US07769214B2
Provided are fuzzy distance transform-based methods, and an algorithm therefor, for analyzing digital images defining a volumetric region of an object from a digital image comprising finding a set of points in the image to generate a fuzzy subset, and calculating the fuzzy distance transform (FDT) of the fuzzy subset. The methods deal with the extraction of object features from digital images acquired at low resolution, specifically, the measurement of structural thickness distribution along an object. Targeted applications comprise, but are not limited to, the measurement of trabecular bone thickness in magnetic resonance or computed tomography images. Also provided are systems and device for utilizing the disclosed methods and algorithm to extract the object features from the digital images.
US07769212B2
The present invention relates generally to human fingerprints. More specifically the present invention relates to assessing the quality of a fingerprint image. An assessment is made by analyzing characteristics of image sub-regions. For example, the characteristics may include statistics that are associated with a sub-region. If a sub-region is found to have unacceptable characteristics, it can be modified through a morphological operation to compensate for the unacceptable characteristics.
US07769210B2
In a biometric authentication device that includes biometric-authentication-data generating means for generating biometric authentication data from biometric data of a user, and authentication means for performing authentication of the biometric authentication data on the basis of reference biometric data of the user, a matching ratio of the reference biometric data and updated and registered second reference biometric data is calculated, and the user is requested to re-register the reference biometric data and the second reference biometric data when the matching ratio is lower than a predetermined threshold value.
US07769198B2
Presented herein are video decoding system(s), method(s), and apparatus for repeating a last line to a scalar or compositor or capture. A first parameter is provided to a first register indicating that a picture comprises a first number of lines, and a second parameter is provided to a second register, indicating that the picture comprises a second number of lines.
US07769196B2
A microphone shell includes a top wall and a side wall extending downwardly from peripheral area of the top wall. A receiving room is formed between the top wall and the side wall for containing a microphone soldered with a printed circuit board, and a through hole arranged on center of the top wall. Voice is transmitted only through the through hole and gathered in the receiving room of the microphone shell, and then received by the microphone. In addition the microphone receives no external noise because the microphone shell covers the microphone and obstructs the external noise. Therefore, the microphone shell not only gathers voice but also obstructs noise.
US07769194B2
An In The Ear (ITE) microphone improves the acoustic response of a Behind The Ear (BTE) Implantable Cochlear Stimulation (ICS) system during telephone use. The microphone includes means for adjusting the position of the microphone to receive sound waves through a port. An acoustic seal provided by holding a telephone earpiece against the ear provides improved coupling of low frequency (up to about 1 KHz) sound waves, sufficient to overcome losses due to the near field acoustic characteristics common to telephones. In an exemplary embodiment, the ITE microphone is connected to a removable ear hook of the BTE ICS system by a short bendable stalk.
US07769193B2
An electrostatic ultrasonic transducer that includes: a first electrode that is formed with a plurality of holes; a second electrode that is formed with a plurality of holes, and is used in pair with the first electrode; an oscillation film formed with a conductor layer that is sandwiched between the pair of electrodes, and the conductor layer is applied with a direct-current (DC) bias voltage; and a retention member that keeps hold of the pair of electrodes and the oscillation film. In the transducer, an alternating signal is applied between the pair of electrodes, and the pair of electrodes each have a thickness t of about (λ/4)·n (where λ denotes a wavelength of ultrasound, and n denotes a positive odd number).
US07769188B2
According to this invention, if noise generated by operation of a component such as a rotary drum of a recording/playback apparatus which operates periodically enters a microphone, noise waveforms can be extracted and reduced. Data obtained from microphones (6, 7) are converted into digital data by A/D converters (11, 12) and are supplied to a control microcomputer (5) and adders (15, 16). The control microcomputer (5) has a memory which stores input data for respective mechanical noise generation cycles. The microcomputer (5) calculates the average of inphase data in each cycle, thereby generating only data of noise components and storing the result in memories (13, 14). The adders (15, 16) output data without noise components by subtracting the inphase data stored in the memories (13, 14) from input current data.
US07769181B2
A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo signal on compact discs, FM radio, or other stereo or monaural delivery systems. The invention reduces the data rate needed for the transmission of multichannel digital audio.
US07769179B2
A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo signal on compact discs, FM radio, or other stereo or monaural delivery systems. The invention reduces the data rate needed for the transmission of multichannel digital audio.
US07769178B2
A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo signal on compact discs, FM radio, or other stereo or monaural delivery systems. The invention reduces the data rate needed for the transmission of multichannel digital audio.
US07769175B2
In one embodiment, a scheme is provided for securing a personalized indicium assigned to a mobile communications device. Upon detecting at a mobile communications device that one of a list of criteria have been met, a challenge-and-response procedure is initiated by the mobile communications device. During the challenge-and-response procedure, the mobile communications device and a network node will authenticate the personalized indicium using a shared authentication key.
US07769172B2
Methods and systems for downloading subscription data to a client system associated with a subscriber are provided. In one embodiment, these methods may include causing a pass-phase to be generated, with this pass phrase associating a unique identifier of a device of the client system with the subscriber. These methods may also include encrypting the subscription data based at least in part on the generated pass-phase, such that the subscription data is uniquely associated with both the device of the client system and with the subscriber. In addition, when the device is changed, the subscription data is no longer able to be decrypted, and when the subscriber is changed, the subscription data is no longer able to be decrypted. These methods may further include transmitting the encrypted subscription data to the client system.
US07769162B2
In an electronic device having an acoustic echo canceller and being capable of implementing audio applications and at least one of a conferencing application and a telephony application, there is provided a background training method for the acoustic echo canceller. The method includes the step of utilizing sound that corresponds to a non-training audio application to train the acoustic echo canceller.
US07769159B1
A call is established between a circuit-switched network element and a packet-switched network element. A first call record is generated to record the circuit switched network element's involvement in the call, and a second call record is generated to record the packet-switched network element's involvement in the call. The first and second call records include the same call identification information to identify the call. The call identification information may include an internetwork call identifier, an identification of a carrier or service provider associated with the call, and other information that, in combination, uniquely identifies the call. The first and second call records are stored, e.g., in a centralized call record repository. Call records for a given call can be retrieved based on the call identification information for the given call.
US07769158B2
A telecommunication switch for operating in a CS-2 intelligent network architecture. The telecommunication switch comprises: 1) integrated service logic (ISL) objects that perform requested services; and 2) a service control function access manager object that receives a first service request and determines if one of the ISL objects can perform a first requested service associated with the first service request. The service control function access manager object, in response to a determination that none of the ISL objects is capable of performing the first requested service, transmits the first service request to a service control function object external to the telecommunication switch. The service control function access manager object, in response to a determination that a first one of the ISL objects is capable of performing the first requested service, causes the first ISL object to perform the first requested service.
US07769151B2
The present invention discloses a system and method for implementing prepaid data services in a mobile communication network. In this system, a Data service Access Control Point (DACP), which is used for fulfilling price confirmation function and fee application function for data services, is added between a Service Control Point (SCP) storing prepaid account information of subscribers and a Prepaid Server/Content of Process Gateway (PPS/CP GW) used for data service charging. In the method of the present invention, by means of the interaction among a Packet Data Service Note (PDSN), a Home Authentication Authorization and Accounting (HAAA) server, the PPS/CP GW, the DACP and the SCP, the SCP deducts the fees from the prepaid account, and the PDSN controls the subscriber to utilize data service according to the fees deducted by the SCP. With the present invention, the subscriber can make prepayment for a data service by a prepaid voice account, which facilitates data service extension of mobile network operators and provides convenient data services for the subscribers.
US07769150B2
A device includes a facsimile circuit, a voltage detector, an open-circuit voltage detector, and a telephone status monitoring unit. If a first voltage difference is less than a predetermined voltage difference, the monitoring unit judges that the public line is released if a second voltage difference is less than the predetermined difference, and that the public line is closed if the second difference is not less than the predetermined difference. If, when the facsimile circuit has released the public line, the first difference is not less than the predetermined difference, the monitoring unit judges that the public line is released if the second difference is less than the predetermined difference or if the detected line voltage equals the open-circuit voltage, and that the public line is closed if the second difference is not less than the predetermined difference and if the detected line voltage is different from the open-circuit voltage.
US07769148B2
An apparatus and method are disclosed that enable an interactive voice response (IVR) system to select, tailor, and deliver a “filler” content stream to a calling telecommunications terminal during a delay in a call (e.g., when performing automated speech recognition, retrieving other content, etc.). The delivery of the filler content can reduce the chance that the caller terminates the call prematurely, and can also be used to provide information to the caller, advertise new products, etc. The filler content can be based on one or more of the following: the date and time, the identity of the caller, a prior call to the IVR system, the type of the calling telecommunications terminal, and a content stream that the IVR system is in the process of retrieving.
US07769146B1
A method and system for automatically connecting a calling party with a called party when the called party is leaving a message for the calling party. When first person is attempting to call a second person at the same time as the second person is leaving a voice mail message for the first person, a network system will determine that the second person is leaving the voice mail message for the first person and will responsively engage in call control signaling to disconnect the second person from the voice mail server and to instead set up a call between the first person and the second person. Once the call is set up between the first person and the second person, the first person and the second person may then conveniently talk with each other.
US07769144B2
When an electronic message with a voicemail attachment is received, an audio player object and a reply by chat object are displayed simultaneously along with the electronic message. A reply to the electronic message, whether by chat or by email, is associated with the same thread as the electronic message. The electronic message with the voicemail attachment is associated with a conversation thread that may also include chat messages and email messages. In a conversation view of a respective conversation thread, representations of an electronic voicemail message (an electronic message having a voicemail attachment), one or more chat messages and one or more email messages may be displayed simultaneously.
US07769142B2
Asynchronous voice messaging is employed to enable individuals to send voice clips back and forth over a network. In at least some embodiments, the voice clips reside in the form of discrete, manageable objects that can be easily managed by the user. In addition, some embodiments described provide hand-free/eyes-free functionality that can permit a user to create and send (or receive and play) a voice message without having to physically enter an intended recipient's address or otherwise digitally manipulate the device over which the message is sent or received.
US07769139B2
An energy beam is irradiated onto a rotating anticathode so as to heat a portion irradiated by the energy beam under the condition that a vapor pressure at equilibrium state of the portion is set to 0.1 Torr or more, thereby generating an X-ray. The portion irradiated by the energy beam is kept at the rotating anticathode by a centrifugal force to the portion it a direction outward from a surface of the portion.
US07769129B2
An X-ray computed tomography apparatus includes an X-ray tube (101) which generates X-rays, a multi-channel X-ray detector (103) which detects X-rays transmitted through an object to be examined, a rotating frame (102) which is equipped with the X-ray tube and the X-ray detector, a reconstruction unit (114) which reconstructs an image on the basis of an output from the X-ray detector, and a control unit (121) which alternately shifts the X-ray focal spot of the X-ray tube along the rotating direction on the anode by a distance +σ and a distance −σ for each view. The distance σ is set to σ = S O D · tan ( Δ β 2 ) where SOD is the distance between the X-ray tube and the rotation center, and Δβ is the angle difference between adjacent views, such that X-ray focal spots in the adjacent views overlap each other at almost the same position.
US07769121B2
In one embodiment, a phase error signal generated by a phase detector is equalized to compensate for the distortion in the phase error signal due to finite circuit speeds. The equalization may be based on suppressing the low frequency components of the phase error signal. For example, the amplitude of the phase error signal may be reduced when the amplitude of the phase error signal is not changing.
US07769120B2
Methods and apparatuses for dynamically adjusting sync windows are described. A default sync window is set; a data signal is input; detecting if parts of the data signal within the sync window form a sync pattern; accumulating a count of the sync pattern within and without the sync window; and reducing the sync window when the count of sync pattern within the sync window achieves a first threshold value, and increasing the sync window when the count of the sync pattern outside the sync window achieves a second threshold value.
US07769119B2
The present method of initial synchronization of a communication signal includes the steps of symbol boundary search, fractional frequency offset estimation, fractional frequency offset compensation, frame boundary search, integer frequency offset estimation, integer frequency offset compensation, preamble segment ID search and preamble cell ID search. The symbol boundary search includes estimating the boundary of a present data symbol by a correlation index for the present data symbol and the correlation index for the next data symbol. The frame boundary search includes identifying the preamble symbol in the symbols found in the symbol boundary search to determine the frame boundary. The integer frequency offset estimation is derived from the pilot subcarriers of the frame control header of the frame after locating the preamble symbol.
US07769118B2
The present invention is related to a method and apparatus for blindly equalizing received signals in the time domain based on independent component analysis (ICA). Received signals are demodulated and over-sampled by a rate at least twice the symbol rate to populate a mixing matrix. The received signal samples are cast into the form of a signal separation problem as represented by the multiplication of the mixing matrix with the transmitted symbols such that the unknowns can be solved by ICA. Applying ICA to the received signal samples provides a de-mixing matrix which can be multiplied by the received signal samples to estimate the transmitted symbol sequence. The proposed ICA-based equalization method simultaneously corrects other transmission imperfections, such as DC-offset, carrier phase offset and in-phase and quadrature imbalance, all in the time domain. As an alternative to over-sampling, multiple copies of the received signals are received via a plurality of antennas.
US07769114B2
In a receiver set, a shared receiver receives a signal formed according to one of various modulation or communication systems to output a received signal. A signal intensity detector detects the electric power value, or absolute value of the amplitude, of the received signal to output a detected signal. A determiner compares the magnitude of the detected signal with threshold voltages, and generates control signals to output them to switches. The switches are operated in response to the respective control signals fed to the switches so that the received signal is selectively fed to demodulators. The demodulators demodulate the received signal according to a receiving system corresponding to the modulation or transmission systems to output demodulated signals.
US07769113B2
In order to execute, as a function of a received signal (r), a procedure of channel estimation in a transmission channel with memory in a telecommunications system, there is envisaged an operation of estimation of a delay spread associated to said channel, said operation of estimation comprising calculation of a root mean square value (τrms) of delay spread by means of a step of evaluation of crossings with a threshold level of a quantity associated to a transfer function of said channel. Said step of evaluation of crossings comprises evaluating a mean number of crossings (λ0) of the real and imaginary parts of said channel transfer function with a threshold level corresponding to the zero level. Example application is to OFDM telecommunications systems and in particular wireless systems according to the IEEE 802.11a WLAN standard or the HyperlanII WLAN standard.
US07769108B1
A moderate cost and complexity digital radio receiver system having enhanced instantaneous dynamic range response to the receipt of simultaneous signals and also providing large single signal dynamic range. Multiple signal instantaneous dynamic range improvement is achieved through use of a suppressed zero signal amplitude representation arrangement having a selected number of signal amplitude representing digital bits rather than the larger entire array of digital output bits of the receiver system's analog to digital converter. Digital apparatus for accomplishing the selection of desired high order bits from the analog to digital converter output is also disclosed in detail. Use of a “Monobit” and related simplified Fourier transformation radio receivers as disclosed in identified previous patents of the recited inventors and colleagues is preferred for embodying the digital radio receiver circuit included in a present system.
US07769106B2
In a receiver architecture, for example for use in receiving pulses in an Ultra Wideband system, a received signal is applied to a mixer, together with pulses which correspond to expected received pulses. The mixer output is applied to a block, which can be configured either as an integrator or as a filter. When no pulses are being received, this block is configured as a filter, allowing it to lock quickly to any new sequence of pulses, while, when the system has locked to a sequence of pulses, the block is configured as an integrator, so that an improved signal-noise ratio can be achieved.
US07769099B2
The invention relates to techniques for implementing high-speed precoders, such as Tomlinson-Harashima (TH) precoders. In one aspect of the invention, look-ahead techniques are utilized to pipeline a TH precoder, resulting in a high-speed TH precoder. These techniques may be applied to pipeline various types of TH precoders, such as Finite Impulse Response (FIR) precoders and Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) precoders. In another aspect of the invention, parallel processing multiple non-pipelined TH precoders results in a high-speed parallel TH precoder design. Utilization of high-speed TH precoders may enable network providers to for example, operate 10 Gigabit Ethernet with copper cable rather than fiber optic cable.
US07769096B2
A quadrature-multiplexed continuous phase modulation (QM-CPM) signal is made up of the real parts of two underlying CPM signals whose information content can be recovered from just their real parts. The real parts of two such signals are I/Q multiplexed and transmitted onto a single channel to approximately double the bits/Hz of the underlying CPM signals, while maintaining the same or similar minimum distance. A class of QM-CPFSK (QM-continuous phase frequency shift keyed) signals are presented that use binary signaling but more phase states, and M2-ary QM-CPFSK signals are derived from constant envelope M-ary CPFSK signals. M2-ary multi-amplitude CPFSK signaling schemes are constructed that maintain the same distance as known multi-amplitude CPFSK schemes, but more than double the bandwidth efficiency in bits/Hz. In addition to these CPFSK based embodiments, embodiments are provided that more generally use CPM, non-continuous phase modulated signals, and even trellis-based PAM based signals.
US07769092B2
Disclosed are ultra wideband radio transmitter, ultra wideband radio receiver, and ultra wideband radio communication method capable of securing higher transfer rate and communication quality than conventional ones while avoiding a band where communication signals are concentrated, and capable of miniaturizing an antenna. In a transmitter, a delay time controller (12) outputs a periodic pulse to matched filters 11-1 and 11-2 when transmission data is 1, and outputs the periodic pulse to matched filters 11-1 and 11-3 when the transmission data is 0. The matched filter 11-1 outputs reference signal, the matched filter 11-2 outputs first data signal ahead of the reference signal, and the matched filter 11-3 outputs second data signal behind the reference signal. An adder (13) adds up these, a mixer (21) frequency-converts output of the adder using a local signal received from a local oscillator (23), and an antenna (6) radiates output of the mixer (21).
US07769085B2
The present invention provides an image data processing method of recording image data coded with the MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) technique to a recording medium. For transition of the bit occupancy in a VBV buffer to a target value, the initial value of a bit occupancy in a VBV buffer is calculated on the basis of auxiliary data read from a recording medium, a comparison is made between the target and initial values of the bit occupancy, and the number of bits for assignment to each GOP of to-be-coded image data correspondingly to the result of comparison.
US07769084B1
Method For Implementing A Quantizer In A Multimedia Compression And Encoding System is disclosed. In the Quantizer system of the present invention, several new quantization ideas are disclosed. In one embodiment, adjacent macroblocks are grouped together into macroblock groups. The macroblock groups are then assigned a common quantizer value. The common quantizer value may be selected based upon how the macroblocks are encoded, the type of macroblocks within the macroblock group (intra-blocks or inter-blocks), the history of the motion vectors associated with the macroblocks in the macroblock group, the residuals of the macroblocks in the macroblock group, and the energy of the macroblocks in the macroblock group. The quantizer value may be adjusted in a manner that is dependent on the current quantizer value. Specifically, if the quantizer value is at the low end of the quantizer scale, then only small adjustments are made. If the quantizer value is at the high end then larger adjustments may be made to the quantizer. Finally, in one embodiment, the quantizer is implemented along with an inverse quantizer for efficient operation.
US07769078B2
Channel and correlation characteristics are determined for a composite signal. Respective combining weights for information from the composite signal are determined for respective ones of a plurality of candidate delays based on the determined channel and correlation characteristics. A group of delays, e.g., RAKE correlator delays or chip equalizer filter taps, is selected from the plurality of candidate delays based on the determined weights. Information from the composite signal for the selected delays is processed according to a spreading code to generate a symbol estimate. The invention may be embodied as methods, apparatus and computer program products.
US07769073B2
The wireless coverage of a wireless telecommunications network is divided into a plurality of cells, and each cell is further divided into an alpha sector, a beta sector, and a gamma sector. The alpha sectors are provided with a first frequency assignment that includes a first frequency band and a second frequency band. The beta sectors are provided with a second frequency assignment that includes the first frequency band and a third frequency band. The gamma sectors are provided with a third frequency assignment that includes the first frequency band and a fourth frequency band. The second and third frequency bands partially overlap in frequency. The third and fourth frequency bands also partially overlap in frequency. By using overlapping frequency bands, the benefits of hybrid frequency reuse may be achieved in a more spectrally efficient manner.
US07769068B2
A system to increase the brightness of, and control gaps in, the light from an external cavity, spectrally narrowed, stack of diode laser bars employing a stepped mirror and transparent plates in the external cavity.
US07769055B2
The invention concerns a method of transmitting, via a sending device, a data stream made up of data packets, at least some of these packets including time references for synchronizing the clocks of the sender and the receiver. The method includes at least a correction of the time references by the sender so as the receiver can offset the jitter introduced by the transmission. The invention is used to offset these losses of accuracy. The invention concerns also the device and corresponding receiver and reception method.
US07769054B2
A wireless LAN can be used to support audio communication sessions between wireless communication devices and wired communication devices both configured to operate according to the Internet Protocol. Both the wired and wireless communication devices generate and transmit frames of voice information over the LAN to each other and in the process of generating these frames they place a timestamp in each frame that is used by a receiving communications device to determine when the frame should be played in relationship to all of the other frames of voice information it receives. At times these communication devices can place incorrect timestamp values in the frames of audio information which can affect the quality of the communication experience for a user. I propose to correct any incorrect timestamp values by first recognizing that a timestamp value is incorrect and then rounding the value to the nearest frame boundary.
US07769053B2
In a data multiplexing device which multiplexes and transmits the transport stream packets of program data consisting of a plurality of data elements constructed in the form of transport stream packets, a program distribution system, a program transmission system, a pay broadcast system, a program transmission method, a conditional access system, and a data reception device according to the present invention, by generating a scramble key Ks corresponding to one or more data elements among the plurality of data elements constituting a program and by scrambling each data element, an audience can subscribe for each data element.
US07769046B1
According to specific embodiments of the present invention, a standardized interface is provided for enabling controlled communication between MAC and PHY devices of an access network. In one embodiment, a vendor independent interface is described which may be implemented between a DOCSIS MAC layer and a DOCSIS PHY layer of a DOCSIS enabled data network, in order to enable any DOCSIS MAC and DOCSIS PHY devices (which may be from different vendors) to communicate with each other. Using the standardized interface, component manufacturers are able to combine different MAC and PHY devices from different vendors, thereby facilitating price and value competition between vendors. The standardized interface technique of the present invention may be extensible in ways which allow multiple PHY devices to share the same interface. Further, the interface technique of the present invention may be applied to a variety of different shared-access networks which use at least one shared access communication channel to communicate between a plurality of nodes in the network and a Head End of the network.
US07769045B2
A method (200) and an apparatus (500) in a packet switched data transfer system for processing header bits and payload bits in a frame of bits are disclosed. The header bits are classified into a first predetermined class of bits and into a second predetermined class of bits (204), the payload bits are classified into the first predetermined class of bits and into the second predetermined class of bits (206), the first predetermined class of bits are processed in accordance with a first predetermined mechanism (208), and the second predetermined class of bits are processed in accordance with a second predetermined mechanism (210).
US07769043B2
A method of shaping data packet transmissions by nodes in a wireless network is presented. Each node sets a maximum limit for MAC service data unit size based on data rate so that maximum transmission times for data packet transmissions by all of the nodes are approximately the same.
US07769033B2
A radio bridging device is used for a communications network. If a source host transmits a communications request directed to a destination host, the radio bridging device records an IP address and a MAC address of the source host and an IP address of the destination host in a local table. A state of the source host is set as “LOCAL” if the source host belongs to a segment where the radio bridging device belongs, and set as “AIR” if otherwise. Further, a state of the destination host is set as “SEARCH”, and an ARP request directed to the destination host is broadcast. If an ARP response is received from the destination host, the state of the destination host is changed from “SEARCH” to “LOCAL” or “AIR” to be recorded in the local table together with a MAC address of the destination address.
US07769027B2
Method of managing priority during the transmission of a message, in an interconnections network comprising at least one transmission agent which comprises at least one input and at least one output, each input comprising a means of storage organized as a queue of messages. A message priority is assigned during the creation of the message, and a queue priority equal to the maximum of the priorities of the messages of the queue is assigned to at least one queue of messages of an input. A link priority is assigned to a link linking an output of a first transmission agent to an input of a second transmission agent, equal to the maximum of the priorities of the queues of messages of the inputs of said first agent comprising a first message destined for that output of said first agent which is coupled to said link, and the priority of the link is transmitted to that input of said second agent which is coupled to the link.
US07769026B2
Scheduling of packets is performed by a scheduler based on departure times. If wrap up of departure times is possible, departure times are transposed based on a zone associated with the last departure time. By using the zone to transpose in order to sort departure times, cycles of independent checks on each of the departure times are avoided.
US07769019B2
The present invention provides an efficient system and method for routing information through a dynamic network. The system includes at least one ingress point and one egress point. The ingress and egress point cooperate to form a virtual circuit for routing packets to destination subnets directly reachable by the egress point. The egress point automatically discovers which subnets are directly accessible via its local ports and summarizes this information for the ingress point. The ingress point receives this information, compiles it into a routing table, and verifies that those subnets are best accessed by the egress point. Verification is accomplished by sending probe packets to select addresses on the subnet. Additionally, the egress point may continue to monitor the local topology and incrementally update the information to the ingress to allow the ingress to adjust its compiled routing table.
US07769016B1
A system receives data in multiple streams from an upstream device. The system temporarily stores the data in a first buffer and asserts a forward flow control signal when a capacity of the first buffer exceeds a first threshold value. The system reads the data from the first buffer and selectively processes the data based on the forward flow control signal. The system temporarily stores the selectively processed data in a number of second buffers, generates a backward flow control signal when a capacity of one of the second buffers exceeds a second threshold value, and sends the backward flow control signal to the upstream device.
US07769012B2
To provide a stable high speed wireless network, the relay process is solved at the lower layers (PHY layer, MAC layer) without depending on upper layers to reduce the load of the upper layers to the utmost. Discrimination is made between a packet of one's own station and a relay packet to process the presence and absence of the relay packet without using a CPU to construct a wireless network executing the relay processing at a high speed. Further, the retransmission is executed without using a CPU to provide a stable wireless network. In addition, the table for relay process (routing table) is constantly updated to add to the table the information of the packets of which processes are not executed to eventually suppress unnecessary processes.
US07769010B2
A retransmission correction performed by counting means provided in a controlling radio network controller (RNC) within a radio access network in the counting of multimedia service joined mobile terminals located in a cell for a PTP/PTM transmission decision, in the case of a repetition of a multimedia service session. The retransmission correction uses an estimated number of the mobile terminals having received a previous transmission of said multimedia service session from any radio network controller.
US07769000B2
In one embodiment, a scheme is disclosed for managing call routing in a network environment including a circuit-switched (CS) network and an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) network. When a call is originated by a user equipment (UE) device in the CS network, call information associated with the call is provided to a call continuity control function (CCCF) network node disposed in the IMS network. At the CCCF node, a pool of E.164 numbers are maintained as IP multimedia routing numbers (IMRNs) which are mapped to or otherwise associated with called party numbers. The CCCF node dynamically allocates a select IMRN with respect to a called party number received from the UE device and returns it to the UE device. The dynamically allocated IMRN is then utilized for routing the call towards the called party.
US07768996B1
A method for re-querying for routing information is disclosed. The method transmits an initial admission query to a gatekeeper or a request for routing information and receives an admission confirmation or routing information response with a destination address. The method then tries to establish a connection with the destination address. Upon reception of a call failure message including a failure cause, the method, optionally, increments a counter and transmits a re-query to the gatekeeper or other routing entity, and the re-query includes the failure cause and, optionally, a value of the query counter.
US07768970B2
A method and apparatus for controlling video data in a wireless terminal having a normal video communication mode and a video mute mode is provided. The wireless terminal can be switched to the video mute mode if a user selects the video mute mode during normal video communication mode, thereby enabling video data preselected by the user to be presented on the terminal's display and transmitted to a distant party. The terminal can also display and transmit preselected video data if no video data is received from a distant party within a given time.
US07768963B2
Systems and methods of improving sampling of WLAN packet information to improve estimates of Doppler frequency of a WLAN positioning device. A device estimates the position of itself. The device includes a WLAN radio module for receiving WLAN signals transmitted by WLAN APs in range of said device, extraction logic for extracting information from said received WLAN signals to identify the WLAN APs, and logic to cooperate with a WLAN-based positioning system to estimate the position of the device based at least in part on the extracted information identifying the WLAN APs in the range of said device. The WLAN radio module includes logic for measuring multiple received signal strength indicator (RSSI) values for sufficiently long WLAN packets to increase the sampled rate of RSSI of WLAN packets from WLAN APs and to thereby improve an estimate of the Doppler frequency of said device.
US07768961B2
A method and apparatus for reliably transmitting data by transmitting a plurality of radio link control (RLC) unacknowledged mode (UM) protocol data units (PDUs) over at least one primary channel and at least one auxiliary channel. If at least one RLC UM PDU is missing from the data transmitted over the primary channel, the missing RLC UM PDU is obtained from the auxiliary channel after a predetermined delay. A service data unit (SDU) is completed by combining PDUs received over the primary channel with at least one missing PDU received over the auxiliary channel. The SDU is sent to an application layer. If the missing PDU cannot be obtained before a predetermined time period expires, the transmitted data is deleted. The RLC UM PDUs may be used for streaming multicast applications.
US07768959B1
A method, apparatus, and computer-readable media for a wireless network device for communicating with a network comprises a memory to store an image comprising a plurality of virtual machines and only one multi-tasking operating system, wherein each of the virtual machines comprises a wireless network application to execute on the multi-tasking operating system; a processor to execute the virtual machines; and a port comprising a physical-layer device to communicate with the network, and a media access controller to communicate with the physical-layer device and the processor.
US07768956B2
A method for the optimization of the payload of a multispot telecommunication satellite is disclosed. This type of satellite allows the use of several antenna spots on board the satellite to cover contiguous geographical zones, instead of a single broad spot. The method uses the division of an amplification unit such as a travelling wave tube TWTA between several spots.
US07768955B2
A wireless Internet service access method and apparatus thereof is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method eliminates the complexity to access the corresponding site and allows for a mobile terminal to directly access the corresponding site with the use of a special code such as a number or character.
US07768954B2
A communication device is arranged to delay a procedure for joining a network until it detects activity on the network, for example until the communication device is within range of network. In response to a positive detection of network activity, the communication device broadcasts its address to other communication devices already connected to the network. In response, a message containing a list of addresses of the other communication devices is sent by a selected one of the other communication device, for example, the one communication device that most recently joined the network. Each communication device is arranged to send a message once, so that only one message containing the address is sent to a communication device joining the network. If no network activity is detected, the communication device may continue to broadcast its address periodically at gradually increasing time intervals.
US07768941B1
A VPN server on a radio access network may initiate a virtual private network (VPN) over a shared network, e.g., Internet, on behalf of a wireless terminal. The VPN may span the shared network, but not span the radio access network. As a result, the radio access network may be able to analyze and manipulate data sent by the wireless terminal. Additionally, the VPN may securely transport the data through the shared network.
US07768939B1
Techniques are described in which a network device waits differing amounts of time for different network sockets before beginning processes to determine whether respective network connections from the network sockets have failed. An intermediate device may create a network socket for a network connection having a keep-alive wait time option set to a keep-alive wait time associated with a class of the network connection. If an amount of time specified by the keep-alive option of the socket passes after a last successful communication on the network connection, the socket may begin a process to determine whether the network connection has failed. If the intermediate device determines that the network connection has failed, the intermediate device may terminate the connection to free resources on the intermediate device allocated to the network connection.
US07768938B2
Systems and methods are described for providing a plurality of communication services over existing access lines such as twisted pair access lines. These services include voice, audio/video, and data communication services, the so-called “triple play” of services. The use of existing communication lines enables these services to be provided at a relatively low cost. Remote terminals are located close to subscriber premises to reduce the length of the existing communication lines connecting subscribers to the network. Data associated with a plurality of communication services may be statistically multiplexed onto the communication lines. Subscribers are provided with the capability to dynamically select services, including the capability to select audio/video signals from a set containing audio/video broadcast signals. The systems and methods enable data to be transported efficiently through the backbone network interconnecting central offices. Capabilities comparable to the capabilities of coaxial cable systems are provided at a lower cost than alternative approaches, such as running fiber all the way to the subscriber premises.
US07768936B2
A system and method are disclosed for transporting deterministic traffic in a gigabit passive optical network. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an Optical Line Termination (OLT) for exchanging data traffic in a Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) having a controller programmed to generate a timeslot schedule for transport of a desired bandwidth of constant bit rate (CBR) data traffic by selecting one or more timeslots from periodic frame clusters operating according to a GPON Transmission Convergence (GTC) protocol. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US07768917B2
In the present invention, a service network includes, when user terminals are divided by area, subscriber accommodation nodes that accommodate the user terminals present in the respective areas and relay nodes that perform relay of information among the subscriber accommodation nodes. The congestion control system further includes an edge router that routes a processing request for a communication service received from each of the user terminals to each of the subscriber accommodation nodes on the service network side as a control message and a congestion control server that controls congestion states of the subscriber accommodation nodes and the relay nodes. The subscriber accommodation node detects, when congestion occurs or it is likely that congestion occurs in the subscriber accommodation node because of a large number of control messages from the edge router, the occurrence of the congestion or the likelihood of occurrence of congestion and notifies the congestion control server to that effect. The congestion control server transmits a congestion control message for regulation to the edge router that routes the control message to the subscriber accommodation node, in which the congestion or the likelihood of occurrence of congestion has occurred, to thereby regulate an operation for routing the control message to the subscriber accommodation node, in which the congestion or the likelihood of occurrence of congestion has occurred, from the edge router.
US07768903B2
The present invention relates to allocating a radio resource in a wireless communication system utilizing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). Preferably, the present invention comprises receiving in a mobile station data associated with a radio resource allocation map from a base station, wherein the radio allocation map comprises control parameters for transmitting an uplink channel, wherein the uplink channel comprises at least one OFDM tile comprising a first set of subcarriers associated with representing at least part of an n-bit data payload, and a second set of subcarriers associated with representing at least part of a non-pilot m-bit data payload wherein each subcarrier carries a modulated data, and the first and the second set of subcarriers are exclusive to each other, and transmitting the uplink channel from the mobile station to the base station.
US07768888B2
An optical disk apparatus which can promptly restart reproduction and recording by using a preceding discrimination result of a disk kind without using a memory. A mechanism for correcting an aberration is constructed by an expander lens for the aberration correction and a self-holding element as a moving mechanism of the expander lens. A detector for detecting a position of the expander lens is provided. By detecting a correcting position of the expander lens, the kind of disk to which the reproduction and recording have previously been executed can be discriminated.
US07768884B2
A dropout detection device, a disk reproduction apparatus, and a dropout detection method for detecting the occurrence of a dropout are provided. A low-pass filter outputs, as a signal LFENV, a low-frequency component of an envelope signal ENV generated by an envelope generation circuit, which represents an upper envelope of a first RF signal RF1 input from an RF amplifier unit. An adder adds a shift amount SH to the envelope signal ENV, and outputs a resultant signal as a shifted envelope signal SENV. A comparator outputs a dropout detection signal DET during a time period PT in which the signal LFENV is larger than the shifted envelope signal SENV. A detection control unit detects an amplitude ARF1 of the first RF signal RF1, and changes a frequency gain characteristic of the low-pass filter and the shift amount SH according to the magnitude of the detected amplitude AR1.
US07768877B2
A disc transfer section for transferring an optical disc by guide members and a transfer roller is disposed adjacent to an opening of a casing 110. A detector 500 for detecting the optical disc is disposed adjacent to the opening. When unloading the optical disc, the peripheral edge of the optical disc contacts with slide members so that the slide members are slid, thereby sensor switches SW1 to SW4 are appropriately switched on and off. Based on a time difference between the timings of the on/off switchings, the relation between a movement trajectory of the center of the optical disc and an axis of symmetry that is a straight line indicating a transfer direction at the center of the opening is judged in order to control the drive of a transfer motor according to the movement trajectory. The amount of advancement when the unloading is completed is kept constant.
US07768873B2
A system is disclosed that provides a sonar system featuring combined spatial and temporal correlation array processing. The disclosed system merges spatial-based velocity errors with temporal-based velocity errors by using a combining algorithm that is based on the optimization criteria that the output after combining has no bias error and has a minimized mean square error. With these criteria, the combining algorithm takes the form of a weighted summation of the spatial data stream and temporal data stream inputs with the weights being a function of the relative velocity errors. In combining spatial and temporal processing in this manner, the disclosed system provides improved velocity measurements for a wider range of ship's speeds. In particular, the system achieves performance levels of a spatial correlation sonar for low ship's speeds for which a temporal correlation sonar solution might not be available. The system also achieves performance levels of a temporal correlation sonar for high ship's speeds for which a spatial correlation sonar solution might not be available.
US07768870B2
The invention is a method for defining the development conditions of a hydrocarbon reservoir by updating a velocity model by means of log data. A first seismic depth image representative of the reservoir is established by using seismic data and a velocity model. A series of log data is acquired from wells. Differences between seismic reflector depths observed in the first seismic depth image and depths for these reflectors identified in the wells are measured. The velocity model is modified to minimize these errors, using a prestack kinematic inversion technique allowing constraints to be taken into account. A new seismic depth image from which the development conditions of the hydrocarbon reservoir are determined is deduced therefrom. The invention has application for hydrocarbon reservoir development.
US07768868B2
A memory device that, in certain embodiments, includes a memory element and a digital filter. The digital filter may include a counter and a divider, where the divider is configured to divide a count from the counter by a divisor.
US07768865B2
A row decoder and access line driver receives power supply voltages in a manner that prevents CHC damage and avoids GIDL currents in transistors in the decoder and driver. The row decoder and a latch in the driver are powered by a first supply voltage, and an output stage in the access line driver is powered by a second supply voltage. The first and second supply voltages are maintained at a relatively low level during standby before an address is decoded. Only after an address is decoded to set the latch are the supply voltages increased to levels needed to drive the access line. Further, before resetting the latch, the first and power supply voltages are decreased to their standby levels. By maintaining the first and second voltages relatively low until after the latch is set and reset, GIDL currents may be avoided and CHC damage may be prevented.
US07768863B1
A device package that receives a voltage from a power supply on a motherboard and that includes provisions for a voltage control element that controls the power supply voltage. The provisions for the voltage control element are such that the voltage from the power supply has a first voltage if the voltage control element is installed and a second voltage if the voltage control element is missing. Such a device is useful in (computer) systems having wiring boards with power supplies that produce output voltages that depend on adjust voltages on adjust inputs. The provisions of the device package can then set the adjust voltage such that the power supply has a first voltage if the voltage control element is installed and a second voltage if the voltage control element is missing.
US07768858B2
A refresh controlling circuit includes an MRS latch unit configured to output a mask information signal of a bank and a mask information signal of a segment by synchronizing a first address signal and a second address signal with a pulse signal, a bank active control unit configured to output a bank active signal in response to the mask information signal of the bank, and a decoding unit configured to output a row address decoding signal in response to the bank active signal, the mask information signal of the segment, and a third address signal.
US07768857B2
An integrated device comprising a storage location, wherein data stored in the storage location is repeatedly refreshed with a first predetermined refresh rate during a first period of time. The first period of time provides a first predetermined duration. After the end of the first period of time, the data is repeatedly refreshed with a second predetermined refresh rate.
US07768855B2
In a sense amplifier circuit having a plurality of sense amplifier portions arranged in order, each of the sense amplifier portions includes a transistor that supplies a bit line potential to a bit line pair in a corresponding column of a memory cell array and a gate electrode for supplying a precharge signal to a gate of the transistor. The gate electrode of the plurality of sense amplifier portions is provided as one piece as a whole and extends in a direction parallel to a row direction in the memory cell array. A gate electrode portion which is a connected portion between the gate electrode in a k-th sense amplifier portion and the gate electrode in a (k+1)-th sense amplifier portion is ring-shaped, where k is an odd number.
US07768854B2
A controlling apparatus and a controlling method for controlling a pre-charge activity on a SRAM array are provided. The controlling apparatus comprises: a detecting module, a controlling module and a pre-charge module. The detecting module is to detect whether the row address of the SRAM array in operation is changed and generate a row-changing signal according to the detection result; the controlling module is to detect an operation mode of the SRAM array and generate a disable signal according to the row-changing signal and the operation mode; and the pre-charge module is to generate a pre-charge signal according to a pseudo-pre-charge signal and the disable signal, wherein the pre-charge signal substantially controls the pre-charge activity on the SRAM cell in operation.
US07768850B2
A system comprises a storage cell coupled to multiple bitlines and a transistor that couples to the multiple bitlines in parallel with the storage cell. The transistor is activated while the storage cell is read.
US07768846B2
A DRAM circuit with reduced power consumption and in some circumstances faster memory array access speed. Input/output lines connected to a memory array are sensed according to their capacitance/length in comparison to a threshold capacitance/length. The input/output lines that are shorter, or less capacitive, than the threshold are sensed sooner than those input/output lines that are longer, more capacitive, than the threshold. Since shorter input/output lines are sensed sooner, they require less power and may be accessed faster.
US07768843B2
A semiconductor memory device is capable of maintaining a predetermined back-bias voltage level regardless of operation modes of the semiconductor memory device, by generating a back-bias voltage with driving force changed according to the operation modes. The semiconductor memory device includes an active pumping control signal generating unit for generating an active pumping control signal in response to a plurality of active signals, a voltage detecting unit for detecting a voltage level of a back-bias voltage terminal to output a detection signal, an oscillator for generating an oscillation signal oscillating at a predetermined frequency in response to the detection signal, and a charge pumping unit for performing a charge pumping operation in response to the oscillation signal by controlling a force of driving the back-bias voltage terminal in response to the active pumping control signal.
US07768842B2
A voltage generating circuit for semiconductor memory devices for use in avoiding the occurrence of leakage currents associated with parasitic diodes is presented. The circuit controls and stabilizes the generation of a fedback negative voltage to prevent parasitic diode malfunctions by a in a wordline driver. The voltage generating circuit includes a controller being fedback the negative voltage and detecting a potential difference between backbias voltage provided to a substrate of the cell and the negative voltage to generate a control signal. The voltage generating circuit also includes a voltage generator being fedback the negative voltage to detect a level thereof, and which subsequently generates and provides the negative voltage in response to the detected results of the negative voltage and the control signal.
US07768841B2
Selecting circuits for columns of an array of memory cells are used to hold read data or write data of the memory cells. The memory cells may be multistate memory cells. There is a shift register chain, having a stage for columns of the array. A strobe pulse is shifted through this shift register. The strobe points, with each clock, at and enables a different selecting circuit in sequence. That particular selecting circuit that has been enabled by the strobe will then perform a certain function. In a read mode, the selected selecting circuit will send the stored information through to the output buffer for output from the integrated circuit. And while in a programming mode, the selected selecting circuit will receive data from an input buffer. This data will be written into a memory cell.
US07768840B1
A computer-implemented method for creating an integrated circuit, IC, test engine for testing a proposed IC memory array using new memory structural model. An IC designer inputs the number of words that can be stored and a column multiplexer ratio in a proposed IC memory array. A selection of one or more procedures is made from a library of computer-readable procedures. Each of the procedures is to produce one or more structural primitives that describe certain physical layout features of the proposed IC memory array, without analyzing a CAD layout file of the proposed IC memory array. The library of procedures as a whole translates between a physical model of a family of IC memory arrays and a user interface model of the family. A data background, DB, pattern is produced to be used by the test engine in testing the proposed IC memory array. This is done by executing the selected one or more procedures, wherein these procedures take as input the received number of words and column multiplexer size. Other embodiments are also described.
US07768838B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, devices, modules, and systems for reading non-volatile memory cells. One method includes programming a number of memory cells coupled in series between a first and second select gate transistor where edge cells are coupled adjacent to the select gate transistors and non-edge cells are coupled between the edge cells. The method includes programming a non-edge cell within a first threshold voltage (Vt) distribution. The method also includes programming an edge cell within a second Vt distribution, wherein the first and second Vt distributions correspond to a same one of a number of data states, and wherein the second Vt distribution is different than the first Vt distribution for at least one of the number of data states.
US07768837B2
A flash memory device and a method of programming a flash memory device include selecting bit lines connected to program cells of multiple memory cells coupled to a selected word line. The selected bit lines are driven to a bit line program voltage through a write driver circuit connected to first ends of the selected bit lines. The selected bit lines are also driven to the bit line program voltage through a bit line detecting/driving circuit connected to second ends of the selected bit lines. The bit line detecting/driving circuit activates the selected bit lines synchronously with voltage variations of the selected bit lines.
US07768835B2
A memory device having memory cells fabricated in a substrate well is described. The memory device includes control circuitry to perform an erase operation on the memory cells and a voltage bias circuit to bias the substrate well to a positive voltage level during an erase verification operation of memory cells. The voltage bias circuit controls a discharge level of the substrate well following the erase operation to prevent the substrate well from fully discharging lower than the positive voltage level.
US07768831B2
A flash memory device includes multiple memory blocks, a decoder configured to select at least one of the memory blocks in response to block select signals, and a controller configured to generate the block select signals in response to a block address. When the block address corresponds to a bad block, the controller generates the block select signals to cause the decoder to interrupt selection of a memory block corresponding to the block address.
US07768830B2
In a memory cell array, a plurality of memory cells each of which stores a plurality of bits are connected to a plurality of word lines and a plurality of bit lines and are arranged in a matrix. Control portions read a threshold level of a second memory cell adjacent to a first memory cell in the memory cell array, determine a correction level according to the threshold level read from the second memory cell, add the determined correction level to a read level of the first memory cell, and then read the threshold level of the first memory cell. A storage portion stores the correction level.
US07768820B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a feedback structure, a method of constructing a feedback structure and an integrated circuit employing the feedback structure. In one embodiment, the feedback structure is for use with an integrated circuit and includes a local interconnect configured to electrically connect an output of a CMOS inverter to another circuit in the integrated circuit. Additionally, the feedback structure also includes an interconnect extension to the local interconnect configured to proximately extend along a gate structure of the CMOS inverter to provide a reactive coupling between the output and the gate structure.
US07768819B2
The logic cells (HLEs) of a structured application-specific integrated circuit (structured ASIC) can be used to provide memory blocks of various sizes. Any one or more of several techniques may be employed to facilitate doing this for various user designs that may have different requirements (e.g., in terms of size) for such memory blocks. For example, pre-designed macros of memory blocks may be provided and then combined as needed to provide memory blocks of various sizes. Placement constraints may be observed for certain portions of the memory circuitry (e.g., the memory core), while other portions (e.g., address predecoder circuitry, write and read data registers, etc.) may be located relatively freely.
US07768817B2
A memory device including current-limiting circuitry coupled to a first inverter inside a data register is provided. The current-limiting circuitry controls a voltage supplied to the first inverter and a reference voltage may be adjusted so that the voltage supplied to the first inverter is prevented from dropping below a voltage supplied to a second inverter inside the data register. The memory device may include a switch to allow coupling to the current-limiting circuitry for programming of the memory device.
US07768815B2
A structure and a method for operating the same. The method comprises providing a resistive/reflective region on a substrate, wherein the resistive/reflective region comprises a material having a characteristic of changing the material's reflectance due to the material absorbing heat; sending an electric current through the resistive/reflective region so as to cause a reflectance change in the resistive/reflective region from a first reflectance value to a second reflectance value different from the first reflectance value; and optically reading the reflectance change in the resistive/reflective region.
US07768813B2
In one embodiment, a DRAM is provided that includes: a word line intersecting with a pair of bit lines, the DRAM including a memory cell at each intersection, each memory cell including an access transistor adapted to couple a storage cell to the corresponding bit line if its gate voltage is raised; and a word line compensation circuit adapted to compensate for a capacitively-coupled voltage increase on the corresponding bit line if the access transistor's gate voltage is raised.
US07768812B2
Embodiments disclosed include memory cell operating methods, memory cell programming methods, memory cell reading methods, memory cells, and memory devices. In one embodiment, a memory cell includes a wordline, a first bitline, a second bitline, and a memory element. The memory element is electrically connected to the wordline and selectively electrically connected to the first bitline and the second bitline. The memory element stores information via a resistive state of the memory element. The memory cell is configured to convey the resistive state of the memory element via either a first current flowing from the first bitline through the memory element to the wordline or a second current flowing from the wordline through the memory element to the second bitline.
US07768809B2
A shift register is provided, the shift register comprising at least one track including a storage region. The storage region comprises a plurality of magnetic domains for storing data. A given first one of the plurality of magnetic domains is adjacent to a given second one of the plurality of magnetic domains. The given first one of the plurality of magnetic domains and the given second one of the plurality of magnetic domains are arranged in a linear configuration. Further, the given first one of the plurality of magnetic domains and the given second one of the plurality of magnetic domains are separated from one another by at least one layer of non-magnetic material. The at least one layer of non-magnetic material preventing a propagation of a nucleated wall from traveling between the given first one of the plurality of magnetic domains and the given second one of the plurality of magnetic domains. The shift register is configured such that an electric current applied to the track is operative to shift data stored within at least one of the plurality of magnetic domains of the storage region, along the track, in a direction of the electric current. The data stored within the at least one of the plurality of magnetic domains is shifted as a function of the direction of the electric current.
US07768804B2
An inverter includes a counter, a PWM generator, a central controller and a power converter. The counter is used for receiving a frame switch signal to generate a frame counting signal. The PWM generator is coupled to the counter, and is used to select a specific frequency among a plurality of predetermined frequencies according to the frame counting signal, and generate a modulated signal having the specific frequency. The central controller is coupled to the PWM generator, and is used to generate a processed signal according to the modulated signal. The power converter is coupled to the central controller, and is used to generate an output signal according to the processed signal.
US07768802B2
In one embodiment, a switching mode power supply (SMPS) includes a rectifier for generating an input DC voltage from an input AC voltage. A switching transistor, coupled to a primary coil of a transformer, converts the input DC voltage and supplies power to a secondary side of the transformer according to an operation of the switching transistor. A switching controller receives a feedback voltage corresponding to a voltage of the secondary side of the transformer, a sense signal corresponding to current flowing at the switching transistor, and a first signal corresponding to a voltage difference between first and second electrodes of the switching transistor. The switching controller controls the turning on and off of the switching transistor. After the switching transistor is turned off, the switching controller detects and counts a number of times that a voltage level of the first signal and a reference voltage are equal. The switching controller causes the switching transistor to turn-on when the count of the number of times reaches a variable reference number.
US07768801B2
A current resonant DC-DC converter of multi-output type is provided which comprises an output-regulatory MOS-FET 40 connected between a secondary winding 5c of a transformer 5 and a smoothing capacitor 16 in a second rectifying smoother 17, and an output control circuit 41 for controlling the on-off operation of output-regulatory MOS-FET 40 based on voltage VO2 from smoothing capacitor 16 in second rectifying smoother 17. By turning the on-off operation of output-regulatory MOS-FET 40 in synchronization with switching frequency of first or second MOS-FETs 1, 2, an ideal cross regulation among respective DC outputs can be obtained, providing the inexpensive converter with simple circuit alteration capable of producing highly stable DC outputs with high power conversion efficiency, high accuracy and less power conversion loss.
US07768797B1
A chassis identification system is described which enables a motherboard in a computer system to identify a type of chassis in which the motherboard is installed. This chassis identification system is composed of a motherboard, a set of conductive fastener mounts on the motherboard, and a sensing circuit on the motherboard that is coupled to the set of conductive fastener mounts. The set of conductive fastener mounts on the motherboard are configured to accommodate different patterns of conductive fasteners which are associated with different types of chassis. Moreover, the sensing circuit on the motherboard is configured to generate a chassis identifier based on a pattern of the conductive fasteners on the chassis.
US07768778B2
A holster for a mobile electronic apparatus includes a base plate provided with at least one retaining element for accommodating the mobile electronic apparatus; a first foldable plate formed adjacent to the base plate for protecting the mobile electronic apparatus; an extended device mounted on the first foldable plate, the extended device including: a connector for connecting the extended device to the mobile electronic apparatus, and at least one auxiliary unit for providing at least one function to the mobile electronic apparatus via the connector; and a control device for enabling and disabling the auxiliary unit according to a folded status or an unfolded status of the first foldable plate relative to the base plate.
US07768768B2
A semiconductor device according to one embodiment includes a cell disposition region in which plural basic cells are disposed and a basic power supply wiring. In the cell disposition region are disposed a primitive cell connected to the basic power supply wiring and a high current consumption cell connected to the basic power supply wiring. Furthermore, in the cell disposition region are disposed regularly plural ordinary power switch cells that supply a first current to the primitive cell respectively. The power reinforcement cell including a power switch cell configured so as to flow a predetermined current to the high current consumption cell is disposed near the high current consumption cell.
US07768767B2
The ignition system is for use in a gas turbine engine. It comprises an ignition plug having a triggered spark gap therein.
US07768757B2
A switch system comprising a detection device that operates in first and second modes and that conducts first and second currents based on the first and second modes, respectively. A control module input circuit outputs first and second voltages based on the first and second currents. The switch system further includes a control module that receives the first and second voltages and that compares the first and second voltages to first and second predetermined voltage ranges, respectively. Further, the control module detects at least one of a proper operation and a faulty operation of the switch system based on the comparison. The control module receives the first voltage when the detection device conducts the first current and receives the second voltage when the detection device conducts the second current.
US07768751B2
A ground fault detector and interrupter for a photovoltaic (PV) energy conversion system, method and apparatus are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, the system includes first and second inputs adapted to couple to a first and second rails of a PV array. An inverter is configured to convert DC power generated from the PV array to AC power. A ground fault detector and interrupter, which is coupled to the first and second rails and to the inverter, is configured to detect ground fault conditions in the PV array and to decouple the PV array from the remaining portion of the PV energy conversion system upon such detection. A known signal is coupled to the input of the ground fault detector and interrupter, and then sensed at the output of the ground fault detector and interrupter to determine whether components of the ground fault detector and interrupter are operating properly.
US07768741B2
A magnetic write design for reducing Wide Area Track Erasure (WATEr). The write head design includes a magnetic pole and a non-magnetic, electrically conductive eddy current confining structure (ECC structure) formed adjacent to the write pole at the air bearing surface (ABS). The design can be embodied in a longitudinal write head having a magnetic pole, such as a P2 pole pedestal, with a non-magnetic, electrically conductive material surrounding three sides of the pole. For further protection against WATEr, a first, or bottom pole (P1) can be constructed with a high permeability, high Bs material at the write gap, and a low permeability, low Bs material formed there under. Another layer of high permeability, high Bs material can optionally be provided beneath the low permeability low Bs material layer. The invention can also be embodied in a perpendicular write head having a write pole with a non-magnetic, electrically conductive material surrounding all or a portion of the write pole at the ABS.
US07768737B2
A mark information is recorded in an area which is on a circumference of a magnetic disk corresponding to a last track in which a servo information write is ended or a track, which is one or two in front of the last track in which servo information is not written and the mark information is detected by returning a magnetic head in a radial direction of the magnetic disk by a fine movement stage after the magnetic head is moved to a next aimed track by a coarse movement stage. The servo information write position is detected by the magnetic head and the servo information is written in a servo information write position of a next track by positioning the magnetic head therein by using the fine movement stage.
US07768731B2
A magnetic recording medium includes a first magnetic layer; and a second magnetic layer formed on the first magnetic layer. The first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer make exchange coupling therebetween and also, have their magnetizing direction in anti-parallel to one another. A net residual area magnetization of the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer is expressed by the following formula: |Mr1×t1−Mr2×t2| where Mr1 and Mr2 denote respective residual magnetizations of the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer, and t1 and t2 denote respective film thicknesses of them; and the net area magnetization at a first temperature is larger than the net area magnetization at a second temperature lower than the first temperature.
US07768730B2
A read channel in that reads data from a magnetic storage media. An analog signal produced by passing a read head over magnetic storage media is amplified to match the range of an analog to digital converter (ADC) range. A baseline adjustment is performed on the amplified analog signal to center the amplified analog signal to a midscale of the ADC, which may be based on an error feedback signal and/or a decision feedback signal. Read channel compensation may then be performed after the baseline adjustment has been applied. The read channel compensated analog signal is sampled with the ADC to produce a digital signal. This digital signal may be filtered and a bit sequence may then be detected from the filtered digital signal. The EFB signal and/or the DFB signal may be produced in the digital domain based on the digital signal and the detected bit sequences.
US07768726B2
A lens drive device capable of preventing a lens holder from inclining with respect to the optical axis direction of a lens is provided. A first gear (13), a second gear (14), a protrusion (20a), and a coil spring (6) are coaxially supported by a shaft (5), which is a fixed shaft. The rotational motion is transmitted to a two-stage gear (12) by rotating a rotor (11a) of a step motor (11) clockwise or counterclockwise. The rotational motion of the two-stage gear (12) is in turn transmitted to the first gear (13) and the second gear (14). When the first gear (13) and the second gear (14) rotate, the degree of engagement between an internally threaded portion (131a) of the first gear (13) and an externally threaded portion (141a) of the second gear (14) increases, and the second gear (14) moves upward. As the second gear (14) moves upward, a lens holder (20), urged upward by the elastic force of the coil spring (6), moves upward along the optical axis of a lens (21).
US07768724B2
A method for making a camera module includes the steps of: (a) providing a mold with a mold cavity; (b) mounting at least a sensing element and a lens within the mold cavity in such a manner that the sensing element and the lens are spaced apart from each other; and (c) forming a camera barrel by injecting a molding material into the mold cavity and by molding the molding material over the sensing element and the lens.
US07768720B2
An imaging lens of which optical performance does not deteriorate even in a high temperature environment, various aberrations are well corrected, optical length is short, and back focus is sufficiently secured. This imaging lens comprises a first diaphragm S1, a first junction type compound lens 14, a second diaphragm S2 and a second junction type compound lens 16, wherein the first diaphragm, the first junction type compound lens, the second diaphragm, and the second junction type compound lens are arranged in this sequence from an object side to an image side. The first junction type compound lens comprises a first lens L1, a second lens L2 and a third lens L3 arranged in this sequence from the object side to the image side, and the second junction type compound lens comprises a fourth lens L4, a fifth lens L5 and a sixth lens L6 in this sequence from the object side to the image side. The first lens, the third lens, the fourth lens and the sixth lens are formed of a curable resin material. The second lens and the fifth lens are formed of a glass material.
US07768714B2
The extender lens apparatus is detachably attached to an image-forming optical system including a first main lens unit disposed closest to an object and a second main lens unit disposed between the first main lens unit and an image plane. The apparatus includes a first extender lens unit to be inserted in a space closer to the first main lens unit than the second main lens unit, and a second extender lens unit to be inserted in a space closer to the image plane than the second main lens unit. The first extender lens unit has a magnification increasing effect. The apparatus is capable of varying a magnification of the image-forming optical system while maintaining good optical performance without greatly increasing the entire length of the image-forming optical system.
US07768710B2
An optical film has symmetrical arrangement light-collecting units. The light-collecting units can be extended for several times. The light-collecting unit has apex angles and base angles with different degrees. Thus, a uniform luminous flux and a good light intensity are obtained for the optical film.
US07768702B2
A medical stereo observation system includes a stereo imaging unit producing a first image for a left eye and a second image for a right eye that mutually have parallax and a stereo display unit capable of displaying stereoscopically the images produced by the stereo imaging unit. The stereo imaging unit has a first imaging optical system producing the first image for the left eye and a second imaging optical system producing the second image for the right eye, and focal positions of these imaging optical systems are located far away from the intersection of optical axes of the imaging optical systems, viewed from the stereo imaging unit. Whereby, a large-depth space can be comfortably observed in a wide range and a viewer can observe an observation object without bringing about a feeling of fatigue.
US07768689B2
A photo detector having an electrically conductive thin film and a light-receiving unit. A coupling periodic structure is provided on a surface of the film and converts incidence light to surface plasmon. The coupling periodic structure has an opening that penetrates the obverse and reverse surfaces of the thin film. The light-receiving unit is provided at one end of the opening in the surface that is opposite to the surface on which the coupling periodic structure is provided. The opening is shaped like a slit and is broader than half (½) the wavelength of the surface plasmon in a direction that intersects at right angles with a polarization direction of the incidence light and is narrower than half (½) the wavelength of the surface plasmon in a direction parallel to the polarization direction.
US07768688B2
An image display device having an optical modulation element, which modulates light emitted from a light source according to display information, and displaying a display image based on the display information includes: a unit adjusting the amount of illumination light with respect to light emitted from the light source on the basis of brightness information on the brightness of the display image based on the display information; a color conversion processing unit that performs a color conversion process according to the brightness information with respect to the display information so that the display image can be color-reproduced within a predetermined color space; and a display and driving unit that drives the optical modulation element on the basis of the display information having been subjected to the color conversion process so as to display the display image.
US07768684B2
A method of generating a Computer Generated Hologram (CGH) using the diffraction specific algorithm allows a curved wavefront to be produced from a single hogel, rather than the planar waves of the prior art. This allows a wavefront from a single hogel to generate a point in the image volume. An imaginary wavefront is transmitted from each point in the image volume and sampled at a plurality of points over the hogel. These samples are used to produce a set of complex Fourier coefficients that can be used to approximate the original waveform.
US07768683B2
A method to align the write channel portion of a holographic data storage system, wherein the method establishes a write threshold correlation factor, provides a reference beam, and illuminates a holographic data storage medium encoded with a write reference orientation image with the reference beam to generate a write channel alignment data beam including a projected write reference orientation image. The method projects the write channel alignment data beam onto an optical detector, and calculates a first write correlation factor using the projected write reference orientation image, a stored write reference orientation image, and the tangential matched filter. If the method determines that the first write correlation factor is greater than or equal to the write threshold correlation factor, then the method determines that the spatial write channel is properly aligned.
US07768667B2
Job management information is analyzed to extract post printing process information on a post printing process from the job management information on the basis of the analysis result. A stylesheet corresponding to the extracted post printing process information is selected from a stylesheet storing unit which stores a stylesheet functioning as layout data for laying out and outputting post printing process information in accordance with the output form of an output destination. Work order form data of the corresponding post printing process is generated on the basis of the selected stylesheet and post printing process information.
US07768665B2
When a spool file processing program starts with a system permission, first, a impersonation to a user permission is performed, and then the spool file is divided into EMF for each page. After division, the permission impersonation is released. Subsequently, a new spool file can be created with the system permission based on processing information, such as a collate copy, a reverse order, or the like. In addition, when a new printing job after processing is generated or when a new EMF drawing process after processing is performed, the permission impersonation is performed in advance. Accordingly, when the new printing job after processing is transmitted to an external server PC, permission is performed with the user permission.
US07768661B2
A method of processing data to be printed and print setting information used to print the data includes a detection step of detecting uninterpretable information from the print setting information, a transmission step of transmitting the uninterpretable information detected in the detection step, an acquisition step of acquiring interpretable information which is sent back in response to transmission of the uninterpretable information transmitted in the transmission step, and a creation step of creating print setting information by using the information acquired in the acquisition step.
US07768655B2
A method of measuring an object includes positioning the object on a moveable stage, performing a rotary scan of the object with a range sensor, and determining geometric parameters of the object based on the rotary scan.
US07768652B2
Various methods are disclosed for mapping optical coherence tomography (OCT) data to facilitate review and diagnosis. In one aspect, high resolution 2D line scans are obtained along with lower density 3D cube scans and displayed in a manner to provide context to the clinician. In another aspect, OCT data is analyzed to provide information about non-uniformities of the tissue. Binary image maps of maps useful for determining tautness of membranes are also disclosed.
US07768649B2
In one general embodiment, a method for ultrafast optical signal detecting is provided. In operation, a first optical input signal is propagated through a first wave guiding layer of a waveguide. Additionally, a second optical input signal is propagated through a second wave guiding layer of the waveguide. Furthermore, an optical control signal is applied to a top of the waveguide, the optical control signal being oriented diagonally relative to the top of the waveguide such that the application is used to influence at least a portion of the first optical input signal propagating through the first wave guiding layer of the waveguide. In addition, the first and the second optical input signals output from the waveguide are combined. Further, the combined optical signals output from the waveguide are detected. In another general embodiment, a system for ultrafast optical signal recording is provided comprising a waveguide including a plurality of wave guiding layers, an optical control source positioned to propagate an optical control signal towards the waveguide in a diagonal orientation relative to a top of the waveguide, at least one optical input source positioned to input an optical input signal into at least a first and a second wave guiding layer of the waveguide, and a detector for detecting at least one interference pattern output from the waveguide, where at least one of the interference patterns results from a combination of the optical input signals input into the first and the second wave guiding layer. Furthermore, propagation of the optical control signal is used to influence at least a portion of the optical input signal propagating through the first wave guiding layer of the waveguide.
US07768641B2
Computed tomography imaging spectrometers (“CTIS”s) having patterns for imposing spatial structure are provided. The pattern may be imposed either directly on the object scene being imaged or at the field stop aperture. The use of the pattern improves the accuracy of the captured spatial and spectral information.
US07768640B2
Enhancement of fluorescence emission from fluorophores bound to a sample and present on the surface of two-dimensional photonic crystals is described. The enhancement of fluorescence is achieved by the combination of high intensity near-fields and strong coherent scattering effects, attributed to leaky photonic crystal eigenmodes (resonance modes). The photonic crystal simultaneously exhibits resonance modes which overlap both the absorption and emission wavelengths of the fluorophore. A significant enhancement in fluorescence intensity from the fluorophores on the photonic crystal surface is demonstrated.
US07768632B2
A method and an apparatus of determining geometrical dimensions of a motor vehicle wheel (rim/tire assembly) 1 by contact-less sensing, wherein the wheel is fixed on wheel receiving means 2 of a tire changer, that at least one light beam 21 is emitted on to the wheel or at least a part of the wheel, wherein the light beam reflected at the impingement area is detected, and wherein the directions of the emitted and reflected light beams are evaluated for determining the shape and/or position of the respective impingement area on the wheel.
US07768623B2
A liquid crystal cell manufacturing method includes preparing a pair of glass substrates each including an area configured to form a plurality of finished liquid crystal display apparatuses thereon, while a plurality of seal members and a plurality of pillars each including ends that respectively abut against the pair of glass substrates are interposed between the pair of glass substrates, adhering the pair of glass substrates to form a liquid crystal display apparatus forming assembly, and while the liquid crystal display apparatus forming assembly is formed, forming a plurality of scribe lines that intersect each other on surfaces of the pair of glass substrates that are opposite to surfaces of the pair of glass substrates that oppose each other. At least a part of each of the pillars is arranged to overlap at least one of regions, between the pair of glass substrates, corresponding to the plurality of scribe lines.
US07768619B2
A method and apparatus is disclosed for affixing a cover layer formed of liquid crystal polymer to a flex circuit consisting of circuit elements mounted to a liquid crystal polymer substrate in order to encapsulate the circuit elements between the cover layer and substrate to protect them from exposure to moisture and contaminants.
US07768609B2
A pixel structure to be disposed on a substrate is provided. The pixel structure includes a common line having a capacitor portion, an active device, a pixel electrode electrically connected to the active device and covering the capacitor portion, and an alignment layer covering at least the common line. The alignment layer has an alignment direction and the capacitor portion extends along a first direction that is substantially perpendicular to the alignment direction.
US07768608B2
A novel liquid crystal display device is disclosed. The liquid crystal display device comprises a first polarizing film, a first retardation area with an Re of 70 to 330 nm and a value of Nz of not less than 0 to less than 0.5 and a slow axis perpendicular to a transmission axis of the first polarizing film; a second retardation region with an Re of not greater than 50 nm and an Rth of 10 to 140 nm; and a liquid crystal cell comprising a liquid crystal layer with a slow axis in a black state parallel to the transmission axis of the first polarizing film; and a second polarizing film in this order.
US07768606B2
On a glass substrate, gate bus lines, data bus lines, and TFTs are formed. Then, on the substrate, an insulating film, covering the gate bus lines, data bus lines and TFTs, is formed, and a positive type photoresist film is further formed thereon. Next, through exposure and development processes, the resist film is divided for each picture element and subjected to ultraviolet ray irradiation to harden only a surface layer thereof. Then, the resist film is subjected to heat treatment to form thereon wrinkle-form surface ruggedness of a uniform pattern, which is determined depending on the size of the resist film. Subsequently, reflection electrodes are formed on the resist film. The reflection electrodes are formed to overlap the gate bus line, data bus line and TFTs, and the regions between the adjacent reflection electrodes serve as light transmission regions.
US07768593B2
Using a distance L between the centers of light sources 12, 12; a refractive index n of an optical element 15; a thickness d of the optical element; a distance W from the center of the light source to the optical element; a refractive index n0 of air; an angle of incidence θ1 of light emitted from the light sources and coming into the optical element, relative to the direction of optical axes; an angle of refraction θ2 of light, incident on the optical element, in the optical element; a diameter of each light source as D; and a maximum tangential angle a formed between a tangential line in contact with an outer surface of a luminance distribution generating layer 18 and a plane orthogonal to the optical axes, there is included a maximum tangential angle a satisfying x>L/2−D/2 when calculating a travel range x of a split image of the light sources in a direction normal to the optical axes using (1) n0 sin(a)=n sin(a−θ2), (2) n0 sin θ1=n sin θ2 and (3) x=W tan θ1+d tan θ2. This facilitates uniformalizing of front luminance distribution.
US07768591B2
The present invention relates to a display panel module. The display panel module includes a display panel; a first casing having a hollow region; an addition member arranged on the first casing; a first adhesive member having one side attached on the first casing, another side attached on the display panel and a breathing structure; and a second casing coupled with the first casing to fix the display panel therebetween.
US07768583B2
An LCD device and a method of fabricating the same are to prevent a light leakage phenomenon of the edge of a pixel and thereby to improve a picture quality. The liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of gate lines and data lines defining a plurality of pixel regions, a switching device formed at a crossing region between each gate line and data line, a pixel electrode formed in the pixel region, a gate dummy line at one side of the pixel electrode along the data line and partially overlapping the pixel electrode, and a data dummy line at one side of the pixel electrode above the gate dummy line and partially overlapping with the pixel electrode.
US07768580B2
An image display delay time shortening apparatus during channel change, a method thereof and a broadcasting receiving apparatus thereof are disclosed. The broadcasting receiving apparatus extracts a sequence header from a video stream of the received broadcasting signal if a broadcasting signal of each channel is received. Henceforth, the broadcasting receiving apparatus extracts a sequence header corresponding to a changed channel from a relevant region of a channel information table in a memory to establish an initial value of a decoder, so that an image can be displayed with any time delay even if the sequence header is not received at the start of channel change.
US07768577B2
A gamma correction device for use in a display device includes a gamma voltage controller to generate a digital gamma signal in a unit of a predetermined interval, and a gamma voltage generator to generate an analog gamma voltage corresponding to the digital gamma signal.
US07768574B2
An electronic camera module incorporates a sensor unit (20) having a semiconductor chip (22) such as a CCD imager and a cover (34) overlying the front surface of the chip. An optical unit (50) includes one or more optical elements such as lenses (58). The optical unit has engagement features (64) which abut alignment features on the sensor unit as, for example, portions (44) of the cover outer surface (38), so as to maintain a precise relationship between the optical unit and sensor unit.
US07768572B2
An iris recognition camera is provided which includes a driving barrel configured to support a lens, a moving unit configured to reciprocatingly move the driving barrel to perform both focus and zoom operations, and a position sensor configured to detect a position of the driving barrel.
US07768571B2
An optical tracking system using a variable focal length lens includes at least one camera system, and the at least one camera system includes an objective lens system, configured to receive an object image, and at least one micromirror array lens, optically coupled to the objective lens system, configured to focus the object image received by the objective lens system onto an image sensor. The image sensor is optically coupled to the micromirror array lens, configured to receive the focused object image from the micromirror array lens and to sense the focused object image. The advantages of the present invention include ability to rapidly change the focal length and optical axis of a camera system, allowing for high-resolution, wide-angle imaging.
US07768567B2
An image pickup device may include an optical system having a distortion that captures a distortion-containing optical image, a conversion unit that converts the distortion-containing optical image into distortion-containing image data, a storage unit that stores the distortion-containing image data and additional data related to a distortion of the distortion-containing image data, and a distortion correction unit that corrects the distortion of the distortion-containing image data with reference to the additional data.
US07768556B2
A physical quantity detection system includes a pixel array unit including pixels two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix, where each of the pixel converts an externally supplied physical quantity into an electrical signal, a readout unit configured to read out a signal from each of the pixels n times by changing the sensitivity each time, where n is an integer greater than or equal to 2, a storage unit configured to store m signals out of the n signals read out from the pixel, where m is an integer greater than or equal to 1 and is less than n, and a write control unit configured to compare the signal read out from the pixel by the readout unit with a predetermined threshold value and configured to control a write operation of the signal into the storage unit on the basis of the comparison result.
US07768555B2
An image processing apparatus of the present invention can perform appropriate edge enhancement processing on any image while preventing increases in noise and chromatic aberration in the process of image processing. The image processing apparatus obtains photographic information present at generation of the image, determines, based on the photographic information, an edge enhancement coefficient to be used in performing edge enhancement processing, and performs edge enhancement processing to the image using the determined coefficient. Further, an image processing method of the present invention makes it possible to perform appropriate edge enhancement processing on any image while preventing increases in noise and chromatic aberration in the process of image processing.
US07768552B1
A camera has an image sensor mounted in a housing for receiving light and generating output signals representative of an image. A circuit processes the output signals in response to actuation of a shutter button mounted in the housing. A control circuit is connected to the processing circuit for selectively generating a first sequence of high resolution still image files or a second sequence of low resolution still image files and for executing firmware to convert the second sequence into a motion video sequence.
US07768551B2
A method for calculating an estimated hand motion vector of a plurality of images includes selecting a current video frame and a previous video frame from a video stream, dividing the current video frame into a plurality of macroblocks, selecting a subset of macroblocks from the current video frame, comparing the subset of macroblocks to the previous video frame within a two dimensional comparison range to generate a set of motion vectors, calculating a frame motion vector for the current video frame, estimating a steady motion vector for the current video frame by a first-order autoregression, and calculating a hand motion vector for the current video frame by taking a difference between the steady motion vector and the frame motion vector of the current video frame.
US07768548B2
The Improved Mobile Digital Video Recorder (IMDVR) system is a ruggedized, multiple camera video and audio recording system that is installed within a public transit vehicle to record, store, and manage an integrated data stream of data captured within and exterior to the transit vehicle. The system is focused on multiple person vehicles and the capture of an integrated data stream for use in transit security, liability, and evidentiary processes.
US07768540B2
A multicolor direct thermal imaging method wherein a multicolor image is formed in a thermal imaging member comprising at least first and second different image-forming compositions and a thermal printer for use in practicing the method. Heat is applied to at least the second image-forming composition while the first image-forming composition is at a first baseline temperature (T1) to form an image in at least the second image-forming composition, and heat is applied to at least the first image-forming composition while it is at a second baseline temperature (T2) to form an image in at least the first image-forming composition, wherein T1 is different from T2.
US07768539B2
A method and system relating to color correction for the display terminal of a display device, such method includes a master control unit generating color adjusting ratios, a display driver using the color adjusting ratios to perform color calibration, and a display panel displaying the resulting colors. Specifically, the master control unit generates adjusting ratios for the RGB color data and the display driver separately adjusts each color according to the percentage of R, G, and B in the ratio to generate a resulting pixel voltage. The system consists of a master control unit, a display driver, and a display panel. The master control unit contains an initialization block, having the following special characteristics: a master control unit with a color adjusting module that receives the color adjusting ratio sent from a color setting block, adjusts color data according to the adjusting ratio, generates the resulting pixel voltage, and displays the colors via a display panel. This invention is easy to operate, inexpensive to produce, and highly practicable.
US07768532B2
An image processing system combining images includes: a first communication terminal device (e.g., cellular phone) issuing a request for image composition and notifying address information of an acceptor of image provision; a second communication terminal device accepting the request of the image provision and transmitting an image (e g., cellular phone); and an image processing server receiving the request for the image composition from the first communication terminal device to register the notified address information, transmitting an inquiry about the image provision to the second communication terminal device with the use of the address information, receiving images and image control information transmitted from the communication terminal devices, creating a composite image with the use of the images, and adjusting the composite image based on the image control information.
US07768527B2
The disclosure relates to a hardware-in-the-loop simulation system and method for computer vision. An embodiment of the disclosed system comprises a software simulation and a hardware simulation. The software simulation includes a virtual scene and an observed object that are generated by virtual reality software. The virtual scene images are obtained at different viewpoints. The hardware simulation includes the virtual scene images being projected onto a screen by a projector, wherein the projected scene images are shot by a camera, and where in the direction of the camera is controlled by a pan-tilt.
US07768523B2
In a technique for rendering non-linear BRDFs that are stable in both the temporal and spatial domains, without serious interruption to the content creation pipeline used in most games, non-linear content is linearized by rendering in texture space at a fixed resolution. A MIP-map chain is calculated from this texture. The complete MIP-map chain is used for rendering on a display device. Low resolution reflectance parameters are used to approximate the highest resolution reflectance parameters as the object becomes smaller on the display device. The low resolution reflectance parameters are calculated using non linear fitting techniques.
US07768516B1
A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium are disclosed for performing an operation on single-channel input using a plurality of execution channels of a graphics processing unit (GPU). A single-channel input may be divided into a plurality of sub-inputs, wherein each of the plurality of sub-inputs comprises a portion of the single-channel input. Borders between the sub-inputs may overlap. Program instructions may be executed on the GPU to perform the operation. At least a subset of the program instructions may be executed on each of the plurality of execution channels in parallel for a corresponding one of the plurality of sub-inputs. In one embodiment, the single-channel input may comprise a single-channel input image for an image-processing operation. In one embodiment, the GPU may comprise four execution channels.
US07768514B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and computer program product for simultaneous view and point navigation. In a first embodiment of the invention, a single virtual environment interaction method can include maintaining first and second independent views corresponding to respectively different geometric planes in a single virtual environment, such as a flight simulator, first-person or third-person shooter game or avatar-driven adventure game. The method also can include independently changing the first view responsive to a first input directive from a first input device while concurrently changing the second view responsive to a second input directive from a second input device. Thereafter, the method further can include modifying a point of interest in one of the views responsive to a third input directive from one of the first and second input devices. Optionally, the devices can include an under-mouse sensor and trackpoint included as part of a dual-pointer mouse.
US07768504B2
A haptic feedback planar touch control used to provide input to a computer. A touch input device includes a planar touch surface that inputs a position signal to a processor of the computer based on a location of user contact on the touch surface. The computer can position a cursor in a displayed graphical environment based at least in part on the position signal, or perform a different function. At least one actuator is also coupled to the touch input device and outputs a force to provide a haptic sensation to the user contacting the touch surface. The touch input device can be a touchpad separate from the computer's display screen, or can be a touch screen. Output haptic sensations on the touch input device can include pulses, vibrations, and spatial textures. The touch input device can include multiple different regions to control different computer functions.
US07768501B1
A method and system in a portable computer having a display screen for increasing portable computer compactness. Data is displayed initially within the display screen. The display screen is then partitioned into a touch-sensitive input area and a display area, wherein data input at the touch-sensitive input area may be simultaneously displayed in the display area, in response to a particular user input. A test is performed to detect if a user's hands are positioned at the touch-sensitive input area. A touch-sensitive pad is thereafter graphically displayed at the touch-sensitive input area within the display screen, in response to detecting a user's hands positioned at the touch-sensitive area, wherein a user may enter data that may be simultaneously displayed in the display area. An additional test may then be performed to detect if the user's hands are no longer positioned at the touch-sensitive input area. The touch-sensitive pad is subsequently concealed from view, in response to detecting if the user's hands are no longer positioned at the touch-sensitive input area. The touch-sensitive pad graphically displayed at the touch-sensitive input area within the display screen may be composed of a touch-sensitive keyboard, which may in and of itself be an ergonomic keyboard.
US07768496B2
Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for increasing the perceived brightness of an image. In some embodiments this increase compensates for a decrease in display light-source illumination.
US07768495B2
An apparatus and method for controlling luminance in an liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal display panel having at least two designated areas; at least two lamp units irradiating light the designated areas of the liquid crystal display panel; an arithmetic unit configured to scan image pixels within each of the designated areas of the liquid crystal display panel, to extract a peak value of the gray level of pixels, and to calculate an average peak value for each designated area; and a lamp driver configured to control the lamp units, irradiating light to each designated area, based on the average peak value.
US07768494B2
The invention provides a circuit device for reducing the number of fabrication processes. A circuit portion 12 provides power supply voltage V10 to a node N0 through a first route 52 and power supply voltage V−5 to the node N0 through a second route 62. The circuit device includes a TFT 50 disposed on the first route 52, a TFT 60 disposed on the first route 52 and coupled to the TFT 50, a TFT 60 disposed on the second route 62, a TFT 61 disposed on the second route 62 and coupled to the TFT 60, a third route 54 providing power supply voltage V5 between V10 and V−5 to between the TFT 50 and 51, and a fourth route 64 providing power supply voltage V0 between V10 and V−5 to between the TFT 60 and 61.
US07768488B2
A liquid crystal display device afflicted with no image persistence is disclosed. The liquid crystal display device according to the present invention comprises a pixel portion in which a plurality of pixel TFTs are matrix-wise disposed, a source driver and a gate driver which feed a plurality of the TFTs with picture signals, and a liquid crystal material which has substantially no threshold value, characterized in that one frame is formed of a plurality of sub-frames, and, during at least one of a plurality of the sub-frames, the display by a reset signal is performed.
US07768487B2
A driving system for an electro-luminescence display device includes an organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel having a plurality of pixels. The pixels include a red pixel, a green pixel and a blue pixel. The driving system includes a controller and a level shift unit. The controller receives a first digital data and converts the first digital data into a second digital data for a gray scale display. The level shift unit converts the second digital signal to a data voltage and supplies the data voltage to the pixels. The level shift unit operates to provide a different source voltage to the red pixel, the green pixel and the blue pixel. The red, green and blue pixels may be independently and separately controlled.
US07768486B2
An organic light emitting display capable of reducing power consumption and controlling brightness in response to the intensities of peripheral light. The organic light emitting display includes a data driver for supplying data signals to data lines, a scan driver for sequentially supplying scan signals to scan lines and sequentially supplying emission control signals to emission control lines, a display region including a plurality of pixels for receiving the data signals, the scan signals and the emission control signals to display images and a brightness controller for controlling the brightness of the display region. The brightness controller controls the brightness of the display region in response to the data of one frame and the intensities of peripheral light. This system reduces power consumption, controls the brightness of the display region in response to the intensities of the peripheral light and improves the contrast of the display region.
US07768485B2
Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including a pixel array and a driver configured to drive the pixel array, the pixel array having scanning lines as rows, signal lines as columns, a matrix of pixels disposed at respective intersections of the scanning lines and the signal lines, and power supply lines disposed along respective rows of the pixels, the driver having a main scanner for successively supplying control signals to the scanning lines to perform line-sequential scanning on the rows of the pixels, a power supply scanner for supplying a power supply voltage, which selectively switches between a first potential and a second potential, to the power supply lines in synchronism with the line-sequential scanning, and a signal selector for supplying a signal potential, which serves as a video signal, and a reference potential to the signal lines as the columns in synchronism with the line-sequential scanning.
US07768480B2
A problem is to be solved that there is to be provided a plasma display device capable of generating driving signals with less variation in delay time and without carrying out any phase adjustment. There is provided a plasma display device including; a first display electrode; a second display electrode adapted to cause a discharge to occur between the first display electrode and the second display electrode; a first display electrode drive circuit for applying a discharge voltage to the first display electrode; and a second display electrode drive circuit for applying a discharge voltage to the second display electrode. The first display electrode drive circuit has a first output element for supplying a first electric potential to the first display electrode in accordance with a first input signal which is inputted by using a transformer.
US07768479B2
To generate a rising or falling edge simultaneously on the electrodes Ys and Ysa of a plasma display cell, the invention provides for the use of the power recovery circuit of the control device in order to apply, to one of the electrodes Yas and Y, the rising edge applied to the other of the electrodes by a dedicated circuit.
US07768472B2
An embodiment of the present invention includes a technique to attach a wireless antenna to a consumer electronics (CE) device. A removable bezel holds a display assembly of the CE device. An antenna attachment mechanism integrated to the removable bezel at a pre-determined location to allow connection to a radio frequency (RF) communication circuit internal to the CE device. The antenna attachment mechanism is adapted for attachment to a wireless antenna used in a wireless transmission. In another embodiment, a wireless antenna is integrated within the removable bezel at a pre-determined location. The wireless antenna is coupled to the RF communication circuit for a wireless transmission. In yet another embodiment, an antenna assembly is attached to the removable bezel at a pre-determined location. The antenna assembly has a wireless antenna coupled to the RF communication circuit for a wireless transmission.
US07768468B2
An antennal arrangement for radio signals includes two loop antennas. Each of the antennas is provided with a capacitor. The antennas are separated from one another by a gap and are coupled to each other by a conductor.
US07768464B2
An antenna device includes a supporting body and an antenna. The supporting body has two arms and a connecting portion disposed between and connecting the two arms. The antenna has a grounding portion extending from one end of one of the arms. A free end of the grounding portion perpendicularly extends toward the other arm to form a first radiating strip, and a second radiating strip, a third radiating strip and a fourth radiating strip are respectively integrally formed in turn. The first, second, third and fourth radiating strips together define substantially a rectangular shape. A feed-in portion extends from the first radiating strip. The grounding portion connects the supporting body functioning as a ground of the antenna, which increases the area of the grounding for the antenna and enhances the performance of signal transmitting and receiving of the antenna device.
US07768457B2
An integrated antenna and chip package and method of manufacturing thereof. The package includes a first substrate having a first surface and a second surface, The second surface is configured to interface the chip package to a circuit board. A second substrate of the package is disposed on the first surface of the first substrate and is made of a dielectric material. One or more antennas are disposed on the second substrate and a communication device is coupled to the antenna, wherein the communication device is disposed on the second substrate in substantially the same plane as the antenna. A lid is coupled to the first substrate and is configured to encapsulate the antenna and the communication device. The lid has a lens that is configured to allow radiation from the antenna to be emitted therethrough and a shoulder configured to transfer heat produced from the communication device.
US07768455B2
An antenna for controlling a radiation pattern includes a first substrate; a first radiator formed in one surface of the first substrate; a second radiator formed in other surface of the first substrate; and a tuning part which controls a radiation pattern by changing a size of an overlapping region of the first radiator and the second radiator disposed with the first substrate interposed therebetween according to an external control signal. The tuning part includes a plurality of sub-radiators arranged by at least one side of the first radiator or the second radiator, and a plurality of switches. Accordingly, the beam radiation pattern can be easily controlled through the switch control.
US07768453B2
Adjusting a calibrated phased array includes receiving conditions data describing conditions at a phased array. The phased array comprises antenna element sets, where an antenna element set comprises antenna elements and is associated with a calibration value. The following is performed for each antenna element set. A temperature value is established for an antenna element set according to the conditions data. A temperature-dependent correction value corresponding to the temperature value is established. A correction value is determined for the antenna element set according to the temperature-dependent correction value and the calibration value associated with the each antenna element set. At least one antenna element of the antenna element set is adjusted according to the correction value.
US07768448B2
An all-digital line-of-sight (LOS) process architecture addresses the size, weight, power and performance constraints of a receiver for use in semi-active or active pulsed electromagnetic (EM) targeting systems. The all-digital architecture provides a platform for enhanced techniques for sensitive pulse detection over a wide field-of-view, adaptive pulse detection, LOS processing and counter measures.
US07768445B2
A radar system utilizing a CW radar system, including an FMCW radar, is capable of avoiding interference wave generation and of simultaneously covering a number of radar systems within limited frequency modulation bands. The radar system 1 for emitting into space transmission radio waves based on a frequency-modulated continuous wave reference, and receiving transmission radio waves reflected from an external object, as well as for obtaining beat signals, from the received signals and the continuous wave reference, and computing from the beat signals obtained, a distance to and a velocity of the external object, comprises a pulse generation means 13 for pulsing the continuous-wave reference at an interval unique to the radar system, and an antenna 16 for emitting into space, the pulse transmit signals as the transmission radio waves.
US07768440B2
An advertising apparatus 10 including a generally flat base 12 and a broad face 14 which forms an acute angle 16 with the generally flat base 12. Further, the broad face 14 includes several display portions 20, 22, and 18 which, in one non-limiting embodiment of the invention, are programmable. In one non-limiting embodiment, the apparatus may include a selectively depressible alarm switch 100.
US07768438B1
A sample and integrate circuit includes first and second switching devices. A first terminal of the first switching device communicates with a first input voltage when the first switching device is in the second state. The first terminal of the first switching device communicates with a first voltage reference when the first switching device is in the first state. A first capacitance communicates with the second terminal of the first switching device. A first terminal of the second switching device communicates with a second input voltage when the second switching device is in the first state. The first terminal of the second switching device communicates with a second voltage reference when the second switching device is in the second state. A first input of an amplifier communicates with the first capacitance and a second capacitance. A second input of the amplifier communicates with a third capacitance and a fourth capacitance.
US07768418B2
A method and apparatus are provided for incorporating guided network cable Move/Add/Change (MAC) work order capability into a power patch panel. MAC work orders may be controlled and monitored using in-band signaling using, e.g., standard RJ-45 patch cords. Cable detection is performed at a port level on a real-time basis. Coordination of guided MAC operations may be performed by the patch panel, independently, or in conjunction with, or under the control of, a remote Network Management System. The patch panel may be in either an interconnect or cross-connect configuration.
US07768414B2
A medical gas alarm system for use in a healthcare facility having a medical gas system and having a network of computer devices is provided. The alarm system includes at least one area alarm controller adapted to receive a first signal indicative of a condition of a first portion of the medical gas system. The area alarm controller is adapted to communicate with the network. The alarm system also includes at least one master alarm controller adapted to receive a second signal indicative of a condition of a second portion of the medical gas system. The master alarm controller is adapted to communicate with the network. The area alarm controller is adapted to communicate with the master alarm controller through the network.
US07768412B2
A method of monitoring moisture in a building is carried out using moisture detectors, which provide an output resistance value ranging from a dry value in the absence of moisture and different wet values in the presence of moisture depending on the quantity of moisture. Rather than emit an alarm based solely on a moisture threshold, a risk assessment of potential damage is calculated for at least a part of the building using the wet values from the moisture detectors for the sensor zones using as input data the wet values and as a first additional factor a value which is indicative of a total area of the moisture as provided by the number of sensor zones that are responding with a wet value and as a second additional value the number of consecutive time periods that the sensor zone has reported wet value. The calculation can use computer modeling to calculate a risk factor for growth of mold or a risk factor for growth of timber decay fungi.
US07768407B2
An RFID device interposer has folded ends that bring conductive lead end portions of conductive leads of the interposer to an underside of the interposer. The central conductive lead portions of the conductive leads remain on an upper surface of a dielectric substrate of the interposer. The folded ends of the interposer may be held together with an adhesive, or with thermal compression bonding. The interposer may also have an additional conductive material layer on an underside of the dielectric substrate. The conductive material layer may be capacitively coupled to the conductive leads of the interposer. The interposer may be tuned by varying the pressure used to secure the folded ends. This may be used to provide a better impedance match between a chip of the interposer, and the conductive leads and an antenna to which the interposer is coupled.
US07768406B1
The present disclosure provides a power rectifier for a Radio Frequency Identification tag circuit. The power rectifier can be constructed from serially coupled rectifier stages. One of the rectifier stages includes a backflow reduction device or a bias preservation circuit, or both, at least one of which us controlled by a signal derived from a control signal source of the tag circuit.
US07768403B2
A system for tracking files and documents includes: a plurality of programmable networked tags operable at a low radio frequency not exceeding one megahertz; a plurality of files with the programmable networked tag affixed to each file; a container for the plurality of files; a base station configured for transmission of signals to and from the plurality of programmable networked tags; and a computer in communication with the base station. The computer includes software for enabling real-time transmissions and a graphical user interface for enabling a user to read and write data to be transmitted to and from the plurality of programmable networked tags.
US07768400B2
An electromagnetic radiation decoupler for decoupling radiation in the wavelength range λmin to λmax. The decoupler has a first conductor layer in contact with a dielectric layer which comprises at least one area of absence and the thickness of the decoupler is less than λmin/4n, where n is the refractive index of the dielectric. The dielectric layer may be sandwiched between two conductor layers, one of which has the structure described above. The invention is also directed to methods of using and various articles comprising such a decoupler.
US07768399B2
The invention relates to a fixture (1) for at least one object, especially merchandise or packagings for merchandise. According to the invention, a means (21) for automatically determining the frequency with which said at least one object is removed from and/out of the fixture (1) and a control means (23) for transmitting at least one signal in accordance with the determined frequency of removal are provided.
US07768392B1
Systems and methods provide for determining a distance between a signpost and a tag and for locating a tag using multiple signposts. The system uses a signal received at a tag from a signpost, and from them measures the signal strength of the signal with respect to one or more antennas on the tag. The system calculates an RSSI using the measured signal strength, from which a distance can be determined between the signpost and the tag. The system also uses signals received from multiple signposts, to measure multiple signal strengths, resulting in multiple distance determinations corresponding to the various signposts, thereby establishing a location for the tag.
US07768391B2
Conventionally, people have to go to the place where a measurement instrument for health data is, to obtain health data and the like. Further, even when using a portable measurement instrument, people have to manage data by themselves, thus health data cannot be managed rapidly. According to the invention, a modulating circuit, a demodulating circuit, a logic circuit, a sensor circuit, and an antenna circuit are provided over an insulating substrate, thereby data sensed by the sensor circuit is transmitted wirelessly. According to the invention, health data on the living body (for example a human body) is sensed and can be rapidly detected.
US07768388B2
A system to convey user alert messages is disclosed. The system may have a alert service coupled between alert providers and a number of households. After receiving in the alert service an alert message from an alert provider, the alert service may alter the alert message to identify the household designated to receive the alert message. The alert service sends a notification to a home media system within the household designated to receive the alert message.
US07768384B2
A power management device includes: a calculating unit that calculates the number of parking allowed days of a vehicle, based on information about the battery state and information about the current to be consumed by the vehicle while the vehicle is parked; an obtaining unit that obtains a response indicating the number of parking days from the user in reply to a notification of the number of parking allowed days; and a control unit that causes a notifying unit to notify the user of the number of parking allowed days calculated by the calculating unit, and prohibits an engine stop until the charge amount of the battery reaches the necessary charge amount through a charging operation, when a determining unit determines that the battery needs to be charged in accordance with the number of parking allowed days and the number of parking days obtained by the obtaining unit.
US07768378B2
Disclosed is apparatus and methodology for providing a retrofittable lock assembly for an enclosure. A manually or electronically accessible lock assembly has been provided that may be attached to an enclosure to control access to items stored in the enclosure. In a particular form, the retrofittable lock may be applied to a refrigerator used to store controlled medications. The retrofittable lock contains electronic circuitry that maintains a record of user identification, date, and time of access of users seeking access to items stored in the enclosure.
US07768376B2
This invention provides thermal sensors and imagers that are flexible and capable of conforming to curved surfaces and corresponding methods of making and methods of thermal sensing. The thermal sensors contain an array of thermal resistors patterned in a row and column configuration, with each thermal resistor electrically isolated from other thermal resistors within the sensor. Thermal information is obtained from a region by measuring the resistance of each thermal resistor and calculating a thermal resistance for each entry of the array.
US07768367B2
A circular magnetic switch comprises a circuit device and a ring. The circuit device is provided with a plurality of magnetic induction elements and the ring is provided with a plurality of circularly arranged magnets, so that the magnetic induction elements are able to sense the relatively positional changes of the magnets when the ring is turned. The circular magnetic switch is characterized in that: at least an anti-interference magnet is further provided between at least two magnets of the plurality of magnets and the polarity of two magnets is opposite to that of the anti-inference magnets that is provided between the two magnets.
US07768363B1
An RF coupling circuit including a transformer and a parallel AC-coupling capacitor can advantageously ameliorate substantial attenuation of a signal, prevent destabilization of any feedback loop, and simplify the circuit design process. The AC-coupling capacitor can act as an “averager”, i.e. both the input and output sides of coupling circuit represent capacitances equal to the average of the input and the output capacitances. Thus, the inductors for tuning them out can become equal, thereby allowing a symmetric (or near symmetric) transformer to be used in the RF coupling circuit. When tuned properly, the transformer plus AC-coupling capacitor can also advantageously provide better in-band gain as well as frequency selectivity than other conventional coupling circuits.
US07768361B2
An integrated circuit comprises a microelectromechanical (MEMS) resonator circuit that generates a reference frequency and that includes a semiconductor oscillator that generates resonator drive signal having a drive frequency and a MEMS resonator that receives the resonator drive signal. A temperature sensor senses a temperature of the integrated circuit. Memory stores calibration parameters and selects at least one of the calibration parameters as a function of the sensed temperature, wherein the drive frequency is based on the calibration parameters.
US07768350B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes multiple gain stages to receive and amplify a differential input signal at different common mode voltages. The stages each may include a pair of linear NMOS gain transistors coupled to a primary coil of a given output transformer. One of the stages may include commonly coupled terminals coupled to a center tap of the primary coil of an output transformer of another stage, and a supply current provided to one of the stages is re-used for the other stage(s).
US07768348B2
The potential of a source terminal of a transistor is fixed; a load is connected to a drain terminal of the transistor; and an input signal is received by a gate terminal of the transistor. A series circuit including an inductor and a capacitor connected in series is provided between a connection point of the drain terminal of the transistor and the load and an output terminal of a high-frequency circuit. A band-pass filter having a prescribed characteristic is configured by an output equivalent circuit expressing an output impedance of the transistor, the load, and the series circuit.
US07768344B2
Disclosed are a high-efficiency power amplifier and base station device with respect to high-speed, broadband radio communication method. A broadband power supply circuit includes a linear voltage amplifier to which an input signal is applied, a resistor connected to an output side of the linear voltage amplifier, a switching regulator amplifying the voltage difference between both ends of the resistor to convert the amplified voltage difference into current, and a high frequency amplifier. The high frequency amplifier is designed to exhibit high efficiency at a frequency band where the efficiency of the switching regulator starts to be deteriorated, or at a high frequency band where the operation of the linear amplifier is dominant. In this case, the amplification of low frequency components are performed by the switching regulator, and the amplification of high frequency components are performed by the linear amplifier and the high frequency amplifier.
US07768339B2
Provided is a voltage regulator for limiting a rush current from an output stage transistor. The voltage regulator includes an output current limiting circuit having a low detection current value and an output current limiting circuit having a high detection current value, and is structured so as to enable operation of the output current limiting circuit having a low detection current value during a time period from a state in which an overheat protection circuit detects overheat and an output current is stopped to a state in which an overheat protection is canceled and a predetermined time passes. Accordingly, after the overheat protection is cancelled, an excessive rush current can be limited.
US07768338B2
A method is provided for the electronic processing of analog signals in thermaltronic device. The method accepts an analog input signal, e.g., an AC signal, at a thermaltronic device input and generates a thermal electric (TE) temperature having a first transfer function responsive to the input signal. As opposed to having a digital response, the transfer function is either linear or logarithmic. An analog output signal, e.g., an AC signal, is generated having a second transfer function responsive to the TE, which is likewise either linear or logarithmic.
US07768335B2
A voltage level shifter circuit is provided. A high power voltage is input to a first power voltage terminal, an enable signal is input to an enable terminal, and an intermediate voltage level between the first power voltage and a high enable signal voltage is input to a second power voltage terminal. First and second inverters are connected to the enable terminal. A first transistor has a source connected to the second inverter. A second transistor has a drain connected to a drain of the first transistor, a source connected to the second power voltage terminal, and a gate connected to an output terminal of the first inverter. Third and fourth transistors have gates connected to the outputs of the first and second transistors, the fourth transistor having a source connected to the first power voltage terminal.
US07768319B1
A clock input filter uses a first programmable low-pass delay element to filter during a low period of an input clock signal and to output a SET signal. The clock input filter uses a second programmable low-pass delay element to filter during a high period of the input clock signal and to output a RESET signal. A latch is set and reset by the SET and RESET signals. The latch outputs a filtered version of the input signal that has the same approximate duty cycle as the input signal. A pair of gates generates a corresponding pair of duty cycle adjusted versions of the input signal. Output multiplexing circuitry is provided to output either the output of the latch, or an increased duty cycle version of the input signal, or a decreased duty cycle version of the input signal, or an unfiltered version of the input signal.
US07768318B2
A method and a circuit for detecting a disturbance of a state of at least one first flip-flop from a group of several first flip-flops of an electronic circuit, wherein: the respective outputs of the first flip-flops in the group are, independently from their functional purpose, combined to provide a signal and its inverse, triggering two second flip-flops having data inputs forced to a same state, the respective outputs of the second flip-flops being combined to provide the result of the detection; and a pulse signal comprising a pulse at least for each triggering edge of one of the first flip-flops in the group initializes the second flip-flops.
US07768314B2
An FPGA needs extremely large numbers of switches in its wiring architecture and therefore shows low logic density and low operating speed. This tendency becomes increasingly evident with high integration FPGAs. 3-dimensional FPGAs are getting attention for potential improvements in their operating speed and logic density. However, 3-dimensional integration processes have poor yield and are difficult to adapt for the production of devices with fine features. In addition, difficulty in heat radiation imposes limits on the number of stacks. The present invention exploits advantages of the 3-dimensional FPGA to deliver FPGAs with high speed/high integration and which resolves difficulty in manufacturing processes. The present invention solves problems by proposing a design method for an FPGA in which a high dimensional FPGA switch topology is embedded in a lower dimensional integrated circuit and a semiconductor integrated circuit including an FPGA in which a high dimensional FPGA switch topology is embedded in a lower dimensional integrated circuit.
US07768309B2
An integrated circuit output driver is provided that exhibits improved performance and signal integrity. In one embodiment, the integrated circuit output driver is fabricated in a process having thin-gate MOS transistors and thick-gate MOS transistors and includes a predriver circuit, a level shifter circuit, and a driver circuit. The predriver circuit is formed predominantly of thin-gate transistors, and the driver circuit is formed predominantly of thick-gate transistors. In other embodiments, a low-pass power supply filter is provided. In still other embodiments, a voltage regulator circuit is provided, wherein an operating potential of at least one of the predriver circuit and the level shifter circuit is less than the specified supply voltage. In one embodiment, the voltage regulator circuit produces: i) a reduced internal supply voltage that is applied to the predriver circuit; and ii) an elevated ground voltage that is applied to the level shifter circuit.
US07768306B2
A low to high voltage conversion output driver. The low to high voltage conversion output driver has an output coupled to a first fixed voltage via a load device and comprises a current source, a low voltage transistor, and a high voltage transistor. The current source has one end coupled to a second fixed voltage. The low voltage transistor has a first terminal coupled to the other end of the current source, a second terminal receiving a low voltage data signal, and a third terminal. The high voltage transistor has a first terminal coupled to the third terminal of the low voltage transistor, a second terminal coupled to a bias source, and a third terminal coupled to the output.
US07768300B1
In one embodiment, a programmable logic device (PLD) includes a slave port and a master port. The slave port can receive a configuration data bitstream and a slave clock signal from a master port of a first external device. The master port can provide the configuration data bitstream and a master clock signal from the PLD to a slave port of a second external device. An interface block in the PLD can pass the configuration data bitstream from the slave port through the PLD to the master port. In another embodiment, a PLD includes a slave serial peripheral interface (SPI) port and configuration memory. The slave SPI port can receive a configuration data bitstream and a slave clock signal from a master SPI port of an external device. The configuration memory stores the received bitstream for configuring the PLD.
US07768297B2
A multi-drop bus system and a method for operating such a system. The system includes a multi-drop bus having at least one bus line, each bus line being made up of a multiple of line segments. Each of the line segments terminates at a drop point and each drop point is coupled to a load impedance. The characteristic impedance of a line segment is matched to the equivalent impedance presented by the load impedance in combination with the characteristic impedance of a following segment, or is matched to the load impedance if there is no following segment.
US07768296B2
A current boost module receives a signal from the input and the output of a buffer to determine whether the buffer is transitioning between logic states. When the buffer is transitioning, a boost current is provided to a load connected to the buffer output to supplement the current from buffer output, thereby facilitating transition of a signal at the load. The current boost module can shut down the boost current before the signal at the load completes its transition from one logic state to the other.
US07768294B2
The disclosed invention is intended to decrease the power consumption of a pulse latch circuit. A pulse latch circuit that operates in sync with a pulsed clock signal, including a first operation mode in which shifting test pattern scan data is performed and a second operation mode in which shifting the test pattern scan data is not performed, comprises the following circuits: a first latch circuit that is able to latch input data in sync with the clock signal; a second latch circuit that is connected to the first latch circuit and is able to latch the test pattern scan data to be shifted in sync with the clock signal; and a control circuit that stops supply of the clock signal to the second latch circuit during the second operation mode. By thus stopping the supply of the clock signal to the second latch circuit, decrease the power consumption is achieved.
US07768291B2
The present invention inspects a defect of a photo sensor element or a photo sensor line. A display device includes a substrate, a plurality of pixels formed on a display region of the substrate, and a plurality of video lines for applying a video voltage to the plurality of pixels. The substrate includes at least one photo sensor element which is formed on a region outside the display region, a photo sensor line which is connected with at least one photo sensor element, and at least one first switching element which connects at least one photo sensor element and at least one video line out of the plurality of video lines. At the time of inspecting the photo sensor element, the first switching element is turned on and, at the same time, a predetermined inspection voltage is applied to at least one photo sensor element via the photo sensor line thus applying a signal to the pixel via the first switching element and the video line, and in response to a turn-on state of the pixel at the time of applying the signal to the pixel, a defect of at least one of at least one photo sensor element and the photo sensor line can be detected.
US07768286B2
An electronic device testing apparatus is described that includes a temperature measurement device for measuring a temperature of an IC device based on a voltage of a thermal diode provided inside the IC device, a temperature sensor and a temperature applying device provided to a pusher, and a temperature control portion for calculating a correction value from a difference of a measurement temperature of a predetermined IC device by the temperature measurement device and that by the temperature sensor. A temperature of the IC device to be tested is measured by the temperature measurement device at an actual operation, and the temperature applying device is controlled based on the obtained measurement temperature and the correction value calculated by the temperature control portion.
US07768285B2
Provided is a probe card for semiconductor IC test on one principal surface of which are formed a plurality of probe electrodes, such as bump electrodes (5), and which has, in a peripheral portion thereof, a thin film sheet (9) fixed to a support, such as a ceramics ring (7). A local tension-changed portion (12) is formed in the thin film sheet (9) fixed to the ceramics ring (7) so that a tensile strain is generated, and the plurality of bump electrodes (5) are arranged in prescribed positions that connect electrically to electrodes of each semiconductor IC element of the semiconductor wafer. The tensile strain of the thin film sheet (9) is changed positively and in a sustained manner, whereby the bump electrodes (5) are rearranged in desired positions.
US07768283B1
A universal socketless integrated circuit (IC) electrical test fixture is provided. The test fixture is made up of a probing platform to accept and heatsink an IC. The IC has electrical contacts formed on a bottom surface in an array of m rows, where each row includes n, or less contacts. A probe arm includes p probe pins, where p is greater than, or equal to n. A clamping mechanism mechanically interfaces the probe arm probe pins to a row of IC contacts under test. An electrical measurement device has a first interface connected to the p probe pins of the probe arm to measure electrical characteristics associated with the IC contacts under test. The probe arm, clamping mechanism, and probe platform work in cooperation to electrically interface any row of the IC contacts with the electrical measurement device.
US07768270B2
Systems, methods and program products related to a tether free pigable inspection tool capable of detecting holidays and able to read and store non-conductive internal coating thickness values in very long conductive pipes, along with distance values for further off-line analysis, are provided. The inspection tool includes a plurality of thickness probes, a data storage unit, a control unit, a plurality of navigation wheels and a holiday detector that uses an electrical conductive medium, such as a gas or fluid, as the ground connection. A closed loop configuration is adopted allowing the system to autocorrect itself for different coating thicknesses along the pipe.
US07768269B2
A method of responding to voltage or current transients during processing of a wafer in a plasma reactor at each of plural RF power applicators and at the wafer support surface. For each process step and for each of the power applicators and the wafer support surface, the method includes determining an arc detection threshold lying above a noise level. The method further includes comparing each transient with the threshold determined for the corresponding power applicator or wafer support surface, and issuing an arc detect flag if the transient exceeds the threshold.
US07768268B2
Test methods and components are disclosed for testing the quality of the ground connection fabrication process for ESD shunt resistors in magnetic heads. A wafer is populated with one or more test components along with magnetic heads. The test components are fabricated with ESD shunt resistor ground connections created by the same or similar process used to fabricate the ESD shunt resistor ground connections in magnetic heads on the wafer. The resistance of the test component ground connections may then be measured in order to determine the quality of the ground connections formed by the fabrication process. The quality of the ground connection fabrication process may then be determined based on the measured resistance of the test components.
US07768255B2
There is provided an interconnection substrate used in skew adjustment between output pins in a test apparatus, the test apparatus supplying a test signal to a device under test to test the device under test, the interconnection substrate including: a first terminal coupled to a first output pin that outputs the test signal; a second terminal coupled to a second output pin that outputs the test signal; a first interconnection connecting the first terminal to a bonding node; a second interconnection connecting the second terminal to the bonding node; and a third interconnection connecting the bonding node to an output node, where the first interconnection and the second interconnection have a length equal to each other.
US07768249B2
A magnetic indexer for locating a device producing a magnetic field in a blind or inaccessible position of a work piece. A magnet is initially placed on a first side of the work piece such that a magnetic field produced by the magnet extends through the work piece and substantially perpendicular to a surface of the work piece. A device comprising a plurality of probes for sensing magnetic fields is then positioned over a second surface of the work piece. The probes are then moved over the second surface to determine the location of the axis of the magnet via the strength of the sensed magnetic field. Once the position of the axis of the magnet is determined, the work surface is either marked or worked on through the platform on which the probes are positioned. In particular, a hole may be accurately drilled or otherwise formed directly over the magnet even when the first surface of the work piece cannot be seen. Additionally, the present invention allows a very accurate positioning of a work tool on the second surface without the need to first visualize the first surface of the work piece.
US07768235B2
A battery management system and method. The battery management system manages a battery of a hybrid vehicle including a motor, a battery, and a main switch connecting the motor and the battery. The battery management system includes a sensing unit and an MCU. The sensing unit measures the current, the voltage and the temperature of the battery. The MCU integrates the battery current to produce an integrated current value, and determines whether the battery is overcharged or over discharged using the integrated current value.
US07768223B2
Kinematic control of an electronic positioner and its associated actuator is effected through a control algorithm that delivers energy to the actuator based on observed motion produced by a previous delivery of energy. The algorithm achieves control based on a desired or user-specified resolution. Electronic braking between energy delivery intervals improves the speed at which the desired position is achieved. Temperature of the force producing mechanism is determined, as by monitoring energy consumed, and used to control how power is delivered to the actuator.
US07768215B1
An electronic ballast including a rectifying circuit to provide a signal representative of the current signal associated with a buck inductor, a monitoring circuit to provide a monitoring circuit signal when the signal representative of the buck inductor is within a specified range, and a comparing circuit coupled to the rectifying circuit and the monitoring circuit and operable to alter the output of the power converter circuit driving the lamps in response to comparisons between the signals from the rectifying circuit and the monitoring circuit to control power conditions in the ballasts.
US07768190B2
An electron emission display includes first and second substrates facing each other and having a long-axis and a short-axis, first electrodes arranged on the first substrates, second electrodes arranged to intersect the first electrodes while maintaining electrical insulation from the first electrodes, electron emission regions electrically connected to one of the first and second electrodes, and phosphor layers formed on a surface of the second substrate. Intersected regions of the first and second electrodes are disposed at a predetermined angle to either the long-axis or the short-axis.
US07768187B2
The invention relates to charged particle beam accelerators, in particular electron beam accelerators, and can be used for physics, chemistry and medicine. The inventive charged particle beam accelerator comprises a metallic shell fitted with a dielectric material layer arranged therein, and a vacuum channel for electron transit embodied along the central symmetry axis of said metallic shell. In addition, the metallic shell is fitted with a ferroelectric material layer arranged therein. Said ferroelectric material layer can be arranged between the metallic shell and the dielectric material layer or in said dielectric material layer. The invention provides an object with a very important property, i.e. said property makes it possible to control the accelerator parameters and regulate the phase balance of the charged particle beam and the wave that accelerates the particles.
US07768182B2
An optical filter 17 is attached to the display screen surface of a flat display panel 3 of a flat display apparatus. The optical filter 17 is constituted of a lamination of an electromagnetic-wave blocking sheet 17A, an infrared-radiation absorbing and color-tone correcting sheet 17B and an ambient light antireflective sheet 17C.
US07768172B2
A permanent magnet type electric rotary machine includes a stator including a stator core having teeth and slots, and a rotor provided with permanent magnets as magnet poles in a rotor core. A pole core portion which between each of the permanent magnets and an outer surface of the rotor core is provided with a plurality of pole slits. A region of the pole core portion is defined by concave portions provided on q-axes to be interpolars on both sides of the pole core portion, and thereby configured that a gap between the outer surface on the q-axis of the rotor core and an inner surface of the stator core is larger than a gap between the outer surface on the d-axis of the pole core portion and the inner surface of the stator, so that magnetic fluxes from the permanent magnet pass through the pole core portion concentrately.
US07768145B2
A power generator includes at least one underwater turbine unit providing a housing having a flow channel therethrough and at least one turbine means mounted in the flow channel for rotation in response to water flow through the flow channel. The turbine unit provides a turbine unit part releasably mountable in the turbine unit. The turbine unit part includes at least one of the at least one turbine means and a pump means. The turbine unit part is releasably mountable through an aperture in a side wall of the housing.
US07768143B2
The invention relates to apparatus which allows the movement of a body of water, such as that created by waves and/or a swell in the sea, to be utilized to generate power. The apparatus includes a first member in the form of a float, which is connected to a second member and at least one rotatable means connected to a power generator. In one embodiment the second member is connected with and supported on the first member while the rotatable member and power generator are provided at a relatively fixed location and coupled to second member such that relative movement of the second member with respect to the rotatable means is used to cause the generation of power.
US07768139B2
A power semiconductor module is disclosed with a housing that includes a hardenable plastic casting compound and a base plate, wherein electric power semiconductor components are arranged on a section of the surface of the base plate that faces the housing via an insulating layer. At least the section of the surface of the base plate that faces the housing and contains the electric power semiconductor components is encapsulated in the housing wherein the hardenable plastic casting compound has a hardness between 30 and 95 ShoreA.
US07768131B1
A package structure preventing solder overflow on substrate solder pads includes a plurality of die pins, a plurality of solders and a plurality of substrate solder pads. The die pins are located under a die. The substrate solder pads are formed on an upper surface of a substrate by copper plating or etching. Each of the substrate solder pads has at least one solder pad connection point. The solders connect the die pins with the corresponding solder pad connection points, respectively. Each of the solder pad connection points has a pair of solder pad ridges or a pair of solder pad grooves. The solder pad ridges and the solder pad grooves filled with the solder or a resin can prevent the solder overflow problem.
US07768128B2
Integrated circuit memory devices include an integrated circuit substrate and a plurality of lower wiring lines on the substrate and extending in a first direction. An interlayer insulating layer is on the plurality of lower wiring lines. An upper damascene wiring line is in an upper portion of the interlayer insulating layer and extending in a second direction, different from the first direction, to extend over the plurality of lower wiring lines. The upper damascene wiring line has protruded regions extending therefrom in a direction different from the second direction, the protruded regions extending over respective underlying ones of the lower wiring lines. A first via extends through the interlayer insulating layer under a first of the protruded regions and connects the upper damascene wiring line to a corresponding underlying first one of the plurality of wiring lines. A second via extends through the interlayer insulating layer under a second of the protruded regions and connects the upper damascene wiring line to a corresponding underlying second one of the plurality of wiring lines.
US07768126B2
Embodiments of barriers to use in semiconductor devices are presented herein.
US07768122B2
A semiconductor package has a substrate having a first heat transfer path for transferring heat from an optical functional element to a back surface of the substrate, a first heat dissipation unit dissipating the transferred heat therefrom, a second heat transfer path for transferring heat generated in an internal cavity and heat from a window lid itself to a back surface and/or a side surface of the substrate, a second heat dissipation unit dissipating the transferred heat therefrom. The heat transfer paths extend through the substrate and have thermal vias.
US07768118B2
A semiconductor device has a substrate, a semiconductor element, an electrode lead, and a sealing resin portion. The substrate has a main surface on which a circuit pattern is formed. The semiconductor element has first and second surfaces, and is arranged on the substrate such that the first surface faces the main surface. The electrode lead has one end joined to the circuit pattern and the other end joined by soldering to the second surface. The other end has a plurality of portions divided from each other. The sealing resin portion seals the semiconductor element and the electrode lead. Thus, there can be provided a semiconductor device that has relieved thermal stress at a joining portion of the electrode lead, and therefore is less subject to fatigue failure.
US07768117B2
A microelectronic unit has a structure including a microelectronic element such as a semiconductor chip with a first contact disposed remote from the periphery of the structure. The unit further includes first and second redistribution conductive pads disposed near a periphery of the structure and a conductive path incorporating first and second conductors extending toward the first contact, these conductors being connected to one another adjacent the first contact. The conductive path is connected to the first contact, and can provide signal routing from the periphery of the unit to the contact without the need for long stubs. A package may include a plurality of such units, which may be stacked on one another with the redistribution conductive pads of the various units connected to one another.
US07768114B2
A semiconductor package includes a semiconductor chip having a circuit section. A first chip selection electrode passes through a first position of the semiconductor chip, and the first chip selection electrode has a first resistance and outputs a first signal. A second chip selection electrode passes through a second position of the semiconductor chip, and the second chip selection electrode has a second resistance greater than the first resistance and outputs a second signal. A signal comparison part is formed in the semiconductor chip and is electrically connected to the first and second chip selection electrodes. The signal comparison part compares the first signal applied from the first chip selection electrode to the second signal applied from the second chip selection electrode and outputs a chip selection signal to the circuit section depending upon the result of the comparison.
US07768108B2
A semiconductor die package. The semiconductor die package includes a leadframe structure, a first semiconductor die comprising a first surface attached to a first side of the leadframe structure, and a second semiconductor die attached to a second side of the leadframe structure. The second semiconductor die comprises an integrated circuit die. A housing material is formed over at least a portion of the leadframe structure, the first semiconductor die, and the second semiconductor die. An exterior surface of the molding material is substantially coplanar with the first surface of the semiconductor die.
US07768106B2
A multi-chip stack structure and a fabrication method thereof are proposed, including providing a leadframe having a die base and a plurality of leads and disposing a first and a second chips on the two surfaces of the die base respectively; disposing the leadframe on a heating block having a cavity in a wire bonding process with the second chip received in the cavity of the heating block; performing a first wire bonding process to electrically connect the first chip to the leads through a plurality of first bonding wires, and forming a bump on one side of the leads connected with the first bonding wires; disposing the leadframe in an upside down manner to the heating block via the bump with the first chip and the first bonding wires received in the cavity of the heating block; and performing a second wire bonding process to electrically connect the second chip to the leads through a plurality of second bonding wires. The bump is used for supporting the leads to a certain height so as to keep the bonding wires from contacting the heating block and eliminate the need of using a second heating block in the second wire bonding process of the prior art, thereby saving time and costs in a fabrication process. Also, as positions where the first and second bonding wires are bonded to the leads on opposite sides of the leadframe correspond with each other, the conventional problems of adversely affected electrical performance and electrical mismatch can be prevented.
US07768104B2
An apparatus and method for a two semiconductor device package where the semiconductor devices are connected in electrical series. The first device is mounted P-side down on an electrically conductive substrate. Non-active area on the P side is isolated from the electrically conductive substrate. The second device is mounted P-side up at a spaced apart location on the substrate. Opposite sides of each are electrically connected to leads to complete the series connection of the two devices. A method of manufacturing such a package includes providing an electrically conductive lead frame, mounting one device P-side up and flipping the other device and mounting it P-side down on the lead frame with non-active area of the P side isolated from the lead frame, and connecting the other side of each device to separate leads. Isolation of the non-active area of the P side of the device can be through modification of the substrate or lead frame surface by grooves or raised portions. Alternatively, it can be by adding an electrically isolating coating on the non-active area of the P-side of a semiconductor device to allow it to be mounted P side down on an electrically conductive substrate or mounting location without modification to the substrate or lead frame.
US07768098B2
An interconnect path configured for use in RFICs and configured to reduce inductance at the input of an array of cells, and also at the output of the array of cells. According to one preferred embodiment of the present invention, a multi-layered interconnect formed by at least two metal layers separated by dielectric medium is provided. The metal layers are closely spaced and separated by a desirable dielectric to achieve an interconnect having a characteristic inductance (Zo) that is much lower than typical microstrip transmission lines formed by a metal trace over the semiconductor substrate or a dielectric stack that includes the semiconductor substrate. The low Zo line provides much less inductance per unit length.
US07768097B2
An integrated circuit package includes an inductance loop formed from a connection of lead wires and one or more input/output (I/O) package pins. In one embodiment, the inductance loop is formed from first and second wires which connect a first bonding pad on the integrated circuit chip to a first I/O pin of the package and a third and fourth wires which connect a second bonding pad on the chip to a second I/O pin of the package. To complete the inductor loop, the first and second I/O pins are connected by a third conductor between the pins. The third conductor may include one or more bonding wires and the I/O pins are preferably ones which are adjacent one another. However, the loop may be formed from non-adjacent connections of I/O pins based, for example, on loop-length requirements, space considerations, and/or other design or functional factors. In another embodiment, connection between the first and second I/O pins is established by making the I/O pins have a unitary construction. In another embodiment, connection between the first and second I/O pins is established by a metallization layer located either on the surface of the package substrate or within this substrate. By forming the inductor loop within the limits of the integrated circuit package, a substantial reduction in space requirements is realized, which, in turn, promotes miniaturization. Also, the integrated circuit may be implemented in any one of a variety of systems, at least one parameter of which is controlled by the length of the inductor loop of the package.
US07768093B2
A semiconductor device has a heavily doped substrate and an upper layer with doped silicon of a first conductivity type disposed on the substrate, the upper layer having an upper surface and including an active region that comprises a well region of a second, opposite conductivity type. An edge termination zone has a junction termination extension (JTE) region of the second conductivity type, the region having portions extending away from the well region and a number of field limiting rings of the second conductivity type disposed at the upper surface in the junction termination extension region.
US07768091B2
In a conventional ultraviolet sensing device using a diamond semiconductor in a light-receiving unit, an Au-based electrode material is used for both a rectifier electrode and an ohmic electrode. However, the Au-based electrode material has fatal defects, such as poor adhesion to diamond, low mechanical strength, and furthermore poor thermal stability.While avoiding complication of the device structure and exploiting the characteristics of a photoconductive sensing device, by using a carbide compound (TiC, ZrC, HfC, VC, NbC, TaC, CrC, MoC, and WC) of a high melting metal having a high mechanical strength for a rectifier electrode and/or a ohmic electrode, there is provided an extremely heat-stable diamond ultraviolet sensor having a light-receiving sensitivity to ultraviolet light having a wavelength of 260 nm or less.
US07768087B2
A photodiode formed over a silicon substrate is disclosed. The photodiode includes a light-receiving region formed of a diffusion region of a first conduction type at the surface of the silicon substrate and forming a pn junction; an intermediate region formed of a diffusion region of the first conduction type at the surface of the silicon substrate so as to be included in the light-receiving region; a contact region formed of a diffusion region of the first conduction type at the surface of the silicon substrate so as to be included in the intermediate region; a shield layer formed of a diffusion region of a second conduction type in a part of the surface of the silicon substrate outside the intermediate region; and an electrode in contact with the contact region. The shield layer faces the side end part of the diffusion region forming the intermediate region.
US07768083B2
An integrated circuit can have a first substrate supporting a magnetic field sensing element and a second substrate supporting another magnetic field sensing element. The first and second substrates can be arranged in a variety of configurations. Another integrated circuit can have a first magnetic field sensing element and second different magnetic field sensing element disposed on surfaces thereof.
US07768071B2
A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type; a pre-high-voltage well (pre-HVW) in the semiconductor substrate, wherein the pre-HVW is of a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type; a high-voltage well (HVW) over the pre-HVW, wherein the HVW is of the second conductivity type; a field ring of the first conductivity type occupying a top portion of the HVW; and a tunnel of the first conductivity type in the pre-HVW and the HVW, and electrically connecting the field ring and the semiconductor substrate.
US07768068B1
A semiconductor topography and a method for forming a drain extended metal oxide semiconductor (DEMOS) transistor is provided. The semiconductor topography includes at least a portion of an extended drain contact region formed within a well region and a plurality of dielectrically spaced extension regions interposed between the well region and a channel region underlying a gate structure of the topography. The channel region of a first conductivity type and the well region of a second conductivity type opposite of the first conductivity type. In addition, the plurality of dielectrically spaced extension regions and the extended drain contact region are of the second conductivity type. Each of the plurality of dielectrically spaced extension regions has a lower net concentration of electrically active impurities than the well region. Moreover, the extended drain contact region has a greater net concentration of electrically active impurities than the well region.
US07768061B2
A self-aligned 1 bit silicon oxide nitride oxide silicon (SONOS) cell and a method of fabricating the same has high uniformity between adjacent SONOS cells, since the lengths of nitride layers do not vary due to misalignment when etching word lines of the 1 bit SONOS cells. An insulating layer pattern that forms a sidewall of a word line is formed on a semiconductor substrate, and a word line for a gate is formed on the sidewall thereof. Etching an ONO layer using a self-aligned etching spacer provides uniform adjacent SONOS cells.
US07768060B2
An organic electroluminescent display device includes a substrate, gate and data lines on the substrate and crossing each other to define a pixel region, a switching element at each crossing point of the gate and data lines, a driving element coupled to the switching element, a field control electrode coupled to the driving element and overlapping a channel of the driving element, and an organic electroluminescent diode coupled to the driving element.
US07768055B2
Passive components are formed in the back end by using the same deposition process and materials as in the rest of the back end. Resistors are formed by connecting in series individual structures on the nth, (n+1)th, etc levels of the back end. Capacitors are formed by constructing a set of vertical capacitor plates from a plurality of levels in the back end, the plates being formed by connecting electrodes on two or more levels of the back end by vertical connection members.
US07768047B2
An imager element, device and imaging system image sensor pixel. The image sensor pixel includes a collection region, a floating diffusion region, and a transfer transistor having a recessed gate. The recessed gate is configured to couple the collection region to the floating diffusion region so that collected charge is transferred during activation. The recessed gate has an effective gate length greater than a physical gate length.
US07768036B2
This invention includes methods of forming layers comprising epitaxial silicon, and field effect transistors. In one implementation, a method of forming a layer comprising epitaxial silicon comprises epitaxially growing a silicon-comprising layer from an exposed monocrystalline material. The epitaxially grown silicon comprises at least one of carbon, germanium, and oxygen present at a total concentration of no greater than 1 atomic percent. In one implementation, the layer comprises a silicon germanium alloy comprising at least 1 atomic percent germanium, and further comprises at least one of carbon and oxygen at a total concentration of no greater than 1 atomic percent. Other aspects and implementations are contemplated.
US07768034B2
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection network for power MOSFETs includes parallel branches, containing polysilicon zener diodes and resistors, used for protecting the gate from rupture caused by high voltages caused by ESD. The branches may have the same or independent paths for voltage to travel across from the gate region into the semiconductor substrate. Specifically, the secondary branch has a higher breakdown voltage than the primary branch so that the voltage is shared across the two branches of the protection network. The ESD protection network of the device provides a more effective design without increasing the space used on the die. The ESD protection network can also be used with other active and passive devices such as thyristors, insulated-gate bipolar transistors, and bipolar junction transistors.
US07768029B2
An LED lamp has a package and a plurality of light emitting elements that are electrically connected to a plurality of electrode plates provided in the package and that are sealed with transparent material. A red light emitting element of the plurality of light emitting elements is wire bonded along the longitudinal direction of the package, a green light emitting element and a blue light emitting element are flip-chip bonded with its electrode faced down, and the electrodes are extended to a surface opposite to the light emission surface of the LED lamp while being embedded in the package.
US07768028B2
A light emitting apparatus includes a substrate, a first metal layer, an insulating layer and at least one light emitting device. The first metal layer is disposed on the substrate. The insulating layer is disposed on the first metal layer. The light emitting device is disposed on the insulating layer.
US07768026B2
An LED package (200) includes a housing (24), an LED array (22), a phosphor layer (262) and a transparent packaging layer (264). The LED array is received in the housing, the phosphor layer is uniformly and homogenously formed on the LED array; and the transparent packaging layer packages the LED array and the phosphor layer in the housing. A method for fabricating the LED package is also provided.
US07768025B2
An LED having vertical topology and a method of making the same is capable of improving a luminous efficiency and reliability, and is also capable of achieving mass productivity. The method includes forming a semiconductor layer on a substrate; forming a first electrode on the semiconductor layer; forming a supporting layer on the first electrode; generating an acoustic stress wave at the interface between the substrate and semiconductor layer, thereby separating the substrate from the semiconductor layer; and forming a second electrode on the semiconductor layer exposed by the separation of the substrate.
US07768022B2
A light emitting diode and its fabricating method are disclosed. A light emitting diode epitaxy structure is formed on a substrate, and then the light emitting diode epitaxy structure is etched to form a recess. The recess is then filled with a transparent dielectric material. An adhesive layer is utilized to adhere a conductive substrate and the light emitting diode epitaxy structure. Next, the substrate is removed.
US07768020B2
Disclosed herein is an AC light emitting diode. The light emitting diode comprises a plurality of light emitting cells two-dimensionally arranged on a single substrate. Wires electrically connect the light emitting cells to one another to thereby form a serial array of the light emitting cells. Further, the light emitting cells are spaced apart from one another by distances within a range of 10 to 30 D, and the serial array is operated while connected to an AC power source. Accordingly, the excellent operating characteristics and light output power can be secured in an AC light emitting diode with a limited size.
US07768019B2
A two-terminal organic light-emitting device structure is presented with low absorption losses and high current densities. Light generation and emission occur at a predetermined distance from any metallic contact, thereby reducing optical absorption losses. High current densities and thus high emitted light intensity are achieved by combining two types of conduction in one device: by combining space charge limited conduction and field-effect conduction or by combining ohmic conduction and field-effect conduction, thereby optimizing the current densities. This results in a very high local concentration of excitons and therefore a high light intensity, which can be important for applications such as organic lasers, and more in particular electrically pumped organic lasers.
US07768017B2
With a view to preventing increases in forward voltage due to a change with the lapse of time of a bipolar semiconductor device using a silicon carbide semiconductor, a buffer layer, a drift layer and other p-type and n-type semiconductor layers are formed on a growth surface, which is given by a surface of a crystal of a silicon carbide semiconductor having an off-angle θ of 8 degrees from a (000-1) carbon surface of the crystal, at a film growth rate having a film-thickness increasing rate per hour h of 10 μm/h, which is three times or more higher than conventional counterparts. The flow rate of silane and propane material gases and dopant gases is largely increased to enhance the film growth rate.
US07768016B2
An integrated circuit and method for manufacturing an integrated circuit are described. In one embodiment, the integrated circuit includes a memory cell including a resistivity changing memory element and a carbon diode electrically coupled to the resistivity changing memory element.
US07768014B2
As for a memory element implemented in a semiconductor device typified by an RFID, it is an object of the present invention to reduce manufacturing steps and to provide a memory element and a memory circuit having the element with reduced cost. It is a feature of the present invention that a memory element sandwiched between electrodes has an organic compound, and an electrode connected to a semiconductor element controlling the memory element functions as an electrode of the memory element. In addition, an extremely thin semiconductor film formed on an insulated surface is used for the memory element; therefore cost can be reduced.
US07768007B2
Problems exist in areas such as image visibility, endurance of the device, precision, miniaturization, and electric power consumption in an information device having a conventional resistive film method or optical method pen input function. Both EL elements and photoelectric conversion elements are arranged in each pixel of a display device in an information device of the present invention having a pen input function. Information input is performed by the input of light to the photoelectric conversion elements in accordance with a pen that reflects light by a pen tip. An information device with a pen input function, capable of displaying a clear image without loss of brightness in the displayed image, having superior endurance, capable of being miniaturized, and having good precision can thus be obtained.
US07767995B2
A method of providing a p-type substrate, disposing a pad oxide layer on the p-type substrate, disposing a nitride layer on the pad oxide layer, forming a nitride window in the nitride layer, disposing a field oxide in the nitride window, disposing a polysilicon gate over the field oxide, and diffusing a n-doped region in the p-type substrate, thereby forming at least one single-electron tunnel junction between the polysilicon gate and the n-doped region.
US07767991B2
The present invention provides a method of operating an infrared drip sensor in an enteral pump system to reduce false alarm conditions. The method consists of the following steps: optically coupling a infrared beam emitter with an infrared beam detector along an infrared beam path that extends through a drip chamber and intersects the drip path; monitoring the output signal of the infrared beam detector to detect pulses; monitoring the pulses for an interruption thereof; and running an infrared beam power update routine when an interruption is detected in the pulses, the infrared beam power update routine consisting of incrementally increasing a power level of the infrared beam until the power level of the infrared beam is sufficient to re-establish an output signal at the infrared beam detector.
US07767988B2
A particle therapy system is provided. The particle therapy system includes an imaging unit and a rotatable gantry with an irradiation unit. The irradiation unit projects into an irradiation room delimited by a wall. The imaging unit is arranged on a C-arm. The C-arm is operable to be moved between a retracted parking position and an extended diagnostic position for imaging purposes.
US07767983B2
The present invention presents an exposure device, which includes an object stage on which the object is to be set, at least one aperture member for splitting a light beam from an optical source into first and second light beams, first and second spatial light modulators for spatially modulating the first and second light beams, respectively, first and second projection optical systems for irradiating the object with the first and second light beams, at least one first optical sensor for detecting intensity of the light beam from the optical source, one or more second optical sensors for detecting intensities of the first and second light beams from the first and second projection optical systems, respectively, and a decision section for diagnosing status of a route between the aperture member and the object, based on the results of the first and second sensors.
US07767979B2
The invention relates to a composite structure of a sample carrier 20 and a sample holder 30 for use in a TEM, for example. The sample carrier is hereby separately embodied from the sample holder. Although such compositions are already known, the known compositions are very fragile constructions. The sample carrier according to the invention can be formed from a strip of metal, and is a simple and cheap element. Using resilient force, it clamps onto or into the sample holder. The portion of the sample holder to which the sample carrier couples also has a simple form. The sample carrier can couple to the sample holder in vacuum using a coupling tool.
US07767965B2
A neutron detector includes a plurality of neutron detecting element sections, each of the neutron detecting element sections having; a superconducting element including a substrate having at least one of surfaces thereof formed of a dielectric material, a strip line of the superconducting material formed on the surface and electrodes formed at opposed ends of the strip line, resistance determining sections for determining generation of heat resulting from a nuclear reaction between a superconducting element in the strip line and neutrons, through detection of change in a resistance value of said strip line, heat dissipation setting sections provided on a back side portion of the substrate opposite to the surface having the strip line formed thereon, the heat dissipation setting sections setting dissipation characteristics of the heat resulting from the nuclear reaction, and the heat dissipation characteristics being differentiated from each other between/among the neutron detecting element sections.
US07767964B2
A night visional apparatus is provided that can assist in enlarging the field of view at night or in bad weather, and can obtain image with high sensitivity over a range from a vicinity of the apparatus to a distant area. The night vision apparatus includes a headlamp having one or two or more light sources, to emit light ranging from a visible light region to an infrared light region, a plurality of peaks exiting in a wavelength spectrum in the visible light region; an imaging camera that received light emitted from the illuminating device; and an optical band elimination filter that blocks only a part of peaks among the plurality of peaks. An output image is obtained based on an image captured by the imaging camera through the optical band elimination filter.
US07767963B1
A thermal imaging camera is provided which includes an outer housing, a core disposed substantially entirely within the housing, and a plurality of damping members disposed between the housing and the core to substantially fully suspend the core in the housing with the damping members.
US07767959B1
Analysis of solid chemical and biological particles is achieved by a miniature mass spectrometer and apparatus attached thereto for vaporizing or ablating a stream of chemical and biological particles by a pulsed laser and/or pyrolysis heater sub-assembly at atmospheric pressure or, when desirable, in a vacuum. The mass spectrometer includes a collimation chamber, a repeller assembly, an internal ionization chamber, a mass filter and ion separation chamber, a drift space region, and a multi-channel ion detection array so as to permit the collection and analysis of ions formed over a wide mass range simultaneously. The apparatus for vaporizing or ablating includes an output port adjacent the input to the collimation and vaporization chamber so as to maximize the amount of vaporized material being fed into the mass spectrometer.
US07767949B2
A system is described for capturing images comprising: a display for displaying graphical images and text; a plurality of apertures formed in the display; an image detector array configured behind the display and configured to sense light transmitted through the apertures in the display, the light reflected from a subject positioned in front of the display; and image processing logic to generate image data using the light transmitted through the apertures, the image data representing an image of a subject.
US07767947B2
A semiconductor light source with optical feedback includes a vertical member extending upward from an upper horizontal surface of a header parallel to a vertical beam projected from a semiconductor light-emitting element mounted on the horizontal surface of the header wherein the vertical member supports a light-sensing element for receiving light reflected transversely from the vertical beam by a beam splitter supported by the vertical member. The vertical beam passing through the beam splitter passes through a window or filter in a cap mounted on the header and covering the light-emitting element, the light-sensing element, the beam splitter, and the vertical member. Substantially all of the transversely reflected light impinges on the light-sensing element and can be used to control the power to the light-emitting element. A simple lens can by used to collimate the beam. Interior portions of the unit are formed from light absorbing materials such as black ceramic, black plastic, anodized aluminum, etc. The combined effect of the non-reflective interior of the assembly, the orientation of the photo-diode to have an acceptance cone perpendicular to the beam axis, the small entrance pupil, and the optical filter reduces ambient radiation in the unit by as much as −75 dB of the level outside the device. This reduces noise and drift in the automatic power control loop to produce constant intensity in the output light beam.
US07767932B2
Multi-axis laser cutting systems are provided. The cutting systems include a multi-axis, relatively high acceleration drive system, which includes drives that are configured to generate balanced inertial forces. In some implementations, the drives operate according to a polar coordinate systems.
US07767931B1
A process for generating nanoscale particles of energetic materials, such as explosive materials, using ultrashort-pulse laser irradiation. The use of ultrashort laser pulses in embodiments of this invention enables one to generate particles by laser ablation that retain the chemical identity of the starting material while avoiding ignition, deflagration, and detonation of the explosive material.
US07767929B2
It is to provide a method for removing a tin defect present on the surface of a glass substrate produced by a float process in a short time without the glass substrate surface being damaged regardless of the glass temperature.A method for removing a tin-containing foreign matter from the surface of glass, which comprises applying to the surface of a glass substrate produced by a float process a pulse laser beam having a transmittance of at least 70% through the glass substrate and having a pulse width, a wavelength and an energy density per unit area on the glass substrate surface which satisfy specific relations, to remove a tin-containing foreign matter present on the rear face opposite to the face irradiated with the pulse laser beam.
US07767924B2
An electrostatic separation system for separating fine metal and plastics is disclosed. An electrostatic separation system according to the present invention comprises a negative electrostatic induction plate and positive metal net made of special materials, which have appropriate dimensions and an appropriate space between them to improve separation efficiency, and a separating plate which is appropriately positioned to improve separation efficiency. The electrostatic separation system has processing capacity more than 5 times in comparison to conventional electrostatic selection systems and is able to separate fine particles of 0.1 mm in size. In addition, the electrostatic separation system has wide application in recycling other useful recourses as well as separating the mixture of fine particle metal and non-metal materials.
US07767915B2
A weighing device with several weighing cells which are rigidly interconnected, and which have a load sensor with a predetermined load insertion direction, with at least one acceleration sensor and with at least one evaluating unit to which the weight signals generated by the weighing cells and the disturbance signals generated by the acceleration sensors can be transmitted. The evaluating unit uses a predetermined rule for each weighing cell to determine a correcting quantity from the disturbance signal of the acceleration sensor(s) as a function of the weighing cell geometric location relative to the geometric location of the acceleration sensor(s), and in that the weight signal, which is affected by the acceleration disturbance(s), of the relevant weighing cell is combined, with the correcting quantity in such a way that the influence of the acceleration disturbance(s) on the weight signal is substantially compensated.
US07767914B2
A multilayer printed wiring board includes: an insulating base including an indentation section formed thereon; a conductor pattern formed on the insulating base, the conductor pattern including a thick film section formed by embedding a conductor in the indentation section; and a via hole section formed in an upper layer of the insulating base, the via hole section including a bottom portion that is in contact with the thick film section.
US07767911B2
A grommet (1) has a central shaft (2)through which a wire harness (5) is inserted. A circular connection portion (31) is provided continuously to the periphery of the central shaft(2.) A convex cross-sectionally V-shaped ring-like lip (32) is extensibly provided to the circular connection portion (31) in the direction of the center of the central shaft. A flange portion (33) is provided continuously to the lip portion (32.) When the grommet (1) is assembled to a body panel (10,) the lip (32) of the grommet (1) is extended in the direction of the center of the central shaft (2) of the grommet (1,) thereby reducing the diameter of the lip (32.) Then, the lip(32) is inserted into the through hole (12) of the body panel (10.) Thus, a low insertion force is sufficient when the grommet is inserted thereinto. Consequently, the assemblability of the grommet (1)is enhanced.
US07767900B2
The activation of lights of a mobile communication terminal is controlled with information in music data files, such as SP-MIDI files. The music data files contain note events informating the terminal to play a note of a particular instrument. Light configuration messages are added to the SP-MIDI file. The light configuration messages contain information mapping the activation position, -color and -intensity to the note events. The mobile terminal is provided with an editor application for creating and changing light configuration messages. The light configuration messages can also be created and changed with a light configuration program on a PC. The light configuration messages can be tested on a PC with a MIDI editor program provided with a plug in application for emulating the mobile communication terminal.
US07767896B2
There is a need for providing a vehicular music replay system that can allow a car user to select a music source appropriate to the user's character or biological condition even from genres unknown to the user, allow even a first music source to be felt suited for the user, and consequently enhance an emotion about encounter with an unknown music source. The system stores music sources to be replayed in music source databases in association with applicable user state data reflecting a user state containing at least one of a user character, mental condition, and physical condition. The system retrieves a music source corresponding to the current user state acquired in a car. During the retrieval, a higher retrieval priority is provided for a music source having a lower replay history in the past.
US07767894B1
A musical guide and method for guitar playing includes providing a musical guide including a series of scales, chords or notes in the form of a temporary tattoo or sticker. The tattoo or sticker may be placed on the forearm of the user. As such, the user can match the sound to the note by glancing at their arm when needed. The student will be able to quickly find scale patterns by looking at their forearm.
US07767893B2
An individual entertainment display device which can produce lights and sounds as part of an entertainment presentation, and can be used individually or as part of a coordinated entertainment presentation with other display devices.
US07767887B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated D5123854. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety D5123854. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety D5123854 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety D5123854 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US07767886B2
The object of the present invention is to isolate Rf gene, particularly Rf1 gene derived from radish, and identify its structure. The present invention provides a protein involved in restoration of a cytoplasmic male sterile individual to fertility which has 14 or more pentatricopeptide repeat (hereafter may be abbreviated to PPR) motifs, wherein a group of the motifs is divided into 3 or more blocks, each of the individual blocks has at least 2 or more PPR motifs, and the block in a carboxyl terminal (C terminal) side has 4 PPR motifs.
US07767885B2
A method of transforming plant plastids and regenerating fertile transplastomic plants by somatic embryogenesis is disclosed. The method involves transforming a plant plastid in a plant cell capable of being regenerated through somatic embryogenesis with a plastid expression cassette comprising one or more selectable marker genes that express in both green and non-green tissue and in light and dark conditions wherein the selectable marker gene product provides resistance of the plant cell to a selection agent. The transplastomic plant cell is cultured in the presence of the selection agent under conditions to cause the formation of a somatic embryo. The somatic embryo is grown into a fertile transplastomic plant. Preferably, the expression cassette contains two different selectable marker genes that express different proteins that provide plant cell resistance to the same selection agent.
US07767872B2
A device for the removal of heavy metals and heavy metal complexes, such as thimerosal, from medications is provided wherein the device comprises a dosing device or a solid support having at least one substantially purified metallothionein protein associated therewith. Additionally, methods to remove thimerosal from medications are provided.
US07767870B2
A gas-solids reaction system with termination devices to connect a riser with one or more separation devices. The termination devices have a radius of curvature that is at least 1.0 times as great as the diameter of the conduit forming the termination device. The termination devices can be openly or closely coupled to the separation devices.
US07767869B2
Apparatus and process for the production of vinyl chloride by thermal cracking of 1,2-dichloroethane
The invention relates to a process for the production of vinyl chloride by thermal cracking, in which the energy balance, the operating time of the cracking furnace and/or the yield of the reaction are distinctly enhanced in comparison with the prior art. A pressure of from 1.4 to 2.5 MPa is established in the cracking coil at a temperature of from 450 to 550° C. and, for pre-heating the EDC (=1,2-dichloroethane) introduced, inter alia the waste heat of the gas stream leaving the top of the quench column is utilized.
US07767868B2
A process for preparing trinitrotoluene (TNT) in which toluene is treated with nitric acid having a concentration of about 90% to about 99%, and preferably about 98% to about 99%, by weight at a temperature of less than about 60° C., and preferably less than 30° C., to produce high purity dinitrotoluene. The resulting dinitrotoluene is then treated with nitric acid having a concentration of about 98% to about 99% by weight and trifluoromethane sulfuric acid to produce high purity TNT.
US07767865B2
The preparation of hydroxypivalaldehyde is effected by aldolizing isobutyraldehyde with formaldehyde and subsequently working up the resulting reaction effluent by distillation, wherein the reaction effluent is fed to a distillation column which is operated at a top pressure in the range from 0.5 to 1.5 bar and in which a two-stage condensation is provided in the top region, in which the vapors are first conducted into a partial condenser operated at a temperature in the range from 50 to 80° C., whose condensate is recycled at least partly into the distillation column, and in which the vapors uncondensed in the partial condenser are fed to a downstream condenser operated at a temperature in the range from −40 to +30° C., whose condensate is at least partly discharged.
US07767863B2
An improved method for the manufacture of MIBK and DIBK from DMK and/or IPA, by reacting, in the presence of an aldol condensation catalyst, a gaseous mixture comprising hydrogen and DMK and/or IPA. The improvement is the use of a reaction pressure greater than 207 kPa (30 psig) to increase the ratio of MIBK to DIBK. In addition a method for the manufacture of MIBK and DIBK by reacting, in the presence of an aldol condensation catalyst, a gaseous mixture consisting essentially of DMK and/or IPA and optionally water.
US07767862B2
According to the present invention, there is provided an organophosphine ligand comprising a phosphabicyclohydrocarbyl group in which the phosphorus atom is further substituted with a hydrocarbyl or heterohydrocarbyl moiety containing at least one branch at the β-carbon position. The present invention also provides a catalytic composition for the hydroformylation of an ethylenically unsaturated compound, said catalytic composition comprising i) a source of Group VIII metal cations; and ii) the above ligand. Furthermore, the present invention also provides a process for the hydroformylation of an ethylenically unsaturated compound, said process comprising contacting the ethylenically unsaturated compound with carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence the above catalytic composition.
US07767860B2
Disclosed herein are substituted amino alcohol anti-mycobacterial agents and/or chelation therapy agents of Formula I, process of preparation thereof, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of use thereof.
US07767857B1
A product-by-process and method of manufacturing 2,4,6-trichloroanailine intermediates. The method of manufacturing 2,4,6-trichloroanailine intermediates by utilizing solvents and N-chlorinating reagents.
US07767856B2
Improved methods for making hole transport molecules (HTMs) that are incorporated into imaging members, such as layered photoreceptor devices, to increase the photoreceptor's “hole mobility,” or its ability to move charge, across its charge transport layer (CTL). Embodiments pertain to a continuous process for making N,N-diphenyl-4-biphenylamine and a system for performing the same.
US07767850B2
A novel mixed salt of S-[2-[(1-Iminoethyl)amino]ethyl]-2-methyl-L-cysteine is disclosed. The novel mixed salt, S-[2-[(1-Iminoethyl)amino]ethyl]-2-methyl-L-cysteine maleate hydrochloride, may be produced to form crystals that may be arranged as generally orderly packed agglomerates, which are particularly useful in making pharmaceutical compositions. Such pharmaceutical compositions are also described, as well as methods to make crystalline S-[2-[(1-Iminoethyl)amino]ethyl]-2-methyl-L-cysteine maleate hydrochloride, and methods of treating conditions characterized by an overexpression on nitric oxide from the inducible isoform of nitric oxide synthase using the S-[2-[(1-Iminoethyl)amino]ethyl]-2-methyl-L-cysteine maleate hydrochloride.
US07767848B2
A method is disclosed for controlling a methanol carbonylation process for producing acetic acid. The method includes the steps of monitoring the rate of production of the acetic acid; reducing the production rate in response to a change in a process condition or a process equipment condition; after the production rate is reduced, controlling the process at the reduced production rate; and increasing the production rate after the condition change has been addressed until at least the production rate returns to a normal operating range; wherein during at least one of the steps of reducing the production rate, controlling the process at the reduced production rate, and increasing the production rate until the production rate returns to a normal operating range, the process is controlled by nonlinear multivariable control based on a model of the process.Also disclosed is a process for producing acetic acid, in which at least a reaction section of the process is controlled using a multivariable nonlinear predictive controller based on a nonlinear model of the process. Control of the process is based on the same model during normal operations, during process-upset conditions and also during a recovery period after the upset has been addressed.
US07767837B2
A method comprising contacting an alcohol, a feed comprising one or more glycerides and equal to or greater than 2 wt % of one or more free fatty acids, and a solid acid catalyst, a nanostructured polymer catalyst, or a sulfated zirconia catalyst in one or more reactors, and recovering from the one or more reactors an effluent comprising equal to or greater than about 75 wt % alkyl ester and equal to or less than about 5 wt % glyceride.
US07767829B2
Disclosed are cyanine dyes that are useful for labelling and detecting biological and other materials. The dyes are of formula (I): in which at least one of groups R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10 R11, R12, R13 and R14 is -L-M or -L-P, where L is a linking group, M is a target bonding group and P is a conjugated component, and at least one of groups R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9 and R10 comprises fluorine. The use of cyanine dyes substituted by fluorine and having additional substitution with three or more sulphonic acid groups for labelling biological target molecules results in a labelled product in which there is reduced dye-dye aggregation and improved photostability, compared with cyanine dyes having no such substitutions. The dyes of the present invention are particularly useful in assays involving fluorescence detection where continual or repeated excitation is a requirement, for example in kinetic studies, or in microarray analyses where microarray slides may need to be reanalysed over a period of days.
US07767827B2
Disclosed are pyrazole-1-carboxylate derivatives of the general formula (1), (wherein symbols are as defined in the specification), a process for the production thereof and processes for producing herbicidally active 3-aryloxypyrazole-1-carboxamide derivatives from the above compound and an intermediate therefor. According to this invention, there can be industrially advantageously produced 3-aryloxypyrazole-1-carboxamide derivatives that does not cause chemical damage on crops but exhibits excellent herbicidal activity against weeds that impair the growth of such crops.
US07767821B2
Reactive fluorescent dyes compositions and methods of using same are disclosed. Squaraine nucleus, Nile Red nucleus, benzodioxazole nucleus, coumarin nucleus or aza coumarin nucleus dyes are disclosed having thiol-reactive groups. Squaraine nucleus, Nile Red nucleus, benzodioxazole nucleus, coumarin nucleus or aza coumarin nucleus dyes are disclosed that exhibit a fluorescence emission of at least about 575 nm. Biosensors are disclosed having a binding protein and a squaraine nucleus, Nile Red nucleus, benzodioxazole nucleus, coumarin nucleus or aza coumarin nucleus.
US07767812B2
Crystals of 5-[2-amino-4-(2-furyl)pyrimidin-5-yl]-1-methylpyridin-2(1H)-one having a diffraction peak at a diffraction angle (2θ±0.2°) of 9.7° and/or 21.9° in a powder X-ray diffraction are suitable for an active ingredient of a preventing and therapeutic agent for diseases such as constipation. Crystals of 5-[2-amino-4-(2-furyl)pyrimidin-5-yl]-1-methylpyridin-2(1H)-one hydrate and amorphous 5-[2-amino-4-(2-furyl)pyrimidin-5-yl]-1-methylpyridin-2(1H)-one hydrate are also suitable for an active ingredient of a preventing and therapeutic agent for diseases such as constipation.
US07767808B2
A porphyrin/phthalocyanine dimer represented by the following Formula (A-1) and a tetramer represented by the following Formula (A-2) (where R1, R2 and R3 may be the same or different, and each represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl or alkyloxy group; M1 and M2 may be the same or different, and each represents two protons or a bivalent or trivalent metal ion; X1 represents a single bond or an alkylene group; X represents —O—, —S—, >NR101 (where R101 represents H or alkyl group), CH2, or a single bond; Y represents 2H, ═O or ═S; m is an integer of 0 to 4; Z represents a five- or six-membered nitrogen-containing coordinating heteroaromatic ring group; provided that the multiple substituent groups represented by the same character may be the same or different.
US07767804B2
Reagents, methods and kits for the purification of RNA from biological materials are provided.
US07767798B2
The present invention provides novel loganin analogues and a process for the preparation thereof. The present invention further provides the use of Iridoid glycoside loganin isolated from the fruit pulp of Strychnos nux-vomica and its bioactive semi-synthetic analogues against various human cancer cell lines grown in-vitro.
US07767793B2
DNA encoding SIGIRR polypeptides and methods for using the encoded polypeptides are disclosed.
US07767792B2
The present invention relates generally to growth factor receptor epitope peptides, particularly EGF family receptor epitope peptides. The invention also relates to the use of the receptor peptides in generating antibodies which have anti-tumor or anti-cancer activity or in stimulating an immunological response. The invention further relates to antibodies specifically directed against the receptor peptides. Methods for generating an immune response and for treatment of tumors and cancer are also provided.
US07767783B2
A dehydration step is conducted by heating a mixture containing an organic amide solvent and a sulfur source including an alkali metal hydrosulfide, and a part of an overall charged amount of an alkali metal hydroxide as needed. The mixture remaining within the system after the dehydration step is mixed with a dihalo-aromatic compound, the resultant mixture is heated to conduct a polymerization reaction, and the alkali metal hydroxide is added to the mixture for polymerization reaction continuously or in portions to control the pH of the mixture for polymerization reaction within a range of from 7 to 12.5 from the beginning to the end of the polymerization reaction. The poly(arylene sulfide) according to the present invention has a nitrogen content of at most 800 ppm.
US07767779B2
A transparent, non elastomeric, high index, impact resistant polythiourethane/urea material comprising the reaction product of: a) at least one (α, ω)-diiso(thio)cyanate cycloaliphatic or aromatic prepolymer having a number average molecular weight ranging from 100 to 3000 gmol−1, and b) at least one primary diamine, in an equivalent molar ratio amine function/iso(thio)cyanate function from 0.5 to 2, preferably from 0.90 to 1.10, wherein, said prepolymer and diamine are free from disulfide (—S—S—) linkage and at least one of the prepolymer or the diamine contains one or more S atoms in its chain.
US07767777B2
The present invention describes novel metal complexes. Compounds of this type can be employed as functional materials in a number of different applications which can be ascribed to the electronics industry in the broadest sense, in particular as red-emitting compounds.The compounds according to the invention are described by the formulae (1) (1a), (1b) and (3).
US07767771B2
A process is disclosed for the preparation of zinc alkyl chain growth products via a catalysed chain growth reaction of an alpha-olefin on a zinc alkyl, wherein the chain growth catalyst system employs a group 3-10 transition metal, or a group 3 main group metal, or a lanthanide or actinide complex, and optionally a suitable activator. The products can be further converted into alpha-olefins by olefin displacement of the grown alkyls as alpha-olefins from the zinc alkyl chain growth product, or into primary alcohols, by oxidation of the resulting zinc alkyl chain growth product to form alkoxide compounds, followed by hydrolysis of the alkoxides.
US07767767B2
A method of modifying polyethylene is disclosed. The method comprises contacting the polyethylene powder with ozone. The modified polyethylene exhibits an increase in melt elasticity and the complex viscosity at low shear rates. The rheological benefits are achieved without a significant reduction in the weight average molecular weight of the polyethylene. The modified polyethylene can be used in applications that require higher melt strength such as film or blow molding.
US07767763B2
VDF-based curable fluoroelastomers, having a glass transition temperature lower than −49° C., preferably lower than −50° C., and having the following composition, as percent moles: A) from 25% to 50%, preferably from 30% to 45%, of the monomer of formula: CF2═CFOCF2OCF3 (a); B) one or more (per)fluorinated comonomers having at least one unsaturation of ethylene type in amounts from 75% to 50%; preferably from 70% to 55%; said one or more comonomers comprising vinylidene fluoride (VDF) in amounts from 50% to 75% on the total of the monomer moles; the sum of the molar percentages of the monomers being 100%; said fluoroelastomers containing an amount of —COF end groups in the polymer lower than the sensitivity limit of the method reported in the description.
US07767760B2
A hot melt adhesive composition comprising: (a) a functional copolymer obtained from copolymerization of ethylene and a comonomer selected from maleic anhydride, citraconic anhydride, itaconic anhydride, tetrahydrophthalic anhydride, maleic acid, citraconic acid, itaconic acid, fumaric acid, tetrahydrophthalic acid, the corresponding salts, monoesters and diesters of these acids, and mixtures of any of these, wherein the functional copolymer is present in an amount from about 5 to about 95 weight % of the combined total amount of (a) and (b); and (b) at least one ethylene copolymer obtained from copolymerization of ethylene with a polar monomer wherein said polar comonomer is present in the copolymer in an amount of from 8 to 40 weight %, wherein said ethylene copolymer is selected from the group consisting of ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymers, ethylene/alkyl (meth)acrylate copolymers and ethylene/alkyl (meth)acrylate/carbon monoxide terpolymers, in an amount from about 5 to about 95 weight % of the combined total amount of (a) and (b); wherein the composition has a melt index of 100 grams/10 minutes or higher. Articles comprising and process using the hot melt adhesive are also disclosed.
US07767752B2
The present invention relates to an acrylic pressure sensitive adhesive composition for the production of a polarizer, which has excellency in major characteristics including durability and antistatic property, more precisely, an acrylic pressure sensitive adhesive composition containing ester plasticizer having one or more ether bonds and alkali metallic salt, a polarizer applied with the pressure sensitive adhesive and liquid crystal display (LCD) device using the same. The acrylic pressure sensitive adhesive composition for the production of a polarizer of the present invention has excellent pressure sensitive adhesive functions and durability.
US07767748B2
Aqueous polymer dispersions which are obtainable by emulsion polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated monomers in an aqueous medium in the presence of free radical polymerization initiators and stabilizers, amphiphilic polymers which comprise one or more hydrophobic units (A) and one or more hydrophilic units (B) being used as the stabilizer before, during or after the polymerization, and the hydrophobic units (A) being formed from a polyisobutene block, at least 50 mol % of whose polyisobutene macromolecules have terminally arranged doubled bonds, processes for the preparation of the aqueous polymer dispersions by polymerizing ethylenically unsaturated monomers in the presence of free radical initiators and said amphiphilic polymers, which are used before, during or after the polymerization, and the use of the resulting aqueous polymer dispersions as associative thickeners in paper coating slips, in textile production, as thickeners for textile print pastes, in the pharmaceutical and cosmetics sector, for surface coatings, for detergents and cleaning agents, in foods and as oil field chemicals.
US07767733B2
Clutch lings comprising fiber-reinforced ceramic materials which comprise carbon fibers and whose matrix material is selected from among inorganic polymers, oxidic ceramics, set cements, organoelement polymers and finely divided inorganic solids which are held together by an inorganic or organic binders.
US07767725B2
A foaming composition comprising a melt processible fluoropolymer, and a chemical foaming agent, where the chemical foaming agent is ammonium polyphosphate.
US07767714B2
Effective preventive method for infectious diseases, an enhancing method of an infectious disease-preventive action of cystine and composition, food and feed effective for infectious diseases are provided.A method of preventing infectious diseases wherein cystine and the like and theanine are administered in combination, a method of enhancing an infectious disease-preventive action of cystine and the like, which contains administering cystine and the like and theanine in combination, a pharmaceutical composition, food and feed wherein cystine and the like and theanine are combined.
US07767704B2
The invention relates to the substituted imidazoles of formula (I) and to methods for producing the same, to their use in the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases and to their use for producing drugs for use in the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, especially for use as antiviral agents, especially against cytomegaloviruses.
US07767701B2
This invention relates to newly identified compounds for inhibiting hYAK3 proteins and methods for treating diseases associated with the imbalance or inappropriate activity of hYAK3 proteins.
US07767690B2
The application relates to novel amino alcohols of the general formula (I) where R, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 each have the definitions illustrated in detail in the description, to a process for their preparation and to the use of these compounds as medicines, in particular as renin inhibitors.
US07767685B2
The present invention provides compounds of the formula which are adenosine A2B receptor antagonists and, thus, may be employed for the treatment of conditions and diseases mediated by the adenosine A2B receptor activity. Such conditions include, but are not limited to, chronic and acute inflammatory diseases involving degranulation of mast cells, e.g., asthma, allergic rhinitis and allergic dermatitis; impaired sensitivity to insulin, e.g., type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetic state, and impaired glucose tolerance; diseases in which angiogenesis is a key component of pathogenesis, e.g., solid tumors and angiogenic retinopathies; apnea of preterm infants; myocardial reperfusion injury; inflammatory bowel disease; autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and lupus erythematosis; diseases involving microvascular abnormalities of the retina that are mediated by adenosine A2B receptors, e.g., retinopathy of prematurity, macular degeneration, and diabetic retinopathy; and cardiac diseases including hyperplasia consequent to hypertension, arteriosclerosis, and heart attack.
US07767682B2
Methods of prevention or treatment of renal diseases or conditions associated with abnormal ion flux, in particular autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, with a modulator of human peroxisome proliferator activated receptor gamma.
US07767672B2
The present invention relates to compounds useful as inhibitors of protein kinases. The invention also provides pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising those compounds and methods of using the compounds and compositions in the treatment of various disease, conditions, and disorders. The invention also provides processes for preparing compounds of the invention.
US07767667B2
It has now been found that certain novel heterocyclic derivitives have provided unexpected insecticidal activity. These compounds are represented by formula (I): R Preferred are those compounds of formula (I) where R2 and R3 taken together is ═NCH(R6)CH(R7)N(R8)—, ═NC(R6)═C(R7)N(R8)—, or ═CHN═C(R7)N(R8)—, and tautomers thereof, and where R4 and R5 taken together is —C(R11)═C(R12)C(R13)═C(R14) 1 12, -, where R,R,R6, R7, R8, RI1, R R13, R14, and X are described. In addition, compositions comprising an insecticidally effective amount of at least one compound of formula (I), and optionally, an effective amount of at least one of a second compound with at least one insecticidally compatable carrier are also disclosed; along with methods of controlling insects comprising applying said compositions to a locus where insects are present or are expected to be present.
US07767666B2
Certain substituted butyl and butynyl benzyl amine compounds are histamine H3 receptor and/or serotonin transporter modulators useful in the treatment of histamine H3 receptor- and/or serotonin-mediated diseases.
US07767660B2
Compounds of the formula (I): wherein A, B, D, M, Ar, W, X, Y, Z and R1 are as defined herein, are useful in the prevention and treatment of hepatitis C infections. The compounds, their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in medicine are disclosed.
US07767655B2
A complex, water soluble polysaccharide fraction having potent immunostimulatory activity isolated from Aloe vera. The polysaccharide fraction has an apparent molecular weight above 2 million daltons. Its major glycosyl components are glucose, galactose, mannose and arabinose. The invention further includes pharmaceutical compositions containing the instant polysaccharide fraction, optionally in combination with acceptable pharmaceutical carriers and/or excipients. These pharmaceutical compositions may be used to provide immunostimulation to an individual in need of such treatment by administering to such an individual an effective amount of the composition. The polysaccharide fraction is also useful as a component of dietary supplements and as a standardization component of commercial Aloe products.
US07767651B2
The present invention provides a compound of Formula (I): wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are each independently selected from a hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted C1-C6 alkyl group, an optionally substituted C7-C14 aralkyl group and —C(═O)Rx; Rx represents an optionally substituted C1-C6 alkyl group, an optionally substituted aryl group, an optionally substituted heteroaryl group, an optionally substituted C1-C6 alkoxy group or —NReRf; Ar1 represents an optionally substituted aromatic carbocyclic ring or an optionally mono-substituted aromatic heterocyclic ring; Q represents —(CH2)m-(L)p- or -(L)p-(CH2)m—; m represents an integer selected from 0 to 2, n represents an integer selected from 1 and 2, and p represents an integer selected from 0 and 1; L represents —O—, —S— or —NR5—; and A represents an optionally substituted aryl group or an optionally substituted heteroaryl group, a prodrug thereof and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, as well as a pharmaceutical preparation or pharmaceutical composition comprising such a compound.
US07767648B2
The invention provides novel peptide prodrugs which contain cleavage sites specifically cleaved by prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA). These prodrugs are useful for substantially inhibiting the non-specific toxicity of a variety of therapeutic drugs. PSMA is secreted by prostatic glandular cells. Upon cleavage of the prodrug by PSMA, the therapeutic drugs are activated and exert their toxicity. Sesquiterpene-γ-lactones form part of the prodrugs, and are designed to be linked to carrier moieties such as the peptides of the invention. Methods for treating cell proliferative disorders are also featured in the invention.
US07767647B2
The invention provides a method of treating bleeding disorders in a subject by administration of a preparation enriched for Factor IXa. The Factor IXa can be produced by proteolytically activating recombinantly-produced Factor IX. The invention also provides an improved method for producing Factor IXa from a plasma fraction, which method results in a Factor IXa product containing little or no prekallikrein activity, thus reducing the incidence of undesired side effects in a subject.
US07767641B2
The present invention relates to previously unknown biological roles of Nogo-B. We have discovered that Nogo-B is a component of endothelial cells. We have also discovered that Nogo-B is highly expressed in intact blood vessels. The amino terminus of Nogo-B promotes the adhesion, spreading and migration of endothelial cells and plays a role in vascular remodeling. Thus, Nogo-B is a novel regulator of vascular homeostasis and remodeling. The present invention provides compositions comprising Nogo-B and fragments and fusion proteins thereof. The present invention also relates to nucleic acids encoding Nogo-B and fragments and fusion proteins thereof, as well as vectors and cells comprising such nucleic acids. The present invention also relates to antibodies specific for Nogo-B and fragments and fusion proteins thereof. The present invention also provides methods for preventing, detecting and treating Nogo-B-related diseases, disorders and conditions.
US07767636B2
Nanoelectronic and microelectronic cleaning corn positions for cleaning nanoelectronic and microelectronic substrates under supercritical fluid state conditions, and particularly cleaning compositions useful with and having improved compatibility with nanoelectronic and microelectronic substrates characterized by silicon dioxide, sensitive low-n or high-K dielectrics and copper, tungsten, tantalum, nickel, gold, cobalt, palladium, platinum, chromium, ruthenium, rhodium, iridium, hafnium, titanium, molybdenum, tin and other metallization, as well as substrates of A1 or Al(Cu) metallizations and advanced interconnect technologies, are provided by nanoelectronic and microelectronic cleaning compositions.
US07767634B2
Lubricating grease compositions have a titanium complex grease component along with a mineral/synthetic oil-based component and a conventional soap or grease. The conventional soaps and greases may be lithium complex, calcium sulfonate, or aluminum complex-based, among others, with and without additives. The compositions are high performance geases, exhibiting improved drop point, extreme pressure, antiwear, oil separation, and shelf life properties.
US07767629B2
The present invention provides a drilling fluid composition and a method of drilling comprising a drilling fluid, which may be oil- or water-based, and a composite microsphere component. The invention drilling fluid composition advantageously reduces the density of a conventional fluid, reduces costs associated with pumping and overcomes problems associated with conventional gas-injection processes. The invention uses conventional drilling and pumping equipment, requires no sea-floor based pumps and may be easily pressure-controlled to maintain the pressure of the fluid.
US07767627B1
Methods and apparatus for the preparation and use of a substrate having an array of diverse materials in predefined regions thereon. A substrate having an array of diverse materials thereon is generally prepared by delivering components of materials to predefined regions on a substrate, and simultaneously reacting the components to form at least two materials or, alternatively, allowing the components to interact to form at least two different materials. Materials which can be prepared using the methods and apparatus of the present invention include, for example, covalent network solids, ionic solids and molecular solids. More particularly, materials which can be prepared using the methods and apparatus of the present invention include, for example, inorganic materials, intermetallic materials, metal alloys, ceramic materials, organic materials, organometallic materials, nonbiological organic polymers, composite materials (e.g., inorganic composites, organic composites, or combinations thereof), etc. Once prepared, these materials can be screened for useful properties including, for example, electrical, thermal, mechanical, morphological, optical, magnetic, chemical, or other properties. Thus, the present invention provides methods for the parallel synthesis and analysis of novel materials having useful properties.
US07767624B2
Disclosed are 3-heterocyclyl substituted benzoic acid derivatives of general formula (I), in which the variables R1 to R8 and X have the meanings indicated in claim 1, and the use thereof as herbicides or for desiccating/defoliating plants.
US07767616B2
A catalyst for an electro-chemical oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) of a bundle of longitudinally aligned carbon nanotubes having a catalytically active transition metal incorporated longitudinally in said nanotubes. A method of making an electro-chemical catalyst for an oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) having a bundle of longitudinally aligned carbon nanotubes with a catalytically active transition metal incorporated throughout the nanotubes, where a substrate is in a first reaction zone, and a combination selected from one or more of a hydrocarbon and an organometallic compound containing an catalytically active transition metal and a nitrogen containing compound and an inert gas and a reducing gas is introduced into the first reaction zone which is maintained at a first reaction temperature for a time sufficient to vaporize material therein. The vaporized material is then introduced to a second reaction zone maintained at a second reaction temperature for a time sufficient to grow longitudinally aligned carbon nanotubes over the substrate with a catalytically active transition metal incorporated throughout the nanotubes.
US07767614B2
Provided is a method for preparing a support for olefin polymerization catalysts used in polyolefin preparation processes. Particularly, provided is a novel method for preparing a support for olefin polymerization catalysts comprising the reaction of metal magnesium with an alcohol in the presence of an additive for initiating the reaction, characterized in that halogenated nitrogen compound is used as the additive for initiating the reaction, resulting in a spherical dialkoxy magnesium support.
US07767612B2
A catalyst composition for producing polyesters comprises: a) an organometallic compound obtained by reacting an orthoester or condensed orthoester of titanium, zirconium or aluminum, an alcohol containing at least two hydroxyl groups, a 2-hydroxy carboxylic acid and a base; and b) at least one compound comprising germanium, antimony or tin. Polyesters obtained by esterification reaction in the presence of the catalyst compositions according to the present invention exhibit improved melt properties and are particularly suitable for production of textile and commercial fibers, films and rigid packaging.
US07767611B2
A modified zeolite beta having an anhydrous chemical formula, by weight % of the oxides, of (0-0.3)Na2O.(0.5-10)Al2O3.(1.3-10)P2O5.(0.7-15)MxOy.(70-97)SiO2, wherein M is one or more transition metal(s) selected from the group consisting of Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Mn, Zn and Sn, x is the number of the atoms of said transition metal M, and y is a number that meets with the requirement of the oxidation state of said transition metal M, is disclosed. The modified zeolite beta can be used as an active component of a cracking catalyst or additive for catalytic cracking of petroleum hydrocarbons.
US07767610B1
A metal nanocluster composite material for use as a conductive catalyst. The metal nanocluster composite material has metal nanoclusters on a carbon substrate formed within a porous zeolitic material, forming stable metal nanoclusters with a size distribution between 0.6-10 nm and, more particularly, nanoclusters with a size distribution in a range as low as 0.6-0.9 nm.
US07767607B2
A glass substrate of the present invention for magnetic recording media having high heat resistance and easy chemical strengthening ability at once has not been obtained, which is a glass composition essentially comprising 60 to 70 wt % SiO2, 5 to 20 wt % Al2O3, 0 to 1 wt % Li2O, 3 to 18 wt % Na2O, 0 to 9 wt % K2O, 0 to 10 wt % MgO, 1 to 15 wt % CaO, 0 to 4.5 wt % SrO, 0 to 1 wt % BaO, 0 to 1 wt % TiO2 and 0 to 1 wt % ZrO2, wherein the sum of Li2O, Na2O and K2O is from 5 to 25 wt %, and the sum of MgO, CaO, SrO and BaO is from 5 to 20 wt %.
US07767603B2
A network former and a glass modifier are formed and maintained by using basalt rock ore, and the crystallization and binding of basalt fiber are inhibited The heat-resistance property of basalt fiber is greatly improved from the conventional 750° C. to 850 or 900° C., and significant cost reduction is achieved over conventional products. Basalt fiber material having basalt rock as a raw material to which one or more kinds of oxide selected from Al2O3, SiO2, CaO, and MgO is added, and basalt fiber material having two kinds of basalt rock containing different amounts of elements as raw materials are provided.
US07767595B2
In a manufacturing process of a semiconductor device, a manufacturing technique of a semiconductor device by which a lithography step that uses a photoresist is simplified is provided. A manufacturing cost is reduced and throughput is improved. An irradiation object is formed over a substrate by sequentially stacking a first material layer and a second material layer. The irradiation object is irradiated with a first laser beam that is absorbed by the first material layer and a second laser beam that is absorbed by the second material layer so that the laser beams overlap. A part or all of the region irradiated with an overlap part of the laser beams is ablated to form an opening.
US07767593B2
By appropriately treating an interlayer dielectric material above P-channel transistors, the compressive stress may be significantly enhanced, which may be accomplished by expanding the interlayer dielectric material, for instance, by providing a certain amount of oxidizable species and performing an oxidation process.
US07767589B2
According to one embodiment of the disclosure, a method for passivating a circuit device generally includes providing a substrate having a substrate surface, forming an electrical component on the substrate surface, and coating the substrate surface and the electrical component with a first protective dielectric layer. The first protective dielectric layer is made of a generally moisture insoluble material having a moisture permeability less than 0.01 gram/meter2/day, a moisture absorption less than 0.04 percent, a dielectric constant less than 10, a dielectric loss less than 0.005, a breakdown voltage strength greater than 8 million volts/centimeter, a sheet resistivity greater than 1015 ohm-centimeter, and a defect density less than 0.5/centimeter2.
US07767588B2
An insulating layer formed by deposition is annealed in the presence of radical oxygen to reduce bond defects. A substrate is provided. An oxide layer is deposited overlying the substrate. The oxide layer has a plurality of bond defects. The oxide layer is annealed in the presence of radical oxygen to modify a substantial portion of the plurality of bond defects by using oxygen atoms. The anneal, in one form, is an in-situ steam generation (ISSG) anneal. In one form, the insulating layer overlies a layer of charge storage material, such as nanoclusters, that form a gate structure of a semiconductor storage device. The ISSG anneal repairs bond defects by oxidizing defective silicon bonds in the oxide layer when the oxide layer is silicon dioxide.
US07767585B2
A method of cleaning for removing metal compounds attached to a surface of a substrate, wherein the cleaning is conducted by supplying a supercritical fluid of carbon dioxide comprising at least one of triallylamine and tris(3-aminopropyl)amine to the surface of the substrate and a process for producing a semiconductor device using the method of cleaning are provided. In accordance with the method of cleaning and the method for producing a semiconductor device using the method, etching residues or polishing residues containing metal compounds are efficiently removed selectively from the electroconductive material forming the electroconductive layer. When the electroconductive layer is a wiring, an increase in resistance due to residual metal compounds can be suppressed, and an increase in the leak current due to diffusion of the metal from the metal compounds to the insulating film can be prevented. Therefore, reliability on the wiring is improved, and the yield of the semiconductor device can be increased.
US07767580B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device, including forming a gate insulating layer and a gate electrode on a substrate; forming insulating layer sidewalls at sides of the gate electrode; forming source/drain regions in surface portions of the substrate that are located, respectively, at sides of the gate electrode; forming a conductive silicide layer on the entire surface of the substrate; and selectively removing the silicide layer from areas other than the gate electrode and the source/drain regions of the substrate. The conductive silicide layer may be made by forming a silicon layer on an entire surface of the substrate; forming a conductive layer on the silicon layer; and thermal-processing the substrate such that the conductive layer reacts with the silicon layer.
US07767575B2
A method for forming an interconnect structure for a semiconductor device includes defining a via in a passivation layer so as expose a top metal layer in the semiconductor device. A seed layer is formed over the passivation layer, sidewalls of the via, and the top metal layer. A barrier layer is formed over an exposed portion of the seed layer, the exposed portion defined by a first patterned opening of a first diameter, and a solder material is formed over the barrier layer using a second patterned opening of a second diameter. The second patterned opening is configured such that the second diameter is larger than the first diameter.
US07767569B2
Method of forming a high-reliability contact plug which prevents a short circuit between the plug and a bit line by applying a material having an etching rate ratio of 100 or more with respect to a silicon nitride film which forms a self-aligned contact plug. After the formation of a bit line, whose top surface and side surfaces are covered with a silicon nitride film, a sacrificial interlayer film is formed which covers the whole surface of the bit line, and a contact hole is formed by etching the sacrificial interlayer film and then the lower-layer interlayer insulating film to form a capacitance contact plug. A column of a capacitance contact plug is then formed by removing the sacrificial interlayer film, a third interlayer insulating film is formed on the column, and part of this interlayer is removed to expose a surface of the contact plug.
US07767567B2
Gate stacks of an array of memory cells and a plurality of select transistors are formed above a carrier, the gate stacks being separated by spacers. An opening is formed between the spacers in an area that is provided for a source line. A sacrificial layer is applied to fill the opening and is subsequently patterned. Interspaces are filled with a planarizing layer of dielectric material. The residues of the sacrificial layer are removed and an electrically conductive material is applied to form a source line.
US07767561B2
A plasma immersion ion implantation process for implanting a selected species at a desired ion implantation depth profile in a workpiece is carried out in a reactor chamber with an ion shower grid that divides the chamber into an upper ion generation region and a lower process region, the ion shower grid having plural elongate orifices oriented in a non-parallel direction relative to a surface plane of the ion shower grid.
US07767558B2
A method of crystallizing amorphous silicon includes forming an amorphous silicon film over a substrate, crystallizing the amorphous silicon film to form a polycrystalline silicon film using a sequential lateral solidification crystallization method, and performing a surface treatment to the polycrystalline silicon film, wherein the sequential lateral solidification crystallization method includes at least a first application of a first laser beam having a first energy density that completely melts a first uncrystallized portion of the amorphous silicon film and melts a first crystallized portion of the amorphous silicon film, and the surface treatment includes application of a second laser beam having a second energy density that partially melts an entire surface of the polycrystalline silicon film.
US07767555B2
A method for cutting a substrate is disclosed which uses a femtosecond laser capable of preventing thermal expansion and generation of shock waves from occurring around a region where a cutting process is carried out when the femtosecond laser is used to cut the substrate, thereby being capable of achieving a reduction in costs. The method includes the steps of arranging the substrate on a stage, and irradiating a femtosecond laser to a predetermined portion of the substrate arranged on the stage, thereby cutting the substrate along the predetermined substrate portion.
US07767553B2
Conductive ink is printed onto a wafer held on a vertically movable stage by using a squeegee to force the conductive ink through a stencil. The stencil is supported from below by a supporting member adjacent to the periphery of the stage. After the conductive ink has been printed through the stencil, pneumatic pressure is applied to the stencil from above, and the stage is lowered to separate the wafer from the stencil. The supporting member holds the stencil taut while the stage is being lowered, so that the stencil does not warp downward and the printed conductive ink leaves the stencil at substantially the same time at all points on the wafer surface, preventing the premature escape of air and loss of pneumatic pressure.
US07767550B2
A wafer laser processing method for forming a groove in a wafer having a plurality of areas which are sectioned by streets formed in a lattice pattern on the front surface of a substrate, a device being formed in each of the plurality of areas, and an insulating film being formed on the surfaces of the devices, by applying a pulse laser beam along the streets, the method comprising a heating step for applying a first pulse laser beam set to an output for preheating the insulating film so as to soften it to the insulating film and a processing step for applying a second pulse laser beam set to an output for processing the insulating film and the substrate to the spot position of the first pulse laser beam applied in the heating step, the heating step and the processing step being carried out along the streets alternately.
US07767549B2
The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a bonded wafer. The method comprises an oxidation step in which an oxide film is formed on at least one surface of a base wafer, a bonding step in which the base wafer on which the oxide film has been formed is bonded to a top wafer to form a bonded wafer, and a thinning step in which the top wafer included in the bonded wafer is thinned. The oxidation step comprises heating the base wafer to a heating temperature ranging from 800 to 1300° C. at a rate of temperature increase ranging from 1 to 300° C./second in an oxidizing atmosphere, and the bonding step is carried out so as to position the oxide film formed in the oxidation step at an interface of the top wafer and the base wafer.
US07767548B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor wafer with a strained Si layer having sufficient tensile strain and few crystal defects, while achieving a relatively simple layered structure, is provided. The method includes the steps of: (a) forming an SiGe mixed crystal layer 12 and a first Si layer 13 in this order on the surface of a silicon wafer 11; (b) forming an SiO2 layer 16 on top of the first Si layer and/or a support wafer 14; (c) forming a layered product 17 by stacking the silicon wafer and the support wafer with the SiO2 layer being placed therebetween; (d) forming a second Si layer 18 by thinning the silicon wafer of the layered product; (e) implanting hydrogen ion and/or rare gas ion, such that ionic concentration peaks in a predetermined area; (f) subjecting the layered product to a first heat treatment; and (g) carrying out a second heat treatment following the first heat treatment, thereby relaxing the SiGe mixed crystal layer and diffusing Ge through portions of the first Si layer and the second Si layer.
US07767547B2
An SOI substrate is manufactured by a method in which a first insulating film is formed over a first substrate over which a plurality of first single crystal semiconductor films is formed; the first insulating film is planarized; heat treatment is performed on a single crystal semiconductor substrate attached to the first insulating film; a second single crystal semiconductor film is formed; a third single crystal semiconductor film is formed using the first single crystal semiconductor films and the second single crystal semiconductor films as seed layers; a fragile layer is formed by introducing ions into the third single crystal semiconductor film; a second insulating film is formed over the third single crystal semiconductor film; heat treatment is performed on a second substrate superposed on the second insulating film; and a part of the third single crystal semiconductor film is fixed to the second substrate.
US07767537B2
Trench capacitors having small and large sizes can be formed simultaneously using a combined lithography process in which openings in a photomask have the same dimensions and spacings. Larger capacitors are formed when the openings in the photomask are aligned with one crystal plane of the semiconductor substrate causing the resulting trenches in the semiconductor substrate to merge. Smaller capacitors are formed when the openings in the photomask are aligned with another crystal plane of the semiconductor substrate in which case each trench remains separate from other trenches.
US07767535B2
A semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor substrate having a recess whose depth is not more than 6 nm, a source region and a drain region which are formed in a surface region of the semiconductor substrate so as to sandwich the recess, each of the source region and the drain region being constituted of an extension region and a contact junction region, a gate insulating film formed between the source region and the drain region in the semiconductor substrate, and a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film.
US07767532B2
A method for manufacturing an EEPROM cell including a dual-gate MOS transistor. The method includes the steps of providing a semiconductor substrate covered with a stack of first and second layers, forming at least one first opening in the second layer, forming, in the first layer, a second opening continuing the first opening, enlarging the first opening by isotropic etching, forming a first doped region in the substrate by implantation through the first enlarged opening, the first doped region taking part in the forming of the transistor drain or source, forming, in the third opening, a thinned-down insulating portion thinner than the first layer, and forming the gates of the MOS transistor at least partially extending over the thinned-down insulating portion.
US07767531B2
According to some embodiments of the invention, a method of forming a transistor includes forming a device isolation layer in a semiconductor substrate. The device isolation layer is formed to define at least one active region. A channel region is formed in a predetermined portion of the active region of the semiconductor substrate. Two channel portion holes are formed to extend downward from a main surface of the semiconductor substrate to be in contact with the channel region. Gate patterns fill the channel portion holes and cross the active region. The resulting transistor is capable of ensuring a constant threshold voltage without being affected by an alignment state of the channel portion hole and the gate pattern.
US07767530B2
A transistor includes a substrate including a trench, an insulation layer filled in a portion of the trench, the insulation layer having a greater thickness over an edge portion of a bottom surface of the trench than over a middle portion of the bottom surface of the trench, a gate insulation layer formed over inner sidewalls of the trench, the gate insulation layer having a thickness smaller than the insulation layer, and a gate electrode filled in the trench.
US07767529B2
A semiconductor component resistant to the formation of a parasitic bipolar transistor and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor component using a reduced number of masking steps. A semiconductor material of N-type conductivity having a region of P-type conductivity is provided. A doped region of N-type conductivity is formed in the region of P-type conductivity. Trenches are formed in a semiconductor material and extend through the regions of N-type and P-type conductivities. A field oxide is formed from the semiconductor material such that portions of the trenches extend under the field oxide. The field oxide serves as an implant mask in the formation of source regions. Body contact regions are formed from the semiconductor material and an electrical conductor is formed in contact with the source and body regions. An electrical conductor is formed in contact with the backside of the semiconductor material.
US07767518B2
A field effect transistor is provided. The field effect transistor includes a channel region, electrically conductive channel connection regions, and a control region. The electrically conductive channel connection regions adjoin the channel region along with a transistor dielectric. The control region is separated from the channel region by the transistor dielectric. In addition, the control region may comprise a monocrystalline material.
US07767516B2
An element group having a transistor is formed over a substrate and a conductive film to be a dummy pattern is formed over the element group by pushing out a paste including conductive particles from a first opening portion, and then a conductive film functioning as an antenna is formed continuously thereafter so as to electrically connect with the transistor, by pushing out a paste including conductive particles from a second opening portion. Therefore, an element group having a transistor, provided over a substrate; a first conductive film functioning as an antenna provided over the element group and is electrically connected to the transistor; a second conductive film to be a dummy pattern provided to be adjacent to the first conductive film and is not electrically connected to the transistor; are included.
US07767506B2
An exposure mask is provided, which includes: a light blocking opaque area blocking incident light; a translucent area; and a transparent area passing the most of incident light, wherein the translucent area generates the phase differences in the range of about −70° to about +70°.
US07767505B2
Methods of manufacturing an oxide semiconductor thin film transistor are provided. The methods include forming a gate on a substrate, and a gate insulating layer on the substrate to cover the gate. A channel layer, which is formed of an oxide semiconductor, may be formed on the gate insulating layer. Source and drain electrodes may be formed on opposing sides of the channel layer. The method includes forming supplying oxygen to the channel layer, forming a passivation layer to cover the source and drain electrodes and the channel layer, and performing an annealing process after forming the passivation layer.
US07767500B2
An improved superjunction semiconductor device includes a charged balanced pylon in a body region, where a top of the pylon is large to create slight charge imbalance. A MOSgated structure is formed over the top of the pylon and designed to conduct current through the pylon. By increasing a dimension of the top of the pylon, the resulting device is less susceptible to variations in manufacturing tolerances to obtain a good breakdown voltage and improved device ruggedness.
US07767499B2
A method is disclosed to form an upward-pointing p-i-n diode formed of deposited silicon, germanium, or silicon-germanium. The diode has a bottom heavily doped p-type region, a middle intrinsic or lightly doped region, and a top heavily doped n-type region. The top heavily doped p-type region is doped with arsenic, and the semiconductor material of the diode is crystallized in contact with an appropriate silicide, germanide, or silicide-germanide. A large array of such upward-pointing diodes can be formed with excellent uniformity of current across the array when a voltage above the turn-on voltage of the diodes is applied. This diode is advantageously used in a monolithic three dimensional memory array.
US07767491B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a phase change material pattern on a top surface of an insulating layer including an opening and in the opening, and forming a compressive layer compressing the phase change material pattern on the phase change material pattern.
US07767483B1
A method for fabricating a dual-suspension system for MEMS-based devices includes: etching the geometry of an upper spring system, a lower spring system, and a proof mass into a substrate; applying a protective barrier to cover at least the exposed portions of the first layer of silicon; etching through portions of the protective barrier and handle wafer to define the shapes of the upper spring system, lower spring system, and proof mass; removing the remainder of the protective barrier; and removing the first layer of oxide from the areas in contact with the upper spring system and removing the second layer of oxide from the areas in contact with the lower spring system. Electrical contacts may be created on the substrate. A wafer may be bonded to the support structure on a side of the substrate. A MEMS-based device fabricated from the method is also provided.
US07767480B1
A method of manufacturing a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) in group III-V semiconductor compounds with improved optical and electrical characteristics is provided. A selected DBR structure is achieved by sequential exposure of a substrate to predetermined combinations of the elemental sources to produce a pair of DBR layers of compound alloys and a graded region including one or more discrete additional layers between the DBR layers of intermediate alloy composition. Exposure durations and combinations of the elemental sources in each exposure are predetermined by DBR design characteristics.
US07767478B2
The invention provides a thin film transistor (TFT) array panel that includes an insulating substrate; a gate line formed on the insulating substrate and having a first layer of an Al containing metal, a second layer of a Cu containing metal that is thicker than the first layer, and a gate electrode; a gate insulating layer arranged on the gate line; a semiconductor arranged on the gate insulating layer; a data line having a source electrode and arranged on the gate insulating layer and the semiconductor; a drain electrode arranged on the gate insulating layer and the semiconductor and facing the source electrode; a passivation layer having a contact hole and arranged on the data line and the drain electrode; and a pixel electrode arranged on the passivation layer and coupled with the drain electrode through the contact hole.
US07767464B2
A composition and method of detecting counterfeit paper currency includes applying a test solution to a paper currency having ink printed thereon. If the paper currency is counterfeit, the test solution causes the ink to release from the paper currency. If the paper currency is genuine, the ink will not release from the paper currency. The test solution may be an aqueous-alcohol solution having a chemical thickener, and preferably includes a de-foaming agent, a bactericide/fungicide and a fragrance.
US07767459B2
A method for determining prothrombin time of a plasma or whole blood sample includes measuring prothrombin time for at least two different dilutions for a test sample to determine tmin or INRmin. The prothrombin time for at least two different dilutions for normal plasma is measured to determine tmin or INRmin values for normal plasma. Next, tPivka or INRPivka values are calculated by subtracting the value for normal plasma from the value for the test sample. The Pivka corrected prothrombin time for the test sample is calculated by subtracting tPivka or INRPivka from the prothrombin time measured for the test sample.
US07767451B2
The present invention provides a cell strain which is derived from an fcwf-4 cell that is a cell derived from a feline whole fetus and which is capable of being cultured without animal-derived proteins, a method for producing the cell strain, and a method for producing a virus by using the cell. An inexpensive and safe feline vaccine can be produced according to the present invention.
US07767448B2
A PAP smear sampling device includes a PAP smear brush having a base with peripheral bristles and a central brush for sampling both cervical and endo cervical areas. A break away handle is provided for supporting the brush from enabling depositing of the brush into a specimen capsule.
US07767441B2
A bioassay system is disclosed. The bioassay system may include a plurality of optical detection apparatuses, each of which includes a substrate having a light detector, and a linker site formed over the light detector, the linker site being treated to affix the biomolecule to the linker site. The linker site is proximate to the light detector and is spaced apart from the light detector by a distance of less than or equal to 100 micrometers. The light detector collects light emitted from the biomolecule within a solid angle of greater than or equal to 0.8 SI steridian. The optical detection apparatus may further include an excitation light source formed over the substrate so as to provide a light source for exciting a fluorophore attached to the biomolecule.
US07767440B2
Cover of a hybridization chamber with a peripheral frame with filling and ventilation holes extending from the upper face to the lower face of the frame, a peripheral shoulder outside the filling and ventilation holes on the lower face of the frame, a cover wall arranged within the frame, flush with its lower face and downwardly offset relative to its upper face and which substantially consists of at least one resilient plastics material.
US07767433B2
A pulse generator circuit may include a diode configured to operate as an opening switch, a tank circuit in series with the diode having an admittance that is switchable from a first value to a second value that is different from the first value, and a switching system configured to cause the tank circuit to switch between the first value and the second value. The diode may saturate in less than 100 nanoseconds. A saturable core transformer may operate as a switch that controls the opening of the diode. The pulse generator may generate a plurality of pulses, each having a length of no more than 3 nanoseconds and an amplitude of at least 1 kilovolt. Electrodes may be connected to the pulse generator to deliver the plurality of pulses to biological cells.
US07767432B2
The present invention relates to improved methods for the production, isolation and purification of epothilone B. These methods include, for example, a fermentation process for the production of epothilone B, isolation via adsorption onto a resin, and subsequent purification.
US07767428B2
This invention provides a salutaridinol 7-O-acetyltransferase protein, a salutaridinol 7-O-acetyltransferase gene, and a sequence which is complementary thereto. This invention further provides a method for the production of thebaine comprising the steps of (i) contacting in vitro a protein having salutaridinol 7-O-acetyltransferase activity with salutaridinol and acetyl coenzyme A at pH 8 to 9, and (ii) recovering the thebaine thus produced.
US07767422B2
This invention provides methods for detecting the presence of malignant or premalignant cells, or trophoblastic cells in a human wherein the malignant, premalignant or trophoblastic cells express 5T4. The methods of the invention detect 5T4 RNA in blood, blood plasma, serum, and other bodily fluids. The inventive methods are useful for detection, diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, or evaluation of neoplastic disease, and for the detection and evaluation of placental tissue in pregnant women.
US07767419B2
The invention provides a method to efficiently express high levels of a recombinant untagged NT-proBNP for use as a calibrator in NT-proBNP immunoassays.
US07767418B2
The present invention provides novel polynucleotides encoding LTRPC3 polypeptides, fragments and homologues thereof. The present invention also provides polynucleotides encoding variants and splice variants of LTRPC3 polypeptides, LTRPC3b, LTRPC3c, LTRPC3d, LTRPC3e, and LTRPC3f, respectively. Also provided are vectors, host cells, and recombinant and synthetic methods for producing said polypeptides. The invention further relates to diagnostic and therapeutic methods for applying these novel LTRPC3, LTRPC3b, LTRPC3c, LTRPC3d, LTRPC3e, and LTRPC3f polypeptides to the diagnosis, treatment, and/or prevention of various diseases and/or disorders related to these polypeptides. The invention further relates to screening methods for identifying agonists and antagonists of the polynucleotides and polypeptides of the present invention.
US07767413B2
To supply the reagent, medium, and method for detection of Alicyclobacilus acidoterrestris, with which acidoterrestris can be rapidly detected and easily distinguished from acidocaldarius. After a sample including fruit juice is added to the medium for detection of Alicyclobacilus acidoterrestris containing chlor-2,3,5-triphenyl-2H-tetrazolium, acidoterrestris bacteria are detected based upon color change to red of the colony on the medium, which is kept at the temperature of 40 to 50° C.
US07767405B2
The invention provides a family of antibodies that specifically bind the human cell surface glycosphingolipid GD2. The antibodies comprise modified variable regions, more specially, modified framework regions, which reduce their immunogenicity when administered to a human. The antibodies may be coupled to a therapeutic agent and used in the treatment of cancer.
US07767397B2
The present application relates to compositions and methods for treating skin disorders, dry skin, and protection of skin in inflammatory events. The present application more particularly discloses the identification of new genes and metabolic pathways involved in skin disorders, which provide novel targets and approaches for treating said disorders and for screening biologically active compounds. The present invention also provides various products and constructs, such as probes, primers, vectors, recombinant cells, which can be used to implement the above methods. The invention may be used to detect or treat various skin disorders, particularly dry and inflammatory skin disorders, in various subjects, including mammalian subjects, particularly human beings.
US07767396B2
The invention relates to compositions for generating a signal indicative of the presence of a target nucleic acid in a sample, where the compositions include a probe having a 5′ region and a 3′ flap and a P. furiosus polymerase having 3′ exonuclease activity.
US07767394B2
The present invention relates to preparation of nucleotide compositions and uses thereof for conducting nucleic acid analyses. The compositions and methods embodied in the present invention are particularly useful for nucleic acid analyses that require high-resolution detection of labeled nucleotides or labeled nucleic acid targets.
US07767381B2
This invention relates to a photosensitive composition characterized by comprising components A, B and C, and a photosensitive film and a stencil for screen printing using the photosensitive composition; Component A: a poly(vinyl alcohol) polymer represented by formula (1) or (2) wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl or aralkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, wherein the alkyl and aralkyl groups may be substituted by a hydroxyl or carbamoyl group and the bond between carbon atoms thereof may be present through an oxygen atom or an unsaturated bond; R2 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms; m is an integer of 1 to 6; n is 0 or 1; and X− represents a halogen ion, a phosphate ion, a methosulfate ion, or a sulfonate ion, or a mixture of the anions; component B: a radical polymerizable monomer containing at least one ethylenically unsaturated bond and possesses an anion dissociating capability; and component C: a radical photoinitiator.
US07767371B2
The presently disclosed embodiments are directed to charge transport layers useful in electrostatography. More particularly, the embodiments pertain to an electrostatographic imaging member comprising a charge transport layer that exhibits improved charge mobility transport.
US07767365B2
A method for removing impurities (e.g., atomic sulfur) from a reticle for use in photolithography is provided. In one embodiment, a reticle (or photomask) comprising a plate, a first layer over the plate, and a photoresist layer over the first layer is provided. The photoresist layer is removed with a first chemistry comprising a sulfur-containing compound. At least a portion of the first layer is removed with a second chemistry comprising a sulfur-containing etchant, thereby exposing portions of the plate. Removing the photoresist layer and/or at least a portion of the first layer leaves sulfur on at least portions of the reticle. In a cleaning step, the reticle is contacted with one or more excited species of oxygen to remove residual sulfur and other contaminants, such as carbon, sulfur and oxygen-containing species. Methods of embodiments can be used to clean, e.g., binary photomasks, attenuated phase shift masks (APSMs) and high transmission attenuated photomasks.
US07767354B2
In an ECU, a coolant fan performs cooling operation such that a control DUTY value is limited by a control DUTY value according to tolerable noise level of the cooling fan based on a vehicle speed in a case in which the temperature in the high-voltage battery is lower than a predetermined limitation for highest temperature. In a case in which the temperature in the high-voltage battery is higher than the predetermined limitation for highest temperature, the cooling fan performs the cooling operation by using an energy storage device cooling operation requirement value and an IPU cooling operation requirement value such that performance in the high-voltage battery is not affected. By doing this, a temperature controlling apparatus for batteries in which it is possible to cool the battery and solve temperature difference among a plurality of batteries can be provided.
US07767348B2
A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes an electrode assembly formed by winding positive and negative electrodes, and an insulating layer together. Each of the electrodes has a core sheet and mixture layers formed on both sides of the sheet. The insulating layer electrically insulates the electrodes. At least one of the electrodes includes a core-exposed portion continuous parallel to the winding direction. Each of the mixture layers has an inclined weight region where the amount of mixture per unit area decreases toward the core-exposed portion, and a constant weight region in which the amount of mixture per unit area is constant. The inclined weight region has a width of not more than 0.2 of the width of the mixture layers and has an average mixture density of not less than 40% and not more than 99% of the mixture density of the constant weight region.
US07767347B2
A battery grid includes a frame that includes a top element, a bottom element, a first side element, and a second side element. The battery grid also includes a plurality of wires provided within the frame and defining a plurality of open areas and a current collection lug extending from the top element in a first direction. The battery grid further includes at least one feature provided in the battery grid that is configured to reduce the amount of growth of the battery grid in the first direction due to corrosion of the battery grid during the life of the battery grid.
US07767343B2
A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a negative electrode containing a graphite material as the negative active material, a positive electrode containing lithium cobalt oxide as a main component of the positive active material and a nonaqueous electrolyte solution, the battery being characterized in that the lithium cobalt oxide contains a group IVA element and a group IIA element of the periodic table, the nonaqueous electrolyte solution contains 0.2-1.5% by weight of a sulfonyl-containing compound and preferably further contains 0.5-4% by weight of vinylene carbonate.
US07767326B2
Disclosed herein is a water controller system constructed such that water generated from a cathode of a direct methanol fuel cell system and carbon dioxide and an unreacted methanol solution generated from an anode of the direct methanol fuel cell system are introduced into the water controller system, the carbon dioxide is discharged out of the water controller system, and the methanol solution is circulated to the corresponding electrode so as to reuse the methanol solution. The water controller system includes a specific-structure floating member having a gas exhaust port, a gas/solution inlet port, and an outlet port. The water controller system further includes a flexible inlet pipe, a flexible outlet pipe, and a flexible exhaust pipe, which are connected to the floating member. The water controller system for fuel cells has the effects of reusing an unreacted methanol solution discharged from the fuel cell, being normally operated even when the water controller system is inclined, and uniformly maintaining the amount of water and methanol in the water controller system.
US07767323B1
A modified microbial fuel cell with a halogen salt or salt water oxidizer. The fuel cell is a batch cell, but flow-through cell embodiments are also envisioned. The cathode and anode are separated by a cation exchange membrane or saline bridge. The anode contains microorganisms in media or various water bed sediments. The cathode contains water and a halogenated salt oxidizer. The fuel cells operated continuously for over 3 months, providing approximately 10 times more power than those in the current literature for batch cells.
US07767312B2
An easy-to-tear laminate is provided which is satisfactory in tearability and heat-sealing strength and excellent in ease of opening and contents-protecting performance. The laminate comprises a base layer and a layer comprising 10-95% by weight specific ethylene-based terpolymer (A) and 5-90% by weight specific low-density polyethylene (B) produced by the high-pressure radical polymerization method.
US07767311B2
Disclosed are adhesive compositions comprising nonfunctionalized base resins and functionalized ethylene copolymers such as ethylene/maleic anhydride (E/MAH) or ethylene/ethyl hydrogen maleate (E/MAME) copolymer, which are synthesized directly in a high pressure autoclave. These adhesive compositions can be applied as self-supporting films or can be co-extruded or extrusion coated onto a substrate. Also disclosed are multilayer structures, films, pipe coatings and building panels comprising these compositions.
US07767308B2
A moisture-curable adhesive composition that may be formulated to be free of volatile organic compounds, or substantially free of volatile organic compounds which is safe for chronic exposure, resistant to combustion, and provides a high peel strength useful for securing a rubber membrane material to a rigid roof deck includes a polymer having silicon-containing hydrolyzable terminal groups, a phenolic resin, and a non-polymeric silicon-containing hydrolyzable compound, wherein the ratio of the amount of polymer having silicon-containing hydrolyzable terminal groups by weight to the amount of phenolic resin by weight is greater than 2:1.
US07767306B2
In certain example embodiments, a coated article includes respective layers including hydrogenated diamond-like carbon (DLC) and zirconium nitride before heat treatment (HT). During HT, the hydrogenated DLC acts as a fuel which upon combustion with oxygen produces carbon dioxide and/or water. The high temperature developed during this combustion heats the zirconium nitride to a temperature(s) well above the heat treating temperature, thereby causing the zirconium nitride to be transformed into a new post-HT layer including zirconium oxide that is very scratch resistant and durable.
US07767304B2
Processes suitable for creating polarized articles using polyvinyl alcohol films, and articles produced by those processes.
US07767303B2
The invention relates to a cloth that can function as a moisturizing cleanser. When the cloth is moistened with water, it works up into a warm, sudsy cleansing lotion that feels great and works well as a facial cleansing cloth. The cloth contains water, at least one surfactant and at least one hydrophilic polymer.
US07767302B2
To provide a carbon fiber reinforcement having excellent thermal conductivity and mechanical properties which is manufactured by mixing together two different types of pitch-based carbon short fibers having a ratio of the degree of filament diameter distribution to average fiber diameter of 0.05 to 0.2 and a fiber length of 20 to 6,000 μm which differ from each other in average fiber diameter or by mixing one of them with a pitch-based carbon fiber web to improve dispersibility into a matrix resin or increase the dispersion ratio of the pitch-based carbon short fibers.
US07767301B2
A system for accumulating mechanical energy comprising a carrier fluid and a plurality of porous particles distributed in the carrier fluid is disclosed. The plurality of particles are broken fragments of a lyophilic starting material having at least one pore open to an exterior of the starting material and defined by an interior surface of the starting material, wherein the exterior and interior surfaces of the lyophilic starting material comprise a coating that is lyophobic with respect to the carrier fluid.
US07767300B2
The present invention is directed to calcium phosphates in granular form having an X-ray diffraction pattern characteristic of hydroxyapatite in which a portion of the anions of the crystal lattice are substituted with carbonate anions and which have good compressibility and flow properties in direct compression applications. The invention is also directed to the methods for preparing the calcium phosphate aforesaid granules characterized in that the methods include the processing of a brushite dicalcium phosphate solution having a specified particle size distribution using a solution of an alkaline earth carbonate for a sufficient period of time to allow the transformation of the brushite calcium phosphate into hydroxyapatite calcium phosphate.
US07767294B2
A primer coating is provided for use on polymeric substrates to enhance adhesion of liquid toner to the substrates for printing in an electrophotographic printing device. The primer coating is water-based and includes a dispersion of a copolymer of ethylene and acrylic or methacrylic acid, and a compatible adhesion enhancer selected from an aliphatic polyurethane dispersion, a hydrogenated hydrocarbon rosin or rosin ester dispersion, and an amorphous acrylic polymer dispersion. The coating may also include additives such as wetting agents, antiblocking agents, matting agents, and waxes. The primer coating may be applied to a variety of polymeric substrates including polypropylene, biaxially oriented polpypropylene, polyethylene terephthalate, and polyvinyl chloride.
US07767293B2
A leather-like sheet is provided having a substrate layer and a surface skin layer in which the surface skin layer is composed of a cross-linked product of a polyurethane hot-melt composition containing 100 parts by mass of a urethane prepolymer, 5 parts by mass to 40 parts by mass of a coloring agent containing a polyol, 5 parts by mass to 50 parts by mass of multi-functional (meth)acrylate, and 0.5 parts by mass to 5 parts by mass of a photopolymerization initiator, wherein the urethane prepolymer can be obtained by reacting 5% to 50% of the number of isocyanate groups in a urethane prepolymer containing isocyanate groups that is obtained by reacting a polyol containing 40% by mass or more of polytetramethylene glycol and a polyisocyanate with a (meth)acrylate containing a hydroxyl group. This leather-like sheet has an excellent surface grade while maintaining excellent suppleness and bending resistance.
US07767282B2
The present invention is a film that is soluble in cold water, and useful in such applications as detergent sachets. Films of the present invention are PVOH copolymers that comprise itaconic acid.
US07767279B2
The invention is to provide a liquid crystal composition that satisfies at least one characteristic among the characteristics such as a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of a nematic phase, a small viscosity, a large optical anisotropy, a negatively large dielectric anisotropy, a large specific resistance, a high stability to ultraviolet light, a high stability to heat and so forth. A liquid crystal composition having a negative dielectric anisotropy comprising two components, wherein the first component is at least one compound selected from the group of compounds represented by formula (1-1) and formula (1-2), and the second component is at least one compound selected from the group of compounds represented by formula (2-1) and formula (2-2): wherein R1 and R2 are each independently alkyl having 1 to 12 carbons, alkoxy having from 1 to 12 carbons, alkenyl having 2 to 12 carbons or alkenyl having 2 to 12 carbons, arbitrary hydrogen of which is replaced by fluorine; Z1 is a single bond, ethylene, methyleneoxy or carbonyloxy; ring A and ring B are each independently tetrahydropyran-2,5-diyl, 1,4-cyclohexylene, or 1,4-phenylene, at least one of ring A and ring B is tetrahydropyran-2,5-diyl.
US07767274B2
The present invention relates to a method of preparing wear-resistant metallic surfaces.
US07767270B1
Method and system for functionalizing a collection of carbon nanotubes (CNTs). A selected precursor gas (e.g., H2 or NH3 or NF3 or F2 or CF4 or CnHm) is irradiated to provide a cold plasma of selected target particles, such as atomic H or F, in a first chamber. The target particles are directed toward an array of CNTs located in a second chamber while suppressing transport of ultraviolet radiation to the second chamber. A CNT array is functionalized with the target particles, at or below room temperature, to a point of saturation, in an exposure time interval no longer than about 30 sec. The predominant species that are deposited on the CNT array vary with the distance d measured along a path from the precursor gas to the CNT array; two or three different predominant species can be deposited on a CNT array for distances d=d1 and d=d2>d1 and d=d3>d2.
US07767258B2
The molding thermoplastic polymer, which can solve a problem with fine particles in a suspension polymerization process, a problem for a reduction in energy consumption at the time of drying in an emulsion polymerization process, and a problem in compounding procedures for processors. The invention relates to molding thermoplastic polymer particles comprising 100 parts by weight of suspension polymer particles having a glass transition temperature of 60° C. or more and an average particle diameter of 50 to 500 μm produced by suspension polymerization, the said suspension polymer particles being coated with 5 (inclusive) to 22 (exclusive) parts by weight of an emulsion polymer produced by emulsion polymerization.
US07767246B2
The invention relates to a method for preparing a coffee concentrate, wherein the coffee is subjected to two extractions, while the second extraction is carried out at a higher temperature than the first extraction. The method is suitable for preparing liquid as well as solid concentrates. The method produces a new concentrate that forms a further aspect of the present invention.
US07767245B2
Meal replacement compositions are described herein. The meal replacement compositions are made using all natural ingredients and includes relatively high amounts of fiber and protein and relatively low amounts of fat. In some instances, a single serving of a meal replacement composition includes high amounts of cocoa, an ingredient containing plant polyphenols.
US07767244B2
Frying processes utilizing cooking oil at elevated temperatures can cause various degradation effects in the oil including oxidation, hydrolysis and/or polymerization. In the absence of additives to protect the oil, the nutritional profile and cooking performance of degraded oil diminishes the quality of food cooked therein. The disclosed methods and compositions provide beneficial and cost effective improvements in the cooking performance of oil used at elevated temperatures, for example, in food frying equipment.
US07767241B2
It is intended to provide a dry fractionation method for fat whereby the performance for fractionating a fat into a high-melting fraction, a medium-melting fraction and a low-melting fraction can be improved to thereby preventing, in particular, the medium-melting fraction from worsening of the melting properties in the mouth and a decrease in the melting point with the passage of time and, in its turn, improving the melting properties in the mouth of a chocolate product which is produced by using the thus obtained hard butter for chocolates, etc. A method of fractionating a fat wherein a fraction (in particular, a medium-melting fraction) obtained by dry fractionation is efficiently separated from a high-melting fraction and a low-melting fraction mixed therewith. More specifically, a dry fractionation method which comprises heating a crystal fraction containing a large amount of 1,3-disaturated-2-unsaturated triglycerides to thereby melt the 1,3-disaturated-2-unsturated triglyceride components followed by solid/liquid separation of tri-saturated triglycerides as a crystal fraction, thereby achieving a favorable performance of fractionating 1,3-disaturated-2-unsaturated triglycerides and saturated triglycerides.
US07767237B2
The present invention provides a method for continuously producing pieces of liquid-filled gum material, including applying an anti-sticking agent to the rope of liquid-filled gum material before it is individually cut into pieces. The invention further provides for a liquid-filled chewing gum including a liquid-fill composition, and a gum region surrounding the liquid-fill composition, where the gum region includes an anti-sticking agent that reduces the tendency of the gum region to stick to the molds and operating machinery during gum manufacturing.
US07767236B2
Plant seed extract compositions obtained by washing a defatted plant seed with water, and extracting the resulting washed seed product with an organic solvent and safflower seed extract compositions wherein the weight ratio of the total content of (a) p-coumaroylserotonin, feruloylserotonin, p-coumaroylserotonin glycoside, and feruloylserotonin glycoside to (b) 2-hydroxyarctiin is 1:0.01 to 0.2, are effective for reducing the risk of developing atherosclerosis and diseases caused by atherosclerosis and also exhibit a reduced tendency to cause diarrhea.
US07767234B2
As described below, the present invention provides methods and compositions for controlling a honey bee parasitic mite. In addition, the invention features compositions useful for the treatment or prevention of a parasitic mite infestation in a honey bee hive.
US07767231B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for oral administration suitable for the preparation of a ready-to-use suspension comprising coated particles comprising an active substance having an unpleasant and/or bitter taste, such as clarithromycin, and a suspension base comprising an osmotically active substance capable of providing a high osmolality to the admixture of the suspension base with an aqueous suspending medium in the ready-to-use suspension. Said ready-to-use suspension maintains its palatability over a prolonged period of time by those defined osmotic conditions.
US07767230B2
A depot formulation comprising iloperidone and a biodegradable, biocompatible polymer. Preferably, the polymer is a star polymer.
US07767229B1
A poly(diallylamine)polymer pharmaceutical composition or pharmaceutical derivate used to sequester bile acid and/or to reduce serum cholesterol levels. The polymer is derived from a monomer of formula Ia, where R6 is a bridging group of valency r, and r is an integer of 3 or greater to provide a cross linked polymer, and all diallyl nitrogen atoms are linked to at least two further diallyl nitrogen atoms.
US07767213B2
A compound and methods of making thereof having the structure shown below is disclosed. Each Ar is an aromatic group. Each M is palladium, platinum, or rhenium. At least one X in the compound has an aliphatic having at least 1 carbon atom. Each x, each y, and each z is an integer greater than or equal to zero. Each m is an integer greater than or equal to one. n is an integer greater than or equal to three.
US07767212B2
The present invention is in the fields of medicine, public health, immunology, molecular biology and virology. The invention provides compositions comprising a virus-like particle (VLP) or a virus particle and at least one antigen, particularly at least one feline antigen, and more particularly at least one feline antigen that is a human allergen. In certain embodiments, the antigen is a Fel d1 antigen or a fragment thereof, covalently linked to the VLP. The invention also provides methods for producing the compositions. The compositions of the invention induce efficient immune responses, in particular antibody responses, in mammals, particularly humans. The compositions and methods of the invention are useful in the production of vaccines, in particular for the treatment and/or prevention of allergies to cat dander and other cat antigens and allergens.
US07767200B2
Mammalian subjects having a neoplasm are treated with a virus, a fluoropyrimidine, for example 5-fluorouracil, and a camptothecin compound. The virus is selected from the group consisting of a Newcastle disease virus, a measles virus, a vesicular stomatitis virus, an influenza virus, a Sindbis virus, a picornavirus, and a myxoma virus.
US07767198B2
The present invention provides storage stable dry powder compositions of IL-4R. The powder compositions demonstrate superior chemical and physical stability over their solution counterparts, particularly upon storage under varying conditions of temperature and humidity. Moreover, the powders, as prepared, possess good aerosol properties, which are maintained upon storage.
US07767197B2
The present invention provides an immunogen composition and methods for using the same for the development of immunity, and particularly at mucosal sites in a mammal, thereby providing immunity at the site of entry for many major pathogenic organisms and also systemic immunity. The immunogen composition includes an antigen, a biocompatible polymer, and a liquid vehicle, with the biocompatible polymer and liquid vehicle being present in such proportions and interacting in such a way that the immunogen composition exhibits reverse-thermal viscosity behaviour. A delivery vehicle composition including a drug other than an antigen is also provided. Methods are provided for delivering the compositions of the invention to a host.
US07767196B2
An adamantane functionalized magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent has been synthesized, and shows high liver specificity, prolonged retention time in both the liver and kidneys, the highest relaxivity among clinical contrast agents, high water solubility, thermodynamic stability, signal intensity enhancement, hepatocellular uptake, and low osmolality and toxicity.
US07767190B2
An improved process for the causticisation of Bayer liquors in an alumina refinery, the process including the steps of reacting lime with aluminate ions in a Bayer liquor within a primary reactor under controlled conditions of low to moderate temperature (between 70-80° C.) and agitation, to form substantially only a hydrocalumite species and hydroxyl ions; and a secondary reactor wherein the hydrocalumite species formed is subjected to heating in contact with a Bayer liquor under controlled conditions so as to cause the hydrocalumite species to react with the liquor to form calcium carbonate, aluminate ions and hydroxyl ions, whereby a causticised Bayer liquor is obtained and wherein the efficiency of lime utilization is substantially increased and/or alumina losses are minimized.
US07767187B2
An apparatus for separating carbon products from used tires includes a decomposing chamber into which used tires are charged, a nitrogen gas supply device that supplies nitrogen gas into the decomposing chamber, one or more magnetrons that generate microwave of predetermined frequency and one or more phase shifters that removes interference between microwaves generated by the magnetrons, a receiving plate that is adapted to receive carbon black and iron cores generated by the decomposing process, a tire support that is adapted to support used tires, an opening and closing device that opens or closes a door on which used tires are placed, conveyor belt that moves carbon black and iron cores to a desired location after decomposition is complete, and a cooling plate that is provided in an upper portion of the apparatus and cools down gaseous oil that is generated by decomposition by microwave into liquid oil.
US07767183B2
Methods for the production of carbon foam from swelling coals that do not require the use of high process pressures, oxidized coal, devolatized coal, or high-strength, foam expansion confining molds are described. In some embodiments, a comminuted swelling bituminous coal is heated to a first elevated temperature sufficient to result in the coal particles softening and melting together to form a substantially homogeneous open cell plastic carbon material. The substantially homogeneous open cell plastic carbon material may then be heated to a second elevated temperature at a slow rate to form carbon foam. In some embodiments, the resulting carbon foam may be heated to a higher third elevated temperature. The resulting carbon foam may be subsequently heated to elevated temperatures as great as 3200° C. or more.
US07767182B2
Method for producing functional nanocarbon and hydrogen by direct decomposition of lower hydrocarbon
In a reaction where a lower hydrocarbon is subjected to direct decomposition by using a catalyst to produce a functional nanocarbon and hydrogen, the lower hydrocarbon is subjected to the reaction in an coexistent gas comprising low concentration of oxidizing gas, reducing gas or a mixture thereof. The precursor of functional nanocarbon produced on the catalyst and amorphous carbon secondarily produced on the catalyst react with the coexistent gas so that being removed from the catalyst, making it possible to prevent the drop of conversion with time on stream due to the inhibition of the reaction by the precursor and by-product. In the case where the raw material of lower hydrocarbon is biogas, the coexistent gas can be easily contained in methane by lowering purification degree of methane.
US07767179B2
A method for producing an adsorbent which is stable toward a liquid such as an eluant and which shows excellent reproducibility in selectively adsorbing and separating an object compound, the method includes the steps of: preparing a base material having a surface, in which at least part of the surface of the base material is formed of a material containing as its major component apatite which is represented by the composition formula Ca10(PO4)6((OH)1-aXa)2; preparing a solution containing ions of at least one metal element; substituting at least part of Ca of the apatite by the at least one metal element by bringing the base material into contact with the solution to obtain a substituted base material; and subjecting the substituted base material to heat treatment at 50 to 400° C. for 0.5 to 10 hours, wherein the base material and the substituted base material are not exposed to a temperature exceeding 500° C. for 4 hours or longer from the substitution step to the completion of production of the adsorbent.
US07767176B2
Provided is an emissions treatment system and method for reducing NOx emissions in the exhaust stream produced from an internal combustion engine. The system has an injector for periodically metering ammonia or an ammonia precursor into an exhaust stream; and a first substrate with a first SCR catalyst composition, downstream of the injector. The first substrate has an inlet end, an outlet end, a length extending between the inlet end to the outlet end, and wall elements. The first SCR catalyst composition is disposed on the wall elements from the inlet end toward the outlet end to form an inlet zone. The first substrate also has an NH3 destruction catalyst composition with a platinum group metal component dispersed on a refractory metal oxide. The NH3 destruction catalyst is disposed on the wall elements from the outlet end to form an outlet zone.
US07767174B2
A method for facilitating reducing mercury in a fluid stream using a catalytic bed assembly including at least a first catalytic bed. The method includes receiving a flow of fluid including mercury at the catalytic bed assembly; injecting a flow of a compound including ammonia and a first mercury oxidizer upstream of the first catalytic bed; and oxidizing the mercury using the mercury oxidizer and the catalytic bed assembly.
US07767171B2
The object of the present utility model is to cope with the problems of large volume of the presently known cellpacking type of reactor and the poor effect of heat transfer, and to provide a shell-type reactor with radial baffle, which transfers heat well and reduce the volume of the reactor, comprising a shell (1) and an internal cold plate assembly (2), the internal cold plate assembly (2) fixed within the shell (1); wherein a gas radial distribution vessel (9) and a radial gas cylinder (10) fixed within the shell (1); the radial distribution vessel (9) and the radial gas cylinder (10) could counterchange according to the difference of the gas flow direction; several circles of radial baffling assemblies (12) are provided between the radial distribution vessel (9) and the radial gas cylinder (10), the radial baffling assemblies (12) consisting of several baffling components fixed in an interval mode, an axial baffling through groove or hole is provided between the adjacent baffling components. The present utility model has advantages of the great effect of heat transfer, the simple structure, the small overall size.
US07767166B2
A non thermal plasma reactor for treating gases. The reactor has a tubelike housing, which contains four concentric channels. A central channel is a gas inlet channel. Two inner channels are a non thermal plasma reactor channel and a catalytic channel. The outer channel is a gas outlet channel.
US07767163B2
An exhaust emission control system can include a reformer a fuel source disposed upstream of and in fluid communication with the reformer, and a NOx adsorber disposed downstream of and in fluid communication with the reformer. The NOx adsorber can include a NOx adsorber catalyst having an acid adsorber disposed on the substrate and a base adsorber disposed over the acid adsorber.
US07767162B2
This invention presents a sulphurous acid generator which employs a concentric hopper and burn chamber in which the burn chamber is surrounded or substantially surrounded by the hopper. The present invention also employs means for substantially eliminating any discharge plume.
US07767147B2
Conventional liquid transport substrates having a fluid channel formed along an array of electrodes have a problem in which throughput decreases, depending on driving conditions. In order to avoid two-way passage in a fluid channel from the inlet to a measuring section and a fluid channel from the measuring section to the outlet, the measuring section is located in the middle of the fluid channel connecting the inlet and the outlet, so that manipulation from the inlet to the outlet takes place in one direction on the substrate. Even when analyzing a large number of sample droplets, by transport of the droplets substantially in one direction, it is possible to complete measurement in a short time.
US07767141B2
Provided is a method for reducing the amounts of fungal spores and small airborne particles in an enclosure, where the enclosure has or is in communication with an air handling system. The method comprises the steps of applying vacuum suction to the air handling system and contacting the air handling system with a first antimicrobial agent; applying a cleansing agent to the carpets and upholstery in the enclosure; fogging the enclosure with a second antimicrobial agent; releasing ozone within the enclosure for a period of time and terminating the release of ozone to allow the ozone concentration to return to normal levels; placing a reservoir containing tea tree oil into the air handling system, and initiating operation of an air purifier air in the enclosure, wherein for a period of at least 90 days, the airborne particles in the enclosure are fewer than 1.0 million airborne particles per cubic meter of air; the airborne fungal spores in the enclosure an amount at least 1.1 times below the amount of airborne fungal spores in the air outside the enclosure before performing the method; and, the surface fungal spores in the enclosure are at least 3.0 times below the surface level of fungal spores in the enclosure before performing the method.
US07767138B2
Semi-finished or finished parts are made from a molybdenum alloy with intermetallic phases, preferably molybdenum-silicide, molybdenum-boron-silicide, optionally also molybdenum-boride phases. Starting from mechanically alloyed powder, hot compacted material exhibits superplastic forming behavior. It is thus possible to lower the forming temperature by at least 300° C., thus permitting processing on conventional plants.
US07767136B2
Apparatus for the combustion of gas exiting from an electric arc furnace where the heat of combustion is used for the preheating of scraps entering the furnace wherein the apparatus has an insertion device for introducing comburent substance into a preheating chamber or loading tunnel for scrap metal where the loding tunnel has an inlet section for scrap metal, a seal section to prevent an uncontrolled entrance of air in the tunnel, a heating section and an unloading section for delivering scrap metal to the furnace. The insertion device for the comburent substance has one or more adjustable openings placed in the loading tunnel, and said apparatus comprises a device or a series of devices.
US07767130B2
The invention relates to a method and device for production of a three-dimensional article from a material, by means of layered application. According to the invention, a dropwise application is carried out, whereby drops of reaction components are ejected by a nozzle arrangement (3) and applied to a base reaction component (2), arranged on a substrate (1). The material for the three-dimensional article is formed in layers, with reaction of the base reaction component (2) with reaction components on contact, whereby the material is formed on a reaction of the base reaction component with one of the reaction components to give a material with one material property and on another reaction of the base reaction component with another of the reaction components to give a material with another material property. On production of the three-dimensional article, an article section is produced in which a gradual transition between the one material property and the other material property is generated.
US07767126B2
The invention is directed to an embossing assembly comprising an embossing sleeve having a three-dimensional pattern formed thereon, an expandable insert; and a drum over which said sleeve and said expandable insert are mounted. The present invention is also directed to a method for preparing an embossing drum or an embossing sleeve. The present invention is further directed to a method for controlling the thickness of a plating material over the surface of a drum or sleeve in an electroplating process.
US07767125B2
Process for production of polymer blends which are suitable as filter aids and are composed of polystyrene and of crosslinked water-insoluble polyvinylpyrrolidones via processing of the two components in an extruder, which comprises melting polystyrene in an extruder and then treating it with the polyvinylpyrrolidone, and adding, to the mixture of the components, from 0.1 to 10% by weight of water, based on the total amount of polystyrene and popcorn polymer, and extruding and comminuting the mixture.
US07767121B2
A method of making a treating wash includes mixing brass granules with acetone, mixing carbon nanotube material, iron pyrite granules and copper granules in the acetone brass mixture, and straining the liquid from the remaining solid material. Methods of treating materials such as brass granules, iron pyrite granules, carbon nanotube material, and brass granules comprises washing the materials in the treating wash, followed by straining and drying the materials.
US07767120B2
The present invention relates to multifilament crimped yarn comprising an aliphatic polyester and methods for producing thereof, and to carpets that are manufactured by using the crimped yarn. The present invention provides an aliphatic polyester multifilament crimped yarn for the carpets comprising an aliphatic polyester having a melting point of equal to or higher than 130° C., said multifilament crimped yarn having crimp elongation rate of the multifilament crimped yarn after being processed with boiling water of 3-35% and breaking strength of 1-5 cN/decitex.
US07767119B2
A gas injecting device for an injection molding machine is equipped at one side of a cylinder of the injection molding machine, and includes a pin inserted into a gas injection hole of the gas injecting device. The pin has flat sections formed around an outer lower portion of the pin to define gaps between the flat sections and an inner surface of the gas injection hole, such that a gas is injected uniformly through the gaps, thereby allowing the gas and a resin to be easily mixed while preventing the resin from flowing backwards through the gas injecting device. An amount of gas injected to a barrel of the injection molding machine is accurately controlled according to a pressure difference between a gas line and the barrel, and time data, allowing an article to be injection molded according to a kind of resin or characteristics of the article.
US07767115B2
A metal particle dispersion liquid comprises: a compound including a sulfur atom; metal particles whose diameter ranges from 1 to 100 nm and made of a material including a precious metal material; and a dispersion medium. The metal particles is covered by the compound.
US07767114B2
In a method for functionalizing a carbon nanotube surface, the nanotube surface is exposed to at least one vapor including at least one functionalization species that non-covalently bonds to the nanotube surface, providing chemically functional groups at the nanotube surface, producing a functionalized nanotube surface. A functionalized nanotube surface can be exposed to at least one vapor stabilization species that reacts with the functionalization layer to form a stabilization layer that stabilizes the functionalization layer against desorption from the nanotube surface while providing chemically functional groups at the nanotube surface, producing a stabilized nanotube surface. The stabilized nanotube surface can be exposed to at least one material layer precursor species that deposits a material layer on the stabilized nanotube surface.
US07767106B2
Provided is a dry etching method for an oxide semiconductor film containing at least In, Ga, and Zn, which includes etching an oxide semiconductor film in a gas atmosphere containing a halogen-based gas.
US07767103B2
A micro-fluid ejection assembly and method therefor. The micro-fluid ejection assembly includes a silicon substrate having a fluid supply slot therein. The fluid supply slot is formed by an etch process conducted on a substrate using, a first etch mask circumscribing the fluid supply slot, and a second etch mask applied over a functional layer on the substrate.
US07767101B2
A method of fabricating a probe tip for use in a scanning probe microscope, includes the steps of: forming a triangular prism provided with a passivation film by patterning a {111} general silicon wafer, the passivation film being deposited on two sidewalls of the triangular prism; etching the silicon wafer to make the triangular prism into a probe tip of a triangular pyramid shape; and removing the passivation film.
US07767097B1
Water from coal bed methane production which is suitable for almost nothing, is ozonated in a reactor to oxidize the iron content from +2 to +3, that is from ferrous to ferric, and to oxidize the manganese content from +2 to +4. The water after such first treatment is run through a separation means and then through a rotating filter, and then subjected to capacitive deionization, to yield clean water, which is then treated further to adjust he sodium content to render the water suitable for domestic and agricultural purposes. Some of the produced water is run back through the capacitive deionization cells when no voltage is applied to clean the cells for the next voltage application cycle. Some of the water produced may also be run back through the separation means to help clean out the crud.
US07767095B2
A method and apparatus for implementing pathogen reduction within a poultry processing or food processing plant that uses water that has been treated with chloramines at an advantageous dosage before being introduced to the production process at processing steps. The water treated with chloramines may be from a fresh water source or reclaimed water from the processing plant. The reintroduction of the treated reclaimed water advantageously causes a dramatic reduction in the levels of microorganisms associated with poultry processing, while substantially conserving water use.
US07767092B2
A method of decolorizing a colored effluent comprising (i) a colored substance; and (ii) a polyvalent carboxylic acid or a polyvalent aminocarboxylic acid, the method including the steps of: (a) controlling a hydrogen ion exponent (pH) of the colored effluent to be in a range in which two or more carboxylic acid groups in the polyvalent carboxylic acid or the polyvalent aminocarboxylic acid does not dissociate; (b) adding an inorganic metal salt to the colored effluent so as to allow the inorganic metal salt to react with the colored substance to form a precipitation in the colored effluent, and (c) eliminating the precipitation from the colored effluent.
US07767089B2
A hollow gas transfer fiber is arranged in tows and potted into a module. The module may be used to treat wastewater by supplying hydrogen containing gas via the interior of the fibers to a biofilm present on an exterior surface of the fibers.
US07767088B2
A water treatment plant for water purification or the removal of organic matter, suspended solids and other pollutants from water or wastewater is formed from multiple sections of polymer that are assembled to form a pre-treatment chamber, a treatment chamber and a settling chamber. The plant is preferably formed of a polymer, such as HMWPE. The treatment chamber is preferably a biofilm-aeration chamber. An outer tank is comprised of first and second upper sections and first and second lower sections secured by mating flanges. A divider baffle forms an inner wall separating the pre-treatment and treatment chambers. A hanging clarifier baffle is formed to be suspended from the outer tank between the treatment chamber and the settling chamber and includes a lower wall with specific angled portions near an angled wall of a lower section of the tank.
US07767081B2
A magnetic fuel conditioner according to the present invention includes an inner pipe, an outer pipe surrounding the inner pipe with sufficient clearance that fuel can pass between the inner pipe and the outer pipe, a plurality of magnets placed inside the inner pipe with like magnetic poles facing each other, and a plurality of mild steel disks placed between each pair of magnets. In a preferred form, the inner pipe and the outer pipe are made of stainless steel. An outer sleeve of mild steel surrounds the outer pipe. In a preferred arrangement, each of the plurality of magnets is cylindrically shaped to tightly fit into the inner pipe and is in the range of from about 9000 gauss to about 10,000 gauss. Typically, the plurality of magnets comprise neodymium. In such an arrangement, each disk of mild steel is approximately one quarter inch thick and approximately the same diameter as the magnets in the plurality of magnets. There are two stainless steel cylinders of approximately the same diameter as the cylindrically shaped magnets. One of the stainless steel cylinders is placed in each end of the inner pipe and secured to retain the plurality of magnets within the inner pipe. A magnetic fuel conditioner according to the present invention is especially well suited when the fuel to be conditioned is diesel fuel.
US07767061B2
A swing paper machine configured to manufacture both wet crepe paper web having a moisture content of at least 20% and dry crepe paper web having a moisture content less than about 15%. The paper machine includes a Yankee dryer having a paper web positioned thereon, a creping doctor blade configured to remove the paper web from the Yankee dryer as either the wet crepe paper web or the dry crepe paper web, a first reel, at least one carrier web, and at least one dryer. The wet crepe paper web is carried by the at least one carrier web to the at least one dryer for reducing a moisture content of the wet crepe paper web. The wet crepe paper web bypasses engagement with the first reel. The dry crepe paper web engages the first reel and is wound into a parent roll. The paper machine is changeable between manufacture of wet and dry crepe paper web without altering a position of the first reel and the at least one carrier web relative to the Yankee dryer.
US07767059B2
The invention relates to a flushable paper product comprising a fibrous substrate having (i) at least one strength region comprising a reacted cationic or a reacted nonionic strength agent and (ii) at least one dispersibility region, wherein the paper product has (a) a dispersibility of at least one tenth of a second, (b) a dry strength, and (c) a wet strength of at least about five percent of the dry strength.
US07767058B2
Wet wipe products are made from continuous wet wiping web material having thermoplastic fibers of type, concentration and dispersion capable of being heat-set to set the overall web material in a reformed shape. A succession of ridges and grooves is formed by passing the performed material through a dry creper apparatus in absence of adhesives, the action characterized by pressing the material with a stationary pressing surface to engage an advancing drive surface, the driven material bodily collapsing into a succession of adjacent ridges and grooves that increase the volume of the material. The wet wiping material is heat set in the ridge and groove configuration, enabling the ridge and groove configuration to be preserved when the wet wiping material is wetted and when squeezed and released. The self-restoring ridge and groove configuration provides stress concentrating edges and improves liquid delivery and wet wiping in a number of respects.
US07767057B2
The present invention relates to methods and compositions for deinking waste paper, optionally in non-alkaline or low-alkaline systems. Deinking compositions are provided that include a blend of an alkoxylated fatty alcohol and a fatty acid. The compositions may further include a second alkoxylated fatty alcohol. The deinking compositions also may include a first non-alkoxylated fatty acid and optionally a second alkoxylated fatty acid. Cationic derivatives such as cationic polymers also may be added to the deinking blend.
US07767056B2
This application discloses a High-Frequency plasma processing apparatus comprising a process chamber in which a substrate to be processed is placed, a process-gas introduction line for introducing a process gas into the process chamber, a first HF electrode provided in the process chamber, a first HF power source for applying voltage to the first HF electrode, thereby generating plasma of the process gas. The apparatus further comprises a second HF electrode facing the first HF electrode in the process chamber, interposing discharge space, and a series resonator connecting the second HF electrode and the ground. The frequency of the first HF power source is not lower than 30 MHz. The series resonator is resonant as the distributed constant circuit at the frequency of the first HF power source.
US07767050B2
A laminating roller assembly comprises a frame, a movable support supported by the frame, a laminating roller and a lift mechanism. The laminating roller is attached to the movable support. The lift mechanism is attached to the frame and is configured to move the movable support and the attached laminating roller relative to the frame. Additional embodiments of the invention are directed to a credential substrate laminator and a method of laminating a credential substrate using a credential substrate laminator.
US07767048B2
A method for manufacturing the following device is provided: an electro-optical device which includes a pair of substrates holding a display material having optical properties varied by electric stimulation and which has a curved shape. The method includes covering the front and rear faces of a display with a pair of protective films and then bonding end portions of the protective films to each other with an adhesive containing a thermoplastic resin, the end portions being located outside the display; heating the bonded end portions to melt the adhesive and then bending the display depending on applications; and solidifying the melted adhesive by cooling to allow the protective films to hold the display bent.
US07767044B2
Disclosed is an efficient heat treatment method which can be performed in a short time. Specifically disclosed is a method for heat-treating a steel material wherein a plastically deformed steel work is introduced into a heat treatment furnace when the work still retains the heat applied thereto during the plastic deformation, then the work is heated preferably at a heating rate of 15-50 DEG C./min and held at a temperature between Ac1 and Ac3 for 10 minutes or less, and then the work is slowly cooled at a cooling rate of 5-45 DEG C./min. This heat treatment method enables to easily produce a steel material having a uniform metal structure by simple facilities.
US07767042B2
A high-strength aluminum alloy extruded product for heat exchangers which excels in extrudability, allows a thin flat multi-cavity tube to be extruded at a high critical extrusion rate, and excels in intergranular corrosion resistance at a high temperature, and a method of manufacturing the same. The aluminum alloy extruded product includes an aluminum alloy including 0.2 to 1.8% of Mn and 0.1 to 1.2% of Si, having a ratio of Mn content to Si content (Mn %/Si %) of 0.7 to 2.5, and having a content of Cu as an impurity of 0.05% or less, with the balance being Al and impurities, the aluminum alloy extruded product having an electric conductivity of 50% IACS or more and an average particle size of intermetallic compounds precipitating in a matrix of 1 μm or less.
US07767041B2
The sputtering target made of a Ag—Bi-base alloy contains Bi in solid solution with Ag. The sputtering target has an intensity of precipitated Bi of 0.01 at %−1 or less, as calculated by the following mathematical expression (1) based on analysis results of X-ray diffraction, and/or a sum of area ratios of predetermined intensities (third to sixth intensities in 8 intensities) of 89% or more, wherein the area ratios are obtained by calculating a planar distribution of characteristic X-ray intensities of Bi according to X-ray microanalysis: intensity of precipitated Bi=[IBi(102)/IAg(111)+IAg(200)+IAg(220)+IAg(311))]/[Bi]. Remarkable lowering of the yield of Bi content in resultant films can be suppressed by using the sputtering target.
US07767038B2
A low-nickel austenitic stainless steel is provided which comprises by weight: ≦0.08% C, 4.0˜5.0% Mn, 0.7˜1.0% Si, 3.5˜4.5% Ni, 16.0˜18.0% Cr, 3.0˜3.50% Cu, ≦0.045% S, ≦0.030% P, impurity elements in the total amount of ≦0.2%, and Fe as the balance. This low-nickel austenitic stainless steel has decreased nickel content, but retains excellent mechanical properties and corrosion resistance property. Therefore, the cost for producing the stainless steel can be reduced remarkably. The method for producing the low-nickel austenitic stainless steel is also provided.
US07767029B2
A dishwasher includes a drying fan formed on a side of the door to suck wet-vapor existing in a tub, a fan driving motor for rotating the drying fan, a sump formed on a bottom of the tube to reserve washing water, a drain motor for draining the washing water out of the sump, and a control unit for controlling the fan driving motor as well as the drain motor. The control unit controls the operation of the drain motor while the fan driving motor operates.
US07767020B2
A method for manufacturing a single crystal semiconductor, in which, in a process of pulling up the single crystal semiconductor from melt for growing it, an impurity is incorporated more uniformly into the single crystal semiconductor so that a variation in impurity concentration across the semiconductor wafer surface can be reduced, and thus, the planarity of the wafer can be improved. In the process of pulling-up the single crystal semiconductor (6), fluctuation in a pulling-up speed is controlled, whereby the variation in concentration of the impurity in the single crystal semiconductor (6) is reduced. Especially, a width of speed fluctuation (ΔV) in 10 seconds is adjusted to less than 0.025 mm/min. Furthermore, in carrying out the control for adjusting the pulling-up speed such that a diameter of the single crystal semiconductor (6) becomes a desired diameter, a magnetic field having strength of 1,500 gauss or more is applied to the melt (5).
US07767011B2
An ink comprising a liquid vehicle, a gelling agent, an electrolyte and optionally at least one colorant. A method of forming an image, comprising heating the ink to a first temperature, wherein the first temperature is above a sol-gel temperature, and jetting the heated ink onto a transfer member or an image receiving substrate, wherein the transfer member or image receiving substrate is maintained at a second temperature at which the ink forms a gel.
US07767006B2
Water vapor is mixed to O3 gas generated by an ozone generator of discharge type. The mixed fluid is cooled by a cooler, thereby impurities such as metals and nitrogen oxides contained in the O3 gas dissolve into condensed water. Subsequently, a gas-liquid separator separates the O3 gas from the condensed water. Water vapor is mixed with the O3 gas again. The mixed fluid passes through a metal trap composed of a container containing plural silicon chips as a metal adsorbent, thereby to remove the remaining metals therefrom.
US07767001B2
The present invention relates to pellets or granules based on iron oxides and/or iron oxyhydroxides and iron(III) hydroxide, a unit suitable for the through-flow of a fluid medium at least partially filled with an adsorbent/catalyst in pellet form consisting essentially of iron oxide and/or iron oxyhydroxide embedded in an iron hydroxide matrix, processes for their production comprising filtering, drying and shaping steps and their processes of their use.
US07766998B2
In one aspect of the present invention, an apparatus for the extraction of water from air incorporated into a wall of a building has a cavity formed in the wall. The cavity has an air inlet and an air outlet. A condensing surface is disposed within the cavity and is adapted to direct condensed water to a water storage unit. In another aspect of the present invention, the cavity is formed between two different building walls.
US07766997B2
The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a method of reducing an amount of mercury discharged to an environment in a flue gas (12) generated by combustion of a fuel source. The method includes contacting the flue gas with a moist pulverous material upstream of a particle separator (24), mixing powdered activated carbon (PAC) in an amount between about 0.5 lb/MMacf and 10 lbs/MMacf with the flue gas (12) upstream of the particle separator (24), wherein the PAC interacts with at least a portion of mercury containing compounds in the flue gas (12), and separating the mercury containing compounds from the flue gas (12) containing the moist pulverous material and PAC, thereby reducing an amount of mercury in the flue gas (12).
US07766996B2
The present invention relates to a method of reducing or elimination pressure pulsations and noise created by blowers in a gas separation plant. The method employs two identical and 180° out of phase blowers synchronized together to provide both a large flow of air and active noise cancellation to eliminate pressure pulsations. The two blowers are synchronized in such a way that pressure pulses created by one blower will actively be cancelled by the pulses generated by the other blower. At the same time, both blowers will work together to force a large quantity of gas flow in or out of the plant. The twin set of blowers can be used for feed or vacuum applications in the plant. This way large tonnage plant capital costs can be reduced by eliminating the need for an expensive silencer and a single large custom-made blower.
US07766994B2
An ultrasonic solution separating method wherein a solution is ultrasonically vibrated and atomized into mist in a carrier gas in an ultrasonic atomizing chamber (4) and the carrier gas including atomized mist is transferred to a collecting part (5) and in the collecting part (5) the mist component comprising solution atomized into mist is separated from the carrier gas. In the ultrasonic solution separating method, in the collecting part (5), mist component is separated from the carrier gas in an adsorbing step of causing mist component to be adsorbed onto an adsorbing agent (15) by bringing the carrier gas including mist component into contact with the adsorbing agent (15) and a separating step of separating mist component adsorbed onto the adsorbing agent (15) in the adsorbing step from the adsorbing agent (15), and mist component is separated from the carrier gas with the pressure of the separating step being made lower than the pressure of adsorbing step.
US07766989B2
A separator assembly for removing material that is entrained in a gas stream. The separator assembly comprises a housing having a head part which provides the upper end of the housing and a body part which provides the lower end of the housing. The separator assembly also comprises a shield which extends across the housing towards the lower end thereof so as to leave a collection space between it and the lower end in which material that is separated from the gas stream can collect. There is at least one opening in or around the shield through which the material can flow past the shield into the collection space. The separator assembly further comprises a liner sleeve which covers at least a part of the inside wall of the body part between the shield and the upper end of the body part.
US07766987B2
An apparatus and method used in a urological procedure. The apparatus includes a sheath capable of insertion into a passageway within a patient. A filter is provided that includes a mesh that retains any particulate matter that is entrained with the liquid and allows the liquid to pass therethrough. The filter may be removeably attached to receive flow from an outlet of the sheath.
US07766986B2
The present invention is an improved process for the storage and delivery of hydrogen by the reversible hydrogenation/dehydrogenation of an organic compound wherein the organic compound is initially in its hydrogenated state. The improvement in the route to generating hydrogen is in the dehydrogenation step and recovery of the dehydrogenated organic compound resides in the following steps: introducing a hydrogenated organic compound to a microchannel reactor incorporating a dehydrogenation catalyst; effecting dehydrogenation of said hydrogenated organic compound under conditions whereby said hydrogenated organic compound is present as a liquid phase; generating a reaction product comprised of a liquid phase dehydrogenated organic compound and gaseous hydrogen; separating the liquid phase dehydrogenated organic compound from gaseous hydrogen; and, recovering the hydrogen and liquid phase dehydrogenated organic compound.
US07766980B2
The present invention concerns a method for the controlled precipitation of organic molecules which comprises the use of apparatus that is normally used in the field of photography.
US07766978B2
Provided are acidic hair dye compositions in which the dye has a high permeability into hair, the dye can be applied uniformly, and the composition has excellent staining property, safety and sense of use at the time of hair dyeing. The acidic hair dye compositions of the present invention comprise at least one dibasic acid ester compound represented by general formula I below: wherein, in general formula I, R1 is an alkylene group which may have a substituent with 2 to 4 carbon atoms, R2 and R3 are, independently from each other, an alkyl group which may have a substituent with 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R4 and R5 are, independently from each other, hydrogen, methyl group or ethyl group, m and n is, independently from each other, an integer of 0 to 4, wherein m+n≧1 (with the proviso that the case is excluded in which R2 and R3 are both ethyl group, and m and n are both 1).
US07766972B2
The invention includes a synthetic bone substitute material suitable for use as a replacement for cancellous bone in a bone graft composition, the material comprising a reticulated framework of interconnecting bioceramic struts defining an interconnecting interstitial void volume, and a solid non-porous composition substantially filling the interstitial void volume and in intimate contact with the reticulated framework, the pore-filling composition comprising calcium sulfate. Calcium triphosphate is a preferred bioceramic material for the reticulated framework.
US07766964B2
Methods of ligament repair are provided. A ligament graft is arranged in a tensioning device and placed adjacent to a heating surface. The heating surface is activated to heat the graft. The graft is tensioned while on the substantially dry heating surface to provide laxity to the graft. The size of the relaxed graft remains the same until the graft is implanted in a bone tunnel as either an anterior or posterior cruciate ligament graft.
US07766955B2
The present invention concerns novel stent apparatuses for use in treating lesions at or near the bifurcation point in bifurcated cardiac, coronary, renal, peripheral vascular, gastrointestinal, pulmonary, urinary and neurovascular vessels and brain vessels. More particularly, the invention concerns a stent apparatus with at least one side opening which may further comprise an extendable stent portion laterally extending from the side opening and at least partly in registry with the wall of the side opening. Devices constructed in accordance with the invention include, singularly or in combination, a main expandable stent comprising at least one substantially circular side opening located between its proximal and distal end openings, which side opening may further comprise an expandable portion extending radially outward from the edges of the side opening; and a branch stent comprising proximal and distal end openings and which may further comprise a contacting portion at its proximal end, and which may optionally be constructed to form either a perpendicular branch or a non-perpendicular branch when inserted through a side opening of the main stent. The stents of the invention are marked with, or at least partially constructed of, a material which is imageable during intraluminal catheterization techniques, most preferably but not limited to ultrasound and x-ray.
US07766950B2
A hypothermia treatment sack comprising a top sheet and a bottom sheet releasably connecting along their perimeters to form a patient receiving cavity between the top and bottom sheets while allowing for patient access from any location around the perimeter. The top and bottom sheets include a weatherproof exterior side for repelling wind and water, and a heat reflective interior side for preventing heat from escaping. A plurality of self-activating heating pads are carried in the top sheet for producing heat when exposed to air. The heating pads have a first side exposed on the weatherproof exterior side of the top sheet to provide for a generally unrestricted airflow to the heating pads, and a second side exposed on the heat reflective interior side of the top sheet for radiating heat directly into the patient receiving cavity.
