriate for being held by the battery holder; a converter unit disposed within the outer casing to receive voltage corresponding to the sum of the electromotive forces from the other batteries when the outer casing is held by the battery holder in place of the one battery and convert the supplied voltage to output voltage corresponding to the rated electromotive force; a switch unit inserted into a feed path for supplying the output from the converter unit to the predetermined load to open and close the feed path according to a feed control signal; and a feed control unit which generates the feed control signal to be supplied to the switch unit.
US07755327B2
The present invention discloses a synchronous rectification type battery charging circuit, comprising: a charging main circuit for charging a battery; an anti-reflection switch tube, connected between a voltage input of the synchronous rectification type battery charging circuit and the charging main circuit; and a control logic and driving circuit, for controlling turning-on and cutting-off of the charging main circuit and the anti-reflection switch tube, characterized in that the synchronous rectification type battery charging circuit further including a protection circuit which outputs to the control logic and driving circuit an indicating signal for representing turning-on or cutting-off of the charging main circuit and the anti-reflection switch tube, according to a value of an input voltage of the synchronous rectification type battery charging circuit.
US07755318B1
A sump pump control includes a microprocessor that sends a trigger pulse to an alternistor to turn the alternistor on and connect the sump pump to an NC power source. The microprocessor also monitors the power source to find a positive/negative crossover point. The microprocessor adjusts the trigger to apply full power to the pump motor during normal operation and delays the trigger to apply reduced power for a soft start and soft stop. The microprocessor also triggers an alarm in the event of failure of the device, including failure of the alternistor or the microprocessor.
US07755312B2
A motor drive device comprising an H-bridge circuit having four switching elements connected in an H bridge form to a motor coil L, a control circuit for on-off controlling each switching element, and a PWM signal generating circuit for generating a PWM signal having a duty according to a ration between a power supply voltage Vcc and a control voltage Vref, wherein the control circuit is so constituted as to select a switching element to be turned on according to an operation mode control signal FIN, RIN and control its on-duty according to the PWM signal. This constitution can variably control easily and over a wide range a drive voltage applied to one end of the motor coil L according to an externally input control voltage Vref.
US07755310B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for monitoring an achieved motor torque produced by an electric motor. The method includes determining the achieved motor torque based on a rotor position of the electric motor and a phase current of the electric motor when the motor speed is not greater than a first pre-determined threshold, determining the achieved motor torque based on a loss-compensated power supplied to the electric motor when the motor speed is greater than the first pre-determined threshold, comparing the achieved motor torque with the torque command, and indicating a fault when the achieved motor torque is not within a pre-determined margin of the torque command.
US07755308B2
A control system is disclosed. The control system has a switched reluctance generator coupled to provide electrical power through a DC bus to a motor. The control system also has a controller in communication with the switched reluctance generator, the motor, and the DC bus. The controller is configured to receive an indication of an amount torque or power required by the motor, determine a conduction angle of the switched reluctance generator based on the amount of torque or power required by the motor; and energize the DC bus with the electrical power provided by the switched reluctance generator based on the optimal conduction angle.
US07755307B2
Right after a system operation start but before a smoothing capacitor has been sufficiently pre-charged, conversion voltage control is executed to control a voltage boosting converter so that a system voltage is first raised to a target value. After the smoothing capacitor has been pre-charged, the conversion voltage control is changed over to conversion power control to control the output power of the voltage boosting converter, so that the output power of the voltage boosting converter is brought into agreement with a command value. While the conversion power control is being executed, system voltage control by operating the input power to the MG unit is prohibited.
US07755298B2
An exemplary power supply circuit (20) includes a scaler (21), a field-effect transistor (23), a pulse width modulation circuit (25), and a capacitor (29). The scaler includes an output port (213). The pulse width modulation circuit includes an input port (251). The input port of the pulse width modulation circuit is grounded via the capacitor. The field-effect transistor includes a gate electrode (231), a source electrode (232), and a drain electrode (233). The gate electrode is connected to the output port of the scaler. The source electrode is grounded. The drain electrode is connected to the input port of the pulse width modulation circuit.
US07755297B2
A display apparatus and a control method thereof are provided. The inventive method and apparatus improves a response speed of a light source and image quality by minimizing a ripple of a current and reducing a time required to increase/decrease an amount of a current to drive a light source when a light source is turned on and off or a size of a current used to drive a light source is changed. An exemplary display apparatus includes a light source, a current generator which generates a driving current to drive the light source, a first current consumer which has a smaller resistance value than the light source, a first switch which is switched on and off to supply the driving current generated by the current generator either to the light source or to the first current consumer and a controller which controls the current generator to generate the driving current to reach a target value, and controls the first switch to supply the driving current to the first current consumer if the target value is smaller than the driving current.
US07755293B2
A method for controlling a lamp circuit that includes: setting a first voltage threshold and a first time window within a control circuit corresponding to a characteristic of a first lamp type; providing a first signal through the lamp circuit to start a first time interval and create a first test voltage; comparing the first test voltage to the first voltage threshold; and operating a switch to couple an output of the lamp circuit to a source of electrical power if the first test voltage is greater than or equal to the first voltage threshold before the first time interval exceeds the first time window.
US07755292B1
An ultraminiature light source using a double-spiral shaped tungsten filament includes end contact portions which are separated to allow for radial and length-wise unwinding of the spiral. The double-spiral filament is spaced relatively far apart at the end portions thereof so that contact between portions of the filament upon expansion is avoided. The light source is made by fabricating a double-spiral ultraminiature tungsten filament from tungsten foil and housing the filament in a ceramic package having a reflective bottom and a well wherein the filament is suspended. A vacuum furnace brazing process attaches the filament to contacts of the ceramic package. Finally, a cover with a transparent window is attached onto the top of the ceramic package by solder reflow in a second vacuum furnace process to form a complete hermetically sealed package.
US07755290B2
A Plasma Display Panel (PDP) includes a dielectric layer having a plurality of dielectric-layer perforated holes arranged in a matrix; and upper and lower electrode layers having electrode-layer perforated holes connected to the dielectric-layer perforated holes and arranged on both surfaces of the dielectric layer; the upper electrode layer includes a plurality of first electrodes extending in a first direction, the plurality of first electrodes surrounding a group of electrode-layer perforated holes arranged in the first direction; and the lower electrode layer includes a plurality of second electrodes extending in a second direction different from the first direction, the plurality of second electrodes surrounding a group of electrode-layer perforated holes arranged in the second direction. Individual electrodes surrounding the electrode-layer perforated holes protrude from the dielectric layer toward the centers of the perforated holes such that a facing discharge is generated between the upper and lower individual electrodes, resulting in a PDP having stable characteristics and high efficiency and having a simple structure.
US07755283B2
The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus, which includes a front substrate; a plurality of first, second electrodes formed on the front substrate; a rear substrate that is faced with the front substrate; a plurality of third electrodes formed on the rear substrate; and a discharge cell that is disposed in the place where the first, the second electrode intersect with the third electrode, wherein at least one of the first and the second electrode is formed with one layer, wherein the width or the length of the first and the second electrode arranged in the adjacent discharge cells are different each other. Accordingly, the manufacturing cost can be decreased by eliminating the transparent electrode made of ITO, the color temperature and the luminance of the plasma display panel ca be increased by asymmetrically forming R, G, B discharge cell.
US07755282B2
A method is performed for the fabrication of LED and its structure. The LED is capable of emitting uniform white light and includes a substrate, an LED die, a holding frame and fluorescent substance where the holding frame is of hollow shape. The LED contains a die emitting blue light, and the fluorescent substance is a yellow phosphor. As the LED die is mounted on the substrate, the holding frame is seated on the die, and a bond wiring is performed. The holding frame is filled with the fluorescent substance in a uniform distribution on the die to form a layer of fluorescence. Finally the structure of the LED is accomplished as the packaging is completed.
US07755280B2
An active matrix electroluminescence display device and a method for fabricating the same, whereby damage caused by UV light rays during the fabrication process can be prevented, are disclosed. The active matrix electroluminescence display device includes a plurality of transistors formed on a substrate having an emissive area and a non-emissive area defined thereon, an insulating layer formed on the substrate and the thin film transistors, a metallic protective layer formed on the insulating layer of the non-emissive area, a first electrode formed on the insulating layer of the emissive area, an electroluminous layer formed on the first electrode, and a second electrode formed on the electroluminous layer.
US07755279B2
An organic electroluminescent device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate facing and spaced apart from the first substrate, the first and second substrates each having a pixel region; an array element on an inner surface of the first substrate, the array element including a plurality of thin film transistors within each pixel region; an organic electroluminescent diode on an inner surface of the second substrate; and a connection pattern electrically interconnecting the first and second substrates.
US07755274B2
An organic EL panel comprises a light-transmitting supporting substrate having formed thereon an organic EL device comprising an organic layer 5 having at least a luminescent layer 5c, sandwiched with a pair of electrodes. The luminescent layer 5c comprises a host material 5f having added thereto a fluorescent material 5g and a transport material (hole transport material) as guest materials.
US07755271B2
An electron emission film having a pattern of diamond in X-ray diffraction and formed of a plurality of diamond fine grains having a grain diameter of 5 nm to 10 nm is formed on a substrate. The electron emission film can restrict the field intensity to a low level when it causes an emission current to flow, and has a uniform electron emission characteristic.
US07755267B2
An object of the present invention is to prevent a device portion from being electrostatically charged with the use of the high resistivity film, and at the same time prevent a leak current passing the device portion due to an existing high resistivity film, in an electron source with the use of a surface-conduction electron-emitting device. This process for manufacturing the electron-emitting device comprises the steps of: forming an electroconductive thin film 4 astride device electrodes; forming the high resistivity film 7 in a region except the electroconductive thin film 4 and a perimeter thereof; subjecting the electroconductive thin film 4 to forming processing, to form a fissure 5 therein; and depositing a carbon film 6 inside the fissure 5 and in a region reaching the high resistivity film 7 from the edge of the fissure 5, by applying voltage between device electrodes 2 and 3 under an atmosphere containing a carbon compound.
US07755266B2
A pixel structure has a substrate, and a first subpixel unit, a second subpixel unit, and a third subpixel unit disposed on the substrate. The first subpixel unit has three first subpixels arranged in a delta formation, the second subpixel unit has three second subpixels arranged in a delta formation, and the third subpixel unit has three third subpixels arranged in a delta formation. One first subpixel of the first subpixel unit, one second subpixel of the second subpixel unit adjacent to the first subpixel unit, and one third subpixel of the third subpixel unit adjacent to the first subpixel unit form a display pixel unit.
US07755263B2
An external light-shielding layer capable of enhancing a visible light transmittance and a contrast ratio and preventing Moire fringe and Newton ring phenomena, a display filter including the external light-shielding layer, and a display device including the display filter. The external light-shielding layer includes a transparent resin matrix, and a plurality of light-shielding patterns formed on the transparent resin matrix and spaced apart from each other in a predetermined interval, wherein a bias angle (α) formed between a traveling direction of the light-shielding patterns and the longer side of the matrix is in a range of about 5 to 80 degrees.
US07755256B2
An ultrasonic probe including a piezoelectric vibrator configured to transmit and receive ultrasonic waves, an acoustic lens configured to focus the ultrasonic waves and an acoustic matching layer arranged between the piezoelectric vibrator and the acoustic lens and configured to modify acoustic impedance from the piezoelectric vibrator to the acoustic lens. The acoustic matching layer includes a first region arranged at center areas along a direction of transmitting and receiving of the ultrasonic waves, a second region arranged between the first region and the piezoelectric vibrator and having a rate of change of acoustic impedance which is less than rate of change of acoustic impedance of the first region and a third region arranged between the first region and the acoustic lens, and having a rate of change of acoustic impedance which is less than a rate of change of acoustic impedance of the first region.
US07755253B2
A piezoelectric/electrostrictive film element includes a substrate, a lower electrode, a piezoelectric/electrostrictive film, and an upper electrode. The substrate has a thin-walled diaphragm portion, and a thick portion formed around the thin-walled diaphragm portion. The lower electrode is formed on the substrate in such a manner as to extend over the thin-walled diaphragm portion and the thick portion. The piezoelectric/electrostrictive film is formed on the lower electrode. The upper electrode is provided on the piezoelectric/electrostrictive film in such a manner as to face the thin-walled diaphragm portion. The upper electrode includes an upper-electrode body portion and a connection portion. The upper-electrode body portion has a planar shape generally similar to the planar shape of the thin-walled diaphragm portion.
US07755242B2
A motor having a structure configured to reduce magnetic resistance between a rotor and a stator, a method for manufacturing the motor, and a washing machine using the motor are disclosed. The motor includes a rotor, and a stator co-operating with the rotor. The stator includes a main core and an auxiliary core. The main core includes a base and a plurality of teeth protruding from the base. The auxiliary core is structured to prevent the occurrence of magnetic resistance from being generated from spaces, defined between adjacent teeth, when the stator co-operates with the rotor.
US07755235B2
A downhole generator comprises a turbine coaxially disposed inside a section of drillstring and that will be spun when hydraulic or pneumatic flows are pushed through to a drillbit motor on a distal end. The turbine, in turn, spins permanent magnets in an orbit around the outside of a cylindrical containment shell. Such containment shell is made of titanium or aluminum and will allow the spinning magnets fields to enter and induce electrical currents in coils within. Current from the coils is rectified and filtered to provide a DC operating voltage through intrinsically safe connectors to various loads including drillstring steering controls, radars, and telemetry circuits. The hydraulic and pneumatic flows stream past all around the cylindrical containment shell from the turbine on their way to the drillbit motor.
US07755225B2
A recoilless voice coil actuator and method having flexures connected to both the magnet and the voice coil allowing independent movement of both the magnet and the voice coil in the direction of actuation. The stiffness or resistance to movement of the flexures is selected so that the natural frequencies of the magnet and the voice coil along the direction of actuation are substantially the same.
US07755223B2
A movable barrier operator system wherein one or more of the various components of the system is configured to operate selectively in at least either of two operational modes. Each operating mode is characterized by a corresponding energy usage profile. The operational status of the system is monitored and operating modes are selected that serve both to substantially ensure proper operation given current likely operational expectations and an overall desire to reduce energy consumption.
US07755219B2
A module for controlling power supply to a load in a product which includes a microchip, and an electromechanical switch and a proximity/touch sensor connected to the microchip, preferably to the same input. The switch is primarily used to activate or deactivate the load and the proximity/touch sensor to vary the effect of operating the switch, or to control additional functions such as the activation of a signal, typically a light signal, which helps to locate the product, particularly in the dark, and to vary the duration of an automatic time-out period at the end of which the load is deactivated.
US07755214B2
A diode circuit having a passive element property, and an impedance modulator and a direct current (DC) source that use the diode circuit are provided. The diode circuit includes a first diode that generates a predetermined DC and alternating currents (AC) when a radio frequency (RF) signal is applied; and a DC path that is connected in parallel to the first diode, forms a predetermined loop and circulates the DC current within the loop. The DC path includes an inductor or an LC parallel resonator. The DC path includes a second diode that is disposed in the opposite direction to the first diode and connected to the first diode in parallel. The present invention can relieve difficulty in designing an RF circuit.
US07755209B2
The present invention provides a power converter that can be used to interface a generator (4) that provides variable voltage at variable frequency to a supply network operating at nominally fixed voltage and nominally fixed frequency and including features that allow the power converter to remain connected to the supply network and retain control during supply network fault and transient conditions. The power converter includes a generator bridge (10) electrically connected to the stator of the generator (4) and a network bridge (14). A dc link (12) is connected between the generator bridge (10) and the network bridge (14). A filter (16) having network terminals is connected between the network bridge (14) and the supply network. A first controller (18) is provided for controlling the operation of the semiconductor power switching devices of the generator bridge (14). Similarly, a second controller (46) is provided for controlling the operation of the semiconductor power switching devices of the network bridge (14). The first controller (18) uses a dc link voltage demand signal (VDC_GEN*) indicative of a desired dc link voltage to control the semiconductor power switching devices of the network bridge (10) to achieve the desired level of dc link voltage that corresponds to the dc link voltage demand signal (VDC_GEN*). The second controller (46) uses a power demand signal (P*) indicative of the level of power to be transferred from the dc link to the supply network through the network bridge (14), and a voltage demand signal (VTURB*) indicative of the voltage to be achieved at the network terminals of the filter (16) to control the semiconductor power switching devices of the network bridge (14) to achieve the desired levels of power and voltage that correspond to the power and voltage demand signals (P* and VTURB*).
US07755203B2
A circuit substrate for improving the reliability and productivity of a semiconductor device, and that semiconductor device. In a circuit substrate to which a semiconductor element is to be flip-chip mounted, at least one island-shaped electrically conductive layer is selectively disposed together with a wiring layer at an element mounting area where the semiconductor element is to be mounted, and an insulating resin layer is disposed over the island-shaped electrically conductive layer. The semiconductor element is secured at the element mounting area to the circuit substrate by an adhesion material to make a semiconductor device. With this, delaminating of the wiring layer inside the semiconductor device is suppressed, and the damage of an electrode is suppressed. The circuit substrate has high reliability and the semiconductor device, having the circuit substrate, is implemented.
US07755197B2
A semiconductor device comprises a substrate, a patterned metal conductor layer over the substrate, and a passivation layer. The passivation layer may comprise a UV blocking, protection layer, over at least a portion of the substrate and patterned metal conductor layers, and a separation layer between the patterned metal conductor layer and the UV protection layer. The passivation layer may also comprise a gap-filling, hydrogen-blocking layer over the substrate, the patterned metal conductor layer and any UV protection layer.
US07755195B2
A semiconductor apparatus includes a device, two metal-wiring layers, and an insulation film. The device includes first and second electrodes. The two metal-wiring layers include uppermost and next-uppermost metal-wiring layers. The insulation film is formed on the uppermost metal-wiring layer and includes first and second pad openings. The uppermost metal-wiring layer has a first portion exposed to air through the first pad opening and forming a first electrode pad, and the uppermost metal-wiring layer has a second portion exposed to air through the second pad opening and forming a second electrode pad. The first and second electrode pads are located over the device and are electrically connected to the first and second electrodes, respectively. The next-uppermost metal-wiring layer has a first portion located under the first electrode pad and electrically connected thereto, and a second portion located under the second electrode pad and electrically connected thereto.
US07755192B2
A copper interconnection structure includes an insulating layer, an interconnection and a barrier layer. The insulating layer includes silicon (element symbol: Si), carbon (element symbol: C), hydrogen (element symbol: H) and oxygen (element symbol: O). The interconnection is located on the insulating layer, and the interconnection includes copper (element symbol: Cu). The barrier layer is located between the insulating layer and the interconnection. The barrier layer includes an additional element, carbon (element symbol: C) and hydrogen (element symbol: H). The barrier layer has atomic concentrations of carbon (element symbol: C) and hydrogen (element symbol: H) maximized in a region of a thickness of the barrier layer where the atomic concentration of the additional element is maximized.
US07755181B2
An IC package including a plurality of BGA IC packages stacked on a printed circuit board and a method of manufacturing the same. The IC package includes a printed circuit board, a first BGA IC package, having a plurality of first solder balls, stacked on the printed circuit board, a second BGA IC package, having a plurality of second solder balls, stacked on the first BGA IC package, and an interposer having a plurality of through-holes, which are filled by the second solder balls in a molten state such that the length of the second solder balls increases while the second solder balls harden, the interposer being joined to the top of the first BGA IC package.
US07755173B2
A series-shunt switch is provided. The switch includes a PIN diode having an input electrical terminal, an output electrical terminal and a thermal terminal. The thermal terminal is configured to provide continuity of diode thermal ground with respect to a circuit thermal ground node.
US07755172B2
A method for growing III-V nitride films having an N-face or M-plane using an ammonothermal growth technique. The method comprises using an autoclave, heating the autoclave, and introducing ammonia into the autoclave to produce smooth N-face or M-plane Gallium Nitride films and bulk GaN.
US07755166B2
When a package substrate with a built-in capacitor includes a first thin-film small electrode 41aa and a second thin-film small electrode 42aa that are electrically short-circuited to each other via a pinhole P in a high-dielectric layer 43, a power supply post 61a and a via hole 61b are not formed in the first thin-film small electrode 41aa, and a ground post 62a and a via hole 62b are not formed in the second thin-film small electrode 42aa, either. As a result, the short-circuited small electrodes 41aa and 42aa are electrically connected to neither a power supply line nor a ground line, and become a potential independent from a power supply potential and a ground potential. Therefore, in the thin-film capacitor 40, only the portion where the short-circuited small electrodes 41aa and 42aa sandwich the high dielectric layer 43 loses the capacitor function, and portions where other thin-film small electrodes 41a and 42a sandwich the high dielectric layer 43 maintain the capacitor function.
US07755147B2
A semiconductor device is provided with a first conductivity type semiconductor substrate (10); a voltage supplying terminal (26) arranged on the semiconductors substrate (10); one or more elements (6) which include a second conductivity type well section (22) and are arranged on the semiconductor substrate (10); a second conductivity type first conductive layer (21), which is a lower layer of the one or more elements (6), is in contact with the second conductivity type well section (22), and connects the second conductivity type well section (22) of the one or more elements (6) with the voltage supplying terminal (26); and a first conductivity type second conductive layer (11) formed in contact with a lower side of the first conductive layer (21).
US07755146B2
Wells are formed in a substrate where standard Vt and low Vt devices of both a first and second type are to be fabricated. Wells defining the locations of first type standard Vt devices are masked, and a first voltage threshold implant adjustment is performed within wells defining the second type standard Vt devices, and each of the first and second type low Vt devices. Wells that define the locations of second type standard Vt devices are masked, and a second voltage threshold implant adjustment is performed to the wells defining the first type standard Vt devices, and each of the first and second type low Vt devices. Doped polysilicon gate stacks are then formed over the wells. Performance characteristics and control of each device Vt is controlled by regulating at least one of the first and second voltage threshold implant adjustments, and the polysilicon gate stack doping.
US07755145B2
A semiconductor device includes an n-type MIS (Metal Insulator Semiconductor) transistor and a p-type MIS transistor. The n-type MIS transistor includes a first gate insulating film, a first fully silicided (FUSI) gate electrode formed on the first gate insulating film and made of a first metal silicide film, and a first sidewall insulating film. The p-type MIS transistor includes a second gate insulating film, a second fully silicided (FUSI) gate electrode formed on the second gate insulating film and made of a second metal silicide film, and a second sidewall insulating film. A top surface of the first FUSI gate electrode is located lower than a top surface of the second FUSI gate electrode.
US07755134B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes: a semiconductor region; device isolation regions placed in the semiconductor region and extending in a column direction; a semiconductor layer placed on the semiconductor region and between the device isolation regions, and having a convex shape in cross section along a row direction; source/drain regions placed in the semiconductor layer and spaced from each other; a gate insulating film placed on the semiconductor layer between the source/drain regions; a floating gate electrode layer placed on the gate insulating film; an intergate insulating film placed on the floating gate electrode layer and upper surfaces of the device isolation regions; and a control gate electrode layer placed on the intergate insulating film and extending in the row direction.
US07755132B2
In a nonvolatile memory using floating gates to store charge, individual floating gates are L-shaped. Orientations of L-shaped floating gates may alternate in the bit line direction and may also alternate in the word line direction. L-shaped floating gates are formed by etching conductive portions using etch masks of different patterns to obtain floating gates of different orientations.
US07755128B2
A semiconductor device, such as a transistor or capacitor is provided. The device includes a substrate, a gate dielectric over the substrate, and a conductive gate dielectric film over the gate dielectric. The gate dielectric includes a doped hafnium zirconium oxide containing one or more dopant elements selected from Group II, Group XIII, silicon, and rare earth elements of the Periodic Table. According to one embodiment, the conductive gate dielectric can contain doped hafnium zirconium nitride or doped hafnium zirconium oxynitride.
US07755124B2
A technique includes forming overlaying magnetic metal layers over a semiconductor substrate. The technique includes forming at least one resistance layer between the magnetic metal layers.
US07755105B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a capacitor-less memory which can prevent a change of a threshold voltage due to flowing out of carriers and improve the memory retention property without a complicated structure. In the capacitor-less memory which uses a transistor, the transistor includes a source region, a drain region, an active layer region which is provided between the source region and the drain region, and a gate electrode which is adjacent to the active layer region with an insulating film interposed therebetween. The source region is formed of a semiconductor having a larger band gap than a band gap of a semiconductor of the active layer region and a band gap of a semiconductor of the drain region, and a heterojunction is formed at the interface between the source region and the active layer region.
US07755100B2
There is provided a packaging apparatus of a terahertz device, the apparatus including: a terahertz device having an active region at which terahertz wave is radiated or detected; a device substrate mounting the terahertz device whose active region is positioned at an opening region formed at the center of the device substrate, and electrically connecting the terahertz device and an external terminal to each other; a ball lens block arranged and fixed to an upper part of the terahertz device; and upper and lower cases receiving the device substrate mounted with the terahertz device therein and opening region vertical upper and lower portions of the active region of the terahertz device.
US07755090B2
Forming a back-illuminated type CMOS image sensor, includes process for formation of a registration mark on the wiring side of a silicon substrate during formation of an active region or a gate electrode. A silicide film using an active region may also be used for the registration mark. Thereafter, the registration mark is read from the back side by use of red light or near infrared rays, and registration of the stepper is accomplished. It is also possible to form a registration mark in a silicon oxide film on the back side (illuminated side) in registry with the registration mark on the wiring side, and to achieve the desired registration by use of the registration mark thus formed.
US07755088B2
A thin film transistor array substrate including an insulating substrate, a first metallic pattern formed on the insulating substrate, and an insulating film provided on the first metallic pattern. A semiconductor pattern is provided on the insulating film, and a second metallic pattern is provided on the semiconductor pattern. The second metallic pattern is surrounded by the semiconductor pattern.
US07755087B2
The liquid crystal display device of this invention includes a plurality of picture element regions each defined by a first electrode provided on a face of a first substrate facing a liquid crystal layer and a second electrode provided on a second substrate so as to oppose the first electrode via the liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween. In each of the picture element regions, the first electrode has a plurality of openings and a solid portion, the liquid crystal layer is in a vertical orientation state when no voltage is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode, and when a voltage is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode, a plurality of liquid crystal domains each in a radially-inclined orientation state are respectively formed in the plurality of openings and the solid portion by inclined electrode fields generated at respective edge portions of the openings of the first electrode.
US07755078B2
A silicon integrated circuit device comprising a near intrinsic silicon substrate in which there are one or more ohmic contact regions. An insulating layer lies above the substrate, and on top of the insulating layer is a lower layer of one or more aluminium gates. The surface of each of the lower gates is oxidised to insulate them from an upper aluminium gate that extends over the lower gates.
US07755073B2
Provided are an acousto-optic filter and an optical code division multiple access (CDMA) system using the acousto-optic filter. The acousto-optic filer includes: an acousto-optic mode converter (AOMC) converting an optical signal of a specific optical frequency corresponding to a frequency of an electric signal of an optical signal of a first mode having a predetermined optical frequency band; and a mode stripper (MS) stripping an optical signal of the optical signal of the first mode that has been converted to a second mode.
US07755067B2
An ion implantation apparatus reciprocally scans an ion beam extracted from an ion source and passed through a mass analysis magnet apparatus and a mass analysis slit and irradiates to a wafer. The ion beam is converged and shaped by providing a first quadrupole vertical focusing electromagnet at a section of a beam line from an outlet of the mass analysis magnet apparatus before incidence of the mass analysis slit and providing a second quadrupole vertical focusing electromagnet having an effective magnetic field effect larger than that of the first quadrupole focusing electromagnet at a section of the beam line from an outlet of the mass analysis slit before incidence on the beam scanner.
US07755066B2
Techniques for uniformity tuning in an ion implanter system are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for ion beam uniformity tuning. The method may comprise generating an ion beam in an ion implanter system. The method may also comprise measuring a first ion beam current density profile along an ion beam path. The method may further comprise measuring a second ion beam current density profile along the ion beam path. In addition, the method may comprise determining a third ion beam current density profile along the ion beam path based at least in part on the first ion beam current density profile and the second ion beam current density profile.
US07755065B2
A focused ion beam apparatus includes a plasma generator having a plasma torch therein, which lets plasma flow out while being kept inside, a differential exhaust chamber that is connected to the plasma torch via the torch orifice to cause adiabatic expansion of the plasma flowing out of the plasma torch to form a supersonic flow of the plasma, a drawing orifice provided at the differential exhaust chamber at a position facing the torch orifice to draw ions from the supersonic flow of the plasma, a drawing electrode that electrostatically accelerates ions having passed through the drawing orifice to further draw ions, and an ion optical system that focuses the ions drawn from the drawing electrode and causing the ions to enter the sample by optically manipulating the ions.
US07755063B2
In scanned optical systems such as confocal laser microscopes wherein a beam of light is focused to a spot in a specimen to excite a fluorescent species or other excitable species in the spot, the effective size of the excitation is made smaller man the size of the spot by providing a beam of light of wavelength adapted to quench the excitation of the excitable species, shaping this second beam into a pattern with a central intensity minimum, and overlapping this central minimum with the central intensity maximum of the focused spot, so that within the spot the intensity of quenching light increases with distance from the center of the spot, thereby preferentially quenching excitation in the peripheral parts of the spot, and thereby reducing the effective size of the excitation and thus improving the resolution of the system. In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the central minimum of quenching light is narrowed further by creating the pattern of quenching radiation in the specimen by imaging onto the focal plane a plurality of pairs of sources of quenching light, arrayed at the vertices of a regular, even-sided polygon, the center of which is imaged in the specimen on the central maximum of exciting radiation, and such that the two members of each pair are on opposite vertices of the polygon and emit light mutually coherent and out-of-phase, and the light emitted by different pairs is incoherent with respect to each other.
US07755061B2
One embodiment relates to a dynamic pattern generator for reflection electron beam lithography which includes conductive pixel pads, an insulative border surrounding each conductive pixel pad so as to electrically isolate the conductive pixel pads from each other, and conductive elements coupled to the conductive pixel pads for controllably applying voltages to the conductive pixel pads. The conductive pixel pads are advantageously cup shaped with a bottom portion, a sidewall portion, and an open cavity. Another embodiment relates to a pattern generating apparatus which includes a well structure with sidewalls and a cavity configured above each conductive pixel pad. The sidewalls may include alternating layers of conductive and insulative materials. Other embodiments, aspects and feature are also disclosed.
US07755059B2
Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some implementations field-effect-transistor (FET) leakage from a pixel array panel of a digital X-ray detector is reduced by acquiring an image and an offset image from the pixel array panel of the digital X-ray detector while a negative voltage of the pixel array panel is at a higher level than a negative voltage of a threshold state of the pixel array panel of the digital X-ray detector.
US07755056B2
A radiation sensor 10 includes an array of imaging pixels 13 electrically connectable to a readout port. At least one first peripheral row of trigger pixels 11 is located at a first edge of the array, the trigger pixels also being electrically connectable to the readout port but responding faster to x-rays than the imaging pixels. At least one second peripheral row of trigger pixels 12 may be located at a second edge of the array opposed to the first edge. Trigger pixels 11, 12 from the first and second peripheral rows may be addressable alternately in a predetermined pattern to detect a radiation signal for triggering the sensor. Various methods of clocking the sensor are also described. The sensor has particular applicability to intra-oral x-ray imaging.
US07755051B2
The present invention relates to a method for quantifying the composition of a product, including: irradiating the product with a radiation source in the near infrared range; receiving radiation which is reflected by or transmitted through the product; providing an output signal corresponding to the intensity of the radiation received at a number of different wavelengths; and determining whether or not the product lies within predetermined integrity criteria on the basis of the output signal using a mathematical method. The moving product contains a solution or homogeneous dispersion and the content of at least one substance contained in the dispersion or solution is quantitatively determined on the basis of the output signal. The invention also relates to a device for carrying out this method.
US07755050B2
In one embodiment of the disclosure, an explosive device detection system includes a thermal imaging camera and at least one radio frequency receiver that is coupled to a signal processing circuit. The thermal imaging camera is operable to produce a first electrical signal indicative of thermal energy radiated by an explosive device. The at least one radio frequency receiver is operable to produce at least one second electrical signal indicative of electro-magnetic energy emitted by the explosive device. The signal processing circuit is configured to combine the first electrical signal and the at least one second electrical signal on a display such that the explosive device is aligned on the display.
US07755049B2
An electromagnetic radiation sensor that exhibits improved performance by virtue of an ability to tune its sensitivity is disclosed. The electromagnetic radiation sensor incorporates thermal actuators that act in opposition to one another, but which have a slight difference in responsivity. A temperature controller is used to tune the sensitivity of the electromagnetic radiation sensor by controlling the temperature of the substrate on which the sensor is formed.
US07755035B2
An ion trap time-of-flight mass spectrometer capable of obtaining highly-sensitive mass spectra even on the lower mass number side is realized. The ion trap time-of-flight mass spectrometer includes an ion source that operates at atmospheric pressure, an ion optical system for introducing the ions generated by the ion source into a vacuum chamber and converging the ions introduced into the vacuum chamber, an ion trap part for trapping ions in the vacuum chamber, a multipole part for converging the kinetic energy of the ions discharged from the ion trap, and a time-of-flight mass spectrometry part for measuring the ions discharged from the multipole part. The period of high-voltage pulses generated by an electrode provided in the time-of-flight mass spectrometry part can be changed depending on an ion content introduced into the multipole part.
US07755030B2
An optical device includes a base and an optical element chip and translucent member attached to the base. A wiring is buried in the base. One end of the wiring is an internal terminal portion. The other end of the wiring is an external terminal portion. A semiconductor chip incorporating peripheral circuits, etc., and a metal wire for connecting a pad electrode of the semiconductor chip and the wiring are buried in the base. The semiconductor chip incorporating peripheral circuits, etc., and the metal wire are buried together with the wiring in the base by molding, whereby the optical device and the semiconductor chip incorporating peripheral circuits, etc., are integrated into a single package.
US07755016B2
A physical information acquisition device uses a device including a detection unit for detecting electromagnetic waves, and a unit signal generating unit for generating and outputting the corresponding unit signal based on the amount of electromagnetic waves detected by the detection unit for detecting a physical quantity distribution in which the unit components are disposed on the same substrate in a predetermined sequence, for acquiring physical information for a predetermined application based on the unit signal. The physical information acquisition device includes a first detection unit which detects first wavelength region components following second wavelength region components different from the first wavelength region components being separated from the first wavelength region components beforehand; a second detection unit which detects wavelength region components for correction including at least the second wavelength region components; and a signal processing unit for obtaining physical information relating to the first wavelength region components from which at least a part of influence of the second wavelength region components is eliminated using the unit signal detected by the first detection unit, and the unit signal detected by the second detection unit.
US07755011B2
The present invention includes, in its various aspects and embodiments, a method and apparatus for determining whether a moving target is maneuvering. The method comprises determining an expected motion for the target assuming the target is not maneuvering; determining an upper bound and a lower bound for the expected motion; and determining whether the actual motion exceeds at least one of the upper and lower bounds of the expected motion. In one aspect, the apparatus is a program storage medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computing apparatus, perform such a method. In another aspect, the apparatus is a computing apparatus programmed to perform such a method.
US07755008B2
An electrical energy generating apparatus includes a hollow pipe, permanent magnetic fluid held in the hollow pipe, a ferrite film wrapped around the hollow pipe, a heat source receiving device joined to a portion of the hollow pipe, and an induction coil wound around the hollow pipe; the induction coil being connected to a storage battery; in use, the heat source receiving device will receive heat energy from heat sources so that a portion of the fluid is heated, and temperature and pressure difference comes into existence in the fluid, and convection in the liquid happens to circulate the nano-chip permanent magnets around the hollow pipe; therefore, there is change in a magnetic field between the nano-chip permanent magnets and the ferrite film, and in turn the induction coil produces electric field, and electrical energy is produced, and next stored in the storage battery.
US07754997B2
An apparatus configured to confine a plasma within a processing region in a plasma processing chamber. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a ring that has a baffle having a plurality of slots and a plurality of fingers. Each slot is configured to have a width less than the thickness of a plasma sheath contained in the processing region.
US07754990B2
The reverse vending machine (RVM) receives, handles, sorts, and stores returnable items or objects. The RVM includes an item supporting, rotating, sorting and conveyor unit, an upright storage chamber for such items, a safety apparatus to avoid operational hazards, a camera aided detection device for detecting at least one of a bar code on and other characteristics, e.g. contour, of an item, a simplified token system, and a drive system with a releasable power coupling for operating the sorting device and a further storage device.
US07754989B2
An electrical switch has a fixed contact and a moving contact arranged for movement between an ON position in contact with the fixed contact and an OFF position out of contact with the fixed contact, and an operating member for operating the moving contact. A spring co-acts between the operating member and the moving contact and resiliently biases the moving contact towards each of the ON and OFF positions through an over-centre action of the spring. An end piece is fitted at each end of the spring, which has a formation, for example, a groove, for pure rotary engagement with a part, for example, a pin, movable with the operating member or moving contact for imparting resilient action upon the operating member or the moving contact.
US07754986B1
A switch structure substantially reduces the effect of contact resistance by placing two mechanical switches in parallel between a source and a load, and sequentially closing and opening the mechanical switches so that one switch closes before the other switch, and opens after the other switch. The switch structure with the two mechanical switches can be realized with standard micro machined switches or as a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) cantilever switch.
US07754982B2
A locking system for an electronic device housing comprises a top plate, a movable cover pivotal about a first edge of the top plate, and a lateral plate connected to a second edge of the top plate which is perpendicular to the first edge. The top plate defines an opening near the second edge thereof. The locking system comprises a flexible lock-receiving portion, an engaging portion, a groove, and a disengaging member. The flexible lock-receiving portion protrudes from the top plate within the opening and has a protrusion extending downwardly. The engaging portion is formed on a surface of the movable cover and faces the opening. The groove is defined on the lateral plate corresponding to the opening. The disengaging member is inside the groove and protrudes to engage the protrusion.
US07754968B2
A branch sleeve adapted to carry out a crimping process around mutually parallel electrically conductive conductor sections. The sleeve includes a first groove-shaped recess which connects with a second groove-shaped recess and with an open part that extends between the recesses. The first recess is adapted to freely embrace or surround a first conductor section, and the second recess is adapted to freely embrace or surround a second conductor section, wherein each of the recesses has an opening area which conforms with and exceeds the largest conductor-section area, for which the sleeve is dimensioned. The sleeve has a cross-sectional shape in the form of a stylized digit “three.” The distribution of material around the recesses of the branch sleeve, or a so-called 3-sleeve, and the form and orientation of the recesses, are mutually adapted to create reducing gatherings of material inter alia adjacent to and at a small distance from said open part, and increasing gatherings of material at the leg parts.
US07754965B2
A device and method for reducing the risk of a streamer initiated flashover across a high voltage insulator under normal operating voltages. The device includes a support structure adapted to be grounded and mounted in proximity to the high voltage insulator; and space charge producing conductors wound around the support structure and forming coils for producing space charge in a proximity of an insulator to be protected, and inhibiting a formation of positive streamers, each conductor having a diameter not exceeding 0.1 mm for reducing a corona inception voltage of the support structure upon which each conductor is wound, in both dry and wet conditions.
US07754962B2
This invention is made to improve the characteristics of a photovoltaic module in which a plurality of solar cells are electrically connected to each other with connecting members such as tabs or connecting leads. The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a photovoltaic module comprising a plurality solar cells each including a semiconductor heterojunction made by combining amorphous silicon and crystalline silicon and connecting members for connecting the plurality solar cells in which the connecting members are connected to the solar cells by soldering after a high-temperature heat treatment is applied to the solar cells, and the plurality of solar cells are electrically connected to each other with the connecting members.
US07754959B2
There is provided herein a system and method for enabling a user of digital video editing software to automatically create an emotionally controlled soundtrack that is matched in overall emotion or mood to the scenes in the underlying video work. In the preferred arrangement, the user will be able to control the generation of the soundtrack by positioning emotion tags in the video work that correspond to the general mood of each scene. The subsequent soundtrack generation step will utilize these tags to prepare a musical accompaniment to the video work that generally matches its on-screen activities.
US07754957B2
An automatic player musical instrument includes an acoustic piano and an electronic system for selectively producing acoustic tones and electronic tones as regular tones equivalent to the tones to be produced for the keys moved toward the end positions and after-tones equivalent to the tones to be produced for the keys moved toward the rest positions, and a controller of the electronic system makes the acoustic piano and an electronic tone generating system produce the after-tones alone or together with the regular tones depending upon user's instruction so that the users can perform or reproduce music tunes in various renditions such as, for example, tremolo, syncopation and vibrato.
US07754950B2
A string instrument comprising a neck extension primary member, having a neck extension securement end and a tuning assembly support head end, an extension top and a length extending between the ends, is disclosed. The neck extension primary member defines a neck extension cutaway volume configured to receive a hinge butt. The neck extension cutaway volume extends to be open at the neck extension securement end and open at the top of the neck extension primary member. A neck base primary member has a neck base securement end, a base top and an opposite end. The neck base primary member is made to define a neck base cutaway volume configured to receive a hinge butt. The neck base cutaway volume extends to be open at the neck base securement end and open at the top of the neck base primary member. A hinge has a first hinge butt positioned in the neck extension cutaway volume and a second hinge butt positioned in the neck base cutaway volume. A neck fretboard portion is secured over the open top of the neck extension cutaway volume and bears against the first hinge butt. A base cover is secured over the open top of the neck base cutaway volume and bears against the second hinge butt. A string instrument main body is secured to the neck base primary member.
US07754948B1
According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated XB35K08. This invention thus relates to the seeds of soybean variety XB35K08, to the plants of soybean XB35K08 to plant parts of soybean variety XB35K08 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing plants of the soybean variety XB35K08 with another soybean plant, using XB35K08 as either the male or the female parent.
US07754944B2
Synthetic modular polynucleotide constructs are useful for gene expression in plants, methods for making and using such constructs, and plants transformed with such constructs. The constructs comprise unique restriction sites for each modular element and may further comprise polynucleotide identifier sequences.
US07754942B2
The present invention is directed to a starch comprising a novel percentage of actual amylose. A grain comprising the starch is also embodied by the present invention. The present invention is also directed to a plant comprising the novel starch.
US07754926B2
The present invention reacts an allyl alcohol with an alcohol compound in the presence of a catalyst containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of elements of the group III, lanthanoid elements and actinoid elements of the Periodic Table, as depicted in the following reaction and provides a method for efficiently producing 3-alkoxy-1-propanol in a single step using an alcohol as a starting material.
US07754917B2
Fluoroalkyl amidoalkyl alcohols of the formula are disclosed and their corresponding (meth)acrylate esters. These fluoroalkyl amidoalkyl (meth)acrylate monomers can be copolymerized with a wide variety of conventional ethylenically unsaturated monomers. The resulting copolymers are useful as water, oil- and grease-proofing agents for paper, textiles and hard surfaces such as masonry and wood.
US07754908B2
The present invention relates to specific novel tungsten and molybdenum compounds to the use thereof for the deposition of tungsten- or molybdenum-containing layers by means of chemical vapour deposition, and to the tungsten- or molybdenum-containing layers produced by this process.
US07754904B2
A process is described in which an unsaturated fat is reacted in a homometathesis reaction in the presence of at least one non-aqueous ionic liquid to produce both an olefinic fraction and a composition of monoalcohol diesters or diacids.Particular application to a mixture of esters of an oleic sunflower seed oil or an oleic rapeseed oil, the process producing both an olefinic fraction and a composition of monoalcohol diesters or diacids wherein, in general, more than half of its chains is constituted by unsaturated C18 chains.
US07754900B2
Processes comprising: providing a reactive distillation column having an upper region, a middle region and a lower region; feeding ethylene glycol and an aqueous formaldehyde solution into the reactive distillation column in the middle region of the reactive distillation column; reacting the ethylene glycol and the aqueous formaldehyde solution in the reactive distillation column in the presence of a catalyst to form dioxolane; removing a product stream comprising dioxolane in an amount of at least 75% by weight from the upper region of the reactive distillation column; and removing a bottom stream comprising one or more components having boiling points higher than dioxolane from the lower region of the reactive distillation column.
US07754890B2
Aryl sulfone compounds of formula I and II are described and have therapeutic utility, particularly in the treatment of diabetes, obesity and related conditions and disorders:
US07754889B2
The present invention provides a water-soluble transition metal-diamine complex which can be easily separated from reaction products through liquid separation, etc. and is recycleable; an optically active diamine compound constituting the ligand of the complex; and a catalyst for asymmetric synthesis which comprises these. The present invention relates to a water-soluble optically active transition metal-diamine complex represented by the formula (2): [wherein R1 and R2 each represents hydrogen, a hydrocarbon group, —SO2R13 (wherein R13 is a hydrocarbon group, substituted amino, etc.), etc.; R3 to R12 each represents hydrogen, a hydrocarbon group, alkoxy, substituted amino, etc.; M represents a transition metal; X represents halogen; L represents a ligand; and * indicates an asymmetric carbon atom; provided that at least one of R3 to R7 and R8 to R12 is substituted amino], a catalyst for asymmetric synthesis containing the complex, and a process for producing an optically active alcohol, which comprises using the catalyst to asymmetrically reduce a ketone.
US07754888B2
N-Substituted (heteroaryl)alkyl sulfilimines are effective at controlling insects.
US07754882B2
Certain hexahydro-pyrrolo-isoquinoline compounds are histamine H3 receptor and serotonin transporter modulators useful in the treatment of histamine H3 receptor- and serotonin-mediated diseases.
US07754881B2
Disclosed herein are an aromatic imide-based dispersant for CNTs and a carbon nanotube composition comprising the same. Having an aromatic ring structure advantageously realizing adsorption on carbon nanotubes, the dispersant, even if used in a small amount, can disperse a large quantity of carbon nanotubes.
US07754878B2
Polysaccharides are functionalized using a source of free radicals which forms stable radicals on the polysaccharides structure and wherein the formed radicals reacts with a functionalized unsaturated compound. The method comprises two steps: a first step, wherein the free radical on the polysaccharides chain is formed, and a second step, wherein said radical reacts with the unsaturated compound in the absence of the radical source.
US07754875B1
A salt of a glucosamine base having a purity of at least about 99 wt. % and a maximum halide content of about 0.01 wt. %, and an organic acid. The organic acid that is saltified with the glucosamine base is preferably a hydroxyacid or a ketoacid. Preferably, the salt is stabilized by coating the salt with at least one pharmaceutically acceptable polymer comprising a water-soluble, water-immiscible and/or water-swellable homopolymer and/or copolymer. Suitable polymers include carboxypolymethylene homopolymers and copolymers; polyethylene glycol homopolymers and copolymers; polypropylene glycol homopolymers and copolymers; ethylcellulose; povidone homopolymers and copolymers; polyacrylic acid homopolymers and copolymers; polyacrylamide homopolymers and copolymers; polysaccharides; and mixtures of two or more of the foregoing polymers. The resultant coated salt composition will be stable at ambient temperatures and upon exposure to the atmosphere.
US07754869B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing syringyl lignin in gymnosperms. The production of syringyl lignin in gymnosperms is accomplished by genetically transforming a gymnosperm genome, which does not normally contain genes which code for enzymes necessary for production of syringyl lignin, with DNA which codes for enzymes found in angiosperms associated with production of syringyl lignin. The expression of the inserted DNA is mediated using host promoter regions in the gymnosperm. In addition, genetic sequences which code for gymnosperm lignin anti-sense mRNA may be incorporated into the gymnosperm genome in order to suppress the formation of the less preferred forms of lignin in the gymnosperm such as guaiacyl lignin.
US07754866B2
Disclosed herein are non-endogenous, constitutively activated forms of the human 5-HT2A and human 5-HT2C receptors and uses of such receptors to screen candidate compounds. Further disclosed herein are candidate compounds identified by the screening method which act at the 5HT2A receptors. Yet further disclosed is a new class of compounds which act at the 5HT2A receptors.
US07754860B2
The invention provides a method for purifying recombinant FSH.
US07754854B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, computer programs and computing devices related to biologically assembling and/or synthesizing peptides and/or proteins are disclosed.
US07754853B2
This invention pertains to a TNF alpha-binding polypeptide composition comprising at least one of a modified heavy chain variable region polypeptide or a modified light chain variable region polypeptide that is capable of specifically binding to human TNF alpha. The modified heavy and light chain variable region polypeptides of the TNF alpha binding polypeptide are modified by at least one amino acid residue substitution, deletion or addition and are homologous to the heavy and light chain variable regions, respectively, of a non-human monoclonal antibody that specifically binds human TNF alpha. The polypeptide compositions of the invention comprising modified heavy and light chain variable region polypeptides are less immunogenic in a human than are the homologous heavy and light chain variable region polypeptides from a non-human animal.
US07754852B2
This document provides natriuretic polypeptides. For example, this document provides polypeptides having a natriuretic activity. In some cases, a polypeptide provided herein can have natriuretic activities, while lacking the ability to lower blood pressure. This document also provides methods and materials for inducing natriuretic activities within a mammal.
US07754849B2
A devolatilizer nozzle comprising at least one perforated flow tube having a non-circular cross-section. In an embodiment, the non-circular cross-section has equal to or greater than 3 sides. The non-circular cross-section of said nozzle may be a triangle, diamond, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, or octagon. A majority of the perforations in the flow tube of said nozzle may have a maximum strand angle of equal to or less than 45 degrees. The nozzle may further comprise tapered holes, which may be formed by a water jet. The nozzle may further comprise a plurality of parallel flow tubes. The nozzle may comprise 304 stainless steel, AL-6XN stainless steel, or LDX 2101 stainless steel.
US07754842B2
Acyclic diene metathesis (ADMET) has been utilized in the synthesis of carbosilane and carbosiloxane polymers bearing a latent reactive methoxy-functional group on each repeat unit. The polymerization results in a linear thermoplastic polymer. The latent reactive methoxy groups remain inert during polymerization; however, exposure to moisture triggers hydrolysis and the formation of a chemically cross-linked thermoset. The thermoset's properties can be modified by varying the ratio of carbosilane and carbosiloxane repeat units in the final material. Also, increasing cross-link density by using cross-linkable chain-end groups and increasing the run length of the soft phase, maximizing phase separation and elasticity, allows for the synthesis of elastic thermosets exhibiting good tensile strength. Adding a trifunctional ADMET active chain-end cross-linker to the system improved the mechanical behavior of the resulting polymer.
US07754839B2
Methods and compositions for the generation of quasi-living catalysts for homo-polymerization of olefins such as ethylene, α-olefins and functionalized olefins and for the co-polymerization of olefins with functionalized monomers is disclosed. A process for producing these homo- and co-polymers is also disclosed. A polymeric material with enhanced hydrophilic properties, generated by the co-polymerization of ethylene with 5-norbornen-2-yl acetate, is also disclosed.
US07754836B2
Disclosed is a water- and oil-repellent agent comprising the following fluorine-containing copolymer (A). The fluorine-containing copolymer (A) comprises: (a1) a fluoroalkyl group-containing polymerizable monomer of the formula: wherein Y is a divalent organic group [for example, an aliphatic group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an aromatic or cycloaliphatic group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms, a —SO2N(R1)R2— group (in which R1 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and R2 is an alkylene group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms), a —CON(R1)R2— group (in which R1 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and R2 is an alkylene group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms), or a —CH2CH(OY1)CH2— group (in which Y1 is a hydrogen atom or an acyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms)]; and Rf is a linear or branched fluoroalkyl or fluoroalkenyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms; and (a2) vinylidene chloride.
US07754824B2
The present invention relates to rigid and clear thermosetting compositions formed from dendritic or hyperbranched polymers and cylcoaliphatic epoxy resins. The compositions may be used for coatings such as electronic device packaging, adhesives, wire coatings, and finishes.
US07754822B2
A process for postcrosslinking a water-absorbing polymer comprises said polymer being treated with a postcrosslinker and, during or after said treating, being postcrosslinked and dried by temperature elevation, said postcrosslinker being a compound of the formula I where R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8 and R9 are each independently hydrogen, C1-C12-alkyl, C2-C12-alkenyl or C6-C12-aryl, wherein C1-C12-alkyl, C2-C12-alkenyl or C6-C12-aryl may be halogen substituted. The liquid-absorbing polymers are useful in hygiene articles and packaging materials.
US07754815B2
A process for producing a thermoplastic elastomer composition comprising the step of crosslinking dynamically at least the following components (A) to (C) in the presence of a crosslinking agent: (A) 10 to 50% by weight of an oil-extended ethylene-α-olefin-non-conjugated diene copolymer rubber having a density of 850 to 900 kg/m3, and a Mooney viscosity (ML1+4 100° C.) of 30 to 150, (B) 20 to 60% by weight of an ethylene-α-olefin copolymer having a density of 850 to 910 kg/m3, and a melt flow rate of 0.05 to 80 g/10 minutes measured at 230° C. under a load of 21.18 N, and (C) 20 to 60% by weight of a propylene resin, the total amount of the components (A) to (C) being 100% by weight; and an air-bag cover comprising a thermoplastic elastomer composition produced according to said process.
US07754806B2
A biological substance related article includes a coating formed by causing a biological substance adsorption preventive coating composition to come in contact with a surface of the biological substance related article and heating the composition, the biological substance adsorption preventive coating composition including: (A) a copolymer obtained by copolymerizing raw material monomers including a monomer A1 shown by the following general formula (1) and an active hydrogen group-containing monomer A2; (B) a crosslinking agent reactive with an active hydrogen group; and (C) a solvent. CH2═CR3COOR1OR2 (1) (R1 represents an alkylene group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R2 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and R3 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group).
US07754805B2
Provided are a polymer resin composition and a method of preparing the same. The polymer resin composition includes: a polymer resin; 0.01-10.0 parts by weight of flaky pigment particles having an inverse aspect ratio of 0.01-0.1 based on 100 parts by weight of the polymer resin; and 0.01-10.0 parts by weight of polyhedral pigment particles having an inverse aspect ratio of 0.300-0.999 based on 100 parts by weight of the polymer resin. Using the polymer resin composition, a polymer resin molded product having excellent appearance, i.e., having a uniform color even in resin flow lines or resin weld lines, and in which there is no degradation in the physical properties of the polymer resin contained therein can be manufactured at a low cost.
US07754798B2
An oxygen scavenger composition includes a block co-polymer having at least one block including a polyester condensation polymer segment having cycloalkenyl group(s) or functionality directly or indirectly bonded to the polymer chain of said block, and having at least one second block including a polymer segment of a thermoplastic, film forming material. The block copolymer has been found to act as an oxygen scavenger agent under both ambient and refrigerated conditions, to be compatible with conventional film forming packaging materials, and to provide compositions exhibiting low tack which can be readily formed and processed using conventional film forming equipment. A packaging material, such as a film or laminated product suitable for packaging applications, can include the oxygen scavenger composition.
US07754790B2
An insulating adhesive film and an anisotropically electroconductive adhesive film satisfying low-temperature curability, high adhesion and high reliability are provided. An anisotropically electroconductive adhesive film of the present invention is so configured that electroconductive particles 7 are dispersed in an insulating adhesive resin 6, comprising as main components: a radical polymerizable resin component having an unsaturated double bond; a resin component having no unsaturated double bond; a phosphoric acid-containing resin component; and a radical polymerization initiator.
US07754788B2
The invention relates to a light plaster mixture in pasty form which has improved storage stability. This is based on a composition which contains a binder, inorganic fillers, light fillers, water and also further additives. The light plaster mixture according to the invention can be used in the form of final coats on any bases.
US07754781B2
An active energy beam-curable composition is provided, which is excellent in coatability to films and safety, and particularly suitable for use in a light diffusion film since a light diffusion film made of a cured product of the composition is excellent in both haze and total light transmittance. The active energy beam-curable composition comprises an ethylenically unsaturated group-containing compound (A) that contains, as an essential component thereof, a compound having an ethylenically unsaturated group and an aromatic group, and a granular substance (B) that is insoluble in the component (A), in which the subtraction of the refractive index of the component (B) from the refractive index of a cured product of the component (A) alone is not less than 0.03 and not more than 0.18.
US07754778B2
The invention provides linear polydimethylsiloxane-polyoxyalkylene block copolymers containing Si—C groups and carboxylic ester groups and having repeating (A1BA2B) units where A1 and A2 are two different polydimethylsiloxane units of the general formula (I) with a number of Si atoms N=(n+2) of 15≦N≦30 and NA1≠NA2 and B is a unit of the formula (II) —CH2—CH2—(CH2)a—CO[O—CH2—CH(R)]c—O-[D-O]e—[—CH2—CH(R)—O]d—OC—(CH2)b—CH2—CH2— (II) where R independently at each occurrence is H, —CH3 or —C2H5, a and b independently of one another are 0 to 20, c and d independently of one another are values≧1, e is 0 or 1 and D is a hydrocarbon radical having 2 to 10 C atoms, the overall molar weight of the unit of the formula II being from 600 to 10 000 g/mol, with the proviso that the average mixed molar weight of the polydimethylsiloxane units (A1+A2) is from >1665 to <1998 g/mol and the fraction of [O—CH2—CH(R)] with R═H is >0% to ≦50% by weight, based on the overall weight of [O—CH2—CH(R)] in B, a process for preparing them and their use.
US07754772B2
The invention describes novel nitrosated nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and novel compositions comprising at least one nitrosated NSAID, and, optionally, at least one compound that donates, transfers or releases nitric oxide, stimulates endogenous synthesis of nitric oxide, elevates endogenous levels of endothelium-derived relaxing factor or is a substrate for nitric oxide synthase, and/or at least one therapeutic agent. The invention also provides novel compositions comprising at least one nitrosated NSAID, and at least one compound that donates, transfers or releases nitric oxide, elevates endogenous levels of endothelium-derived relaxing factor, stimulates endogenous synthesis of nitric oxide or is a substrate for nitric oxide synthase and/or at least one therapeutic agent. The invention also provides novel kits comprising at least one nitrosated NSAID, and, optionally, at least one nitric oxide donor and/or at least one therapeutic agent. The invention also provides methods for treating inflammation, pain and fever; for treating gastrointestinal disorders; for facilitating wound healing; for treating and/or preventing gastrointestinal, renal and/or respiratory toxicities resulting from the use of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory compounds; for treating inflammatory disease states and/or disorders; and for treating and/or preventing ophthalmic diseases and/or disorders.
US07754759B2
Compounds of the formula I: wherein m, n, p, X, Ar, R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are as defined herein. Methods of making the compounds and using the compounds for treatment of 5-HT6 receptor-mediated diseases are disclosed.
US07754754B2
Pharmaceutical formulations containing substituted 2-aryl-aminoacetic acid compounds corresponding to formula I and their use in the production of drugs and in related methods of treatment or inhibition of certain conditions or diseases.
US07754749B2
Compounds of formula (I) wherein X is chloro or bromo; Y is chloro or trifluoromethyl; and A and B are hydrogen or methyl with the proviso that one of A or B must be methyl; or the enantiomers or salts thereof, use of compounds of formula I for combating insects or acarids and for treating, controlling, preventing or protecting animals against infestation or infection by parasites, and compositions comprising compounds of formula I.
US07754746B2
Compounds of formula I in free or salt form, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and X have the meanings as indicated in the specification, are useful for treating diseases mediated by phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase. Pharmaceutical compositions that contain the compounds and processes for preparing the compounds are also described.
US07754740B2
Compounds of the formula (1): in which A, R1, R2 and R3 are as defined in the description, the processes for the preparation of these compounds, the uses thereof for the treatment of dyslipidaemia, atherosclerosis and diabetes, and the pharmaceutical compositions comprising them.
US07754739B2
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.
US07754727B2
Compounds of the present invention having the formula (I) exhibit inhibitory activity on the natural enzyme renin. Thus, compounds of formula (I) may be employed for the treatment of hypertension, atherosclerosis, unstable coronary syndrome, congestive heart failure, cardiac hypertrophy, cardiac fibrosis, cardiomyopathy postinfarction, unstable coronary syndrome, diastolic dysfunction, chronic kidney disease, hepatic fibrosis, complications resulting from diabetes, such as nephropathy, vasculopathy and neuropathy, diseases of the coronary vessels, restenosis following angioplasty, raised intra-ocular pressure, glaucoma, abnormal vascular growth, hyperaldosteronism, cognitive impairment, alzheimers, dementia, anxiety states and cognitive disorders.
US07754704B2
A compound having a hyperglycemia improving effect and a hemoglobin A1c lowering action such as 4-methylcholest-7-en-3-ol, 4-methylergost-7-en-3-ol and 4-methylstigmast-7-en-3-ol is used as an active ingredient of a drug or food or drink for improving hyperglycemia.
US07754703B2
The present invention provides sphingosine-1-phosphate analogs that are potent, and selective agonists at one or more S1P receptors, specifically the S1P1 receptor type. The compounds invention include compounds having a phosphate moiety as well as compounds with hydrolysis-resistant phosphate surrogates such as phosphonates, alpha-substituted phosphonates, and phosphothionates.
US07754700B2
A composition for alleviating symptoms associated with neurotoxicity. The composition may comprise compounds for preventing glutamate mediated neurotoxicity. The composition may include one or more of the following elements: at least one glutamate antagonist, at least one cAMP stimulating agent, at least one antioxidant, vitamin B12, at least one transporter and at least one surfactant. The composition may be used in methods for alleviating tinnitus, Ménière's Disease and/or hearing loss.
US07754688B2
This invention provides methods of treatment using retro-inverso peptides derived from interleukin-6 (IL-6) having between 15 and about 40 amino acids, and including the sequence that is retro-inverso with respect to SEQ ID NO: 1, i.e. wherein said peptide comprises the sequence D-Glu-D-Ala-D-Met-D-Lys-D-Pro-D-Leu-D-Asn-D-Leu-D-Asn-D-Asn-D-Glu-D-Ala-D-Leu-D-Ala-D-Glu. The peptides of the invention have the same activity as native IL-6 and also have neurotrophic activity. The peptides of the invention are also less susceptible to proteolytic degradation in vivo because of their D-amino acid linkage.
US07754686B2
Stabilized FGF compositions are provided. The compositions comprise FGF or variant thereof and at least one reducing agent in an amount sufficient to inhibit FGF oxidation. Methods for increasing stability of FGF or variant thereof in a liquid or lyophilized composition and for increasing storage stability of such a composition are also provided.
US07754682B2
Conjugates of Factor VII (FVII) and Factor VIIa (FVIIA) are provided, as are methods for preparing them. Methods for producing novel polypeptides contributing to the production of such conjugates are provided. Methods of treatment by administering a FVII or FVIIa conjugate are provided.
US07754669B2
A laundry detergent for enhancing fabric whiteness comprising at least an alkyl ethoxysulfate having an alkyl chain length of 12-18 carbons and 5-9 moles of ethylene oxide. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, the composition further includes an alcohol ethoxylate having an alkyl chain length of 12-18 carbons and 5-9 moles of ethylene oxide.
US07754667B2
Provided are compositions comprising low molecular weight polymeric materials and surfactants having reduced irritation associated therewith, methods of reducing the irritation associated with a personal care composition comprising an anionic and/or amphoteric surfactant, the methods comprising combining a low molecular weight polymeric material capable of binding a surfactant thereto with an anionic surfactant to produce a reduced irritation personal care composition, and methods of using such compositions to cleanse the hair or skin with reduced irritation.
US07754665B2
A lubricant solution and a method for coating a lubricant using a solvent which does not adversely affect the global environment and provides an excellent solubility to a fluorinated or silicon lubricant and which is little influential over a synthetic resin such as an acrylic resin or a polycarbonate resin. A lubricant solution of the present invention comprises a lubricant and a solvent which contains a nonafluorohexane.
US07754658B2
Many methods are provided herein including, in one embodiment, a method comprising: providing a fluid that comprises an acid, crosslinked oxidized xanthan, and optionally, a base fluid; placing the fluid in a well bore penetrating a subterranean formation; and allowing the fluid to acidize at least a portion of the formation or damage contained therein. In another embodiment, herein provided is a fluid for subterranean uses comprising an acid and crosslinked, oxidized xanthan.
US07754652B2
A method and product for removing sulfur compound molecules from gasoline or diesel fuel includes exposing the gasoline or diesel fuel to a plurality of molecularly imprinted polymer beads (MIPS) that have receptor sites on the surfaces thereof that include imprints that match the physical shape of at least a portion of a sulfur compound molecule. A quantity of the sulfur molecules align with and adhere to some of the receptor sites and, accordingly, they are removed from the gasoline or diesel fuel producing a remediated or sweetened gasoline or diesel fuel. According to one embodiment, the MIPS are contained in an enclosure having a plurality of openings large enough to permit the solution to pass through and small enough so as to prevent the MIPS from passing through. According to another embodiment the MIPS are applied (i.e., coated) to the inside surface of a conduit and the gasoline or diesel fuel is forced or allowed to flow through the conduit thereby removing some of the sulfur molecules therefrom. The MIPS are treated after use to remove a sufficient quantity of the sulfur molecules from the receptor sites and are reused.
US07754645B2
A process to prepare hydroprocessing bulk catalysts is provided. The hydroprocessing catalyst has the formula (Mt)a(Xu)b(Sv)d(Cw)e(Hx)f(Oy)g(Nz)h, wherein M is at least one group VIB metal; X is at least at least a metal compound selected from a non-noble Group VIII metal, a Group VIIIB metal, a Group VIB metal, a Group IVB metal, and a Group IIB metal (“Promoter Metal”); t, u, v, w, x, y, z representing the total charge for each of the components (M, X, S, C, H, O and N, respectively); ta+ub+vd+we+xf+yg+zh=0; and 0=
US07754633B2
A refractory composition comprising at least 50 weight percent chromic oxide (Cr2O3), as measured by chemical analysis. The composition includes fused chromia-containing grain, powdered chromic oxide and sintered chromia-containing grain. The fused chromia-containing grain and the sintered chromia-containing grain comprise at least 50 weight percent chromia oxide, as measured by chemical analysis.
US07754625B2
The present invention provides for a color stable antimicrobial coatings and coating systems comprising a silver ion-exchange type antimicrobial agent. In particular, coatings and coating systems having little, if any, discoloration are provided with no loss of antimicrobial efficacy.
US07754618B2
A dielectric layer including cerium oxide and aluminum oxide acting as a single dielectric layer, and a method of fabricating such a dielectric layer, produces a reliable structure with a high dielectric constant (high-k) for use in a variety of electronic devices. Such a dielectric layer including cerium oxide and aluminum oxide may be used as the gate insulator of a MOSFET, as a capacitor dielectric in a DRAM, as a tunnel gate insulator in flash memory, or as a dielectric in an NROM device, among others, because the high dielectric constant (high-k) of the film provides the functionality of a much thinner silicon dioxide film.
US07754598B2
Method for making a coreless packaging substrate are disclosed in the present invention. The coreless packaging substrate is made by first providing a metal adhesion layer having a melting point lower than that of the substrate, and removing a core board connected with the substrate therefrom through melting the metal adhesion layer. In addition, the disclosed packaging substrate further includes a circuit built-up structure of which has the electrical pads embedded under a surface. The disclosed packaging substrate can achieve the purposes of reducing the thickness, increasing circuit layout density, and facilitating the manufacturing of the substrate.
US07754593B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device comprises forming a gate insulation film on a semiconductor substrate; forming a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode on the gate insulation film; forming a mask material so as to expose an upper surface of the first gate electrode while keeping the second gate electrode covered; etching an upper part of the first gate electrode by using the mask material as a mask; removing the mask material; depositing a metal film on the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode; and siliciding the whole of the first gate electrode and an upper part of the second gate electrode.
US07754585B2
A method of subjecting a silicon wafer doped with boron to a heat treatment in an argon atmosphere, wherein the argon atmosphere is replaced with a hydrogen atmosphere or a mixed gas of an argon gas and a hydrogen gas in a proper fashion, to thereby uniformize a boron concentration in the thickness direction of the surface layer of the silicon wafer doped with boron.
US07754583B2
A laser processing method which can securely prevent particles from attaching to chips obtained by cutting a planar object is provided. When applying a stress to an object to be processed 1 through an expandable tape 23, forming materials of the object 1 (the object 1 formed with molten processed regions 13, semiconductor chips 25 obtained by cutting the object 1, particles produced from cut sections of the semiconductor chips 25, and the like) are irradiated with soft x-rays. As a consequence, the particles produced from the cut sections of the semiconductor chips 25 obtained by cutting the object 1 fall on the expandable tape 23 without dispersing randomly. This can securely prevent the particles from attaching to the semiconductor chips 25 obtained by cutting the object 1.
US07754576B2
A container capacitor and method of forming the container capacitor are provided. The container capacitor comprises a lower electrode fabricated by forming a layer of doped polysilicon within a container in an insulative layer disposed on a substrate; forming a barrier layer over the polysilicon layer within the container; removing the insulative layer to expose the polysilicon layer outside the container; nitridizing the exposed polysilicon layer at a low temperature, preferably by remote plasma nitridation; removing the barrier layer to expose the inner surface of the polysilicon layer within the container; and forming HSG polysilicon over the inner surface of the polysilicon layer. The capacitor can be completed by forming a dielectric layer over the lower electrode, and an upper electrode over the dielectric layer. The cup-shaped bottom electrode formed within the container defines an interior surface comprising HSG polysilicon, and an exterior surface comprising smooth polysilicon.
US07754566B2
A power electronic device is integrated on a semiconductor substrate of a first type of conductivity. The device includes a plurality of elemental units, and each elemental unit includes a body region of a second type of conductivity which is realized on a semiconductor layer of the first type of conductivity formed on the semiconductor substrate, and a column region of the first type of conductivity which is realized in said semiconductor layer below the body region. The semiconductor layer includes multiple semiconductor layers which overlap each other. The resistivity of each layer is different from that of the other layers. The column region includes a plurality of doped sub-regions, each realized in one of the semiconductor layers. The amount of charge of each doped sub-region balances the amount of charge of the corresponding semiconductor layer in which each doped sub-region is realized.
US07754554B2
Methods for fabricating low contact resistance CMOS integrated circuits are provided. In accordance with an embodiment, a method for fabricating a CMOS integrated circuit including an NMOS transistor and a PMOS transistor disposed in and on a silicon-comprising substrate includes depositing a first silicide-forming metal on the NMOS and PMOS transistors. The first silicide-forming metal forms a silicide at a first temperature. At least a portion of the first silicide-forming metal is removed from the NMOS or PMOS transistor and a second silicide-forming metal is deposited. The second silicide-forming metal forms a silicide at a second temperature that is different from the first temperature. The first silicide-forming metal and the second silicide-forming metal are heated at a temperature that is no less than the higher of the first temperature and the second temperature.
US07754540B2
A diode for alternating current (DIAC) electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit is formed in a silicon germanium (SiGe) hetrojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) process that utilizes a very thin collector region. ESD protection for a pair of to-be-protected pads is provided by utilizing the base structures and the emitter structures of the SiGe transistors.
US07754538B2
A packaging substrate structure with electronic components embedded therein and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The packaging substrate structure comprises: a core board; a built-up structure disposed on at least one surface of the core board, wherein the built-up structure has a plurality of conductive pads and an electronic component-disposing part on the surface thereof; a solder mask disposed on the surface of the built-up structure, where the solder mask has a open area to expose the electronic component-disposing part and a plurality of openings to expose the conductive pads of the built-up structure; and an electronic component disposed on the electronic component-disposing part and in the open area. Accordingly, the packaging substrate disclosed by the present invention exhibits enhanced electrical performance and product reliability.
US07754537B2
A wafer or a portion of a wafer including capped chips such as surface acoustic wave (SAW) chips is provided with terminals by applying a terminal-bearing element such as a dielectric element with terminals and leads thereon, or a lead frame, so that the terminal-bearing element covers the caps, and the leads are aligned with channels or other depressions between the caps. The leads are connected to contacts on the wafer, and the wafer is severed to form individual units, each including terminals supported by the cap and connected to the contacts by the leads. The resulting units can be handled and processed in the same manner as ordinary chips or chip assemblies.
US07754532B2
Methods and devices for multi-chip stacks are shown. A method is shown that assembles multiple chips into stacks by stacking wafers prior to dicing into individual chips. Methods shown provide removal of defective chips and their replacement during the assembly process to improve manufacturing yield.
US07754531B2
Methods for packaging microelectronic devices and microelectronic devices formed by such methods are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes coupling a plurality of microelectronic dies to a support member, covering the dies and at least a portion of the support member with a dielectric layer, forming a plurality of vias through the dielectric layer between the dies, and fabricating a plurality of conductive links in corresponding vias. In another embodiment, a plurality of microelectronic devices includes a support member, a plurality of microelectronic dies coupled to the support member, a dielectric layer over the dies and at least a portion of the support member, and a plurality of conductive links extending from a first surface of the dielectric layer to a second surface. The dies include an integrated circuit and a plurality of bond-pads coupled to the integrated circuit, and the conductive links are disposed between the dies.
US07754528B2
A semiconductor device (100) has one or more semiconductor chips (110) with active and passive surfaces, wherein the active surfaces include contact pads. The device further has a plurality of metal segments (111) separated from the chip by gaps (120); the segments have first and second surfaces, wherein the second surfaces (111b) are coplanar (130) with the passive chip surface (101b). Conductive connectors span from the chip contact pads to the respective first segment surface. Polymeric encapsulation compound (150) covers the active chip surface, the connectors, and the first segment surfaces, and are filling the gaps so that the compound forms surfaces coplanar (130) with the passive chip surface and the second segment surfaces. In this structure, the device thickness may be only about 250 μm. Reflow metals may be on the passive chip surface and the second segment surfaces.
US07754517B2
A semiconductor layer is prepared in which a silicon substrate, a BOX layer and an SOI layer are laminated in this order. A silicon diode section used as an infrared detection portion is formed in the SOI layer. Further, an isolation portion is formed so as to extend from the SOI layer to a predetermined depth of the silicon substrate via the BOX layer. The isolation portion is formed so as to surround an area in which the silicon diode section is formed, and have the form of a circle or a regular polygon more than a regular pentagon in shape. A protective film is formed on the surface of the SOI layer. Thereafter, etching holes that penetrate the protective film, the SOI layer and the BOX layer are formed. The silicon substrate corresponding to each area surrounded by the isolation portion is etched using the etching holes.
US07754515B2
A group III-V compound semiconductor comprising a single quantum well structure which has two barrier layers and a quantum well layer represented by the formula: InxGayAlzN (wherein x+y+z=1, 0
US07754512B2
According to the present invention, a light-emitting semiconductor device has light-emitting elements separated by isolation trenches, preferably on two sides of each light-emitting element. The device may be fabricated by forming a single band-shaped diffusion region, then forming trenches that divide the diffusion region into multiple regions, or by forming individual diffusion regions and then forming trenches between them. The trenches prevent overlap between adjacent light-emitting elements, regardless of their junction depth, enabling a high-density array to be fabricated while maintaining adequate junction depth.
US07754511B2
The present invention discloses a laser lift-off method, which applies to lift off a transient substrate from an epitaxial layer grown on the transient substrate after a support substrate having an adhesion metal layer is bonded to the epitaxial layer. Firstly, the epitaxial layer is etched to define separation channels around each chip section, and the epitaxial layer between two separation channels is not etched but preserved to form a separation zone. Each laser illumination area only covers one illuminated chip section, the separation channels surrounding the illuminated chip section, and the separation zones surrounding the illuminated chip section. Thus, the adhesion metal layer on the separation channels is only heated once. Further, the outward stress generated by the illuminated chip section is counterbalanced by the outward stress generated by the illuminated separation zones, and the stress-induced structural damage on the chip section is reduced.
US07754510B2
A process for fabricating an electronic device including: depositing a layer comprising a semiconductor; liquid depositing a dielectric composition comprising a lower-k dielectric material, a higher-k dielectric material, and a liquid, wherein the lower-k dielectric material and the higher-k dielectric material are not phase separated prior to the liquid depositing; and causing phase separation of the lower-k dielectric material and the higher-k dielectric material to form a phase-separated dielectric structure wherein the lower-k dielectric material is in a higher concentration than the higher-k dielectric material in a region of the dielectric structure closest to the layer comprising the semiconductor, wherein the depositing the layer comprising the semiconductor is prior to the liquid depositing the dielectric composition or subsequent to the causing phase separation.
US07754505B1
A silicon-based light emitting structure is formed as a high density array of light-emitting p-n junctions that substantially increases the intensity of the light emitted in a planar region. The p-n junctions are formed using standard CMOS processing methods, and emit light in response to applied voltages that generate avalanche breakdown and an avalanche current.
US07754504B2
A method for making a light-emitting diode, which including the steps of: providing a substrate having at least one recessed portion on one main surface and growing a first nitride-based III-V group compound semiconductor layer through a state of making a triangle in section having a bottom surface of the recessed portion as a base thereby burying the recessed portion; laterally growing a second nitride-based III-V group compound semiconductor layer from the first nitride-based III-V group compound semiconductor layer over the substrate; and successively growing a third nitride-based III-V group compound semiconductor layer of a first conduction type, an active layer and a fourth nitride-based III-V group compound semiconductor layer of a second conduction type on the second nitride-based III-V group compound semiconductor layer.
US07754501B2
A method for manufacturing a ferroelectric capacitor includes the steps of: forming a base dielectric film on a substrate, and forming a first plug conductive section in the base dielectric film at a predetermined position; forming, on the base dielectric film, a charge storage section formed from a lower electrode, a ferroelectric film and an upper electrode; forming a stopper film from an insulation material that covers the charge storage section; forming a hydrogen barrier film that covers the stopper film; forming an interlayer dielectric film on the base dielectric film including the hydrogen barrier film; forming, in the interlayer dielectric film, a first contact hole that exposes the first plug conductive section; forming a second contact hole that exposes the upper electrode of the charge storage section by successively etching the interlayer dielectric film, the hydrogen barrier film and the stopper film by using a resist pattern as a mask, and then removing the resist pattern by a wet cleaning treatment; forming an adhesion layer from a conductive material having hydrogen barrier property inside the second contact hole in a manner to cover an upper surface of the upper electrode; forming a second plug conductive section inside the first contact hole; and forming a third plug conductive section inside the second contact hole, wherein the stopper film is formed from a material having a lower etching rate for a cleaning liquid used for the wet cleaning treatment to remove the resist pattern than an etching rate of the hydrogen barrier film for the cleaning liquid.
US07754499B2
A container having a flexible wall receives a continuous flow of a biological fluid that includes a target antigen and emits a continuous flow of the biological fluid at least partially depleted from the target antigen. The container further comprises a compartment with magnetic beads coupled to an affinity marker that binds the target antigen, and the target antigen is separated from the biological fluid using a magnetic force and an automatic mechanical force, wherein at least one of the magnetic force and automatic mechanical force is transmitted through the flexible wall.
US07754498B2
A microsphere-based analytic chemistry system is disclosed in which self-encoding microspheres having distinct characteristic optical response signatures to specific target analytes may be mixed together while the ability is retained to identify the sensor type and location of each sensor in a random dispersion of large numbers of such sensors in a sensor array using an optically interrogatable encoding scheme. An optical fiber bundle sensor is also disclosed in which individual microsphere sensors are disposed in microwells at a distal end of the fiber bundle and are optically coupled to discrete fibers or groups of fibers within the bundle. The identities of the individual sensors in the array are self-encoded by exposing the array to a reference analyte while illuminating the array with excitation light energy. A single sensor array may carry thousands of discrete sensing elements whose combined signal provides for substantial improvements in sensor detection limits, response times and signal-to-noise ratios.
US07754490B2
A number of reagent-free infrared spectroscopic diagnostic and analytical methods have been established previously, making use of dry biofluid films. For example, this approach has successfully measured high concentration analytes of serum and urine. However, a number of low concentration diagnostically relevant analytes presently elude detection by infrared spectroscopy. This is due in part to their relatively low concentration and in part to spectral interference by other strongly absorbing constituents. The applicability of the technique would be broadened substantially if it were possible to separate and concentrate, lower concentration analytes, e.g. serum creatinine and urine proteins, from the obscuring presence of relatively high concentration compounds. The invention disclosed achieves this is through microfluidic sample preconditioning based upon laminar fluid diffusion interfaces. Preferential separation of certain low concentration serum and urine analytes of clinical interest that presently lie just below the threshold of detection by infrared spectroscopy is provided.
US07754487B2
A linearity control system includes a series of linearity control compositions, each thereof includes white blood cell analogs and stabilized red blood cells in a suspension medium. The concentration of the white blood cell analogs in the series of control compositions increases from 0.2×103 to 800×103 analogs per microliter, and the concentration of the white blood cell analogs in at least one control composition is greater than 120×103 analogs per microliter. The stabilized red blood cells facilitate mono-dispersion of the white blood cell analogs in the suspension medium by gently mixing. The control compositions further include platelet analogs, or additionally include reticulocyte and/or nucleated red blood cell analogs. The linearity control system allows the verification of the reportable measurement range and linearity of the measurements of hematology analyzers for white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets in extended concentration ranges.
US07754485B2
The diagnosis of mycobacteria may be made by growing bacteria from clinical samples in a culture media. The culture medium enables rapid detection of mycobacterial growth by changing its color. It also differentiates mycobacterial growth from contamination by changing to a different color when other species of microorganisms grow. Different types of culture media may be obtained by adding antimicrobial drugs to either obtain a medium selective for mycobacteria or a medium for species differentiation or susceptibility testing of drugs.
US07754479B2
The present invention relates to a method for long-term culturing of avian spermatogonial stem cells, which comprises the steps of: (a) preparing an avian testis; (b) isolating a population of testicular cells from said avian testis; and (c) culturing said avian spermatogonial stem cells in said population of testicular cells on a feeder cell layer in a medium containing a cell growth factor, a population of avian spermatogonial stem cells and a method for producing transgenic ayes.
US07754472B2
The invention relates to a device for detecting one or several analytes in a sample, characterized in that it comprises one or more reaction chambers and/or one or more reagent application channels, and one or more capillary systems and one or more negative vessels. The invention also relates to a method for detecting one or more analytes in a sample fluid by visualization of agglutination, characterized in that a) the sample fluid is brought into contact with a reagent, b) the reaction mixture is exposed to the effects of gravitation or magnetism, wherein the reaction mixture is strained through the capillary system of the inventive device with a negative vessel connected to the inventive device, and c) the reaction between the analyte and the reagent is determined. The invention also relates to one such method wherein the reaction mixture is brought into contact with another reagent during step b). The invention further relates to a method wherein the order of the individual steps consisting of a) and b) are reversed, particularly when the sample fluid is brought into contact with a reagent only during the effects of gravitation or magnetism.
US07754470B2
Compositions and methods are provided for bioremediation of toxic metals.
US07754469B2
An isolated Bacillus strain LSSAO1 is provided. When fed to a bird, this and other Bacillus strains described herein provide benefits to the birds. For example, administration of the one or more Bacillus strain can increase low G+C, gram positive bacteria in the gastrointestinal flora of the bird. These type of bacteria are increased by antibiotics and include beneficial Clostridium. Administration of the one or more Bacillus strain can also inhibit pathogen in the bird, such as E. coli, Salmonella, and Clostridium. These benefits can enhance feed conversion in poultry. Useful combinations of Bacillus strains and methods of using one or more Bacillus strain are also provided.
US07754468B2
The present invention provides a novel nucleic acid sequence, designated ELIP, encoding a lipolytic enzyme and the corresponding encoded amino acid sequences. The invention also provides expression vectors and host cells comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding at least one novel lipolytic enzyme, recombinant lipolytic enzyme proteins and methods for producing the same.
US07754465B2
This invention provides a method for killing biological agents utilizing lime sulfur in liquid or powder form.
US07754463B2
The invention provides compositions and methods used to inhibit USP1 deubiquitinase activity and to identify new inhibitors of USP1 deubiquitinase. The inhibitors can be used to treat or prevent cancer, bone marrow failure, and damage to cells or DNA resulting from genotoxic agents such as antineoplasic agents, including chemotherapeutic agents and radiation. The inhibitors include siRNA directed at inhibiting the expression of USP1 or UAF1, a protein which forms a heterodimeric complex with USP1. The inhibitors can be used to enhance cell survival if administered either before or after radiation exposure. Methods are also provided to enhance chemotherapy or radiotherapy of cancer and to enhance DNA repair. Transgenic knockout animals and knockdown cells are provided, whose USP1 expression is impaired.
US07754454B2
A process for producing a sulfur-containing α-hydroxycarboxylic acid compound, which comprises a step for reacting a sulfur-containing dihydroxy compound with a cell or a material from treated cell of a microorganism that has an ability to convert the sulfur-containing dihydroxy compound to a corresponding α-hydroxycarboxylic acid compound.
US07754448B2
A method for the production of the α-chain of hepatocyte growth factor or an N-terminal fragment thereof (NK polypeptide) by expression of a nucleic acid encoding said NK polypeptide in a microbial host cell, isolating inclusion bodies containing said NK polypeptide in denatured form, solubilization of the inclusion bodies and naturation of the denatured NK polypeptide, which is characterized in that in said nucleic acid at least one of the codons of amino acids selected from the group consisting of codons at positions 33, 35 and 36 is CGT, results in an improved expression yield.
US07754439B2
Methods for forming cell arrays of multiple cell samples arranged substantially in a monolayer on a single substrate particularly suited for diagnostic analysis are disclosed. The cell arrays are formed with a high-speed dispensing apparatus capable of dispensing small volumes in precise, complex patterns. Also disclosed are substrates upon which cell arrays may be formed, and methods for conducting diagnostic analyses on the formed cell arrays.
US07754430B2
Vaccine formulations comprising viral capsomeres are disclosed along with methods for their production. Therapeutic and prophylactic methods of use for the vaccine formulations are also disclosed.
US07754426B2
The present invention relates to a method for identifying the type of glioblastoma multiforme in mammals, preferably human subjects. More particularly, it relates to a kit for characterizing progressive glioma in mammals, preferably human subjects. More particularly, it relates to a kit for distinguishing primary and secondary glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) in mammals, preferably human subjects.
US07754423B2
Disclosed is a method for detecting a Chinese diabetic subject suffering from, at risk for developing, or suspected of suffering from a nephropathy. The method includes determining whether a sample from the subject has at least one polymorphic sequence selected from the group consisting of polymorphic sequences an I/D genotype of an ACE gene, an M235T genotype of an AGT gene, a (CA) n-5′ (z-2) genotype of an ALR2 gene, an C106T genotype of an ALR2 gene in the promoter region, a G-308A genotype of a TNF-α gene, and a complement thereof, provided that the ALR2 gene cannot be used alone, in which the presence of the polymorphic sequence indicates the subject suffering from, or at risk for suffering from a nephropathy. Also provided is an array for detecting a Chinese diabetic subject suffering from, or at risk for suffering from a nephropathy.
US07754421B2
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a new method for detection and quantification of virus and viral particles, comprising the step of labeling the nucleic acids of an intact virus or viral particle with a dye that emits fluorescence once complexed with the nucleic acids and detecting the virus or viral particle with a chromatograph equipped with a fluorescence detector.
US07754419B2
Provided are methods for determining the presence or amount of testosterone in a test sample, comprising ionizing all or a portion of the testosterone present in the sample to produce one or more testosterone ions that are detectable in a mass spectrometer. All or a portion of the testosterone present in the sample is ionized to produce one or more testosterone ions, which may be isolated and fragmented to produce precursor ions. A separately detectable internal testosterone standard can be provided in the sample. In a preferred embodiment, the reference is 2,2,4,6,6-d5 testosterone.
US07754417B2
A method for making printed circuits and printed circuit boards which includes coating a non-metallized substrate and plating an image of a desired circuit design directly onto the coated substrate without the need to image the circuit design on an intermediate silver halide polyester film or diazo and utilizing existing imaging, developing and etching subtractive techniques in conventional printed circuit board processing.
US07754415B2
A process for producing a laser engravable printing substrate, comprising the step of forming a layer of photosensitive resin composition on a cylindrical support or sheeted support and the step of irradiating the formed layer of photosensitive resin composition with light to thereby provide a layer of cured photosensitive resin of 50 μm to 50 mm thickness, wherein the light for irradiation of the photosensitive resin composition layer contains a ray of 200 to 450 nm wavelength and wherein the light illuminance on the surface of the photosensitive resin composition layer is in the range of 20 mW/cm2 to 2 W/cm2 when measured with the use of UV meter (trade name “UV-M02” manufactured by Ohku Seisakusho) and filter (trade name “UV-35-APR Filter” manufactured by Ohku Seisakusho) and in the range of 3 mW/cm2 to 2 W/cm2 when measured with the use of the above UV meter and filter (trade name “UV-25 Filter” manufactured by Ohku Seisakusho).
US07754414B2
Antireflective coating compositions with reduced outgassing are disclosed.
US07754410B2
To provide a method for producing a toner for developing an electrostatic charge image, which is capable of producing toner host particles in good yield and which is excellent in image characteristics, image quality, scratch resistance of a developing device and toner consumption, and a screen device which is capable of screening continuously without clogging.A method for producing a toner for developing an electrostatic charge image, which comprises a step of screening a dispersion of toner host particles by a screen, characterized in that when the above step is carried out, Y≦{1/(M2+r2+2Mr)}×108×0.6 is satisfied where Y is the number of particles (number/cm2) existing on the screen and having sizes of at least the mesh size of the screen, M is the mesh size (μm) of the screen, and r is the diameter (μm) of wire constituting the screen; a screen device characterized in that the screen is one wherein the shape of the minimum opening unit to let particles pass therethrough, changes from the stationary state by vibration in the screening step; a screen device characterized in that the screen is one to which substantially no tension is applied; and a method for producing a toner for developing an electrostatic charge image, which employs such a screen device.
US07754396B2
A mask with a focus measurement pattern and a method for measuring a focus value in an exposure process using the same that are capable of improving the measurement of a focus change, wherein the mask includes an outer reference pattern which provides a position reference for focus measurement, and focus measurement patterns which are provided apart from the outer reference pattern and formed in a line shape extending in two different directions. Accordingly, the focus change caused in the exposure process can be measured by measuring the line shortening of the focus measurement patterns.
US07754395B2
Some embodiments include methods of treating reticles to provide backside masking across regions of the reticle to compensate for problems occurring during photolithographic processing. The problems may be, for example, defects in the reticle, problems associated with deposition or development of photoresist, or problems associated with substrate topography. The masking may alter one or both of transmission of electromagnetic radiation through the masked regions, and polarization of electromagnetic radiation passed through the masked regions. Some embodiments include reticles having patterns along front sides for patterning electric magnetic radiation, and masks across portions of the backsides to at least partially block transmission of electromagnetic radiation through portions of the patterns.
US07754388B2
The object is to provide a nonaqueous-electrolyte battery having high charge/discharge efficiency and excellent high-rate performance. This subject is accomplished by using a nonaqueous electrolyte which comprises an organic solvent and a lithium salt dissolved therein and is characterized by containing at least one quaternary ammonium salt in an amount of 0.06 mol/L or larger and 0.5 mol/L or smaller. This effect is thought to be attributable to the following mechanism: in a relatively early stage (stage in which the negative-electrode potential is relatively noble) in a first charge step, a satisfactory protective coating film is formed on the negative electrode by the action of the quaternary ammonium salt and, hence, the organic solvent employed in the nonaqueous electrolyte is inhibited from decomposing.
US07754384B2
A spinel structure compound of the formula LiNi0.4Mn1.6O4-δ, wherein δ>0, has a lattice parameter of from 8.179 to 8.183 Å. The compound may be prepared by mixing carbonated precursors under stoichiometric conditions to produce a mixture, subjecting the mixture to a first heat treatment at a temperature of from 500 to 700° C., and then subjecting the mixture to one or more annealing treatments at a temperature of from 700 to 950° C., followed by cooling in a medium containing oxygen. The spinel structure compound may be used as an electrochemically active material in an electrode, for example an electrode of a battery.
US07754377B2
A lithium ion secondary battery includes a positive electrode capable of absorbing and desorbing lithium ion, a negative electrode capable of absorbing and desorbing lithium ion, a porous film interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte: the porous film being adhered to a surface of at least one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode; the porous film including a filler and a resin binder; the resin binder content in the porous film being 1.5 to 8 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the filler; and the resin binder including an acrylonitrile unit, an acrylate unit, or a methacrylate unit.
US07754374B2
The disclosure is directed to a battery assembly that includes a protective cover. The protective cover is positioned over a side plate that includes connections, such as a bus bar and a fixing member, that allow for battery operation. One or more flexible openings within the protective cover open to accept the fixing member, such as a screw or bolt, and close once the fixing member has passed. In this manner, the flexible opening allows for easy assembly and maintenance of the battery assembly while providing a mechanism of protecting the battery components from environmental elements. In addition, the flexible opening may be made by one or more cuts in the protective cover, wherein material elasticity enables the flexible opening to open and close.
US07754365B2
A membrane electrode assembly includes an electrolyte membrane, an anode disposed on one face of the electrolyte membrane, and a cathode disposed on the other face of the electrolyte membrane. The electrolyte membrane has a non-electrode-forming region where the cathode is not disposed on the surface of the non-electrode-forming region and an electrode-forming region where the cathode is disposed on the surface of the electrode-forming region. The non-electrode-forming region has a thin membrane region where the membrane is thinner than that in the electrode-forming region. The drop in power generation efficiency by water generated at the cathodes is prevented.
US07754364B2
A polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell power plant is cooled evaporatively by a non-circulating pressurized water coolant system. The coolant system utilizes a hydrophobic porous plug for bleeding air from the coolant water while maintaining coolant back pressure in a coolant flow field of the system. Furthermore, there is a first method for identifying appropriate parameters of the hydrophobic porous plug for use with a known particular coolant system; and a second method for determining proper operating conditions for a fuel cell water coolant system which can operate with a hydrophobic porous plug closure having known physical parameters.
US07754363B2
The invention provides a method for inspecting a fuel cell that can simply inspect fuel cell characteristics.The method is an inspecting method for a direct methanol fuel cell generator comprising an anode electrode including an node catalyst layer, a cathode electrode including a cathode catalyst layer, and N pieces of cells having an electrolyte disposed between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode, for power generation by feeding an aqueous methanol solution to the anode electrode and an oxidant gas to the cathode electrode. The fuel cell generator is inspected by measuring voltage changes of the voltage V of one electromotive unit caused by generating a current density change ΔI or −ΔI (mA/cm2) satisfying the condition of 0.2≦ΔI≦5 in a finite current density I (mA/cm2) loaded on the plural electromotive units arbitrarily connected in series in the fuel cell generator under power generation during a time interval Δt (sec) satisfying the condition of 10−5≦Δt≦0.5.
US07754357B2
In a rechargeable battery, a case is combined with an upper surface of a bare cell by being fixed to a lead plate electrically coupling a protection circuit board of a protection circuit module to the bare cell. Alternatively, the case is combined with the bare cell by being fixed to the protection circuit board so as not to be separated from the bare cell, thereby improving the reliability of the products.
US07754351B2
The present invention provides free-standing heterostructures including a layer of BiFeO3 and a layer comprising a perovskite over which the BiFeO3 is epitaxially grown. The layer comprising the perovskite has been released from a substrate upon which it was originally grown. Also provided are methods for forming the free-standing heterostructures, which may include transferring the free-standing heterostructures to other host substrates.
US07754348B2
The present invention discloses a phenanthroline compound which can be used as electron-transporting material in organic electroluminescence devices is disclosed. The mentioned phenanthroline compound is represented by the following. wherein Ar is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen atom, alkyl, aryl, wherein R1, R2 and R3 are identical or different. R1, R2 and R3 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen atom, alkyl, halide, wherein X1, X2 and X3 are identical or different. X1, X2 and X3 are independently selected from the atom or group consisting of O, S, N—R4 and R4 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen atom, alkyl, aryl.
US07754345B2
A far infrared emitting nano glazed comprised of a mixture of 35˜65% solvent, 1˜35% solubilizing agent, 0˜25% refractory agent but not including 0%, 0.1˜5% adhesive agent, 0.5˜30% far infrared powder, and 0.5˜10% nano material, added with water to be ground into a solution with of 350±20 g/200 cc concentration and 200˜325 mesh fineness; then applied to surface of ceramic body or biscuit and then sintered at 1120° C.˜1350° C. into a finished ceramic product provided with far infrared function and nano characteristics to maintain clean, bright and attractive surface, antibiotic and activate the substance contained therein.
US07754343B2
Techniques and structures have been developed for providing lead-free column grid array interconnect structures. An exemplary interconnect has a body, a first joint, and a second joint, all having compositions off the eutectic composition in a ternary alloy system, the first joint having a ternary composition distinct from the body composition, and the second joint having a ternary composition distinct from the body composition and the first joint composition. The interconnect may be formed by solidifying a solder, having a Sn-poor ternary composition in the Sn—Ag—Cu alloy system, in contact with a column, having a Ag-rich Cu-deficient composition in the same system, and a bonding pad or bare substrate. A second solder, having a Sn-rich ternary composition, may be solidified in contact with the column and a second bonding pad or bare substrate. In some embodiments joints may be severed and reformed by remelting and resolidifying the lower-liquidus solder.
US07754341B2
Stretch films which exhibit good puncture and impact resistance while also exhibiting resistance to defect propagation are desired. The films of the present invention have an ultimate stretch of at least 200 percent, a dart impact strength of at least about 700 gms/mil and a catastrophic failure stretch of at least 95 percent of the elongation to break value (CF of 5 or less). The films preferably comprise at least 3 layers and preferably comprise at least 50 percent by weight of polyethylene polymers.
US07754338B2
The present invention is a glass laminate having sound attenuation properties that make it suitable for use as acoustic glazing in architectural applications and/or in vehicles.
US07754331B2
An ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (EVOH) composition comprises 100 parts by weight of a powder (A) having a particle size of from 22 to 850 μm of an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (a) which has an ethylene content of from 2 to 60 mol % and has a degree of saponification greater than 95%, and from 0.0001 to 2 parts by weight of inorganic particles (B) having primary particles with a mean particle size of from 1 to 100 nm. The EVOH powder coating composition of the present invention forms a coating film having good uniformity when applied to a substrate as powder coating, even when it contains 1 part by weight or more water relative to 100 parts by weight of EVOH resin.
US07754327B2
An article comprising an adhesive attachment region is provided. The adhesive attachment region comprises a radiation curable hot melt pressure sensitive adhesive.
US07754321B2
A manufacturing method of a clad board includes: sticking a releasing film to a pre-preg sheet; forming a non-through-hole or through-hole in the pre-preg sheet including the releasing film; filling the hole with conductive paste; peeling off the film; and heating and pressing a metal foil onto the pre-preg sheet. The clad board has a smooth face formed on one face or both the faces of the pre-preg sheet, so that the conductive paste is restrained from spreading in an interface between the pre-preg sheet and the releasing film. This structure can avoid short-circuit between circuits and prevent insulating reliability from lowering. As a result, an yield rate is improved, and a reliable circuit board is obtainable.
US07754316B2
The present invention relates to a CVD-coated cutting tool insert with a TiCxNy layer with a low tensile stress level of from about 50 to about 390 MPa and an α-Al2O3 layer with a high surface smoothness with a mean Ra is equal to or less than about 0.12 μm as measured by AFM-technique. This is obtained by subjecting the coating to an intensive wet blasting operation.
US07754309B2
A ceramic honeycomb structure body (1) including a configuration in which a plurality of porous honeycomb segments (2) are bound one another with an adhesive layer (3) interposed between each two neighboring porous honeycomb segments (2), where a plurality of protrusion portions (4) fixed to one of the adhesion surfaces (2a, 2b) respectively of two honeycomb segments (2, 2) opposed to each other with the adhesive layer (3) interposed between the two honeycomb segments (2, 2) are embedded into the adhesive layer (3).
US07754308B2
The present invention relates to the use of a vulcanised thermoplastic elastomer or styrene-ethylene-butadiene-styrene polymer (SEBS) as infill material in artificial turf systems. Artificial turf has achieved growing popularity in recent years, particularly for football fields. The vulcanised thermoplastic elastomer comprises a polyolefin and a rubber wherein the rubber is dynamically vulcanised by the use of a curing agent. The polyolefin is chosen from polyethylene or polypropylene and the rubber is chosen from EPDM or EPM. The rubber is dynamically vulcanised by a curing agent chosen from sulfur, sulfurous compounds, metal oxides, maleimides, phenol resins, silanes or peroxides.
US07754305B2
An austenitic stainless steel alloy includes, in weight percent: >4 to 15 Mn; 8 to 15 Ni; 14 to 16 Cr; 2.4 to 3 Al; 0.4 to 1 total of at least one of Nb and Ta; 0.05 to 0.2 C; 0.01 to 0.02 B; no more than 0.3 of combined Ti+V; up to 3 Mo; up to 3 Co; up to 1W; up to 3 Cu; up to 1 Si; up to 0.05 P; up to 1 total of at least one of Y, La, Ce, Hf, and Zr; less than 0.05 N; and base Fe, wherein the weight percent Fe is greater than the weight percent Ni, and wherein the alloy forms an external continuous scale including alumina, nanometer scale sized particles distributed throughout the microstructure, the particles including at least one of NbC and TaC, and a stable essentially single phase FCC austenitic matrix microstructure that is essentially delta-ferrite-free and essentially BCC-phase-free.
US07754300B2
Articles comprise a monolayer blown film prepared from a composition comprising at least one vinylidene chloride polymer and at least one plasticizer wherein at least one vinylidene chloride polymer comprises vinylidene chloride and at least one alkyl acrylate, selected from methyl acrylate, ethyl acrylate, or butyl acrylate or a combination thereof in an amount of from 2.5 to 9 mole percent of the monomer content of the vinylidene chloride polymer and wherein the plasticizer is present in an amount of from 1 to 15 parts by weight per hundred parts of polymer, wherein the article is selected from a package, a container, a laminate, sausage casing or combination thereof, particularly a sausage casing, wherein at least 4 of designated characteristics are present. The invention also includes processes for making articles of the invention and films used therein.
US07754297B2
The present invention provides ink jet recording sheets comprising a colorant receiving layer on a substrate, the colorant receiving layer comprising fine particles, a water soluble resin, and a cationic resin including a unit represented by the following formula (1): Formula (1) wherein, R represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; Y represents a divalent linking group; R1 represents an optionally substituted aralkyl or aryl group; R2 and R3 each independently represents an optionally substituted alkyl, aralkyl or aryl group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms; R4 represents an optionally substituted alkylene, aralkylene or arylene group; Q is at least one unit provided from a monomer having an ethylenic double bond, and represents a unit having an inorganic/organic ratio (I/O value) of less than 1 in the organic conceptional chart; X− represents an anion; m represents 20 to 100% by mole; and n represents 0 to 80% by mol.
US07754291B2
A method for making miniature emblems. The method includes providing an array of shaped miniature substrates, each shaped miniature substrate having an upper surface and a bottom surface; holding the array of shaped miniature substrates flat and horizontal; providing a plurality of orifices, the plurality of orifices and the array of shaped miniature substrates being capable of moving relative to each another in an X direction, a Y direction, and a Z direction; positioning the plurality of orifices over the array of shaped miniature substrates; positioning the plurality of orifices in close proximity with the array of shaped miniature substrates; depositing a volume of viscous fluent plastic of less than about 0.04 ml from the plurality of orifices onto the upper surface of each of the shaped miniature substrates, the viscous fluent plastic forming a positive meniscus on the upper surface; and curing the plastic while maintaining the array of shaped miniature substrates flat and horizontal, whereby the cured plastic forms a dome over each shaped miniature substrate.
US07754288B2
Preservative composition for various materials and method of preserving the same is disclosed. The preservative composition includes at least one silane-containing material and at least one hydrocarbon solvent containing molecules of at least five carbon atoms.
US07754286B2
There is provided a method of forming a silicon dioxide film, which comprises repeating a step of depositing a silicon layer on a silicon substrate to form a silicon dioxide film of a predetermined thickness, and which makes it possible to suitably select the surface roughness of the silicon dioxide film that is formed and the rate of growth of the silicon film that is deposited. According to the method of forming the silicon dioxide film that is proposed above, it comprises a step of depositing any one of polysilicon, epitaxial silicon or amorphous silicon on the silicon substrate or on the silicon dioxide film formed on the silicon substrate by the thermal oxidation treatment to form a silicon film, and a step of thermally oxidizing the silicon film to convert it into a silicon dioxide film, the step of deposition and the step of thermal oxidation being repeated a plural number of times.
US07754285B2
A coating method for forming a plurality of layers over a continuously traveling band-shaped substrate, including the steps of: forming a lower layer by coating a first coating liquid, and forming an upper layer over the lower layer by coating a second coating liquid including a composition substantially identical to or different from a composition of the first coating liquid; and applying an undercoating liquid to an uncoated portion before coating the second coating liquid when the uncoated portion is generated during forming the lower layer.
US07754283B2
The invention relates to a nanoparticle growing mat (30), a method of manufacturing the mat, and a method for the continuous production of organized nanotubes using the mat. The mat (30) comprising a substrate including carbon, on which is deposited in a predetermined pattern of nanosized catalytic particles whose pattern produces nanotubes in a highly ordered form. The mat (30) is activated in the presence of a carrier gas, by passing current through the mat (30) which raises the temperature to the level where, nanotubes are: formed; gathered; withdrawn as nanotube bundles (42); and collected.
US07754278B2
Magnetic polymer microbeads and a method for preparing the same are provided. The method for preparing the magnetic polymer microbeads includes the following steps: preparing polymer particles; immersing the polymer particles into a solution in order to swell the polymer particles; adding magnetic nanoparticles to the solution and allowing the magnetic nanoparticles to enter an interior of the polymer particles; and separating the polymer particles from the solution, wherein the polymer particle is made of polystyrene, or a copolymer containing styrene, and the solution includes a medium polar solvent. The average particle size of the magnetic polymer microbeads of the present invention ranges from submicrons to microns. The magnetic polymer microbeads of the present invention have high magnetization, and the various functional groups can be introduced onto the surfaces thereof. Therefore, the magnetic polymer microbeads of the present invention can be applied in many areas, and thereby they have high economic value.
US07754264B2
A process for preparing a dehydrated carbohydrate-containing nutritional product comprises preparing a liquid concentrate with a reduced carbohydrate content, spraying the liquid concentrate into a spray-drier and incorporating the remainder of the carbohydrate content into the nutritional product by blowing solid carbohydrate particles into the spray dryer and removing the carbohydrate-containing nutritional product from the spray-drier. The process substantially reduces the problem of fouling of the spray dryer.
US07754262B2
A method is provided for preparing mixed greens. Greens are immersed in an aqueous solution containing phosphoric acid, calcium chloride and a natural antibiotic, dewatered from their surfaces, cooked and mixed in predetermined amounts. Following the application of a seasoning solution containing an organic acid and a natural antibiotic thereto, the mixed greens are vacuum packed and thermally sterilized. The mixed greens prepared according to the method can preserve their fresh texture senses for a long period of time.
US07754261B2
A multi-purpose device for holding food items for cooking, storage and other purposes is disclosed. One use of the device is for the poaching of one or more eggs. The device is formed and dimensioned to float in boiling water without tipping over and spilling an egg contained within.
US07754257B2
A packing package includes a gusseted container formed from laminated films and having opposite side walls and gussets extending between the opposite side walls, and a spout attached to an opening in the gusseted container. The laminated film forming either the two opposite side walls or the gussets is provided with a heat insulating barrier. The laminated film forming the gussets is not provided with any heat insulating barrier when the two opposite side walls are formed from the laminated film provided with a heat insulating barrier. The laminated film forming the two opposite side walls is not provided with any heat insulating barrier when the gussets are formed from the laminated film provided with a heat insulating barrier.
US07754254B2
The present invention provides a method for providing a coating comprising maltitol which can prevent the coating from being chipped without using reinforcement or binder at low cost and at short times. The present invention provides a method for providing a coating for a core material, which comprises: (i) a first coating step which comprises coating the core material with an aqueous solution comprising maltitol and a crystallization inhibitor which inhibits crystallization of maltitol in an amount more than 3% by weight and not more than 6% by weight based on the weight of total solid content of sugar alcohols including maltitol in the solution, (ii) a second coating step which comprises coating the core material which has been coated by the first coating step with a powder maltitol composition, and (iii) a drying step which comprises drying the thus coated core material.
US07754253B2
The use of botulinum toxin for preparing a drug for preventing hair growth is disclosed. A cosmetic method for preventing hair growth is also disclosed.
US07754251B2
Foot-bath agent of Chinese herbal medicine for regulating blood pressure and improving sleep quality
The present invention relates to a foot-bath agent for regulating blood pressure and improving sleep quality, which includes fructus leonuri 20-25%, semen ziziphi spinosae 15-20%, calcined magnetitum 17-22%, spica prunellae 15-20%, ligusticum chuanxiong hort 18-23%, and borneolum 0.7-1.2% by weight. The foot-bath agent has advantages including no allergy and less side effects to human body.
US07754245B2
The present invention discloses a solid bio-material for the detection of a bio-electromagnetic signal, which senses an information signal generated from living organisms and changes thereof by using fish scale, feathers of fowl and carapaces of tortoises among epidermal tissues of animals having the function of detecting, memorizing and transferring a weak information signal (bio-signal) of an electromagnetic field generated from bio-tissues, and a method for producing the same. The method for producing a solid bio-material for the detection of a bio-electromagnetic signal by using epidermal tissues of living organisms comprises the steps of: immersing the carcass of an animal with a developed epidermis such as fish, fowl, tortoises, etc. in a mixed solution of aromatics (fragrance), salt and water in the ratio of 1:2:300 for one week; separating the epidermis from the immersed living organism; washing the separated epidermis, soaking it in a mixed solution of potassium dichromate, vinegar and water in the ratio of 1:1:100 for 10 to 12 hours, applying a medium pressure thereto for 48 hours under an ambient temperature, and then drying it; applying heat of 40° C. and a cold air of −25° C. temperature in turn to the dried epidermis in a medium pressure state, two or three times in a period of 24 hours each; sterilizing the hot and cold treated epidermis by irradiating ultraviolet rays thereto with a 240 nm ultraviolet lamp for 30 minutes; generating static electricity by putting the sterilized epidermis in an electric cylinder and turning it at 500 RPM; applying pine nut oil to the outer surface of the electro statically processed epidermis; and cutting the epidermis into required sizes.
US07754239B2
The present invention relates to a capsule comprising a core and at least one envelope comprising at least one film-forming polymer, characterized in that it exhibits a total solubilization time for its envelope of less than or equal to 85 s, according to a test A, preferably less than or equal to 80 s, more preferably less than or equal to 70 s.The invention also relates to the method of producing said capsule, and also to the products comprising said capsule, such as the food, pharmaceutical, oral hygiene or cosmetic products.
US07754228B2
Cytotoxic T-cell epitopes from C.pneumoniae proteins have been empirically determined. The epitopes from corresponding C.trachomatis proteins have also been identified, and some of these are identical to those from C.pneumoniae. The empirical method showed that algorithmic prediction was inadequate. The epitopes are useful for immunisation and/or diagnosis.
US07754223B2
The present invention discloses novel proteins, e.g., antigens, from Piscirickettsia salmonis. The present invention further discloses nucleic acids that encode these proteins. The present invention also discloses the use of the proteins, e.g., antigens, and nucleic acids to prepare vaccines against salmonid rickettsial septicemia (SRS). The present invention further provides recombinant Yersinia ruckeri cells to be used to construct vaccines against SRS. The present invention also discloses vaccines that can be used to protect fish from Piscirickettsia salmonis, as well as other pathogens. In addition, the present invention discloses methods of using the vaccines of the present invention to protect fish from SRS as well as from other pathogenic diseases.
US07754207B2
Methods for treating pathological pulmonary conditions and bleomycin associated pulmonary fibrosis administer IL-16 antagonists, for example, anti-IL-16 antibodies, to subjects.
US07754204B2
Secondary bile acid production inhibitors and cholesterol-lowering agents containing a yeast as the active ingredient.
US07754200B2
Disclosed is a phosphate transport inhibiting compound represented by Structural Formula (I): R1 and R2 are independently —H, an electron withdrawing group or a C1-C10 alkyl group. Y is a covalent bond, a substituted methylene group, an unsubstituted methylene group or —CR1R2P(O)(OH)—. R3 is a hydrocarbyl group optionally comprising one or more amine, ammonium, ether, thioether or phenylene linking groups, a substituted hydrocarbyl group optionally comprising one or more amine, ammonium, ether, thioether or phenylene linking groups, a heteroaryl group, a substituted heteroaryl group or a phenyl group substituted with one or more groups selected from —Cl, —Br, —F, —CN, —NO2, —ORa, —N(Ra)2, —COORa, —CON(Ra)2, —CORa, —S(O)Ra, —S(O)2Ra, —S(O)2N(Ra)2, —NRaS(O)2Ra, —NRaCORa, a halogenated lower alkyl group, an aryl group, a substituted aryl group, or a halogenated alkoxy group. Each Ra is independently —H, lower alkyl, substituted lower alkyl, aryl or substituted aryl.Each Rb is independently —H, a lower alkyl group, or a phosphate protecting group.
US07754199B2
The present invention provides methods and compositions for the treatment of ion imbalances. In particular, the invention provides polymeric and pharmaceutical compositions comprising crosslinked amine polymers. Methods of use of the polymeric and pharmaceutical compositions for therapeutic and/or prophylactic benefits are disclosed herein. Examples of these methods include the treatment of renal diseases and hyperphosphatemia.
US07754193B2
The present disclosure relates to a composition for permanently reshaping keratin fibers, such as the hair, comprising ammonium bicarbonate and at least one other alkaline agent chosen from aqueous ammonia and ammonium salts other than ammonium bicarbonate, with an ammonium molar concentration ratio of greater than 2.1, at least one non-cyclic cationic polymer, and at least one reducing agent, wherein, when aqueous ammonia is present, it is present in an amount of less than 3% by weight. Also disclosed herein is permanent-reshaping process comprising the application of this reducing composition in a first stage, followed, after a leave-in time, by the application of a fixing composition and rinsing of the keratin fibers thus treated.The present disclosure further relates to a multi-compartment device or kit comprising this reducing composition.
US07754186B2
The invention concerns a process for the extraction of acid or basic oxides contained in a vegetal matter, more specifically it concerns the extraction of silica from rice husks. The invention also concerns pure oxides extracted from vegetal matter. The invention also concerns the process for the extraction of carbon-rich oxide compositions from vegetal matter, and compositions obtained through said process.
US07754182B2
A method for forming a carbon nanotube array includes the following steps: providing a smooth substrate (11); depositing a metal catalyst layer (21) on a surface of the substrate; heating the treated substrate to a predetermined temperature in flowing protective gas; and introducing a mixture of carbon source gas and protective gas for 5-30 minutes, thus forming a carbon nanotube array (61) extending from the substrate. When the mixture of carbon source gas and protective gas is introduced, a temperature differential greater than 50° C. between the catalyst and its surrounding environment is created by adjusting a flow rate of the carbon source gas. Further, a partial pressure of the carbon source gas is maintained lower than 20%, by adjusting a ratio of the flow rates of the carbon source gas and the protective gas. The carbon nanotubes formed in the carbon nanotube array are well bundled.
US07754179B2
Methods of synthesizing a diamond material, particularly nanocrystalline diamond, diamond-like carbon and bucky diamond are provided. In particular embodiments, a composition including a carbon source, such as coal, is subjected to addition of energy, such as high energy reactive milling, producing a milling product enriched in hydrogenated tetrahedral amorphous diamond-like carbon compared to the coal. A milling product is treated with heat, acid and/or base to produce nanocrystalline diamond and/or crystalline diamond-like carbon. Energy is added to produced crystalline diamond-like carbon in particular embodiments to produce bucky diamonds.
US07754172B2
The present invention relates to a process for purifying a gas mixture G-0 comprising dinitrogen monoxide, at least comprising the absorption of the gas mixture G-0 in an organic solvent, subsequent desorption of a gas mixture G-1 from the laden organic solvent, absorption of the gas mixture G-1 in water and subsequent desorption of a gas mixture G-2 from the laden water, and also to the use of a purified gas mixture which comprises dinitrogen monoxide and is obtainable by such a process as an oxidizing agent for olefins.
US07754171B2
A multilayered, three-way conversion catalyst having the capability of simultaneously catalyzing the oxidation of hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide and the reduction of nitrogen oxides is disclosed. Provided is a catalytic material of at least four layers in conjunction with a carrier, where each of the layers includes a support, at least three layers comprise a precious metal component, and at least one layer comprises an oxygen storage component (OSC). The catalytic material can further comprise a fifth layer, where at least four layers comprise a precious metal component, at least one layer comprises an oxygen storage component, and at least one layer is substantially free of an oxygen storage component.
US07754167B2
A method is disclosed for separating trivalent americium from trivalent curium, coming from an aqueous solution containing at least these cations, wherein, at an acid concentration of 0.01 mol/l-0.3 mogl/l, the aqueous solution is brought into contact with an organic solvent containing a bis(aryl)dithiophosphinic acid having the formula (4) where R1=phenyl or naphthyl R2=phenyl or naphthyl, and radicals of R1 and R2 substituted by at least one methyl, ethyl, propyl, isopropyl-, cyano, nitro, or halo substituent, and containing a synergist having the formula (5) where X and/or Y and/or Z is R or RO, wherein R is branched or unbranched alkyl.
US07754161B2
A reactor to reform fuel includes a low temperature reaction unit, a high temperature reaction unit provided separately from the low temperature reaction unit, and a communicating tube via which the low temperature reaction unit and the high temperature reaction unit communicate with each other. At least one of the low temperature reaction unit and the high temperature reaction unit has a first surface, and the other of the low temperature reaction unit and the high temperature reaction unit has a second surface which is opposed to the first surface. The first surface includes a concave surface and a projecting surface which projects towards the second surface, wherein a length between the concave surface and the second surface is longer than a length between the projecting surface and the second surface. And the communicating tube is provided between the concave surface and the second surface.
US07754160B2
A honeycomb catalyst body includes: porous partition walls having a large number of pores and disposed to form a plurality of cells communicating between two end faces, plugged portions disposed to plug each of the cells on one of the end faces, and catalyst layers loaded in layers on an inner surface of the cells and an inner surface of the pores and containing a noble metal. Mass (Mc) of the noble metal contained in the catalyst layer loaded on the inner surface of the cells and mass (Mp) of the noble metal contained in the catalyst layer loaded on the inner surface of the pores satisfy the relation of (Mp)/(Mc)≧4. The honeycomb catalyst body is excellent in purification efficiency, has low pressure loss, and is mountable even in a limited space.
US07754151B2
Herein disclosed is a liquid homogenizer for mixing two or more liquids, comprising: a rotator (1) rotatable around a rotation axis; at least two liquid-mixing chambers (6, 10) formed in the rotator, and being different from each other in distance from the rotation axis; and at least two channels (8) through which one of the liquid-mixing chambers is communicated with the other of the liquid-mixing chambers (6, 10), wherein the liquid-mixing chambers (6, 10) include an outer liquid-mixing chamber (10) and an inner liquid-mixing chamber (6) close to the rotation axis in comparison with the outer liquid-mixing chamber, when the rotator (1) is rotating around the rotation axis, the liquids are shifted by a centrifugal force to the outer liquid-mixing chamber from the inner liquid-mixing chamber through the channels (8), and agitated to be mixed by turbulent flows in the outer liquid-mixing chamber.
US07754140B2
A method for producing dimensionally accurate metal foam from a foamable, powder metallurgically produced metal semifinished product having a melting point >200° C. involving: the introduction of material, which is capable of foaming above 200 ° C., into a mold which has a coefficient of expansion of less than 3 K−1 Controlled heating of the foamable material inside the mold is performed while radiators foam the material, and the foamed product formed thereby removed from the mold. A device for producing dimensionally accurate thermally foamed metal foam parts that is has a thin-walled mold, which is stable at the melting temperature of the metal foam and which has a coefficient of expansion of <3K−1; a controllable irradiating device, and; a controller that controls the irradiating device based on the measurement given by a radiation measuring device.
US07754137B2
The present invention relates to a process for fabricating a composite functional body/substrate, either by melting with an energy beam or by spin coating. The functional material is preferably a piezoelectric material (PVDF). The energy beam is preferably a laser beam.
US07754131B2
A device (4) for transferring a pattern to an object (2). The invention relates especially to production of micro and nanostructures. The device comprises an alignment means (10) arranged in connection with a first contacting means (7) for controlling the motion of the first stamp (8) in a direction perpendicular to the pressing direction (A), and a second contacting means (11) having a second stamp (12) adapted to imprint a second pattern in the second surface (6) of the object (2), and a pressing means (9) further adapted to press the second stamp (12) into contact with the second surface (6) of the object (2) in the pressing direction (A). Hereby is obtained a device of a simple design, which has a high accuracy of the alignment of the stamps in relation to the object.
US07754129B2
A sealing element is formed from a desirably shaped body of a sealant material formulated from a first polymer in a concentration of about 25 percent to about 40 percent, an inert filler material in a concentration of about 20 percent to about 45 percent and a hydrocarbon resin in a concentration of about 1 percent to about 15 percent. The sealant material, when positioned about a first component is overmolded with a material forming a second component. The sealant material, which is heat activated, forms a seal between the first and second components.
US07754127B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed for fabricating an anti-fatigue mat that employs a layer of resilient gel material. The method employs a frame assembly that receives a flexible sheet to form the base sheet of the mat. In one embodiment, the frame assembly includes a movable frame member having an angled aperture for controlling the geometry of the gel layer when heated gel is dispensed into the aperture. In one embodiment, the frame assembly receives another flexible sheet disposed on the gel layer to form the support sheet of the mat. In one embodiment, the frame assembly may further include a cooling channel for convective or liquid cooling of liquid gel dispensed into a gel receiving cavity formed by the aperture.
US07754124B2
An extrusion apparatus for extruding multiple streams of extrusion material as extruded end-products and in the coating of substrates. A flow joiner in an extrusion head combines multiple metered streams such as from a gear pump, into a uniform extrusion flow.
US07754116B2
An sheet forming apparatus selectively uses two control modes: a constant roller gap control mode where a roller gap is controlled by a roller gap adjustment means so that the roller gap converges a predetermined control target value; and a constant pressing load control mode where the roller gap is controlled by the roller adjustment means so that a pressing load converges a predetermined control target value.
US07754114B2
In a method for manufacturing an optical fiber probe in which an optical fiber is formed as an optical fiber probe by etching a tip section and sharpening a core region of the optical fiber, the optical fiber is a polarization maintaining optical fiber including the core region, a stress-applying region, and a clad region. The optical fiber probe is formed by mechanical-grinding of the edge of the optical fiber into a sharpened shape so that the core region is located at the tip of a sharpened portion, and by dipping the formed edge of the optical fiber in an etchant for further sharpening the core region. Accordingly, a new optical fiber probe both with high transmission efficiency and with a large polarization degree is obtained.
US07754109B2
In a varistor element, Ca exists in the grain interior of grains consisting primarily of ZnO in a varistor element body and Ca also exists in a grain boundary. In this crystal structure Ca replaces oxygen defects in the grain interior of grains consisting primarily of ZnO, in the varistor element body to make the ceramic structure denser Such crystal structure also decreases a ratio of an element tending to degrade the stability of the temperature characteristic of the varistor element, e.g., Si as a firing aid, in the grain boundary between grains. As a result, the varistor element has a stable temperature characteristic, which can decrease change in capacitance and tan δ (thermal conversion factor of resistance) against change in temperature.
US07754092B2
A composition comprising a mixture of at least one soil resist agent and at least one additive which is maleic anhydride, and a method of providing soil resistance to fibrous substrates are disclosed.
US07754077B1
Laser-induced phase-separation polymerization of a porous acrylate polymer is used for in-situ fabrication of dialysis membranes inside glass microchannels. A shaped 355 nm laser beam is used to produce a porous polymer membrane with a thickness of about 15 μm, which bonds to the glass microchannel and forms a semi-permeable membrane. Differential permeation through a membrane formed with pentaerythritol triacrylate was observed and quantified by comparing the response of the membrane to fluorescein and fluorescently tagging 200 nm latex microspheres. Differential permeation was observed and quantified by comparing the response to rhodamine 560 and lactalbumin protein in a membrane formed with SPE-methylene bisacrylamide. The porous membranes illustrate the capability for the present technique to integrate sample cleanup into chip-based analysis systems.
US07754076B2
A reactor for washing sand contaminated with hydrocarbons comprises a vessel having an aperture in a bottom portion thereof. A steam cleaning device is located near a top of the vessel for receiving contaminated sand and cleaning the contaminated sand as it is introduced into the vessel. A rinsing device is positioned below the steam cleaning device for rinsing the sand with water. A sand conveying device comprising an air injection device is positioned in the bottom portion of the vessel for urging sand out of the aperture using compressed air, such that the sand is partially dewatered as the sand is urged out of the aperture.
US07754072B2
A water feature for use in landscaping applications. A water issuing device, such as a waterfall construction is provided for receiving water and discharging water onto a gravel bed. The bed is positioned below the waterfall and forms a path or surface along which the water can flow in a stream-like manner and through which the water can percolate downwardly into the bed. A perforated and tubularly shaped collection module having a plurality of openings for receiving water percolating downwardly through the bed. A cylindrically-shaped and generally vertically oriented stack is coupled to the module for receiving water therefrom. A pump in the stack receives water from the water collection member and directs water to the waterfall construction. It is noted that water from the waterfall appears to disappear into the gravel and only a shallow stream is formed.
US07754067B2
Heavy hydrocarbons are upgraded more efficiently to lighter, more valuable, hydrocarbons with lower amounts of solid carbonaceous by-products in supercritical water using two heating stages, the first stage at a temperature up to about 775K and the second stage at a temperature from about 870K to about 1075K. The temperature is preferably raised from the first temperature to the second temperature by internal combustion using oxygen.
US07754063B1
Herein disclosed are an electrode and a method for making an electrode having an enhanced electrically effective surface providing an increased signal to noise ratio. The electrode having a metal surface selected from gold, tungsten, stainless steel, platinum, platinum-tungsten, platinum-iridium, and combinations thereof; and an electrically conductive coating on said metal surface, said coating consisting essentially of polymerized pyrrole.
US07754058B2
An ion exchange membrane electrolyzer comprises electrodes at least either of which is held in contact with leaf springs formed integrally with a leaf spring holding member arranged in an electrode chamber so as to extend toward the electrode and remain electrically energized at the respective electrode touching sections thereof, each of the leaf springs having a crooked section arranged at a position separated from its connecting section connecting itself to the leaf spring holding member and adapted to be bent toward the leaf spring holding member when the electrode touching section is pressed toward the leaf spring holding member side.
US07754052B2
A head-box for depositing slurry upon a moving web including a main metering roll, a companion roll disposed in closely spaced relation to the metering roll and a vibrating gate which forms a nip between the metering roller and the gate. The nip is arranged to retain a supply of the slurry, and the rolls are driven so slurry retained in the nip progresses over an upper outer peripheral surface of the metering roll to be deposited upon the web. Also, preferably included is a doctor blade disposed in operational relationship to the metering roll for directing the slurry downwardly from the outer metering roll surface to a point above the surface of a carrier for a fiberglass layer upon which the slurry layer is deposited. The vibrating gate and doctor blade may be pivotally mounted to either side of the surfaces of the head-box.
US07754050B2
Fibrous structures comprising a tuft. More particularly, the present invention relates to fibrous structures comprising at least two chemically different compositions wherein less than all of the chemically different compositions present in the fibrous structures forms a tuft, and processes for making such fibrous structures are provided.
US07754049B2
The present invention is a method for maximizing water removal from an absorbent web in a press nip. The present invention uses a pressing unit having a blanket with a void volume and with a pressure profile that maximizes water removal in the press section or on the Yankee dryer of a paper machine. The pressure profile of the pressing unit according to the present invention has a very steep pressure drop at and/or following the exit of a pressure distribution curve in order to maximize water removal by minimizing rewet of the web. The improved pressure profile according to the present invention results in increased water removal and/or improved line speed. The void volume further increases water removal and/or improves line speed.
US07754044B2
A method comprising a step of manufacturing an elastic laminated body by laminating two webs and while inserting an elastic member in an extended state in a web length direction in between; a step of cutting the elastic laminated body in a length direction so that a concave portion and a convex portion appear alternately; a step of attaching a cover sheet to bridge between the concave portion and the convex portion of cut first elastic laminated body and second elastic laminated body, respectively; a step of widening the first elastic laminated body and the second elastic laminated body to which the cover sheet is attached; and a step of attaching an absorber onto the cover sheet, lessens the occurrence of wrinkles and creases produced when webs are cut, and eliminates a problem attributed to the occurrence of wrinkles and arising when an absorber is attached.
US07754042B2
The present invention includes an image transfer sheet. The image transfer sheet comprises a release layer and a polymer layer. One or more of the release layer and the polymer layer comprise titanium oxide or other white pigment.
US07754037B2
A manufacturing method for a seamless hat that uses cloth material having a chemical fiber component, which is cut to form cut-out pieces having specific pattern outlines, then, after affixing superimposed edges of the stitched cut-out pieces, supersonic or high frequency equipment is used to administer heat processing on the fixedly joined edges of the cut-out pieces. Thereupon, any surplus material from the stitched cut-out pieces can be cut away, only leaving the very minimum of connecting gathered edges. Then, heating art is implemented to externally apply and cover the joined areas of the gathered edges with hold-down strips containing thermosol or thermal polyurethane (TPU) membrane, thereby fabricating a hat.
US07754036B1
A pressable explosive composition is provided. The composition includes at least 40 weight percent of substantially uncoated fuel particles, a nitramine mechanically blended with the substantially uncoated fuel particles, and a binder coating the nitramine. The binder constitutes about 1 to about 6 weight percent of the pressable explosive composition. Also provided are a pressed thermobaric explosive, weapons containing the pressed thermobaric explosive, and methods for making the composition and thermobaric explosive.
US07754035B2
A method for improving the strength, creep and failure resistance of a single crystal component, such as a turbine engine component, is provided. The method comprises the steps of forming a component, such as a turbine engine component, having a single crystal microstructure with a plurality of γ′ cuboids forming a limited amount of oriented platens in a particular direction prior to the component being placed into service to delay coalescence of the platens relative to the applied load.
US07754028B2
The invention relates to a method for the plasma-nitriding of precipitation-hardenable stainless steels or stainless maraging steels. The invention also relates to a shaver cap for an electric shaver. The invention also relates to a cutting device. The invention further relates to an electric shaver comprising at least one such cutting device.
US07754025B1
A dishwasher having at least one door defining at least part of a washing area when the door is closed. The dishwasher has at least one supply housing supported by the door, and the supply housing is sized to hold an amount of liquid dish washing supply which is sufficient for a plurality of wash cycles. The dishwasher also has at least one dispenser supported by the door, and the dispenser has an outlet positioned on the door. Also, the dishwasher has an indicator operable to indicate how much of the liquid dish washing supply remains in the supply housing.
US07754022B2
A wash cylinder or chamber for an automated cleaning station to clean an object or a person's body part includes nozzles on the interior of the cylinder, the nozzles of one embodiment comprising an increasing roll angle providing a novel spray pattern. Additionally, embodiments of the invention include fluid guidance and conveyance structures, angled nozzles, sealing structures, finger guards, nozzle ribs, wash chamber seating mechanisms and drains, and nozzle inlays having a plurality of nozzles. Also disclosed are methods of washing an object or body part using a wash cylinder or chamber and methods of assembling a wash cylinder or chamber.
US07754019B2
Method for cleaning a surface is disclosed comprising a cleaning step with an aqueous cleaning medium, which is supplied to said semiconductor surface wherein the cleaning medium comprises cleaning particles suspended in a colloidal form and mechanical agitation is applied to the particles to be removed for at least part of the time during the cleaning step.
US07754014B2
A vacuum valve assembly for use in a vacuum processing chamber includes a seat defining an opening in the vacuum valve, with the seat having a sealing face adjacent the opening and normal to the direction of the opening; and a gate having a sealing face adapted to mate with the seat sealing face, the gate being movable toward and away from the seat sealing face to seal and open the vacuum valve opening. A continuous elastomeric seal extends around the vacuum valve opening between the gate sealing face and the seat sealing face of sufficient size such that when the gate is positioned to seal the vacuum valve opening, there exists a gap between the gate sealing face and the seat sealing face. A purge gas port system, disposed in the seat or in the gate, has an inlet for a purge gas, an essentially continuous outlet extending around the vacuum valve opening and adjacent the elastomeric seal and gap, and a manifold system connecting the inlet and the outlet. When a purge gas is introduced through the inlet, the manifold distributes the gas to the outlet which evenly distributes the gas to the vicinity of the continuous elastomeric seal around the vacuum valve opening in the gap between the gate sealing face and the seat sealing face.
US07754010B2
A method of fabricating an elastomeric structure, comprising: forming a first elastomeric layer on top of a first micromachined mold, the first micromachined mold having a first raised protrusion which forms a first recess extending along a bottom surface of the first elastomeric layer; forming a second elastomeric layer on top of a second micromachined mold, the second micromachined mold having a second raised protrusion which forms a second recess extending along a bottom surface of the second elastomeric layer; bonding the bottom surface of the second elastomeric layer onto a top surface of the first elastomeric layer such that a control channel forms in the second recess between the first and second elastomeric layers; and positioning the first elastomeric layer on top of a planar substrate such that a flow channel forms in the first recess between the first elastomeric layer and the planar substrate.
US07754001B2
The invention concerns a method for producing a friction material mass, in particular for friction linings in vehicles, in which essentially fibrous material, fillers, lubricants, metallic components and binding agents are wet-processed. In order to be able to produce from the friction material mass friction linings with increased thermostability, water glass is used as binding agent.
US07753994B2
In a discharge device for performing streamer discharge between a discharge electrode (41) including a plurality of discharge parts (61) and a counter electrode (42) including a plurality of counter parts (62) confronting the discharge parts (61), a resistor (60) is provided in a current carrying path between power source means (45) and the discharge parts (61).
US07753992B2
Sorbents for removal of mercury and other pollutants from gas streams, such as a flue gas stream from coal-fired utility plants, and methods for their manufacture and use are disclosed. The methods include injecting fluid cracking catalyst particles into a flue gas stream.
US07753990B2
The present invention provides a system for reducing entrained and dissolved gasses from a well fluid. The system includes a well fluid, at least one process tank into which the well fluid flows, wherein a first process tank comprises a weir arrangement over which the well fluid spills, a mechanical degasser coupled to the at least one process tank and configured to receive the well fluid, and an aeration device disposed in the at least one process tank that generates bubbles in the well fluid. The present invention also provides a method of reducing entrained and dissolved gases from a well fluid that includes flowing a well fluid into a process tank, exerting a centrifugal force on the well fluid, and generating bubbles in the well fluid in the process tank.
US07753989B2
A method of producing passivated Ti or Ti alloy particles with oxygen concentrations of less than about 900 parts per million (ppm), which includes introducing a halide vapor of Ti or the metal constituents of the alloy at sonic velocity or greater into a stream of liquid alkali or liquid alkaline earth metal or mixtures thereof forming a reaction zone in which the halide is reduced by the liquid metal present in sufficient excess of stoichiometric such that Ti or Ti alloy powder from the reduction of the halide by the liquid metal is friable. After filtration and distillation excess liquid metal is removed from the Ti or Ti alloy powder that is then maintained at elevated temperature for a time sufficient to grow the particles to average diameters calculated from BET surface area measurement greater than about one micron. After cooling the Ti or Ti alloy powder to temperature of about 80° C. or less, the cooled Ti or Ti alloy powder is contacted with air and/or water to passivate the particles to produce friable metal powder and to remove other reaction products. A system for accomplishing the method is also shown.
US07753981B2
The present invention provides filter units that, when joined together, allow joining portions thereof to be fixed together satisfactorily and can prevent air from leaking at the joining portions. A filter unit includes a filter medium that has been pleated and a frame that supports the circumference of the filter medium. The frame has a protruding part on at least one face selected from an upper face and a lower face thereof, with the protruding part being formed by allowing a part of the at least one face to protrude. The upper face is a surface of the frame that faces the upstream side relative to the flow of air that passes through the filter medium, and the lower face is a surface of the frame that faces the downstream side relative to the flow of air.
US07753980B2
The present air cleaner includes: a cleaner case having a bottom wall, a circumferential side wall provided with an air inlet in its lower part, and a support wall formed on the bottom wall inside the circumferential side wall; and a cylindrical cleaner element supported on an upper end portion of the support wall. An air chamber is defined by the cleaner case, the support wall, and the cleaner element so as to surround the cleaner element and the support wall. A bottom of the cleaner element is inclined at an angle to the bottom wall of the cleaner case so that a distance between the bottom wall of the cleaner case and the bottom of the cleaner element increases from a side opposite to the air inlet toward an air inlet side.
US07753978B2
A filter for engine exhaust gases includes a housing coupled to an engine to receive engine exhaust gases, and a filter media which is located in the housing. The filter media includes a plurality of filter passages, and a plurality of particles of a transition metal deposited on at least a portion of the filter media. The size of the particles are approximately thirty nanometers or less.
US07753973B2
The process of the invention converts carbonaceous feedstock such as coal, hydrocarbon oil, natural gas, petroleum coke, oil shale, carbonaceous-containing waste oil, carbonaceous-containing medical waste, carbonaceous-containing military waste, carbonaceous-containing industrial waste, carbonaceous-containing medical waste, carbonaceous-containing sewage sludge and municipal solid waste, carbonaceous-containing agricultural waste, carbonaceous-containing biomass, biological and biochemical waste, and mixtures thereof into electrical energy without the production of unwanted greenhouse emissions. The process uses a steam/CO2 reformer operating in the exit range of at least 700° to about 1600° C. (1300-2900° F.) to convert the carbonaceous feedstock and a greenhouse gas stream into a synthesis gas comprising mostly carbon monoxide and hydrogen that contains poisons and the compounds that poison fuel cells. The syngas is sent to an interface zone to remove these poisons and other fouling compounds that are electrochemically oxidized in an electricity-producing fuel cell into an exit gas comprising carbon dioxide and water.
US07753969B2
A method of creating a multi-phase fuel wherein said fuel comprises a gas, a solid, a liquid solvent phase and an aqueous phase from animal waste comprising the combination of the animal waste, a solvent, and a water/alcohol solution into a fluid mixture, placing the mixture into a closed reactor, heating said reactor between about 245° C. and 385° C. for between about 5 and 70 minutes and cooling said resulting multi-phase fuel. The animal waste may be manure, mortalities, municipal waste, or chicken litter. The preferred solvent is petroleum with the preferred petroleum being diesel fuel. The final multi-phase fuel can be separated into four separate fuels: a solid fuel, an emulsified solid in the liquid solvent phase by blending the solid, the solvent and a surfactant, an aqueous phase, and the recovered liquid solvent phase. Petroleum is the preferred solvent and the separation may be any conventional means. The mixture preferably consists of 1 part by weight animal waste, about 1.5 parts by weight diesel and between about 0.11 to about 1.86 parts by weight a water/alcohol solution. The water/alcohol solution is between about 5% to about 85% alcohol before heating. Additionally, an alkali base may be added to increase waste solubility.
US07753965B2
A hair dye composition including a first part containing an alkaline agent and a second part containing an oxidizing agent, which are mixed together immediately before use, wherein at least one of the first part and the second part contains a diazacycloheptane represented by the following general formula (1) or a salt thereof, and the pH of the mixture is 7.5 to 12; wherein Z represents a hydroxy group, a primary amino group, or a C1 to C4 acyloxy group; R1 and R2 represent H or a C1 to C4 alkyl group which may be branched; and R3 represents H, a C1 to C6 alkyl or C1 to C6 alkoxy group which may be branched, or an aralkyl or aryl group, having a total of 12 or less carbon atoms, which may have been substituted by one or more C1 to C4 alkyl or alkoxy groups.
US07753963B2
Selectively demineralized bone-derived implants are provided. In one embodiment, a bone sheet for implantation includes a demineralized field surrounding mineralized regions. In another embodiment, a bone defect filler includes a demineralized cancellous bone section in a first geometry. The first geometry is compressible and dryable to a second geometry smaller than the first geometry, and the second geometry is expandable and rehydratable to a third geometry larger than the second geometry.
US07753955B2
This present invention describes methods and compositions useful for the reconstruction of various soft tissue features such as lips, areola, and many other features by taking a mold of the skin feature to be replaced, such as the areola, prior to surgical resection, re-creating the size and shape of the soft tissue feature, for example, the nipple and areola, and making a polymer or biopolymer scaffold that is biocompatible, has the ability to allow the epithelization of the skin cells over the polymer, the capability of cell integration into the body of the scaffold, as well as the capability of infiltration of surrounding nerve fibers into the substance of the scaffold, so that the patient may have the benefit of a reconstructed soft tissue feature that not only has the same size and shape and appearance as the native tissue, but also has functional sensation.
US07753953B1
An accommodating intraocular lens system for implantation in a capsular bag of an eye includes an optic component comprising first and second light-transmitting lens elements that define a fluid-filled deformation chamber located between the first and second lens elements. The first and/or second lens elements have an elastic membrane adapted to deform in response to a change in pressure. The elastic membrane includes a first portion having a first deformation response and a second portion having a different second deformation response. The system also includes a refractive fluid filling the deformation chamber and at least one haptic member coupled to the optic component. The haptic member is configured for changing a hydrostatic pressure in the deformation chamber in response to muscle movement in the eye in order to deform the elastic membrane of the first and/or second lens elements, thereby changing the shape and the refractive characteristics of the optic component.
US07753950B2
An apparatus and method is provided for stenting bifurcated vessels. A proximal angled stent is configured for implanting in a side-branch vessel wherein the proximal angled stent has an angulated portion that corresponds to the angle formed by the intersection of the side-branch vessel and the main vessel so that all portions of the side-branch vessel at the bifurcation are covered by the proximal angled stent. A main-vessel stent is provided for implanting in the main vessel, wherein the main-vessel stent has an aperture or stent cell that aligns with the opening to the side-branch vessel to permit unobstructed blood flow between the main vessel and the side-branch vessel. Side-branch and main-vessel catheter assemblies are advanced over a pair of guide wires for delivering, appropriately orienting, and implanting the proximal angled stent and the apertured stent.
US07753949B2
Valve prostheses are disclosed that are adapted for secure and aligned placement relative to a heart annulus. The valve prostheses may be placed in a non-invasive manner, e.g., via trans-catheter techniques, and may be positioned/repositioned until proper alignment and positioning is achieved. The valve prosthesis may include a resilient ring, a plurality of leaflet membranes mounted with respect to the resilient ring, and a plurality of positioning elements movably mounted with respect to the flexible ring, each of the positioning elements defining a first tissue engaging region and a second tissue engaging region spaced from the first tissue engaging region. The positioning elements are adapted to substantially completely invert by rotating relative to the resilient ring between a first position in which each of the first and second tissue engaging regions is inwardly directed for facilitating positioning of the valve prosthesis within a delivery catheter, and a second position in which each of the first and second tissue engaging regions is outwardly directed for engaging tissue. The valve prosthesis may also include a valve skirt mounted with respect to the resilient ring.
US07753945B2
The present invention is directed to a deployment system for an endoluminal device. The deployment system includes a confining sheath placed around a compacted endoluminal device. A deployment line is provided in the system that is an integral extension of the sheath. As the deployment line is actuated, the sheath retracts from around the compacted endoluminal device. As the sheath retracts from around the endoluminal device, material from the sheath may be converted into deployment line. Once the sheath is retracted from around the compacted endoluminal device, the endoluminal device expands in configuration and repairs vascular or cardiac structures of an implant recipient. Any remaining sheath material is removed from the implantation site along with the deployment line. The deployment system also includes an endo-prosthesis mounting member placed between the endoluminal device and an underlying catheter. The endo-prosthesis mounting member serves to cushion and retain the endoluminal device when constrained by the sheath and may assist in expansion of the endoluminal device when unconstrained by the sheath.
US07753939B2
A surgical implant assembly, and components thereof, are disclosed. Such assemblies include a connector device and an anchoring shaft. The assemblies are useful for insertion into bone and connecting a foreign object to bone via a polyaxial coupling mechanism.
US07753938B2
A device for treating spinal stenosis having an implant body structure sized and configured to be positioned between the spinous processes of two adjacent vertebrae. The device may have a body portion having a first end portion, a second end portion and a sleeve between the first and second end portions. The device may also have at least two retainers positioned in and extendable from the body portion. A mechanism positioned within the body portion may be used to move the retainers between a retracted position and a deployed position. When the retainers are in the deployed position, the retainers may be positioned around the spinous process of at least one of two adjacent vertebrae. A plurality of installation tools may be used to install the device.
US07753929B2
A method of treating a patient's sphenoid sinus having an obstructed or narrowed sphenoid ostium. A balloon of a balloon catheter is inflated in the obstructed or narrowed sphenoid ostium to enlarge the ostium. The ostium remains enlarged after the balloon catheter is removed.
US07753924B2
Devices, systems and methods facilitate positioning of a cardiac valve annulus treatment device, thus enhancing treatment of the annulus. Methods generally involve advancing an anchor delivery device through vasculature of the patient to a location in the heart for treating the valve annulus, contacting the anchor delivery device with a length of the valve annulus, delivering a plurality of coupled anchors from the anchor delivery device to secure the anchors to the annulus, and drawing the anchors together to circumferentially tighten the valve annulus. Devices generally include an elongate catheter having at least one tensioning member and at least one tensioning actuator for deforming a distal portion of the catheter to help it conform to a valve annulus. The catheter device may be used to navigate a subannular space below a mitral valve to facilitate positioning of an anchor delivery device.
US07753923B2
The methods, devices, and systems are provided for performing endovascular repair of atrioventricular and other cardiac valves in the heart. Regurgitation of an atrioventricular valve, particularly a mitral valve, can be repaired by modifying a tissue structure selected from the valve leaflets, the valve annulus, the valve chordae, and the papillary muscles. These structures may be modified by suturing, stapling, snaring, or shortening, using interventional tools which are introduced to a heart chamber. Preferably, the tissue structures will be temporarily modified prior to permanent modification. For example, opposed valve leaflets may be temporarily grasped and held into position prior to permanent attachment.
US07753921B2
Methods and apparatus for determining the orientation and the position of an object in space with the assistance of a sensing instrument are provided. The sensing instrument is provided with a marking element. The orientation and position of the marking element is determinable by means of the navigation system. In order to be able to carry out a reliable determination of the position, even under confined conditions of access, the sensing instrument is adapted to be successively connected in a guided manner to the object for free rotation about two non-parallel, defined axes of rotation. The sensing instrument can be rotated about these axes of rotation, and the orientation and the position of the two defined axes of rotation in space and hence the orientation and the position of the object in space can be calculated from the resulting movement of the marking element during this rotation.
US07753920B2
A surgical apparatus for cutting a tissue mass comprising an elongated housing having a distal portion, a rotatable shaft positioned in the elongated housing, and a plurality of flexible electrocautery cutting blades extending from the housing, wherein the plurality of cutting blades are radially expandable from a first position defining a first diameter to a second larger diameter and the blades are rotatable and transmit electrical energy to cut the tissue mass.
US07753918B2
A medical grasping device (1) has an elongate control member (9) with a grasping member (17) proximal to its distal tip. An outer sheath (3) with a passageway therethrough surrounds the elongate control member and is relatively movable with respect to the control member. A control assembly (2) disposed at a proximal end of said outer sheath has a fixed handle (5) and a sliding handle (7) and the proximal end of the elongate control member is fixed to the sliding handle to move the control member. The grasping member (17) has a plurality of pre-formed wire loops (50, 52, 54, 56) which self-deploy transversely upon emerging from said distal end of said outer sheath. Each wire loop is fastened to substantially opposite sides of the elongate control member so that each of said wire loops is substantially semi-circular upon full deployment and the respective ends (27, 29) of each wire loop extend substantially in opposite directions from the elongate control member.
US07753913B2
A device and method for targeting objects and specifically for locating intramedullary screw openings is described. The device and method include a target magnet and a sensor comprising an elliptical array of magnetoresistive elements, designed to give information on the three-dimensional orientation of the magnet. The sensor array is designed such that each magnetoresistive element is a member of an opposing pair and relays information on their alignment with the target magnet. The array is connected to a display such that the position of the sensor in relation to the target magnet is easily discerned. The invention is lightweight and portable, capable of operating on batteries and can be used in primitive situations where a stable supply of electricity is not available.
US07753912B2
An apparatus and method for distracting, in a given direction, and supporting two tissue surfaces is disclosed using a column of wafers. The column of wafers is oriented so as to expand in the given direction as the wafers are consecutively added to the column. A wafer insertion apparatus includes a wafer cartridge configured to carry a stack of wafers to be inserted into the space, a track assembly including a first track for carrying a wafer toward the space, a second track and means for preventing retrograde movement of a wafer within the first track, an advancer/pusher mechanism slidably disposed within the second track and operable on a wafer within the first track to advance the wafer along the first track, and an advancement gun operably coupled to the advancer/pusher mechanism to propel the mechanism along the second track.
US07753905B2
A cryogenic catheter includes an outer flexible member having at least one cryogenic fluid path through the flexible member. The at least one fluid path is defined by a plurality of flexible members disposed within the outer flexible member.
US07753896B2
An absorbent article having a silhouette including a first end, a second end, wherein the second end being in opposite relation to the first end, and a first longitudinally extending edge opposed to a second longitudinally extending edge, the first and second longitudinally extending edges connecting the first end and the second end; and a layered portion having a body-facing layer and a garment-facing layer, wherein the absorbent article is drapeable.
US07753894B2
An apparatus for cleansing wounds with means for stressing the wound bed and optionally tissue surrounding the wound, in which irrigant fluid from a reservoir connected to a conformable wound dressing and wound exudate from the dressing are recirculated by a device for moving fluid through a flow path which passes through the dressing and a means for fluid cleansing and back to the dressing. The cleansing means (which may be a single-phase, e.g. micro-filtration, system or a two-phase, e.g. dialytic system) removes materials deleterious to wound healing, and the cleansed fluid, still containing materials that are beneficial in promoting wound healing, is returned to the wound bed. The means for stressing the wound bed and optionally tissue surrounding the wound promotes wound healing. The dressing and a method of treatment using the apparatus.
US07753893B2
A drug solution injector for determining an accurate injection volume of a drug solution by weighing the drug solution reservoir with a weighing scale. A drug solution injector is provided with a weighing scale that is compact, does not disturb handling and enables an accurate determination of the injection volume of the drug solution. A drug solution injector includes a drug solution reservoir composed of a chamber for reserving a drug solution therein and pressurization mechanism for pushing out of the reserved drug solution. An injection line is connected to the reservoir to inject the drug solution to the body. The drug solution reservoir is fixedly provided with a weighing scale for measuring a weight of the drug solution stored in the drug solution reservoir.
US07753883B2
An administration feeding set for use with a flow control apparatus to deliver fluid from at least one fluid source to a patient. The set comprises tubing for flow of fluid along a fluid pathway, and a mounting member on the tubing for engaging the flow control apparatus. The fluid pathway extends linearly through the mounting member. The mounting member has at least two receiving portions, each adapted to receive an identification member. One or more identification members are selectively positioned on one or more of the receiving portions of the mounting member to permit identification of the administration set as having a particular functional configuration different from another functional configuration. Other embodiments, including a method of identifying an administration feeding set, are disclosed.
US07753881B2
An administration feeding set for use with a flow control apparatus to deliver fluid from at least one fluid source to a patient. The set includes tubing for flow of fluid along a fluid pathway and a mounting member on the tubing adapted to engage the flow control apparatus. The mounting member has at least two receiving portions co-axial with the fluid pathway. The set also includes one or more identification members selectively positioned on one or more of the at least two receiving portions of the mounting member to permit identification of the administration feeding set as having a particular functional configuration different from another functional configuration.
US07753877B2
A needle guard includes a clip with a canting wall to grip the needle shaft and a distal wall to block the tip thereof, wherein the canting and distal walls may be interconnected by an angled strut, a spring member, such as a leaf spring, may have a portion extending past an edge of the strut to bias the clip to grip the needle shaft, and the distal wall may be or include a stylus and have an L-shape to define a lip to help block the needle tip. The clip may have a depending heel to help pivot the clip about a ledge to grip the needle shaft. A needle support may be provided to limit flexure of the needle which might otherwise allow the needle to come loose from the clip. Arrangements for limiting rotation of the needle hub and needle guard housing are provided, as is a protective shroud to reduce the risk of inadvertent activation of the needle guard. Further, the needle guard may be used with a catheter assembly. Also provided is an improved duckbill release mechanism.
US07753872B2
A device, system and method for improving delivery of hemostatic material, in which the device includes a vent cap body capable of removably engaging a cannula. The vent cap has a passage extending through the vent cap body from the cannula to an exterior of the vent cap body where a restricter for restricting the flow of fluid from the cannula to the exterior. In one embodiment, the vent cap has a valve which has an opened and closed position. In the closed position, the valve is designed to provide a back pressure or resistance. When a certain force is applied against the valve, the valve moves from the closed position to the opened position, where a gas or fluid may pass through the vent cap. The vent cap is designed to help maintain the continuity of the hemostatic material during delivery of the material from the adaptor to the trial staging chamber.
US07753863B2
A limb stabilizing device includes a base, a first clamping member adjustably mounted to the base, and a second clamping member mounted in an opposed relationship with the first clamping member. The first clamping member includes a first adjustment mechanism that operates to allow the first clamping member to slide laterally along the base and to maintain the first and second clamping members in lateral alignment.
US07753862B2
The present invention is generally directed to apparatuses and methods for evaluating the amount of “play” in a joint. In one embodiment, an apparatus is provided that quantifies the rotation of the tibia in response to a known torque. The apparatus is configured to minimize the influence of other joints on the rotation analysis. Other embodiments provide data related to movement of the tibia in other degrees of freedom.
US07753861B1
A method for monitoring human activity using an inertial sensor includes monitoring accelerations from an inertial sensor disposed in a chest strap. The accelerations are processed to determine one or more acceleration statistics. The acceleration statistics are formatted to a generic format understandable by a plurality of devices. The formatted acceleration statistics are then transmitted.
US07753857B2
A biopsy device and method are provided for obtaining a tissue sample, such as a breast tissue biopsy sample. The biopsy device includes a disposable probe assembly with an outer cannula having a distal piercing tip, a cutter lumen, and a cutter tube that rotates and translates past a side aperture in the outer cannula to sever a tissue sample. The biopsy device also includes a reusable handpiece with an integral motor and power source to make a convenient, untethered control for use with ultrasonic imaging. The reusable handpiece incorporates a probe oscillation mode to assist when inserting the distal piercing tip into tissue. The motor also actuates an attached tape indexing mechanism in coordination with movement of the cutter tube to provide sequentially stored tissue samples in a replaceable serial stacking assembly.
US07753854B2
A technique is disclosed for determining blood flow in a living body by changing the thermal energy level in the venous blood flow path and determining temperatures in both the venous and arterial blood flow paths. Blood flow is calculated as a function of the change in energy level and the temperature differences in the venous and arterial blood flow paths.
US07753853B2
Left atrial access apparatus and methods are described herein. Different parameters, such as oxygen saturation difference, between the left and right atrial chambers is utilized to guide a needle or catheter into a desired position within the heart. Various sensing elements can be utilized to detect the physiological parameter difference, such as oxygen levels, in the left atrium. The sensor can be carried by the needle, at its tip or along its body, and can measure the physiological parameter levels contained in the blood, fluid, or tissue.
US07753849B2
A Doppler radar signal processing system and method and a Doppler radar employing the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) an input configured to receive at least one radar output signal representing a reflected Doppler radar signal, (2) signal processing circuitry coupled to the input and configured to produce an arc-length cardiopulmonary signal from the at least one radar output signal and employ a respiration fundamental frequency estimate to extract a heart rate signal from the arc-length cardiopulmonary signal and (3) an output coupled to the signal processing circuitry and configured to provide the heart rate signal.
US07753846B2
An apparatus for measuring skin moisture content, the apparatus including: an electrode unit comprising a reference (R) electrode, a current (C) electrode, and a measuring (M) electrode; an operational amplifier including an inverting input terminal that is supplied to a first voltage and connects with the R electrode, and an output terminal that connects with the C electrode; a switch controlling a connection between the output terminal and the C electrode; and a comparison control unit comparing the first voltage with a voltage at the output terminal, and controlling the switch to connect the output terminal and the C electrode when the voltage at the output terminal is less than or equal to a value that is acquired by multiplying the first voltage and a predetermined constant.
US07753843B2
Embodiments of the invention include a medical device for accessing a patient's body portion and used for diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions. Embodiments of the invention may include a particular endoscopic positioning mechanism for placing an endoscope and an additional treatment device within desired body portions in order to assist in diagnosis and treatment of anatomical diseases and disorders. In particular, a medical device according to an embodiment of the invention may include an outer flexible tube and a positioning mechanism configured for rotating one portion of the flexible tube relative to another portion of the flexible tube.
US07753840B2
A biomaterial useful for bioprostheses such as bioprosthetic heart valves is provided in which the fixed tissue has improved elastic properties. The high elastin-containing biomaterial is further characterized by having anisotropic properties wherein the biological material has a greater stiffness in one direction and a greater elasticity in a cross direction. For instance, the biological material has an elastin content of about 30% by weight. In one embodiment, the biological material is vena cava tissue.
US07753838B2
An implantable hearing aid transducer is provided that allows providing movement for stimulation purposes in at least first and second directions. This allows for moving an auditory component in a direction that may be substantially aligned with a natural direction of movement for the auditory component. In one arrangement, a middle ear transducer having an elongated vibratory member that extends into a patient's tympanic cavity is operative to move a tip of the vibratory member in at least first and second directions. A first direction may be along a long axis of the vibratory member while a second direction may be in a direction that is at least partially transverse to the long axis of the vibratory member. Further, the transducer may be positionable to provide alignment of the vibratory member such that the transverse direction of movement is substantially aligned with a direction of natural movement of a middle ear component (e.g. ossicles bone) to be stimulated.
US07753836B2
Systems and methods for providing controllable pulse parameter magnetic stimulation are described. One aspect is directed to a magnetic stimulation system for inducing approximately rectangular electric field pulses in a body organ, comprising an electrical energy storage device, a stimulating coil, and a switching means for electrically coupling said electrical energy storage device to said stimulating coil to produce current pulses in said stimulating coil which generates, in response to the current pulses, magnetic field pulses that can induce approximately rectangular electric field pulses in the body organ.
US07753833B2
Groove-type paper scoring apparatus according to the invention comprises a platform providing a planar rectangular work surface. On the platform are a series of transversely spaced shallow score channels extending longitudinally from one end of the platform to the other. Shallow boundary walls extend along the side edges and the distal end of the platform. The distal end wall of the platform is provided with spaced vertical notches each mating with an associated one of the series of score channels. A scale or ruler extends along each of the walls.
US07753832B2
A method and equipment for molding an article produced from paperboard or cardboard. Moulding is carried out by a molding tool that mechanically works the board; and to improve its moldability, momentary irradiation on the microwave frequency is exerted on the board. The method applies to the manufacture of packages and disposable containers made of paperboard or cardboard; for example, to the forming of a rolled-up or folded rim around a drinking cup, mug or a container, the forming of a stiffening crease or projection on a paperboard container, or to press molding of paperboard containers or plates.
US07753823B2
A brake regulating system for motor vehicles is provided having an electronic control unit, by which an automatic parking brake function is activatable at a standstill of the motor vehicle, whose deactivation is performed as a function of the instantaneous drive torque, is implemented in such a way that in the event of activated parking brake function, a deactivation of the parking brake function may be suppressed if, on the basis of a function executed at a standstill of the motor vehicle, an automatic increase of the drive torque which does not result from a starting command of the driver is necessary.
US07753819B2
An automatic transmission is provided having an input member, an output member, four planetary gear sets, a plurality of coupling members and a plurality of torque transmitting devices. Each of the planetary gear sets includes first, second and third members. The torque transmitting devices may include clutches and brakes.
US07753807B2
A hollow golf club head having a face portion, a crown portion, a sole portion, a side portion and a hosel portion comprises: a face component made of a titanium alloy and forming a major part of the face portion; a hosel-and-heel component made of a titanium alloy and forming a heel-side part of the sole portion and side portion and the hosel portion; and a rear component made of a magnesium alloy and forming a rear part of the head. The above-mentioned heel-side part of the sole portion formed by the hosel-and-heel component extends towards the toe of the head and intersects a vertical straight line passing through the center of gravity of the club head so as to form a major part of the sole portion.
US07753801B2
A joint assembly has a pair of constant velocity universal joints and a connecting drive shaft. A cover unit protects the constant velocity universal joints and prevents hanging down of the joints under their own weight. The unit cover is arranged to cover the outer circumferential surfaces of the pair of constant velocity universal joints and boots. The unit cover is formed from elastomer material by injection molding. The cover unit inner circumferential surface has a configuration corresponding to the outline configurations of the pair of constant velocity universal joints and the boots.
US07753800B2
An expandable shaft includes an outer shaft and an inner shaft. Plural rolling elements are pinched elastically in a space between raceway grooves of the outer shaft and the inner shaft. An outer peripheral surface of the inner shaft includes flat portions parallel to each other. An inner peripheral surface of the outer shaft includes flat limiting portions parallel to each other. The respective limiting portions limit relative rotation of the outer shaft and the inner shaft by engaging with corresponding flat portions. A deformation promoting portion is placed in a specific region of the outer shaft between a plane including a center of curvature of the raceway groove of the outer shaft as well as a central axis line of the outer shaft and each limiting portion.
US07753793B2
A method according to one embodiment of the present invention provides for: receiving a request for an automated session, in which the automated session comprises a plurality of games; initiating a first game of the automated session, the first game corresponding to a first gaming device; and initiating a second game of the automated session, the second game corresponding to a second gaming device.
US07753785B2
A game apparatus includes a CPU. The CPU generates a game image based on an image photographed by a virtual camera arranged in a game space, and displays the game image on a monitor connected to the game apparatus. A character location of a player character is used as a target location, for example, and the virtual camera is moved in such a manner that a location of a point-of-regard (point-of-regard location) of the virtual camera is brought close to this target location at a predetermined ratio. That is, the virtual camera follows the player character from behind after some delay.
US07753772B1
Systems and methods are provided to facilitate transactions. An indication associated with an item is received from a player, and a game event outcome associated with the player is determined. For example, a player may indicate that he or she is interested in receiving a free soft drink at a fast food restaurant, and a payout amount associated with the player's instant lottery ticket may be determined. It is then arranged for the player to receive the item based on information associated with the item and the game event outcome.
US07753765B2
An apparatus for providing convenience services to a stationary vehicle independent of the vehicle's electrical system. At least one conduit is attached to a housing for transferring the services to a supply panel. The supply panel includes a face on which the various controls and connectors associated with the supplied convenience services, such as heating, cooling, electrical power, compressed air, computer network communications, telephone, video, and television, are disposed. The supply panel is dimensioned to interface with the stationary vehicle through an opening in the vehicle, such as a window or service door, and includes means for providing a substantially airtight seal for climate control.
US07753760B2
A finishing device for finishing the exterior, flutes and tip of a drill bit is disclosed. The finishing device includes a containment vessel which houses an abrasive media which may have a visco-elastic component and an abrasive component. The drill bit is inserted into or through the abrasive media and rotated. A rotary member may be connected to the shank of the drill bit to provide rotation of the drill bit. The drill bit displaces the abrasive media thereby finishing the exterior, flutes, cutting edges and tip of the drill bit.
US07753756B2
An external positioning data linked radio controlled system and method for radio controlled vehicle (RCV) racing emulation including an infield RCV control device for receiving externally generated positional data from remote race vehicles on a remote race course, receiving locally input control signals from a user, an electronically reproduced racecourse map of the remote racecourse in a memory used to compute an electronic boundary for RCV devices, and error correction signals generated from feedback from an RCV. The infield RCV control device transmits wireless local control RCV signals containing RCV position, speed and direction data to each of a plurality RCVs responsive to the wireless local control RCV signals. The wireless local control RCV signals containing RCV position, speed and direction data based on processing the externally generated positional data, the locally input control signals, the electronically reproduced racecourse map, and error correction signals.
US07753755B2
A motorized toy vehicle or Wall Racer that is capable of operating on vertical and inverted horizontal surfaces such as walls and ceilings, while being manufacturable at reasonable cost and operable on batteries having sufficient lifetime as to be enjoyable. One or more battery-powered fans draw air from around all or defined portions of the periphery of the interior volume of the Wall Racer through a carefully-shaped duct, so that the air in the portion of the duct immediately adjacent the surface flows at high velocity and low pressure; the relatively greater pressure of the surrounding air urges the vehicle against the surface, allowing it to adhere to vertical surfaces, such as walls, or operated inverted on horizontal surfaces, such as ceilings.
US07753748B2
A control device for boats, particularly sailboats, includes a control member, which regulates the operating conditions of an operating unit such as a motor, and which can be moved along a predetermined path and for a predetermined range between two extreme stop positions. The device is configured to be coupled to a linkage or tie rod system and/or displacement and/or position electric/electronic sensors, such that a movement of the control member causes a corresponding movement of a member regulating the operating unit. The control member includes a handle extension movable between an actuating operative position, in which the handle extension is deployed, and a non-operative position, in which the extension is laid down and/or withdrawn to reduce overall dimensions.
US07753747B1
A boat hull includes a pair of spaced apart cavities formed in the bottom thereof. Mounted within each cavity is an electric trolling motor. An air purge system is provided for purging air from each cavity when the boat rests on a water surface. Additionally each cavity is closed at front and rear ends and is open from the bottom. The depth of each cavity varies from front to rear with a maximum depth occurring generally intermediately between the ends. In operation each trolling motor generates a propulsion stream of water that is directed generally rearedly and downwardly from the rear end of each cavity.
US07753741B2
An electrical interconnection system is described. The electrical interconnection system comprises a first contact and a second contact configured to electrically couple together. The system also comprises a receptacle assembly including a receptacle shell and a first retaining ring secured within the receptacle shell. The receptacle assembly is configured to couple the first contact to the receptacle shell. The system further comprises a plug assembly including a plug shell and a second retaining ring secured within the plug shell. The plug assembly is configured to couple the second contact to the plug shell. The receptacle shell and the plug shell are further configured to align the first contact and the second contact for coupling together.
US07753734B2
A terminal device has a housing of insulating material, the housing surrounding a portion of the cable end of a sleeve and having a flange directed towards a terminal receptacle. There is additionally provided an inner shield sleeve of conductive material arranged in the housing and surrounding the cable, the inner shield sleeve is connected conductively to a shield of the cable and which has a flanged contact zone directed towards the terminal receptacle. Fastening screws are used simultaneously to press the housing and the flanged contact zone, resting on the housing, of the inner shield sleeve axially against a shield housing of the terminal receptacle.
US07753732B2
A shield connector structure 1 includes a pair of connectors 2 and 6 that is capable of being fitted to each other and a conductive connector attachment portion 11. One connector 2 includes a terminal metal part 21, an insulating connector housing 22, and a conductive shield shell 23. The other connector 6 includes a terminal metal part 61, an insulating connector housing 62, and a conductive shield shell 63. The shield shell 23 is provided with a connection portion 49, and the shield shell 63 is provided with a connection portion 83. When the connectors 2 and 6 are fitted to each other so that the shield shells 23 and 63 are shield-connected to each other, each of the connection portions 49 and 83 is connected to the connector attachment portion 11 and the shield shells 23 and 63 are grounded.
US07753721B1
An electrical adapter with a replaceable plug structure includes an adapter housing and a plug mounting/dismounting structure mounted to the adapter housing. The plug mounting/dismounting structure includes a carrier, at least one set of contact plates, and at least one releasable fastening structure. The contact plates are in electrical connection with a circuit assembly accommodated in the adapter housing and are exposed on the carrier. The releasable fastening structure is mounted to the adapter housing and includes at least one pair of pushbuttons and at least one pawl section, which is set at a locked position when the pushbuttons are not depressed and is set at a released position when the pushbuttons are depressed in a predetermined operation direction. A plug structure is coupled to the carrier of the plug mounting/dismounting structure with a coupling surface thereof and the plug structure is selectively locked/released by operation of the pawl section.
US07753713B2
A consumer device interface assembly is provided that utilizes a male over-mold adapter that is operable to engage a conventional USB female shroud. A locking clip is associated with the male over-mold so as to provide locking engagement between the over-mold and the female adapter. The over-mold is universal thus allowing a host of consumer device interfaces to be used with the assembly.
