US07778587B2
An auto document feeder which loads and feeds a document to a read position provided on a read surface of a reader, the auto document feeder including a conveying device having an upstream roller placed upstream of the read position and a downstream roller placed downstream of the read position, the conveying device conveying the loaded document through the read position, a stabilizing roller provided upstream of the read position and opposing to the read surface, the stabilizing roller stabilizing movement of the document conveyed by the conveying device, and a guide member provided downstream of the read position and opposing to the read surface, the guide member guiding the document conveyed by the conveying device, wherein the following relationship is established the thickness of the document
US07778577B2
A developer container storing a developer of the present invention includes a developer outlet formed in the side wall thereof, and a shutter member for selectively opening or closing the developer outlet. The shutter member opens the developer outlet when the developer container is mounted to the body of an image forming apparatus or closes it when the former is dismounted from the latter. The toner container with this configuration surely prevents the developer from leaking when the developer container is dismounted from an image forming apparatus.
US07778572B2
An opening and closing assembly includes: (a) a first casing body; (b) a second casing body pivotable to be selectively placed in open and closed positions relative to the first casing body; and (c) a support stand for supporting the second casing body to maintain the open position. The support stand includes (c-1) a proximal end portion pivotably connected to one of the first and second casing bodies and (c-2) a distal end portion slidably connected to the other of the first and second casing bodies. The other of the first and second casing bodies includes (i) a guide portion for guiding the distal end portion of the support stand, and (ii) first and second wall portions cooperating with each other for gripping the distal end portion of the support stand. The distal end portion of the support stand includes a gripped portion having a thickness that is increased in a direction away from the distal end portion of the support stand toward the proximal end portion of the support stand.
US07778556B2
A toner supply device including: a toner bottle filled with toner; and a toner supply assembly mounting mechanism having the toner bottle mounted thereon and feeding toner discharged from the toner bottle to a developing unit and supplying toner to the developing unit in accordance with the amount of toner consumed in the developing unit for the process of printing, further comprises: a toner bottle releasing mechanism which, when the amount of toner left in the toner bottle has been reduced to a predetermined level or lower, causes the toner bottle to move in the direction opposite to the direction in which the toner bottle is set into the toner supply assembly mounting mechanism and separate from the toner feed device.
US07778555B2
A time point at which a predetermined period elapses since the start of use of a copying machine as a detection subject after factory shipment or repair is obtained. Pieces of set information, which are combinations of various types of information until the time point is reached are sequentially stored to construct a normal set information group. After the time point is reached, presence of abnormality in the copying machine is determined based on the normal set information group and the various types of information obtained.
US07778553B2
In an optical transmitter of the invention, continuous light from a light source is a (CS)RZ-D(Q)PSK modulated by two optical modulators connected in series, and a part of the optical signal output from a post-stage optical modulator is branched by an output monitor section, and the power of a preset frequency component, excluding a frequency component corresponding to a baud rate, included in an electrical spectrum acquired by photoelectrically converting the branched beams is measured. The relative phase of drive signals applied to the optical modulators is then feed-back controlled so that the power becomes a minimum. As a result, a delay shift due to a temperature change or the like between drive signals applied to respective optical modulators, can be reliably compensated.
US07778541B2
An imaging apparatus includes a flash light emitting portion moving between a housed position and a light emitting position, a biasing means for biasing the flash light emitting portion toward the light emitting position, a member to be locked moving with a movement of the flash light emitting portion, a locking means for locking the member to be locked in a state in which the flash light emitting portion exists at the housed position and suppressing change of the position of the flash light emitting portion, opposing a biasing force by the biasing means and a lock releasing means having an electromagnet and a moving portion, for releasing a locked state of the member to be locked by moving the moving portion in a direction apart from the electromagnet by applying electric current to the electromagnet and by allowing the locking means to pivot about an axis.
US07778508B2
Image display optical systems are disclosed that extend the angle of view longitudinally and transversely while saving space. The image display optical system includes a prism-shaped substrate transparent to an image-carrying light flux to be projected to a viewing eye, an introduction unit that guides the image-carrying light flux to a propagation path through which the image-carrying light flux propagates in a direction in which the image-carrying light flux from the outside enables internal reflection at least at three surfaces including at least one side of the substrate, and an output unit that guides the image-carrying light flux propagating through the substrate from the substrate to the viewing eye. By internally reflecting the image-carrying light flux at all the sides, i.e., three or more sides of the prism-shaped substrate, the propagation path is folded to be smaller and extends the opening angle of the light ray included in the image-carrying light flux longitudinally and transversely without increasing the substrate's size.
US07778507B2
A light guide comprising a base body and a plurality of outcoupling elements that are disposed on an outcoupling side of the base body and are provided to couple radiation out of the base body, said outcoupling elements being applied on a film. A method of producing the light guide.
US07778502B2
An optical transmission assembly consists of an upper cladding; a lower cladding; a core formed between the upper cladding and the lower cladding; a surface light emitting device mounted to an upper surface at one end of the upper cladding, a light emitting surface of the surface light emitting device facing the core and emitting wavelength λ1 light thereto; a reflective surface formed in the core and at a position facing the light emitting surface of the surface light emitting device, and inclined in a longitudinal direction of the core; an inclined surface formed in the core and facing the reflective surface in a longitudinal direction of the core, and inclined in a thickness direction of the upper or lower cladding; a wavelength filter formed on the inclined surface and transmitting wavelength λ1 light incident in a longitudinal direction of the core while reflecting wavelength λ2 (λ2≠λ1) light incident in the opposite longitudinal direction of the core to the incident direction of the wavelength λ1 light, in a thickness direction of the lower cladding; and a light receiving device mounted on a lower surface of the lower cladding and facing the wavelength filter.
US07778501B2
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to integrated circuits having photonic interconnect layers and methods for fabricating the integrated circuits. In one embodiment of the present invention, an integrated circuit comprises an electronic device layer and one or more photonic interconnect layers. The electronic device layer includes one or more electronic devices, and the electronic device layer is attached to a surface of an intermediate layer. One of the photonic interconnect layers is attached to an opposing surface of the intermediate layer, and each of the photonic interconnect layers has at least one photonic device in communication with at least one of the electronic devices of the electronic device layer.
US07778500B2
An optical fiber strain sensor, a method of fabricating the same, and a method of sensing strain. The method of strain sensing comprises providing an optical fiber having a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) formed therein; subjecting the optical fiber to a strain inducing force such that a grating period in a first portion of the FBG compresses and a grating period in a second portion of the FBG extends; and optically interrogating the FBG to determine a measure of a change in bandwidth of the FBG as a result of the compression and extension of the grating periods in the first and second portion respectively; whereby the measure of the change in the bandwidth is representative of the strain induced.
US07778496B2
Provided is a method for processing dump data packets in a low earth orbital (LEO) satellite. The method includes the steps of: a) extracting table identification (ID) information from a header of high-resolution camera (HRC) dump data transmitted from the LEO satellite; b) searching a HRC dump table from a HRC dump table list based on the extracted table ID information; c) extracting sequence information from the transmitted HRC dump data; d) completing and storing an complete table based on the sequence information searched in the HRC dump table and the extracted sequence information; and e) reading and displaying the HRC dump table upon request of an operator.
US07778494B2
A half sample and quarter sample pixel value interpolation calculation classifies a set of all possible half sample and quarter sample pixel value interpolation calculations into a plurality of interpolation types. A function kernel for each interpolation type includes a half sample pixel and all quarter sample pixels whose value calculation depend on a value of said half sample pixel value. The correct function kernel is called invoking the corresponding value interpolation calculation. The function kernels operate iteratively over a plurality of macroblocks of at least two macroblock sub-partition sizes. The calculation of dependent quarter sample pixel values preferably employs a packed average instruction.
US07778491B2
An “Oblique Image Stitcher” provides a technique for constructing a photorealistic oblique view from a set of input images representing a series of partially overlapping views of a scene. The Oblique Image Stitcher first projects each input image onto a geometric proxy of the scene and renders the images from a desired viewpoint. Once the images have been projected onto the geometric proxy, the rendered images are evaluated to identify optimum seams along which the various images are to be blended. Once the optimum seams are selected, the images are remapped relative to those seams by leaving the mapping unchanged at the seams and interpolating a smooth mapping between the seams. The remapped images are then composited to construct the final mosaiced oblique view of the scene. The result is a mosaic image constructed by warping the input images in a photorealistic manner which agrees at seams between images.
US07778488B2
Disclosed are systems for and methods of registering (i.e., aligning) a deformable image with a reference image subject to a plurality of regions within the deformable and reference images. Different members of the plurality of regions may be used in different phases of a deformation algorithm and the identity of these regions may change between different iterations of the deformation algorithm. In some embodiments, most of an image is used for calculation of the internal force of the demons algorithm while a smaller subset of the image is used for calculating the opposing external force.
US07778478B2
An image processing device changes degree of noise reduction for image data in accordance with tone correction to be performed according to the image data and includes a change rate acquisition part and a noise reduction part. The change rate acquisition part obtains, at a plurality of portions in the image data, a change rate of a signal level of the image data before and after tone correction. The noise reduction part controls a degree of noise reduction for each portion in the image data according to the change rate.
US07778476B2
A method and system are provided where image data is encoded in the spatial domain, and transformed in a two dimensional transform process to thereby recover a frequency domain representation of the image data. The frequency domain representation is then quantized to obtain an integer representation. The integer representation is ordered by frequency. Then, the hi-frequency coefficients are recreated and intelligently randomized at selective frequencies. This provides high quality encoded picture results, with fewer artifacts than those that would result from conventional approaches afflicted by artifacts due to loss of high frequencies.
US07778475B2
A motion picture processing device has: an input circuit having a buffer memory, an image data taking-in section and a bus interface; a motion estimation circuit; an encoding circuit; and a failure control circuit having a counter and an enabling signal outputting section. When an enabling signal is supplied, the image data taking-in section takes-in image data, and when image data of one screen is stored in the buffer memory, the image data taking-in section outputs a valid signal. The encoding circuit compresses and encodes image data, and, when the encoding circuit finishes external output of an output signal, the encoding circuit outputs an end signal. The counter increments a count value due to the valid signal, and decrements the count value due to the end signal. When the count value reaches a number of regions of the memory circuit, the failure control circuit stops output of the enabling signal.
US07778473B2
A disclosed image processing apparatus for compressing image data through multiple operations includes multiple processing units corresponding to the operations. Each of two or more of the processing units includes a regular processing subunit perform regular processing and a simplified processing subunit to perform simplified version of the regular processing; and a control unit to select one of the regular processing subunit and the simplified processing subunit of each of two or more of the processing units to perform a corresponding one of the operations.
US07778472B2
A method for decoding significance coefficients in an encoded video sequence is described. An encoded video bitstream is received. Codebook table information is retrieved from the bitstream. Significance symbols are decoded using the retrieved codebook table information. Significance coefficients are decoded using the significance symbols. A plurality of transform coefficients is dequantized. An inverse transform is applied to a residual signal. A video sequence is constructed. A method for coding significance coefficients in a video sequence is also described.
US07778468B2
A decoding apparatus includes a distribution generating section and a correcting section. The distribution generating section generates a frequency distribution of quantization index values. The correcting section corrects dequantization values corresponding to the quantization index values based on the frequency distribution of quantization index values generated by the distribution generating section.
US07778463B2
A pattern recognition system, pattern recognition method, and pattern recognition program capable of increasing the accuracy in computing the false acceptance probability and capable of ensuring a stable security strength are provided. Pattern recognition systems 10 and 10a comprise a first probability computation unit 32, and a second probability computation unit 33 coupled to the first probability computation unit 32. The first probability computation unit 32 computes a first probability PFCR based on the number n of corresponding characteristic points cs1 to csn and cf1 to cfn indicating points corresponding between characteristic points s1 to sns in a first pattern and characteristic points f1 to fnf in a second pattern. The first probability PFCR indicates the probability of existence of a third pattern that has a greater number of corresponding characteristic points to the first pattern than the number n of the corresponding characteristic points. The second probability computation unit 33 refers to the first probability PFCR to compute a false acceptance probability PFAR indicating the probability of falsely determining that the first pattern and the second pattern correspond to each other.
US07778459B2
Provided are an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, in which one of a plurality of color component images of an input image is predicted from a different color component image using a correlation between the color component images and the encoding order of the plurality of color component images is adaptively determined according to the characteristics of the input image. In the image encoding method and apparatus, prediction errors or the amounts of generated bits for the remaining color component images predicted using a previously encoded color component image according to encoding orders are compared to determine the optimal encoding order and encoding is performed using a correlation between the color component images according to the determined encoding order.
US07778458B2
The photographing means of the present apparatus photographs a piece of wood, while the image processing means calculates degrees of circularity from the photographed images of the piece of wood, and detects images with significant degrees of circularity as knots. In addition, the image processing means 1 clips a portion including a knot from the photographed image of the piece of wood, deems a portion clipped at a predetermined threshold among the color spaces of each pixel of the clipped portions to be a blackened portion, and determines black portions with a high proportion of a number of pixels of the blackened portion to the number of pixels of the clipped portion of the knot as dead knots.
US07778455B2
According to a first aspect of the invention there is provided a system of and method for processing a digitized image derived from detector instrumentation (11) to form a reconstructed image. In a typical image processing system (9), γ-rays (10) impinge upon a gamma camera unit (11), defining detector instrumentation, and then pass through a lead collimator (12) to cause a scintillator (14) to emit light in the visible electromagnetic spectrum at given locations above an array of analogue photomultiplier tubes (16). With appropriate circuitry (18) these analogue signals may then be digitized, by means of processor (20), and then stored in memory (22). The present invention aims to more accurately reconstruct these digital images, with, in broad terms, the raw data stored in memory (22) being sent to a processor (24), which processes the data in terms of algorithms that form part of the invention. According to a further aspect of the invention there is provided a method of processing a digitized phantom image derived from detector instrumentation to form a reconstructed point spread function image.
US07778452B2
An image reconstruction method for structuring planar images into three-dimension images is disclosed in the present invention. The image reconstruction method, being adopted to perform an image reconstruction operation upon a measured value of at least a line of response (LOR) obtained by detecting an object-to-be-imaged using an inspection system, comprises steps of: utilizing a plurality of voxels, each having a first radioactivity value, to construct an image domain with reference to the object-to-be-imaged; projecting the LOR while comparing the result of the projection with the measured value to obtain a calibrated value; performing a back-projection operation basing on the relationship between the calibrated value and the first radioactivity value of each voxel of the LOR; performing a calculation basing on the relationship between the calibrated value and the first radioactivity value of each voxel to obtain a second radioactivity value; utilizing the second radioactivity value to update the first radioactivity value of each voxel of the LOR while enabling an image reconstruction operation by an iteration manner. By the method of the invention, images with preferred contrast comparing to those of prior art can be obtained such that the method of the invention can have better tumor detection ability.
US07778446B2
Methods and systems are described for three-dimensional pose estimation. A training module determines a mapping function between a training image sequence and pose representations of a subject in the training image sequence. The training image sequence is represented by a set of appearance and motion patches. A set of filters are applied to the appearance and motion patches to extract features of the training images. Based on the extracted features, the training module learns a multidimensional mapping function that maps the motion and appearance patches to the pose representations of the subject. A testing module outputs a fast human pose estimation by applying the learned mapping function to a test image sequence.
US07778436B2
A vibration-sound generating device and yoke thereof are described. The vibration-sound generating device comprises a diaphragm, a vibration part comprising a magnet and a yoke, which is positioned apart from the diaphragm by a desired distance, a suspension elastically supporting the vibration part, a supporting part supporting the diaphragm and the suspension, and a voice coil electromagnetically driving the diaphragm and the vibration part. The yoke of the invention has higher specific gravity and magnetic permeability than iron. So that it can improve performance of vibration and sound device.
US07778433B2
A two-piece wireless hearing improvement system having a pocket piece and an earpiece, wherein the pocket piece includes a microphone adapted to receive analog signals, a first processor coupled to the microphone to convert the analog signals to digital signals, and a first transceiver coupled to the processor to transmit the digital signals. The earpiece includes a second transceiver for receiving the digital signals, a second processor coupled to the second transceiver for converting the digital signals to analog signals, a speaker coupled to the second processor for transmitting the analog signals, and a movement detector for detecting relative movements between the earpiece and the pocket piece and generating a first signal according to the relative movements. The first processor provides signal compensation based on the first signal.
US07778431B2
Stands for a portable audio device include a housing and a mounting member. The mounting member is configured to couple the audio device to the housing at a location selected to reflect sounds generated by a speaker of the audio device away from the housing. Stands may include a resonator cavity in the housing with an outlet opening extending to the resonator cavity from an exterior surface of the housing and a volume of the resonator cavity and a size of the outlet opening extending thereto may be selected to provide a desired resonant frequency response of the resonator cavity to amplify sounds generated by the speaker of the audio device.
US07778430B2
A microphone is installed on a surface of the skin immediately below the mastoid of a human to implement a sound sampling method including sampling at least one of a non-audible murmur, a whisper, or an audible sound. The microphone includes a condenser microphone portion having a pair of diaphragm electrodes and a contact portion which has an acoustic impedance close to the acoustic impedance of soft tissues in a body of a speaker, which is stuck tightly to the condenser microphone portion with no intervening air space, and which conducts an input speech from a skin surface of the speaker to the condenser microphone.
US07778427B2
In an embodiment, a phase compensation system shifts the phase of an audio signal in a mid-range frequency band to compensate for phase distortion created when an electrical audio signal is converted to audio by an electronic transducer, such as a loudspeaker. An audio enhancement system mixes at least the phase compensated signal, an enhanced audio signal, and the left and right audio input signals to generated phase compensated left and right audio output signals.
US07778426B2
A method of processing a sound signal in an audio amplification device using frequency transposition, the method including the steps of: (a) receiving (11) an input sound signal, (b) determining (19) gains for amplifying the input sound signal at a plurality of input frequencies, (c) transposing (20) one or more of the input frequencies of the amplified sound signal to generate one or more output signals at transposed frequencies, (d) determining (31-33) the presence of an undesired feedback signal component resulting from the amplification and frequency transposition of the input sound signal at the input frequencies, and (e) correcting (34) the output signal at each of the transposed frequencies to compensate for the presence of the undesired feedback signal component.
US07778407B2
A system, method, and apparatus are directed towards managing an audio message, such as a Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) message over a network. The invention employs a statistical mechanism to automatically optimize a gain control for setting a volume of an audio message being sent by a client device. An initial gain value is automatically adjusted based, in part, on a statistical sampling of energy levels in the audio message. Environmental factors, such as a sound card within the client device, background noise, and the like, may also be considered through a setting of a servo coefficient that may be used to map between volume levels and decibel levels. The servo coefficient may also be adjusted based, at least in part, on decibel (dB) feedback information from a destination device for which the audio message is intended.
US07778404B2
A method to be executed in a session initiation protocol (SIP) environment is provided that includes initiating a conversion process that involves a change from a first communications platform to a second communications platform. One or more routing tables associated with the first communications platform are then dumped. A conversion script is executed such that one or more patterns associated with a dial plan corresponding to the second communications platform are provided in a dial plan format. One or more files associated with the dial plan are loaded into one or more endpoints that are designated to change to the second communications platform.
US07778398B2
Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for creating a record with a customer. One method receives at a communication center a request for support from the customer. A data field is presented to an agent for entry of information identifying the customer. A menu of options is presented that allows the agent to make selections describing the customer's request for support. A preformatted note is populated with selections received from the agent. The preformatted note has fields corresponding to the menu of options, with the preformatted note formed by populating a particular field with the corresponding selection by the agent. The preformatted note is stored as the record of the customer's request for support, wherein the preformatted note has a standardized format regardless of the agent.
US07778391B2
A field emission cathode has a field emitter and an extraction grid, and the field emitter and the extraction grid can be moved relative to one another. Such a field emission cathode is highly durable and exhibits a longer lifespan. An x-ray tube has a field emission cathode composed of a field emitter and an extraction grid that can be moved relative to one another. Such an x-ray tube is highly durable and exhibits a longer lifespan.
US07778381B2
The present invention provides an X-ray CT apparatus capable of obtaining each tomographic image indicative of X-ray tube voltage dependent information of a subject with the optimum image quality by less reduced exposure. The X-ray CT apparatus includes device for setting a plurality of X-ray tube voltages and sets imaging conditions used in the photography using the respective X-ray tube voltages in such a manner that respective image noise of tomographic images photographed at the X-ray tube voltages become substantially identical to one another. The setting of the imaging conditions is the setting of X-ray tube currents. The X-ray tube currents are set based on geometrical characteristic amounts of the subject determined from each scout image in such a manner that the respective image noise of the tomographic images photographed at the plurality of X-ray tube voltages become substantially identical to one another.
US07778378B2
Fuel rods of fuel assemblies of a boiling water reactor are tested for leaks. A plurality of fuel assemblies are each arranged adjacent to one another in a cell of the upper core grid of the boiling water reactor. A hood is placed above a plurality of cells A water sample is taken from each of the cells, and the water samples from a plurality of cells forming a group are combined and tested for the presence of radioactive fission products A plurality of groups are analyzed simultaneously in a number, which number corresponds to the number of groups, of measurement channels. Where a result of a group is positive, the cells of the group are tested separately by the measurement channels. Those fuel assemblies of a cell that is found positive are tested individually outside the hood.
US07778377B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for generating a frequency with a predefined offset from a reference frequency. A spread spectrum generator circuit is disclosed that comprises a voltage controlled delay loop for generating a plurality of signals having a different phase; and at least one interpolator for processing at least two of the signals to generate an output signal having a phase between a phase of the at least two of the signals, wherein the output is varied between a phase of the at least two of the signals to generate the spread spectrum. A spread spectrum having a frequency lower than an applied clock signal is generated using a continuous phase delay increase and a spread spectrum having a frequency higher than the clock signal is generated using a continuous phase delay decrease.
US07778374B2
A dual reference input receiver, and a method of receiving, wherein the input receiver includes a first input buffer which is synchronized with and enabled by a clock signal, senses a difference between the input data signal and a first reference voltage, and amplifies the sensing result; a second input buffer which is synchronized with and enabled by the clock signal, senses a difference between a second reference voltage and the input data signal, and amplifies the sensing result; and a phase detector which detects a difference between a phase of output signals of the first and second input buffers, and outputs a signal corresponding to the detection result. The first and second reference voltages may respectively be higher and lower than a median voltage of the input data signal. Thus, a single input data signal is advantageously used and a wide input data eye is provided.
US07778361B1
A method and apparatus for decoding digital quadrature phase shift keying data includes converting and intermediate frequency signal from an analog signal to a digital signal and digitally processing the digital signal to detect and decode the digital quadrature phase shift keying and extract encoded data.
US07778359B2
A method for clock synchronisation between an amplitude-modulated or phase-modulated received signal (r(t)) and a transmitted signal (s(t)) estimates the timing offset (ε) between the received signal (r(t)) and the transmitted signal (s(t)) by means of a maximum-likelihood method. The maximum-likelihood method in this context is realised by an estimation filtering (S40; S140) dependent upon the transmission characteristic, a subsequent nonlinear signal-processing function (S50; S150) and an averaging filtering (S60, S100; S180, S200). The received signal (r(t)) is especially a modified vestigial-sideband-modulated received signal (rVSB′(t)). The nonlinear signal-processing function (S50; S150) maintains the alternating component in the spectrum of the pre-filtered vestigial-sideband-modulated received signal (vVSB′(t)).
US07778358B2
A receiver includes a memory for storing DC offset amounts generated by an analog circuit; an amplifier; a DC offset amount generator for generating a first offset value and a second offset value to be removed from the received signal amplified at the amplifier; a first DC offset component-removing unit for removing the first DC offset value from the received signal before the amplifier; a second DC offset component-removing unit for removing the second DC offset value from the received signal after the amplifier; and an updating unit for updating the DC offset amount stored in the memory in view of the second DC offset value generated by the DC offset amount generator. A maximum value of the second DC offset value is set larger than a multiplication value of a gain of the amplifier by a minimum resolution value of the first DC offset value.
US07778348B2
A transmitter includes: a limiter performing clipping in which an amplitude part at a level higher than an amplitude level based on a predetermined clipping level is clipped from an input signal, separating the input signal into an input signal after the clipping, which contains a predetermined out-of-band component, and a clip signal clipped from the input signal through the clipping, and outputting the input signal after the clipping and the clip signal; a high-pass filter subjecting the clip signal inputted from the limiter to high-pass filtering for blocking an in-band component contained in the clip signal while passing an out-of-band component contained in the clip signal, which is opposite in phase to the out-of-band component contained in the input signal after the clipping; an adder performing an addition process on the out-of-band component received from the high-pass filter and the input signal after the clipping received from the limiter; and an amplifier performing power amplification on a signal outputted from the adder, and outputting the amplified signal.
US07778344B2
A system for combining a plurality of signals of various phases having a wide frequency range includes a signal transmuter configured to receive a plurality of input signals of different phases. The signal transmuter is also configured to generate at least one output signal based on one or more of the input signals. The system also includes at least one switch configured to receive a control signal and operable to selectively couple at least one associated capacitor to the at least one output signal. The coupling is such that the capacitor is coupled to the at least one output signal when the switch is closed. The control signal is set to substantially reduce the saturation of the at least one output signal.
US07778335B2
A communication system (10) using hierarchical modulation includes at least one satellite (12 & 13) transmitting a data stream and a hierarchical modulated data stream, and at least one terrestrial station (16) transmitting the data stream and the hierarchical modulated data stream. The communication system can further include at least one receiver (18) for demodulating and combining the data stream from at least one satellite and from at least one terrestrial station and for hierarchically demodulating and combining the hierarchical modulated data stream from at least one satellite and the hierarchical modulated data stream from at least one terrestrial station. The terrestrial station can be a terrestrial repeater repeating the data stream and the hierarchical data stream from at least one satellite. The system can also include an uplink (11) having a hierarchical modulator for modulating both the data stream and the hierarchical data stream.
US07778333B2
A power efficient and reduced electromagnetic interference (EMI) emissions multi-transmitter system for unshielded twisted pair (UTP) data communication applications. For each transmitter, digital transmit data is converted to a current-mode differential signal analog waveform by a digital-to-analog converter (DAC). The output current from each DAC is used to generate the required transmit voltage on the respective UTP line. Timing circuitry staggers the time base of each transmitter to reduce the aggregate EMI emissions of the multi-transmitter system.
US07778331B2
An encoding apparatus and an encoding method, a decoding apparatus and a decoding method, a recording medium, and a program suitable for encoding image signals with a higher compression ratio for transmission or accumulation. In an arithmetic coding section, from among the syntax elements of input image compression information, the frame/field flag is first encoded by a frame/field flag context model. When the macroblock to be processed is subjected to frame-based encoding, a frame-based context model, specified in the current H.26L standard, is applied. On the other hand, when the macroblock to be processed is subjected to field-based encoding, a field-based context model is applied for the syntax elements described below. The present invention is applied to an encoder for encoding image information and a decoder for decoding image information.
US07778330B2
The invention relates to a method of measuring blocking artefacts on the basis of video data encoded in accordance with a block encoding technique. This method comprises a step of computing a monodimensional inverse discrete transform (31) of a first row of a first block of encoded video data, suitable for supplying a value of a first virtual border pixel (vep1). It also comprises a step of computing a monodimensional inverse discrete transform (32) of a first row of a second block of encoded video data, the second block being adjacent to the first block, suitable for supplying a value of a second virtual border pixel (vep2). Finally, the method comprises a step of computing (33) a blocking artefact level (VEP-L) on the basis of an absolute value of the difference between the values of the first and second virtual pixels. This method finds its application, for example, in video encoders, decoders and transcoders.
US07778327B2
Low complexity (16 bit arithmetic) H.264 video compression replaces a single quantization table for all quantization parameters with multiple quantization tables and thereby equalizes quantization shifts and round-off additions; this eliminates the need for 32-bit accesses.
US07778326B1
A system and method is provided for dynamically adjusting one or more characteristics of a multimedia transmission between a content provider and a content recipient. In one embodiment, the system responds to a change in available bandwidth between the content provider and the content recipient.
US07778304B2
A measuring arrangement comprises a radiation device (SE), having at least one first surface emitting semiconductor component (1) with a vertical emission direction, a detection device (DE) for detecting reflected radiation, and an evaluation circuit (AS), set up for controlling the radiation device (SE) and the detection device (DE) and for processing a detection result of the detection device (DE). The semiconductor component (1) comprises a semiconductor body (2) with a plurality of active regions (4a, 4b) suitable for generating radiation and arranged at a distance from one another in a vertical direction. In this case, a tunnel junction (5) is monolithically integrated in the semiconductor body (2) between two active regions (4a, 4b) and the two active regions (4a, 4b) are electrically conductively connected by means of the tunnel junction during operation of the semiconductor component (1).
US07778297B2
A convex-portion forming layer is formed between a current-confinement aperture and a multilayer mirror, and forms a convex portion on each boundary between layers forming the multilayer mirror. The convex portion includes a plane equal to or larger than a spot size of the laser light, where the spot size is decided by a diameter of the current-confinement aperture, a predetermined diffraction angle of the laser light due to the current-confinement aperture, and a distance from the current-confinement aperture.
US07778288B2
Provided is a high speed bit stream data conversion circuit that includes input ports to receive first bit streams at a first bit rate. Data conversion circuits receive the first bit streams and produce second bit stream(s), wherein the number and bit rate of the first and second bit stream(s) differ. Symmetrical pathways transport the first bit streams from the input ports to the data conversion circuits, wherein their transmission time(s) are substantially equal. A clock distribution circuit receives and symmetrically distributes a clock signal to data conversion circuits. A central trunk coupled to the clock port and located between a first pair of circuit pathways with paired branches that extend from the trunk and that couple to the data conversion circuits make up the clock distribution circuit. The distributed data clock signal latches data in data conversion circuits from the first to the second bit stream(s).
US07778282B2
A sync community may include a group of synchronization endpoints. When two synchronization endpoints of the sync community synchronize with one another, a synchronization data conflict may be detected when the two synchronization endpoints make a change to a same particular data item and the two synchronization endpoints were unaware of the changes to the same particular data item made by the other respective synchronization endpoint at the time the changes were made. Resolution of the detected synchronization data conflict may be delayed and data indicative of the detected synchronization data conflict may be propagated to other synchronization endpoints during a synchronization operation.
US07778273B2
An application-level multicasting architecture that enables multiple nodes to interact in real time with data packets that are routed based on information about the connection states between the nodes is provided. Each node shares their connection states with other nodes in the same interactive session. The data packets may be routed in the application level using multiple packet transport protocols that are available on the sending node. A particular transport protocol may be selected based on a Quality of Service (QoS) requirement of the data packet. Nodes in the interactive session may relay data packet to other nodes according to a routing map that is created based on the connection states. The application-level multicasting architecture may be implemented for any multiparty interactive application, such as an application for videoconferencing, multiplayer games, distance learning, virtual meeting, and voice communication.
US07778272B2
Although the AMR coding mode control in a cellular telecommunication system is mainly centrally performed, preferably controlled by the RNC, and based on the system load quality measurements, such as, e.g., FER measurements, the MS is nevertheless allowed to change the AMR mode in certain situations.
US07778268B2
Systems and methods for redundancy in a network device are disclosed. An exemplary network device comprises: a plurality of data forwarding elements (DFEs); and a redundant control plane. The redundant control plane comprises: an active control processor for configuring forwarding operation of each of the DFEs; an active layer-2 switch coupled to the active control processor and to each of the DFEs; a standby control processor; and a standby layer-2 switch coupled to the standby control processor and to each of the DFEs. The active control processor is programmed in a full-mesh so that the active control processor is in communication with each of the DFEs. The standby control processor is programmed in a full-mesh so that the standby control processor is in communication with each of the DFEs.
US07778267B2
A bus system for providing a common data transmission path for N data sources that have M data bits. The N data sources are connected to M interconnections correspondingly through N bus cells each of which includes logic circuits for selectively providing the data bits of data sources into the interconnections. The bus cells are controlled to connect each of the data bits of the data sources to the selected one of the interconnections. The bus system is capable of adapting to delay times or loads of the data sources. The bus system reducing the number and the length of the interconnections.
US07778262B2
An apparatus for interfacing with devices using different communication protocols. The apparatus may scan a range of known frequencies for a communication protocol. The apparatus may decode and translate the communication protocol into a common interface language. The apparatus may include a pair of separate and co-located transceivers to accomplish the interface.
US07778258B2
The invention provides a method and system for distributing personalized content to potentially large numbers of recipients. A pool is selected, from among all content available for distribution, of those content elements that will be made available for simultaneous distribution, and personalized content is selected for distribution from that pool. The content of the pool can change with new selections over time. For each individual recipient, content elements in the pool are examined to determine if they are predicted to be of sufficient interest to that recipient for distribution, and if so, those content elements are distributed. If not, successive content elements in the pool are examined, relaxing the standard for sufficient interest, until at least one content element is found and distributed to the individual recipient.
US07778257B1
The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to virtual Ethernet switches. In some implementations, a system includes two or more Ethernet switches. Two or more components are included in the system to open at least one tunnel, over a network, between the two or more Ethernet switches to connect the two or more Ethernet switches together. In addition, two or more components are included in the system to operate a protocol over the opened at least one tunnel to manage the two or more Ethernet switches as a single unit that shares at least one network feature among all of the two or more Ethernet switches.
US07778255B2
A network enables a transfer path to be formed between nodes in the network so as to transfer frames. A terminal for transmitting frames located outside the transfer path, upon transmitting a frame through the transfer path, writes the transfer path selection information related to the transfer path and the output line information related to the output line from the terminating node of the transfer path in the frame according to the destination information set in the frame and transmits the frame to the destination. The starting node of the transfer path decides the transfer path used for transferring the frame according to the transfer path selection information set in the frame to transmit the frame while the terminating node of the transfer path decides the output line used to output the frame according to the output line set in the frame, thereby transmitting the frame to the output line.
US07778252B2
Local Interconnect Network message budget calculation error is reduced by utilizing an eight bit time measurement of the sync byte in the message header. The method determines the header budget separately from the data budget, simplifying the required logic. The sync byte reference time is multiplied by the message data size to determine the data budget.
US07778237B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a wireless mobile device wireless air interface that enables both circuit-switched and packet-switched wireless communications between a wireless mobile device and one or more remote stations that can be computer telephony integration servers, or peer devices such as smart telephones or wireless smart telephones, or wireless mobile devices.
US07778235B2
Each mobile router in a mobile ad hoc network is configured for identifying routes to nearby nodes that are within a prescribed distance, based on storage of explicit paths specified within routing headers of packets transmitted from a host node to a destination node. Each mobile router also can selectively compress the routing header, based on the storage of the explicit path, resulting in a loose source route type routing header in the packet output from the mobile router. In addition, a routing header of a received packet can be expanded based on the mobile router inserting the explicit path, enabling mobile hosts in the explicit path to forward the packet according to strict source routing. The storage and compression of explicit paths also can be applied to packets specifying reverse routing headers, minimizing the size of the reverse routing headers.
US07778230B2
A wireless mobile router (300) includes a CPU (222) and one or more network interfaces for hosting locally reachable devices. The router (300) includes one or more cellular network interface devices (316) configured to make a network connection with a cellular network. The router (300) operates to translate data packets received from locally reachable devices and to direct the translated data packets to public IP address over the cellular network. In addition, a stack of mobile routers (400) includes two or more mobile routers (300) interfaced together to make two or more network connections with a cellular network for increasing bandwidth and for load balancing network traffic passing from the router (300) to the cellular network. The wireless mobile router (300) and the stack (400) are suitable for use in a moving vehicle.
US07778212B2
An apparatus and method for multicast transmission of packet data in a mobile communication system. To multicast packet data to a group of MSs, a BS divides a plurality of MSs within its cell area into a plurality of multicast groups. Here, the MSs of each multicast group are to receive the same data. The BS assigns a MMAC index to each multicast group. Upon receipt of a multicast traffic channel request message from an MS, the BS transmits to the MS a traffic channel assignment message with the MMAC index of a multicast group to which the MS belongs and transmits forward packet data to the MS on a traffic channel corresponding to the MMAC index.
US07778211B2
Described herein is a method for obtaining a downlink beamforming weighting vector in a wireless communications system based on channel information about an uplink channel. The method comprises obtaining the channel information about the uplink channel by a means selected from the group comprising of training signals, pilot signals, and data signals, wherein the uplink channel comprises a set of uplink sub-channels, calculating a spatial signature of the uplink channel with the channel information, and computing a downlink beamforming weighting vector of a downlink channel with the spatial signature of the uplink channel, wherein the downlink channel comprises a set of downlink sub-channels that share few or no sub-carriers with the set of uplink sub-channels.
US07778203B2
Described is looking up network information (e.g., port data) on demand upon receiving a (e.g., DHCP) request packet containing a MAC address. The MAC address may be looked up in a cache to find the port data. If not cached or cached but outdated, the lookup continues via a querying process that finds the relevant switch containing the port data; the cache is updated based on the querying process result. Successful querying results in a valid cache entry, while unsuccessful querying results in an invalid entry. For port data associated with the MAC address found via the cache or via querying, the port data is used to respond to the request packet, e.g., to assign an IP address to a network device corresponding to that MAC address. For a MAC address determined to be invalid via the cache or via querying, the request is rejected.
US07778193B2
The setting of the connection of devices to a home gateway apparatus is simplified by providing the apparatus with a gateway function interconnecting a residential network and an external network; a database holding information setting the states of devices getting connected to the residential network and software for the setting, as settings information for each device; and a device setting processing part, setting, for a device newly requesting connection, the state of the device via the residential network by using the settings information, and, when getting accessed from the external network, making settings, with respect to the gateway function for making the firewall settings and the network address translation settings, on the basis of the network information further included in the settings information and the IP address granted to the device.
US07778192B2
A system and method to perform double-ended measurements of a network is provided. The system includes a test device that makes measurements at the customer end and a portable computing device that interfaces with the test device, a customer gateway and database at a network location to analyze the data and determine a performance metric of the network.
US07778190B2
In one embodiment, correlating label switched paths of a pseudowire includes receiving a first message at a second label switching router. The first message is sent from a first label switching router and includes a pseudowire identifier and a first label switched path identifier. The pseudowire identifier identifies a pseudowire, and the first label switched path identifier identifies a first label switched path that implements the pseudowire. A second message is sent from the second label switching router to the first label switching router. The second message comprises the pseudowire identifier and a second label switched path identifier. The second label switched path identifier identifies a second label switched path that implements the pseudowire.
US07778186B2
Medium-range and global network information and control for a vehicle is achieved with a portable wireless key fob, a user-provided nomadic device, and a vehicle-installed telematics unit including a medium-range RF transceiver and a wireless network transceiver. The fob includes a medium-range RF transceiver for bi-directional communication with the telematics unit, and a short-range wireless transceiver for bi-directional communication with the nomadic device. The fob communicates with the telematics unit in a conventional manner, and also relays information between the telematics unit and the nomadic device. If a communication initiated via the fob cannot be completed because the fob is out of range, the communication is sent to the nomadic device for network transmission to the telematics unit. If a communication initiated via the nomadic device cannot be completed due to inadequate signal reception, the communication is sent to the fob for RF transmission to the telematics unit.
US07778182B2
This invention provides for a technique for selectively off-loading traffic from congested sub-regions of a network to more lightly-loaded regions by making use of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS). For each network element, an Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) routing is employed to provide re-routing and to identify congested links caused by re-routed trunks for each single failure. The re-routed traffic is then analyzed and alternate Label Switched Paths (LSPs) are identified for such traffic trunks so that the traffic is directed to the alternate LSPs during the single failure event.
US07778180B2
Negotiation of RSVP reservations prior to the setup of a call, rather than negotiating reservation parameters during the call. RSVP reservation parameters are negotiated prior to ringing a device, rather than after. In some embodiments, this is achieved by including information in the initial call signaling elements. This added information allows negotiation with each device in the proposed data path to determine, prior to ringing the terminating device in the data path, whether each of the devices can support the proposed data link.
US07778174B2
A shaper circuit includes a storage part storing a current token, an add token, and a max token, a subtraction part subtracting a packet length of a dequeue target from the current token stored in the storage part and storing the current token in the storage part, an addition part adding the add token stored in the storage part to the current token stored in the storage part at constant periodic intervals and storing the current token in the storage part, a comparison part comparing the result of the addition with the max token stored in the storage part and preventing the addition result from exceeding the max token, and a determining part outputting a dequeue permission request. A number of bits in a decimal part of the current token are set and a number of bits in an integer part of the add token are set.
US07778171B2
A method and system for providing connectionless configurations for stress testing timing and synchronization in data packet networks. Packet traffic of interest is transmitted through multiple interconnected switching nodes such that different packets can be transmitted over different paths through the switching nodes. The nodes can support background traffic in order to generate delays for the packets at each of the switching nodes. By allowing packets to use multiple paths in a single testing configuration, a connectionless packet flow can be utilized for adaptive packet timing recovery stress testing.
US07778169B2
Media that is normally packetized into many separate individual packets and then queued for individual transmission during a transmit window is combined together into one, or a few, packets. The larger packets more efficiently carry media over a time slotted communication media since only one, or a few, packet headers are used for carrying a larger amount of media. Since packets cannot be transmitted until the start of a new transmit window, the larger packets do not substantially add to the overall packet delay that normally occurs when larger packets are formatted and transmitted in non-time slotted networks.In another aspect of the system, probe packets are used to identify the start of the transmit window. The transmit window start time is inferred from the round trip times for the probe packets and media packetization is then synchronized with the identified transmit windows.
US07778165B2
Performance metrics between any two arbitrary end-hosts are predicted based upon previous measurements on the Internet between a plurality of geographically dispersed vantage points and clusters of end-hosts. Each cluster comprises end-hosts that are related based upon their IP address prefixes. In response to a central agent that stores the measured data for each of a plurality of predicted paths on the Internet, the vantage points use traceroute software to measure and periodically update performance metrics such as latency, bottleneck capacity, bandwidth, and packet loss rate for links comprising the predicted paths between the vantage points and one (or more) destination points associated with each cluster, and gather such data using distributed application systems. A user or client application can subsequently request predicted performance metrics for communication between specific end-hosts, based upon the previous measurement data.
US07778164B2
A communication apparatus for implementing a communication session based upon a congestion window specifying a signal amount that can be sent out continuously to a network employs a signal propagation time in the communication session, thereby to estimate a congestion degree of a bottleneck circuit, and decides an increased-width of the congestion window in a congestion avoidance action based upon the estimated circuit congestion degree. As the increased-width, the smaller value is decided as the estimated circuit congestion degree increases. When the communication apparatus enlarges the congestion window, it employs the decided increased-width, thereby to calculate size of the congestion window that should be applied.
US07778156B2
Disclosed is a device for providing an improved switching from one of two or more working resources to at least one spare resource in a telecommunication apparatus, each of the working resources comprising a profile with a set of parameters and configuration information, wherein the at least one spare resource comprises a bank of profiles, each profile of the bank corresponding to a profile of the working resources, and further comprises means for selecting a profile of the bank so that when a working resource has to be replaced by a spare resource, a profile in the bank corresponding to the profile of the working resource is selected for provisioning the spare resources accordingly. According to an embodiment, the working and spare resources are embodied in ports of a telecommunication apparatus.
US07778149B1
A system for providing a fast access channel is disclosed. The system includes a transmitter configured to transmit a first long contention symbol and one or more subsequent long contention symbols. The first long contention symbol is followed by the subsequent long contention symbols. The system further includes a receiver configured to receive the first and subsequent long contention symbols and determine a contention code and a contention channel transmitted with the contention code based on the first and subsequent long contention symbols. Each of the first and subsequent long contention symbols includes a long cyclic prefix and a number of identical contention symbols.
US07778144B2
According to one embodiment, an optical recording medium is provided in which interlayer crosstalk is low and in which stable and high-quality recording characteristics can be obtained. To this end, an optical recording medium comprises a first recording part which includes a first recording layer and a first light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side closer to a light receiving surface, and a second recording part which includes a second recording layer and a second light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side farther from the light receiving surface, the first recording part and the second recording part being stacked, wherein the thickness of the first light reflecting layer is smaller than the thickness of the second light reflecting layer.
US07778140B2
An offset-free tracking signal enables stable tracking control even if an optical disc is a multi-layer disc having three or more layers. Light receiving portions of a main region light receiving portion group are arranged between a projection line of a third dividing line on a photodetector and a projection line of a fourth dividing line on the photodetector by stray lights from information layers adjacent to the one, on which a light beam is focused, out of a plurality of information layers. Further, light receiving portions of a subregion light receiving portion group is arranged between a projection line of a first dividing line on a photodetector and a projection line of a second dividing line on the photodetector by the stray lights from the information layers adjacent to the one, on which a light beam is focused, out of the plurality of information layers.
US07778139B2
There is provided an objective lens used for an optical information recording/reproducing device for recording information to and/or reproducing information from two types of optical discs, by selectively using one of two types of substantially collimated light beams including first and second light beams. When wavelengths of the first and second light beams are respectively represented by λ1 (nm) and λ2 (nm), λ1<λ2 is satisfied. The objective lens includes a first optical element, and a second optical element made of material different from that of the first optical element. The first and second optical elements are cemented via a cementing surface. Further, the objective lens is configured to satisfy a condition: 0.006 < { ( nR 2 - nR 1 ) - ( nB 2 - nB 1 ) } × [ { ( k 2 r 2 3 ) + 8 × A 42 } × f 1 3 + 2.29 ] < 0.038 . ( 1 )
US07778138B2
An optical element for optical pickup device is provided with an optical path difference providing structure which provides a substantial phase change to a light flux having a predefined wavelength. The optical path difference providing structure is provided with a step portion having a smaller step difference than the predefined wavelength in an optical axis direction.
US07778137B2
A very small spot-size light beam forming apparatus of the present invention comprises: a conductive film for generating a surface plasmon when an inputted light is applied thereto: a plurality of nano projections, each connected to the conductive film at one end, for receiving a portion of the surface plasmon, and outputting a plurality of input surface plasmons, respectively, from the other end of each of the plurality of nano projections, the other end of each of the plurality of nano projections having a diameter smaller than a wavelength of the inputted light; a coupling unit, connected to the other end of each of the plurality of nano projections, for receiving and coupling the plurality of input surface plasmons, so as to generate a coupled surface plasmon; and a negative-refractive-index lens, connected to the coupling unit and having a negative refractive index, for receiving a near-field light generated due to the coupled surface plasmon, and collecting the near-field light on a recording surface of the optical information storage disk, and a near-field light obtained through collection on the recording surface has a diameter smaller the wavelength of the inputted light.
US07778136B2
An optical recording medium driving apparatus supporting an optical recording medium having multiple recording layers includes head means including a focusing mechanism and a spherical aberration correction mechanism; focusing control means for driving the focusing mechanism on the basis of a reflected light to perform focusing control on each recording layer; spherical aberration correcting means for driving the spherical aberration correction mechanism on the basis of a spherical aberration correction value to correct spherical aberration; and control means for controlling the focusing control means so as to set the spherical aberration correction value given by shifting the spherical aberration correction value appropriate for the midpoint between a target layer and a first recording layer by a desired value in the spherical aberration correcting means and controlling the focusing control means so as to perform the focusing control with the spherical aberration correction value after the shift being set.
US07778135B2
The present invention provides an optical information medium capable of suppressing the influence of reflection light from an unnecessary information recording face and effectively eliminating spherical aberration at the time of recording/reproducing information to/from a recording medium having a plurality of information recording faces. When reflectance of an information recording face is αh and transmittance between information recording faces is th, αh and th of the optical information medium are set so as to satisfy ((α(h−1)2×α(h−2))/(th2×αh))<0.01.
US07778131B2
An optical disk writing apparatus maintaining appropriate write power in real time with a simple configuration includes a buffer for recording data, a binarization circuit supplying data to the buffer, an LD writing data recorded in the buffer onto a DVD disk, a detector reading out from the DVD disk a signal representing data written by the LD at an arbitrary time during a period starting from when the amount of data recorded in the buffer and not yet written onto the DVD disk becomes zero until the amount of data reaches a predetermined number of ECC blocks, and a servo processor correcting an error in the data read out by the detector for every data amount susceptible to error correction at one time, evaluating the writing of the LD using the corrected signal, and controlling the energy density to be employed in writing data onto the DVD disk by the LD according to its own evaluation.
US07778127B2
An optimal recording method for optical recording media which is capable of recording information about optimum recording conditions on an optical recording medium in order to allow a subsequent recording of data at an optimum recording power, based on the recorded optimum recording condition information. In this method, test data is recorded to allow derivation of an optimum power value based on reproduction characteristics of the test data. An intrinsic recorder ID information of an optical recording/reproducing apparatus, used to record data on the optical recording medium, and information about the record speed of the apparatus are recorded, along with the derived optimum power value, onto the count area of the optical recording medium or respective lead-in areas of sessions. The apparatus reads out the recorded optimum recording condition information when data is subsequently recorded onto the optical recording medium. When it is determined based on the read optimum recording condition information that both the read ID code and record speed are identical to those of the apparatus, data is recorded at the optimum recording power value derived based on the optimum recording condition information. The optimum recording condition information is updated while reflecting a variation of the recording environment.
US07778121B2
Detection of a wobble cycle of wobble formed at a groove of an optical disc is started. A phase locked loop time that is from reset of phase locked loop circuit until a signal read from the wobble locks is calculated. The focus balance value corresponding to the minimum phase locked loop lock time is set as the focus balance value for ADdress In Pre-groove. When ADdress In Pre-groove information being address information is read, focusing servo control is performed with the focus balance value for ADdress In Pre-groove.
US07778120B2
Calibration methods are provided for determining servo parameters to enhance an optical drive in reading and writing a blank optical disc. First, test data is written on the blank disc with various writing parameters. Second, the written test data is read from the optical disc with various reading parameters. A plurality of quality measures are obtained, each corresponds to a specific combination of the writing parameter and the reading parameter. An optimal writing parameter and an optimal reading parameter are determined by comparing the quality measures with respect to both the reading and writing parameters respectively.
US07778117B2
A time adjustment device having a satellite signal reception unit that receives satellite signals containing satellite time information transmitted from a positioning information satellite; a time information generating unit that generates time information; and a time information adjustment unit that adjusts the time information based on the satellite time information received by the satellite signal reception unit. The satellite signal reception unit includes a positioning information satellite selection unit that selects the positioning information satellite from which the satellite time information is received; and the positioning information satellite selection unit selects a positioning information satellite based on variation in the transmission frequency of the satellite signal transmitted from the positioning information satellite.
US07778113B2
A technology capable of improving receiver sensitivity and improving insulation withstand voltage in an ultrasonic transducer is provided. An ultrasonic transducer comprises: a lower electrode; an insulator covering the lower electrode; a cavity portion disposed on the insulator so as to overlap with the lower electrode; and an upper electrode disposed so as to overlap with the cavity portion. In this ultrasonic transducer, an insulator is inserted between the upper and lower electrodes in a part not having the cavity portion. By this means, sum total of thickness of insulators between the upper and lower electrodes in a part not having the cavity portion is larger than sum total of thickness of insulators between the upper and lower electrodes in a part having the cavity portion.
US07778106B2
Shifts in the apparent charge stored on a floating gate (or other charge storing element) of a non-volatile memory cell can occur because of the coupling of an electric field based on the charge stored in adjacent floating gates (or other adjacent charge storing elements). The problem occurs most pronouncedly between sets of adjacent memory cells that have been programmed at different times. To account for this coupling, the read process for a particular memory cell will provide compensation to an adjacent memory cell in order to reduce the coupling effect that the adjacent memory cell has on the particular memory cell.
US07778103B2
A semiconductor memory device in which a mode of a memory bank may be independently selected and a method of controlling the semiconductor memory device may be provided. The semiconductor memory device with a plurality of banks may include a plurality of bank groups that each may have at least one bank from among the plurality of banks, and a memory controller that may control a read/write operation to be performed on a bank belonging to a bank group from among the plurality of bank groups, in response to a control signal, where different modes or the same mode may be applied to the bank groups. Accordingly, different modes or the same mode may be applied to the banks so that the read/write operation may be performed on a bank having a mode that is advantageous to the type of data, thereby minimizing consumption of power and a time delay.
US07778099B2
A semiconductor memory is provided, the semiconductor memory including a memory core that includes a plurality of memory cells, a refresh generation unit that generates a refresh request for refreshing the memory cell, a core control unit that performs an access operation in response to an access request, a latency determination unit that activates a latency extension signal upon a conflict between activation of a chip enable signal and the refresh request and that deactivates the latency extension signal in response to deactivation of the chip enable signal, a latency output buffer that outputs the latency extension signal, and a data control unit that changes a latency from the access request to a transfer of data to a data terminal during the activation of the latency extension signal.
US07778091B2
A page buffer includes a first latch coupled between a sensing node and a data input/output node for storing data to be programmed. The sensing node is coupled to a bit line corresponding to an MLC selected for programming. The data input/output node receives/outputs data. A second latch is coupled to the sensing node for performing a program, verifying or read operation. A first switching means is coupled between the first latch and the sensing node for transmitting data stored in the first latch to the bit line through the sensing node when the program operation is performed. A second switching means is coupled to a first node of the second latch and the sensing node for verifying a first program operation. A third switching means is coupled between a second node of the second latch and the sensing node for verifying a second program operation.
US07778086B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to receive an external erase command at a control circuit coupled to an erasable memory array located on a substrate. A global select gate voltage may thereafter be enabled for application to wordline transistors coupled to the erasable memory array after a voltage applied to the substrate has reached a preselected initiation voltage level between about zero volts and an ultimate erase voltage.
US07778085B2
An erasing method of post-programming in a nonvolatile memory device. The method includes post-programming dummy memory cells; verifying whether threshold voltages of the dummy memory cells are greater than or equal to a first voltage; post-programming normal memory cells; and verifying whether threshold voltages of the normal memory cells are greater than or equal to a second voltage. The first voltage is different from the second voltage.
US07778084B2
Non-volatile memory devices and operating methods thereof are provided. In an operating method, a first operation is performed by applying a first voltage to at least one word line. The first operation includes one of a programming or erasing operation. The first operation is verified by applying a verify voltage to each of the at least one word lines. The voltage level of each verify voltage is determined according to position information of a corresponding one of the at least one word lines.
US07778077B2
A system and methods are given for providing information on the amount of life remaining for a memory having a limited lifespan, such as a flash memory card. For example, it can provide a user with the amount of the memory's expected remaining lifetime in real time units (i.e., hours or days) or as a percentage of estimated initial life. An end of life warning can also be provided. In a particular embodiment, the amount of remaining life (either as a percentage or in real time units) can be based on the average number of erases per block, but augmented by the number of spare blocks or other parameters, so that an end of life warning is given if either the expected amount of remaining life falls below a certain level or the number of spare blocks falls below a safe level.
US07778070B2
One embodiment of the invention relates to a method for repairing a memory array. In the method, a group of at least one memory cell is dynamically analyzed to determine whether the memory array includes at least one faulty cell that no longer properly stores data. If the group includes at least one faulty cell, at least the at least one faulty cell is associated with at least another cell. Other methods, devices, and systems are also disclosed.
US07778068B2
In a memory using spin transfer torque, state of the spin is made unstable by applying a weak pulse before rewriting to reduce rewrite current. Reading of high-speed operation is performed with current in a regime where the current becomes non-linearly increases corresponding to the pulse width to suppress disturb. Further, fluctuation of respective memory cells is suppressed by a driving method setting the amount of spin constant by bit line charge to suppress read disturb.
US07778066B2
Provided is a method of programming a resistance variable memory device. The resistance variable memory device includes a memory cell having multi states and a write driver outputting a program pulse for programming the memory cell into one of the multi states. The method of programming the resistance variable memory device includes applying a first program pulse to the resistance variable memory device and applying a second program pulse to a memory cell when the memory cell is programmed into an intermediate state. When the first program pulse is a reset pulse, the reset pulse is an over program pulse, that is, an over reset pulse. Therefore, the resistance variable memory device can secure a sufficient read margin as well as improve a resistance drift margin.
US07778058B2
A NAND flash array includes a first selection transistor coupled to a first selection line, a second selection transistor coupled to a second selection line, memory cells operably coupled to word lines and connected to each other in series between the first and second selection transistors, and a strapping line electrically connected to the first selection line.
US07778057B2
A semiconductor package is discussed having a single CE signal during electrical test and a plurality of CE signals during normal operation thereafter. After electrical testing of the memory die during fabrication, the electrical traces carrying the single CE signal from the memory test pad matrix to each of the memory die may be severed. Severing the electrical traces from the memory test pad matrix electrically isolates the multiple electrical traces between the controller die and memory die, and allows separate and individual CE signals between the controller die and memory die during normal usage of the memory die.
US07778054B2
In a power switching circuit, a second commutation member has a second commutation path electrically connected in parallel to a first commutation path and a second diode provided in the second commutation path and electrically connected antiparallel to a semiconductor switching element. While the semiconductor switching element is off, the second commutation path allows a second current based on the inductive load to flow therethrough in a forward direction of the second diode within a commutation period. The second diode has a second reverse recovery time shorter than a first reverse recovery time of the first diode. A second inductance of the second commutation path is higher than a first inductance of the first commutation path.
US07778053B2
A control system for an AC line voltage distribution system includes a DC energy storage system and an inverter coupled to the DC energy storage system adapted for coupling to the AC line distribution system. A proportional-integral voltage regulator coupled to the DC energy storage system receives a voltage signal for the DC energy storage system and receives a voltage reference. In an exemplary embodiment, the voltage regulator includes a proportional path and an integral path to receive the DC voltage information and the voltage reference signal information, a filter to remove an AC component having a predetermined frequency contained in the DC voltage signal, and an output terminal to output a control signal with the AC component removed.
US07778049B2
A switching power supply is provided which keeps constant, even when the oscillation frequency of a switching element increases, the on duty of secondary current passing through a secondary winding, thereby achieving a constant current drooping characteristic with high accuracy. To be specific, a secondary current on-period detection circuit generates a signal indicating the off timing of the secondary current, based on a flyback voltage generated on an auxiliary winding. A secondary-current detection delay time correction circuit generates a signal indicating a time when a predetermined period has elapsed since the switching element is turned off. A secondary current on-duty control circuit generates a clock signal for turning on the switching element so as to keep constant the on duty of the secondary current, based on the signal generated by the secondary current on-period detection circuit and the signal generated by the secondary-current detection delay time correction circuit.
US07778030B1
A system (50) includes a material layer (52) having an opening (62) extending through it and a pumping device (54) positioned behind the layer (52). A target element (56) is positioned in front of the material layer (52). In a partial cooling mode (124), the pumping device (54) drives a jet (134) of coolant through the opening (62) toward the target (56). Transducers (58, 60), positioned at opposing ends of the opening (62), produce output signals (130, 132) that perturb the jet (134) to partially control its oscillation. The jet (134) spreads from a location (96) on the target element (56) in one direction (142) to provide uniform cooling over a portion (126) of the target element (56) in the direction (142), and the jet (134) non-uniformly spreads in another direction (144) to provide non-uniform cooling over a portion (128) of the target element (56) in the other direction (144).
US07778028B2
Electrical units are effectively cooled, even if the longitudinal length of the cover member in which the electrical units to be cooled are accommodated is short, by easily guiding a flow of air during operation toward the electrical units. A second cover member which constitutes at least a part of a body cover together with a first cover member is positioned ahead of the first cover member which accommodates an electrical unit to be cooled. Inlets which let a flow of air during operation into the second cover member are disposed in the second cover member. An outlet for discharging a flow of air during operation out of the first cover member is provided in the first cover member.
US07778026B2
A laptop computer carrying case transforms into a desktop for use of a laptop or similar electronic device having a keyboard and a hingeably openable display. The laptop key board is held by bands in the lower portion of the case and the display is held in the top section of the case. Hinge structures are provided on the left and right sidewalls of the bottom section of the case. When the hinge structures are pivotally angularly separated, the bottom section containing the keyboard will be substantially horizontal enabling use of the laptop in a standing or mobile position. When the laptop is not being used, the case may be closed and the hinge structures closed with the laptop being carried by the strap over the shoulder. The hinge structure is provided with structure for limiting the amount by which the arms of the hinge may be pivotally angularly separated thereby providing stability to the laptop case in the desk top position. Detent means is provided to hold the arms of the hinge structure in aligned position when the case is being used to carry the laptop.
US07778024B2
A board card having a control circuit includes a first substrate and an electrical fan. The first substrate has a heat source and the electrical fan is disposed on the first substrate. The electrical fan includes a revolving spindle, a plurality of blades and a LED module. The revolving spindle is disposed on the first substrate and rotates about an axis. The blades are joined with the revolving spindle. The LED module is electrically connected to the control circuit, wherein when the revolving spindle drives the blades rotate, the light-emitting direction of the LED module is along a radial direction of the revolving spindle.
US07778022B2
A data storage device including a housing including an overmold element with features for sealing the interior from ambient particulates, providing mechanical support with respect to a host, absorbing mechanical shock, and retaining a recirculation filter. The device includes a flexible electronic interconnect connectable to the host. The host includes a cavity. A resilient support extends through a movement margin between the housing and the cavity, absorbing mechanical shock. Bumpers are disposed on the housing and serve to cushion a strike when the device travels through the swing space. The resilient support extends from the corner region and is molded through an opening in the device. A sealing arrangement includes a sealing lip and bias cones and seals the interior of the device from outside particulates. A recirculation filter retention feature retains a recirculation filter. Latching features prevent two opposite portions of the housing from separating.
US07778012B2
An electrolytic capacitor comprises two lead tab terminals and a sealing rubber packing. Each of the lead tab terminals includes a boss member, a rib member and a flat member. The boss member comprises a coupling member and a large member. The diameter of the coupling member is the same as two holes in the sealing rubber packing, and the diameter of the large member is larger than the two holes. The flat member is connected to either an oxidized anode foil or a cathode foil. The coupling members of the two lead-tab terminals are inserted into the two holes in the sealing rubber packing, respectively. The large member keeps the sealing rubber packing from moving toward the flat member. Accordingly, the sealing member sealing the capacitor element into a case is kept from making contact with the capacitor element.
US07778010B2
A capacitor comprising: a plurality of laminated dielectric layers; a plurality of inner electrode layers each disposed between mutually adjacent ones of the dielectric layers; and dummy electrode layers respectively disposed between the dielectric layers, disposed on sides closer to outer peripheral sides of the dielectric layers than to the inner electrode layers and disposed apart from the inner electrode layers.
US07778008B2
In a capacitor structure and a method of manufacturing the capacitor structure, first and second conductive patterns are formed on a substrate. The first and second conductive patterns extend in a first direction. The first and second conductive patterns are alternately arranged to be spaced apart from one another in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction. An insulating interlayer is formed on the substrate to cover the first and second conductive patterns. Third and fourth conductive patterns extending in a third direction lying at an angle of between about 0° and about 90° relative to the first direction are formed on the insulating interlayer. The third and fourth conductive patterns are alternately arranged to be spaced apart from one another in a fourth direction substantially perpendicular to the third direction.
US07778006B2
Disclosed herein are boosters that include components sufficient for wireless communications with an associated blasting machine. In selected aspects, there are disclosed wireless electronic boosters that are self-contained and robust. Such boosters are especially suited for underground mining operations, optionally employing automated placement of boosters at a blast site.
US07778001B2
An integrated circuit chip comprising a number of semiconductor components exhibiting parasitic components through which a short-circuit between the circuit supply voltage and ground could occur, wherein said semiconductor components are distributed in elementary blocks, each elementary block being independently connected, for its power supply, to the supply or ground lines of the main supply network of the integrated circuit by a current-limiting device capable of stopping a short-circuit starting in the considered block, and each block being sized so that logic errors occurring in this block are correctable by error-correction means.
US07777997B2
An antenna for use in a conveyor system in which items on which radio frequency identification tags are disposed are moved on a conveyor along a path of travel, includes a ground plane, a substrate having a bottom surface received adjacent the ground plane, at least one patch element disposed on a top surface of the substrate, a cover received adjacent the top surface of the substrate, and a front static conductive strip disposed along a front edge of the cover. The antenna is disposed beneath the conveyor and a front edge of the antenna is transverse to the path of travel. The front static conductive strip is electrically connected to the ground plane such that an electrostatic discharge event adjacent the front static conductive strip is discharged to the ground plane.
US07777993B2
A wiper control circuit is provided for invalidating the state of a wiper operation switch to suppress unnecessary operations of a wiper in an automotive vehicle upon starting an engine using a remote control engine starter. The wiper control circuit is configured to suppress generation of a sneak current and thereby reduce the likelihood that an erroneous operation instruction is received.
US07777989B2
A magnetic writing pole writes perpendicularly to a magnetic medium. The writing pole includes a multilayer structure with alternately electroplated magnetic layers and electroplated non-magnetic layers. The writing pole has a down-track thickness near the magnetic medium of less than about 500 nm.
US07777985B2
A cartridge transport robot transports a cartridge of information storage media between differing locations in a cartridge library. The cartridge robot comprises a robot carriage; a robot tray; and a carriage motive system. The robot tray comprises a guide configured to facilitate linear motion of the robot carriage, the robot carriage being situated on a first side of the robot tray. The robot carriage comprises cartridge engagement elements configured to selectively engage and release the cartridge. The carriage motive system is configured to provide linear motion to the robot carriage along the robot tray from a carriage retracted position to a carriage extracted position and thereby linearly displace the cartridge engaged by the cartridge engagement elements.
US07777983B2
A method of writing a servo pattern to a disk, wherein a servo pattern is generated in a processor. The generated servo pattern is then written to a disk. The servo pattern for a servo sector is preferably generated in a single routine.
US07777975B2
A lens module includes a lens barrel, a first lens, a plurality of first electro-active polymer (EAP) units and a plurality of second EAP units. The first lens is suspended in the lens barrel by the plurality of first EAP units and second EAP units. The lens barrel receives a second lens, a spacer and a third lens. The second lens and the third lens are spaced apart by the spacer.
US07777972B1
The present invention provides an imaging optical lens assembly including, in order from the object side to the image side: a first lens group comprising a first lens element with positive refractive power, no lens element with refractive power being disposed between the first lens element and an imaged object, the first lens element being the only lens element with refractive power in the first lens group; and a second lens group comprising, in order from the object side to the image side: a second lens element with negative refractive power; a third lens element; and a fourth lens element; wherein focusing adjustment is performed by moving the first lens element along an optical axis, such that as a distance between the imaged object and the imaging optical lens assembly changes from far to near, a distance between the first lens element and an image plane changes from near to far; and wherein the number of the lens elements with refractive power in the imaging optical lens assembly is N, and it satisfies the relation: 4≦N≦5. The abovementioned arrangement of optical elements and focusing adjustment method enable the imaging optical lens assembly to obtain good image quality and consume less power.
US07777965B2
A zoom lens system includes a negative first lens group, a positive second lens group, and a positive third lens group, in this order from the object. Upon zooming from the short focal length extremity to the long focal length extremity, the distance between the negative first lens group and the positive second lens group decreases, and the distance between the positive second lens group and the positive third lens group increases. The negative first lens group includes a negative first lens element, a positive or negative lens element having a weaker refractive power, and a positive third lens element, in this order from the object. The zoom lens system satisfied the following condition: −0.25
US07777964B2
A plastic rod lens having a cylindrical shape with a radius R including a central axis; and an outer peripheral portion, wherein a refractive index nD decreases from the central axis to the outer peripheral portion, and the following requirements (1) to (3) are met: 43≦ν1≦60 (1) |{nA×νA/(nA−1)}−{nB×νB/(nB−1)}|<5 (2) n0−n1≧0.01 (3) wherein n1, n0, nA, and nB represent refraction index nD in the outer peripheral portion, at the center, and at arbitrary points A and B, respectively, and ν1, νA, and νB represent Abbe number ν in the outer peripheral portion, and at the arbitrary points A and B, respectively.
US07777953B2
To produce a grating image for a security document, a contour line (9) is filled with hatching lines (11) with the help of a drawing program, grating coordinates are calculated from the intersection points between the hatching lines (11) and the contour line (9), and the such produced data records of the grating image are supplied to a lithography machine.
US07777952B2
The present invention relates to an image stabilizing apparatus, a lens unit, and an image pickup apparatus. The present invention provides an image stabilizing apparatus for stabilizing an image by moving a predetermined lens group in an image pickup optical system which transmits a light flux from an object. The image stabilizing apparatus includes: a shift mechanism for shifting the predetermined lens group in a predetermined direction; and a rotation mechanism for rotating the shift mechanism in a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens group.
US07777950B2
It is made possible to provide a stereoscopic image display apparatus capable of preventing the stereoscopic display characteristics from being degraded even if the locus of light rays between the lens and the two-dimensional display device becomes long. A stereoscopic image display apparatus includes: a plane display device having a display face formed of a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form; an optical plate comprising a plurality of lenses which are arranged in front of the display face of the plane display device and which have a uniaxial double refractive material inserted therein, and controlling light rays from the pixels; and a sheet polarizer provided between the plane display device and the optical plate to align a polarization direction of light ray. In the double refractive material, a maximum primary axis of refractive index is parallel to ridgelines of the lenses and is inclined in a direction opposed to a viewer.
US07777940B1
Methods and systems for optical chirped pulse amplification and phase dispersion, the system including an active dispersion controller for receiving an input optical pulse from a modelocked laser and controlling a third and fourth order dispersion property of the input optical pulse to produce an optical output pulses, a stretching re-circulating loop for stretching the optical output pulses in time, an optical amplifier for amplifying the stretched optical output pulses, a compressing re-circulating loop for compressing the amplified stretched optical output pulse to produce a compressed optical output pulse, and a feedback loop for feeding a feedback optical signal to the active dispersion controller.
US07777927B2
An oscillator device includes a first oscillator, a second oscillator configured to support the first oscillator for torsional rotation about a first rotational axis, through a first torsion spring, a supporting member configured to support the second oscillator for torsional rotation about a second rotational axis, through a second torsion spring, the second rotational axis having a predetermined angle with respect to the first rotational axis of the first oscillator, a coil disposed in relation to the second oscillator, an electrical current applying member configured to apply an electrical current to the coil, and a magnetic field generating member configured to apply a magnetic field to the coil. The coil is localized in at least one of zones of the second oscillator being quartered by extension lines of the first and second rotational axes.
US07777922B2
In an image reader that can adjust a distance between a platen glass and a close-contact-type image sensor (CIS) without disassembly, a CIS unit includes a CIS and a resilient body which biases the CIS toward the platen glass. A CIS roller holder includes a spacer, and a CIS holder which holds the spacer movably in the vertical direction as well as in the sub scanning direction with respect to the platen glass and is fixed to the CIS unit. Irregularities are formed on surfaces of the CIS holder and the spacer which face each other and are engageable by fitting. When the CIS unit is moved in the sub scanning direction and the CIS roller holder is brought into contact with one rib ,the CIS roller holder is brought into contact with the spacer at projections or recesses, thus changing a distance between the platen glass and the CIS.
US07777911B2
A method for accessing content from a computer network, the method comprising the steps of: (a) capturing an image of machine-readable coded data with a mobile phone having an optical image sensor; (b) processing, on the mobile phone, the captured image to decode the machine-readable coded data into a first identifier; (c) forming on the mobile phone, a request comprising the first identifier; (d) transmitting, from the mobile phone via an associated mobile phone network, the request to a server on the computer network, the computer network being interoperable with the mobile phone network; (e) identifying content associated with the first identifier; and (f) receiving the content in the mobile phone.
US07777907B2
This invention relates to an image forming apparatus having ability information of an available finisher, including a detection unit which detects the stop state of post-processing by the first finisher, a search unit which, when the detection unit detects the stop of the first finisher, searches a finisher that can alternatively perform processing to be executed by the first finisher based on the ability information, and a generation unit which generates post-processing setting information for the second finisher found by the search unit.
US07777896B2
A signal processing apparatus comprising: an optical sensor for outputting a detection signal by detecting a surface of a recording medium on which a correction image is to be formed; and a control section configured to obtain a detection signal of the surface of the recording medium with the correction image from which a dominant frequency component has been deleted by making reverse frequency analysis of an analysis signal that has been obtained by making a frequency analysis of a detection signal outputted by the optical sensor detecting the surface of the recording medium on which the correction image it formed.
US07777895B2
A phase-difference sensor measures the spatially resolved difference in phase between orthogonally polarized reference and test wavefronts. The sensor is constructed as a linear-carrier phase-mask aligned to and imaged on a linear-carrier detector array. Each adjacent element of the phase-mask measures a predetermined relative phase shift between the orthogonally polarized reference and test beams. Thus, multiple phase-shifted interferograms can be synthesized at the same time by combining pixels with identical phase-shifts. The multiple phase-shifted interferograms can be combined to calculate standard parameters such as modulation index or average phase step. Any configuration of interferometer that produces orthogonally polarized reference and object beams may be combined with the phase-difference sensor of the invention to provide single-shot, simultaneous phase-shifting measurements.
US07777892B2
In an optical tomography system, a polarization changing system which converts linearly polarized light too non-linearly polarized light is provided in at least one of a light source unit, an optical path from the light source unit to a light dividing system, the optical path of the measuring light from the light dividing system to an object, the optical path of the reflected light from the object to the combining system and the optical path of the reference light from the light dividing system to the combining system. The polarization changing system is, for instance, a polarization-preserving optical fiber which is disposed so that the direction of polarization of the linearly polarized light and the direction of axis of polarization of the linearly polarized light differ from each other.
US07777890B2
The invention relates to a method and an optical-fiber measuring device including a light source with a light power P, a Sagnac ring interferometer in which propagate two counter-propagating waves, a detector receiving a light flux from the interferometer and converting it into an electrical signal representing the total phase difference δφt between the counter-propagating waves. It also includes an electronic element receiving the electrical signal from the detector and providing a first signal S1 function of the measured parameter. The electronic element includes a demodulator contributing to provide the first signal function of the measured parameter and provide a second signal S2 function of the power P of the light flux measured by the detector. The optical phase modulator generates a disturbance component δφcp adding to the phase difference δφm=δφb+δφcr.
US07777887B2
An absorption spectroscopy apparatus including an elliptical mirror centered on the midpoint between a source/detector and a mirror. The cavity between the elliptical mirror and the source/bolometer and mirror defines an interior volume of a sample cell. Electromagnetic radiation from the source/detector travels along a multi-segment path starting from the source/bolometer toward the elliptical mirror, reflecting off of the elliptical mirror and traveling toward the mirror, reflecting off of the mirror and traveling back toward the elliptical mirror and finally reflecting off the elliptical mirror for a second time and returning toward the source/bolometer. The multiple reflections combined with the focusing effects of the elliptical mirrored surface result in an efficient sampling device. Among other aspects and advantages, the apparatus of the present disclosure is able to use incoherent, non-collimated light sources while maintaining high optical throughput efficiencies.
US07777886B2
Improved optical alignment precision to a passive optical cavity is provided by including a combination of a weak focusing element and a translation plate in the input coupling optics. Adjustment of positions and angles of these optical elements, preferably after all other input optical elements are fixed in place, advantageously provides for high-precision optical alignment to the cavity, without requiring excessively tight fabrication tolerances. Fabrication tolerances are relaxed by making the optical power of the weak focusing element significantly less than the optical power of a strong focusing element in the input optics. The position and angles of the beam with respect to the cavity can be adjusted, as can the size of the beam at the cavity. Differential adjustment of the beam size in two orthogonal directions (e.g., tangential plane and sagittal plane) at the cavity can also be provided.
US07777885B2
The present invention provides a system for imaging circulating tumor cells from blood after enrichment. The system is designed to provide optimum use in a clinical laboratory setting with minimum laboratory bench top space. Operator intervention is minimized compared to other analytical methodologies. The system is useful in the enumeration and identification of target cells in a sample specimen for screening and detection of early stage pre-metastatic cancer, monitoring for disease remission in response to therapy and selection of more effective dose regimens or alternative therapies for individual patients.
US07777884B2
A method and a system are provided for calibrating metrological tools used to measure features of a semiconductor device. A critical dimension (CD) ruler defines a known pitch plus a pitch offset. A photoresist layer is measured to determine a measured pitch whereupon the measured pitch is compared to the known pitch. From the comparison, appropriate calibration steps can be taken to reduce the difference between the known pitch and the measured pitch.
US07777881B2
A laser device is equipped with an exciting optical system having a GaN semiconductor laser and a condensing lens; and a resonator having of a dichroic mirror and an output mirror, and a solid laser medium is disposed within the resonator. The solid laser medium is disposed in the resonator such that the c axis of a crystal is parallel to the x axis. The exciting optical system is disposed such that the direction in which excitation light emitted from the GaN semiconductor laser is polarized is parallel to the y axis, and is formed so as to absorb excitation light in the crystal axis perpendicular to the c axis. The direction in which the oscillation light emitted from the solid laser medium is polarized coincides with a direction parallel to the c-axis direction, and also coincides with a direction along the x axis.
US07777863B2
A substrate table for a lithographic apparatus includes a mask constructed and arranged to prevent exposure of a peripheral exposure region of a substrate on the substrate table. The mask is attached to a moveable carrier. The moveable carrier has a range of movement which at least partially circumnavigates the substrate table.
US07777859B2
An apparatus (20) forms a latent indicium onto a sensitized medium, using an area energy source (26) for applying a substantially uniform sensitizing energy over an area of the sensitized medium and a pixel exposure source (30) for applying radiant energy to expose a pattern of pixels (14) onto the area of the sensitized medium for forming the indicium.
US07777854B2
An LCD device of the present invention includes a liquid crystal panel and a gate driving signal wire. The panel includes a gate wire having a plurality of gate lines, and the gate driving signal wire is connected to the gate lines by connecting lines. Therefore, spatial rooms for a panel assembly increase because additional test wire and test pad for VI test can be eliminated. Furthermore, accuracy of the VI tests is enhanced.
US07777851B2
A liquid crystal display device has pixel regions defined by gate lines and data lines perpendicular to the gate lines. The gate electrodes of thin film transistors (TFTs) at a first side of the data lines project from the gate lines. Active layers are disposed on the gate electrodes. Source electrodes overlap the active layers. Drain electrodes are parallel to the gate lines, spaced from the source electrodes and overlap the active layers. Pixel electrodes formed on the pixel region are connected to the drain electrodes. This structure prevents poor picture quality by minimizing the differences between the parasitic capacitance formed between the gate electrode and the drain electrode in adjacent pixel regions even if Y- or X-axis misalignment occurs.
US07777846B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal layer which is arranged between first and second aligning films formed on inner sides of first and second substrates, has liquid crystal molecules twist-aligned in a direction from the first aligning film toward the second aligning film when an electric field is not applied between first and second electrodes, and generates retardation of substantially λ/2 with respect to transmitted light. First and second polarizing plates are arranged on outer sides of the first and second substrates. A Transmission axis or an absorption axis of the first polarizing plate is substantially matched with a direction along which the liquid crystal molecules in the vicinity of the first aligning film are aligned when a sufficiently intensive electric field is applied.
US07777840B2
A reflective electrode, a transparent electrode, a TFT connected to the reflective electrode and a TFT connected to the transparent electrode are formed in each picture element. A first data signal is written into the reflective electrode via the TFT, a second data signal is written into the transparent electrode via the TFT. In this way, the individual data signals are respectively written into the reflective electrode and the transparent electrode, and thereby excellent display quality can be obtained either when used as a transmissive liquid crystal display device or when used as a reflective liquid crystal display device.
US07777837B2
A light polarizer for use in an LCD includes a polarizing film, a retardation film, and an auxiliary film. The auxiliary film increases the total thickness of the polarizer such that the polarizer can be easily detached from the LCD for rework without damaging the LCD.
US07777835B2
A liquid crystal display according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a liquid crystal panel assembly comprising a plurality of first field-generating electrodes, a second field-generating electrode facing the first field-generating electrodes, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first field-generating electrodes and the second field-generating electrode, and red, green, and blue color filters disposed at positions corresponding to the first field-generating electrodes; and a light source providing light to the liquid crystal panel assembly, wherein the light source emits a light comprising a red component having a central wavelength of about 620-680 nm and a half amplitude of about 25-70 nm, a green component having a central wavelength of about 525-545 nm and a half amplitude of about 20-50 nm, and a blue component having a central wavelength of about 430-480 nm and a half amplitude of about 25-70 nm.
US07777832B2
A light management unit is described for attachment to a display module, especially suited for an LCD TV or LCD monitor. The light management unit includes a directionally recycling layer including a structured side and a planar side where the structured side includes prism structures. The light management unit also includes a reflective polarizer positioned on the planar side of the directionally recycling layer. The light management unit also includes a diffusion structure incorporated into either the directionally recycling layer or between the directional recycling layer and the reflective polarizer. The diffusion structure causes a level of diffusion that is sufficient to prevent the appearance of colored bands when a viewer positioned along a line of sight that is perpendicular to the direction of the prism structures views the light management unit, illuminated from below, at an oblique angle from a vertical axis.
US07777830B2
A backlight unit includes a lamp, a bottom frame disposed under the lamp, the bottom frame having a first hole corresponding to the lamp, a light guide holder inserted into the first hole, and a light emitting diode disposed under the light guide holder.
US07777825B2
A liquid crystal display uses a pixel division method by which the size of a defect can be reduced much more than conventionally possible, and a defect correcting method for the liquid crystal display. The liquid crystal display is provided with an active matrix array substrate including a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of source lines arranged on a transparent substrate so as to intersect with each other, and a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix, each pixel electrode including an assembly of a plurality of sub-pixel electrodes, separate TFTs respectively connected to the sub-pixel electrodes in the vicinity of an intersection portion of the gate line and the source line, the TFTs being driven by the common gate line and the common source line, and at least one opening portion being formed in a lower-layer side line placed in a lower layer at the intersection portion.
US07777821B2
A dual-display liquid crystal display device concurrently displays two images so that the two images can be identified from two different viewing directions by including sub-pixel areas each having therein a first storage capacitor section extending along a scanning line and a second storage capacitor section extending along a signal line, and further, makes the characteristics of brightness relative to a viewing angle associated with the two different viewing directions be line-symmetric with each other. The dual-display liquid crystal display device realizes an increased aperture by locating each storage capacitor section within a light-shielding area and by having rectangular display regions.
US07777819B2
A helmet mounted display 30 includes a display source 31 arranged to be directly imaged by a primary relay optical arrangement 32 having relay optical elements 33A, 33B and 33C. Light exiting the primary relay optical arrangement 32 indicated by ray traces 34A, 34B and 34C continue towards a visor 35 which is arranged to reflect incident light to a exit pupil located in a convenient position for a viewer 36. The display source 31 includes a light source, beam splitter, reflective liquid crystal display and a display source relay optical arrangement to provide an output image at an output diffuser screen. The image at the output screen is then directly imaged by the primary relay optical arrangement 32. Should the reflective liquid crystal display require modification or replacement with a newer model, then the display source 31 can be redesigned to accommodate the new reflective liquid crystal display rather than re-engineering the primary relay optical arrangement 32 at greater expense.
US07777818B2
In a receiving apparatus and a method for setting a receiving antenna thereof, for dissolving a problem of necessity of a large amount of time for channel search, since it needs a time for setting up the receiving antenna at each physical channel, in the channel search operation, including searching of receivable channels and also memorization of an optimal setup for each of the receiving channels, receiving conditions are obtained for all of the physical channels in each of the setups of receiving antenna, and this obtaining of the receiving condition is conducted on all of the setups of the receiving antenna. In that instance, a number of times of controlling the setup of receiving antenna is determined to be a number of combinations of the setups of receiving antenna, and thereby shortening the time necessary for the setup of the receiving antenna and the time necessary for channel preset.
US07777811B2
An enlarged image is displayed using a plurality of television sets. A television set serving as a master device and television sets serving as slave devices convert an input image into partial enlarged images and display the resultant partial enlarged images so that the partial enlarged images displayed on the respective television sets form, as a whole, a complete enlarged full image. The master device and slave devices perform mutual authentication with each other. If the authentication is successfully passed, the operation mode is set so that displaying of an enlarged image is allowed.
US07777804B2
An image sensor has an array of pixels organized into a row and column format. Pixels are read out in a line-by-line sequence and buffered in a line image buffer. An extended dynamic range is supported by varying a column exposure time according to a periodic sequence. As a result, the pixel exposure times vary within each row. A high dynamic range is generated by combining pixel data of adjacent pixels within the same row that are of the same filter type but having different exposure times. Color interpolation is performed on the combined line data.
US07777798B2
A physical quantity detecting device includes: a pixel array that has pixels two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix, each converting a physical quantity supplied from the outside into an electric signal; a driving circuit that scans, as read rows, N rows of pixels (N is an integer equal to or larger than 3) in the pixel array at the same time and reads out signals corresponding to the pixels in the read rows; and M signal processing circuit groups (1
US07777797B2
A solid-state imaging device includes photo-sensitive cells for converting incident light to signal charges, and a transfer path for transferring, in response to a drive signal fed through a transfer electrode, the signal charges read out from the photo-sensitive cells. The solid-state imaging device outputs electrical signals corresponding to the signal charges thus transferred. The transfer electrode is divided into a first transfer electrode for transferring the signal charges and a second transfer electrode for reading out the signal charges from the photo-sensitive cells.
US07777794B2
A solid-state imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements that are arranged in a matrix form on the semiconductor substrate; and color filter layers of a plurality of colors that are formed in a predetermined pattern above the photoelectric conversion elements. A green color filter portion having a predetermined width is formed above a boundary region between each pair of adjacent ones of the photoelectric conversion elements so as to have a cross section of a mountain shape or a trapezoidal shape. Each of the color filter layers is formed between respective ridgelines of adjacent ones of the green color filter portions. Each of the color filter layers has a thickness that is smaller at a peripheral portion corresponding to a ridgeline portion than at a central portion. Thus, a solid-state imaging device that prevents color mixture caused by light from an adjacent color filter layer and remedies the problems of line shading, variations in sensitivity and color irregularity and a method of manufacturing the same are provided.
US07777793B2
A signal processor formed on a single semiconductor chip having an A/D conversion unit for converting an analog signal to a digital signal, includes an operation unit for performing a calculation based on a plurality of digital signals converted by the A/D conversion unit, and a selection unit for selecting one of the digital signals converted by the A/D conversion unit and a result calculated by the operation unit and externally outputting the selection.
US07777792B2
When the quantity of light diagonally entering light-receiving portions of an image-capturing element in an electronic camera is large and thus an electrical charge is generated readily in an electrical charge transfer line, hue correction processing is executed to correct any change occurring in the hue induced by the charge generated in the electrical charge transfer line.
US07777789B2
An album list file stores album information relating to album containing image data files, and an album list storing sequence information indicating a replay sequence of image data files at the time of replaying the image data files belonging to the album. Here, when an album containing a new image data file which has not been included in the album is designated, the sequence information is renewed so as to replay the new image data file first at the time of replaying image data files contained by the designated album.
US07777781B2
Multiple motion sensor devices are included in an imaging apparatus. One or more of the motion sensor devices captures images and at least a portion of the sensor images are then processed to determine one or more motion vectors for the processed sensor images. At least one motion vector representing an amount of motion of the imager during image capture is generated when a predetermined portion of the motion vectors match.
US07777767B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms a color image in which a plurality of color component images are superimposed; and a formation controlling unit that allows the image forming unit to form images for adjustment of formation positions of the respective color component images. The formation controlling unit allows the image forming unit to form, for each color, a plurality of adjustment images having different tilts with respect to a main scanning direction. A shift of a detected position of each adjustment image from a reference position in which each adjustment image should be formed is calculated, a tilt and an intercept of a regression line that uses the reference positions and the calculated shifts as variables are calculated, and a shift in the main scanning direction and a shift in a sub-scanning direction are determined based on the calculated tilt and intercept.
US07777761B2
A method, computer program product, and apparatus for specifying, making, and displaying measurements within a 3D range data set obtained using a 3D rangefinder device. A 3D range data set is provided and represented as a first 2D displayed image and a second displayed image. The second displayed image is selected from the group consisting of a second 2D displayed image and a 3D displayed image. At least one feature is identified in the first 2D displayed image and the second displayed image, such that a measurement can be computed based on the identified features. The computed measurement is displayed in at least one of the first 2D displayed image and the second displayed image.
US07777760B2
A display color-correcting system is provided. Color response values are measured that go into the vertices of polyhedra in a cubic color output space of the display. A set of corresponding values for the display is built from intermediate values determined between the measured color response values. The intermediate values are determined by decomposition and interpolation of interpolation volumes in the cubic color output space. Each of the interpolation volumes is the combined volume of a selected polyhedron within the cubic color output space and a predetermined volume of space between the selected polyhedron and the next polyhedron within the cubic color output space. The set of corresponding values is converted into decoupled RGB adjustment values that specify the RGB signals independently for the display to produce corrected colors. The RGB adjustment values are saved into one or more look-up tables.
US07777756B2
A method and an apparatus for calibrating a color property of a monitor used in a system including a color conversion module, a color measurement module and a display module. The method includes storing a target color property and measuring a color property of an image displayed on the display module using the color measurement module and generating an image control signal so as to control the color property of the image displayed on the display module based on the target color property and the measured color property of the image. The image control signal is adaptable to a color conversion scheme of the color conversion module.
US07777755B2
A display device calibration system is provided. The overall color response of a display family is characterized, and the idiosyncratic color response characteristics of the display family are determined. The idiosyncratic color response characteristics of the display family are related to respective idiosyncratic color response points. Individual idiosyncratic color response point values for an individual member of the display family are determined. The color response of the individual member of the display family is specified from the individual idiosyncratic color response point values of the individual member of the display family and the overall color response of the display family.
US07777749B2
A programmable graphics pipeline and method for processing multiple partitioned multimedia data, such as graphics data, image data, video data, or audio data. A preferred embodiment of the programmable graphics pipeline includes an instruction cache, a register file, and a vector functional unit that perform partitioned instructions. In addition, an enhanced rasterization unit is used to generate inverse-mapped source coordinates in addition to destination output coordinates for graphics and other media processing. An enhanced texture address unit generates corresponding memory addresses of source texture data for graphics processing and source media data for media processing. Data retrieved from memory are stored in an enhanced texture cache for use by the vector functional unit. A vector output unit includes a blending unit for graphics data and an output buffer for wide media data.
US07777746B2
An electronic entertainment system for creating a video sequence by executing video game camera behavior based upon a video game sound file includes a memory configured to store an action event/camera behavior (AE/CB) database, game software such as an action generator module, and one or more sound files. In addition, the system includes a sound processing unit coupled to the memory for processing a selected sound file, and a processor coupled to the memory and the sound processing unit. The processor randomly selects an AE pointer and a CB pointer from the AE/CB database. Upon selection of the CB pointer and the AE pointer, the action generator executes camera behavior corresponding to the selected CB pointer to view an action event corresponding to the selected AE pointer.
US07777733B2
Proving a touch panel having a superior transparent visibility, easy to manufacture and of low cost, to be used for various electronic devices. In manufacturing, forming a notch with an adhesive layer formed on an undersurface of an under substrate, under a connecting portion of the under substrate with a wiring substrate. After applying rollers for short a period of time for almost completely removing bubbles between the under substrate and the adhesive layer, adhering such under substrate to an upper substrate. Finally heating and pressing the connecting portion, connecting the wiring substrate to the substrates, obtaining the touch panel having a superior transparent visibility, easy to manufacture and of low cost.
US07777727B2
A display device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a display panel having a first display area and a second display area. The display panel includes: a plurality of first display circuits disposed in the first display area; a plurality of second display circuits disposed in the second display area; and a plurality of touch sensing circuits disposed in the second display area.
US07777722B2
A system and method is provided for selecting a light source in a pointing device such as a mouse. The selection of the light source may be based on attributes of a received image, which are in turn based on reflected light received at the pointing device from the tracking surface. Because the attributes of the receive image are related to characteristics of the tracking surface over which the pointing device is moved, an illumination source appropriate for a particular surface type can be chosen.
US07777720B2
An input system for a computer includes a first input device, such as a mouse or a tablet, and a second input device differing from the first input device. The first input device specifies a position on a display screen, which is connected to a computer for executing an application program and for displaying a processing object area of the application program on the display screen. An instruction set instructs a change in a display state of the processing object area on the display screen in response to an operation of the second input device. The first input device is operated with the operator's favored hand, while the second input device is operated with the operator's non-favored hand. Therefore, both hands are effectively used to improve operation efficiency.
US07777719B2
A system for enabling communication between a portable computing device and a stationary computer. A user may wear the portable computing device while simultaneously using a pointing device coupled to the stationary computing device. The pointing device may be, for example, a mouse coupled to the computer via a wired USB connection and operated on top of a mouse pad. The mouse may further include at least two electrodes. A first electrode may couple to the user's hand while moving the mouse on the mouse pad. The second electrode may be coupled to the mouse pad, which may include a conductive surface that contacts with the second electrode. These electrodes couple electronically to electrodes in the portable computing device, forming a bidirectional link for exchanging information between the two devices.
US07777715B2
A display array which can reduce the row connections between the display and the driver circuit and methods of manufacturing and operating the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a display device comprises an array of MEMS display elements and a plurality of voltage dividers coupled to the array and configured to provide row output voltages to drive the array, wherein each row is connected to at least two inputs joined by a voltage divider.
US07777713B2
A display device is provided with a display panel, a data line driving circuitry, and a scan line driving circuitry. The display panel includes: a plurality of data lines extending in a column direction; a plurality of scan lines extending in a row direction; a plurality of pixels disposed at respective intersections of the plurality of data lines and the plurality of scan lines, and a dummy data line arranged in parallel to the plurality of data lines. The data line driving circuitry drives the plurality of data lines and the dummy data line. The scan line driving circuitry drives the plurality of scan lines. The data line driving circuitry feeds a dummy signal to the scan line driving circuitry through the dummy data line. The scan line driving circuitry drives the scan lines in response to the dummy signal.
US07777699B2
A light emitting apparatus and a method of displaying an image therewith is disclosed. The light emitting apparatus includes a spine and a rib. The rib is attached to the spine and includes a plurality of alternating nodes and connection links. At least one of the connection links is thinner in cross-section than at least one of the nodes. The light emitting apparatus then further includes a connector to attach multiple light emitting apparatuses together. The light emitting apparatus further includes a plurality of pixels, in which the pixels are configured to receive a data signal and power.
US07777697B2
An electron emission display and a driving method thereof, where a brightness is adjusted differently according to a brightness of a frame in order to reduce power consumption and prevent a brazing fire from occurring, and to easily recognize a change of the brightness. The display includes a pixel portion adapted to receive a data signal and a scan signal, the pixel portion being further adapted to display an image, a data driver adapted to generate the data signal using video data, the data driver being further adapted to transfer the data signal to the pixel portion, a scan driver adapted to transfer the scan signal to the pixel portion, a timing controller adapted to transfer a drive signal to the data driver and to the scan driver, the drive signal driving the data driver and the scan driver, a data processor adapted to generate a control signal corresponding to frame data obtained by summing a size of video data input during one frame and a power supply section adapted to generate a drive power source and transfer the drive power source to the pixel portion, the data driver, the scan driver, the timing controller, and the data processor, wherein a brightness of the pixel portion is varied according to the control signal, and an amount varied of the brightness is determined based upon the size of the video data during the one frame.
US07777687B2
A main object of the present invention is to reliably perform radio communication in an electronic device containing case without spoiling an aesthetic aspect thereof. In order to achieve the object, an electromagnetic shield body is provided on a wall surface of the case for containing an electronic device capable of the radio communication.
US07777685B2
An antenna is provided for operating within the electrically small antenna regime (i.e., ka≅0.5), and having bandwidth performance quite close to fundamental limits. The antenna of the invention, in various embodiments, is based upon spherical resonator structures that are characterized by a performance factor (Q/Qchu,) close to 1.5. The antenna combines a resonator structure determined according to the method of the invention with an appropriate transmission line feeding arrangement, such that the resonator effectively couples the transmission line mode to the radiating spherical harmonic mode in an impedance-matched manner.
US07777682B2
According to an embodiment, a plane circular polarization antenna comprises a flat insulating substrate and a conductor provided on the flat insulating substrate. The conductor comprises an inverted F antenna including a feeding point, a ground portion, the ground portion including a slot antenna including a slot, and a short-circuiting portion provided in a part of an area between the inverted F antenna and the slot antenna.
US07777680B2
In an antenna device of a wristwatch, a pair of external magnetic members each attached to a respective one of both ends of a magnetic core effectively collects the magnetic flux of a standard time and frequency signal. The collected magnetic flux passes through the core around which a coil is wound, thereby inducing an electromotive force and hence improving the reception accuracy of the signal. The pair of external magnetic members screens out undesirable external magnetism which would otherwise influence motors that drive a hand shaft and hands, thereby achieving accurate hand driving and improving the high watch accuracy.
US07777679B2
A mobile terminal is disclosed. The mobile terminal includes a first body including a display for displaying information, and a second body including a receiving part for receiving the first body. The receiving part has a part of the surface cut out to enable the display to display information while the first body is at least partially received by the second body.
US07777674B1
A mobile distributed antenna array can include a plurality of mobile platforms, each platform having at least one antenna element and radio equipment coupled to the at least one antenna element. The radio equipment can be capable of transmission, reception, or both of propagated radio signals. A control platform can be capable of communication with the mobile platforms to control movement of the mobile platforms to position the mobile platforms relative to each other to provide a desired array pattern.
US07777672B2
The invention relates to a radar system which comprises: (a) at least two transmitting units for simultaneously, and in synchronization transmitting electromagnetic radiation in distinct frequencies f1, f2, f3 . . . towards a space of interest; and (b) at least one receiving unit tuned to a frequency of nf1+mf2+qf3 . . . , wherein n, m, q . . . being integers not equal to zero, for receiving a non-linear response of said radiation from objects located within the said space of interest, and wherein the system is characterized in that said transmitted pulses are narrow pulses having duration in the range of between about 1 nanoseconds and about 100 nanoseconds.
US07777656B2
Implementations and embodiments of decoders, encoder/decoder systems and converters are depicted and described.
US07777654B2
A system is disclosed for context-based adaptive binary arithmetic encoding and decoding. The system comprises a calculating device configured to calculate an index value for one of a first bin to be encoded and a second bin to be decoded, a memory device to store context models in cluster, wherein the index value for one of the first bin and the second bin is related to one of the context models, and a binary arithmetic unit configured to serve as one of an encoder for encoding the first bin based on the one context model and a decoder for decoding the second bin based on the one context model.
US07777651B2
The transmission of broadcast data, such as financial data and news feeds, is accelerated over a communication channel using data compression and decompression to provide secure transmission and transparent multiplication of communication bandwidth, as well as reduce latency. Broadcast data may include packets having fields. Encoders associated with particular fields may be selected to compress those particular fields.
US07777649B2
A hand held device for generating commands and transferring data between the hand-held device and a base device (including consumer electronic equipment). The hand-held device detects the motion of the device itself, interpreting the motion as a command, and executing or transferring the command. The motion of the device can include gestures made by the user while holding the device, such as the motion of throwing the hand-held device toward a base device. The commands generated by the user range from basic on/off commands to complex processes, such as the transfer of data. In one embodiment, the user can train the device to learn new motions associated with existing or new commands. The hand-held device analyzes the basic components of the motion to create a motion model such that the motion can be uniquely identified in the future.
US07777647B2
The field of the invention is that of the display in map form of an operating zone of an aircraft on a screen, and more particularly a method of processing topographic data of this operating zone of an aircraft in real time, based on a calculation of radials (R) centred on a reference point (O) defining an angular segment of topographic data. According to the invention, the method includes a subdivision of the operating zone to be mapped into a plurality of angular segment sections, each forming an individual zone (3), and an assignment of a processing priority and a refresh frequency specific to each individual zone defined according to a criterion of operational interest of the element to the aircraft.
US07777638B2
The inventive device comprises telecommunications transceiver interacting with a network for data exchange and a user interface interacting with the telecommunications transceiver for displaying information extracted from received data, wherein telecommunications transceiver is arranged for receiving meteorological data from which a display for the user interface is extracted. Telecommunications transceiver is connected for spontaneously interacting with a station for defining a geographic area and for accessing, in a substantially uniform manner, to a data set containing forecast pluvial/duration pairs which are valid for the geographic area for consecutive periods, the data set being dated by a time marker. The user interface is provided with a range of ordinate display segments, each of which is provided with several display states. The device also comprises a pilot for reacting to the reception of a data set by selectively updating the state of at least certain display segments according to the forecast pluvial/duration pair(s) contained in received data and to the relation between the time marker of the set and the temporal reference of the segments.
US07777637B2
A method for setting a safety threshold that triggers the sending, by an acceleration or movement sensor device (20), of a safety signal that causes a safety movement of a motorized screen (11) used as a closure or as a sunshade or for privacy, said method comprising the following steps: manual shaking of the screen, recording of a signal produced by a sensor means (33) during the manual shaking step, and determination of the safety threshold from this recording.
US07777634B2
A scattered light smoke detector containing an optoelectronical assembly for measuring scatter signals detected below at least one forward scatter angle and at least one backscatter angle and evaluation electronics for determining an alarm value in accordance with the difference between the scatter signals. Smoke signals are produced from the scatter signals by means of a pre-processing step and a measured value is obtained from the smoke signals. The measured value is formed by a linear linking of the sum of the smoke signals to the difference between the smoke signals BW, FW or by establishing the value for the difference between the smoke signals. The linear linking is calculated according to the formula k1(BW+FW)+k2(BW−FW), in which BW and FW are smoke signals and k1 and k2 represent two constants that are influenced among others by an application factor that is dependent on the environmental conditions in the installation location of the detector.
US07777625B1
Weighted surface acoustic wave reflector gratings for coding identification tags and sensors to enable unique sensor operation and identification for a multi-sensor environment. In an embodiment, the weighted reflectors are variable while in another embodiment the reflector gratings are apodized. The weighting technique allows the designer to decrease reflectively and allows for more chips to be implemented in a device and, consequently, more coding diversity. As a result, more tags and sensors can be implemented using a given bandwidth when compared with uniform reflectors. Use of weighted reflector gratings with OFC makes various phase shifting schemes possible, such as in-phase and quadrature implementations of coded waveforms resulting in reduced device size and increased coding.
US07777601B2
A movable contacting device in a circuit breaker comprises: a crossbar linked with the opening/closing mechanism and carried so as to pivot cooperatively with the opening/closing mechanism; a movable contact arm engaged, so as to cooperational with the crossbar, with a shaft fitted into a mutually opposing recesses in the crossbar; and a movable contact arm support fixed to the case accomodating the opening/closing mechanism and having mutually opposing through-holes through which the shaft is passed; and the movable contact being configured so that the movable contact slides between surfaces of movable contact arm support having the mutually opposing through-holes; and the construction of a single-pole portion of the movable contact arm is constituted by arranging in parallel two movable contact arm members each having a movable contact at one end, and in a shaft-supporting portion at the other end, an elastic member is sandwiched between the two movable contact arm members. With this arrangement, circuit breakers provided with a movable contacting device that is small in size and stable in contact resistance can be made available.
US07777598B2
A combline filter has a ceramic resonator disposed inside at least one cavity wall. Because the resonator is implemented as a hollow rod, a tuning element may be inserted into an opening on the top of the rod to tune its frequency. A mounting element, inserted into an opening on the bottom of the rod secures its position inside a cavity resonator. Instead of soldering the resonator to the filter's walls, the resonator is supported above a bottom or side wall of the cavity resonator.
US07777591B2
Systems and methods for a coupling device are shown. In various embodiments, a variable frequency divider comprises a first transmission line and a second transmission line. The first transmission line may comprise a first and a second end. The first end may comprise a first terminal and the second end may comprise a first branch and a second branch. The first transmission line may be configured to receive a first signal at a first frequency at the first terminal and divide the first signal to output the divided first signal at the first branch and the second branch. The second transmission line may be proximate the first transmission line and configured to receive a second signal at a second frequency to control the frequencies of the output divided first signal at the first branch and the second branch through electromagnetic influence between the first transmission line and the second transmission line.
US07777587B2
The rising edge of a pulse width modulated output signal occurs after an input ramp signal starts to rise. The ramp signal starts to rise after the rising edge of a periodic set signal and before the falling edge of a periodic set signal. A feedback control signal intersects a substantially linear region of the ramp signal to generate a reset signal using a PWM comparator. The periodic set signal and reset signal are input to a latching circuit to generate the pulse width modulated output signal. The minimum pulse width can approach zero while having adequate overdrive to the PWM comparator. Having the rising edge of the reset signal rise before the falling edge of the set signal can allow a zero percent duty cycle without the need for a ramp offset voltage.
US07777576B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides a phase locked loop that operates on clock signals derived from an RF clock signal generated by the phase locked loop. A frequency reference input provides a reference clock. A controllable oscillator generates the RF clock signal. A phase detection circuit operates on the reference clock to provide digital phase error samples indicative of a phase difference between the reference clock and the RF clock. A programmable filter is connected to receive the phase error samples and connected to provide a filtered output having a gain and a phase margin to the controllable oscillator. The programmable filter includes a proportional loop gain control having a programmable loop gain coefficient (alpha—α) and an integral loop gain control having a programmable loop gain coefficient (rho—ρ). Alpha and rho are configured to be programmatically changed simultaneously and are selected such that the gain is changed and the phase margin remains substantially unchanged.
US07777574B1
To reduce pop or click during turn-on, a method and apparatus are provided. Initially, a plurality of current sources in the amplifier is actuated. The amplifier is transitioned from an off-state to an on-state in a class B amplifier mode by de-coupling each input node of an output stage of the amplifier from a voltage rail, and the amplifier is transitioned from the on-state in the class B amplifier mode to an on-state in a class AB amplifier mode by actuating at least a portion of an intermediate circuit in the amplifier.
US07777573B2
An operational amplifier includes an amplifying circuit and a bais current generating circuit. The bias current generating circuit generates a bias current to the amplifying circuit. The amplifying circuit comprises a current adjusting unit and a current mirror. The current adjusting circuit has a storage element, receives a reference current and generating a passing current. The passing current is gradually adjusted utilizing the storage element according to a control signal. The current mirror receives the passing current to generate the bias current.
US07777569B2
A method for actuating an amplifier to generally eliminate a pop is provided. Accordingly, a plurality of current sources is actuated in an input stage, and a plurality of bias voltages are applied to the input stage. After a predetermined period after the step of applying a plurality of bias voltages to the input stage and the step of actuating a plurality of current sources in an input stage, a control circuit is actuated, and a transistor within a control amplifier stage is turned on at a predetermined rate.
US07777568B2
A folded cascode receiver amplifier with constant gain has inputs coupled to PMOS and NMOS differential transistors pairs with scaled geometries. The transconductance of both PMOS and NMOS transistors is the same whether the common mode input voltage is low or high. In a first version the transconductance of both PMOS and NMOS differential transistor pairs is reduced when the common mode input voltage is at mid-rail. Resistive means between current sources and the sources of the PMOS and NMOS transistor pairs force the current source transistors into the triode region of operation. A second version insures a constant voltage gain through control means which maintain a constant ratio of the transconductance of the output stage transistors versus the PMOS and NMOS differential transistor pairs when active.
US07777561B2
An apparatus comprising an input current source device, a first transistor, a second transistor and a level shifter device. The input current source device may provide a input current source. The first transistor may be configured to operate in saturation for mirroring the input current source to an output current source. The first transistor may have (i) a source node connected to a supply, and (ii) a drain connected to the input current source. The second transistor may also be configured to operate in saturation. The second transistor may have (i) a gate connected to a gate of the first transistor, (ii) a source connected to the supply, and (iii) a drain configured as an output current node. The level shifter device may comprise a third transistor, a first bias current source and a second bias current source.
US07777553B2
An embodiment of the invention relates to a switching system that includes a depletion-mode semiconductor device, such as a silicon carbide device, coupled in series with an enhancement-mode semiconductor device, such as a silicon field effect transistor, so that a controller can be configured to disable conductivity of the series arrangement of the two switches during a transient operating condition. During normal high-frequency switching operation, the controller persistently enables the enhancement-mode device to conduct while intermittently enabling the depletion-mode device to conduct. The controller disables the enhancement-mode device to conduct during a transient operating condition such as start up or during a fault, thereby providing circuit protection during such transients. The switching system preserves low loss switching characteristics of the depletion-mode device in a high-frequency switching circuit.
US07777551B2
Disclosed is a multiplier circuit including first and second squaring circuits comprising first and second differential MOS transistors respectively connected in cascode to first and second diode-connected MOS transistors. The first squaring circuit receives a differential sum voltage of a first input voltage and a second input voltage. The second squaring circuit receives a differential subtraction voltage of the first input voltage and the second input voltage. Outputs of the first and second squaring circuits are first and second terminal voltages of the first and second diode-connected MOS transistors. A differential voltage between the first and second terminal voltages corresponds to the product of the first and second input voltages.
US07777550B1
A circuit receives an input signal characterized by a first pair of rail voltages and generates in response thereto an output signal characterized by a second pair of rail voltages. The circuit comprises first and second transistors coupled in series between a high reference voltage and a low reference voltage. The input signal drives a control lead of the second transistor. The logical inverse of the input signal drives a control lead of a third transistor, which couples a charge source to the control lead of the first transistor in response thereto in order to turn off the first transistor. The charge source can be either a voltage source or a charged capacitive node. Of importance, the third transistor does not have to overcome contention with other transistors to turn off said first transistor.
US07777541B1
A charge pump circuit can include a pump-up circuit having a first disable switch coupled between a pump-up output node and a first power supply node that is enabled and then disabled in response to a source current path between the pump-up node and a second power supply node being disabled, and a source off switch coupled in series with the first disable switch that is enabled in response to the source current path being disabled. The charge pump circuit can also include a pump-down circuit having a second disable switch coupled between a pump-down output node and the second power supply node that is enabled and then disabled in response to a sink current path between the pump-down node and a first power supply node being disabled. A sink off switch can be coupled in series with the second disable switch that is enabled in response to the sink current path being disabled.
US07777539B2
A delay adjusting circuit including a delay part in which delay elements of n+1 (n≧2) stages are connected to each other in series, a first phase comparator for detecting whether a first edge that is a transition edge of a signal of an n−1-th stage of the delay part from a first logic level to a second logic level advances from a first reference signal edge that is a transition edge of a first reference signal from the first logic level to the second logic level, a second phase comparator for detecting whether a second edge that is a transition edge of a signal of an n+1-th stage of the delay part from the first logic level to the second logic level delays from the first reference signal edge, and a delay element adjusting part that corrects a second reference signal so that the first edge advances from the first reference signal edge in the first phase comparator and the second edge delays from the first reference signal edge in the second phase comparator, and that outputs a reference bias signal for adjusting delay times of the delay elements of the delay part.
US07777533B2
The present invention provides a semiconductor device includes arms formed by two semiconductor elements, a map memory device which stores therein a correlation map between a control value for each of the arms and an optimized dead time to be set for the control value or is capable of storing the same therein, drive control value acquiring means for acquiring a drive control value of each of the arms, and a dead time generating circuit for extracting the optimized dead time corresponding to the drive control value from the correlation map. The time taken until the other of the semiconductor elements is turned on after one thereof has received a command to turn off the same is the optimized dead time extracted by the dead time generating circuit.
US07777529B1
A dynamic flip-flop includes a leakage compensation circuit enabling operation over a wide range of frequencies. Nodes of the dynamic flip-flop store the flip-flop's state. The leakage compensation circuit drains leakage currents from these nodes to prevent the node voltage from rising and triggering an erroneous state change when a data signal changes in the middle of the clock cycle. The leakage compensation circuit associated with a node is activated when the node is set to a low logic level voltage. The leakage compensation circuit is adapted to draw a current from a node that compensates for the leakage current supplied to the node. At the least, this current draw is sufficient to prevent the voltage at the node from rising above a state change threshold voltage during the time period between refresh operations.
US07777528B1
A phase detection module includes a phase detection unit, a plurality of comparators and a decision unit. The phase detection unit is utilized for comparing a first input signal and a second signal to generate a phase detection result. The plurality of comparators is utilized for comparing the phase detection result with a plurality of predetermined voltages to generate a plurality of comparing results, respectively. The decision unit is utilized for deciding a phase relationship between the first and second input signals according to the plurality of comparing results.
US07777525B2
An input buffer for an Ultradeep Sub Micron (UDSM) process which allows the UDSM process to interface with a 3V input. The input voltage is applied to a degenerated transistor which forms part of the input buffer. The input buffer effectively drops the input voltage to a voltage suitable for use by the core of the UDSM process.
US07777523B1
A flip-flop or other state circuit that includes level-shifting functionality. In connection with a flip-flop, embodiments include an inverter circuit element that has a data input line as its input and a data complement line as its output. The inverter resides in voltage domain that is lower than the voltage domain associated with remainder of the flip-flop.
US07777518B2
A buffer circuit is provided between a gate terminal of a pull-down transistor and a threshold circuit receiving a gate signal as an input signal. A voltage applied to an output terminal of a power semiconductor element from an external battery power supply is supplied to the buffer circuit through a resistive element. The buffer circuit converts the level of an on-signal output from the threshold circuit into a voltage higher than the threshold of the pull-down transistor, so that the pull-down transistor operates surely to turn off the power semiconductor element even when the level of the gate signal is low. Thus, there is provided a semiconductor integrated circuit device having a power semiconductor element which can be turned off by sure operation of a pull-down semiconductor element.
US07777513B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a first chip, a second chip to transmit and receive data to and from the first chip, and a through circuit provided in the first chip to transfer a clock signal and a test signal to the second chip. The clock signal and the test signal is inputted from an external device. The through circuit adjusts timing relation between the clock signal and the test signal based on a timing adjust signal. The timing adjust signal is inputted from the external device.
US07777508B2
An electrical test lead for use with a multi-meter has a fuse assembly adapted to releasably hold a fuse in-line of the electrical wire connecting ends of the electrical test lead. The fuse assembly may be permanently attached to the electrical test leads or may be releasably attached at one or both ends thereof to electrical test lead sections. The fuse assembly includes a fuse holder that is preferably clear to see the replaceable fuse therein in order to determine whether the fuse has blown. The electrical test lead has a fuse assembly holding a replaceable fuse electrically connected to and situated between a first test lead section terminating in a test lead plug that is adapted to be received in a test lead receptacle of a multi-meter and a second test lead section terminating in one of an electrical test probe and a test lead receptor adapted to receive a test lead tool.
US07777507B2
A diagnostic tool for testing an integrated circuit device directs a beam of laser energy to stimulate at least a portion of the device. In one mode, electromagnetic waves from said device may be detected at the same time in response to the stimulation. A processor collects image data and determines as a function of the collected image data whether the device has a defect. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07777506B2
A high-voltage generator of an X-ray apparatus comprises a high-voltage measurement device. The measurement device comprises a compact component comprising both the measurement resistor and a film capacitor used both to protect said resistor and eliminate the parasitic effects induced by parasitic capacitances of the generator. The film capacitor is made in insulating films by a sequence of metalized strips and insulating strips. The films are positioned relative to one another in such a way that the film capacitor is formed by series-mounted discrete capacitors. To this end, between two successive films, the width of the bottom strips of the film crosses two metalized strips of the top film.
US07777486B2
A method for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is provided. A magnetic resonance excitation is provided. A plurality of k-space echoes is acquired bi-directionally wherein at least one echo is an even echo acquired in a first direction and at least one echo is an odd echo acquired in a second direction opposite from the first direction. K-space echo realignment is corrected between the even and odd echoes. Field inhomogeneity induced artifacts are corrected. Chemical shift induced artifacts between at least two species are corrected.
US07777484B2
A method of magnetic resonance is provided that uses a frequency swept excitation wherein the acquired signal is a time domain signal is provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises, applying a sweeping frequency excitation and acquiring a time domain signal. The sweeping frequency excitation has a duration and is configured to sequentially excite isochromats having different resonant frequencies. Acquisition of the time domain signal is done during the duration of the sweeping frequency excitation. The time domain signal is based on evolution of the isochromats.
US07777483B2
A method and apparatus are provided for measuring the thickness of a test object. The apparatus includes an eddy current sensor having first and second sensor heads. The sensor heads are positioned to have a predetermined gap therebetween for passage by at least a portion of the test object through the gap. The sensor heads make measurements at given sampling locations on the test object as the test object is moved through the gap. The apparatus also includes a position sensing mechanism to determine positions of the sampling locations on the test object. The apparatus also includes an evaluation circuit in communication with the eddy current sensor and to the position sensing mechanism for determining the thickness of the test object at the sampling locations.
US07777482B2
A joining element is proposed which, for force measurement, senses a relative motion between a magnet system and a magnet sensor apparatus. The magnet system is disposed with respect to the magnet sensor apparatus in such a way that a component of the magnetic field perpendicular to the relative motion is linearized.
US07777480B2
An antenna orientation sensor, having a base, a pivoting support coupled to the base. An actuator operable to move the pivoting support through a calibration movement with respect to the base. A magnetic sensor on the pivoting support and a position sensor operable to sense the position of the pivoting support within the calibration movement.
US07777470B2
A system and method for controlling a conversion frequency of a hysteretic mode voltage converter. A digital control loop comprises a timing measure unit having a first input coupled to a reference clock and a second input coupled to a clock based on a switching of the switching of the converter, and an on time adjust unit coupled to the timing measure unit. The timing measure unit counts a number of clock ticks of a clock signal provided by the clock occurring during a period of time specified by a number of clock ticks of a reference clock signal provided by the reference clock. The on time adjust unit adjusts an on time control signal based on the count of the number of clock ticks of the clock signal to alter a frequency of the switching.
US07777456B2
Electric storage device is provided which is capable of smoothly charging storage elements and reliably detecting an overvoltage of each of the storage elements. Electric storage device includes charging/discharging limiting circuit. Charging/discharging limiting circuit includes charge element, discharge, control unit, charging current detection unit, voltage detection unit, valuable reference voltage source, and voltage comparison unit. A magnitude of valuable reference voltage source that is connected to an input terminal on a first side of voltage comparison unit is adjusted by charging current detection unit. Detection signal from the voltage detection unit is given to an input terminal on a second side of voltage comparison unit.
US07777452B2
A drop of discharge or charge capacity in discharging or charging with a large current is reduced without changing a design of a lithium ion secondary battery itself. When the lithium ion secondary battery for a car or a vehicles such as an electric automobile and a hybrid automobile is discharged or charged with, for instance, a large current not less than 5C, an intermittent power feeding of repeatedly executing a power feeding (t2) and a pause (t1) is carried out.
US07777449B2
A portable electrochemical power supply for handheld electronic devices, such as cellular telephones, is disclosed. The power supply includes a housing with an electrical connector, a circuit board, and a removable electrochemical cell disposed therein. The circuit board carries power supply circuitry which receives electrical energy from the electrochemical cell and provides a power supply output for powering an external device.
US07777441B2
A motor controlling method according to the present invention involves causing rotation of a motor to commence by applying an initial power that can cause movement of an object to be transported to commence, to the motor; obtaining a position of the object to be transported after the motor has been controlled so as to cause the object to be transported to move to a target position based on a signal outputted in response to the rotation of the motor; and correcting an initial power to be used when movement of the object to be transported is caused to commence a next time in response to a difference between the target position and the obtained position of the object to be transported.
US07777437B2
The present invention inexpensively controls a turn-on and turn-off switching speed for MOS transistors made in accordance with various specifications. According to the present invention, during an output voltage rise period for a turn-on operation of the MOS transistor, a fixed current determined by a first clip circuit and a resistor is input to a gate terminal of the MOS transistor to obtain a linear rise slew rate. During an output voltage drop period for a turn-off operation of the MOS transistor, a fixed current determined by a second clip circuit 38 and a resistor is input to the gate terminal of the MOS transistor to obtain a linear drop slew rate.
US07777428B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for controlling driving of a lamp. The apparatus for controlling driving of a lamp includes a plurality of lamps, a switching module for switching supplied power to output an alternating current (AC) signal, a trans-module for converting the alternating signal into high-voltage signals having different phases to supply the high-voltage signals to the lamps, an open lamp detecting module for adding low-voltage signals having different phases feedback from the trans-module to detect open states of the lamps, and a controller for controlling an operation of the switching module by a signal detected in the open lamp detecting module.
US07777426B2
Circuit arrangement for controlling a pulsed power supply having improved dynamics compared with conventional “current mode” controllers. According to the invention, the gate signal of a switch (S1) is integrated. As soon as this integral value exceeds the output signal of a control amplifier (CCL), the switch (S1) is switched off again. The circuit arrangement is highly suitable for economically apportioning analog switching elements and functions which are implemented by a microcontroller (uC).
US07777411B2
A light-emitting device includes a substrate, pixel electrodes provided on the substrate, a negative electrode facing the pixel electrodes, and a hole injection layer and a luminescent layer that are provided between the pixel electrodes and the negative electrode so as to be laminated, from the substrate side, in that order, wherein an insulating layer having liquid repellency for a hole injection layer-forming material is provided between the adjacent pixel electrodes so as to separate the pixel electrodes from each other and to overlap with the peripheries of the pixel electrodes in plain view, the hole injection layer is provided on the pixel electrodes separated by the insulating layer, and the level of the top surface of the hole injection layer is substantially the same as the level of the top surface of the insulating layer provided on the peripheries of the pixel electrodes.
US07777410B2
An organic electroluminescence structure comprises a first substrate, an organic electroluminescence device, and a control device. Forming either a lifting layer under the control device or a recess under the organic electroluminescence device, or forming both of them, creates a difference between their tops, in order to reduce the dark spots and promote the yield of the end product. The lifting layer preferably has a thickness greater than about 0.5 micro meters and the recess has a depth ranges of about 0.1 micro meters to about 100 micro meters. Alternatively, the height difference between the upper surfaces of the control device and the organic electroluminescence device is controlled to be greater than about 2 micro meters or substantially equal to 2 micro meters.
US07777399B2
An expandable medical balloon having at least one static state, at least one expanded state, and at least one deflated state, the expandable medical balloon including at least one active region, the at least one active region including electroactive polymer.
US07777396B2
A device including: a housing; a powered element disposed on or in the housing; and an impact power producing element housed on or in the housing and operatively connected to the powered element, the impact power producing element producing power upon an impact of at least a portion of the housing with another surface.
US07777390B2
A short-circuit member assembly for short-circuiting a plurality of segments arranged in a circumferential direction is disclosed. The short-circuit member assembly includes first and second short-circuit member groups that are superimposed with each other. The first short-circuit member group includes m first terminals, which are superimposed and joined with m first terminals included in the second short-circuit member group to form m first-terminal joint portions. The m first-terminal joint portions and the remaining first terminals in the short-circuit member groups are arranged in the circumferential direction and connected to the segments. All of the second terminals in the first short-circuit member group are superimposed and joined with all of the second terminals included in the second short-circuit member group.
US07777387B2
A laminated core (10) and a method for manufacturing the same formed with multiple continuous segment core pieces (13) wound in a spiral form by bending connecting portions (12) mutually connecting the segment core pieces (13), the connecting portions (12) being formed in an outer peripheral area (11), while the connecting portions (12) of vertically adjacent layers being displaced in a circumferential direction with inner edges or outer edges of the segment core pieces (13) fitted, the laminated core comprising: a concave cutout (21) provided in a radial exterior of each connecting portion (12) to dispose a radially expanded portion (20) within an outer circle of the laminated core (10), the radially expanded portion (20) being formed with each connecting portion (12) expanding radially outward at the time of bending each connecting portion (12); an interior cutout (22) provided in a radial interior of each connecting portion (12) to define a bending position of each connecting portion (12); and a receptacle (16) provided in a radial exterior of each segment core piece (13) to receive an expanded part (15) formed in the thickness direction at the time of bending each connecting portion (12).
US07777380B2
An electric motor has a wound rotor having a shaft, a rotor core, a commutator and windings wound about the rotor core and connected to the commutator. The motor has a stator confronting the rotor; brush gear electrically connecting the commutator to motor terminals; first and second bearings for rotatably supporting the rotor, and an oil collector fitted to the shaft between the commutator and the first bearing for preventing oil migrating along the shaft from the first bearing reaching the commutator. The oil collector is of high temperature material, preferably a metal such as brass, aluminum and steel. The oil collector returns the collected oil to the first bearing.
US07777374B2
The invention relates to an electric appliance (1) which comprises a machine module (2) provided with an electric machine (3) comprising a stator (4) and a rotor. A machine housing (7) of the machine module (2) receives the electric machine (3). A cooling module (19) comprises a cooling housing (21), which is fluidically connected to the machine housing (7) by means of a first cooling fluid connection area (20) in a housing wall (17) of the machine housing (7) and to at least one second cooling fluid connection area (23) in the housing wall (17) of the machine housing (7). The inside of the machine housing (7) can be fluidically connected to the inside of the cooling housing (21) in one section of the housing wall (17), which is oriented towards the cooling housing (21), by means of at least one third cooling fluid connection area (25) comprising at least one cooling fluid through-opening (26). Various cooling module variants can use said third cooling fluid connection area (25) when other cooling module variants, which can be used in exchange with the cooling module (19) in the machine module (2), do not use the third cooling fluid connection area (25). As a result, an electric appliance (1), a machine module (2) therefore and a set comprising a plurality of different cooling modules, which can meet altered cooling requirements having reduced structural and constructural costs, can be produced.
US07777371B2
The conventional linear drive apparatus has the problem that in constructing a linear motor of a multiphase structure by connecting a plurality of armature units, the length of the armature becomes longer in proportion to the number of the phases, thus limiting the locations where the apparatus can be installed. The problem is solved by a linear drive apparatus comprising a plurality of armature units 3 formed by a magnetic material on which a conductor coil 4 is disposed, and an armature comprising an arrangement of the armature units 3. The armature units 3 comprise a plurality of opposing portions having opposing magnetic pole teeth. The magnetic pole teeth of adjacent opposing portions are arranged in an interdigitated manner. A secondary member 6 is disposed between magnetic pole teeth of the opposing portions. The armature units 3 comprise the coil 4 arranged on opposite sides thereof in an alternating manner.
US07777368B2
Various systems and methods for providing a pulse width modulation soft start feature in a redundant power supply are disclosed. One method involves comparing an input voltage, which is received from a load unit, to a threshold voltage. If the input voltage is less than the threshold voltage, a PWM signal is used to control a switch, which is configured to electrically couple a redundant power supply to the load unit when closed. The duty cycle of the PWM signal is then modified according to a predetermined sequence.
US07777366B2
A load control system and apparatus to control the load to different elements is disclosed. The load control system is attached to both an air conditioner and a pool filter system. The pool filter system has a predetermined run time and is only operating when the air conditioner is not. When the air conditioner turns on, the load to the pool filter system is disconnected. When the air conditioner turns off, the load is returned to the pool filter which resumes running at the point in the run time where the pool filter had previously left off. The load control system provides a more efficient and better use of energy resources.
US07777362B2
When planning and setting up wind power installations, the visual detractions to be expected on the part of the wind power installation on the environment play an increasingly important part in approval and acceptance. The shadow casting caused by the wind power installation on the adjoining properties is often perceived by the residents as being very troublesome. A wind power installation is provided by means of which shadow casting regulation is improved. That is achieved by a method of operating a wind power installation wherein a first light intensity is detected in a region of direct light irradiation and a second light intensity is detected in a shadowed region, and wherein the wind power installation is shut down if the difference between the first light intensity and the second light intensity is greater than a predetermined value.
US07777361B2
A turbine ventilator includes a housing having a hub, a tube having a lower segment secured to the hub, a seat disposed on an upper portion of the tube, an electric generator disposed on the seat and having a rotor and an extension secured to the rotor and extended out of the generator, a carrier rotatably attached to the tube, and a number of blades each having a lower portion secured to the carrier and an upper portion secured to the extension of the rotor for rotating the extension of the rotor relative to the generator in order to generate an electric energy. The extension of the rotor includes a relatively shorter length for allowing the rotor to be effectively rotated relative to the generator by the blades.
US07777360B2
A windmill-type electric generation system including four rotary blade units (10, 12, 14, 16) mounted on opposite ends of corresponding rotary shafts in pairs, a first power transmission mechanism for transmitting the rotating movement of the blade units (12, 14) to an armature (110) of an electric generator (100), a second power transmission mechanism for transmitting the rotating movement of the blade units (10, 16) to a magnetic pole (120) of the electric generator (100), and the electric generator (100) for generating electricity through the rotation of the armature (110) and the magnetic pole (120) in the opposite directions, which is accomplished by the rotating movement of the blade units (10, 12, 14, 16) transmitted to the armature (110) and the magnetic pole (120) by the power transmission mechanisms.
US07777357B2
An engine includes a cylinder having two ends, a piston slidably disposed in the cylinder and a converter operable with the piston to convert mechanical energy of the piston from and to electrical energy.
US07777350B2
A semiconductor stack package includes a first printed wiring board; a plurality of semiconductor chips stacked on the first printed wiring board, wherein among the semiconductor chips, the uppermost semiconductor chip has an electrode pad for providing power supply, a ground pad for providing grounding, and a signal pad for signal transmission in a center area on the upper surface of the chip; connection lands formed on the first printed wiring board on the outside of the stacked semiconductor chips; a wiring extension part which is formed on the uppermost semiconductor chip, and has wiring circuits extending from the center to the periphery thereof, wherein at least one of the electrode pad and the ground pad is electrically connected to one end of one of the wiring circuits; and a wire for connecting the other end of the relevant wiring circuit of the wiring extension part and one of the connection lands on the first printed wiring board.
US07777349B2
A plurality of quadrilateral-shaped semiconductor elements are stacked on the one surface of a circuit substrate. A side surface wiring for making electrical connection between each of the electrode terminals of the semiconductor elements and a pad formed on the circuit substrate is formed by applying a conductive paste containing conductive particles. A metal wire whose one end is connected to the electrode terminal is extended along a tapered surface formed by cutting off an edge of the electrode terminal surface on which the electrode terminal is formed among edges formed along each of the sides of the semiconductor element. At least a part of the metal wire extended from each of the electrode terminals of the semiconductor elements to the tapered surface is electrically connected to the side surface wiring.
US07777348B2
A semiconductor device comprises a package board, a first semiconductor chip which is rectangular in shape, has a plurality of first pads arranged along its short side and is placed on the package board, and a second semiconductor chip which is rectangular in shape, has a plurality of second pads arranged along its short side and is placed on the first semiconductor chip so that a vertex of the second semiconductor chip at which its long side and its short side along which no pads are arranged meet falls on a vertex of the first semiconductor chip at which its long side and its short side along which no pads are arranged, and the long sides of the first and second semiconductor chips intersect each other.
US07777342B2
Embodiments relate to a semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same. Embodiments may include forming a lower porous oxide layer on a semiconductor substrate having a conductive layer, forming a pyrolytic polymer layer on the lower porous oxide layer, forming an upper porous oxide layer on the pyrolytic polymer layer, forming a via hole by sequentially etching the upper porous oxide layer, the pyrolytic polymer layer, and the lower porous oxide layer, forming a trench having a width larger than a width of the via hole by sequentially etching the upper porous oxide layer and the pyrolytic polymer layer in such a manner that the trench is connected with the via hole, forming metal interconnections by filling the via hole and the trench with a metal thin film, and forming a vacuum between the upper and lower porous oxide layers by removing the pyrolytic polymer layer.
US07777340B2
The semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a semiconductor substrate, a first insulating layer laminated on the semiconductor substrate, a first metal wiring pattern embedded in a wire-forming region of the first insulating layer, a second insulating layer laminated on the first insulating layer, a second metal wiring pattern embedded in a wire-forming region of the second insulating layer and first dummy metal patterns embedded each in a wire-opposed region opposing to the wire-forming region of the second insulating layer and in a non-wire-opposed region opposing to a non-wire-forming region other than the wire-forming region of the second insulating layer, the wire-opposed region and the non-wire-opposed region each in a non-wire-forming region other than the wire-forming region of the first insulating layer.
US07777329B2
An apparatus is provided having an integrated circuit device disposed on a printed circuit board and a heat dissipation device on the integrated circuit device. An actuation screw in a spring plate is urged against a portion of the heat dissipation device by tightening the actuation screw. The actuation screw may be prevented from being tightened beyond a mechanical constraint corresponding to a pre-set calibration for the specific compressive force, which may be greater than or equal to a minimum compressive force corresponding to the greater of a minimum thermal interface pressure and a minimum contact interface pressure. Additionally, a method is provided in which the actuation screw is tightened, but prevented from being tightened beyond the mechanical constraint.
US07777317B2
The invention relates to a card for contactless data and/or energy transmission by means of external devices, containing a multilayer card body which has a substrate layer for accommodating an antenna coil having exposed coil connections on a top side of the substrate layer which are connected in an electrically conductive manner to connections for a chip module containing a chip, the chip being enclosed in a recess in the substrate layer; the windings of the antenna coil extend on the top side of the substrate layer, and a compensation layer extends on the top side of the substrate layer; the compensation layer has a chip module opening for placing the chip module on the substrate layer, and has a bridge opening for the contacting of connections of an antenna bridge which extends transverse to the windings.
US07777314B2
A package of the present invention has a laminate structure formed by laminating a plurality of ceramic layers, and has a mount surface to be a joint surface when mounted on a mother board, defined parallel with the laminating direction. A first ceramic layer has a recess with an L-shaped cross section across the mount surface and a side surface, defined at each end thereof in a direction perpendicular to the laminating direction, and an external electrode formed on each recess, the external electrode having a surface thereof exposed to the mount surface.
US07777307B2
A method for manufacturing a high-frequency signal transmission circuit includes the steps of forming a groove to surround a first region on a semiconductor substrate, filling the groove with a stopper material, forming a high-frequency transmission line on the semiconductor substrate so that the transmission line extends over the first region, and etching the first region of the semiconductor substrate using the stopper material as an etching stopper to form a recess in the first region.
US07777302B2
A method of modulating grain size in a polysilicon layer and devices fabricated with the method. The method includes forming the layer of polysilicon on a substrate; and performing an ion implantation of a polysilicon grain size modulating species into the polysilicon layer such that an average resultant grain size of the implanted polysilicon layer after performing a pre-determined anneal is higher or lower than an average resultant grain size than would be obtained after performing the same pre-determined anneal on the polysilicon layer without a polysilicon grain size modulating species ion implant.
US07777297B2
A fuse structure includes a non-planar fuse material layer typically located over and replicating a topographic feature within a substrate. The non-planar fuse material layer includes an angular bend that assists in providing a lower severance current within the non-planar fuse material layer.
US07777287B2
An analytical system-on-a-chip can be used as an analytical imaging device, for example, for detecting the presence of a chemical compound. A layer of analytical material is formed on a transparent layer overlying a solid state image sensor. The analytical material can react in known ways with at least one reactant to block light or to allow light to pass through to the array. The underlying sensor array, in turn, can process the presence, absence or amount of light into a digitized signal output. The system-on-a-chip may also include software that can detect and analyze the output signals of the device.
US07777279B2
A semiconductor device is provided which is capable of avoiding malfunction and latchup breakdown resulting from negative variation of high-voltage-side floating offset voltage (VS). In the upper surface of an n-type impurity region, a p+-type impurity region is formed between an NMOS and a PMOS and in contact with a p-type well. An electrode resides on the p+-type impurity region and the electrode is connected to a high-voltage-side floating offset voltage (VS). The p+-type impurity region has a higher impurity concentration than the p-type well and is shallower than the p-type well. Between the p+-type impurity region and the PMOS, an n+-type impurity region is formed in the upper surface of the n-type impurity region. An electrode resides on the n+-type impurity region and the electrode is connected to a high-voltage-side floating supply absolute voltage (VB).
US07777273B2
A MOSFET having a recessed channel and a method of fabricating the same. The critical dimension (CD) of a recessed trench defining the recessed channel in a semiconductor substrate is greater than the CD of the gate electrode disposed on the semiconductor substrate. As a result, the misalignment margin for a photolithographic process used to form the gate electrodes can be increased, and both overlap capacitance and gate induced drain leakage (GIDL) can be reduced.
US07777266B2
An integrated circuit includes a conductive line, the conductive line having a conductive layer made of a metal or a first compound including a metal and a capping layer made of a second compound comprising the metal, the capping layer being in contact with the conductive layer, the first compound being different from the second compound.
US07777264B2
A memory structure has a vertically oriented access transistor with an annular gate region. A transistor is fabricated such that the channel of the transistor extends outward with respect to the surface of the substrate. An annular gate is fabricated around the vertical channel such that it partially or completely surrounds the channel. A buried annular bitline may also be implemented. After the vertically oriented transistor is fabricated with the annular gate, a storage device may be fabricated over the transistor to provide a memory cell.
US07777260B2
A solid-state imaging device includes: an imaging area in which light receiving portions are disposed; an interconnect layer disposed on the light receiving portions, the interconnect layer including metal interconnects having openings and first insulating films; inner-layer lenses formed over the interconnect layer in one-to-one relationship with the light receiving portions; a transparent second insulating film formed on the interconnect layer and the inner-layer lenses; top lenses formed on the second insulating film in one-to-one relationship with the light receiving portions, an upper face of each of the top lenses being a convexly curved face; and a transparent film on the top lenses, the transparent film being formed of a material having a refractive index smaller than a refractive index of the top lenses. In this way, a focal point of at least part of incident light can be situated above a semiconductor substrate.
US07777252B2
A semiconductor device has a stacked structure in which a p-GaN layer, an SI-GaN layer, and an AlGaN layer are stacked, and has a gate electrode that is formed at a top surface side of the AlGaN layer. A band gap of the AlGaN layer is wider than a band gap of the p-GaN layer and the SI-GaN layer. Moreover, impurity concentration of the SI-GaN layer is less than 1×1017 cm−3. Semiconductor devices including III-V semiconductors may have a stable normally-off operation.
US07777249B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device according to the present invention has a step of forming a plurality of MOSFETs each having a channel of a first conductivity type in a stripe on the first major surface of a wafer; a step of implanting an impurity of a first conductivity type into the second major surface of the wafer, and performing a laser annealing treatment in a stripe leaving equidistant gaps, to form a buffer layer that has been activated in a stripe; a step of implanting an impurity of a second conductivity type into the second major surface of the substrate after forming the buffer layer, and performing a laser annealing treatment on the entire surface of the second major surface, to form a collector layer, and to activate the buffer layer; and a step of forming an emitter electrode on the first major surface, and forming a collector electrode on the second major surface.
US07777248B1
A semiconductor device is provided for preventing Latch-up in Silicon Controlled Rectifiers (SCRs) when these SCRs become activated. Embodiments of the invention use a natively doped region having high resistance to separate the NPN transistor from the PNP transistor that form the SCR, and/or to isolate the entire SCR from the injector source in order to prevent latch-up. The high resistance of the natively doped region allows to achieve the separation resistance needed in a smaller space, as compared to the space required to achieve the same separation resistance in a well. Accordingly, the invention provides for more robust and cost effective latch-up prevention devices.
US07777240B2
An optoelectronic device such as a light-emitting diode chip is disclosed. It includes a substrate, a multi-layer epitaxial structure, a first metal electrode layer, a second metal electrode layer, a first bonding pad and a second bonding pad. The multi-layer epitaxial structure on the transparent substrate comprises a semiconductor layer of a first conductive type, an active layer, and a semiconductor layer of a second conductive type. The first bonding pad and the second bonding pad are on the same level. Furthermore, the first metal electrode layer can be patterned so the current is spread to the light-emitting diode chip uniformly.
US07777239B2
A multi-wavelength light-emitting module with high density electrical connections includes a drive IC structure and a multi-wavelength LED array structure. The drive IC structure has a drive IC unit formed on a top surface thereof. The multi-wavelength LED array structure is disposed on the top surface of the drive IC structure, and the multi-wavelength LED array structure has a conductive trace unit formed on an outer surface thereof and electrically connected to the drive IC unit.
US07777238B2
For providing a chip-type light emitting device, having a plural number of light emitting elements therein, so as to enable to obtain a high optical output with preferable conversion efficiency thereof, and a wiring substrate for that, the chip-type light emitting device, mounting the plural number of the light emitting diodes 30, 30 . . . within an inside of an insulating substrate, has a base substrate 10 and a reflector substrate 20, which is laminated and adhered on an upper surface thereof. In the base substrate 10 is formed a though hole 11, on the reverse surface of which is formed a heat radiating plate 12 made from a thick metal thin film. Also, on an inner periphery and a bottom portion of the through hole are formed a reflection film 13, and further wiring patterns 14, 14 . . . are formed on the substrate. On the other hand, the reflector substrate 20 is formed with a through hole 21, having a diameter larger than that of the through hole of the base substrate, and on an inner peripheral surface thereof is formed a reflection film 22. This reflector substrate is disposed and adhered on an upper surface of the base substrate, at such the position that portions of the wiring patterns are exposed through the through hole thereof, and the plural number of the light emitting diodes are connected to the wiring patterns on the base substrate, to be mounted thereon.
US07777215B2
A memory device comprises first and second electrodes with a memory element and a buffer layer located between and electrically coupled to them. The memory element comprises one or more metal oxygen compounds. The buffer layer comprises at least one of an oxide and a nitride. Another memory device comprises first and second electrodes with a memory element and a buffer layer, having a thickness of less than 50 Å, located between and electrically coupled to them. The memory comprises one or more metal oxygen compounds. An example of a method of fabricating a memory device includes forming first and second electrodes. A memory, located between and electrically coupled to the first and the second electrodes, is formed; the memory comprises one or more metal oxygen compounds and the buffer layer comprises at least one of an oxide and a nitride.
US07777205B2
An electron beam lithography method is provided for sequentially irradiating an electron beam deflected by a deflector on a shot-by-shot basis to draw a pattern on a surface of a sample mounted on a stage. This method includes the step of irradiating the electron beam on the sample surface as a combination of shots each irradiated in one of rectangular or square regions having the same area and different shapes, in order to draw a correction pattern. This method also includes the steps of correcting the shape of the electron beam based on the drawn correction pattern, and drawing a pattern using the shape-corrected electron beam.
US07777203B2
A substrate holding apparatus for use in ion implanters includes two or more substrate holders that can adopt interchangeable positions, thereby allowing one substrate holder to scan a substrate through an ion beam while substrates can be swapped on the other substrate holder. The substrate holder assembly includes a base rotatable about a first axis and at least two support arms extending from the base to ends provided with substrate holders. Rotating the base allows the substrate holders to move between designated positions. One designated position may correspond to a position for implanting a substrate and another designated position may correspond to a loading/unloading station.
US07777200B2
A laser scanner apparatus images and/or measures a fluorescent sample on a moveable table. At least one laser and an optical system provide two laser beams at differing wavelengths parallel to the fluorescent sample. A moveable wedge-shaped dichroic mirror deflects the laser beams through an objective toward the sample causing spatial separation of the focal points and two non-parallel emission beams. The emission beams are guided through an optical system to two detectors.
US07777198B2
Embodiments of the invention relate generally to an ultraviolet (UV) cure chamber for curing a dielectric material disposed on a substrate and to methods of curing dielectric materials using UV radiation. A substrate processing tool according to one embodiment comprises a body defining a substrate processing region; a substrate support adapted to support a substrate within the substrate processing region; an ultraviolet radiation lamp spaced apart from the substrate support, the lamp configured to transmit ultraviolet radiation to a substrate positioned on the substrate support; and a motor operatively coupled to rotate at least one of the ultraviolet radiation lamp or substrate support at least 180 degrees relative to each other. The substrate processing tool may further comprise one or more reflectors adapted to generate a flood pattern of ultraviolet radiation over the substrate that has complementary high and low intensity areas which combine to generate a substantially uniform irradiance pattern if rotated. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US07777195B2
A charged particle beam instrument (10) is provided, the instrument comprising a charged particle optical column (12), a voltage source, a detector (14) and a sample holder (18), the column (12) being operable to direct a beam of primary charged particles at a sample (20) on the sample holder (18) to cause secondary charged particles to be released from the sample, the voltage source being operable to establish in the vicinity of the sample an electric field that has a component that draws the secondary charged particles towards the detector (14), and the detector being operable to detect secondary charged particles, wherein the instrument further comprises a further voltage source (16) variable between a first voltage that establishes a component of the electric field that draws the secondary charged particles away from the sample, so as to prevent at least some of them from colliding with the sample (20) or sample holder (18), and a second voltage that establishes a component of the electric field that draws the secondary charged particles towards the sample, so as to prevent at least some of them from colliding with the column (12), thereby increasing the number of secondary charged particles detected by the detector (14).
US07777166B2
A lighting panel includes a tile having a first side parallel to a principal plane of the lighting panel, a plurality of solid state lighting devices arranged on the first side of the tile and configured to emit light, a reflector sheet on the first side of the tile, and a brightness enhancement film on the reflector sheet. The reflector sheet may be arranged between the tile and the brightness enhancement film and the brightness enhancement film may be configured to increase the on-axis intensity of emitted light. A luminaire adapted for general illumination includes a lighting panel as described above, a current supply circuit configured to supply an on-state drive current to a string of lighting devices in response to a control signal, a photosensor arranged to receive light from one of the solid state lighting devices, and a control system configured to receive an output signal from the photosensor and to adjust the control signal responsive to the output signal of the photosensor.
US07777160B2
A layered heater structure including an electrode layer and a localized tuning method for tuning the electrode layer of a layered heater structure with high precision is provided. The localized tuning method tunes the electrode layer to its proper local resistance to minimize temperature offsets on the heater surface and thus provide a desired thermal profile that is in marked contrast to conventional, non-localized resistance tuning approaches based on thickness trimming practices, such as grinding or blasting, or resistivity adjustment, such as local heat treatment.
US07777159B2
The present invention provides apparatuses and methods for boiling a liquid such as water. The liquid is heated at full power when the measured temperature of the liquid is below a first predetermined threshold. When the temperature is above the first predetermined threshold and below a second predetermined threshold, partial power, which may be based on the duty cycle, is applied to the heater. When the measured temperature of the liquid reaches the second predetermined threshold, power is removed from the heater after a predetermined time. When the increase of the measured temperature is less than a predetermined temperature change during a predetermined time duration, it is determined that the liquid is boiling and power is removed to the heater. If the level is too high or too low, an alarm may be activated and/or power removed from the heater.
US07777156B2
Electric heating/warming composite fabric articles have at least a fabric layer having inner and outer surfaces, and an electric heating/warming element, e.g., including a bus, formed, e.g., of die cut metallized textile or plastic sheeting or metal foil, affixed at a surface of the fabric layer and adapted to generate heating/warming when connected to a power source. A air-and-water droplet resistant and water vapor permeable barrier layer may be positioned, for example, adjacent to the fabric layer; e.g., with the electric heating/warming element formed thereupon or at least partially impregnated therein, e.g. in a fabric laminate or in a composite formed by application of heat and pressure to at least one layer of a barrier film disposed adjacent thereto, including to protect the electric circuit, e.g. against abrasion, moisture, and or against physical stress due, e.g., to repeated crushing, bending or flexing. Methods of forming electric heating/warming composite fabric articles are described and claimed.
US07777144B2
A metal keypad panel structure with a micropore array includes a metal keypad panel, a filling, a pattern layer, a backlight module and an electric signal module. The metal keypad panel has micropores filled with the filling. The pattern layer is on a side of the metal keypad panel. The backlight module is a guide light plate attached onto another side of the metal keypad panel and has patterns, each composed of light guide microstructures. When a light is entered into the guide light plate, the light guide microstructures focus and project the light onto the metal keypad panel to allow users to see the position of each press key clearly.
US07777142B2
A compact pressure switch that causes little error in the operating point of the switch and that has resistance to dust, water, and chemical solutions is provided. The pressure switch includes a housing (2) formed of a resin having chemical solution resistance, a pressure sensor (3) that detects the pressure of a fluid, a separator (4) that is formed of a resin having chemical solution resistance and that prevents the fluid from coming into contact with the pressure sensor (3), and a circuit unit (5) that outputs on and off signals based on the output of the pressure sensor (3). At least the pressure sensor (3) and the circuit unit (5) are disposed in a sealed space (S) formed by the housing (2) and the separator (4).
US07777140B2
A universal cable connector for detachably connecting a stimulation lead to a system analyzer includes a nonconductive connector block for releasably receiving and holding fixed a proximate contact electrically in continuity with a distal electrode, a cable for selectively electrically interconnecting the proximate contact and the system analyzer, and a switch mechanism for selectively connecting electrically the system analyzer cable with the proximate contact thereby enabling the system analyzer to determine the efficacy of the chosen body tissue site. The connector block includes a nest region for receiving the proximal end of the lead and the switch mechanism includes a switch contact electrically engaged with the cable and movable between a first position disengaged from an associated and selected exposed proximate contact and a second position engaged with the proximate contact for electrically connecting the distal electrode to the system analyzer.
US07777138B2
A switch configuration for use with a keyboard comprises a plurality of support structures positioned adjacent each other in spaced relation and a plurality of dome switches, with at least one dome switch being coupled to each of the plurality of support structures. A keyboard and mobile communication device incorporate the switch configuration.
US07777137B2
The tactile transmission device includes a plurality of cells arranged at regular intervals, each having a storage space therein. A contact member is installed in each of the cells, an upper portion of the contact member protruding out of the cell. An elastic member is installed in each of the cells, and biases the contact member upwards. A sensor is installed in each of the cells, and measures displacement of the contact member. A magneto-rheological fluid is contained in each of the cells. A coil is installed in each of the cells and generates a magnetic field in the cell. A control means compares a shape information value of the image with a displacement value of the contact member output from the sensor, thus controlling a quantity of current applied to the coil. According to the present invention, the shape information of an image displayed on a screen is corrected to be suitable for a user's characteristics, thus more precisely transmitting the shape information on the screen to the user. Further, a transmission medium for transmitting a tactile sensation to a user has a simple construction, so that miniaturization of the tactile transmission device is very easily realized.
US07777129B2
A dye sensitized solar cell comprising, as the dye electrode, a titanium oxide structure having an optical band gap (hereinafter referred to as “BG”) of 2.7 to 3.1 eV as calculated from absorbance measured by an integrating sphere-type spectrophotometer, or a metal oxide structure obtained by dry-mixing a plurality of metal oxide powder particles differing in the particle size or a metal oxide dispersion thereof, wherein assuming that the BG of raw material metal oxide is BG0 and the BG of metal oxide after the dry mixing is BG1, the (BG0-BG1) is from 0.01 to 0.45 eV, and a production method thereof are provided.
US07777128B2
Modules are disclosed. The modules can include a first photovoltaic cell including an electrode; and a second photovoltaic cell including an electrode having a bent end connected to the electrode of the first photovoltaic cell.
US07777121B2
An information processing apparatus performing a process for generating a playlist defining a reproduction sequence of contents includes: a model information holding part storing therein probability models corresponding to a time series pattern of content feature volumes being feature information about contents; a content feature extracting part acquiring a content feature volume corresponding to each of contents to be reproduced; a playlist generating part comparing a time series pattern of the content feature volumes extracted in the content feature extracting part corresponding to each of permutation patterns of a reproduction sequence of contents to be reproduced with a probability model held in the model information holding part, and generating a playlist in which a reproduction sequence of contents is set in accordance with a time series pattern of content feature volumes most analogous to the probability model; and a content reproducing part reproducing contents in accordance with the generated playlist.
US07777118B2
An electromagnetic (EM) musical instrument system includes an excitation signal generator to generate an excitation signal. The system also includes an excitation signal applier coupled to the excitation signal generator. The excitation signal applier receives the excitation signal and transmits a corresponding excitation signal to an EM musical instrument. The excitation signal applier is further configured to modulate the corresponding excitation signal to produce audio effects. An EM musical instrument, in response to receiving the corresponding excitation signal, generates an EM output signal associated with a produced sound. The system also includes an EM output receiver coupled to the EM musical instrument to receive the EM output signal.
US07777115B2
An approach of a finger of a player to a key in order to conduct an operation for playing music is sensed to exert an external force which resists a depression of the key before the finger whose approach has been sensed touches the key. As a result, the touch feeling of keys of an acoustic piano perceived by a player right after depressions of the keys is realized.
US07777106B1
A novel inbred maize variety designated PHA9B and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing inbred maize variety PHA9B with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PHA9B through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the inbred variety PHA9B or a trait conversion of PHA9B with another maize variety. Inbred maize varieties derived from inbred maize variety PHA9B, methods for producing other inbred maize varieties derived from inbred maize variety PHA9B and the inbred maize varieties and their parts derived by the use of those methods.
US07777104B2
A soybean cultivar designated 26650228 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 26650228, to the plants of soybean 26650228, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 26650228 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 26650228 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from soybean variety 26650228, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 26650228 and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar 26650228 with another soybean cultivar.
US07777100B2
Nucleotide sequences for seven genes, tccC4, tcdA3, tcdA2, tcdB2, tccC3, tcdA4, tccC5, from the tcd genomic region of Photorhabdus luminescens W-14, are useful in heterologous expression of orally active insect toxins.
US07777096B2
The present disclosure includes methods of using viral and plant proteins to regulate silencing in plants such as monocots. Some embodiments include methods of increasing expression of transgenes in plants. Such methods may include selecting a protein involved in post-translational gene silencing (PTGS), for e.g., a protein active in PTGS or a suppressor of PTGS, in a plant and transforming the plant with a nucleic acid encoding the protein involved in PTGS wherein expression of the protein involved in PTGS increases expression of the transgene in the plant. One non-limiting example of such a protein is the Sorghum Mosaic Virus (SrMV) P1/HC-Pro. Methods of the disclosure may be used to regulate silencing of transgenes and to increase expression of transgenes in a variety of plants such as sugarcane, corn, sorghum, and/or rice.
US07777094B2
A disposable diaper having: an elastic portion where a plurality of elastic members is provided along a width direction with an interval of not more than 7.0 mm in a longitudinal direction, and a non-elastic portion wherein the non-elastic portion is in a center of at least one of a front side and a back side and the elastic portion is provided in a region including right-and-left side portions except the non-elastic portion, and a difference between a maximum product width obtained when the body peripheral region is extended to a limit of extension in a product width direction and a contracted product width obtained when the body peripheral region is in a non-extended contraction state is from 100 to 250 mm in a state where the front side and the back side are overlapped.
US07777093B2
The invention relates to absorptive, crosslinked polymers which are based on partly neutralized, monoethylenically unsaturated monomers carrying acid groups wherein the absorptive crosslinked polymer may be coated with a thermoplastic polymer, and have improved properties, in particular in respect of their capacity for transportation of liquids in the swollen state, and which has a high gel bed permeability and high centrifuge retention capacity.
US07777086B2
Improved integrated processes for the production of alkyl aromatic compounds are disclosed wherein aromatic compounds which may be treated for removal of deleterious substances are reacted with olefin compounds, which may also be treated for contaminant removal, in the presence of acidic zeolite catalyst(s) to produce the desired alkyl aromatic compound(s). The aromatic and preferably also the olefin feeds are treated substantially to remove contaminants, particularly the nitrogen compounds contained therein, before they are brought together for reaction in the presence of the zeolite catalyst(s). In accordance with the present invention, it has been found that feed pretreatment for removal of nitrogen compounds significantly improves the run length and life of the acidic zeolite catalyst(s). The feed pretreatment of this invention may include the steps of distillation, extraction, and/or adsorption by solid adsorbent, which may be regenerated in accordance with further embodiments of this invention.
US07777067B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide, for the case of continuously producing aromatic carbonates containing a diaryl carbonate as a main product by taking an alkyl aryl carbonate as a starting material, which is obtainable through a transesterification reaction between a dialkyl carbonate and an aromatic monohydroxy compound, using a continuous multi-stage distillation column in which a catalyst is present, and continuously feeding the starting material into the continuous multi-stage distillation column, a specific process that enables the diaryl carbonate to be produced with high selectivity and high productivity stably for a prolonged period of time on an industrial scale of not less than 1 ton per hour. Although there have been various proposals regarding processes for the production of aromatic carbonates by means of a reactive distillation method, these have all been on a small scale and short operating time laboratory level, and there have been no disclosures whatsoever on a specific process or apparatus enabling mass production on an industrial scale. According to the present invention, there is provided a specified continuous multi-stage distillation column, and there is also provided a specific process that enables a diaryl carbonate to be produced with high selectivity and high productivity stably for a prolonged period of time on an industrial scale of not less than 1 ton per hour from an alkyl aryl carbonate.
US07777066B2
The present invention provides a chemically stable and novel glycero-compound having one or two triple bonds, one molecule of a glycerol and one or two molecules of a fatty alcohol having a triple bond being linked through an ether bond, an organic group being linked to residual hydroxyl groups of the glycerol, which can be used as a membrane material for forming a vesicle membrane due to its high intermolecular cohesive force, and also provides a membrane forming material containing the same. The glycero-compound has a triple bond represented by the following general formula (1): wherein n and m each represents a number of 1 to 17 and the total (n+m) is a number of 4 to 18, n and m may be the same or different, and R represents a hydrogen atom, a metal atom, a phosphoric acid group, or an organic group which may be linked through a phosphoric acid group.
US07777064B2
The invention is based on the discovery that certain well-defined functionalized cyclic siloxanes are useful as thermosetting resins for the electronic packaging industry. The functionalized cyclic siloxane compounds described herein can be cured in a variety of ways, depending on the polymerizable moiety incorporated into the compound. Invention cyclic siloxanes are readily prepared via hydrosilation of polyalkyl(hydro)cyclosiloxanes with appropriately functionalized alkenes and/or alkynes.
US07777061B2
The present invention relates to porous metal organic frameworks comprising at least one at least bidentate organic compound L coordinated to at least one metal ion M, wherein L has at least one functional group G which bonds noncoordinatively to M and is selected from the group consisting of —SO3H and —PO3H2 and their analogues. The invention further provides processes for their preparation and also their use.
US07777060B2
Disclosed herein are novel platinum-based analogs possessing two nitrile substituent groups (bis-nitrile) covalently-bonded to the platinum. Also disclosed herein are the reaction schemes for the synthesis of said platinum complexes, as well as quantitative in vitro IC50 data.
US07777051B2
The present invention provides a genus of asymmetric benzimidazole compounds, methods and pharmaceut1cal compositions that are useful as modulators of potassium ion channels. The compounds of the invention are of use in both therapeutic and diagnostic methods.
US07777047B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a glucokinase activator useful as a pharmaceutical agent such as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of diabetes, obesity and the like.The present invention provides a glucokinase activator containing a compound represented by the formula (I): wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom; R2 is a group represented by wherein each symbol is defined in the specification, or a salt thereof or a prodrug thereof.
US07777045B2
Process for the preparation of a 2-ethylaminopyridine derivative of general formula (I) or a salt thereof Process for the preparation of a N-[2-(2-pyridinyl)ethyl]carboxamide derivative of general formula (II) or a salt thereof Intermediate of general formula (III)
US07777039B2
The present invention relates to an improved process for the preparation of 7-[4-[4-(2,3-dichlorophenyl)piperazin-1-yl]butoxy]-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinolin-2-one (Aripiprazole) having dimer impurity less than 0.15%, particularly, the present invention relates to an improved process for the preparation of 7-(4-chlorobutoxy)-3,4-dihydrocarbostyril of formula (I) having dimer impurity less than 0.5% which includes a step of reacting 7-hydroxy-tetrahydroquinolinone of formula (III) with 1-bromo-4-chlorobutane in the presence of a base in a solvent.
US07777027B2
The invention provides methods of using beta glucans to treat conditions associated with bone loss or low bone density as well as methods for promoting bone growth in situations where enhanced bone growth is desirable. In the invention methods beta glucans are administered so as to enhance the development of osteoblasts and the inhibition of the development and recruitment of osteoclasts. The inhibition of the recruitment and development of osteoclasts, coupled with the enhancement of osteoblast maturation by beta glucans leads to decreased bone resorption and increased bone formation, making beta glucans ideal agents for the treatment of osteoporosis and other bone resorption diseases.
US07777009B2
Antibodies that bind CCX-CKR2 are described.
US07777006B2
A streamlined method for purifying alpha-1-antitrypsin (AAT) from an AAT-containing protein mixture, such as a Cohn fraction IV precipitate, is provided. In the method of the invention, contaminating proteins are destabilized by cleavage of disulfide bonds with a reducing reagent, such as a dithiol, which does not affect AAT. The destabilized proteins are then preferentially adsorbed on a solid protein-adsorbing material, without the addition of a salt as a precipitant. Separation of the solid adsorbent from the solution leaves a purified AAT solution that is directly suitable for chromatographic purification, without the need for extensive desalting as in prior art processes. A process incorporating this method, which provides pharmaceutical grade AAT in high yield on a commercial scale, is also described.
US07777004B2
The present invention is drawn to fusion proteins comprising (a) a ligand for an NK receptor and (b) a Fas activation domain, and to nucleic acids encoding such fusion proteins. The invention also includes methods of making and using such proteins and nucleic acids, including their use in preventing or treating cancer.
US07776996B2
A continuous process for producing polyamides, their oligomers or mixtures thereof, if appropriate with further reaction products, comprises reaction of aminonitriles or dinitriles and diamines or mixtures thereof, if appropriate together with further polyamide-forming monomers and/or oligomers, with an aqueous medium composed of aqueous monomer and oligomer extracts obtained from polyamide production by extraction of the polymer with water in a reactor which has a vertical longitudinal axis and through which there is a flow substantially in the longitudinal direction wherein water and/or the aqueous medium are introduced into the reactor at two or more different locations along the vertical longitudinal axis, wherein the aqueous medium is introduced at one or more locations.
US07776988B2
The invention relates to silicon oils, more particularly, to a novel method for the preparation of a silicon oil by polymerization and rearrangement of cyclic siloxanes in the presence of an alkaline catalyst and a co-catalyst which is a cryptand (macroheterobicyclic diamine) acting as a polymerization accelerator.
US07776983B2
Described are polymeric surfactants which include a fluorinated moiety and a non-fluorinated moiety where the fluorinated moiety contains two perfluoro-lower-alkyl sulfonamido segments in proximity to each other ; the surfactants provide more efficient and effective lowering of the surface tension of liquids and increase of wetting of a coating on a substrate surface.
US07776977B2
The present invention relates to a supported catalyst composition and a method for making the supported catalyst composition and its use in a process for polymerizing olefin(s). In particular, the invention is directed to a method for making a supported catalyst composition by contacting a supported activator with a bulky ligand and a metal compound.
US07776959B2
Coatings comprising a polymer comprising a terpene and a monomer polymerized with terpene by free radical polymerization are disclosed. Coatings comprising terpene in greater than 30 wt % are also disclosed as are coatings comprising a terpene and a urea. Copolymers with terpene are also disclosed.
US07776958B2
The present invention provides an inverse emulsion polymer having a dispersed phase composed of an aqueous solution of an acrylic polymer and a continuous phase composed of an ester of a fatty acid and a water-soluble alcohol. The present invention further includes a method of water treatment which includes adding the inverse emulsion polymer to an industrial water system and hydrolyzing the ester of a fatty acid and a water-soluble alcohol into a fatty acid salt. The inverse emulsion polymer may be used as a flocculant to clarify industrial water systems at elevated temperature and/or elevated pressure and high pH.
US07776956B2
The invention relates to novel aqueous coating compositions containing epoxy urethane (glycidyl carbamate) functional resin. An aqueous coating composition comprises a polyfunctional oligomer having at least two epoxy urethane functional groups and a polyalkylene oxide chain, a surfactant and water. The aqueous coating compositions of the invention can be dispersed in water with added surfactants to form a dispersion containing no volatile organic solvent. The invention provides a method for making aqueous coating compositions containing epoxy urethane functional resin as well. Water-dispersible epoxy urethane compounds of the aqueous coating compositions are also provided.
US07776949B2
In a water-based coating material, to be able to obtain a tough film having an excellent corrosion resistance even if an additive amount of zinc oxide particles is reduced less than that of conventional ones and obtain a tougher film having a much excellent corrosion resistance by coupling a great amount of carboxyl groups to a surface of zinc oxide particles when making the additive amount of zinc oxide particles equal to that of conventional ones.Each of evaluation items covering hardness, adhesion, corrosion resistance, water resistance of a film being formed by applying a water-based coating material, and storage stability of the water-based coating material, which was manufactured using zinc oxide particles having a great amount of asperities on a surface and a large specific surface area produced by comprising the steps of mixing a water-soluble zinc material and an alkali material to react, and then performing water washing so as to remove impurities in a product, dehydrating, drying, burning, and pulverizing to classify it, is greater than those of the conventional water-based coating material manufactured using zinc oxide particles having a normal specific surface area.
US07776928B2
Waxes prepared from hydrogenated plant oils, such as castor, palm, and soybean, are used to prepare water based emulsions. The inventive waxes, obtained from naturally derived, renewable resources, were emulsified under anionic, cationic and nonionic conditions, producing emulsions having a solids content up to about 45% solids. The emulsions are stable, and are characterized by having an average particle size less than 1000 nanometers. When used to coat fibrous cellulosic articles, such as paperboard, the emulsions' performance was similar to emulsions containing petroleum-derived waxes. The inventive waxes have a low iodine value (between 2-5), and melting points between approximately 120-200 degrees F. (49-94 degrees C.) (Mettler Drop Point). The inventive waxes are used as an alternative to petroleum-derived, or expensive naturally-occurring waxes in the manufacture of emulsions used in coatings, polishes, adhesives, paper products, paperboard and other manufacturing operations.
US07776925B2
A patient in need of nitroglycerin therapy is treated with nitroglycerin and agent that prevents inhibition of or reverses inhibition of mtALDH and/or the generation of reactive oxygen species from mitochondria, e.g., a mitochondrial antioxidant which is not a reducing agent or a dithiol, e.g., ebselen or uric acid. Nitroglycerin dosage can be regulated and inhibiting agent dosage can be regulated and tolerance postponed by monitoring blood level of active mtALDH and dosing in response to determined level of active mtALDH.
US07776919B2
This invention provides certain compounds, methods of their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, and their use in treating human or animal disorders. The compounds of the invention are useful as modulators of the interaction between the receptor for advanced glycated end products (RAGE) and its ligands, such as advanced glycated end products (AGEs), S100/calgranulin/EN-RAGE, β-amyloid and amphoterin, and for the management, treatment, control, or as an adjunct treatment for diseases in humans caused by RAGE. Such diseases or disease states include acute and chronic inflammation, the development of diabetic late complications such as increased vascular permeability, nephropathy, atherosclerosis, and retinopathy, the development of Alzheimer's disease, erectile dysfunction, and tumor invasion and metastasis.
US07776918B2
The object of the present invention is to provide a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating viral infectious diseases. The compounds of the present invention have extremely potent anti-HCV activity and HCV growth inhibitory effects, and since they also only demonstrate mild cytotoxicity in vivo, a pharmaceutical composition containing the compound of the present invention is extremely useful as an anti-HCV preventive/therapeutic agent.
US07776917B2
Disclosed are amphetamine prodrug compositions comprising at least one non-standard amino acid conjugate of amphetamine, a salt thereof, a derivative thereof, or a combination thereof. Methods of making and using the same are also disclosed.
US07776913B2
L-carnitine, propionyl L-carnitine and/or acetyl L-carnitine are used to prevent or treat disorders of male andropause caused by ageing or by chemical or surgical castration.
US07776910B2
Compounds of the formula I: wherein m, n, Ar, R1 and R2 are as defined herein. Methods of making the compounds and using the compounds are disclosed.
US07776909B2
Selected 2-arylacetic acids, their derivatives and pharmaceutical compositions that contain these compounds are useful in inhibiting chemotactic activation of neutrophils (PMN leukocytes) induced by the interaction of Interleukin-8 (IL-8) with CXCR1 and CXCR2-membrane receptors. The compounds are used for the prevention and treatment of pathologies deriving from said activation. In particular, 2(ortho)-substituted arylacetic acids or their derivatives, such as amides and sulfonamides, lack cyclo-oxygenase inhibition activity and are particularly useful in the treatment of neutrophil-dependent pathologies such as psoriasis, ulcerative colitis, melanoma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), bullous pemphigoid, rheumatoid arthritis, idiopathic fibrosis, glomerulonephritis and in the prevention and treatment of damages caused by ischemia and reperfusion.
US07776904B2
The present invention relates to novel compounds of formula (IA) or a salt thereof: wherein: A is attached to the phenyl group at the meta position or the para position relative to the cyclopropyl group, and is selected from the group consisting of: —SO2NR5—, —SO2CR2R3—, —CR2R3SO2— and —NR5SO2—; R1 is hydrogen, C1-6alkyl, haloC1-6alkyl or C2-6alkylene; R2 and R3 are independently hydrogen or C1-6alkyl; R4 is hydrogen, halogen, C1-6alkyl, haloC1-6alkyl, C1-6alkoxy or haloC1-6alkoxy; R5 is hydrogen, C1-6alkyl, or a phenyl optionally substituted by R4; and R6 is hydrogen, C1-6alkyl, haloC1-6alkyl, C1-6alkoxy or haloC1-6alkoxy; processes for their preparation, intermediates used in these processes, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in therapy, as modulators of dopamine D3 receptors, e.g. to treat substance related disorders, as antipsychotic agents premature ejaculation or cognition impairment.
US07776902B2
New compounds able to release COX-2 inhibitors and NO having formula (I): M-T-YA—NO2 (I) for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of inflammatory processes.
US07776890B2
The present invention provides a novel 1H-indazole compound having an excellent JNK inhibitory action. More specifically, it provides a compound represented by the following formula, a salt thereof or a hydrate of them. Wherein R1 is a C6-C14 aromatic cyclic hydrocarbon group etc.; R2, R4 and R5 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a cyano group etc.; L is a single bond, or a C1-C6 alkylene group etc.; X is a single bond, or a group represented by —CO—NH— or —NH—CO—, etc.; and Y is a C3-C8 cycloalkyl group, a C6-C14 aromatic cyclic hydrocarbon group or a 5- to 14-membered aromatic heterocyclic group etc.
US07776889B2
Heterocyclic-substituted tricyclics of the formula or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate of said compound, isomer or racemic mixture wherein represents an optional double bond, the dotted line is optionally a bond or no bond, resulting in a double bond or a single bond, as permitted by the valency requirement and wherein An, En, Mn, Un, Gn, Jn, Kn, R9, R10, R11, R32, R33, B and Het are herein defined and the remaining substituents are as defined in the specification, are disclosed, as well as pharmaceutical compositions containing them and a method of treating diseases associated with thrombosis, atherosclerosis, restenosis, hypertension, angina pectoris, arrhythmia, heart failure, and cancer by administering said compounds. Combination therapy with other cardiovascular agents is also claimed.
US07776885B2
This invention provides a compound of the formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and compositions containing such compounds and the use of such compounds for the manufacture of medicament for gastroesophageal reflux disease, gastrointestinal disease, gastric motility disorder, non-ulcer dyspepsia, functional dyspepsia, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), constipation, dyspepsia, esophagitis, gastroesophageral disease, nausea, central nervous system disease, Alzheimer's disease, cognitive disorder, emesis, migraine, neurological disease, pain, cardiovascular disorders, cardiac failure, heart arrhythmia, diabetes and apnea syndrome. These compounds have 5-HT4 receptor agonistic activity, and thus are useful for the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease, non-ulcer dyspepsia, functional dyspepsia, irritable bowel syndrome or the like in mammalian, especially humans.
US07776881B2
A hypertriglyceridemia therapeutic agent made up of a synergistically effective blood-triglyceride decreasing amount of a combination of a pitavastatin and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), or an ester thereof.
US07776880B2
The disclosure relates to a compound of formula (I): wherein m, n, Ar, and R are as defined in the disclosure, to compositions containing them and to their therapeutic use. The disclosure also relates to processes for preparing these compounds and to certain intermediate compounds.
US07776875B2
There are provided compounds of the formula and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and esters and enantiomers thereof wherein W, X, X′, Y, V, V′, A, B and R are as described herein. The compounds have utility as antiproliferative agents, especially, as anticancer agents.
US07776869B2
The present invention comprises a new class of compounds useful for the prophylaxis and treatment of protein kinase mediated diseases, including inflammation, cancer and related conditions. The compounds have a general Formula I wherein A1, A2, A3, A4, R1 and R2 are defined herein. Accordingly, the invention also comprises pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of the invention, methods for the prophylaxis and treatment of kinase mediated diseases using the compounds and compositions of the invention, and intermediates and processes useful for the preparation of compounds of the invention.
US07776859B2
The present invention is directed to compounds having the formula (I), and/or pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof, useful in the treatment of androgen-receptor associated conditions, wherein Ar is aryl, substituted aryl, heteroaryl, or substituted heteroaryl; L is a linker as defined in the specification; R1 may be hydrogen, cyano, alkyl, substituted alkyl, aryl, substituted aryl, cycloalkyl, substituted cycloalkyl, heterocyclo, substituted heterocyclo, heteroaryl, or substituted heteroaryl, as defined in the specification; R2 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, or substituted lower alkyl; and R3, R4 and R5 are optionally non-interfering substituents as defined in the specification.
US07776854B2
The present invention is related to the use of benzazole derivatives of formula (I) for the treatment and/or prevention of scleroderma and its therapeutic implications selected in the group consisting of systemic sclerosis, scleroderma-like disorders, sine scleroderma, liver cirrhosis, interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, Dupuytren's contracture, keloid and other scarring/wound healing abnormalities, postoperative adhesions and reactive fibrosis, as well as chronic heart failure, in particular after myocardial infarction.
US07776851B2
This invention relates to compounds of formula I, wherein the R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 and R7 are as defined in the specification, and, in particular, their use as pharmaceuticals, for use in the treatment of urinary incontinence.
US07776840B2
This invention relates to the use of a biomaterial for the treatment, repair and/or enhancement of bodily tissue insufficiencies of the vocal chords, muscles, ligaments, cartilage, post-operative regions, sexual organs and/or weight supporting areas of the feet as well as other conditions of the bones and joints. The biomaterial for use in the invention may comprise an injectable bioresorbable polysaccharide composition wherein the polysaccharide may be succinochitosan glutamate. This invention also relates to the use of a biomaterial comprising an injectable bioresorbable polysaccharide composition in which resorbable particles may be in suspension, the said particles comprising or consisting essentially of chitin and/or chitosan, which may be free of any additional formulation modifying agents, and a process for manufacturing the same. The invention also includes the use of various medicaments in the biomaterial formulations to enhance the treatment of the affected area of the body.
US07776835B2
A group I intron-derived ribozyme which binds RNA in trans, excises an internal segment from within the RNA, and splices the remaining 5′ and 3′ ends of the RNA back together (the trans-excision-splicing reaction) is disclosed. The excised segment can be as long as 28 nucleotides, or more, and as little as one nucleotide. The ribozymes of the invention are easily modified to alter their sequence specificity. Such ribozymes represent a new and potentially powerful class of generally adaptable genetic therapeutics.
US07776820B2
In one aspect of the present invention there is provided a method for determining the risk of developing a complication of preterm birth in a patient born before 40 weeks of gestation or weighing 10% less than the average for the patient's gestational age. The method involves measuring serum IGF-I and/or IGF-I binding protein levels after birth of the patient to obtain an IGF-I or IGF-I binding protein level; and correlating said IGF-I or IGF-I binding protein level with an in utero baseline level of IGF-I or IGF-I binding protein based on gestational age matched mean levels in utero, wherein an IGF-I or IGF-I binding protein level below the mean gestational age in utero level indicates the patient is at an increased risk of developing a complication of preterm birth. The complications of preterm birth include retinopathy of prematurity, developmental delay, mental retardation, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, and intraventricular hemorrhage. Methods for treating/preventing and reducing the risk of complications of preterm birth using IGF-I and ins analogs are also provided.
US07776817B2
Neuregulin, a known neuroprotein, has been found to ameliorate or prevent damage caused by mechanical or chemical assault to blood vessels and, when administered into the cerebral spinal fluid, can ameliorate damage to neuronal tissue caused by stroke, inflammation or organophosphate neurotoxins. Additionally, neuregulin has been found to be useful for enhancement of stem cell migration from the ventricle to the site of injury to the brain.
US07776815B2
Disclosed are a method and a corresponding pharmaceutical composition for treating damaged ligaments. Neurogenic compounds in general and neuropeptides in particular have been found to be highly effective in stimulated repair of ligaments damaged due to traumatic injury, ligament disease, and disuse. Preferred active ingredients for use in the method and corresponding pharmaceutical composition include calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), cholecystokinin (CCK), dynorphin, enkephalin, galanin, neuropeptide Y (NPY), neurotensin, somatostatin, substance P (SP), thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH), vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP).
US07776809B2
A method and a composition for remediating reticulation equipment such as a bore having biocontamination deposits is disclosed. In its most preferred form, the composition is formed by mixing dry solid oxalic acid, a cupric salt such as copper sulphate, and a solid acidic compound such as sodium bisulphate. Proportions of 94%, 2% and 4% respectively are suitable, while avoiding toxicity and contamination problems. After thorough mixing this mixture can be stored in a dry sealed container for future use. In use, the reticulation equipment is dosed with from 3 kg to 7 kg of mixture per hundred litres of water contained within the reticulation equipment.
US07776805B2
A copolymer containing a constituent unit derived from ethylene and a constituent unit derived from an α-olefin having 3 to 20 carbon atoms and satisfying the following requirements (1) to (5): (1) the copolymer has a melting point (Tm) of −20° C. to 100° C.; (2) the melting point (Tm) and the density D (g/cm3) satisfy the following expression Tm≧1073×D−893 (1); (3) the copolymer has a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) measured by GPC of 1.6 to 5.0; (4) the copolymer has a half-width (ΔThalf) of a melting peak measured by DSC of 90° C. or less; and (5) the half-width (ΔThalf) and the melting point (Tm) satisfy the relationship shown by the following expression ΔThalf≦−0.71×Tm+101.4 (2).
US07776804B2
A lubricant composition comprising an oil of lubricating viscosity; (A) 0.05 to 1.5 percent by weight of a copolymer comprising 70 to 79 percent by weight of units derived from ethylene (“E”), having a Mw of 50,000 to 100,000, Mw/ Mn less than 3, density (“D”) of 860 to 896 kg/m3, and a melting point (“Tm”) of 15° C. to 60° C., wherein E and Tm fulfill the expression 3.44E−206≧Tm; and (B) 0.05 to 1.5 percent by weight of a block- copolymer comprising a first block which comprises a vinyl aromatic comonomer and a second block which comprises a diene comonomer, the diene monomer-containing block being hydrogenated; wherein the weight ratio (A):(B) is 20:80 to 60:40; exhibits good low temperature performance and durability.
US07776797B2
A lost circulation composition for use in a wellbore comprising a crosslinkable polymer system and a filler.
US07776795B2
The present disclosure relates to isolation, identification and application of Shewanella putrefaciens strain LH4:18 that grows, under denitrifying anaerobic conditions, on crude oil as the sole carbon source. This organism assists in oil release from substrate in reservoir simulations when grown on either lactate or peptone as a carbon source. Shewanella putrefaciens strain LH4:18 can be used alone or in concert with other microorganisms to improve oil recovery.
US07776781B2
The invention relates to a carbon-supported PtRu anode catalyst for direct methanol fuel cells (DMFC) which has a platinum/ruthenium content in the range from 80 to 98 wt. %, preferably in the range from 85 to 98 wt. %, particularly preferably in the range from 85 to 95 wt. % (based on the total weight of the catalyst), on a carbon-based electrically conductive support material and has a mean particle size of less than 3 nm. The catalyst is prepared using a carbon black support material having a specific surface area (measured by the BET method) in the range from 1000 to 2000 m2/g by means of a reduction process using chemical reducing agents with addition of organic acids. Electrodes and membrane-electrode units containing the catalyst according to the invention having a high precious metal loading have an electrode layer thickness of less than 80 μm at a PtRu loading per unit area of the electrode of from 6 to 12 mg of PtRu/cm2 and lead to improved electric power in direct methanol fuel cells.
US07776780B1
Two new classes of catalysts for the removal of heavy metal contaminants, especially mercury (Hg) from effluent gases. Both of these classes of catalysts are excellent absorbers of HCl and Cl2 present in effluent gases. This adsorption of oxidizing agents aids in the oxidation of heavy metal contaminants. The catalysts remove mercury by oxidizing the Hg into mercury (II) moieties. For one class of catalysts, the active component is selected from the group consisting of iridium (Ir) and iridum-platinum (Ir/Pt) alloys. The Ir and Ir/Pt alloy catalysts are especially corrosion resistant. For the other class of catalyst, the active component is partially combusted coal or “Thief” carbon impregnated with Cl2. Untreated Thief carbon catalyst can be self-activating in the presence of effluent gas streams. The Thief carbon catalyst is disposable by means of capture from the effluent gas stream in a particulate collection device (PCD).
US07776775B2
The present invention provides a cracking catalyst, containing a rare-earth Y-zeolite and a support, which is characterized in that the rare-earth content in crystal lattice of the rare-earth Y-zeolite is 4-15 wt % of RE2O3; the original unit cell size is 2.440-2.465 nm; the equilibrium unit cell size of the catalyst after 100% steam-aging treatment at 800° C. for 17 hours is larger than 2.435 nm; the rare-earth atom content in the support is 1.0-8.0 wt % of the support. The present invention also relates to a preparation process for the same catalyst.
US07776767B2
This present invention concerns a lattice that is intended for the constitution of a light-attenuation screen, composed of at least two layers of crossed threads or fibres, combined to form an open grid with a given openness factor, characterised in that the layers are coated with a formulation that includes a polymer binder and a photochromic organic pigment.
US07776753B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes the steps of forming (or providing) a series of layers formed on a substrate, the layers including a first plurality of layers including an n-type ohmic contact layer, a p-type modulation doped quantum well structure, an n-type modulation doped quantum well structure, and a fourth plurality of layers including a p-type ohmic contact layer. Etch stop layers are used during etching operations when forming contacts to the n-type ohmic contact layer and contacts to the n-type modulation doped quantum well. Preferably, each such etch stop layer is made sufficiently thin to permit current tunneling therethrough during operation of optoelectronic/electronic devices realized from this structure (including heterojunction thyristor devices, n-channel HFET devices, p-channel HFET devices, p-type quantum-well-base bipolar transistor devices, and n-type quantum-well-base bipolar transistor devices). The etch stop layer(s) preferably comprise AlAs that functions as an etch stop during etching by a chlorine-based gas mixture that includes fluorine. The series of layers preferably comprise group III-V materials.
US07776747B2
A method for forming a fine pattern of a semiconductor device includes forming a first hard mask layer over a semiconductor substrate, forming a second hard mask layer pattern over the first hard mask layer, forming a spacer on a sidewall of the second hard mask layer pattern, selectively etching the first hard mask layer by using the spacer and the second hard mask layer pattern as an etching mask to form a first hard mask layer pattern, forming a first insulating film filling the second hard mask layer pattern and the first hard mask layer pattern, selectively etching the second hard mask layer pattern and the underlying first hard mask layer pattern to form a third hard mask layer pattern, removing the first insulating film and the spacer, and patterning the semiconductor substrate by using the third hard mask layer pattern as an etching mask to form a fine pattern.
US07776743B2
Embodiments of methods for improving electrical leakage performance and minimizing electromigration in semiconductor devices containing metal cap layers are generally described herein. According to one embodiment, a method of forming a semiconductor device includes planarizing a top surface of a workpiece to form a substantially planar surface with conductive paths and dielectric regions, forming metal cap layers on the conductive paths, and exposing the top surface of the workpiece to a dopant source from a gas cluster ion beam (GCIB) to form doped metal cap layers on the conductive paths and doped dielectric layers on the dielectric regions. According to some embodiments the metal cap layers and the doped metal cap layers contain a noble metal selected from Pt, Au, Ru, Rh, Ir, and Pd.
US07776732B2
A method is disclosed to reduce parasitic capacitance in a metal high dielectric constant (MHK) transistor. The method includes forming a MHK gate stack upon a substrate, the MHK gate stack having a bottom layer of high dielectric constant material, a middle layer of metal, and a top layer of one of amorphous silicon or polycrystalline silicon. The method further forms a depleted sidewall layer on sidewalls of the MHK gate stack so as to overlie the middle layer and the top layer, and not the bottom layer. The depleted sidewall layer is one of amorphous silicon or polycrystalline silicon. The method further forms an offset spacer layer over the depleted sidewall layer and over exposed surfaces of the bottom layer.
US07776730B2
A siloxane polymer composition includes an organic solvent in an amount of about 93 percent by weight to about 98 percent by weight, based on a total weight of the siloxane polymer composition, and a siloxane complex in an amount of about 2 percent by weight to about 7 percent by weight, based on the total weight of the siloxane polymer composition, the siloxane complex including a siloxane polymer with an introduced carboxylic acid and being represented by Formula 1 below, wherein each of R1, R2 R3, and R4 independently represents H, OH, CH3, C2H5, C3H7, C4H9 or C5H11, R′ represents CH2, C2H4, C3H6, C4H8, C5H10 or C6H12, and n represents a positive integer so the siloxane polymer of the siloxane complex has a number average molecular weight of about 4,000 to about 5,000.
US07776729B2
A transistor comprises a gate (110) comprising a gate electrode (111) and a gate dielectric (112), an electrically insulating cap (120, 720) over the gate, and a source/drain contact (130) adjacent to the gate. The electrically insulating cap prevents electrical contact between the gate and the source/drain contact. In one embodiment, the electrically insulating cap is formed in a trench (160, 660) that is self-aligned to the gate and that is created by the removal of a sacrificial cap using an aqueous solution comprising a carboxylic acid and a corrosion inhibitor.
US07776725B2
An apparatus and method for controlling the net doping in the active region of a semiconductor device in accordance with a gate length. The method includes doping a short channel device and a long channel device with a first dopant, and doping the short channel device and the long channel device with a second dopant at a same implantation energy, dose, and angle for both the short channel device and the long channel device. The second dopant neutralizes the first dopant in portion to a gate length of the short channel device and the second channel device.
US07776724B2
A method of forming a densified nanoparticle thin film is disclosed. The method includes positioning a substrate in a first chamber; and depositing a nanoparticle ink, the nanoparticle ink including a set of Group IV semiconductor particles and a solvent. The method also includes heating the nanoparticle ink to a first temperature between about 30° C. and about 300° C., and for a first time period between about 1 minute and about 60 minutes, wherein the solvent is substantially removed, and a porous compact is formed; and positioning the substrate in a second chamber, the second chamber having a pressure of between about 1×10−7 Torr and about 1×10−4 Torr. The method further includes depositing on the porous compact a dielectric material; wherein the densified nanoparticle thin film is formed.
US07776719B2
A method is provided for manufacturing a bonded wafer by an ion implantation delamination method, including bonding a base wafer with a bond wafer having a microbubble layer formed by ion implantation, delaminating the wafers along the micro bubble layer as a boundary, and removing a periphery of a thin film formed on the base wafer by the delamination. The removal step is performed by dry etching that supplies an etching gas from a nozzle, and the dry etching is performed by adjusting an inner diameter of the gas-jetting port of the nozzle, and a distance between the gas-jetting port of the nozzle and a surface of the thin film.
US07776717B2
A technique for forming a film of material (12) from a donor substrate (10). The technique has a step of introducing energetic particles (22) through a surface of a donor substrate (10) to a selected depth (20) underneath the surface, where the particles have a relatively high concentration to define a donor substrate material (12) above the selected depth. An energy source is directed to a selected region of the donor substrate to initiate a controlled cleaving action of the substrate (10) at the selected depth (20), whereupon the cleaving action provides an expanding cleave front to free the donor material from a remaining portion of the donor substrate.
US07776716B2
A method for fabricating semiconductor on insulator wafers by providing a semiconductor substrate or a substrate that includes an epitaxial semiconductor layer as a source substrate, attaching the source substrate to a handle substrate to form a source handle assembly and detaching the source substrate at a predetermined splitting area provided inside the source substrate and being essentially parallel to its main surface, to remove a layer from the source handle assembly to thereby create the semiconductor on insulator wafer. A diffusion barrier layer, in particular, an oxygen diffusion barrier layer can be provided on the source substrate. In addition the invention relates to the corresponding semiconductor on insulator wafers that are produced by the method.
US07776711B2
A transistor of a semiconductor memory device including a semiconductor substrate having a plurality of active regions and a device isolation region, a plurality of first and second trench device isolation layers, which are arranged alternately with each other on the device isolation region of the semiconductor substrate, the first trench device isolation layers having a first thickness corresponding to a relatively high step height, and the second trench device isolation layers having a second thickness corresponding to a relatively low step height, a recess region formed in each of the active regions by a predetermined depth to have a stepped profile at a boundary portion thereof, the recess region having a height higher than that of the second trench device isolation layers to have an upwardly protruded portion between adjacent two second trench device isolation layers, a gate insulation layer, and a plurality of gate stacks formed on the gate insulation layer to overlap with the stepped profile of the respective active regions and the protruded portion of the relevant recess region.
US07776708B1
A system and method is disclosed that prevents the formation of a vertical bird's beak structure in the manufacture of a semiconductor device. A polysilicon filled trench is formed in a substrate of the semiconductor device. A composite layer stack is formed over the trench that has a nitride layer as a top layer. A plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) oxide cap layer is formed over the nitride layer over the trench area. A mask and etch process is then applied to etch the composite layer stack adjacent to the polysilicon filled trench. A field oxide process is applied to form field oxide portions in the substrate adjacent to the trench. Because no field oxide is placed over the trench there is no formation of a vertical bird's beak structure. A gate oxide layer is applied to protect the trench from unwanted effects of subsequent processing steps.
US07776707B2
A method includes the steps of: forming a first insulation film on a substrate; forming a hole in the first insulation film; forming a lower electrode on a bottom surface and a sidewall surface of the hole; forming a capacitor insulation film on the lower electrode; forming a second conductive layer on the capacitor insulation film; forming a second insulation film on the second conductive layer so that the second insulation film fills a recess corresponding to the hole; forming a resist mask on the second insulation film so that the resist mask covers the recess; patterning the second insulation film by using the resist mask; and patterning the second conductive layer and the capacitor insulation film by using the patterned second insulation film as a hard mask. By dry etching using a hard mask, a dielectric capacitor having a three-dimensionally stacked structure can be formed with a high yield.
US07776697B2
Semiconductor structures and devices including strained material layers having impurity-free zones, and methods for fabricating same. Certain regions of the strained material layers are kept free of impurities that can interdiffuse from adjacent portions of the semiconductor. When impurities are present in certain regions of the strained material layers, there is degradation in device performance. By employing semiconductor structures and devices (e.g., field effect transistors or “FETs”) that have the features described, or are fabricated in accordance with the steps described, device operation is enhanced.
US07776693B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor apparatus includes forming a trench in a semiconductor layer, forming a gate electrode inside the trench, forming a thermally-oxidized film on the gate electrode inside the trench, forming a silicate glass film on the thermally-oxidized film inside the trench, forming a body region inside the semiconductor layer, and forming a source region on the body region. The method provides a semiconductor apparatus having reduced fluctuation of a channel length and low ON-resistance.
US07776686B2
An interpoly insulating film is modified in the film quality, while preventing generation of trap sites. A floating gate 101 is provided on a channel-forming region in the vicinity of the surface of a silicon substrate 112, an interpoly insulating film 134 is provided so as to contact with the floating gate 101, and a control gate 103 is provided so as to contact with the interpoly insulating film 134 and so as to be opposed to at least a part of the floating gate 101. A process step of providing the interpoly insulating film 134 further includes a step of forming on the floating gate 101, the interpoly insulating film 134 so as to contact with the floating gate 101, and a step of exposing, subsequently to the formation of the interpoly insulating film 134, the interpoly insulating film 134 to an atmosphere containing a nitrogen-containing gas and oxygen, to thereby simultaneously proceed nitriding and oxidation of the interpoly insulating film 134.
US07776681B2
A first resist mask and a second resist mask used for forming a gate electrode for a p-channel TFT and a gate electrode for an n-channel TFT are left, and a third resist mask is formed afterwards over a first area where one of the p-channel TFT and the n-channel TFT is to be formed; thus, a source region and a drain region are formed in a semiconductor film of the other one of the p-channel TFT and the n-channel TFT by adding first impurity ions using the second resist mask and the third resist mask. After that, the first resist mask, the second resist mask, and the third resist mask are removed, and a source region and a drain region are formed in a semiconductor film of the one of the p-channel TFT and the n-channel TFT by adding second impurity ions using a fourth resist mask.
US07776679B2
A method for manufacturing silicon wells of various crystallographic orientations in a silicon support, including the steps of: forming a silicon layer having a first orientation on a silicon substrate having a second orientation; forming insulating walls, defining wells extend at least down to the border between the silicon substrate and the silicon layer; performing, in first wells, a chemical vapor etch (CVE) of the silicon layer by means of hydrochloric acid, in an epitaxy reactor, at a temperature ranging between 700° C. and 950° C.; and performing, in the first wells, a vapor-phase epitaxy on the silicon substrate in the presence of a precursor of silicon and hydrochloric acid, at a temperature ranging between 700° C. and 900° C. and up to the upper surface of the silicon layer.
US07776670B2
Issue Providing a silicon film which can prevent damage of electronic devices formed on a substrate from occurrence, can prevent apparatus arrangement from becoming large-scale one, can improve coherency of a silicon thin film to a substrate, and is hardly happened crack and/or flaking, and providing a method for forming the silicon thin film.Solving Means A method for forming a silicon thin film according to the present invention is a method for forming a silicon thin film having isolation function or barrier function, on a substrate K using CVD method, and comprises a step for forming a first thin film on the substrate using plasma CVD method employing gas containing hydrogen element and a gas containing silicon element; a step for forming a second thin film using plasma CVD method employing a gas containing nitrogen element and a gas containing silicon element; and a step for forming a third thin film using plasma CVD method employing a gas containing oxygen element and a gas containing silicon element.
US07776669B2
A thin film transistor includes a substrate; a semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate, and including polycrystalline silicon having a constant directivity and a uniformly distributed crystal grain boundary; a gate insulating layer; a gate electrode; an interlayer insulating layer; and source and drain electrodes. The thin film transistor is formed by preparing a substrate including a first region, a second region, and a third region; forming an amorphous silicon layer on the first region, second region, and third region of the substrate; doping a first impurity containing boron into an amorphous silicon layer of the first region; forming a crystallization inducing material on the amorphous silicon layer of the first region; applying crystallization energy to the amorphous silicon layer, and crystallizing the amorphous silicon layers of the first region and the second region adjacent to the first region to form polycrystalline silicon layers; crystallizing the amorphous silicon layer of the third region adjacent to the second region to form a polycrystalline silicon layer using a laser crystallization method; and patterning the polycrystalline silicon layers of the first region, the second region, and the third region to form a semiconductor layer on the third region.
US07776666B2
A method of manufacturing a low-cost thin film transistor of minimized variations in performances, as well as the thin film transistor produced thereby. A thin film transistor manufacturing method including the steps of: forming a gate electrode on a substrate; forming a gate insulation layer on the gate electrode; forming a semiconductor layer by coating the gate insulation layer with a semiconductor material; forming a repellent layer having an electrode material-repellent characteristic on the semiconductor layer; applying light from the surface of the substrate where there is no gate electrode, thereby removing the semiconductor layer and the repellent layer by sublimation, except for the portion protected against light by the gate electrode; and dropping the fluid electrode material on the repellent layer remaining on the substrate so that the fluid electrode material is separated by the repellent layer, whereby the source electrode and the drain electrode are formed.
US07776665B2
It has been difficult to manufacture a semiconductor device equipped with a microstructure having a space, an electric circuit for controlling the microstructure, and the like over one substrate. In a semiconductor device, a microstructure and an electric circuit for controlling the microstructure can be provided over one substrate by manufacturing the microstructure in such a way that a structural layer having polycrystalline silicon obtained by laser* crystallization or thermal crystallization using a metal element is formed and processed at low temperature. As the electric circuit, a wireless communication circuit for carrying out wireless communication with an antenna is given.
US07776662B2
A TFT LCD array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof. The TFT LCD array substrate comprises a substrate. A gate line and a gate electrode that is formed integrally with the gate line are formed on the substrate. A first insulating layer and a semiconductor layer are formed sequentially on the gate line and the gate electrode. A second insulting layer covers sidewalls of the gate line and the gate electrode, the first insulating layer, and the semiconductor layer. An etching stop layer is formed on the semiconductor layer and exposes a part of the semiconductor layer on both sides of the etching stop layer. The TFT LCD of the present invention can be manufactured with a four-mask process.
US07776647B2
A semiconductor component includes a thinned semiconductor substrate having protective polymer layers on up to six surfaces. The component also includes contacts on a circuit side of the substrate, conductive vias in electrical contact with the contacts, and conductors on a backside of the substrate. A method for fabricating the component includes the steps of providing the semiconductor substrate with the contacts on the circuit side, forming conductive vias from the back side in electrical contact with the contacts, and forming conductors on the backside.
US07776644B2
For fabricating a phase change memory cell, a layer of phase change material and a layer of a first electrode material are deposited. In addition, the first electrode material is patterned using an etchant including a low-reactivity halogen element such as bromine or iodine to form a first electrode. By using the low-reactivity halogen element, change to the composition of the phase change material and formation of undercut and deleterious halogen by-product are avoided.
US07776643B2
A solid state image pickup device is provided which includes: charge accumulation regions disposed in a semiconductor substrate in a matrix shape; a plurality of vertical transfer channels formed in the semiconductor substrate each in a close proximity to each column of the charge accumulation regions; vertical transfer electrodes formed above the vertical transfer channels; a channel protective impurity layer formed just under the vertical transfer channel and surrounding the charge accumulation region; one or more pixel separation impurity layers formed under the channel protective impurity layer and at a position facing the channel protective impurity layer; an overflow barrier region having a peak position of an impurity concentration at a position deeper than the pixel separation impurity layer, the peak position of the impurity concentration being at a depth of 3 μm or deeper from a surface of the semiconductor substrate; and a horizontal CCD for transferring signal charges transferred from the vertical transfer channels in a horizontal direction.
US07776642B2
A quantum-well photoelectric device, such as a quantum cascade laser, is constructed of monocrystalline nanoscale membranes physically removed from a substrate and mechanically assembled into a stack.
US07776627B2
A method for forming an integrated circuit structure includes forming a test wafer. The step of forming the test wafer includes providing a first semiconductor substrate; and forming a first plurality of unit blocks over the first semiconductor substrate. Each of the first plurality of unit blocks includes a plurality of connection block cells arranged as an array. Each of the connection block cells includes two connection blocks, and a metal line connecting the two connection blocks. The method further includes forming a plurality of unit block boundary lines separating the first plurality of unit blocks from each other; and forming a first plurality of metal lines connecting a portion of the first plurality of unit blocks.
US07776625B2
The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method for manufacturing the semiconductor device, without limitation, may include providing a substrate having a sub-surface feature and a surface feature, and determining a location of the sub-surface feature relative to the surface feature using a scatterometer.
US07776612B2
The present invention is directed to a novel method for quantifying antigen, such as the amount expressed on a cell. The method comprises formulating an equation of correlation between the amount expressed of expressed antigen and the intensity of fluorescence from fluorescent labelled antibody.
US07776599B2
The present invention provides a novel method for obtaining diverse antibodies as a result of markedly enhancing the somatic homologous recombination at an antibody locus in immunocytes.By putting immunocytes in which DNA homologous recombination is occurring at an antibody locus (for example, DT40 cells and the like) into contact and the like with histone acetylase inhibitor and the like (for example, trichostatin A and the like), thereby relaxing the chromatin structure at said antibody locus, somatic homologous recombination at an antibody locus is enhanced, and the production of diverse antibody molecules is made possible.The production of antibodies that bind specifically to antigens from cell populations in which the antibody molecules have been diversified by the enhancement of somatic homologous recombination is made possible by using an appropriate selection method (for example, beads coated with antigen and the like).
US07776598B2
Methods are provided for the evolution of proteins of industrial and pharmaceutical interest, including methods for effecting recombination and selection. Compositions produced by these methods are also disclosed.
US07776596B2
A tissue graft construct for use in repairing diseased or damaged tissues is provided. The tissue graft construct comprises a matrix composition selected from the group consisting of urinary bladder submucosa and stomach submucosa, and extracts and hydrolysates thereof, added endothelial cells, and at least one additional preselected, exogenous population of cells which enhance initiation of the formation vessel-like structures in the graft construct. The preselected population of cells can be a population of non-keratinized or keratinized epithelial cells or a population of mesodermally-derived cells selected from the group consisting of fibroblasts, smooth muscle cells, skeletal muscle cells, cardiac muscle cells, multi-potential progenitor cells, pericytes, osteogenic cells, and any other suitable cell type, preferably selected based on the tissue to be repaired. Methods for enhancing the vascularization in vivo of these tissue graft constructs and for preparing these graft constructs are also provided.
US07776584B2
An apparatus and method for automated picking of animal cell colonies. A picking head comprising a plurality of hollow pins is provided. The apparatus has an integrated imager for capturing an image of adherent or non-adherent animal cell colonies held in liquid or semi-solid medium. Image processing identifies the locations of the animal cell colonies to be picked. Picking an animal cell colony is performed by aligning each of the hollow pins in turn with a target animal cell colony location, introducing the hollow pin into the medium, and aspirating the animal cell colony into the hollow pin. In the case of an adherent colony, the distal end of the pin is forced into oscillation to detach the animal cell colony prior to aspiration. The animal cell colony is dispensed into a well plate by increasing pressure in the fluid conduit.
US07776581B2
A polypeptide comprising an aspartic protease such as chymosin which is modified so as to comprise at least one —N—X-T-glycosylation site and a method for producing such a polypeptide.
US07776580B2
This invention relates generally to the field of cell seperation. In particular, the invention provides processes for isolating a target cell, cellular organelle or virus from a sample, using inter alia, nonspecific binding between a target cell, cellular organelle or virus with a magnetic microbead modified to comprise hydroxyl, carboxyl or epoxy groups.
US07776571B2
An analytical device has a housing that encloses a multi-substrate chip having a reference marker and a plurality of substrates, wherein the housing is configured such that the reference marker and the substrates are illuminated by respective light sources at different angles. Further contemplated analytical devices include a housing with a cavity in which a multi-substrate chip having a plurality of substrates is at least partially disposed, wherein at least one of the plurality of substrates is coupled to a carrier via a crosslinker that is disposed in a matrix.
US07776564B2
Disclosed herein is a newly identified SDF-1 splice variant molecule, its polypeptide sequence, and the polynucleotides encoding the polypeptide sequence, and active fragments thereof. Also provided is a procedure for producing such polypeptides by recombinant techniques employing, for example, vectors and host cells. Also disclosed are methods for utilizing such polypeptides and modulators thereof for the treatment of diseases, including cancer, immune diseases, infectious diseases, and ischemic diseases.
US07776543B2
Microdevice containing photorecognizable coding patterns and methods of using and producing the same
This invention relates generally to the field of moiety or molecule analysis, isolation, detection and manipulation and library synthesis. In particular, the invention provides a microdevice, which microdevice comprises: a) a substrate; and b) a photorecognizable coding pattern on the substrate. Preferably, the microdevice does not comprise an anodized metal surface layer. Methods and kits for isolating, detecting and manipulating moieties, and synthesizing libraries using the microdevices are also provided. The invention further provides two-dimensional optical encoders and uses thereof.
US07776541B2
The invention features methods of diagnosing high grade ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) These methods involve measuring: (1) the level of HID-5 in a body fluid (e.g., blood or urine) of a subject suspected of having, or at risk of having, high grade DCIS; or (2) the level of HID-5 gene expression in breast tissue from a subject suspected of having, or at risk of having, high grade DCIS. The invention also embodies a method of inhibiting expression of HID-5 protein in DCIS cells and methods of treating a subject suspected of having, or at risk of having, high grade DCIS.
US07776534B2
The present invention relates to an episomal structure expressing a functional oncogene, whereby said oncogene is a fusion gene of two chromosomal gene fragments. More specifically, the invention relates to a NUP214-ABL1 fusion product, important in the development of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, to methods to detect the fusion and to methods to prevent the oncogenic activity of said fusion product.
US07776533B2
The present invention relates to phosphate-binding compounds that find use in binding, detecting and isolating phosphorylated target molecules including the subsequent identification of target molecules that interact with phosphorylated target molecules or molecules capable of being phosphorylated. A binding solution is provide that comprises a phosphate-binding compound, an acid and a metal ion wherein the metal ion simultaneously interacts with an exposed phosphate group on a target molecule and the metal chelating moiety of the phosphate-binding compound forming a bridge between the phosphate-binding compound and a phosphorylated target molecule resulting in a ternary complex. The binding solution of the present invention finds use in binding and detecting immobilized and solubilized phosphorylated target molecules, isolation of phosphorylated target molecules from a complex mixture and aiding in proteomic analysis wherein kinase and phosphatase substrates and enzymes can be identified.
US07776529B2
Cyanine dye compounds having a substituted methine moiety that are nucleic acid stains, particularly for fluorescent staining of RNA, including compounds having the formula where R1 is a C1-C6 alkyl, sulfoalkyl, carboxyalkyl or C1-C6 alkoxy; each R2 is independently selected from the group consisting of H, C1-C6 alkyl, C1-C6 alkoxy, fused benzo, trifluoromethyl, amino, sulfo, carboxy and halogen, that is optionally further substituted; at least one of R3, R4, and R5 is an alkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, cyclic, or heterocyclic moiety that is optionally substituted by alkyl, amino, aminoalkyl, carboxy, nitro, or halogen; and the remaining R3, R4 or R5 are hydrogen; X is S, O, or Se; and D is a substituted or unsubstituted pyridinium, quinolinium or benzazolium moiety.
US07776525B2
The expression level of a histamine-releasing factor (HRF) polynucleotide in a biological sample of a subject is measured and the HRF polynucleotide content is compared with that of a normal biological sample. An HRF polynucleotide expression level considerably higher than that of the normal biological sample is employed as an indication of a disease relating to endometriosis or a risk thereof.
US07776524B2
Methods and compositions are provided for detecting the presence of nucleic acid sequence variants in a subpopulation of nucleic acid molecules in a biological sample. These methods are particularly useful for identifying individuals with mutations indicative of cancer.
US07776512B2
A positive photosensitive composition comprises a compound capable of generating a specified sulfonic acid upon irradiation with one of an actinic ray and radiation and (B) a resin capable of decomposing under the action of an acid to increase the solubility in an alkali developer.
US07776510B2
A compound represented by general formula (b-14); and acid generator consisting of the compound; and a resist composition including a base component (A) which exhibits changed solubility in an alkali developing solution under action of acid and an acid-generator component (B) which generates acid upon exposure, the acid-generator component (B) including an acid generator (B1) consisting of a compound represented by general formula (b1-14): wherein R7″ to R9″ each independently represents an aryl group or an alkyl group, wherein two of R7″ to R9″ may be bonded to each other to form a ring with the sulfur atom, and at least one of R7″ to R9″ represents a substituted aryl group in which a portion or all of the hydrogen atoms are substituted with an alkoxyalkyloxy group or an alkoxycarbonylalkyloxy group; and X− represents an anion.
US07776507B2
A photosensitive paste is provided with which a member for a display panel having superior visibility can be manufactured with simple steps, and with the photosensitive paste including a soft magnetic powder, a glass powder, and a photosensitive organic component, in which the mass ratio of the soft magnetic powder (A) to the glass powder (B) is in the range of 20/80 to 70/30.
US07776504B2
There is provided a color resist composition comprising a resin (A), a photoacid generator or a photobase generator (B), a crosslinking compound (C) and a dye mixture (D) containing a dye having a structure of amino sulfonate ester or ammonium sulfonate salt in a proportion of 40 to 95% by weight on total dye content. Preferably, resin (A) is polyvinyl phenol or a copolymer thereof, and the color resist composition has an optical quality having at least a region with a transmittance of 70% or more and a region with a transmittance of 10% or less in wavelength range between 400 nm and 700 nm, and in which a variation in transmittance is 5% or less even when the composition is subjected to a temperature of 200° C. or more. The color resist composition is applicable for color filters which exhibits a high spectrum reproducibility, a high light-resistance and a heat-resistance, and has a high resolution of 5 μm or less and no post development residue.
US07776487B2
A fuel supply system for a fuel cell supplies fuel to a fuel cell of an electronic equipment. The fuel supply system includes a pressure regulator for regulating primary pressure to secondary pressure, and a pair of cylindrical fuel cartridges which are connected to a pair of inlets on a primary pressure side. The inlets being provided to both sides of the pressure regulator are arranged in mutually opposite directions. Fuel having primary pressure is took in from the inlets into the pressure regulator. The fuel cartridges are placed to both sides of the pressure regulator along a substantially straight-outer edge of the electronic equipment.
US07776484B2
Gas discharge ports are provided in almost the entire area of a layer surface of a separator, and a gas for reaction is discharged like a shower from the separator toward a power generation cell. The separator is constructed by layering plate-shaped members containing iron-base alloy, nickel-base alloy, or chrome-base alloy as the base material. Silver, silver alloy, copper, or copper alloy is plated on both sides or one side of the base material of the plate-shaped member. The construction above can increase durability of a separator and enables the separator and a solid oxide fuel cell to be stably used for a long period.
US07776481B2
When a control device detects a request for stopping power generation of a fuel cell, electrical energy discharged from the fuel cell is supplied to an energy storage and other electrical devices such as an air compressor. At this time, electrical energy is supplied preferentially to the other electrical devices. Accordingly, discharge/charge losses in the energy storage can be reduced, compared to a technique in which an energy storage is charged preferentially at the time of stopping power generation of a fuel cell.
US07776468B2
A wafer alkaline cell of a laminar structure is disclosed. The cell comprises an anode assembly and a cathode assembly bonded together to form a laminate structure. There may be one and desirably two anode frames securing an anode current collector sheet sandwiched therebetween. There may be a cathode frame bonded to the anode frames. There is an anode current collector sheet within the anode assembly. There is a cathode current collector sheet, optionally with an attached metal mesh embedded within the cathode assembly to assure good electrical contact with the cathode. Alternatively, a cathode endplate with spring action is employed which can move in response to changes of volume or pressure within the cathode, thereby maintaining good contact. The anode current collector may be precoated with a sealing metal forming an alkaline resistant metal oxide film to improve bonding to the frame. The cell is durable and preferably rigid and resists electrolyte leakage.
US07776466B2
Disclosed herein is a structure of layering unit cells for a lithium polymer battery, in which electrode terminals are provided on surfaces of the respective unit cells for the lithium polymer battery, and are alternately layered, thus allowing the unit cells to be connected in series through only a layering operation without an additional connecting device. The battery system includes first and second unit cells each having a pouch and anode and cathode terminals which are connected to a surface of the pouch and are oppositely bent in upward and downward directions. In this case, the cathode terminal of the second unit cell is directly connected to the anode terminal of the first unit cell.
US07776464B2
A solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell (2) is formed from an electrode structure (7) and first and second separators (8, 9). The electrode structure (7) has a solid polymer electrolyte membrane (10), first and second electrode layers (11, 12), and first and second diffusion layers (13, 14). The first separator (8) forms a first gas passage (PH) through which a fuel gas (H) flows, and the second separator (9) forms a second gas passage (PA) through which an oxidizing gas (A) flows. A first jutting-out portion (15) of the solid polymer electrolyte membrane (10) and a second jutting-out portion (16) of the second diffusion layer (14) are joined together over the entire peripheries thereof via a cured adhesive layer (17), and the second jutting-out portion (16) is in a state in which it is impregnated by cured adhesive. A seal (27) of the first separator (8) is in intimate contact with the surface of the first jutting-out portion (15), and a seal (21) of the second separator (9) is in intimate contact with the surface of the second jutting-out portion (16). It is therefore possible to eliminate the problem of leaked fuel gas and oxidizing gas reacting with each other around the electrode structure.
US07776451B2
A method of forming a composite overlay compound on a substrate includes forming a mixture including at least one component from a first group of component materials including titanium, chrome, tungsten, vanadium, niobium, and molybdenum. The mixture also includes at least one component from a second group of component materials including carbon and boron, and the mixture further includes at least one component from a third group of component materials including silicon, nickel, and manganese. The mixture of selected component materials is then applied to a substrate material to form an overlay compound on the substrate material. The overlay compound is fused to the substrate to form a metallurgical bond between the substrate material and the overlay compound.
US07776448B2
An aqueous composition for pretreating and depositing a coating on metal substrates is provided. The coating composition includes from about 1,500 to about 55,000 ppm based on the aqueous composition of a Group IIA dissolved metal ion, from about 100 to about 200,000 ppm based on the aqueous composition of a dissolved complex metal fluoride ion wherein the metal atom is selected from Group IIIA, Group IVA, Group IVB metals, Group VA, Group VB metals; and water. The composition is free of Group IIA metal fluoride precipitate achieved by including in the composition a complex metal salt different than the salt associated with the complex metal fluoride ion, with the complex metal salt being capable of complexing free fluoride ions to prevent a precipitation reaction. A process for coating a metal substrate with such an aqueous composition is further provided.
US07776445B2
Disclosed herein are a graphene hybrid material and a method for preparing the graphene hybrid material, the graphene hybrid material comprising: a matrix having lattice planes disconnected on a surface thereof; and layers of graphene which are epitaxially grown along the lattice planes disconnected on the surface of the matrix such that the layers of graphene are oriented perpendicularly to the matrix, and which are spaced apart from each other and layered on the matrix in the same shape. The graphene hybrid material can be usefully used in the fields of next-generation semiconductor devices, biosensors, electrochemical electrodes and the like.
US07776439B2
Disclosed are wholly aromatic polyamide filament and a method of manufacturing the same, characterized in that, in the process of preparing the wholly aromatic polyamide polymer, the aromatic diamine, aromatic diacid chloride and polymerization solvent put into the reactor 20 are agitated by an agitation device which is installed in the reactor 20 and consists of: (i) a rotor 3 driven by a motor 2 and having a plurality of pins 3a; and (ii) a stator 4 having a plurality of pins 4a, wherein spin speed of the rotor 3 is controlled to 10 to 100 times of both of feeding rates for the aromatic diacid chloride and the aromatic diamine in the polymerization solvent into the reactor and, at the same time, contact frequency between the pins 3a and the pins 4a is regulated within a range of 100 to 1,000 Hz. The present invention is effective to progress uniform and homogeneous polymerization over all of area of a polymerization reactor 20, thereby reducing deviation in degree of polymerization, since polymeric monomers are miscible and react together very well in the reactor 20. Accordingly, the wholly aromatic polyamide filament produced exhibits narrow PDI and lowered paracrystalline parameter gII leading to reduction of defects of a crystal itself, so as to considerably improve strength and modulus thereof.
US07776437B2
A display module including a display panel, a chassis on a non-image-displaying surface of the display panel, and a double-sided tape between the display panel and the chassis, the double-sided tape including a foam layer, a top adhesive layer on an upper surface of the foam layer, and a first bottom adhesive layer on a lower surface of the foam layer.
US07776435B2
The present invention is an electrophotographic transfer paper where at least one side of the base paper is given a coating layer with a pigment and an adhesive agent to form coated paper and where the aforementioned adhesive contains a branched poly(meth)acrylamide copolymer having a cationic groups and/or anionic groups and also has a weight average molecular weight of 50,000 to 1,000,000. The electrophotographic transfer paper in the present invention has superior high-speed throughput performance despite low basis weight and a low coating weight, therefore, good for high-speed copy machine and printer properties, especially, when it contained a printability improver in the coating layer, it has a good ink adhesion property and surface strength required in offset printing.
US07776434B2
A tailorable polyimide resin system may be used to form an organic matrix composite (OMC) structure for use in high temperature applications. A thermal oxidative barrier coating on the OMC may include a bond coat comprising a tailorable polyimide resin system. The bond coat may include nano-particles such as clay platelets, graphite flakes or a polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane. The coating system may include a thermal barrier layer including a silsesquioxane or an inorganic polymer. The tailorable polyimide resin system includes first and second independent prepolymer components able to impart desired properties in the prepolymer blend or the crosslinked polyimide matrix.
US07776426B2
A ceramic circuit substrate and a manufacturing method thereof are provided, which has excellent thermal shock tolerance by forming a gap between a circuit pattern section and a ceramic substrate, and has a capability of preventing etchant residue from remaining therein. The ceramic circuit substrate according to the present invention includes patterns of brazing material (8 and 9) formed on the ceramic substrate, and a circuit pattern section jointed to the patterns of brazing material. The patterns of brazing material includes a line pattern along the edge of the circuit pattern. Also, a gap is formed within the line pattern located between the ceramic substrate and the circuit pattern.
US07776425B2
A non-vacuum-based, non-collodial chemistry-based method of synthesizing metal nanoparticles and nanoparticle-nanostructured material composites obtained by that method. An embodiment of the method of this invention for fabricating a nanoparticle-nanostructured material composite and synthesizing nanoparticles includes preparing a nanostructured/nanotextured material, and, contacting the nanostructured/nanotextured material with a solution. Nanoparticles are synthesized on the nanostructured/nanotextured material as a result of the contact. The method of the present invention can be utilized to fabricate SPR and SERS substrates for sensing and detection. Additional systems based on this approach (e.g., surface plasmon resonance absorption and alloying sensors and nanocatalysts) are described.
US07776418B2
A package closure device comprising a flexible single-layer element having three sections. A first section configured to adhere substantially permanently to a first location on the package. A second section, attached to the first section, configured to releasably and reattachably attach to a second location on the package so as to close an opening of the package. A third section, attached to the second section, and configured to permit a user to release the second section by applying a force to the third section. A kit of multiple package closure devices detachably connected in series so as to be formable in a roll, with perforations or other detachable connectors between the closure devices.
US07776402B2
The present invention relates to a method for pattern formation and an apparatus for pattern formation, the method comprising: applying, between partition lines for pattern formation formed on a surface of a base member, a resin composition for pattern formation having small compatibility or substantially no compatibility with a resin forming the partition lines for pattern formation, in a state in which the surface of the base member with the partition lines for pattern formation formed whereon is placed face down; maintaining the state in which the resin composition for pattern formation is held on the surface of the base member that is placed face down in order to form the resin composition for pattern formation applied between the partition lines for pattern formation into a downward convex shape; and curing the resin composition for pattern formation that is formed into the downward convex shape in order to form a pattern.
US07776400B2
A wiper blade (1) comprising a base portion (3) to be attached to a wiper arm, a lip portion (4) to sweep away a water droplet or dust etc. adhered to a glass window, a thin neck portion (2) for connecting the lip portion (4) and the base portion (3), and a sweeping surface layer portion formed on a side surface of a cross section of the lip portion (4), the sweeping surface layer (7) comprising a scale-like powder (9) having good sliding property and a binder (10) comprising a water-repellency silicone-base rubber composition for binding the scale-like powder (9) to the lip portion (4). The scale-like powder (9) is laminated in a thickness direction of the lip portion (4) and the laminated scale-like powder is bound to each other with the binder (10).
US07776395B2
A high-k silicate atomic layer deposition method is disclosed. To produce a hafnium silicate layer, a substrate may be exposed to a pulse of a hafnium precursor, a pulse of an oxidizer, a pulse of a silicon precursor, and a pulse of another oxidizer. A catalyst may additionally be co-flowed with one or more reactants into the chamber through a separate inlet. Alternatively, the catalyst may be flowed to the chamber before the reactant is introduced in a soaking procedure. By either co-flowing the catalyst through separate inlets or by performing a catalyst soak, hafnium silicate formation may proceed at a fast rate and/or at a low temperature.
US07776394B2
Atomic layer deposition processes for the formation of metal-containing films on surfaces are provided.
US07776390B2
A filter window manufacturing method includes fabricating a structure of wires on a substrate, depositing a lacquer over the wires and the substrate, depositing a first layer that includes a material selected from the group consisting of AlN, Ru, Ir, Au, SiN, Rh, C and combinations thereof, removing the lacquer, removing the substrate, and baking the first layer.
US07776377B2
A food composition or product is described comprising a finely ground nut-seed component, a liquefying agent, and salt, combined with (a) baking soda and a starch; or (b) at least one sweetening agent; or (c) baking soda, a starch and at least one sweetening agent.
US07776376B2
A whippable food product having improved stability characteristics without detectable change in the organoleptic characteristics is provided. The product comprises triglyceride fat, one or more sugars and an emulsifier component comprising destabilizing and stabilizing emulsifiers in amounts sufficient to stabilize the product. This product can be stored at ambient temperatures for extended periods of time and can also be whipped and displayed at ambient temperatures.
US07776367B2
The invention relates to the use, in a cosmetic composition or for the production of a cosmetic composition, of an extract of an exudate of the plant Daniellia oliveri, said exudate being at least partially made up of the oleoresin of said plant.It relates most particularly to the use of this extract as a cosmetic agent for modifying the surface of the skin by giving it a smoother appearance through a reduction in the depth of the wrinkles and/or fine lines and/or by providing it with a re-plumping effect.It also relates to a cosmetic care method for modifying the surface of the skin by giving it a smoother appearance through a reduction in the depth of the wrinkles and fine lines and/or by providing it with a re-plumping effect, comprising the application, to the areas of the skin in question, of a cosmetic composition containing this extract.
US07776364B2
An anti-oxidant cocktail demonstrated efficacious in the treatment of avian and mammalian cataracts, useful for veterinary and human use as a veterinary or human pharmaceutical (to cure existing cataracts) or as a dietary supplement (to maintain a healthy, non-diseased state).
US07776361B2
This invention pertains to the discovery that the human NELL-1 gene induces or upregulates bone mineralization. The NELL-1 gene or gene product thus provides a convenient target for screening for modulators of bone mineralization. In addition, NELL-1 can be used to facilitate repair of bone fractures and/or to generally increase bone density.
US07776358B2
Venlafaxine besylate is formulated into an extended release tablet in high loading rates by use of a coating that contains ammonio methacrylate copolymer(s).
US07776354B2
The present invention relates to a preventive or therapeutic agent for a glomerular disease which comprises an anti-thrombocytic agent and an HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor as active ingredients.The above agent is useful for prevention and therapy of various glomerular diseases including chronic glomerular nephritis.
US07776345B2
The present invention provides a gastric retention controlled drug delivery system comprising: (a) a controlled release core comprising a drug, a highly swellable polymer and a gas generating agent, said core being capable of swelling and achieving floatation rapidly while maintaining its physical integrity in gastrointestinal fluids for prolonged periods, and (b) a rapidly releasing coat composition comprising the same drug as in the core and pharmaceutically acceptable excipients, wherein the coating composition surrounds the core such that the system provides a biphasic release of the drug in gastrointestinal fluids.
US07776337B2
Novel bacteriocins and/or the novel lactic acid-producing strains are used for at least reducing the levels of colonization by at least one target bacteria in animals, especially poultry.
US07776328B2
Provided herein is disclosure about the development and characterization of an antibody that binds to antigen EphA2 which is present on a variety of human cancers from breast, lung, prostate, and colons. Methods of diagnosing and treating various cancers by using such antibodies directed against this antigen are also disclosed.
US07776314B2
The invention relates to a solid administration form, protected from parenteral abuse and containing at least one viscosity-increasing agent in addition to one or more active substances that have parenteral abuse potential. The agent forms, when a necessary minimum amount of an aqueous liquid is added, on the basis of an extract obtained from the administration form, a preferably injectable gel that remains visually distinct when introduced into another quantity of an aqueous liquid.
US07776312B2
Methods and pharmaceutical compositions for preconditioning and/or providing neuroprotection to the animal central nervous system against the effects of neurological disorders involving ischemia, trauma, metal poisoning and neurodegeneration, including the associated cognitive, behavioral and physical impairments. In one embodiment, the method is accomplished by stimulating and/or stabilizing hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α). HIF-1α is known to provide a neuroprotective benefit under ischemic conditions. In another embodiment, the method is accomplished by differentially reducing, inhibiting or preventing the increased expression of selected genes caused by neurological disorders. Patients at risk for certain diseases or disorders that are associated with risk for cerebral ischemia may benefit, e.g., those at risk for Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Wilson's disease, Huntington's disease, thalassemia or stroke, or those patients having head or spinal cord injury. Patients undergoing certain medical procedures that may result in ischemia may also benefit. Initially, the possibility of ischemia or neurodegeneration is recognized. Intranasal therapeutic agents are administered to the upper third of the nasal cavity to bypass the blood-brain barrier and access the central nervous system directly to avoid unwanted and potentially lethal side effects. Therapeutic agents include those substances that interact with iron and/or copper such as iron chelators, copper chelators, and antioxidants. Particular examples of such therapeutic agents are the iron chelators deferoxamine (DFO) and deferasirox. Intranasal administration of DFO is known to stimulate and/or stabilize HIF-1α and provides an efficient and safe method for pre-conditioning the brain to protect against cerebral ischemia.
US07776310B2
A flexible or elastic brachytherapy strand that includes an imaging marker and/or a therapeutic, diagnostic or prophylactic agent such as a drug in a biocompatible carrier that can be delivered to a subject upon implantation into the subject through the bore of a brachytherapy implantation needle has been developed. Strands can be formed as chains or continuous arrays of seeds up to 50 centimeters or more, with or without spacer material, flaccid, rigid, or flexible.
US07776309B2
Methods of alkylating target compounds are disclosed. The alkylating agent can be radiolabelled. In some instances, the alkylating agent is synthesized and then reacted with a target compound without an intervening purification step. The method comprises a) synthesizing an alkylating agent having the formula: X—(CR1R2)aCR3R4-LG wherein, a is 0, 1, 2 or 3, R1, R2, R3 and R4 are independently H, X or alkyl, X is a halogen or a label, with the proviso that at least one X is a halogen, LG is a leaving group; and b) directly reacting said alkylating agent with a target compound comprising an alkylation reactive group under conditions suitable for the alkylation of said target compound.
US07776302B1
Fluorine extraction systems and associated processes are described herein. In one embodiment, a fluorine extraction process can include loading a mixture containing a uranium fluoride (UxFy, where x and y are integers) and an oxidizing agent into a reaction vessel. The reaction vessel has a closed bottom section and an opening spaced apart from the bottom section. The fluorine extraction process can also include heating the mixture containing uranium fluoride and the oxidizing agent in the reaction vessel, forming at least one uranium dioxide and a non-radioactive gas product from the heated mixture, and controlling a depth of the mixture in the reaction vessel to achieve a desired reaction yield of the non-radioactive gas product.
US07776301B2
Calcium bromide is a component of sorbent compositions that can be added on to coal to reduce the amount of sulfur gases released into the atmosphere from a coal burning facility. The sorbent components are added onto coal before the coal is added into the furnace and combusted. The fuel being burned is any fuel that contains sulfur, such as lignite, bituminous, and anthracite coal. The sorbent can contain other components such as silica, alumina, cement kiln dust, lime kiln dust, Portland cement, and aluminosilicate clay. Sulfur emissions are monitored during combustion of the fuel, and the rate of sorbent addition can be changed or a adjusted based on the monitored sulfur levels.
US07776291B2
There are disclosed systems and methods of delivering sterile fluids aseptically to a sealed canister. In an embodiment, a includes a canister having an inlet, a vent, and a drain outlet, a reagent manifold in communication with the inlet, a bubbler in communication with the vent, and a fluid communicator from the drain outlet. In another embodiment, a method includes providing a canister having an inlet, a vent, and a drain outlet; selectively providing reagents to the canister from a reagent manifold in communication with the inlet, allowing excess gasses to leave the canister with a bubbler in communication with the vent, and selectively purging the reagents from the canister through the drain outlet. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US07776289B2
A method of producing decabromodiphenyl alkanes includes the steps of charging a reaction vessel with bromine and a bromination catalyst and introducing a diphenyl alkane into the vessel at a location above the level of the charge bromine and catalyst. A dip tube apparatus for introducing the diphenyl alkane includes an inner tube and an outer tube, each of which are disposed above the surface of the bromine reaction vessel. The inner tube is fitted with a plug having an opening. Diphenyl alkane flows through the inner tube, out the opening in the plug, and into the reactor. The outer tube is disposed around and along the inner tube. Reaction mass from the vessel is recirculated from the vessel, through the outer tube and back to the vessel so as to form a curtain of reaction mass around the stream of diphenyl alkane being simultaneously fed into the reaction vessel.
US07776287B2
This present invention describes a novel type of internal exchanger intended to carry out Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. This exchanger has a modular design and comprises a central tube with partitions allowing at the same time the supply of coolant to the hairpins of the module and the recovery of the partially vaporized fluid from these same hairpins.
US07776282B2
The present invention discloses a retaining seal member including a sheet material formed of an inorganic fiber. The sheet material has a protruding part on one end and a notch part on the other end. The protruding part and the notch part are engageable with each other. The protruding part includes a corner area having a rounded distal end. The notch part includes a side area having a rounded distal end.
US07776280B2
An apparatus comprises parallel first and second exhaust gas passageways, a urea injection system, a hydrolysis catalyst, and an SCR catalyst. The urea injection system is configured to inject urea into the first exhaust gas passageway. The hydrolysis catalyst is positioned in the first exhaust gas passageway to generate ammonia at least partially from urea injected into the first exhaust gas passageway by the urea injection system. The SCR catalyst is positioned downstream to reduce NOx with the generated ammonia. An associated method is disclosed.
US07776275B2
A chemical feeder system includes an aqueous chemical contained in a chemical source, the chemical source connected with a fluid stock through a chemical flow conduit and a feeder assembly connected within the chemical flow conduit that includes a metering device, a flow rate sensor and a controller operationally connected between the flow rate sensor and the metering device. A method of controlling the flow rate a treating chemical is applied to a fluid stock includes the steps of positioning a flow sensor upstream of a chemical metering device in a chemical flow conduit between a chemical source and fluid stock, flowing a treating chemical from the source through the chemical flow conduit, determining a desired application flow rate of the treating chemical and adjusting the metering device in response to a flow rate reading at the flow rate sensor to achieve the desired application flow rate.
US07776272B2
A liquid router that comprises an inlet microconduit that branches into two exit microconduits (microconduit I and II) and is present in a microchannel structure of a microfluidic device which is using centrifugal force created by spinning the device about a spin axis for transporting liquid. The router is characterized in comprising a microcavity in which there are: a lower part comprising two exit openings (exits I and II), and an upper part comprising an inlet opening to which the inlet microconduit (3) is connected, and microconduits I and II which are connected to exits I and II, respectively, and stretch from a shorter radial position to a larger radial position relative to the spin axis. Microconduit II has a reduced hydrophilicity (=reduced apparent wettability) compared to microconduit I.
US07776269B2
A sensing device having: a bottom electrode, a dielectric on the bottom electrode, a grid of nanoelectrodes on the dielectric, and a top electrode in electrical contact with the grid. A method of chemical or biological sensing comprising: providing a grid of nanoelectrodes; exposing the grid to fluid suspected of containing a chemical or biological analyte; and measuring a change in the capacitance and conductance of the grid.
US07776268B2
The fluidic system of the preferred embodiment includes a sheath pump to pump sheath fluid from a sheath container into an interrogation zone and a waste pump to pump waste fluid from the interrogation zone into a waste container. The sheath pump and/or the waste pump draw sample fluid from a sample container into the interrogation zone. The fluidic system also includes a controller to adjust the flow rate of the sample fluid from the sample container into the interrogation zone. The fluidic system is preferably incorporated into a flow cytometer with a flow cell that includes the interrogation zone.
US07776262B1
Disinfection of waste can be carried out by first cutting the waste into small pieces to expose surfaces in the waste and then simultaneously spraying the waste pieces with disinfectant and agitating them. The waste pieces are agitated by applying sufficient vacuum to suck the waste pieces through a processing system, the vacuum creating a wind inside the system that sweeps up the waste pieces, suspends them in air, and keeps them separate from one another, thereby exposing substantially all surfaces of the waste pieces to the sprayed disinfectant.
US07776256B2
Methods of forming bit bodies for earth-boring bits include assembling green components, brown components, or fully sintered components, and sintering the assembled components. Other methods include isostatically pressing a powder to form a green body substantially composed of a particle-matrix composite material, and sintering the green body to provide a bit body having a desired final density. Methods of forming earth-boring bits include providing a bit body substantially formed of a particle-matrix composite material and attaching a shank to the body. The body is provided by pressing a powder to form a green body and sintering the green body. Earth-boring bits include a unitary structure substantially formed of a particle-matrix composite material. The unitary structure includes a first region configured to carry cutters and a second region that includes a threaded pin. Earth-boring bits include a shank attached directly to a body substantially formed of a particle-matrix composite material.
US07776253B2
An installation is provided for supplying materials into a metallurgical unit by the alloying steel for synchronizing the process of melting the supplied materials and reducing the alloying elements. The installation includes a distributor gear made as a funnel and a swivel launder with a drive, and intermediate hoppers interconnected with a pipe-chute. The installation is provided with a housing having a lid and means for fastening to structures of a plant. The funnel is mounted in the lid, the swivel launder is mounted under the lid and the intermediate hoppers are positioned radially in the housing to form a cavity by hopper surfaces facing a longitudinal axis of the installation, said cavity being separated from the interior of the hoppers, which are coupled to the pipe chute by discharge openings formed therein and shutters mounted to move relative to a longitudinal axis of a hopper.
US07776246B2
The present invention concerns a process for making a polyareneazole multifilament yarn comprising: a) extruding a solution comprising polyareneazole polymer and polyphosphoric acid through a plurality of orifices to produce filaments; b) forming a multifilament yarn from said filaments; c) hydrolyzing at least some of the polyphosphoric acid in the yarn by heating the yarn to a temperature above about 120° C. for up to about two minutes; d) washing at least some of the hydrolyzed polyphosphoric acid from the yarn; e) drying the washed yarn; f) optionally, heating the yarn above about 300° C., and g) collecting the yarn at a speed of at least about 50 meters per minute.
US07776243B2
A method of forming a reinforced building product from garbage, comprising the steps of sorting garbage, shredding plastics within the garbage, shredding fibers within the garbage, heating the shredded plastics, forming a slurry from the plastics and fibers, disposing the slurry within an extrusion cavity, extruding the fluid through a venturi, and allowing the extruded materials to cool. Garbage is separated into plastics, fibers, and other materials. Plastics are shredded to facilitate melting. Fibers are shredded to macroscopic lengths no greater than a maximum internal diameter of a venturi. The plastics are melted. The melted plastics are mixed with fibers and other material to form a slurry that is extruded from a cavity through a venturi, thereby causing significant alignment of the shredded fibers within the slurry in an outer region of the extruded slurry. Cooled, there is reinforced building material.
US07776235B1
The preparation of robust, thin film materials with large second-order optical nonlinearities through the covalent self-assembly of chromophoric compositions and innovative use of silyl chemistry.
US07776229B2
An object is to provide a process for producing a glass substrate provided with transparent electrodes, whereby in the case of producing a glass substrate provided with transparent electrodes by a laser patterning method, no scratches are formed on the surface of the glass substrate, the resistance value of the formed transparent electrodes is not increased, and the surface roughness is not increased. The means to accomplish the object is to provide a process for producing a glass substrate provided with transparent electrodes, which comprises a pattern forming step of applying laser patterning on a glass substrate provided with a transparent conductive film to obtain a glass substrate provided with a thin film pattern, and an etching step of subjecting the glass substrate provided with a thin film pattern to etching treatment by means of an etching solution which dissolves the glass substrate and which has a characteristic such that its speed to dissolve the glass substrate is higher than its speed to dissolve the transparent conductive film.
US07776228B2
A catalyst-aided chemical processing method is a novel processing method having a high processing efficiency and suited for processing in a space wavelength range of not less than several tens of μm. The catalyst-aided chemical processing method comprises: immersing a workpiece in a processing solution in which a halogen-containing molecule is dissolved, said workpiece normally being insoluble in said processing solution; and bringing a platinum, gold or ceramic solid catalyst close to or into contact with a processing surface of the workpiece, thereby processing the workpiece through dissolution in the processing solution of a halogenide produced by chemical reaction between a halogen radical generated at the surface of the catalyst and a surface atom of the workpiece.
US07776225B2
In a method for forming a lens according to the present invention, a digging step of digging a depression includes a depositing substep of depositing a pattern film on a surface of a base film, the pattern film being made of a second material and in an inverted shape of the depression, a forming substep of forming an embedding film to flatten the surface of the pattern film, the embedding film being made of a third material and embedding therein the pattern film, and an etch-back substep of conducting etch-back on a surface of the embedding film toward the base film to dig the depression, and an etch rate of the second material is higher than an etch rate of the third material.
US07776222B2
A method and apparatus for providing ballast water, cooling water, and/or auxiliary service water to a marine vessel is provided. The apparatus includes a plurality of pumps coupled to a docking facility. Each of the pumps collect water surrounding the docking facility and provides filtered water to the marine vessel as the vessel is moored. One or both of the docking facility and pumps may include a filtering device configured to prevent marine species from being entrained in the collected water.
US07776214B2
A membrane element in which, after membrane breakage or deterioration, the filtration plate made of a thermoplastic resin can be reused to replace the membrane with a fresh one. The membrane element comprises a filtration plate made of a thermoplastic resin and, bonded to a peripheral smooth surface thereof, a microporous filter membrane which has fine pores formed therein and employs a nonwoven fabric comprising synthetic resin fibers as a support. A hot plate having a shape corresponding to the peripheral shape of the resinous filtration plate is brought into contact with a peripheral smooth surface of the plate so as to form a recessed part in the surface. The temperature of the hot plate is regulated so as to be not higher than the melting point of the nonwoven fabric serving as the support and not lower than the Vicat softening temperature of the filtration plate made of a thermoplastic resin. The thermoplastic-resin filtration plate is pressed with this hot plate through the microporous filter membrane to bond it to the membrane.
US07776213B2
An apparatus is provided for suction of a secondary fluid into a primary fluid through one or multiple gaps in contact with a venturi. The venturi imparts a high velocity on the primary fluid to flow across a gap in contact with the venturi and draw in the secondary fluid. The apparatus employs a linear venturi with the flow area, or opening, in the form of a narrow ring or narrow rectangle to increase the length of the gap in contact with the venturi. One gap is provided and positioned in contact with one side of the narrow venturi opening, or two gaps are provided having one positioned in contact each side of the narrow venturi opening. The linear venturi is housed in assemblies referred to as “eductors.” Various eductor embodiments are provided including: 1), cylindrical housings with one or multiple concentric linear venturi with openings in the form of narrow rings; 2), rectangular housings with a single rectangular linear venturi with an opening in the form of a narrow rectangle, with multiple rectangular linear venturi with inlets positioned around a primary fluid inlet to flow radially outward through the multiple venturi, with multiple rectangular linear venturi with outlets positioned around a mixing chamber to cause circulation of the flow of fluids; 3), a cylindrical housing with linear venturi with an opening in the form of a narrow ring adapted for inserting into piping; and 4), cylindrical housings with linear venturi with an opening in the form of a wide ring adapted for installation in piping.
US07776198B2
A method and apparatus of anodizing a component, preferably aluminum, is disclosed. The component is placed in an electrolyte solution. A number of pulses are applied to the solution and component. Each pulse is formed by a pattern including having three magnitudes. The third magnitude is less, preferably substantially less, than the first and second magnitudes, and all three magnitudes are of the same polarity. The pulse pattern may include alternations between the first and second magnitudes, and following the alternations, the third magnitude. Other patterns may be provided. The solution is in a reaction chamber, along with at least a portion of the component. The fluid enters the reaction chamber from a transport chamber through a plurality of inlets directed toward the component, preferably at an angle of between 60 and 70 degrees. The inlet is preferably the cathode, and the component is the anode, whereby current flows between the cathode and the anode in another embodiment. The inlets are in a side wall such that the fluid enters the reaction chamber substantially horizontally. The reaction chamber has at least one outlet beneath the inlets. The outlet may be in a bottom wall. The fluid follows a return path, such that the fluid returns from the reaction chamber to the transport chamber. The component is held in a mounted position mechanically or pneumatically in various alternatives.
US07776194B2
A gas concentration measuring apparatus for use in air-fuel ratio control of motor vehicle engines is provided which is designed to select or determine a correction factor for an output of an A/F sensor, as produced through a sensor control circuit, for compensating for errors in circuit characteristics of the A/F sensor and/or the sensor control circuit to ensure the accuracy of measurement in the apparatus.
US07776191B2
Cathodes for aluminum electrolysis cells are formed of cathode blocks and current collector bars attached to those blocks. The cathode block has a cathode slot for receiving the collector bar and has a higher depth at a center than at both lateral edges of the cathode block. Additionally, the collector bar thickness is higher at the center than at both lateral edges of the cathode block. This cathode configuration provides a more even current distribution and, thus, a longer useful lifetime of such cathodes and increases cell productivity.
US07776186B2
A transport belt, in particular for machines for the production of web material such as paper or paperboard, having a printed material at least in some regions on a web material contact side.
US07776182B2
Selected chlorohydrin and cationic compounds containing nitroxide or hydroxylamine moieties are effective in stabilizing pulp or paper, especially pulp or paper containing lignin, against yellowing and discoloration due to the adverse effects of light. These compounds are added at various points in the paper-making process, especially at the wet ends, making the need for water soluble or water dispersible materials having high affinity for pulp or paper essential. This performance is often further enhanced by the presence of one or more coadditives selected from the group consisting of the UV absorbers, the polymeric inhibitors, the nitrones, the fluorescent whitening agents and metal chelating agents. Combinations of hydroxylamines or their salts, benzotriazole or benzophenone UV absorbers and a metal chelating agent are particularly effective.
US07776178B2
Stress within a suspension wall for suspending a showerhead in a process chamber is ameliorated by one or more of: (1) Openings in the suspension wall that reduce exposure of the suspension wall to process gas or ambient atmosphere when the chamber lid is opened. (2) A substantially vertical arrangement of one or more rifts in the suspension wall which facilitate horizontal buckling or flexing of the suspension wall. (3) A plurality of suspension walls whose respective central portions are coplanar. (4) A gas sealing skirt that helps protect the suspension wall from direct contact with process gas. The gas sealing skirt is connected to either the chamber wall or the showerhead but is not connected to both.
US07776177B2
A method for affixing covering products to building structures is described. The covering product includes a thermoplastic membrane, a layer in which a fabric that includes an adhesive coating, and a release liner. The layer is affixed to a primary surface of the membrane. After the covering product is transported to the building structure, the release liner is removed, and the covering produce is adhered to the building structure.
US07776173B2
A system for dispensing adhesive onto a surface is provided. This system includes a dispenser and a quantity of discrete units of adhesive releasably deposited on a substrate. The dispenser includes a drive mechanism that further includes an actuator for actuating the dispenser; and a drive wheel, wherein the drive wheel further includes mechanical means for engaging the actuator. An optional supply wheel may be included in the dispenser. The quantity of discrete units of adhesive is releasably deposited on a substrate that may be mounted on the supply wheel or that may simply sit within the dispenser. The substrate further includes means for cooperating with the drive wheel to incrementally advance the substrate a substantially fixed, and predetermined distance upon actuation of the dispenser.
US07776167B2
In accordance with the present invention, there are provided methods for the manufacture of aluminum alloy plates having reduced levels of residual stress as well as plates and products employing such plates. Processes of the present invention involve providing a solution heat-treated and quenched aluminum alloy plate with a thickness of at least 5 inches, and stress relieving the plate by performing at least one compressing step at a total rate of 0.5 to 5% permanent set along the longest or second longest edge of the plate. In the method, the dimension of the plate where the compression step is performed is along the longest or second longest edge of the plate, which is preferably no less than twice and no more than eight times the thickness of the plate. In further accordance with the present invention, there are provided stress-relieved alloys and plates that are provided with superior Wtot properties as well as reduced residual stress and heterogeneity values.
US07776159B2
A control system for controlling a fill operation of a dishwasher having a pump and a pump motor driving the pump, and the dishwasher having a valve for controlling the flow of water to the dishwasher includes a monitoring device configured to be coupled to at least one of the pump and the pump motor. The monitoring device generates an output relating to at least one of an operating current and a speed of the pump motor. The control system also includes a controller configured to be operatively coupled to the valve, wherein the controller receives the output and is configured to operate the valve based on the output. The output relates to a fill condition of the dishwasher.
US07776155B2
A surface modified quartz glass crucible and a process for modifying the crucible includes a layer of a metal oxide on the whole or a part of the inside and/or outside of the crucible, and baking it. At least an inside surface of the crucible is coated with a said metal oxide of magnesium, calcium, strontium or barium. The coated layer of the crucible does not abrade easily and provides a high dislocation free ratio of silicon single crystals pulled by using the crucible.
US07776146B2
A method of preparing a universal base composition disclosed which consists of milling a pigment in a resin that is soluble in both water and organic solvent and wherein the resin contains both hydrophobic and hydrophilic monomers such that the total weight of the hydrophobic and hydrophilic monomers is at least about 20% of the total weight of the resin and the weight ratio of hydrophobic monomers to hydrophilic monomers is from about ⅕ to about 5.
US07776141B2
Methods and apparatus for pollution control which are well suited for use in a coal power plant are described. Ash is collected and injected into the flue gas stream at a location upstream of a cooling module. The ash acts as an absorbent and/or reactant material onto which condensate may condense. By re-introducing ash to keep the condensation forming wet areas within the system, lower cost materials which are less corrosion resistant than needed for wet operating conditions can be used. Mercury recovery and SO3 removal is facilitated by the cooling process and re-introduction of collected ash. Activated carbon and/or an alkali absorbent material may be added. Use of a dry ESP and/or fabric filter as opposed to a wet ESP for particulate collection leads to cost benefits. Energy recovered by the cooling of the flue gas may be re-used to heat turbine condensate leading to improved energy efficiency.
US07776138B2
A process for the removal of contaminants from a gas stream is disclosed. A gas stream is contacted with a chlorine-containing compound to form a mixed gas stream. The mixed gas stream is then contacted with a sorbent in a sorption zone to produce a product gas stream and a sulfur laden sorbent, wherein the sorbent comprises zinc and a promoter metal.
US07776136B2
A method for manufacturing molten iron including the steps of producing reducing material of mixed hot fine direct reduced iron and calcined additives, the reducing material being produced from multiple fluidized beds; charging the reducing material to at least one pair of roller presses; roll pressing the reducing material through the one pair of roller presses to produce continuous compacted material having protrusions formed on pressed surfaces; crushing the compacted material; charging the crushed compacted material to a coal packed bed; and supplying oxygen to the coal packed bed to manufacture molten iron, wherein in the producing compacted material, the compacted material is formed such that acute and obtuse angles are formed between a center line formed along a length of a cross section that is cut along a lengthwise direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the roller presses and connecting lines that connect grooves closest to each other across the cross sectional area. An apparatus for manufacturing molten iron performs the inventive method for manufacturing molten iron. The processes involved in manufacturing molten iron using the invention are convenient, efficient, improve productivity, and allow for more flexibility with respect to equipment operation during the manufacture of compacted material.
US07776132B2
A molten metal treatment consisting of a liquid mixture in which fluorinated ketone is dissolved in liquid carbon dioxide at 0.01 to 10 wt % is put in a container, and the molten metal treatment is vaporized, and is fed as a cover gas to be contacted with the surface of a molten metal.
US07776125B2
Compositions and methods are provided for inhibiting caking or clumping in urea containing fertilizers by reducing the crystal aspect ratios of the crystals formed in the fertilizer to a level sufficient to effectively eliminate caking in a treated fertilizer.
US07776121B2
Provided is a dust collector of a vacuum cleaner. The dust collector includes a dust separating unit forming a separation space for separating dust from air, a collector body forming a dust storage for storing the dust separated in the dust separating unit, and a dust guide passage connecting the separation space to the dust storage and guiding the separated dust to be discharged from the separation space in a tangential direction.
US07776118B2
The present invention relates to a cap for hermetically sealing receiver driers, in which a cap body and a filter are separated and detachably engaged with each other and an O-ring is installed between the cap body and the filter, thereby facilitating the replacement of parts and the installation of the O-ring, favoring automatic assembly due to a tool insertion groove that can be formed long, achieving compactness of the cap due to the reduction of a total height of the cap when the cap body and the filter are engaged, improving a filtering effect by increasing the size of the filter with the cap being maintained in the same size, and facilitating engagement between the cap body and the filter and preventing the cap body from being released from a tank by discharging the air between the cap body and the filter.
US07776114B2
A process for the endothermic gasification of solid carbon in an entrained bed facility comprises partial oxidation of fuel(s) and endothermic gasification of solid carbon, preferably preceded by low temperature carbonization such that the carbonization gas is passed to the partial oxidation and the carbonization coke is passed to the endothermic gasification. The hot gas streaming downwardly from the combustion chamber is deflected to produce separation of the liquid slag and is then passed to the endothermic gasification that operates with a rising gas stream and with addition of solid carbon having a grain diameter of up to 20 mm. The speed of the gas at the carbon inlet is higher than, and the speed of the gas at the end of the endothermic gasification is lower than, the suspension rate of the reactive carbon particles, to produce an increase of the relative speed difference between the gas and the carbon particles. Apparatus is also disclosed for carrying out the process.
US07776113B2
The reaction of carbon monoxide with steam over an alkali-modified ruthenium-on-zirconia catalyst has been found to yield surprisingly high yields of hydrogen gas at relatively low temperatures. Catalyst structures, reactors, hydrogen production systems, and methods for producing hydrogen utilizing the alkali-modified ruthenium-on-zirconia catalyst are described. Methods of making catalysts are also described.
US07776112B2
Methods, processes, and apparatuses for the production of hydrogen gases are provided. A catalytic amount of iodine is dissolved in a hydrocarbon fuel source, such as cyclopropane and/or benzene, and the mixture is heated to a temperature greater than about 80° C. A reaction vessel capable of maintaining pressures greater than 1 atmosphere is used. The hydrogen gas thus produced is recovered, and optionally purified. The hydrogen gas product can be delivered to a fuel cell stack. The fuel cell stack receives hydrogen gas from the reaction chamber and produces an electric current therefrom as the hydrogen gas is reacted with oxygen to form water.
US07776111B2
The invention provides compositions comprising at least one alkylphenol-aldehyde resin (constituent I) and, based on the alkylphenol resin, from 0.005 to 10% by weight of at least one oil-soluble organic ammonium sulfonate (constituent II).
US07776110B2
Lightweight composite particles, primarily comprising various bentonite clays, but which may include other functional solid particles, are formed by introducing expanding gases or air into the particle forming process. The methods presented create the ability to reduce the bulk density of the composite particles while maintaining and in some cases even increasing the particle strength.
US07776103B2
Described is a process for washing, cleaning or aftertreatment of laundry comprising treating the laundry with compounds of formula (II): wherein R″, independently of each other, represent a hydrogen atom or a sulfur-containing group selected from the group consisting of OC—CH2—S—SO3M, SO3M, and wherein at least one R″ has to be one of the sulfur-containing groups, AO, independently of each other, represent C2H4O—, C3H6O— or C4H8O—, the indices x, y and z, independently of one another, are 0 or their sum have a value of from 1 to 500, M is a cation having at least one charge, and wherein if x, y or z is zero, than its corresponding substituent R″ is a hydrogen atom; and mixtures thereof.
US07776102B2
The process for making a leather article structure consists of homogeneously applying a layer of substantially uniform thickness of an unpolymerised acetic silicone-based material onto the back of a leather layer, making it penetrate into the natural pores present on the back of the leather layer, and polymerising the acetic silicone-based material so as to make a support layer for the leather layer.
US07776101B2
An inguinal hernia repair device in the form of an implantable plug that is affixed at one end to the center region of a sheet of implantable material. The plug takes the form of a plurality of hollow members, arranged so as to be in substantially parallel relationship when implanted into a defect. The hollow members are preferably tubular members and are preferably bundled together by various means, such as bonding or wrapping a band or strand about the plurality of hollow members to maintain them in adjacent and contacting relationship during insertion into a defect. The device is provided with a base member for anchorage made of a composite material having a non-bioabsorable component and a bioabsorbable component.
US07776098B2
A modular hip prosthesis includes a femoral stem, a spherical head and a coupling member extending from the head defining a neck whose lower end forms a base which plugs into a socket at the top of the stem to form a tapered neck/stem junction. That junction is aligned with the stem axis and has a cross-section with opposite sides that extend generally parallel to the sides of the stem. With such an arrangement, that junction may be relatively long and have a relatively large cross-sectional area thus making a strong junction even in smaller femoral implants.
US07776090B2
Systems and method in accordance with the embodiments of the present invention can include an implant for positioning within a cervical facet joint for distracting the cervical spine, thereby increasing the area of the canals and openings through which the spinal cord and nerves must pass, and decreasing pressure on the spinal cord and/or nerve roots. The implant can be inserted laterally or posteriorly.
