US07777795B2
A solid-state image pickup device includes a photoelectric conversion portion for generating signal electric charges in accordance with an amount of incident light, a plurality of color filters, and a flattening layer formed on the plurality of color filters. A thickness of a projection or a recess on a surface of the flattening layer, provided on a region where color filters are adjacent to each other, is equal to or less than 0.2 μm.
US07777790B2
A method for electronic imaging includes controlling an image sensor to capture a first sequence of first input images at a first frame rate having a first spatial resolution, and to capture a second sequence of second input images, interleaved with the first sequence and having a second spatial resolution lower than the first spatial resolution. The first and second sequences of the input images are processed to generate an third sequence of output images at a second frame rate higher than the first frame rate and having a third spatial resolution higher than the second spatial resolution.
US07777786B2
A device and a method for color data correction during color data transmission from a pickup device to an output device. Raw data of the pickup device are converted to uncorrected interim color values with a smaller number of pixels than the pickup device, and the uncorrected interim color values are then subjected to a color correction calculation and are finally converted into corrected interim color values for the output device.
US07777779B2
In this photographing apparatus, when it is recognized that communication with an external device is possible, the operating mode is set to the communication mode, in which communication can be carried out with the external device. Once there is communication connection with the external device, signals to change the mode from the mode selecting device, which directs the operating mode of the photography apparatus, are ignored, and a shift from the communication mode to another mode is prohibited.
US07777777B2
A video call monitor manager creates a video call monitor engine for initiated video calls between plural video devices with the video call monitor engine having a monitoring thread for each video device of the video call, the monitor threads periodically polling their associated video devices for quality of service and state information to automatically detect quality of service threshold rule violations and state changes for broadcast to interested locations, such as video network administrators monitoring the video call. Each video call monitor engine monitors a video call state with a nested state machine structure of device state machines, device monitor state machines and call segment state machines nested to define a call state machine as a video call is initiated, with the call state machine monitoring the video call throughout its life so that interesting call state changes and quality of service changes are detected and broadcast to monitoring clients.
US07777775B2
In an optical beam scanning apparatus and an image forming apparatus equipped with the optical beam scanning apparatus of the present invention, a holder base is screwed to an optical housing, a holder holds a light source, and a laser drive board is screwed to the holder. Rotary adjustment of the holder about the optical axis of the light source is performed with respect to the holder base, and the holder is fixed to the holder base. According to the optical beam scanning apparatus and the image forming apparatus equipped with the optical beam scanning apparatus of the present invention, it is possible to perform rotary adjustment of the light source about the optical axis with ease even in a small space.
US07777764B2
A mobile telephone has a display section for displaying a left screen in the left direction and a right screen in the right direction. Accordingly, a viewer holding the mobile telephone in hand can view the left screen when viewing the display section from the left side and the right screen when viewing the display section from the right side. Furthermore, the mobile telephone detects a change of the direction of the display section and switches the display screen. Consequently, when the viewer returns the holding state for viewing the right screen to the previous state and views the screen from the left side, he/she can view the next left screen.
US07777759B2
An image processing apparatus of the present invention comprising (a) a first signal processing circuit for applying gamma correction to an n-bit (n: a natural number) digital signal inputted as a video signal and for converting the n-bit digital signal into an m-bit (m>n, m: a natural number) digital signal, and (b) a second signal processing circuit for adding a noise signal, which is used for pseudo contour reduction, into the m-bit digital signal from the first signal processing circuit and for outputting a Q-bit (Q: a natural number) digital signal, which is obtained from rounding off a less significant (m−Q) bit (Q≦n) from the m-bit digital signal, to a display section.
US07777757B2
The invention relates to a method for displaying an autostereoscopic image having N viewpoints on at least a portion of a screen containing display pixels arranged in lines and columns, each display pixel containing a first, a second and a third color point aligned on the same line and each being of a different color (R.V.B.). The first display pixel of one line is constituted of color points of row 1 to 3, the second display pixel of one line is constituted of color points of row 4 to 6, the display pixel of row q of a line is constituted of color points of row (3q 2) to 3q. According to the inventive method, N is greater than 1 and the pixels of an autostereoscopic image to be displayed are displayed in such a manner that the 3 color points of each display pixel display 3 homologous color component color points of pixels of the autostereoscopic image coming from at least two pixels of the same row of at least two different viewpoints. The invention is characterized in that, for at least one group of two successive image lines comprising a first, a second and a third line, said spatial distribution of the 3 color points is offset by a step corresponding to a color point when passing from one line of the group to an adjacent line.
US07777754B2
A graphics adapter comprises a frame buffer operable to store graphics image data. The graphics adapter also comprises a network interface operable to receive at least a portion of the graphics image data, the network interface further operable to format the received graphics image data into a plurality of packets for transmission over a communication network.
US07777751B2
A plurality of memory circuits and a logic circuit. The plurality of memory circuits may be configured to store a plurality of pixels. The pixels may be used in a motion estimation stage of a video encoder. The logic circuit may be configured to (i) control which of the pixels are stored in which of the plurality of memory banks and (ii) control accessing of the plurality of pixels.
US07777750B1
One embodiment of the invention sets forth a method for storing graphics data in a texture array in a local memory coupled to a graphics processing unit. The method includes the steps of specifying the texture array as a target in the local memory, and loading a first block of texture maps into the texture array, wherein each texture map in the first block has a first resolution and corresponds to a different slice of the texture array. One advantage of the disclosed method is that a complete block of texture images may be loaded into a texture array using a single API call. Thus, compared to prior art systems, where a texture array must be loaded one image for one slice of the array at a time, the disclosed method increases the efficiency of using arrays of texture maps for graphics processing operations.
US07777748B2
A multi-mode parallel graphics rendering and display system supporting real-time graphics rendering and display operations using a graphics hub device. The system includes a CPU memory space, one or more CPUs for executing graphics-based applications, and a multi-mode parallel graphics rendering system (MPGRS) supporting multiple modes of parallel operation including object division, image division, and time division. The MMPGRS includes a plurality of graphic processing pipelines (GPPLs) that support a parallel graphics rendering process employing one or more modes of parallel operation. Each mode of parallel operation includes at least a decomposition stage, a distribution stage and a recomposition stage, and the MMPGRS also includes a decomposition module for supporting the decomposition stage, a distribution module for supporting the distribution stage, a recomposition module for supporting the recomposition stage, and a graphics hub device (GHD) for interconnecting the CPU memory space with the GPPLs, and supporting basic functionalities of the distribution and recomposition modules during the run-time of the graphics-based application. An automatic mode controller automatically controls the mode of parallel operation of the parallel graphics rendering subsystem during the run-time of the graphics-based application.
US07777744B2
Various systems and methods for equation graphing are disclosed herein. For example, some embodiments of the present invention provide methods for graphing equations in a substantially real time environment. Such methods include receiving a first equation and a second equation, and parsing the equations such that they are each formatted in a common format. In addition, the first parsed equation is reduced to one or more first equation shapes that provide a graphical representation of the first equation. A determination is made abut whether a real time control has been satisfied. Where the real time control has been satisfied, the first equation shapes are painted to a display prior to reduction of the second parsed equation to one or more second equation shapes.
US07777743B2
A method for hierarchical visualization of multi-dimensional data is provided. A first dimension-reduction process is applied to a multi-dimensional data set to obtain a first visualization. A subset of the multi-dimensional data set associated with a selected region of the dimension-reduced first visualization is selected. A second dimension-reduction process is applied to the selected subset of the multi-dimensional data set to obtain at least one additional visualization.
US07777740B2
The invention relates to image decomposition strategies and computer-based methods for implementing them. In one method of the invention, the ordering of tetrahedral shapes that define or approximate an image is performed in such a way that neighboring tetrahedral shapes can be identified, located and efficiently used. In one aspect, a binary location code array is used to represent an image and the method for identifying the neighbor shape employs a bit manipulation step in code or pseudo-code for operating a computer. In this aspect, the invention allows one to move between adjacent tetrahedra, and any data corresponding to the tetrahedra, in constant time.
US07777726B2
This invention provides a touch panel having excellent durability in a high-temperature high-moisture environment and a production method thereof. In a touch panel 1 including a pair of transparent glass substrates 1a and 2a each having a transparent electrode 1b, 2b and so arranged as to oppose each other through a seal portion 3, a thickness of the seal portion 3 is set to be not greater than 8 μm (exclusive of 0). In this way, moisture permeating through the seal portion 3 and entering a gap between the pair of transparent glass substrates 1a and 2a can be reduced.
US07777725B2
The disclosure relates to a system and method of mapping a layout of a keyboard onto a keypad in an electronic device. The method comprising steps of: providing a definition of a map of a keyboard layout as a collection of segments of the keyboard layout; associating a set of characters in one segment of the segments to programmable keys in the keypad; and selectively associating the programmable keys with another set of characters in another segment of the segments based on a signal received from a navigation system. The system is embodied in an electronic device, including a wireless device.
US07777717B2
A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with a disambiguation routine that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a text input, the device is able to perform a spell check routine during input of a text entry, with the output from the spell check routine being visually integrated into the output from the disambiguation routine.
US07777714B2
A backlit display with improved dynamic range. The disclosed display illuminates a pixel of the display at respective non-zero illumination levels during each of a first frame and a second frame and decreases the illumination level of the pixel during the interval between the first frame and the second frame.
US07777711B2
A display capable of inhibiting a logic composition circuit from outputting a signal to a gate line or a drain line at unintentional timing is obtained. In this display, at least either a first shift register circuit portion or a second shift register circuit portion includes a reset transistor for resetting the voltage supply source of a node outputting a first shift signal or a second shift signal to a second voltage supply source not turning on transistors of a logic composition circuit portion in response to an output signal received from a shift register circuit portion precedent thereto by at least two stages with respect to a scanning direction.
US07777707B2
A method for reducing a response time of the pixels corresponding to a period of time required for a selected pixel at a starting pixel value to reach a target pixel value. Providing an n×n factored zero diagonal LCD overdrive matrix and for a selected pixel at a particular start pixel value, selecting a particular target pixel value to be reached in one frame time, and determining a particular overdrive pixel value based upon the particular start pixel value and the particular target pixel value using the factored zero diagonal LCD overdrive matrix. When the start pixel value and the target pixel value are equal or almost equal in value, then setting the overdrive pixel value to a main diagonal pixel value such that the start pixel value is equal to the target pixel value.
US07777701B2
A light emitting display having a display area including data lines, selection scan lines, first and second emission control lines, and pixels; a selection signal generator sequentially outputting selection signals having a selection pulse; and an emission control signal generator generating a first control signal, the first control signal sequentially outputting a first emission control signal having an emission control pulse and a shifted first emission control pulse while shifting the first emission control signal by the first length of time, and sequentially outputting a second emission control signal having the emission control pulse and a shifted second emission control pulse while shifting the second emission control signal by the first length of time.
US07777700B2
A pixel employable by a display device, including a plurality of transistors, including a first transistor having a gate electrode, and a capacitor including a first terminal connected to the gate electrode of the first transistor and a second terminal that is an intrinsic semiconductor.
US07777693B2
An image output apparatus has a communication unit which can communicate with a plurality of external devices, displays an image received from an external device through the communication unit, and acquires, from an external device serving as a provision source of the image being displayed, indication information related to sending of the image to an external device. The image output apparatus controls sending of the image being displayed to an external device other than the external device serving as the provision source on the basis of the acquired indication information.
US07777678B2
An assembly antenna array comprises a ground plate, a pair of first radiation conductors, a first transmission member, first support rods, a pair of second conductors, a second transmission member, and second support rods. The ground plate has an upper surface and a lower surface. The layout size of the assembly antenna array is reduced via arranging the arrayed first radiation conductors and the arrayed second radiation conductors vertically to each other. The mutual interference between the transmission members is inhibited via respectively arranging the transmission members and the feeding ends of the two pairs of radiation conductors on different surfaces. A feeder cable is connected to an appropriate position of each transmission member to enable each pair of radiation conductors to have a phase difference of 180 degrees, whereby cross-polarization is reduced, and the gain are increased.
US07777676B2
There is disclosed a system for identifying a source location of an electromagnetic signal having a known waveform. Radio receiving equipment located at three of more monitoring stations receives and demodulates a radio frequency signal from a common source. A time stamp generator applies a time stamp to each block of N digital data samples derived from the received radio frequency signal at each monitoring station. A GPS timing signal can be used to synchronize the time stamp generator in each monitoring station. Further, replica generating hardware and/or software at each monitoring station periodically synchronously generates a replica waveform. An autocorrelation processor at each monitoring station determines a time offset between an occurrence of the known waveform in the signal, and an occurrence of the replica waveform at each monitoring station. The system also includes communication devices at each monitoring station for communicating the time offset from each monitoring station to a central processor which calculates a position of the source location using the time offset communicated from each monitoring station.
US07777668B2
A navigation system having a radar altimeter is disclosed. The navigation system comprises a signal processing unit and one or more antennas in operative communication with the radar altimeter and the signal processing unit. The system further comprises a forward looking radar communicatively coupled to the radar altimeter. The forward looking radar and the signal processing unit are configured to provide forward looking radar measurements, radar altitude measurements from the radar altimeter, and datalink communications within a single forward looking radar scanning sequence.
US07777660B2
An apparatus and method for sampling a plurality of digital video signals to generate an interleaved digital video signal is disclosed. The apparatus includes: a first analog-to-digital converter (ADC), coupled to an analog input signal, for converting the analog input signal to a first digital output signal according to a sampling clock signal; a second ADC, coupled to the analog input signal, for converting the analog input signal to a second digital output signal according to the sampling clock signal; a reference clock generator, for generating a reference clock; a random signal generator, for outputting control values in a random sequence; and a clock controller, coupled to the reference clock generator and the random signal generator, for modifying the reference clock signal according to the control values to generate the sampling clock signal to the first ADC and the second ADC.
US07777652B2
A method, apparatus and system employing a coder is disclosed. The coder to receive an incoming stream including a first code block and a second code block, and partition the first code block into first small code blocks, and partition the second code block into second small code blocks. The coder is further to code a memory that uses one or more serial lines for communication is performed, wherein coding includes coding the first small code blocks of the first code block and the second small code blocks of the second code block, wherein the coding of the first and second blocks is performed such that a maximum run length is maintained.
US07777640B2
The present disclosure provides an audible alarm system that utilizes air-conveying ductwork to transport the audible alarm signal from the point of origination to a distant location. This system is low cost and improves the safety of individuals and reduces the potential loss of property by providing early and better hazard communication.
US07777631B2
This Invention contemplates a system and method to manufacture an active RFID integrated circuit as a system on a chip which is powered by enzymes located in mammalian bodies. According to this Invention the active integrated circuit system on a chip is manufactured of a glass capsule containing a porous membrane which allows the free flow of bodily fluids into and out of the capsule. The enzymes in the bodily fluids of mammals produce sufficient electrical charge to power an active RFID transponder. This electrical charge is harnessed through the auspices of a standard chemical process utilizing a nano anode and cathode manufactured as an integral part of the system on a chip integrated chip capsule. The capsule or casing is coated with bio friendly enzymes which promote the surrounding tissue to grow up to the glass casing or capsule and bond with it. This is for the purpose of securing the capsule in one position in the body. The result is an active RFID transponder mammalian implant which can be interrogated from distances greater than those available with passive transponders. The negative fluidic and tissue influence of the mammalian body on electro magnetic signals is obviated by low frequency interrogation. The antenna of the system on a chip bodily implant is tuned to a specific frequency so that specific bodily fluids or tissue at the position of the body where the implant is positioned will not cause detuning of the antenna.
US07777626B2
Multiple RFID integrated circuit microradio chips are located at the feed point of an RFID tag antenna for greater reliability, elimination of testing and to take advantage of coherent microradio operation for increased gain and power, better signal-to-noise ratios, improved range and low bit error rates.
US07777624B2
A microwave direction of travel detector and method of detecting the direction of an intruder in a protected region. The microwave direction of travel detector transmits and receives, by a microwave transceiver a microwave signal directed toward a protected area. The microwave return signal is modulated by a moving target to produce a Doppler signal. The microcontroller monitors the output of the amplifier chain and stores the signal and compares it with previously stored signals. If the amplitude is increasing or decreasing over a preset time period, this would indicate that the target it approaching or receding respectively and an alarm would be generated by the microcontroller.
US07777621B2
The present invention relates to an automatic illuminating apparatus for motor vehicles. The apparatus includes an illumination device for emitting light beams, comprising a first light emitting member for emitting light beams in daytime and a controlling device electrically connected with the illumination device. The controlling device includes a sensor for sensing whether the vehicle is in motion, a time recording module for recording current time, a memory for storing an illumination period of the first light emitting member, a processor for analyzing whether the current time is in the illumination period which is electrically connected with the time recording module, the memory and the processor, and a controlling module for controlling the first light emitting member emitting light beams based on an analyzed result from the processor.
US07777619B2
Various methods and systems are disclosed for implementing active safety countermeasures in vehicles when it is determined that the driver is impaired.
US07777618B2
A collision detection system and method of estimating a crossing location are provided. The system includes a first sensor for sensing an object in a field of view and sensing a first range defined as the distance between the object and the first sensor. The system also includes a second sensor for sensing the object in the field of view and sensing a second range defined by the distance between the object and the second sensor. The system further includes a controller for processing the first and second range measurements and estimating a crossing location of the object as a function of the first and second range measurements. The crossing location is estimated using range and range rate in a W-plane in one embodiment and using a time domain approach in another embodiment.
US07777616B2
In an intersection information provision system, multiple cameras are installed oriented towards the direction where each road extends from the intersection. Each camera captures as an image or video the state ranging from the intersection to each road. Therefore, the area of the captured image by each camera is narrowed down. When this captured image is displayed in a display unit of a navigation apparatus in a vehicle, the driver of the vehicle can perform safety check easily. Furthermore, according to the traveling direction of the vehicle at the intersection, a display pattern of several captured images to be displayed is determined. According to the determined display pattern, multiple captured images are displayed in order. Therefore, image information required to pass through the intersection safely can be offered without shortage to the driver of the vehicle.
US07777615B2
A system for assisting the alignment of a hitch pin mounted on the rear of a vehicle with a hitch socket mounted on the front of a trailer. The system includes a camera mounted to the vehicle and positioned to capture an image rearwardly of the vehicle. A video display is contained within the vehicle which displays the image captured by the camera. A processor is also contained in the vehicle which calculates a preferred path of travel of the vehicle to position the hitch pin in alignment with the hitch socket. The processor is programmed to provide instructions to an operator of the vehicle of the required steering to maintain the vehicle on the preferred path of travel. The processor recalculates the preferred path of travel whenever the vehicle veers from the preferred path of travel by a preset threshold.
US07777613B2
A vehicle antitheft system and method detects the starting of a vehicle and starts a first timer. If the first timer times out without the system having detected a first predetermined sequence, the system actuates a vehicle system warning signal and starts a second timer. If the second timer times out without detecting a second predetermined sequence, which may be the same as or different from the first predetermined sequence, the system disables the vehicle. The system may send vehicle location information to a monitoring service or the like. The vehicle remains disabled until the antitheft system is reset.
US07777611B2
A mirror reflective element sub-assembly for an exterior rearview mirror assembly of a vehicle includes a mirror reflective element and a video display element. The video display element is disposed behind the mirror reflective element so that images displayed by the video display element are viewable through the mirror reflective element when the video display element is activated. The video display element is configured to display images that are readily viewable by the driver of the host vehicle and not readily viewable by drivers of other vehicles in the lane adjacent to the host vehicle.
US07777610B2
In one embodiment, a method includes transmitting a signal from a wireless transmitter to a radio frequency (RF) device of a plurality of RF devices within a communication range of the transmitter. The signal is to select a group of the RF devices. A reply signal is received from each RF device if the respective RF device determines that it is a member of the group.
US07777605B2
To provide a structure capable of securing satisfactory induction coupling efficiency and high reliability in manufacturing an induction coupling apparatus used in power line carrier communication, the induction coupling apparatus having a magnetic core formed from a first core element part and a second core element part so that a gap would be formed between the core element parts, includes: a core parallel moving mechanism for carrying out relative and parallel movement of the first core element part and the second core element part in a direction that the length of the gap varies; and a predetermined gap length regulating member for limiting parallel movement in a direction that the first core element part and the second core element part approach each other to regulate the gap length to the predetermined gap length in the case that the core parallel moving mechanism is used for the parallel movement.
US07777590B2
An improved HF socket or HF plug socket for connecting to a coaxial wiring system comprises an integrated monitoring means comprising a monitoring circuit arranged in a feed path extending in the HF socket between an interface for connecting a receiver and a junction to the wiring system or to the single-cable system. The monitoring circuit comprises a cut-off or interruption means by which the feed path is interrupted when a direct-voltage signal originating from a connected receiver is applied with a voltage above a threshold voltage for feeding into the wiring system or into the single-cable system over a predetermined or preadjustable period of time (τ).
US07777585B1
A technique for reducing temperature sensitivity of an LC oscillator circuit includes a passive circuit coupled in parallel with a load capacitor. In at least one embodiment, an oscillator circuit is configured to generate a periodic signal having a free-running frequency. The oscillator circuit includes a first circuit portion including at least one inductor coupled in parallel with at least one load capacitor. The first circuit portion has an inductance-capacitance product that has a first temperature sensitivity. The oscillator circuit includes a passive circuit portion coupled in parallel with the first circuit portion. The passive circuit portion includes at least one resistor in series with at least one capacitor. The passive circuit portion has a second temperature sensitivity that opposes an effect of the first temperature sensitivity on the free-running frequency of the oscillator circuit, thereby reducing temperature sensitivity of the free-running frequency.
US07777579B2
According to one exemplary embodiment, a local oscillation generator includes a mixing stage for receiving a primary frequency and one of a number of related frequencies. The local oscillation generator further includes a first transconductance stage to provide a first related frequency to the mixing stage when a first switch selectably enables a first power path in the first transconductance stage. The local oscillation generator further includes a second transconductance stage to provide a second related frequency to the mixing stage when a second switch selectably enables a second power path in the second transconductance stage. The local oscillation generator further includes a number of dividers, where an output of a first divider provides the first related frequency to an input of the first transconductance stage, and where an output of a second divider provides the second related frequency to an input of the second transconductance stage.
US07777578B2
An oscillator is disclosed that is tunable to discrete values, and includes a tuning element which can be connected via a switching device. A rectifier circuit is connected to the output of the oscillator and forms a clock signal from the oscillator signal. The oscillator circuit contains a phase delay circuit having a switching input, a clock signal input which is coupled to the output of the rectifier circuit, and a switching output coupled to the switching device. The phase delay circuit has a comparison circuit for comparison of a phase of the clock signal that is applied to the signal input with a reference phase. This phase delay circuit is designed to emit a switching signal after application of an activation signal to the switching input and after the phase of the clock signal which is applied to the signal input matches the reference phase. In consequence, the switching process is delayed until the step-function response of the output signal of the oscillator does not cause a sudden phase change in the clock signal.
US07777577B2
In a method and apparatus for controlling damping and bandwidth in a phase locked loop (PLL), a loop filter is configured to have a dual path for charge pump current. A 3 dB bandwidth of the PLL is controlled by adjusting gain of a proportional current path. An integral current path includes a gating circuit to digitally control an amount of time an integral charge pump current received is passed through as an effective integral charge pump current. A resistor and capacitor (RC) circuit filters the proportional and effective integral charge pump currents, thereby providing a filtered input to a voltage controlled oscillator. Damping and hence peaking of the PLL is precisely controlled by sampling one of every p samples of the integral charge pump current to provide the effective integral charge pump current, p being an integer.
US07777562B2
A digital Class-D amplifier distortion suppression circuit design is disclosed. A distortion suppression feedback loop is described to improve audio performance by suppressing output stage non-linearity and improving power supply noise rejection achieving reduced THD+N. The feedback loop is placed around the power stage. It forces tracking between the audio band signals at the input and output of the power stage by automatically adjusting the gating signal timing based on sensed effective duty ratio error. Error sensing and compensation are performed using techniques that lend to simple circuit implementation.
US07777560B2
An internal voltage generator includes an internal voltage detecting unit that receives an active signal activated in an active operation mode of a semiconductor memory and a bias voltage varying according to temperature variation, detects a level of an internal voltage by using a reference voltage and outputs an internal voltage pumping signal activated according to the level of the internal voltage.
US07777549B2
A level shifter circuit which amplifies the amplitude of an input signal, includes a CMOS inverter which is composed of a p-type transistor and an n-type transistor, a first and a second capacitor one electrode of each of which is connected to the gate of the p-type transistor and that of the n-type transistor, respectively, a first switch which supplies the input signal to the other electrodes of the first and second capacitors, a second switch which applies a direct-current voltage whose amplitude is nearly half of the amplitude of the input signal to the other electrodes of the first and second capacitors, and a third and a fourth switch which apply a first and a second preset voltage to one electrode of each of the first and second capacitors, respectively.
US07777545B2
In a semiconductor device, a delaying circuit is configured to delay an input signal based on an internal setting data to output as a timing signal. A delay determining section is configured to determine a delay state of each of a plurality of delay signals obtained by delaying the timing signal, based on the plurality of delay signals. A program section is configured to change the internal setting data based on the delay state.
US07777543B2
A duty cycle correction circuit apparatus includes a flip-flop, a feedback unit connected between an input node and an output node of the flip-flop to invert an output signal of the flip-flop and to output the inverted signal as an output signal of the feedback unit, and a selection unit to select and output one of a first clock signal and a second clock signal to the flip-flop in response to the output signal of the feedback unit, wherein the first clock signal has a half-period phase difference with respect to the second clock signal. Using clock signals with a half-period phase difference therebetween and a simple digital circuit, the duty cycle correction circuit can correct a duty ratio to 50:50 regardless of an initial condition.
US07777522B2
First circuitry is powered by a first power supply domain and provides a data signal referenced to the first power supply domain. Second circuitry is powered by a second power supply domain that differs from the first power supply domain. The data signal becomes referenced to the second power supply domain by a clocked level shifter that couples the first circuitry to the second circuitry and buffers the data signal from the first power supply domain to the second power supply domain by only using a single supply voltage. The clocked level shifter is clocked by a signal that is used to precharge a first node and a second node of the clocked level shifter until the data signal is valid for at least a setup time period. The first and second nodes are precharged to establish a known state in the clocked level shifter.
US07777520B2
A system, method, and apparatus for enhancing reliability on scan-initialized latches that affect functionality in a digital design are provided. The system includes a group of latches that affect functionality in the digital design based on state values of the latches, where the latches are scan initialized. The system also includes a disable allowance latch (DAL) allocated to the group of latches, where the DAL is a scan-initialized latch. The system further includes a gating function outputting the state value of at least one of the latches in the group to a functional block in the digital design in response to the DAL being in an enabled state and blocking the gating function output in response to the DAL being in a disabled state.
US07777516B2
A system and method for detecting incipient mechanical motor faults by way of current noise cancellation is disclosed. The system includes a controller configured to detect indicia of incipient mechanical motor faults. The controller further includes a processor programmed to receive a baseline set of current data from an operating motor and define a noise component in the baseline set of current data. The processor is also programmed to repeatedly receive real-time operating current data from the operating motor and remove the noise component from the operating current data in real-time to isolate any fault components present in the operating current data. The processor is then programmed to generate a fault index for the operating current data based on any isolated fault components.
US07777512B2
A semiconductor device 10a includes a normal circuit 11 and a voltage fluctuation detection circuit 12a connected to a power supply 100 in common with the normal circuit 11. The voltage fluctuation detection circuit 12a includes an inverting amplifier 13a, a switching element 14, which is connected between input and output terminals of the inverting amplifier 13a, and a capacitance element 15 connected to the input terminal of the inverting amplifier 13a. After the normal circuit 11 and the switching element 14 are set to an operating state and ON state, respectively, when the switching element 14 is set to OFF state at an arbitrary time, charge corresponding to a power supply voltage Vc0 at that time accumulates in the capacitance element 15. After the normal circuit 11 is set to a suspended state, a potential VDD of the power supply 100 is set to an arbitrary value, and the inverting amplifier 13a compares the value of a power supply voltage Vc with the voltage value Vc0 corresponding to the charge held in the capacitance element 15.
US07777499B2
The enhanced detection of defects in the bulk dielectric material (Specimen) having radiation partly reflected at interfaces where the dielectric constant changes (e.g., where there are defects or structures). A sinusoidal or quasisinusoidal wave (Microwave Source) results. Localization or imaging of features is enhanced by exploiting the variation in distance resolution (Standoff+/−) in a sinusoidal or quasi-sinusoidal standing wave. At characteristic distances, the wave has a high slope and the amplitude of the wave varies strongly with small changes in distance (Standoff+/−). By inspecting at these characteristic distances (Standoff+/−), the resolution is enhanced. By systematically varying the position of the transducer or specimen, detailed images may be formed of the internal structure of the specimen across a range of depths. Defects and structures may be detected at smaller sizes than has previously been possible.
US07777494B2
An arrangement for receiving and/or transmitting RF signals and for feeding the same in a digital format between at least one RF antenna, coil and/or sensor unit (A, B) and a signal processing unit (8), by means of at least one digital cable (121, . . . 12n), especially for use in a magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system is disclosed, wherein at least one of the RF antenna, coil and/or sensor units (A, B) and at least one side of the digital cables (121, . . . 12n) is provided with a digital signal connector (10c, 11a; 121a, 121b, . . . 12na, 12nb) for separably connecting both by plugging the connectors together. By transmitting the RF signals in a digital format, especially in a digital optical format, a plurality of digital cables (121, . . . 12n) with different lengths and digital connectors (121a, 121b, . . . 12na, 12nb) can be used which need not to be an inseparable part of the related RF antenna, coil or sensor, so that a great flexibility is achieved with respect to positioning of the RF antennas, coils and/or sensors for an examination, and a disturbance-free transmission of the RF signals can be ensured as well.
US07777492B2
The arrangement (10) is suited for transmitting an informative signal (S1), generated by suitable signal generator (1) at a first electrical site (7a) to a second electrical site (7b). The first electrical site (7a) is electrically connected to the second electrical site (7b) by means of a capacitively coupled transmission line (5a, 5b). In order to enable such capacitively coupled transmission line distributed or lumped capacitors (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d) can be used. The arrangement is connectable to an accessory device (6), which may comprise a spectrometer, a further signal generator, tuning means, etc. The further signal (S2) is generated by the accessory device (6) and transported via the capacitively coupled transmission line (5a, 5b) in a direction from the second electrical site (7b) to the first electrical site (7a). The further signal (S2) can be used for feeding an amplifier (2), or for carrying the signal (S1). The arrangement further relates to a magnetic resonance compatible device, a magnetic resonance imaging system and a method of sensing magnetic resonance energy.
US07777490B2
A radio frequency antenna comprising a resonant pickup circuit (102) arranged to pick up a magnetic resonance signal, an analog-to-digital converter (105) arranged to convert the magnetic resonance signal to digital data, and a frequency converter arranged to convert a primary band of frequencies of the digital data. By upshifting the frequency of the transmitted bit-stream, it is possible to RF-trap the transmission channel (109) by simple high-pass filtering techniques. In case the transmitted bit pattern has frequency components that approach the resonance frequency, an encoding technique like Manchester encoding can be used to eliminate unwanted signals.
US07777481B2
A self-energizing, non-contacting sensing device for detecting movement of ferrous elements, methods of use and assemblies therewith. The device includes a permanent magnet, a pair of ferrous conductors, an inductor coil and a microprocessor. The ferrous conductors are attached to the permanent magnet with free ends of the ferrous conductors being spaced from one another to provide a gap. The gap provides an open circuit in the absence of the moving ferrous elements and a substantially closed circuit in the presence of the moving ferrous elements. When the circuit alters between open and closed states, in the absence and presence of the moving ferrous elements, respectively, an electromotive force imparted on the inductor coil generates an alternating current. The microprocessor is configured to detect the alternating current produced in the inductor coil, and thus, can assess whether the ferrous elements are moving in a normal or abnormal manner.
US07777475B2
A method and apparatus for generating a voltage that is proportional to an absolute temperature (PTAT voltage). A current generator for generating a current that is proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT current) has an internal resistance and two diodes. The PTAT current is proportional to the resistance, and the temperature coefficient of the PTAT current is defined by the ratio of diode current densities. A feedback circuit has a source follower that is connected to the current generator for driving the output node with a regulated PTAT current wherein the PTAT current is mirrored accurately, providing a constant Vref.
US07777472B2
A current detector circuit detects a current supplied to a load and generates as a detection result a voltage corresponding to the detected current. A first p-channel transistor has a source connected to a power supply and a gate connected to a ground, and is configured to allow the passage therethrough of a current that is 1/N of a current flowing through a transistor which drives the load. A second p-channel transistor has a source connected to a drain of the first p-channel transistor, and a third p-channel transistor is connected to the load. A voltage mirror circuit has first and second terminals connected to respective drains of the second and third p-channel transistors. A n-channel transistor has a drain connected to the drain of the first p-channel transistor and outputs a source voltage as the detection result of the current detector circuit.
US07777469B2
A ramp adjustment circuit for a voltage converter including a gate driver for controlling series connected high- and low-side switches connected across DC voltage and coupled at an output node connected to a load through an inductor such that the converter operates in a continuous conduction mode (CCM) or a discontinuous conduction mode (DCM). The circuit includes a first current generating circuit for providing a first current signal for generating a first ramp signal; a second current generating circuit for providing a second reduced current signal for generating a second ramp signal having a reduced slope when the first current generating circuit is disabled and the second current generating circuit is enabled; and a circuit for enabling the first current generating circuit and disabling the second current generating circuit when the converter is in CCM and enabling the second current generating circuit and disabling the first current generating circuit when the converter is in DCM thereby providing the first current signal when the converter is in CCM to provide the first ramp signal and providing the second reduced current signal when the converter is in DCM to provide the second reduced slope ramp signal.
US07777467B2
In a voltage rising/falling type switching regulator including a voltage rising/falling part and a control part, the voltage rising/falling part includes a switching transistor for voltage falling, a rectifier element for voltage falling, a switching transistor for voltage rising, and a rectifier element for voltage rising, the control part is arranged so that the switching transistor for voltage rising and the switching transistor for voltage falling are synchronized at a time of shifting from voltage rising operation to voltage falling operation and/or at a time of shifting from voltage falling operation to voltage rising operation, to perform voltage rising/falling operation in which each switching transistor is turned on in a 50% duty cycle.
US07777465B2
A controlling method of a voltage regulator is provided. The voltage regulator at least includes a differential circuit and a pump high-voltage circuit which has a bias path, an output transistor and an output terminal. The controlling method includes steps of: providing at least a pre-charge path to the pump high-voltage circuit, closing the bias path and charging the output terminal with the pre-charge path when the output terminal is transient, detecting an output level of the output terminal, and closing the pre-charge path and open the bias path to bias the output transistor when the output level reaches a predetermined value.
US07777459B2
A DC/DC converter includes a pre-converter stage, which may include a charge pump, and a post-regulator stage, which may include a Buck converter. The duty factor of the post-regulator stage is controlled by a feedback path that extends from the output terminal of the DC/DC converter to an input terminal in the post-regulator stage. The pre-converter steps the input DC voltage up or down by a positive or negative integral or fractional value, and the post-regulator steps the voltage down by a variable amount depending on the duty factor at which the post-regulator is driven. The converter overcomes the problems of noise glitches, poor regulation, and instability, even near unity input-to-output voltage conversion ratios.
US07777457B2
A converter including an inductor (L), a first switch (SW1, S1) connected between an input terminal (Vin) and the inductor, a diode/switch (D1, S2), connected between the first end of the inductor and ground, a diode/switch (D2, S3) connected between the inductor and an output terminal (Vout), and a second switch (SW2, S4) coupled between inductor and ground. A current sensor senses current in the first switch (SW1, S1) as a measure of inductor current. Waveform generators (31, 32) generate buck and boost slope compensation ramps (RMP-BUCK, RMP-BOOST). Control logic (10) opens and closes the switches every clock period at individual duty cycles determined using a feedback signal derived from the output terminal, the sensed current and the slope compensation ramps. The slope compensation ramps are mutually offset such that current sensing is needed only while the first switch (SW1, S1) is closed.
US07777455B1
A switching circuit coupled to one or more input sources and having one or more switching elements controlled to produce an output for charging a battery. A first control circuit is responsive to current of the switching circuit for producing a first control signal to drive the switching element so as to control the current. A second control circuit is responsive to voltage at the battery for producing a second control signal to drive the switching element so as to control voltage developed across the battery. A selector circuit is responsive to the first and second control signals for selectively controlling the switching element.
US07777453B2
A car power source apparatus includes a battery array that has a plurality of battery units connected in series, a battery over-charge and over-discharge detection circuit, selection switches that sequentially input battery unit voltages to the over-charge and over-discharge detection circuit, a reference voltage circuit that inputs reference voltages to the over-charge and over-discharge detection circuit, and a control circuit that controls selection switches and the reference voltage circuit. The control circuit controls the selection switches to input battery unit voltages to the over-charge and over-discharge detection circuit to determine over-charge and over-discharge. Further, the control circuit controls selection switches not to input battery unit voltages to the over-charge and over-discharge detection circuit, but controls input of reference voltages to the over-charge and over-discharge detection circuit from the reference voltage circuit to confirm the operating condition of the over-charge and over-discharge detection circuit.
US07777450B2
A push-up type portable charging cradle having a stereo sound system is disclosed. The portable charging cradle includes a cradle body and a push-up type cradle rotatably mounted in the cradle body so that the push-up type cradle protrudes from or retracts to the top surface of the cradle body according to whether the push-up type cradle is pushed or not.
US07777448B2
A battery-recharging device (6), which can also be used to hold a pack of batteries (5) which may be blister-packaged, for display at the point of sale. The battery-recharging device has a support (1, 17, 51), which includes a series of housings (2, 18) for the connection and linking of packs of batteries (5); a pair of terminals (7, 8, 80), which are electrically connected with the poles (21) of each battery (6) contained in the battery packs (5) and are accessible from the outside, in order to obtain electric connections with the charging and/or maintenance circuits of a battery charger, which is incorporated in the device.
US07777446B2
An apparatus is provided to control a power voltage on a power-supplying line extending from a generator and connecting to a battery and eclectic loads. The apparatus is mounted on a vehicle and comprises a detecting device, a calculator, and a controller. The detecting device detects pairs of voltage and current of the battery. The calculator calculating a control current on the basis of the detected pairs of voltage and current and a target voltage for the power voltage. The pairs of voltage and current are used to calculate an internal resistance and/or a regression line of the battery. The controller controlling a charge and discharge current of the battery on the basis of the control current so that the power voltage is controlled to the target voltage.
US07777432B2
A device and method for generation of a dynamic focus correction signal for use with a CRT that includes an analog scanning processor for generating a dynamic focus correction signal that is proportional to Kx2+(1−K)x4, where x is the distance from a mid point of a viewing surface of the CRT, and K is a real number in the range 0.00 to 1.00. Embodiments of the invention find particular use in CRTs having generally flatter, squarer configurations.
US07777424B2
A method and apparatus for controlling an input voltage to a light emitting diode (LED) is disclosed. In one embodiment a system for controlling an input voltage to at least one LED includes an energy storage device. The energy storage device is coupled to the at least one LED. A current regulator is coupled the at least one LED for controlling activation and deactivation of the at least one LED. A control circuit is coupled to the current regulator for controlling a power supply providing an input voltage to the energy storage device, wherein the input voltage is provided in accordance with an amount of a headroom voltage measured across the current regulator.
US07777416B2
A method of manufacturing a micro-lens array and light-emitting device, including forming a first structured polymer film with close packed surface cavities having a mean diameter of less than 20 micrometers and a relatively lower surface energy surface, forming a transparent second structured film with an array of microlenses formed thereon corresponding to the cavities of the first structured film, wherein the second structured film includes a relatively high surface energy material and has a refractive index greater than 1.45, and wherein the microlenses are randomly distributed, separating the second structured film with the micro-lens array from the first structured polymer film, and attaching the second structured film to a transparent substrate or cover of a light-emitting device through which light is emitted. Use of microlens arrays formed from relatively high surface energy materials enables matching refractive index of microlens array to that of light-emitting devices substrate or cover through which light is emitted and relatively high elastic modulus providing good scratch resistance.
US07777414B2
To provide a structure of a light emitting element superior in light emission efficiency to a top surface. A structure where two electrodes are arranged in a surface parallel to a substrate with a light emitting layer interposed therebetween, is provided. An electrode is not disposed below the light emitting layer. Therefore, by providing a reflective film below the light emitting layer, light emission efficiency to a top surface can be improved. For example, a film with a reflective index lower than that of the light emitting layer is provided, and light toward the lower side of the light emitting layer is reflected at an interface of the stack where the refractive index has a gap; accordingly, light emission efficiency to the top surface can be improved. In addition, a metal film with a high reflectance (a reflective metal film with a fixed potential or in a floating state) can be disposed below the light emitting layer.
US07777413B2
An organic electroluminescent device including a first electrode (11), a second electrode (16), and an organic material layer (20) interposed therebetween; the second electrode (16) being light-transmissible; the organic material layer (20) having a structure wherein a first carrier transporting layer (12), an organic emitting layer (14) and a second carrier transporting layer (15) are stacked in this order; the organic material layer (20) including a conductive light-reflecting layer (13) therein; and the part between the light-transmissible second electrode (16) and the light-reflecting layer (13) forming an optical resonator enhancing light emitted from the organic emitting layer (14).
US07777401B2
An essentially-elongated spark plug for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, including: an essentially-capacitive lower part including two coaxial electrodes; an essentially-inductive upper part including a central mandrel, a coaxial winding around the mandrel, and an external tubular casing that serves as electromagnetic armor; and an insulant disposed radially between the casing and the winding. The essentially-inductive upper part includes a second internal casing of electromagnetic armor, which is disposed radially between the insulant and the external casing.
US07777397B2
An article comprises first and second electrically responsive elements having a cutting plane which is perpendicular to an x-dimension for separating the elements. The conductive elements of the conductive layers are alternatingly exposed to one of the two opposing faces of the conductive element.
US07777395B2
A continuous drop emitter includes a liquid supply chamber containing a liquid held at a positive pressure. First and second nozzles are in fluid communication with the liquid supply chamber and emit first and second continuous streams of a liquid. First and second stream break-up transducers independently synchronize the break up of the first and second continuous streams of the liquid into first and second streams of drops. An acoustic damping material is located adjacent to or within the liquid supply chamber for damping sound waves generated within the liquid chamber by the first and second stream break-up transducer. The continuous drop emitter can be configured with a Helmholtz resonant chamber tuned to a critical stimulation frequency having an acoustic damping material located therein.
US07777389B2
A rotating electrical machine comprises a stator and a rotor; the stator comprising a stator core having teeth and slots, and stator windings disposed in the slots, wherein the stator core is made of laminated steel sheets, teeth and slots of the steel sheet are made by etching, and the thickness of the steel sheet is between 0.05 mm and 0.30 mm. Specifically, it is preferable that the steel sheet used herein be a silicon steel sheet containing crystalline particles.
US07777382B2
A motor includes a rotor core, permanent magnets and non-magnetic layers. The permanent magnets are embedded in the rotor core with each of the permanent magnets defining a pole of the rotor having a pole center and a peripheral edge section, with the peripheral edge section located in a vicinity between the poles and a vicinity of the rotor surface. The non-magnetic layers are located in a vicinity of the rotor surface at a pole center side position with respect to the peripheral edge section of each of the permanent magnets. The peripheral edge sections and the non-magnetic layers are positioned to cancel 5-th or 7-th order harmonics of an induction voltage. The poles are disposed at every approximately constant interval, varying in a constant angle. The peripheral edge sections and the non-magnetic layers are independent from one another, and the rotor core is interposed between them.
US07777379B2
To prevent damage to an electric machine (1), for example in a motor vehicle, due to axial loading of the rotor bearing in a simple manner, a cushioning element (11, 18, 22, 27) is proposed to absorb axial loading of the bearing system (6, 7), thereby also reducing the axial play (8) of the bearing system (6, 7). When the bearing system (6, 7) is axially loaded, the cushioning element (11, 18, 22, 27) serves to convert kinetic energy into deformation energy.
US07777378B2
A shield member (90) is arranged on the rotor end face (18a) of an electric rotating machine (10). As the rotational velocity of a rotor (18) increases, the shield member (90) moves outward in the radial direction of a rotating shaft (12) to cover a part of the opening (86) of a slot (82). The shield member (90) controls inflow of lubricant from a portion in the axial-direction of the rotating shaft (12) on the outside of the rotor end face (18a) to the slot (82). Rotational resistance of the rotor (18) caused by stirring of lubricant can be reduced during high velocity rotation of the rotor (18).
US07777373B2
The invention relates to a cooling device (1,2) pertaining to an electrical machine (10), said cooling device (1,2) comprising at least one rod-shaped heat-conducting means (3,4) for heat-conductive connection to the electrical machine (10). The invention also relates to an electrical machine (10) comprising a housing (18) and/or a stator (14), said housing (18) and/or stator (14) being applied to a cooling device (1,2) comprising a rod-shaped heat-conducting means (3,4) extending axially in relation to the electrical machine. Said heat-conducting means (3,4) is to be received by the stator (14) and/or the housing (18) or arranged on the stator (14) and/or the housing (18).
US07777372B2
An electric motor designed for electric tools. The motor includes a first molded coil having a first coil covered entirely with a resin that is electrically insulating and highly heat conductive. The motor also includes a second molded coil having a second coil covered entirely with the resin. The first molded coil has a pair of first axial portions, and the second molded coil has a pair of second axial portions in alignment with the first axial portions. A stator core disposed around the molded coils includes a first stator core and a second stator core with first stator core legs and second stator core legs, respectively. Air paths through which fan airflow passes are formed between the axial portions and the opposing stator core legs.
US07777370B2
A method and apparatus for providing isolated high and low direct current power supplies to a Power Device using a sealed high Power Device Gate Driver having a single transformer, wherein the Gate Driver integrates the power supplies, gating control and gate control, gate drive and Power Device diagnostics into a sealed unit, wherein the unit may be further sealed hermetically.
US07777365B2
A polyphase power distribution and monitoring apparatus having sets of outputs for each phase of power and monitors for each phase of power disposed in the housing. Each monitor provides a visible display of current for an associated phase of power and an audible alarm for each phase of power if the current exceeds a predetermined value or falls below a predetermined value. In three-phase wye power systems, the apparatus preferably includes a neutral line monitor, including a neutral line current display and audio alarm, for the neutral line of the wye power circuit. The apparatus preferably is lightweight, elongated, portable, and mountable to the side of an electronic equipment rack. It may also include additional power monitoring systems such as network power monitoring tools for remotely monitoring the apparatus.
US07777354B2
An integrated circuit package system includes: providing a frame; attaching a leaded package having leads adjacent the frame wherein the leads extend towards a side opposite the frame; and applying a package encapsulant over the leaded package having the leads partially exposed opposite the frame.
US07777351B1
The present invention comprises a semiconductor package comprising a bottom semiconductor package substrate which is populated with one or more electronic components. The electronic component(s) of the bottom substrate are covered or encapsulated with a suitable mold compound which hardens into a package body of the semiconductor package. The package body is provided with one or more vias through the completion of laser drilling process, such via(s) providing access to one or more corresponding conductive contacts of the bottom substrate. These vias are either lined or partially filled with a conductive metal material. Subsequently, a top semiconductor package substrate (which may optionally be populated with one or more electronic components) is mounted to the package body and electrically connected to the conductive metal within the via(s) of the package body.
US07777344B2
An integrated circuit structure and methods for forming the same are provided. The integrated circuit structure includes a semiconductor substrate; a dielectric layer over the semiconductor substrate; an opening in the dielectric layer; a conductive line in the opening; a metal alloy layer overlying the conductive line; a first metal silicide layer overlying the metal alloy layer; and a second metal silicide layer different from the first metal silicide layer on the first metal silicide layer. The metal alloy layer and the first and the second metal silicide layers are substantially vertically aligned to the conductive line.
US07777343B2
The reliability of wirings, each of which includes a main conductive film containing copper as a primary component, is improved. On an insulating film including the upper surface of a wiring serving as a lower layer wiring, an insulating film formed of a silicon carbonitride film having excellent barrier properties to copper is formed; on the insulating film, an insulating film formed of a silicon carbide film having excellent adhesiveness to a low dielectric constant material film is formed; on the insulating film, an insulating film formed of a low dielectric constant material as an interlayer insulating film is formed; and thereafter a wiring as an upper layer wiring is formed.
US07777341B2
A semiconductor device includes a seal ring formed on an outer circumference of an element forming region when seen from the top in a multilayer interconnect structure formed on a silicon layer, and dummy metal structures formed on a further outer circumference of the seal ring. The more inner circumference side the dummy interconnect is formed on, the more upper layer the dummy interconnect is arranged on.
US07777332B2
A semiconductor device including: a semiconductor chip having a rectangular surface on which a plurality of electrodes are formed; a plurality of resin protrusions formed on the surface of the semiconductor chip; and a plurality of interconnects each of which is electrically connected to one of the electrodes and includes an electrical connection section disposed on one of the resin protrusions. At least part of the resin protrusions are disposed in a region near a short side of the surface and extend in a direction which intersects the short side.
US07777331B2
A semiconductor apparatus including built-in power supply circuits capable of supplying a large current with high voltage accuracy. The semiconductor apparatus includes a semiconductor chip including a circuit area and power supply circuits, coils and capacitors. The semiconductor chip, coils and capacitors are provided in a package. Each power supply circuit, a coil and a capacitor compose a switching regulator. The semiconductor chip and the package are connected such that a power supply voltage which will be produced by the switching regulator is supplied to the circuit area. The power supply circuit is supplied with a power supply voltage from the outside of the semiconductor apparatus.
US07777327B2
A chip package structure including a substrate, a circuit layer, a solder mask, a chip, and an encapsulant is provided. The circuit layer is disposed on the substrate and includes two traces and a dummy trace. The dummy trace is disposed between the traces. The solder mask covers the circuit layer and the substrate. The chip is disposed on the solder mask and electrically connected to the traces. The encapsulant covers the solder mask and wraps the chip. The traces and the dummy trace extend from the inside of the area covered by the encapsulant to the outside of the area covered by the encapsulant. Because the dummy trace is used in the chip package structure, it can be avoided that the traces is pulled apart when the redundant encapsulant is removed after the encapsulant is formed.
US07777323B2
Example embodiments are directed to a method of forming a semiconductor structure and a semiconductor structure including a semiconductor unit including a protrusion on a front side of the semiconductor unit and a recess on a backside of the semiconductor unit.
US07777322B2
A method for creating an improved signal light is disclosed. For example, the improved signal light includes a housing, one or more first type of light emitting diodes (LEDs) emitting a light energy having a first dominant wavelength deployed in the housing, one or more second type of LEDs emitting a light energy having a second dominant wavelength deployed in the housing, a filter and a mixer. The filter may filter the light energy of the one or more second type of LEDs such that only a third dominant wavelength passes from the one or more second type of LEDs. The mixer may mix the light energy having the first dominant wavelength and the filtered light energy having the third dominant wavelength to form a light energy having a desired fourth dominant wavelength.
US07777320B2
An integrated circuit package system includes: providing a base package having a first integrated circuit with an inner lead on a periphery thereof and connected thereto with interconnects, and the inner lead partially encapsulated by an inner encapsulation; mounting an outer lead on the periphery of the base package; mounting a second integrated circuit above the base package and connected to the outer lead with the interconnects; and partially encapsulating, the base package and the outer leads with an outer encapsulation leaving a bottom surface of the inner lead and a bottom surface of the outer lead exposed.
US07777316B2
Provided is a semiconductor device in which an insulating region surrounding an element region is provided in an end portion of a semiconductor region with a super junction structure. Since a depletion layer in the element region ends in the insulating region, the end portion of the element region is not formed in a curved surface shape. In other words, the depletion layer has no curved surface in which internal electric fields are concentrated. For this reason, there is no need to take a measure to cause the depletion layer to spread in a horizontal direction by proving a terminal region. Since the terminal region is unnecessary, a chip size can be reduced. Alternatively, an area of the element region can be expanded.
US07777313B2
Electronics packages are provided with structure that provides a significantly-reduced package footprint and also facilitates substantial reduction of package fabrication time and cost. The footprint reduction is realized with a frame that defines an aperture wall which surrounds first sets of components on the first side of a printed circuit board and also extends away from the printed circuit board to provide package input/output access along the perimeter of the package footprint. The second side of the printed circuit board receives a second set of components and this set is protected by a board fill. The frame and printed circuit board are configured for realization from frame and board panels whose planar forms substantially reduce package fabrication time and cost because they facilitate the use of modern high-speed printed circuit board (PCB) fabrication processes.
US07777306B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor material having two crystal orientations. The semiconductor material forms an active area of the device. A device channel is formed on the two crystal orientations, which include a first region formed in a first crystal orientation surface of the semiconductor material, and a second region formed in a second crystal orientation surface of the semiconductor material wherein the first crystal orientation surface forms an angle with the second crystal orientation surface and the device channel covers at least an intersection of the angle.
US07777303B2
The invention described herein provides for thin films and methods of making comprising inorganic semiconductor-nanocrystals dispersed in semiconducting-polymers in high loading amounts. The invention also describes photovoltaic devices incorporating the thin films.
US07777296B2
A nano-fuse structural arrangement, includes, for example, a semiconductor substrate having an electrically conductive region formed thereon; an electrically conductive elongated nano-structure having a maximum diameter of less than approximately 50 nm and a maximum length of approximately 250 nm and being formed on the electrically conductive region; a barrier having barrier parts completely spaced from and completely surrounding elongated outer surfaces of the nano-structure, the spaces between the barrier and surfaces consisting essentially of a vacuum and being approximately equally spaced, so that the electrically conductive elongated nano-structure is blowable responsive to an electrical current flowable there through in a range of approximately 4 μA to approximately 120 μA.
US07777295B2
In various embodiments, semiconductor structures and methods to manufacture these structures are disclosed. In one embodiment, a structure includes a dielectric material and a void below a surface of a substrate. The structure further includes a doped dielectric material over the dielectric material, over the first void, wherein at least a portion of the dielectric material is between at least a portion of the substrate and at least a portion of the doped dielectric material. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07777292B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type having a top surface and a bottom surface, a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type formed on the top surface of the semiconductor substrate, and having an active region and an edge termination region surrounding the active region, a first semiconductor region of a second conductivity type formed in the edge termination region adjacent to an edge of the active region, a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type buried in the edge termination region in a sheet shape or a mesh shape substantially in parallel with a surface of the semiconductor layer, a first electrode formed on the active region of the semiconductor layer and a part of the first semiconductor region, and a second electrode formed on the bottom surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US07777290B2
The present invention provides high-speed, high-efficiency PIN diodes for use in photodetector and CMOS imagers. The PIN diodes include a layer of intrinsic semiconducting material, such as intrinsic Ge or intrinsic GeSi, disposed between two tunneling barrier layers of silicon oxide. The two tunneling barrier layers are themselves disposed between a layer of n-type silicon and a layer of p-type silicon.
US07777286B2
A microwave switch array includes a plurality of microwave slotlines, each of which is controlled by a semiconductor switch including a first PIN junction formed by a primary P-type electrode and a primary N-type electrode separated by the slotline. The switches inject a plasma into the slotline in response to a potential applied across the first PIN junction. Each of the switches includes a second PIN junction between the primary P-type electrode and a secondary N-type electrode, and a third PIN junction between the primary N-type electrode and a secondary P-type electrode. Metal contacts connect the primary P-type electrode and the secondary N-type electrode across second PIN junction, and the primary N-type electrode and the secondary P-type electrode across the third PIN junction. The secondary electrodes extract plasma that diffuses away from the first PIN junction, thereby minimizing the performance degrading effects of plasma diffusion.
US07777285B2
A method is provided for fabricating a semiconductor device that includes a suspended micro-system. According to the method, a silicon porous layer is formed above a silicon substrate, and the silicon porous layer is oxidized. An oxide layer is deposited, and a first polysilicon layer is deposited above the oxide layer. The first polysilicon layer, the oxide layer, and the silicon porous layer are selectively removed. A nitride layer is deposited, and a second polysilicon layer is deposited. The second polysilicon layer, the nitride layer, the first polysilicon layer, and the oxide layer are selectively removed. The silicon porous layer is removed in areas made accessible by the previous step. Also provided is a semiconductor device that includes a suspended structure fixed to at least two walls through a plurality of hinges, with the suspended structure including an oxide layer, a first polysilicon layer, a nitride layer, and a second polysilicon layer.
US07777278B2
A semiconductor component is described. In one embodiment, the semiconductor component includes a semiconductor body with a first side and a second side. A drift zone is provided, which is arranged in the semiconductor body below the first side and extends in a first lateral direction of the semiconductor body between a first and a second doped terminal zone. At least one field electrode is provided, which is arranged in the drift zone, extends into the drift zone proceeding from the first side and is configured in a manner electrically insulated from the semiconductor body.
US07777275B2
Methods which include providing a single crystal silicon substrate having a device pattern formed on a portion of the substrate where the device pattern has a protrusion, forming a protection layer on a portion of the protrusion, and forming an oxide insulation layer between the protrusion and the substrate using a thermal oxidation process; methods of forming a partial SOI structure which include providing a single crystal silicon substrate having a device pattern formed thereon where the device pattern comprises a non-SOI region and an SOI region having a protrusion, forming a protection layer on a portion of the protrusion, and forming an oxide insulation layer between the protrusion and the substrate using a thermal oxidation process; structures formed by such methods; and partial silicon-on-insulator structures comprising a single crystal silicon substrate having an device pattern disposed on a surface thereof where the device pattern includes a non-SOI region and an SOI region having a protrusion, and an oxide insulation layer disposed in the device pattern where a portion of the insulation layer is disposed under the protrusion such that the protrusion is isolated from the single crystal substrate, and where the non-SOI region is not isolated from the single crystal structure.
US07777274B2
A power semiconductor component includes a semiconductor body and a field electrode. The semiconductor body has a drift zone of a first conduction type and a further component defining a junction therebetween. The junction is configured to cause a space charge zone to propagate when a reverse voltage is applied to the junction. The field electrode is arranged adjacent to the drift zone, and is insulated from the semiconductor body by at least a dielectric layer. The dielectric layer has a first section and a second section, the first section arranged nearer to the junction and having a higher dielectric constant than the second section.
US07777271B1
A system and method are disclosed for increasing the reliability of a channel erase procedure in an electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM) memory cell. A memory cell of the present invention comprises a program gate, a control gate, and a floating gate that erase data using a channel erase procedure. An erase capacitor is coupled to the floating gate to provide a low voltage bias that decreases the voltage that is required to perform a Fowler-Nordheim erase process in the memory cell. The erase capacitor of the present invention is formed without adding a step in the manufacturing process of the memory cell. Memory cells of the present invention are low cost, high endurance, low voltage memory cells.
US07777269B2
A memory circuit having dual-gate memory cells and a method for fabricating such a memory circuit are disclosed. The dual-gate memory cells each include a memory device and an access device sharing a semiconductor layer, with their respective channel regions provided on different surfaces of the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer has a thickness such that a sensitivity parameter relating an electrical interaction between the gate electrodes of the access device and the memory device is less than a predetermined value. The dual-gate memory cells can be used as building blocks for a non-volatile memory array, such as a memory array formed by NAND-strings. In such an array, during programming of a nearby memory device in a NAND string, in NAND-strings not to be programmed, if inversion regions are allowed to be formed in the semiconductor layer, or if the semiconductor layer is allowed to electrically float, electrical interaction exists between the access devices and the memory devices to inhibit programming of the memory devices.
US07777246B2
A light emitting device includes: a chip-mounting base; a light emitting chip mounted on the chip-mounting base; and a transparent encapsulant enclosing the light emitting chip and bonded to the chip-mounting base through a bonding material. The bonding material is an inorganic compound selected from one of a nitride compound and an oxide compound.
US07777244B2
Disclosed herein is a side-view light emitting diode package with a reflector. The side-view light emitting diode package of the present invention comprises first and second lead terminals spaced apart from each other. The package body supports the first and second lead terminals and has an elongated opening through which a light emitting diode chip mounting region and the first and second lead terminals are exposed. Reflectors are formed between the chip mounting region and sidewalls positioned in a major axis direction of the opening. Each of the reflectors has a height lower than that of the sidewall of the opening. Accordingly, light emitted from a light emitting diode chip can be reflected using the reflectors, thereby improving light emitting efficiency of the side-view light emitting diode package.
US07777224B2
To reduce variation among TFTs in manufacture of a semiconductor device including n-type thin film transistors and p-type thin film transistors. Further, another object of the present invention is to reduce the number of masks and manufacturing steps, and manufacturing time. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming an island-shaped semiconductor layer of a first thin film transistor, then, forming an island-shaped semiconductor layer of the second thin film transistor. In the formation of the island-shaped semiconductor layer of the second thin film transistor, a gate insulating film in contact with the island-shaped semiconductor layer of the second thin film transistor is used as a protection film (an etching stopper film) for the island-shaped semiconductor layer of the first thin film transistor.
US07777223B2
A semiconductor device in which size reduction is possible without functional devices below pads being damaged by stress. The semiconductor device has a plurality of pads above a semiconductor substrate as terminals for external connection. A plurality of dual use pads which are used in both a probing test and assembly are provided in a first area above a main surface of the semiconductor substrate, an application of pressure by a probe during the probing test being permitted in the first area, and a plurality of assembly pads which are not used in the probing test are provided in a second area above the main surface of the semiconductor substrate, the application of pressure by the probe during the probing test being not permitted in the second area.
US07777214B2
A phase change memory device and a method of forming the same include a conductive pattern formed on a substrate. A lower electrode contact is disposed on the conductive pattern. The phase change pattern is disposed on the lower electrode contact. An upper electrode is disposed on the phase change pattern. An area of an upper surface of the lower electrode contact is smaller than an area of a lower surface of the lower electrode contact.
US07777211B2
A system for detecting the presence of a substantially transparent object includes a radiation source producing radiation at a predetermined bandwidth, and a radiation receiver is positioned to receive radiation from the radiation source. An opening is formed between the radiation receiver and the radiation source sized to allow a substantially transparent object such as a sample or reagent tip to slide between the radiation receiver and the radiation source. At least one polarizing filter is positioned between the radiation receiver and the opening, whereby a change in intensity of radiation received by the radiation receiver due to the presence or absence of the transparent object can be detected.
US07777206B2
A control method of an ion implantation device that radiates an ion beam emitted from an ion source via an optical element onto a material to be treated, includes the steps of: measuring the spatial distribution of the ion beam in the vicinity of the material to be treated; estimating the emittance, which is the spatial and angular distribution of the ion beam of the ion source, from the measured spatial distribution, by using an ion beam trajectory calculation method; calculating the operating conditions of the optical element so that the ion beam in the vicinity of the material to be treated has a desired spatial distribution, by using the estimated emittance and the trajectory calculation method; and operating the ion implantation device by using the calculated operating conditions of the optical element.
US07777202B2
An electron beam exposure apparatus includes: an electron gun for generating an electron beam; a deflector for deflecting the electron beam; a wafer stage; a stage position detector for detecting a position of the wafer stage; and a stage position computing unit for calculating a movement velocity of the wafer stage. On a basis of the movement velocity, the stage position computing unit calculates an amount of positional change of the wafer stage with respect to an interpolation time, and subsequently calculates an amount of positional movement of the wafer stage by sequentially adding the amount of positional change to the position of the wafer stage in synchronism with the interpolation time. Thus, the stage position computing unit calculates an amount of deflection of the electron beam corresponding to the amount of the positional movement of the wafer stage.
US07777199B2
An imaging system for capturing a sequence of images from a target at ultra-high framing rates is disclosed. The imaging system includes an illumination system operable to emit at least first and second light pulses at first and second wavelengths, respectively. The first and second light pulses sequentially illuminate the target whereupon at least first and second propagated light pulses emanate from the target. The system also includes at least first and second image sensors operable to receive the first and second propagated light pulses, respectively, to thereby capture the sequence of images from the target. Various exemplary embodiments of the imaging system and associated method are provided.
US07777196B2
An electron emitter for a display provides an electron source, an electron accelerator, an electron collector disposed between the electron source and the electron accelerator, and one or more electron deflectors to selectively deflect electrons in an electron beam or electron plane towards the electron collector phosphorous coating on a display screen, within a non-metallic vacuum chamber having an adjustable vacuum. Pinhead electrode electron deflectors may each control one color of a pixel, and each set of three adjacent pinhead electrodes may comprise a complete pixel on the display screen.
US07777191B2
A method and/or device of adaptively controlling an exposure duration for a camera. A determination is made as to whether motion is present. If it is determined that motion is present, exposure duration for one or more images is automatically decreased. If it is determined that motion is not present, the frame exposure duration is automatically increased.
US07777190B2
A scanning device and a drive system for a scanning device having a first detector and a second detector are provided, which include a base and a mounting plate movably supported by the base. The mounting plate is configured to movably support the first detector and the second detector. The drive system also includes a drive device configured to move the mounting plate with respect to the base, and a linear actuator configured to move the second detector with respect to the mounting plate.
US07777186B2
According to one embodiment, an infrared focal plane comprises an array of pixels configured to detect optical radiation in a predetermined radiation band are positioned on a support substrate. The pixels are connected to pixel contacts on a read-out integrated circuit via pixel interconnects comprising bonding bumps. According to some embodiments, indium migration is blocked by a patterned electrical insulator comprising a plurality of intersecting walls defining a plurality of cells that surround each pixel interconnect. The patterned electrical insulator may be dimensioned such that it does not physically contact the support substrate, the array of pixels or pixel interconnects. In this manner, pixel-pair defects due to indium migration resulting from cryogenic thermal-cycling may be prevented, thereby extending the thermal-cycling lifetime of the focal plane array.
US07777184B2
A method for photoresist characterization includes forming a photoresist on a supportive structure; and characterizing the photoresist using a metrology tool selected from the group consisting of a transmission electron microscope (TEM), a scanning electron microscope (SEM), an atomic force microscope (AFM), a small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and a laser diffraction particle analyzer.
US07777183B2
A charged particle beam system, a sample processing method, and a semiconductor inspection system enable an accurate detection of a particle in a film without causing LMIS contamination and allow observation with an electron microscope quickly. A particle 65 causing a defect in a film 66 that has been detected with a separate optical inspection system is detected with an optical microscope 43 based on position information acquired by the separate optical inspection system. A sample 31 is processed with a nonmetal ion beam 22 so as to allow observation of the particle 65 with an electron microscope image or an ion microscope image, or ultimate analysis of the particle 65 with an EDX.
US07777182B2
An ion cyclotron spectrometer may include a vacuum chamber that extends at least along a z-axis and means for producing a magnetic field within the vacuum chamber so that a magnetic field vector is generally parallel to the z-axis. The ion cyclotron spectrometer may also include means for producing a trapping electric field within the vacuum chamber that includes at least a first section that induces a first magnetron effect that increases a cyclotron frequency of an ion and at least a second section that induces a second magnetron effect that decreases the cyclotron frequency of an ion. The cyclotron frequency changes induced by the first and second magnetron effects substantially cancel one another so that an ion traversing the at least first and second sections will experience no net change in cyclotron frequency.
US07777179B2
An ion energy analyzer is described for use in diagnosing the ion energy distribution (IED) of ions incident on a radio frequency (RF) biased substrate immersed in plasma. The ion energy analyzer comprises an entrance grid exposed to the plasma, an electron rejection grid disposed proximate to the entrance grid, and an ion current collector disposed proximate to the electron rejection grid. The ion current collector is coupled to an ion selection voltage source configured to positively bias the ion current collector by an ion selection voltage, and the electron rejection grid is coupled to an electron rejection voltage source configured to negatively bias the electron rejection grid by an electron rejection voltage. Furthermore, an ion current meter is coupled to the ion current collector to measure the ion current.
US07777177B2
A system including methods and apparatuses for responding to an entity's superposition of states. The system is also able to respond to a first entity's state of entanglement, as well as respond to either the superposition of states or entanglement of any other entity that is entangled with the first entity. The system is capable of effecting its responses to superpositions of states or entanglements in modes that can preserve or demolish the superposition of states or entanglements of the entities it interacts with. The system is able to selectively switch between these modes of responses, and can also effect its responses in a delayed-choice manner. The system also encompasses applications of the methods and apparatuses for purposes including quantum communication, quantum computation, and quantum cryptography.
US07777173B2
A vehicle-mounted object detection system utilizing vertical cavity surface emitting laser diodes as an emitter source to alert a motor vehicle operator to the presence of another moving vehicle in a monitored zone. The object detection system includes an optical transmitter and an optical receiver.
US07777161B2
A heat-generating element of a heating device for heating air including at least one PTC element, electric strip conductors lying on the PTC elements and a longish positioning frame that forms at least one frame opening for holding the minimum of one PTC element. A heat-generating element that is improved with a view to safety from electric flashovers and leakage currents is created with the invention under consideration by providing at least one insulating layer, which covers the strip conductor on its exterior side that is turned away from the positioning frame. The insulating layer in any case is sealed against the long sides of the positioning frame by a compressible sealing bead. A heating device for heating air with multiple heat-generating elements is also disclosed.
US07777149B2
In order to reduce the breaking energy of a high-voltage or medium-voltage circuit-breaker, the interrupting chamber (10) contains two contacts (12, 14) mounted to move in opposite directions, actuated via a single device (20, 30). The two contacts (12, 14) are driven in opposite directions by a cylindrical cam (22) having slots (26, 28) that co-operate with fixed rods (32, 42), each of which is connected to a respective one of the contacts (12, 14): the profiles of the slots (26, 28) make it possible to manage the speed and the amplitude of the movement of the second contact (14) relative to the main contact (12) without requiring any complex design.
US07777147B2
An electrical rotary switch has a rotor with a periphery, a moving contact on the rotor and several connected parts adjacent the rotor periphery, and four fixed contacts around the rotor for short-circuiting by the moving contact. Each fixed contact has first, second, and third integrally connected sections. The first section bears resiliently against the rotor periphery for sliding contact with the moving contact parts. The second section turns through an angle larger than 135° from the first section. The third section turns through an angle smaller than 90° from the second section for connection of an electrical cable by self-gripping. The moving contact has an undulating profile matching with that of an adjacent part of the rotor periphery.
US07777146B2
A safety switch assembly having a handle pivotably attached to a casing to allow selective operation of an electrical contact assembly. The handle is attached to the casing with a movable pivot such that excessive grip pressure renders the safety switch inoperable until the safety switch is reset. The handle is moveable responsive to grip pressures that range from no actuation to a first grip pressure. Actuation of the handle in this range controls operation of the electrical contact assembly. Gripping of the switch with a grip pressure greater than the first grip pressure moves the pivot such that the safety switch is rendered inoperable, or non-conductive, until manipulation of a reset actuator returns the pivot to a pivot position associated with the first operating zone. Such a construction provides a safety switch that can be rendered inoperable and reset to allow subsequent operation.
US07777143B2
Commercially available filter-monitoring switches suffer from problems related to over sensitivity and reliability. Accordingly, the present inventors have devised, among other things, various embodiments of filter-monitoring switches and related components, subassemblies, methods, and systems. One exemplary filter-monitoring switch includes a diaphragm operably couple to move a conductive element back and forth between a pair of fixed terminals in response to pressure differences across the diaphragm. The conductive element is mounted to an insulative pin of substantially uniform width, and the terminals include leaf contacts that constantly engage the pin or the contacts throughout normal operation of the switch, thereby reducing flexure of the contacts and effectively providing a self-cleaning and self-healing electrical switch.
US07777141B2
A latch-release actuating apparatus includes a switch element, a base member, and a cover member. The switch element is depressed via the cover member. In the latch-release actuating apparatus, a key top member and the cover member are formed to be long to extend horizontally from an upper region of the push button. The key top member is arranged on a back surface of the cover member so that a longitudinal direction of the key top member coincides with a longitudinal direction of the cover member. Furthermore, claws and retaining portions to which the claws are retained are arranged between the base member and both longitudinal ends of the key top member, thereby constituting a regulating unit for restricting separation of the key top member from the push button when the claw abuts on the retaining portion.
US07777136B2
A multi-layered interconnect structure and method of formation. In a first embodiment, first and second liquid crystal polymer (LCP) dielectric layers are directly bonded, respectively, to first and second opposing surface of a thermally conductive layer, with no extrinsic adhesive material bonding the thermally conductive layer with either the first or second LCP dielectric layer. In a second embodiment, first and second 2S1P substructures are directly bonded, respectively, to first and second opposing surfaces of a LCP dielectric joining layer, with no extrinsic adhesive material bonding the LCP dielectric joining layer with either the first or second 2S1P substructures.
US07777133B2
A joint structure of electric wires includes: a copper wire which includes a conductor formed of copper; an aluminum wire which includes a conductor formed of aluminum or aluminum alloy; and a joint terminal provided with a conductor press-fitting part having a U-shape in cross section. The conductor press-fitting part includes a bottom plate and a pair of conductor caulking pieces which are upwardly extended from both side edges of the bottom plate, and is inwardly folded to caulk the conductors of the copper wires and the aluminum wires so as to enclose the conductors. The conductor press-fitting part is press-fitted to the conductors of the aluminum wire and the copper wire in a state that the conductor of the aluminum wire is disposed on the upper face of the bottom plate, and the conductor of the copper wire is disposed on the conductor of the aluminum wire.
US07777120B2
A method for generating electromagnetic (EM) music through excitation of an EM Musical Instrument is provided. An input queue, comprised of three sub-queues, receives three input audio queues. An EM excitation signal is generated based on the received input audio queues. The EM excitation signal is applied to the EM Musical Instrument. A measured response is generated, based on a response of the EM Musical Instrument to the EM excitation signal. Various time marks are marked in the measured response. Selected portions of the measured response are discarded based on particular time marks, generating a newly measured sample set. The newly measured samples are joined to a previously measured sample set of an output queue based on alignment of time marks. Various alternate embodiments and supporting systems are also provided.
US07777119B2
Electromagnetic (EM) musical instrument systems and methods for configuring and using the instrument are provided. The EM musical instrument could include an EM resonant body to receive an excitation signal. The excitation signal varies the associated sound produced by the EM musical instrument. The EM musical instrument could also include a first circuit to convert an audio signal into an associated electrical signal, a second circuit to convert the electrical signal to an associated EM signal, and a third circuit to apply the EM signal to a body of an EM musical instrument to produce an associated sound. The EM musical instrument could include a body having a top plate of EM resonant material. The instrument could include a center medium defining a cavity coupled to a sound hole of the top plate and a bottom plate of EM resonant material coupled to the center medium. The instrument could further include a port coupled to the body and configured to apply the received excitation signal to the body.
US07777114B1
An adjustable music pedal has a base, a pedal and a linking assembly. The base has a pedal end, a linking end and a longitudinal direction defined from the pedal end to the linking end. The pedal has an adjustment bar and a foot plate. The adjustment bar is connected pivotally to the pedal end of the base and has an adjusting hole formed in the adjustment bar. The foot plate slidably mounted on the adjustment bar, and has a connecting end and a connecting hole. The connecting hole is elongated and formed in the foot plate along the longitudinal direction, and aligns with the adjusting hole. The linking assembly is mounted on the linking end of the base, and has a connector connected to the connecting end of the foot plate of the pedal.
US07777110B2
A stand for a musical instrument having a body and a neck includes a main body and a pair front legs coupled to the main body. The pair of front legs is configured to receive a portion of the body of the musical instrument therein. A neck rest of the stand is removably coupled to the main body and is configured to receive a portion of the neck of the musical instrument therein.
US07777109B2
A hand held percussion musical instrument including: a thin walled resonance chamber and a first rigid coil having a first end attached to the resonance chamber such as by welding. The first rigid coil has a length perpendicular to the surface of the resonance chamber and; the first coil includes a plurality of individual wire wraps each wrap spaced from adjacent wraps. A second end of the first coil is spaced from the resonance chamber such that striking the first coil produces first musical tones amplified by said resonance chamber. The resonance chamber can be held between the user's thumb and middle finger such that the coil can be struck or filtered by the user's index finger during play.
US07777108B2
A string for musical instrument is disclosed, the string formed from precipitation hardening stainless steel, where Ti has been added to improve the precipitation hardening properties. The string has a superior resistance to relaxation and is corrosion resistant, thus improving its tuning stability and maintaining its tone quality, thus prolonging its service life.
US07777107B1
A novel maize variety designated PHW4C and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PHW4C with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PHW4C through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PHW4C or a trait conversion of PHW4C with another maize variety. Inbred maize varieties derived from maize variety PHW4C, methods for producing other inbred maize varieties derived from maize variety PHW4C and the inbred maize varieties and their parts derived by the use of those methods.
US07777105B2
A cotton cultivar, designated PM 3225 B2RF, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of cotton cultivar PM 3225 B2RF, to the plants of cotton PM 3225 B2RF and to methods for producing a cotton plant produced by crossing the cultivar PM 3225 B2RF with itself or another cotton variety. The invention further relates to hybrid cotton seeds and plants produced by crossing the cultivar PM 3225 B2RF with another cotton cultivar.
US07777102B2
This application is directed to novel soybean plant varieties, designated 5601TRR-292 (named ‘Allen’), 5601TRR-293, and 5601TRR-379. These varieties are glyphosate resistant cultivars, developed from BC3F2 single-plant derivatives of cultivar ‘5601T’. Also provided herein are seeds of the aforementioned soybean varieties, plants arising therefrom, plant parts of soybean varieties 5601TRR-292, 5601TRR-293, and 5601TRR-379 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing these soybean varieties with another soybean plant (as either the male or the female parent). The subject application also provides methods for introducing another transgenic trait or another genetic trait into the disclosed soybean varieties and soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. Also disclosed herein are soybean varieties or breeding varieties and plant parts derived from soybean varieties 5601TRR-292, 5601TRR-293, and 5601TRR-379, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts from soybean varieties 5601TRR-292, 5601TRR-293, and 5601TRR-379 soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the practice of such methods. In another aspect, this application provides soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing the soybean varieties 5601TRR-292, 5601TRR-293, and 5601TRR-379 with another soybean variety.
US07777090B2
A polyurethane foam dressing for a wound filler, which includes a hydrophilic polyurethane foam including a plurality of open cells with a diameter of 50 to 400 μm and a plurality of pores with a diameter of 10 to 80 μm, and a method of manufacturing the same including mixing and agitating 40 to 75 wt % pre-polymer, 15 to 45 wt % foaming agent, 5 to 35 wt % crosslinking agent, and 0.5 to 15 wt % additive containing a surfactant, a moisturizing agent, and a pigment, injecting the resulting mixture into a mold, and foaming the resulting mixture injected into the mold.
US07777089B2
Process for the separation of close boiling isomeric compounds comprising distilling a dilute solution of isomers in a high boiling compound in the presence of a solid adsorbent. Multi and/or monobranched as well as cyclic isomers are withdrawn at the top of the distillation column, while straight chain and/or mono branched isomers are retained within the solid adsorbent. The diluent solution of the high boiling compound is withdrawn from the bottom of the distillation column and recycled, where it may be combined with the feed isomer mixture or recycled straight to the top of the adsorption column.
US07777074B2
An Amino Acid Compound is described. The Amino Acid Compound may comprise an Amino Acid and one of a Nitrate and a Nitrite. The Amino Acid may be one of Agmatine, Arginine, Beta Alanine, Citrulline, Creatine, Glutamine, L-Histidine, Isoleucine, Leucine, Norvaline, Ornithine, and Valine.
US07777072B2
2,5-dihydroxyterephthalic acid is produced in high yields and high purity from 2,5-dihaloterephthalic acid by contact with a copper source and a ligand that coordinates to copper under basic conditions.
US07777068B2
A system comprising a) Ni(0) b) from 4 to 10 mol per mol of Ni(0) in a) of a compound (I) of the formula P(X1R1)(X2R2)(X3R3) (I) where X1, X2, X3 are each, independently of one another, oxygen or a single bond, R1, R2, R3 are, independently of one another, identical or different organic radicals and c) from 1 to 4 mol per mol of Ni(0) in a) of a compound (II) of the formula where X11, X12, X13 X21, X22, X23 are each, independently of one another, oxygen or a single bond, R11, R12 are identical or different, individual or bridged organic radicals, R21, R22 are identical or different, individual or bridged organic radicals and Y is a bridging group is suitable as catalyst for preparing mixtures of monoolefinic C5 mononitriles having nonconjugated C═C and C═N bonds by hydrocyanation of a 1,3-butadiene-containing hydrocarbon mixture and for preparing a dinitrile by hydrocyanation of a mixture of monoolefinic C5 mononitriles having nonconjugated C═C and C═N bonds.
US07777063B2
The invention relates to organosilicon compounds, and to the ways in which they can be made and used.
US07777059B2
Copper (I) formate complexes of general formula LnCu(HCOO).x COOH are decomposed in order to separate metallic copper, wherein x is a number from 0 to 10, n amounts to, 2, 3 or 4 and the n ligands L represent, independent of one another, one of the following ligands: a phosphane of formula R1R2R3P; a phosphite of formula (R1O)(R2O)(R3O)P; an isocyanide of formula R1—NC; an alkene of general formula R1R2C═CR3R4; or an alkyne of general formula R1C═CR2; wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 represent, independent of one another, hydrogen, a linear or branched, optionally partly or fully fluorinated alkyl, aminoalkyl, alkyoxialkyl, hydroxialkyl, phosphinoalkyl or aryl radical having up to 20 carbon atoms, with the exception of triphenylphosphino-copper (I) formate and 1,1,1-tris(diphenylphosphinomethyl)ethane-copper (I) formate.
US07777048B2
The present invention relates to processes for preparing biaryl ureas derivatives and analogs thereof. The invention also provides compounds useful as intermediates in the processes of the present invention. The process is useful for preparing compounds that inhibit IMPDH.
US07777040B2
Certain chemical entities chosen from compounds of Formula 1 and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, chelates, non-covalent complexes, and prodrugs thereof, are provided herein. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising at least one chemical entity and one or more pharmaceutically acceptable vehicles chosen from carriers, adjuvants, and excipients, are also provided herein. Methods of treating patients suffering from certain diseases and disorders responsive to angiogenic kinase modulation, which comprise administering to such patients an amount of at least one chemical entity effective to reduce signs or symptoms of the disease or disorder are disclosed. These diseases include cancer, including breast neoplasia, endometrial cancer, colon cancer, and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Methods of treatment include administering at least one chemical entity as a single active agent or administering such at least one chemical entity in combination with one or more other therapeutic agents. A method for determining the presence or absence of an angiogenic kinase in a sample comprising contacting the sample with at least one chemical entity under conditions that permit detection of activity of the angiogenic kinase, detecting a level of the activity of the angiogenic kinase, and therefrom determining the presence or absence of the angiogenic kinase in the sample.
US07777030B2
The present invention relates to various novel substituted dipeptide derived nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds, their pharmaceutically acceptable salt derivatives, and their methods of use. In one aspect the present invention relates to compositions and methods for the treatment and prevention of disease in a mammal comprising administering the compounds of the invention in a pharmaceutically acceptable form to a mammal. In particular, the invention relates to medicaments comprising various novel substituted dipeptide derived nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salt derivatives and methods for administration to a mammal for the treatment and prevention of malarial diseases. The compounds of the invention may optionally be administered with at least one pharmaceutically acceptable excipient, another biologically active agent or a combination thereof.
US07777026B2
A process for producing aminoalkyl-containing guar derivative is disclosed. The process entails a) dispersing a member selected from the group consisting of guar and guar derivative in a mixture of a water-miscible aprotic solvent and water and b) alkalizing the member with a base to obtain a mixture containing an alkalized member and c) etherifying the mixture with an amino-containing reagent to obtained an etherified mixture and d) optionally neutralizing the etherified mixture to obtain a material system containing a reaction product and e) optionally filtering the material system to obtain the reaction product and f) optionally washing the reaction product and g) optionally drying the reaction product referred to in f) and h) optionally grinding the reaction product. The product thus obtained is suitable for producing hair conditioners and flocculation aids.
US07777025B2
Improved transition state analog inhibitors of ricin toxin-A are provided. Methods of using those inhibitors to inhibit ricin toxin-A and to prevent the toxic effects of ricin toxin-A in a mammal are also provided.
US07777023B2
The present invention features novel compositions, linkers, derivatized solid supports, and methods for the efficient solid phase synthesis of oligonucleotides, including RNA, DNA, RNA-DNA chimeras, and analogs thereof.
US07777016B2
Neurotransmitter biosensors are disclosed, including YbeJ-based glutamate binding biosensors, comprising a neurotransmitter binding domain conjugated to donor and fluorescent moieties that permit detection and measurement of Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer upon binding neurotransmitter. Such biosensors are useful for the detection of neurotransmitter concentrations in vivo and in culture.
US07777013B2
Labeled nucleotide analogs used in place of naturally occurring nucleoside triphosphates or other analogs in template directed nucleic acid synthesis reactions and other nucleic acid reactions, and various analyses based thereon, including DNA sequencing, single base identification, hybridization assays and others.
US07777001B2
Agonist polypeptide of a receptor protein has been identified. The agonist can be used to facilitate drug and antigen absorption. Suitable routes of administration include oral, nasal, transdermal, and intravenous. Pharmaceutical formulations may comprise a therapeutic agent or an immunogenic agent in combination with the agonist polypeptide.
US07776998B2
A process for the separation of volatile material from particulate polymer which has been substantially freed from unreacted monomer in an earlier separation step, comprising (a) feeding the particulate polymer to a purge vessel, optionally causing it to move through the vessel in substantially plug-flow mode, (b) heating the particulate polymer in the purge vessel to a temperature grater than 30° C. but insufficiently high to cause the particles to become agglomerated, and/or maintaining the polymer at a temperature in this range in the purge vessel, (c) feeding gas to the purge vessel counter-current to the movement of the particulate polymer to remove volatile material therefrom, (d) removing the particulate polymer from the purge vessel, wherein substantially all of the heating of the particles which occurs in the purge vessel is accomplished by preheating the gas fed into the purge vessel.
US07776991B2
The disclosure contains a medical article comprising a polymer containing polyesters and, optionally, agents for use with medical articles and methods of fabricating the same are disclosed. The medical article generally comprises an implantable substrate having a coating, and the coating contains a polymer comprising a polymeric product of a reaction comprising a polyol and a polycarboxylic acid.
US07776989B2
The invention relates to UV-light-absorbing quaternary polysiloxanes in which quaternary groups and UV-absorbing radicals can be mixed independently of one another according to the general formula (I)
US07776985B2
A glass adhesion composition containing a copolymer having an acid and a substituted amide, silanol, or amine oxide functionality. The substituted amide, silanol, or amine oxide functionality provide excellent adhesion of the copolymer to glass, silica, sand and other silicon-based substances. The copolymer is useful as a fiberglass binder, and also useful in providing protective coatings on glass sheets. A fiberglass sizing composition is also provided having a copolymer that includes at least one acid group derived from at least one acid monomer, a hydrophobic comonomer, and a crosslinker. Additives can be added to the compositions to provide other functionality such as corrosion inhibitors, hydrophobic additives, additives for reducing leaching of glass, release agents, acids for lowering pH, anti-oxidants/reducing agents, emulsifiers, dyes, pigments, oils, fillers, colorants, curing agents, anti-migration aids, biocides, plasticizers, waxes, anti-foaming agents, coupling agents, thermal stabilizers, flame retardants, enzymes, wetting agents, and lubricants.
US07776981B2
A filter substrate impregnated with an emulsion polymer, the emulsion polymer being substantially devoid of phenolics and stabilized using a protective colloid.
US07776979B2
The present invention relates to a prepolymerized catalyst for olefin polymerization, a process for polymerizing an olefin by using the catalyst and a polyolefin produced by the process, in which a Ziegler-Natta catalyst is prepolymerized sequentially using α-olefin and vinyl saturated cyclic hydrocarbon, and then an olefin is polymerized using the prepolymerized Ziegler-Natta catalyst, thereby producing a polyolefin with high yield. Therefore, the polymerized polyolefin has high Isotactic index, bulk density, and crystallinity.
US07776970B2
The present invention provides a novel production process by which unstable terminal groups can be sufficiently stabilized under mild conditions. The present invention is related to a method for producing an —SO3H group-containing fluoropolymer wherein a fluoropolymer to be treated having a —SO2X group-containing monomer unit (X representing F or Cl) is subjected to a procedure comprising at least the steps A, B and C defined below in that order: A: Step of reacting with a halogenating agent; B: Step of reacting with a decomposition treatment agent; C: Step of reacting with a fluorinating agent.
US07776960B2
Epoxy functional polymers comprising the reaction product of a terpene and a epoxy functional monomer are disclosed. Coatings comprising these polymers are also disclosed, including cationic electrodepositable coatings.
US07776948B2
A composite material comprises a particulate material generated as a waste by-product of an industrial process, and a binder for binding the particulate material into a uniform mass. The particulate material and binder are combined in preselected proportions and compressed to form a counterweight having a preselected density and a fixed configuration. A counterweight is manufactured by selecting a first proportion of a particulate material generated as a waste by-product of an industrial process, selecting a second proportion of a binder for binding the particulate material into a uniform mass, combining the first proportion of the particulate material with the second proportion of the binder into a uniform mass, forming the counterweight from the uniform mass, and incorporating the counterweight into a finished product.
US07776947B2
A golf ball composition having a copolymer with an acid content modified by a nucleating agent is described. The nucleating agent modifies the flexural modulus of the acid copolymer.
US07776943B2
A method for forming a nanocomposite by olefin polymerization in which at least one cation-exchanging layered load material, selected from the group consisting of cation-exchanging, layered inorganic silicates and cation-exchanging, layered compounds other than silicates, is treated with acid to disrupt its layered structure and is combined with a catalyst that becomes activated for olefin polymerization when in contact with the acid-treated filler. An olefin is contacted by the activated catalyst—filler combination either (a) in the absence of an alkylaluminum co-catalyst or (b) with an alkylaluminum co-catalyst when the activatable catalyst is a polyalkylmetal compound, to form a nanocomposite containing polyolefin and the acid-treated filler. In a particular embodiment, sufficient filler is used to constitute at least 30 weight % of the nanocomposite to prepare a highly loaded nanocomposite masterbatch. A predetermined amount of one or more olefinic polymers can then be blended with the masterbatch to obtain a nanocomposite having a desired amount of loading. The filler is preferably clay, exemplified by montmorillonite. The catalyst is preferably a non-metallocene catalyst, most preferably a nickel complex bearing an α-iminocarboxamidato ligand.
US07776941B2
An oil-based ink composition for writing instruments is provided that is capable of improving storage stability of an ink, while maintaining a leveling property even when a soluble gelling agent is used. The oil-based ink composition for writing instruments comprises a colorant, a resin, an organic solvent and a gelling agent, wherein said organic solvent(s) is (are) hydrocarbons solvent(s), and in particular, at least one species of the solvent selected from the group of aliphatic hydrocarbons solvent(s), alicyclic hydrocarbons solvent(s), aromatic hydrocarbons solvent(s), and halogenetad hydrocarbons solvent(s), said gelling agent(s) comprises (comprise) soluble gelling agent(s) soluble to the above organic solvent(s) and insoluble gelling agent(s) insoluble to the above organic solvent(s), and the above insoluble gelling agent(s) is (are) urea-modified thixotropic agent(s).
US07776940B2
Hardenable and hardened dental compositions, and articles including such hardenable and hardened compositions, are provided. In some embodiments, the hardenable dental compositions include an acid-generating component and an acid-reactive component including one or more acid-reactive groups. Upon irradiating, and optionally heating, the hardened compositions are useful, for example, for reducing the bond strength of orthodontic appliances adhered to tooth structures with the hardened compositions.
US07776939B2
The polymeric nanoparticles including olfactive components have a glass temperature of >50° C. They are obtainable by continuously adding a monomer component and an olfactive component to an aqueous solution. The aqueous solution comprises a first initiator and an emulsifier. The added components are distributed in the aqueous solution to obtain reaction mixture while the polymerization of the monomer component is started at the first temperature. The liquid monomer component and the olfactive component are added continuously while a second initiator is added dropwise to the reaction mixture and the first temperature is maintained. After terminating the addition of liquid monomer component and the olfactive component the temperature of the reaction mixture is increased to a second temperature and a third initiator is added dropwise.
US07776938B2
A description is given of food coating compositions comprising a) a plastics dispersion or a mixture of plastics dispersions comprising at least one homo- or copolymer poly(meth)acrylate having at least 55% by weight (meth)acrylate monomer units and also 0.1 to 30% by weight of at least one protective colloid, and also b) aids and/or additives used for producing food coatings. The coatings are distinguished by sufficiently high water vapor transmission rates, low water absorption capacity and also low reemulsification capacity and have good mechanical properties in the moist state.
US07776934B2
Foamable one-part polyurethane compositions contain a high functionality quasi-prepolymer and a hydrated salt. The foamable compositions are capable of expanding to 1000% or more of their original volume to form a low density, stable foam. The compositions are particularly useful as foam-in-place thermal or sound insulation materials, especially in vehicle applications.
US07776932B2
A process for the production of liquid hydrocarbons by the Fischer-Tropsch process comprises a step a) for generating a synthesis gas, a step b) for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, a step c) for condensing the gaseous effluent obtained during step b), a step d) for separating the effluent condensed during step c) to obtain a gaseous effluent enriched in carbon monoxide and hydrogen, and a step e) for recycling at least a portion of the enriched gaseous effluent obtained during step d) to the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis step b), characterized in that: 1) two molar ratio of concentrations, A1 and A2, are determined between the hydrogen and the carbon monoxide (H2/Co), A1 being the value of said ratio in the supply to the synthesis step b), and A2 being the value of said ratio in any one of the gaseous effluents obtained during steps b) to e); 2) comparing ratios A1 and A2; and 3) adjusting the concentrations of hydrogen and/or carbon monoxide in the synthesis gas to keep the difference between the two ratios A1 and A2 substantially constant.
US07776920B2
Novel mandelic hydrazides of the formula (I), in which R1-R11 have the meanings indicated in claim 1, are SGK inhibitors and can be used for the treatment of SGK-induced diseases and complaints, such as diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome (dyslipidaemia), systemic and pulmonary hypertonia, cardiovascular diseases and kidney diseases, generally in fibroses and inflammatory processes of any type.
US07776916B2
Described herein are nitrated lipids and methods of making and using the nitrated lipids.
US07776911B2
A pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of malaria in mammals is disclosed. The composition comprises of a synergistic combination of curcumin and artemisinin.
US07776907B2
Methods of treating, preventing and/or managing macular degeneration are disclosed. Specific embodiments encompass the administration of a selective cytokine inhibitory drug, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, hydrate, stereoisomer, clathrate, or prodrug thereof, alone or in combination with a second active agent and/or surgery. Pharmaceutical compositions, single unit dosage forms, and kits suitable for use in methods of the invention are also disclosed.
US07776900B2
This invention relates to novel benzimidazole derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, and methods of treatment therewith.The compounds of the invention are useful in the treatment of central nervous system diseases and disorders, which are responsive to modulation of the GABAA receptor complex, and in particular for combating anxiety and related diseases.
US07776897B2
There is provided a compound which can be used for therapy of diseases in which 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (11β-HSD1) participates, in particular diabetes, insulin resistance.It has been found that a triazole derivative wherein the triazole ring is substituted with a trisubstituted methyl group in the 2-position or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof has a strong 11β-HSD1 inhibitory activity. Moreover, the triazole derivative of the invention exhibits an excellent blood-glucose level-lowering action and hence can be used for therapy of diabetes, insulin resistance.
US07776896B2
This invention is directed to compounds of formula (I): where A, B, D, E, m, and R1-R5 are as described herein, as single stereoisomers or as mixtures of stereoisomers, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, clathrates, or prodrugs thereof, which compounds are useful in treating respiratory diseases associated with influenza A viruses, such as for example H5N1 and its mutations. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of the invention and methods of preparing the compounds of the invention are also disclosed.
US07776883B2
Novel quinoline inhibitors of retroviral integrase, particularly HIV-1 integrase. The quinoline inhibitors are oxoquinolines that can be used for preventing or treating AIDS or HIV infection in a subject.
US07776874B2
The present invention relates to inhibitors of 11-β hydroxyl steroid dehydrogenase type 1, antagonists of the mineralocorticoid receptor (MR), and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. The compounds of the invention can be useful in the treatment of various diseases associated with expression or activity of 11-β hydroxyl steroid dehydrogenase type 1 and/or diseases associated with aldosterone excess.
US07776871B2
A method of treating movement disorders comprises administering to a human or animal subject in need of treatment a therapeutically effective amount of at least one compound according to the following formula: wherein R3 and R4 are each independently selected from the group consisting of lower alkyl, phenyl and lower alkyl substituted phenyl, and R1 and R2 are each independently either a hydrogen atom or a radical of the formula wherein R5 and R6 are each independently selected from the group consisting of H, lower alkyl, phenyl and lower alkyl substituted phenyl, its pharmaceutically acceptable salts, prodrugs, and metabolites thereof.
US07776868B2
The present invention relates to novel compounds that are A2A adenosine receptor antagonists having the structure of Formula I and to their use in treating mammals for various disease states, such as obesity, CNS disorders, including the “movement disorders” (Parkinson's disease, Huntington's Chorea, and catelepsy), and cerebral ischemia, excitotoxicity, cognitive and physiological disorders, depression, ADHD, and drug addiction (alcohol, amphetamine, cannabinoids, cocaine, nicotine, and opioids) and to their use in the enhancement of immune response. The invention also relates to methods for the preparation of such compounds, and to pharmaceutical compositions containing them.
US07776867B2
The present invention relates to furanopyrimidine compounds having the general Formula I: and stereoisomers, tautomers, solvates, pharmaceutically acceptable salts and derivatives, and prodrugs thereof. The invention also includes pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of Formula I, methods of treating various diseases and conditions in a mammal, including inflammation, inhibition of T cell activation, proliferation, arthritis, organ transplant, ischemic or reperfusion injury, myocardial infarction, stroke, multiple sclerosis, inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease, lupus, hypersensitivity, type 1 diabetes, psoriasis, dermatitis, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, Sjogren's syndrome, autoimmune hyperthyroidism, Addison's disease, autoimmune diseases, glomerulonephritis, allergic diseases, asthma, hayfever, eczema, cancer, colon carcinoma and thymoma, comprising administering to the mammal a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of Formula I. The invention also relates to methods of manufacturing medicaments, which comprise one or more compounds of Formula I.
US07776866B2
The present application describes deuterium-enriched risperidone, pharmaceutically acceptable salt forms thereof, and methods of treating using the same.
US07776862B2
The present application discloses a compound, or enantiomers, stereoisomers, rotamers, tautomers, racemates or prodrug of said compound, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates or esters of said compound, or of said prodrug, said compound having the general structure shown in Formula 1: and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates and esters thereof. Also disclosed is a method of treating chemokine mediated diseases, such as, palliative therapy, curative therapy, prophylactic therapy of certain diseases and conditions such as inflammatory diseases (non-limiting example(s) include, psoriasis), autoimmune diseases (non-limiting example(s) include, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis), graft rejection (non-limiting example(s) include, allograft rejection, xenograft rejection), infectious diseases (e.g, tuberculoid leprosy), fixed drug eruptions, cutaneous delayed-type hypersensitivity responses, ophthalmic inflammation, type I diabetes, viral meningitis and tumors using a compound of Formula 1.
US07776849B2
The present invention provides a benzenoid ansamycin derivative represented by Formula (I) (wherein R1 and R2 each represent a hydrogen atom or are combined together to form a bond, R8 represents a bond or an oxygen atom, R11 represents hydroxy, substituted or unsubstituted lower alkoxy or substituted or unsubstituted lower alkanoyloxy, R15 represents a hydrogen atom or methoxy, R22 represents a hydrogen atom, substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted lower alkanoyl or substituted or unsubstituted aroyl, R4 and R5 each represent a hydrogen atom or are combined together to form a bond, R18 represents a hydrogen atom, or the like, R21 represents hydroxy or the like, and R17 and R19 may be the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom, or the like) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US07776846B2
Methods and compositions for enhancing the activity and/or duration of action of soft anti-inflammatory steroids of the haloalkyl 17α-alkoxy-11β-hydroxyandrost-4-en-3-one-17β-carboxylate type and the corresponding Δ1,4 compounds and of anti-inflammatory steroids of the hydrocortisone and prednisolone type are described. The enhancing agents have the formula: wherein R is H or C1-C4 alkyl; Z1 is carbonyl or β-hydroxymethylene; X1 is —O— or —S—; R5 is —OH, —OR6, —OCOOR6 or —OCOR7 wherein R6 is C1-C4 alkyl and R7 is C1-C4 alkyl, fluoromethyl or chloromethyl; and the dotted line in ring A indicates that the 1,2-linkage is saturated or unsaturated; with the proviso that when R is C1-C4 alkyl, then R5 is —OH.
US07776831B2
The present invention provides a novel method for treating oral conditions and upper gastrointestinal conditions in a subject by providing an inventive oral dosage form of a pharmaceutical composition comprising an effective amount of at least one antifungal and optionally a flavor modifier and/or salivation component such as an herbal component. In the present invention, the subjects have either not been diagnosed or do not have active or recurrent fungal infections. Specifically, the present invention is directed to chewable dosage forms.
US07776830B2
Glucopyranosyl-substituted benzonitrile derivatives defined according to claim 1, including the tautomers, the stereoisomers thereof, the mixtures thereof and the salts thereof. The compounds according to the invention are suitable for the treatment of metabolic disorders.
US07776821B2
The present nanofiltration method is applicable on solutions of plasma-derived and recombinantly produced MBL. The MBL containing solution is subjected to a pre-treatment prior to the nanofiltration step. The nanofiltration is used for removal of viruses in general and other infectious agents to obtain an MBL product free from infectious viruses and agents. The nanofiltered MBL product is ready for preparing a pharmaceutical composition for therapeutic or prophylactic treatment of infections and other diseases in individuals with MBL deficiency and insufficiency.
US07776816B2
Hypoxic tissue is preserved by prophylactically administering Stromal Derived Factor 1 Alpha (SDF-1α) before hypoxia induces cell death in the tissue.
US07776810B2
Compositions comprising an ionic liquid active composed of an ion active and an ionic liquid-forming counter ion, wherein the ion active is capable of delivering a fabric treating benefit, a surface treating benefit, and/or an air treating benefit. The compositions are substantially free of added water and have a viscosity less than about 5000 mPa·s at room temperature. The compositions are easily diluted with water and/or organic solvent, without formation a gel phase during the dilution process. Various products, especially a unit dose product, made with such compositions are also disclosed.
US07776808B2
The present invention provides a cleaning agent for removing the solder flux and method for cleaning the solder flux which exhibit the excellent cleaning property even at the time of cleaning a lead-free soldering flux, a high-melting-point solder flux or the like and, at the same time, exhibits the excellent rinsing property in the rinsing using an alcoholic solvent in a next step. Accordingly, the present invention provides a cleaning agent for removing the solder flux which sets a content of benzyl alcohol to a value which falls within a range of 70 to 99.9 weight % and a content of amino alcohol to a value which falls within a range of 0.1 to 30 weight % when a content of a glycol compound is below 1 weight % with respect to a total amount of the cleaning agent for removing the solder flux, and sets a content of benzyl alcohol to a value which falls within a range of 15 to 99 weight % and a content of amino alcohol to a value which falls within a range of 0.1 to 30 weight % when a content of the glycol compound falls within a range of 1 to 40 weight % with respect to a total amount of the cleaning agent for removing the solder flux. The cleaning agent for removing the solder flux is used for cleaning the lead-free solder flux and the high-melting-point solder flux or the like.
US07776801B2
An additive mixture as component of a composition of mineral oil as main component and trace portions of an additive mixture containing the additive components a) ethylene-vinylester copolymers modified by polar groups with molecular mass weight averages from 3000 to 50000 and an ethylene component of 50 to 90 mass %, and b) C2-C6-oxyalkyl-bridged C12-C40-monocarboxylic acids, and/or c) partially and/or completely imidated copolymers of unsaturated C4-C20-dicarboxylic acid anhydrides and vinyl aromatics and/or C2-C36-α-olefins, whereby the content of the additive mixture in the mineral is 0.005 to 1 mass %. The compositions are suitable as flowable media to be transported at low temperatures and as mineral oil fuels with high lubricity and flowability.
US07776800B2
A lubricating oil composition comprising a) an oil of lubricating viscosity having a viscosity index of at least about 95; b) at least one calcium detergent; c) at least one oil soluble titanium compound; d) at least one friction modifier; and e) at least one metal dihydrocarbyldithiophosphate compound. The composition has a Noack volatility of about 15 wt. % or less, and contains from about 0.05 to about 0.6 wt. % calcium from the calcium detergent, titanium metal in an amount of at least about 10 ppm up to about 1500 ppm titanium from the titanium compound, and phosphorus from the metal dihydrocarbyldithiophosphate compound in an amount up to about 0.1 wt. %.
US07776794B2
The invention relates to a biosensor comprising living cells that express a chemosensor, or receptor, on their surface. When grown on a microarray comprising electrodes, the cells can be induced, by binding of a ligand to the receptor, to secrete a molecule. This secretion event is detected with millisecond temporal resolution via electrochemical oxidation of the secreted molecule on the electrode which is voltage-clamped slightly above its redox potential. The current so generated is indicative of the amount of the ligand bound to the receptor.
US07776786B2
The present invention provides monolithic structural catalysts. The catalysts have a high open frontal area structure and composition advantageous for use in high particulate matter environments such as coal-fired industrial applications. In an embodiment, the present invention provides a monolithic structural catalyst body comprising a high open frontal area structure and composition that can achieve an efficient selective reduction of nitrogen oxides while minimizing the oxidation of sulfur dioxide wherein the structure of the catalyst body is resistant to plugging by particulate matter.
US07776762B2
Dielectric layers containing a zirconium-doped tantalum oxide layer, where the zirconium-doped tantalum oxide layer is formed of one or more monolayers of tantalum oxide doped with zirconium, provide an insulating layer in a variety of structures for use in a wide range of electronic devices.
US07776759B2
A method for forming an integrated circuit having openings in a mold layer and for producing capacitors is disclosed. In one embodiment, nanotubes or nanowires are grown vertically on a horizontal substrate surface. The nanotubes or nanowires serve as a template for forming openings in a mold layer. The substrate is covered with a mold material after the formation of the nanowires or nanotubes. One embodiment provides mold layers having openings with a much higher aspect ratio.
US07776754B2
This disclosure is concerned a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device which includes providing an dielectric film on a substrate; providing a mask material on the dielectric film; etching the dielectric film using the mask material; performing a first treatment of removing a metal residue generated by etching the dielectric film; performing a second treatment of making a sidewall of the dielectric film formed by etching the dielectric film hydrophobic; and performing a third treatment of removing a silicon residue generated by etching the dielectric film.
US07776752B2
Provided are an etching method for a multi-layered structure of semiconductors in groups III-V and a method of manufacturing a VCSEL using the etching method. According to the etching method, a stacked structure including a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer is exposed to a plasma of a mixture consisting of Cl2, Ar, CH4, and H2 to etch the stacked structure, so that a mirror layer of the VCSEL is formed. The first semiconductor layer is formed of a semiconductor in groups III-V and the second semiconductor layer is formed of a semiconductor in groups III-V, other than the semiconductor of the first semiconductor layer. At least part of a lower mirror layer, a lower electrode layer, an optical gain layer, an upper electrode layer, and an upper mirror layer is etched using one time of an etching process, so that a clean and smooth etched surface is obtained.
US07776750B2
A method for forming a pattern in a semiconductor device includes performing a double exposure process for a multifunctional hard mask layer over a semiconductor substrate using a line/space mask to form a multifunctional hard mask layer pattern having a first contact hole region. The multifunctional hard mask layer pattern is subjected to a resist flow process to form a multifunctional hard mask layer pattern having a second contact hole region with rounded edges, where the size of the second contact hole region is smaller than that of the first contact hole region.
US07776749B2
The invention includes optical signal conduits having rare earth elements incorporated therein. The optical signal conduits can, for example, contain rare earth elements incorporated within a dielectric material matrix. For instance, erbium or cerium can be within silicon nanocrystals dispersed throughout dielectric material of optical signal conduits. The dielectric material can define a path for the optical signal, and can be wrapped in a sheath which aids in keeping the optical signal along the path. The sheath can include any suitable barrier material, and can, for example, contain one or more metallic materials. The invention also includes methods of forming optical signal conduits, with some of such methods being methods in which the optical signal conduits are formed to be part of semiconductor constructions.
US07776746B2
A method and apparatus for ultra thin wafer backside processing are disclosed. The apparatus includes an outer ring holding a high temperature grinding and/or dicing tape to form a support structure. An ultra thin wafer or diced wafer is adhered to the tape within the ring for wafer backside processing. The wafer backside processing includes ion implantation, annealing, etching, sputtering and evaporation while the wafer is in the support structure. Alternative uses of the support structure are also disclosed including the fabrication of dies having metalized side walls.
US07776742B2
A TiN film is formed to have a predetermined thickness on a semiconductor wafer by heating the semiconductor wafer at a film formation temperature within a process container and performing a cycle including a first step and a second step at least once. The first step is arranged to supply a TiCl4 gas and a NH3 gas to form a film of TiN by CVD. The second step is arranged to stop the TiCl4 gas and supply the NH3 gas. In film formation, the semiconductor wafer is set at a temperature of less than 450° C. and the process container is set to have therein a total pressure of more than 100 Pa. The NH3 gas is set to have a partial pressure of 30 Pa or less within the process container in the first step.
US07776738B2
A method for fabricating a storage electrode of a semiconductor device includes forming an interlayer dielectric film including a storage node contact on a semiconductor substrate, forming an etching blocking layer on the interlayer dielectric film, forming a mold insulating layer on the etching blocking layer, the mold insulating layer including sequentially deposited phospho-silicate glass and high density plasma oxide, forming a hard mask layer on the mold insulating layer, forming an opening in the resulting structure, thereby exposing the surface of the storage node contact, etching the mold insulating layer exposed through the opening to form a variable-profile storage electrode pattern and forming a storage electrode along the surface of the variable-profile storage electrode pattern.
US07776733B2
Embodiments of the invention describe TiN deposition methods suitable for high volume manufacturing of semiconductor devices on large patterned substrates (wafers). One embodiment describes a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process using high gas flow rate of a tetrakis(ethylmethylamino) titanium (TEMAT) precursor vapor along with an inert carrier gas at a low process chamber pressure that provides high deposition rate of conformal TiN films with good step coverage in surface reaction limited regime. Other embodiments describe cyclical TiN deposition methods using TEMAT precursor vapor and a nitrogen precursor.
US07776721B2
A laser processing method for a gallium arsenide wafer of radiating a laser beam along streets formed in lattice on a surface of a gallium arsenide substrate, and cutting-off the gallium arsenide wafer along the streets includes a wafer supporting step for sticking a rear surface of the gallium arsenide substrate on a protective member, a debris shielding coating step for coating the surface of the gallium arsenide substrate with a debris shielding film, a laser-processed trench forming step for radiating a laser beam along the streets from the debris shielding film side to the gallium arsenide substrate, thereby forming laser-processed trenches each not reaching the rear surface, and a cutting-off step for radiating the laser beam along the laser-processed trenches to the gallium arsenide substrate, thereby forming cutting-off trenches each reaching the rear surface.
US07776715B2
A method of fabricating a memory cell comprises forming a plurality of doped semiconductor layers on a carrier substrate. The method further comprises forming a plurality of digit lines separated by an insulating material. The digit lines are arrayed over the doped semiconductor layers. The method further comprises etching a plurality of trenches into the doped semiconductor layers. The method further comprises depositing an insulating material into the plurality of trenches to form a plurality of electrically isolated transistor pillars. The method further comprises bonding at least a portion of the structure formed on the carrier substrate to a host substrate. The method further comprises separating the carrier substrate from the host substrate.
US07776714B2
The invention relates to a process for obtaining a thin layer made of a first material on a substrate made of a second material called the final substrate, including the following steps: bonding a thick layer of a first material on one of its main faces on the final substrate at an interface, implantation of gaseous species in the thick layer of first material to create a weakened zone delimiting said thin layer between the interface and the weakened zone, deposit a layer of third material called the self-supporting layer on the thick layer made of first material, fracture within the structure composed of the final substrate, the thick layer of first material and the layer of third material, at the weakened zone to supply the substrate supporting said thin layer.
US07776705B2
A method of forming one or more inductors on a substrate is disclosed. The method includes forming a first dielectric material over the substrate, forming a trench in the first dielectric material, and substantially filling the trench with copper to form the one or more inductors. The first dielectric material is removed and a second dielectric material is formed over the copper. The second dielectric material is removed from an uppermost portion of the copper, thus leaving a portion of the second dielectric material on the sidewalls of the copper.
US07776704B2
The present invention provides a method of forming a self-aligned heterobipolar transistor (HBT) device in a BiCMOS technology. The method includes forming a raised extrinsic base structure by using an epitaxial growth process in which the growth rate between single crystal silicon and polycrystalline silicon is different and by using a low temperature oxidation process such as a high-pressure oxidation (HIPOX) process to form a self-aligned emitter/extrinsic base HBT structure.
US07776702B2
The present invention provides a method of fabricating a semiconductor apparatus including a vertical transistor and a semiconductor apparatus fabricated thereby which protect a pillar-shaped channel region to stabilize an operating characteristic of the semiconductor apparatus. The method of fabricating the semiconductor apparatus according to the present invention comprises: forming a pillar-shaped pattern on a semiconductor substrate; depositing a conductive layer surrounding the pattern; changing a feature of some portion of the conductive layer through an ion implanting process to form an oxide film; and removing the oxide film using an etching selectivity difference.
US07776701B2
A compound metal comprising MOxNy which is a p-type metal having a workfunction of about 4.75 to about 5.3, preferably about 5, eV that is thermally stable on a gate stack comprising a high k dielectric and an interfacial layer is provided as well as a method of fabricating the MOxNy compound metal. Furthermore, the MOxNy metal compound of the present invention is a very efficient oxygen diffusion barrier at 1000° C. allowing very aggressive equivalent oxide thickness (EOT) and inversion layer thickness scaling below 14 Å in a p-metal oxide semiconductor (pMOS) device. In the above formula, M is a metal selected from Group IVB, VB, VIB or VIIB of the Periodic Table of Elements, x is from about 5 to about 40 atomic % and y is from about 5 to about 40 atomic %.
US07776696B2
Making gates having multiple thicknesses on the same substrate in a given process flow is provided. For example, a method of making a semiconductor structure having at least two gates of different thickness involves forming a first gate layer having a first thickness; patterning a first hard mask over a portion of the first gate layer to define a first gate underneath the first hard mask having a first gate thickness; forming a second gate layer having a second thickness over the first gate layer and the first hard mask; patterning a second hard mask over a portion of the second gate layer to define a second gate underneath the second hard mask having a second gate thickness; removing portions of the first gate layer and the second gate layer that are not under the first hard mask and the second hard mask; and removing the first hard mask and the second hard mask to provide two gates of different thicknesses.
US07776692B2
A semiconductor device having a vertical channel capable of reducing the interface contact resistance between a gate electrode surrounding an active pillar and a word line connecting the gate electrode and a method of manufacturing the same is provided. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of active pillars extending in a direction perpendicular to a surface of a semiconductor substrate. A word line structure is formed on an outer periphery for connecting the active pillars disposed in the same row or column. Top and bottom source/drain regions are formed over and under the active pillars, respectively, in relation to the word line structure.
US07776690B2
A method of forming a contact on a semiconductor device is provided. First, a substrate is provided. A plurality of gate structures defined by a plurality of word lines in a first direction, and a plurality of diffusion regions covered by a first dielectric layer in a second direction are provided over the substrate. The gate structures located underneath the word lines and isolated by the diffusion regions. Then, an etching stop layer is formed. The etching stop layer and the first dielectric layer have different etching selectivity. A second dielectric layer is formed over the substrate. Furthermore, a plurality of contact holes to the diffusion regions between the word lines are formed by using the etching stop layer as a self-aligned mask.
US07776689B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device including depositing a first silicon oxide film on a silicon substrate, depositing a silicon-containing film on the first silicon oxide film, applying a coating solution for silica film formation over the silicon-containing film, and heat-treating the coating solution, thereby forming a second silicon oxide film.
US07776684B2
Methods and apparatuses to increase a surface area of a memory cell capacitor are described. An opening in a second insulating layer deposited over a first insulating layer on a substrate is formed. The substrate has a fin. A first insulating layer is deposited over the substrate adjacent to the fin. The opening in the second insulating layer is formed over the fin. A first conducting layer is deposited over the second insulating layer and the fin. A third insulating layer is deposited on the first conducting layer. A second conducting layer is deposited on the third insulating layer. The second conducting layer fills the opening. The second conducting layer is to provide an interconnect to an upper metal layer. Portions of the second conducting layer, third insulating layer, and the first conducting layer are removed from a top surface of the second insulating layer.
US07776676B2
A method of fabricating a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor image sensor is provided. First, a substrate having a photo sensitive region and a transistor device region is provided. A p type well in the substrate of the transistor device region is formed. A dielectric layer and an un-doped polysilicon layer on the substrate are sequentially formed. A n type polysilicon layer on a first portion of the transistor device region and a p type polysilicon layer on the photo sensitive region and on a second portion of the transistor device region are formed. The dielectric layer, the n type polysilicon layer and the p type polysilicon layer are patterned to form a plurality of n type gate structures and a p type gate structure on the p type well of the transistor device region. A photo sensitive diode is formed in the substrate of the photo sensitive region.
US07776664B2
To achieve electro-optical devices typified by active matrix liquid crystal display devices with higher productivity and yield and lower manufacturing cost by reducing the number of steps of manufacturing a terminal portion and a pixel portion having an inverted staggered thin film transistor, specifically by reducing the number of photomasks used in a photolithography process. In view of this object, a photomask (multitone photomask) formed in such a manner that a light-transmitting substrate is provided with a transmitting portion, a partially-transmitting portion having a function of reducing light intensity, and a light-blocking portion is employed. Moreover, a lift-off method which does not require an etching step in patterning of a source electrode and a drain electrode of the pixel portion and a source wiring that extends to the terminal portion is employed.
US07776663B2
In a liquid crystal display device, a first substrate includes electrical wirings and a semiconductor integrated circuit which has TFTs and is connected electrically to the electrical wirings, and a second substrate includes a transparent conductive film on a surface thereof. A surface of the first substrate that the electrical wirings are formed is opposite to the transparent conductive film on the second substrate. the semiconductor integrated circuit has substantially the same length as one side of a display screen (i.e., a matrix circuit) of the display device and is obtained by peeling it from another substrate and then forming it on the first substrate. Also, in a liquid crystal display device, a first substrate includes a matrix circuit and a peripheral driver circuit, and a second substrate is opposite to the first substrate, includes a matrix circuit and a peripheral driver circuit and has at least a size corresponding to the matrix circuit and the peripheral driver circuit. Spacers is provided between the first and second substrates. A seal material is formed outside the matrix circuits and the peripheral driver circuits in the first and second substrates. A liquid crystal material is filled inside a region enclosed by the seal material. A protective film is formed on the peripheral driver circuit has substantially a thickness equivalent to an interval between the substrates which is formed by the spacers.
US07776661B2
A co-planar waveguide structure is integrated with an upwardly extending resonant pillar to produce transfer cells that provide controlled transmission of electricity between adjacent structures of the co-planar waveguide in order to produce easily fabricated electronic devices operating at megahertz and gigahertz speeds for filtration, modulation, rectification, and mixing of high-frequency signals.
US07776658B2
A semiconductor package is disclosed for packaging two adjacent semiconductor dies atop a circuit substrate. The dies are separated from each other along their longitudinal edges with an inter-die distance. An elevation-adaptive electrical connection connects a top metalized contact of die two to the bottom surface of die one while accommodating for elevation difference between the surfaces. The elevation-adaptive electrical connection includes: a) An L-shaped circuit route that is part of the circuit substrate, extending transversely from a die one longitudinal edge and placing an intermediate contact area next to a die two transverse edge. b) An interconnection plate connecting the top metalized contact area of die two with the intermediate contact area while being formed to accommodate for elevation difference between the contact areas. Consequently, the semiconductor package reduces the inter-die distance from an otherwise direct transverse circuit routing between the longitudinal edges of the dies.
US07776648B2
A circuit die is disposed into a region defined by a mold. A molding material is then introduced into the region to encapsulate the circuit die. Prior to substantial curing of the molding material, at least a portion of the molding material is removed from over a surface of the circuit die, creating a recessed region in the encapsulating material. A heat spreader may then be disposed within the recessed region, as well as over the top surface of the encapsulating material. The heat spreader may have a downset that substantially aligns with the recessed region and reduces the distance between the heat spreader and the spacer for better heat dissipation.
US07776646B2
An organic field-effect transistor and a method of making the same include a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of bifunctional molecules disposed between a pair of electrodes as a channel material. The pair of electrodes and the SAM of bifunctional molecules are formed above an insulating layer, in which each of the bifunctional molecules comprises a functionality at a first end that covalently bonds to the insulating layer, and an end-cap functionality at a second end that includes a conjugated bond. The SAM of bifunctional molecules may be polymerized SAM to form a conjugated polymer strand extending between the pair of electrodes.
US07776645B2
An organic semiconductor device in which an organic semiconductor layer is easily formed into a pattern, and a method of manufacturing same. On a substrate, a first structural portion including a first electrode, an organic semiconductor layer made of an organic compound having a semiconductor property, and a second structural portion having a second electrode are provided in order. The second structural portion is formed in a prescribed pattern. The second structural portion includes a mask portion having an etching-resistant property, and etching of the organic semiconductor layer is performed while using the mask portion as a mask. The mask portion may be the second electrode.
US07776641B2
An organic light emitting display device and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The method for manufacturing the organic light emitting display device includes forming a switching element and a silicon nitride layer over a substrate, patterning and removing a portion of the silicon nitride layer formed on a light emitting region through which light is transmitted, forming an overcoat layer formed on the silicon nitride layer, wherein a portion of the overcoat layer corresponding to the light emitting region has a thickness of about 1.1 μm to about 2.1 μm, forming a first electrode electrically connected to the switching element over the light emitting region, and sequentially forming an organic light emitting layer and a second electrode on the first electrode.
US07776640B2
An image sensing device and a packaging method thereof is disclosed. The packaging method includes the steps of providing an adhesive layer; placing a substrate, having an opening, on the adhesive layer; disposing an image sensor within the opening on the adhesive layer; adding a filler between the image sensor and the substrate; connecting the image sensor and the substrate via a plurality of bonding wires; and removing the adhesive layer.
US07776639B2
A pixel cell having a halogen-rich region localized between an oxide isolation region and a photosensor. The halogen-rich region prevents leakage from the isolation-region into the photosensor, thereby suppressing dark current in imagers.
US07776636B2
A method for reducing dislocation density between an AlGaN layer and a sapphire substrate involving the step of forming a self-organizing porous AlN layer of non-coalescing column-like islands with flat tops on the substrate.
US07776623B2
A system and method to fabricate magnetic random access memory is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, the method includes depositing a cap layer on a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structure, depositing a first spin-on material layer over the cap layer, and etching the first spin-on material layer and at least a portion of the cap layer.
US07776618B2
The invention comprises a device for detecting an analyte in a liquid sample deposited on a first portion of the device for transport to a second portion of the device that is in fluid contact with the first portion. In specific embodiments, the device comprises a labeled conjugate comprising a binding member reactive with a first epitope of the analyte and a label comprising a gold colloid, preferably having a mean particle size of 50 nm to 100 nm. In further embodiments, the device comprises a capture component comprising polymerized streptavidin. The diagnostic device is particularly useful in the preparation of pregnancy test kits.
US07776611B2
The invention relates to a method for sensing the presence of at least one analyte in a medium, comprising disposing in the medium a functionalized composite material such that the at least one analyte is absorbed by the functionalized composite material, the functionalized composite material having at least one optical property that is modulated by absorption of the at least one analyte; and measuring modulation of the at least one optical property of the functionalized composite material; wherein modulation of the at least one optical property of the functionalized composite material is indicative of the presence of the analyte in the medium. The invention also relates to an optical sensor for sensing the presence of at least one analyte in a medium, and a functionalized composite material having at least one optical property that is modulated upon absorption of one or more analyte.
US07776610B2
An assay method and kit for detecting a chemical. The method and kit utilize a metal surface capable of surface enhanced Raman Scattering. The metal surface may be provided in the form of one or more nanoparticles, to increase the surface enhanced Raman Scattering capability of the metal surface. The nanoparticles may be treated with one or more additives to further enhance or maintain the surface enhanced Raman Scattering capability of the nanoparticles.
US07776609B2
A reference microplate is described herein which can be used to help calibrate and troubleshoot an optical interrogation system. In one embodiment, the reference microplate has a frame with an array of wells each of which contains an optical biosensor and each optical biosensor is at least partially coated with a substance (e.g., elastomer, optical epoxy). In another embodiment, the reference microplate in addition to having its optical biosensors at least partially covered with a substance (e.g., elastomer, optical epoxy) also has a controllable heating device attached thereto which is used to heat the optical biosensors.
US07776605B2
The invention provides among other things methods and kits based on assaying for cardiac troponin autoantibodies, either in conjunction with an assay for cardiac troponin and/or as an independent indicator of cardiac pathology, such as myocarditis, cardiomyopathy, and/or ischemic heart disease. Assay methods of the invention can be employed among other things to identify cardiac pathology, or risk thereof, in subjects who have an autoimmune disease or who are related to an individual with an autoimmune disease. In particular embodiments, the invention also provides a method of determining whether a subject having, or at risk for, a cardiac pathology is a candidate for immunosuppressive therapy or immunoabsorption therapy. The invention also provides kits and kit components that are useful for performing the methods of the invention.
US07776603B2
The present invention relates to a method of specifying a batch, lot, or shipment of particulate material by using at least one interfacial potential property value to specify the batch, lot, or shipment of particulate material. A method of representing a grade, brand, or type of particulate material is also disclosed. At least one morphological value and/or chemical value may also be included. The values can be included on a product specification sheet.
US07776593B2
The present invention provides methods of identifying endocrine stem and progenitor cells.
US07776591B2
A method of in vitro fucosylation of selectin ligands on cord blood-derived hematopoietic stem cells for bone marrow transplantation is disclosed. In this method, an effective amount of an α1,3-fucosyltransferase, e.g., α1,3-fucosyltransferase VI, is used in vitro to treat cord blood-derived hematopoietic stem cells to convert non-functional PSGL-1 or other ligands on the cell surface into functional forms that bind selectins, especially P-selectin or E-selectin. The treated cells have enhanced effectiveness in reconstituting bone marrow in patients in need of such therapy.
US07776588B2
This invention provides the identification of a truncation polymorphism of the mdr1 gene that is linked to ivermectin sensitivity in subjects, such as collies. Also provided are methods for detecting drug transport sensitivity in a subject, and animal models and in vitro cell systems using cells from animals having an mdr1 truncation.
US07776575B2
A mutant glucose dehydrogenase having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3 or an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3 including substitution, deletion, insertion or addition of one or more amino acid residues other than the amino acid residue at the 365th position and having glucose dehydrogenase activity, wherein an amino acid residue at a position corresponding to the 365th position of the amino acid sequence is replaced with another amino acid residue, and the mutant glucose dehydrogenase shows an improved substrate specificity to glucose.
US07776569B2
The present invention provides methods for identifying druggable targets in assays that feature compositions, cells and/or organisms having structured viral non-coding RNAs (svRNAs) and an RNA interference (RNAi) pathway. Methods for identifying antiviral agents and creating vaccines are also featured. The invention further provides methods for inhibiting RNAi involving svRNAs or inhibitory derivatives thereof. The invention also provides compositions for delivering siRNA and miRNA molecules derived from svRNA loci and methods of use thereof. Therapeutic methods are also featured.
US07776557B2
A method of monitoring tocolytic therapy in a pregnant woman. The method comprises determining a first concentration of placental protein 13 (PP13) in a bodily substance of a woman who has not received treatment with a tocolytic agent, determining a second concentration of PP13 in a bodily substance of the pregnant woman after initiation of treatment with a tocolytic agent, and comparing the second concentration with the first concentration. Based on the comparison, it may be determined whether to continue, discontinue, or modify the tocolytic treatment.
US07776550B2
Methods for diagnosing pathology of the liver in a subject suspected of having such pathology are disclosed. The methods comprise quantifiably detecting glycosylation, and more specifically fucosylation, on proteins in biological fluids, and comparing the detected glycosylation with reference values for the glycosylation of such proteins in healthy or disease states.
US07776547B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for assaying cell samples, which may be living cells, using probes labeled with composite organic-inorganic nanoparticles (COINs) and microspheres with COINs embedded within a polymer matrix to which the probe moiety is attached. COINs intrinsically produce SERS signals upon laser irradiation, making COIN-labeled probes particularly suitable in a variety of methods for assaying cells, including biological molecules that may be contained on or within cells, most of which are not inherently Raman-active. The invention provides variations of the sandwich immunoassay employing both specific and degenerate binding, methods for reverse phase assay of tissue samples and cell microstructures, in solution displacement and competition assays, and the like. Systems and chips useful for practicing the invention assays are also provided.
US07776538B2
Disclosed is useful means for the therapy or diagnosis of a mental disorder. A method for screening for a compound which is effective for a mental disorder, comprising the steps of (1) providing a cell capable of expressing a gene (target gene) selected from the group consisting of a gene having the nucleotide sequence depicted in SEQ ID NO:1, a gene having the nucleotide sequence depicted in SEQ ID NO:2, a gene having the nucleotide sequence depicted in SEQ ID NO:3 and genes homologous to these genes; (2) exposing the cell to a compound to be tested; (3) determining the amount of a product of the target gene expressed in the cell after the exposure to the compound; and (4) determining the change in amount of the product of the target gene under the influence of exposure to the compound.
US07776535B2
This invention relates, in part, to newly identified polynucleotides, polypeptides, variants and derivatives thereof; processes for making the polynucleotides and the polypeptides, and their variants and derivatives; and uses of the polynucleotides, polypeptides, variants and derivatives. The invention also relates to compositions of orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and pairs of orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and orthogonal tRNAs that incorporate fluorinated amino acids into proteins in response to selector codons. The present invention also includes translation biochemistry methods for site-specific incorporation of fluorinated amino acids, for example, 18F- or 19F-labelled amino acids, into proteins or peptides. Such amino acids may be used as an NMR probe for characterizing protein structure, dynamics, and reactivity or for radionuclide imaging (e.g., PET). Fluorinated amino acids may also be used to stabilize proteins or peptides.
US07776532B2
The present invention relates, e.g., to an in vitro method, using isolated protein reagents, for joining two double-stranded (ds) DNA molecules of interest, wherein the distal region of the first DNA molecule and the proximal region of the second DNA molecule share a region of sequence identity, comprising (a) chewing back the DNA molecules with an enzyme having an exonuclease activity, to yield single-stranded overhanging portions of each DNA molecule which contain a sufficient length of the region of sequence identity to hybridize specifically to each other; (b) specifically annealing the single-stranded overhangs; and (c) repairing single-stranded gaps in the annealed DNA molecules and sealing the nicks thus formed (ligating the nicked DNA molecules). The region of sequence identity generally comprises at least 20 non-palindromic nucleotides (nt), e.g., at least about 40 non-palindromic nt. In some embodiments of the invention, about 5% PEG is present during all steps of the reaction, and/or the repair reaction is achieved with Taq DNA polymerase and a compatible ligase, such as Taq DNA ligase. The method allows the joining of a number of DNA fragments, in a predetermined order and orientation, without the use of restriction enzymes. It can be used, e.g., to join synthetically produced sub-fragments of a gene or genome of interest.
US07776515B2
A composition for the organic hard mask includes a polyamic acid compound, and a method for forming a pattern is used in a manufacturing process of semiconductor devices by coating the composition for organic hard mask film on an underlying layer, and depositing a second hard mask film with a silicon nitride SiON film thereon to form a double hard mask film having an excellent etching selectivity, thereby obtaining a uniform pattern.
US07776503B2
The present invention provides a method for manufacturing particles, where a viscous material is sprayed with a high-pressure gas for atomization while the viscous material is being discharged in a chamber, and cooling air is introduced in the chamber for granulation. The present invention also provides a method for manufacturing a toner, where a mixture containing at least a binding resin and a colorant is melt mixed under pressure or melt mixed with an injection of a supercritical fluid, the obtained melt-mixed substance is sprayed with a high-pressure gas for atomization while the melt-mixed substance is being discharged in a chamber, and cooling air is introduced in the chamber from an air inlet formed on the chamber.
US07776501B2
The color toner has capsule type toner particles each having a surface layer (B) mainly formed of a resin (b) on the surface of a toner base particle (A) containing at least a binder resin (a), a colorant, and a wax, in which (1) a temperature Tp at which a curve 1 obtained by plotting a temperature on an axis of abscissa and the common logarithm of a value obtained by dividing the loss modulus G″ of the color toner by the unit of the loss modulus on an axis of ordinate shows a maximum is present, and Tp satisfies the relationship of 40° C.≦Tp≦60° C., (2) a temperature Ts at which a curve 2 obtained by differentiating the curve 1 with respect to the temperature twice shows a local minimum is present in the temperature range of Tp+10(° C.) to Tp+40(° C.), and (3) a ratio G″(Ts)/G″(Ts+5) in the curve 1 is larger than 3.0.
US07776498B2
A photoconductor containing a supporting substrate, a photogenerating layer, and at least one charge transport layer; and wherein the photogenerating layer is comprised of at least one photogenerating pigment and a resin binder that is substantially insoluble in an alkylene halide like methylene chloride.
US07776483B2
An activation method and system to selectively activate defective cells in a laminated fuel cell stack. The system includes a tank to store a polar solvent used to activate the cells; a body including a transfer unit to transfer the polar solvent to the fuel cell stack and a control unit to control the transfer unit; and a nozzle coupled to the body, to be inserted into an inlet manifold of the fuel cell stack. The nozzle has an opening positioned opposite to a channel inlet of at least one non-activated cell of the plurality of cells, to jet the polar solvent into only a channel of the non-activated cell, through the opening.
US07776480B2
A fuel cell system is provided which includes a fuel cell to which fuel gas and oxidizing gas are supplied to generate electricity, a purge valve which purges fuel gas discharged from the fuel cell, a dilutor which mixes the purged fuel gas with the oxidizing gas and purges the purged fuel gas mixed with the oxidizing gas into the atmosphere, and an ECU which stops supply of the oxidizing gas to the fuel cell so as to cause an idle stop and determines whether to permit the idle stop depending on a concentration of the fuel gas in the dilutor.
US07776472B2
Disclosed are an anode material for a secondary battery, a method for producing the same and a secondary battery using the same. The present invention provides the anode material for a secondary battery produced by coating a high-crystallinity core carbonaceous material with a coating carbonaceous material and calcinating the high-crystallinity core carbonaceous material, wherein the anode material has a specific volume of 0.002 cc/g or less. The anode material for a secondary battery of the present invention may be produced by coating a high-crystallinity core carbonaceous material with a coating carbonaceous material and undergoing a predetermined calcination process, and the anode material can have an increased volume ratio of the micropores. Accordingly, the secondary battery of the present invention may be useful to improve charging/discharging capacity and efficiency since sorption of lithium ion in the anode material is improved.
US07776470B2
Improvements in the performance of lithium electrochemical cells comprising a first cathode active material of a relatively high energy density but of a relatively low rate capability, for example CFx, contacted to one side of a current collector and with a second cathode active material having a relatively low energy density but of a relatively high rate capability, for example SVO, contacted to the opposite current collector side are described. An exemplary cathode has the configuration: SVO/first current collector/CFx/second current collector/SVO, and wherein the anodic coulombic capacity does not exceed the total coulombic capacities of the SVO and CFx by greater than 25%. Manganese oxide (MnO2) is another typically used cathode active material in lieu of SVO, and the present invention is applicable to lithium cells of that system as well.
US07776469B2
The present invention provides a secondary battery including an electrode assembly comprising positive and negative electrodes with a separator interposed therebetween and wound together, a case, a cap assembly, and a negative current collecting plate. The negative current collecting plate includes a partially surface-treated region for fixing the negative current collecting plate to the negative electrode. The partially surface-treated region comprises a metal other than the metal of the negative current collecting plate. The use of a metal other than the metal of the negative current collecting plate provides an improved weld between the negative current collecting plate and the negative electrode which in turn provides improved battery performance, especially for high-load batteries.
US07776458B2
Silyl-substituted cyclometalated transition metal complexes have good thermal stability and enabling highly efficient phospholuminescence and an organic electroluminescent device may use the Silyl-substituted cyclometalated transition metal complexes. The transition metal complexes, which are suitably used for forming an organic layer of the organic electroluminescent device, can emit light in the wavelength range of 400-650 nm, and induce white electroluminescence when combined with green or red luminescent materials.
US07776457B2
An organic electroluminescent (EL) device which has a light emitting layer composed of at least one phosphorescent dopant disposed between a first electrode and a second electrode; and a blue light emitting layer contacting the light emitting layer, wherein the light emitting layer has a hole transport material and an electron transport material as a host.
US07776449B2
A composite article that can be used as a substrate for coated conductors is disclosed. The composite substrate has at least three layers in which one or more inner layers of Ni—W alloys with 9 at. %-13 at. % W and two outer layers of Ni—W alloys with 3 at. %-9 at. % W. The content of W element gradually decreases from the inner layers to the outer layers. The composite substrate can be prepared using a process of designing and sintering composite ingot, rolling composite ingot and then annealing composite substrate. The composite substrate have a dominant cube texture on the outer layer of the whole substrate which have a weaker magnetism and higher strength than that of a single Ni-5 at. % W alloy substrate. the preformed composite ingot is prepared by filling and compacting the Ni—W mixed powders into a mold layer by layer according to the structure of composite substrate; in said mold, said preformed composite ingots are with the total thickness of 5-250 mm, the thickness of two outer layers being 2/9-⅔ of the total thickness.
US07776442B2
A nanoparticle powder of silver has an average particle diameter measured by TEM observation (DTEM) of 30 nm or less, an aspect ratio of less than 1.5, an X-ray crystallite size (Dx) of 30 nm or less, a degree of single crystal grain {(DTEM)/(Dx)} of 5.0 or less, and a CV value {100×standard deviation (σ)/number average diameter (DTEM)} of less than 40%. The nanoparticle powder of silver has adhered to the particle surface thereof an organic protective agent having a molecular weight of 100 to 400. The nanoparticle powder is obtained by subjecting a silver salt to reduction treatment at a temperature of 85 to 150° C. in an alcohol having a boiling point of 85 to 150° C. and in the co-presence of an organic protective agent.
US07776438B2
The present invention provides an adhesive film for circuit connection which is to be interposed between circuit electrodes facing each other and used for electrically connecting the circuit electrodes to each other, which comprises a curing agent to generate free radicals with heating, a radically polymerizable substance, and a film-forming polymer, and in which a temporary fixing power to a flexible substrate having the circuit electrode is 40-180 N/m.
US07776433B2
A thermal oxidative barrier coating for organic matrix composites includes a bond coat having nano-particles dispersed in a polyimide matrix and a thermal barrier layer comprising a silsesquioxane or an inorganic polymer. The nano-particles may include clay platelets, graphite flakes or a polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane. The coated article may be utilized in gas turbine engine applications, particularly for a flow path duct adapted for exposure to high temperature, oxygen-containing environments.
US07776428B2
A multi-layer film includes a first layer including a blend of diene elastomer and not greater than about 40% by weight polyolefin. The multi-layer film also includes a second layer directly contacting and directly bonded to the first layer. The second layer includes a fluoropolymer.
US07776417B2
A self-adhesive ventilating modified bituminous roofing composite in which the release liner is printed with a transfer chemical such that upon removal of the release liner, the adhesive portion of the membrane is rendered non-adhesive in a pattern that provides ventilation pathways that allow for the lateral escape of pressure or latent moisture once the substrate is affixed to the roofing surface, thereby extending the life of the roofing system.
US07776413B2
A melt thermal transfer recording paper suitable for melt thermal transfer recording comprising a stretched resin film, wherein stretched resin film contains from 30 to 75% by weight of an inorganic fine powder and/or an organic filler and from 25 to 70% by weight in total of a thermoplastic resin having a Vicat softening point of not higher than 140° C. and a polyolefin-based resin having a Vicat softening point of higher than 140° C.; the stretched resin film contains more than 75 parts by weight and at most 900 parts by weight of the thermoplastic resin relative to 100 parts by weight of the polyolefin-based resin.
US07776408B2
A method and an apparatus for producing one or more single crystalline diamonds. One or more diamond seeds are placed in a substrate holder in a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) chamber. One or more metal discs are then positioned in the chemical vapor deposition chamber such that high temperature is generated at low microwave power. A diamond forming gas is then provided adjacent to the one or more diamond seeds. Plasma is then generated from the diamond forming gas by exposing the diamond forming gas to microwave radiation. The one or more diamond seeds are then exposed to the plasma under certain conditions to form single crystalline diamonds. The position of the plasma is manipulated to provide uniform growth conditions at the growth surface of the one or more diamond seeds.
US07776405B2
The claimed invention describes methods and apparatuses for manufacturing nano-aerosols and nano-structured materials based on the neutralization of charged electrosprayed products with oppositely charged electrosprayed products. Electrosprayed products include molecular ions, nano-clusters and nano-fibers. Nano-aerosols can be generated when neutralization occurs in the gas phase. Neutralization of electrospan nano-fibers with molecular ions and charged nano-clusters may result in the formation of fibrous aerosols or free nano-mats. Nano-mats can also be produced on a suitable substrate, forming efficient nano-filters.
US07776401B2
A process of treating a woven fabric by applying to the fabric a viscous polymer in a 5 to 40 wt % solution with a solvent, wherein the polymer has a Tg in the range of about minus 40 to about 0° C. and a zero shear melt viscosity of about 2×106 to about 1013 poise when measured at 20° C. and then evaporating the solvent such that the polymer only partially penetrates the fabric and penetrates to in and between fiber bundles before the polymer solidifies.
US07776396B2
An improved vapor-phase deposition method and apparatus for the application of multilayered films/coatings on substrates is described. The method is used to deposit multilayered coatings where the thickness of an oxide-based layer in direct contact with a substrate is controlled as a function of the chemical composition of the substrate, whereby a subsequently deposited layer bonds better to the oxide-based layer. The improved method is used to deposit multilayered coatings where an oxide-based layer is deposited directly over a substrate and an organic-based layer is directly deposited over the oxide-based layer. Typically, a series of alternating layers of oxide-based layer and organic-based layer are applied.
US07776385B2
A process for forming a protective layer on a metal surface includes the steps of: providing a metal material having an oxygen containing layer; applying at least two compounds to the oxygen containing layer of the metal material wherein a first compound applied is a molecularly large compound; and applying at least a second compound to the oxygen containing layer of the metal material wherein the second compound is molecularly small.
US07776380B2
A method of making catheters is disclosed in which various additives are consolidated into polymer walls of the catheters. The method includes providing a core, spraying a base polymer material over the outer surface of the core, spraying an additive material over or together with the base polymer material, and consolidating the additive material and the base polymer material together to form the catheter wall. The base polymer material and additive material are each applied as a fine particulate powder or solution of fine particulate, which can be sprayed over an outer surface of the core and the catheter wall as the catheter is formed. The additive material can be selected from several therapeutic agents, diagnostic agents, and/or polymers for modifying the base polymer materials. The additive material can be consolidated with the base polymer material throughout the polymer wall or primarily on the outer surface of the polymer wall.
US07776371B2
Ingestible compositions comprising a chromic change agent together with methods of making and using them are provided. The chromic change agent alternatively may be associated with the ingestible, such as a packaging material for the ingestible. In response to a triggering event, physical or chemical, the chromic change agent changes color to provide information as to the history of the ingestible, either prior or contemporaneous with use. Depending on the use, the color change agent may be reversible or irreversible. Various solid or liquid ingestible compositions are provided for determining ingestible temperature, storage temperature, user temperature, light exposure, pH change, hydration or solvation change, mechanical stress, and the like, particularly in comestibles. Of particular interest are polydiacetylene polymers that may be formulated to provide compositions having numerous different color transition triggering mechanisms. The invention is also related to other chromic change agents that may be incorporated into ingestibles.
US07776369B2
Process for obtaining lignan from plant material by extraction with an extraction solvent and separation of the liquid fraction from the plant material. The separated liquid fraction containing the lignan product is subjected to further processing to remove cyanogenic sugars and other impurities. The resulting lignan containing product may be formulated for the treatment of various conditions, such as cancer, diabetes, hypertension, lupus, and atherosclerosis.
US07776363B2
A composition for anti-microbial effect in a water system such as a pulp and paper processing line with an aqueous slurry. The composition comprises a free chlorine-generating biocide comprising a chlorine source, urea, and an alkali in a concentration sufficient to provide a pH greater than 10, and typically at least pH 11.
US07776356B2
The present invention relates to a method for controlling the growth, size, and distribution of a lipid domain in a lipid layer using a substrate on which a topographic structure is formed, and a method of preparing a membrane device including a lipid layer having a lipid domain, where the growth, size, and distribution of the lipid domain can be controlled by said method, and a membrane device prepared thereby.
US07776350B2
A cosmetic composition is provided which includes hydrophilic composite particles of an organic sunscreen agent, particles of a crosslinked silicone elastomer, and a cosmetically acceptable carrier. The hydrophilic composite particles are formed as a composite of sunscreen agent and binder in a relative weight ratio of about 5:1 to about 1:10. The composition exhibits relatively high SPF photoprotection while maintaining excellent soft focus properties that hide skin imperfections.
US07776336B2
Disclosed are several Y. pestis antigens that are particularly suitable for immunisation purposes, particularly when used in combinations.
US07776335B2
The identification of a highly conserved, immunologically accessible antigen at the surface of Neisseria facilitates treatment, prophylaxis, and diagnosis of Neisseria diseases. This antigen is highly resistant to Proteinase K and has an apparent molecular weight of 22 kDa on SDS-PAGE. Specific polynucleotides encoding proteins of this class have been isolated from three Neisseria meningitidis strains and from one Neisseria gonorrhoeae strain. These polynucleotides have been sequenced, and the corresponding full-length amino acid sequences of the encoded polypeptides have been deduced. Recombinant DNA methods for the production of the Neisseria surface protein, and antibodies that bind to this protein are also disclosed.
US07776333B2
An object of the present invention is to search and identify novel antifungal proteins capable of inhibiting the growth of plant pathogenic microorganisms including Magnaporthe grisea and Rhizoctonia solani causing two major rice diseases at relatively low concentrations, and further to clone a gene for said protein. The present invention provides an antifungal protein which can be obtained from fraction(s) precipitated by ammonium sulfate precipitation using an aqueous extract from Pleurotus cornucopiae, wherein said protein has an antifungal activity against at least rice blast, and exhibits existence of a component having a molecular weight of about 15 kDa as determined by SDS-PAGE method; a gene encoding said protein and uses thereof.
US07776327B2
The present invention is directed to compounds and methods for the treatment of cancer. The compounds of this invention have specificity for EphA2, an epithelial cell tyrosine kinase that is overexpressed in metastatic tumor cells. The compounds used in accordance with this invention may be provided in a pharmaceutical composition for treatment of metastatic cancer.
US07776321B2
The invention relates to methods and materials useful for targeting antigenic determinants of mutable pathogens for somatic hypermutation. These methods and materials can be used to induce an immune response against antigenic variants of mutable pathogens.
US07776320B2
A protocol for use of growth factors to stimulate neuronal cell growth and activity in trkB receptor containing cortical tissues, including the entorhinal and hippocampal cortices. The method introduces exogenous growth factor, such as BDNF, NT-4/5 and NT-3, into the EC. The method is useful in therapy of defective, diseased and damaged neurons in the mammalian brain, of particular usefulness for treatment of neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease or for normal aging.
US07776313B2
The invention provides a novel cell that is a precursor of a fibroblast-like synovial cell. The novel cell is a circulating synovial tissue cell that stains positive for collagen, CD34, CD45, prolyl 4-hydroxylase and CD14. The invention also relates to methods of diagnosing or monitoring rheumatoid arthritis and/or osteoarthritis using gene expression profiles, protein expression profiles, and/or protein phosphorylation profiles of different cell types, including the novel precursor, CD3+ cells, synovial tissue fibroblast-like synovial cells and fibrocytes. The invention also includes methods to identify substances to treat or prevent rheumatoid arthritis and/or osteoarthritis.
US07776307B2
Single-walled carbon nanotube transistor devices, and associated methods of making such devices include a porous structure for the single-walled carbon nanotubes. The porous structure may be anodized aluminum oxide or another material. Electrodes for source and drain of a transistor are provided at opposite ends of the single-walled carbon nanotube devices. A concentric gate surrounds at least a portion of a nanotube in a pore. A transistor of the invention may be especially suited for power transistor or power amplifier applications.
US07776304B2
Aggregated crystalline silicon powder with a BET surface area of 20 to 150 m2/g. It is prepared by subjecting at least one vaporous or gaseous silane and optionally at least one vaporous or gaseous doping material, an inert gas and hydrogen to heat in a hot wall reactor, cooling the reaction mixture or allowing the reaction mixture to cool and separating the product from gaseous substances in the form of a powder, wherein the proportion of silane is between 0.1 and 90 wt. %, with respect to the sum of silane, doping material, hydrogen and inert gases, and wherein the proportion of hydrogen, with respect to the sum of hydrogen, silane, inert gas and doping material, is in the range 1 mol. % to 96 mol. %. It can be used to produce electronic components.
US07776294B2
An improved method of controlling air pollution, a combustion gas is passed through a solution of an alkaline-earth metal sulfide and a redox buffer (e.g., a mono alkaline-earth metal phosphate salt), preferably but not essentially in combination with an alkaline-earth metal carbonate FGD system. The reagents are provided in a fully soluble form enabling low cost application and retrofitting of existing facilities whilst also including alkaline-earth bases salts, which advantageously afford stability to the process product. The reagents co-precipitate when the solution achieves a pH of 4.5 to 6.5 such as is encountered in the acidic environment in conduits that carry combustion flue gases.
US07776293B2
An apparatus for low-temperature NOx-reduction is disclosed, which is useful in boiler installations used at electric-generating plants. The apparatus employs one or a plurality of moving-bed reactors wherein a moving bed of common base-metal catalyst is used for selective catalytic reduction of NOx present in flue gas. The moving bed permits continuous introduction of fresh or regenerated catalyst, thus obviating the conventional problems of sulfur-poisoning and consequent reduction in catalytic activity with such catalysts. Due to the lower activation energies of such catalysts, an SCR utilizing the moving-bed reactors disclosed herein can be located downstream of the air heater, further improving electric-generating efficiency. Methods for low-temperature NOx reduction are also disclosed.
US07776286B2
Hydrocarbon feedstock containing resid is cracked by a process comprising: (a) heating said hydrocarbon feedstock; (b) mixing the heated hydrocarbon feedstock with steam to form a mixture stream; (c) introducing the mixture stream to a flash/separation apparatus to form i) a vapor phase comprising coke precursors existing as uncoalesced condensate, and ii) a liquid phase; (d) removing the vapor phase as overhead and the liquid phase as bottoms from the flash/separation apparatus; (e) treating the overhead by contacting with a condensing means downstream of the flash/separation apparatus to at least partially coalesce the coke precursors to provide residue hydrocarbon liquid, and subsequently removing the hydrocarbon liquid; (f) heating the treated overhead to provide a heated vapor phase (g) cracking the heated vapor phase in a radiant section of a pyrolysis furnace to produce an effluent comprising olefins, the pyrolysis furnace comprising a radiant section and a convection section; and (h) quenching the effluent and recovering cracked product therefrom. An apparatus for carrying out the process is also provided.
US07776284B2
To provide a decomposition apparatus and a decomposition system which can prolong the catalyst life and which can efficiently decompose a large amount of waste plastics and organics.
US07776281B2
A substrate having a coating of small size metal oxide particles, <5 microns and more particularly <3 microns, formed on the substrate surface and a micro-component reaction chamber assembly including such a substrate in which the substrate is produced by thermally spraying, plasma spraying, or flame spraying a homogenous particle composition of selected hydroxide, carbonate, nitrate and hydroxide compositions onto the surface of the metal substrate.
US07776279B2
Combustion apparatus to reduce flue gas NOx by injection of n-agent droplets and gas in overfire air
A combustion apparatus for combusting including: a boiler defining an enclosed flue gas path having a combustion zone and a burnout zone, wherein flue gas is formed in the combustion zone and the combustion flue gas comprising nitrogen oxides; a fuel injector aligned with and introducing fuel into the combustion zone and a combustion air injector aligned with and introducing air into the combustion zone; an overfire air system adjacent the burnout zone comprising an overfire air port adjacent the burnout zone and through which overfire air flows into the burnout zone, and a nitrogen reagent injector having an outlet aligned with the overfire air system and injecting nitrogen reagent gas or small droplets into said overfire air, wherein said small droplets have an average diameter of no greater than 50 microns.
US07776267B2
A centrifugal force-based microfluidic device for the detection of a target biomolecule and a microfluidic system including the same are provided. The device includes a body of revolution; a microfluidic structure disposed in the body of revolution including chambers, channels connecting the chambers, and valves disposed in the channels to control fluid flow, the microfluidic structures transmitting fluid using centrifugal force due to rotation of the body of revolution; and beads disposed in the microfluidic structures, the beads having capture probes on the surfaces thereof which are selectively bonded with target protein; and a detection probe disposed in the microfluidic structures and selectively bonded to the target protein, and which includes a material required to express an optical signal, wherein the microfluidic structure mixes the beads, biological samples, and the detection probe to react and washes and separates the beads after the reaction.
US07776264B2
An automatic analyzer capable of replenishing a reagent even during an analysis and minimizing a suspension of the analysis. The automatic analyzer includes a plurality of reaction cells and a unit for holding reagents used in analyses. A plurality of reagents are dispensed to a sample in each reaction cell with a time difference to develop a reaction, and a liquid after the reaction is measured. After temporarily stopping the operation of dispensing the sample for a preset time during the analysis, the sample dispensing operation is restarted. Then, the sample dispensing operation is temporarily stopped again for the preset time at the timing in the dispensing of the reagent corresponding to the timing at which the sample dispensing operation was temporarily stopped. In the automatic analyzer, therefore, an analysis suspension due to registration and replacement of reagents during the analysis can be minimized, a larger number of reagents can be loaded, and a throughput per unit time can be increased.
US07776263B2
An apparatus for mixing a liquid in a container in order to provide a homogeneous solution or suspension of the liquid in the container. In particular, the apparatus of this invention can be used to provide a homogenous dispersion of particulate material in a liquid medium.
US07776260B2
An apparatus for the irradiation of a radiation sensitive material. The apparatus includes at least one thermally conductive tank for containing a heat transfer medium therein, said at least one thermally conductive tank having a first wall and a second wall in a parallel spaced relationship, said second wall having an outer surface for placing a radiation sensitive material thereon. Also disclosed is a system and method of irradiating a radiation sensitive material.
US07776255B1
Hollow metal and/or metal alloy articles are fabricated by the reduction of metal containing compounds, particularly non-metallic metal compounds.
US07776254B2
A lance has a top part and a bottom part for arrangement on the sensor or sampler. The top and bottom parts are detachably connected to each other by a plug-in coupling. The plug-in coupling has two coupling parts, one arranged on the top part and the other arranged on the bottom part of the lance, that can be inserted one in the other in the longitudinal direction of the lance. One coupling part has an opening extending from its front face in the longitudinal direction of the lance and an extension formed in the peripheral direction of the coupling part. The other coupling part has a raised portion that engages the extension. A blocking device, movable in the longitudinal direction of the lance, is arranged on the top or bottom part A catch element of the blocking device is arranged at least partially between the raised portion and the opening.
US07776252B2
A multilayer thermistor with a positive temperature coefficient is manufactured by step 41 of forming a green laminate having thermistor green layers and internal electrode layers, step 42 of heat-treating this laminate at a temperature in the range of from 80 to less than 300° C., step 43 of performing dry-barrel polishing for the heat-treated green laminate, step 44 of forming external electrode films on respective end surfaces of this laminate, and step 45 of firing this laminate together with the individual electrode films. According to this method, a highly reliable multilayer thermistor with a positive temperature coefficient can be stably manufactured.
US07776248B2
A method of modifying compressive strains in formation of a pipe ring groove (16), in which a differential temperature profile is established across the pipe wall in a narrow bending locus (l3) corresponding to the ring groove position, and the material is bent to form the ring groove. The temperature differential creates a differential in elastic modulus between the inner and outer surfaces of the pipe material, modifying the strain induced in inner concave and outer convex surfaces of the ring groove during the bending step.
US07776242B2
A method for granulating a flexible polyolefin resin including: melting a flexible polyolefin resin by volatilization after polymerization; cooling the resin to a temperature in a range of the melting point of the resin (Tm-D) ±50° C.; and granulating the cooled resin by an underwater granulation method; the underwater granulation method using cooling water of 30° C. or less in which an antifusion agent is added.
US07776240B2
Injectable hydrogel microspheres are prepared by forming an emulsion where hydrogel precursors are in a disperse aqueous phase and polymerizing the hydrogel precursors. In a preferred case, the hydrogel precursors are poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate and N-isopropylacrylamide and the continuous phase of the emulsion is an aqueous solution of dextran and a dextran solubility reducer. The microspheres will load protein, e.g., cytokines, from aqueous solution.
US07776239B2
Method of making eyeglass lens are disclosed where the lens are made of layers which include an outer, convex hard coating, a layer of hard epoxy, a PVA film wherein the color is dipped in water without color dye, a layer of soft epoxy, a base material, and an inner, concave hard coating. Other methods configuration of lens also include a camouflaged patterned lens, a layer of hard epoxy, a polyurethane mixture, a PVA film wherein the color is dipped in water without color dye, a layer of soft epoxy, a base material, and an inner, concave hard coating.
US07776236B2
A method of forming a waveguide including a core region, a cladding region, and an index contrast region situated therebetween includes depositing a polymerizable composite on a substrate to form a layer, patterning the layer to define an exposed area and an unexposed area of the layer, irradiating the exposed area of the layer, and volatilizing the uncured monomer to form the waveguide, wherein the polymerizable composite includes a polymer binder and sufficient quantities of an uncured monomer to diffuse into the exposed area of the layer and form the index contrast region. The resulting waveguide includes an index contrast region which has a lower index of refraction than that of the core and cladding regions.
US07776231B2
This invention disclosed a chemical mechanical polishing slurry, which includes at least one abrasive particle, an oxidant and a carrier. The oxidant is combined with a big metallorganic compound; and the applications and corresponding handling method are also disclosed. This invention slurry can realize high removal rate, no corrosion, low defectivity and high plan.
US07776230B2
The invention provides a chemical-mechanical polishing system for polishing a substrate comprising (a) a polishing component selected from an abrasive, a polishing pad, or both an abrasive and a polishing pad, (b) an aqueous carrier, and (c) the halogen adduct resulting from the reaction of (1) an oxidizing agent selected from the group consisting of iodine, bromine, and a combination thereof, and (2) a carbon acid having a pKa of about 3 to about 14, wherein the halogen adduct is present in a concentration of about 0.01 mM or more in the aqueous carrier. The invention also provides a method of polishing a substrate comprising (i) providing the aforementioned chemical-mechanical polishing system, (ii) contacting the substrate with the polishing system, and (iii) abrading at least a portion of the surface of the substrate with the polishing system to polish the substrate.
US07776227B2
A method of depositing or etching a micro- or nano-scale pattern on a work piece is disclosed, including the steps of: (a) placing the work piece in an electrochemical reactor in close proximity to a patterned tool; (b) connecting the work piece such that it is the anode if is to be etched or the cathode if it is to be deposited, and the patterned tool such that it is the counter electrode; (c) pumping electrolytic fluid necessary for the electrolytic operation of the cell formed between the two electrodes; and (d) applying a current across the electrodes to etch or deposit the work piece.
US07776226B2
A multi-chamber system of an etching facility for manufacturing semiconductor devices occupies a minimum amount of floor space in a clean room by installing a plurality of processing chambers in multi-layers and in parallel along a transfer path situated between the processing chambers. The multi-layers number 2 to 5, and the transfer path can be rectangular in shape and need only be slightly wider than the diameter of a wafer. The total width of the multi-chamber system is the sum of the width of one processing chamber plus the width of the transfer path.
US07776219B2
Devices, methods, and system that prevent clotting of blood during blood-processing procedures such as hemofiltration, hemodialysis, and hemodiafiltration are described. A filter with a cap has a housing that is shaped to receive a blood filter. The housing has an inlet for blood and may have an outlet for waste and ultrafiltrate. The cap is attached to the housing. The cap has an outlet for blood and a port adjacent the outlet for receiving dilution fluid. Methods of use during blood-processing procedures to provide immediate hemodilution to blood exiting entering and/or exiting a filter are also described.
US07776218B2
A process for removing water from solid material using liquid-solid extraction and liquid-liquid extraction. In most embodiments, multiple solvents are used to remove the water from the solids and obtain dry solids. Multiple solvents facilitate the removal of the water from the solids, by replacing the water with a solvent, replacing that solvent with a different solvent, and then eventually removing the second solvent from the solids. The process utilizes a lesser amount of thermal energy to dry the solids and separate the solvents than conventionally used in drying processes. The first solvent selected has a lower heat of vaporization, enthalphy of vaporization, boiling point, or other such physical property, than water. Each additional solvent can have a still lower heat of vaporization, enthalphy of vaporization, boiling point, or other such physical property.
US07776202B2
This invention relates generally to a process of producing electrolytic manganese dioxide (EMD). More specifically, a method of producing EMD from geothermal brine solutions is provided. Methods for production of manganese dioxide from geothermal brines through an electrolytic process are also provided.
US07776201B1
A method for regenerating chemical hydrides from metal oxides and electrochemical cell for use in carrying out the method. The electrochemical cell has a cathode side with molten salt and a cathode, and an anode electrode side with an anode. The cathode side and the anode side are separated by an oxygen anion-conducting membrane. A metal oxide is placed in the molten salt of the cathode side and an electrical potential is applied to the cathode and anode while feeding hydrogen to the cathode electrode to effectuate conversion of the metal oxide to a metal hydride and feeding hydrogen to the anode to generate water and free electrons.
US07776200B2
A method for manufacturing a structure including tungsten as a main component and tungsten carbide is provided. In the structure, the content of carbon is at least 0.1% by mass and the total content of cobalt, nickel, and iron is 3% or less by mass, respectively based on the structure.
US07776197B2
An electrode surface coating and method for manufacturing the electrode surface coating comprising a conductive substrate; and one or more surface coatings comprising one or more of the following metals titanium, niobium, tantalum, ruthenium, rhodium, iridium, palladium, or gold, or an alloy of two or more metals, or a combination of two or more alloys or metal layers thereof having an increase in the surface area of 5 times to 500 times of the corresponding surface area resulting from the basic geometric shape.
US07776193B2
A cell electrophysiological sensor is provided with: a well having a wall formed by at least one curved face, with opening sections being formed on the two ends thereof; a frame substrate having a through hole and an electrode; a cell electrophysiological sensor chip that is provided with a thin plate having a second through hole; and a void substrate, and in this structure, the frame substrate has a thickness greater than the thickness of the cell electrophysiological sensor chip and the opening diameter of the third opening section is made larger than the opening diameter of the fourth opening section.
US07776192B2
An elongate vacuum system for coating one or both sides of a flat substrate which can be displaced by the system, comprises at least one magnetron provided with a magnetron surrounding area and is subdivided into successive compartments in the direction of transportation of the substrate by separating walls having closeable suction openings. The compartments can be evacuated either directly by a vacuum connection provided on the compartment or indirectly via a suction opening in the separating wall. At least one compartment comprises an upper partial compartment which is arranged above the substrate. The partial compartment comprises a closeable upper opening in at least one of the outer walls thereof. The aim is to produce an elongate coating system which is flexible to use according to the requirements of various one and two-sided coating processes and ensures a stable, differential and process-optimized sputter atmosphere. At least in one of the upper partial compartments, horizontal and/or vertical elements can be mounted in order to subdivide the upper partial compartment into several sections.
US07776190B2
Cathodes for aluminum electrolysis cells are formed of cathode blocks and current collector bars attached to those blocks. The cathode slots receiving the collector bar are lined with expanded graphite lining thus providing longer useful lifetime of such cathodes and increased cell productivity. The expanded graphite provides a good electrical and thermal conductivity especially with its plane layer.
US07776189B2
An apparatus and method are provided for simultaneously electropolishing a plurality of metallic stents. A plurality of elongated members on the apparatus are movably engaged with a plate such that movement of the plate relative to the elongated members causes each of the elongated members to rotate on its respective longitudinal axis when immersed in an electrolytic solution. A continuous cathode is located in close proximity to each of the elongated members when they are immersed in the electrolytic solution.
US07776183B2
A forming section for a gap blade former type papermaking machine having a headbox which delivers a jet of papermaking stock between a conveying forming fabric and a backing forming fabric is provided. The conveying fabric moves in sliding contact over an impingement shoe on which the jet of papermaking stock is delivered at a point of impingement. A forming shoe located immediately downstream of the impingement shoe over which the backing forming fabric slides. The impingement shoe is mounted for at least one of pivoting and transverse movement so that a position of the point of impingement of the jet of papermaking stock can be adjusted by at least one of rotating the impingement shoe about a first pivot point and transversely shifting the impingement shoe. The forming shoe can also be mounted for movement.
US07776180B2
Provided is a process for the preparation of flame retardant cellulosic product including the steps of adding a soluble salt of silica to viscose, followed by blending and extruding the blended viscose into a spin bath, regenerating the viscose and subjecting the regenerated viscose to a step of glow proofing with polyaluminium compounds to obtain the flame retardant cellulosic product.
US07776172B2
A web joining apparatus and related method. The apparatus includes a turret arm which supports an old roll and a new roll around which band-state flexible support bodies are wound, a front pasting drum including a holding device holding the tip end of the band-state flexible support body of the new roll and a cutting drum provided with a cutting member with substantially the same length as the width of the band-state flexible support body. A projection amount is set so that only a single sheet of the band-state flexible support body can be cut off. The flexible support body of the old roll is cut off and the tail end of the flexible support body of the old roll and the tip end of the flexible support body of the new roll are joined as the band-state flexible support body is conveyed.
US07776168B2
A method of heat-treating a casting made of an aluminum-based alloy including an alloy of aluminum, silicon, and magnesium comprising heat treating the casting at a first temperature range for a first duration; gradually cooling the casting to a second temperature having a second temperature range; maintaining the casting at the second temperature range for a second duration; quenching the casting; and age hardening the casting.
US07776166B2
The present invention relates to methods for improving deposited film uniformity and controlling the erosion of sputter targets. Improved methods for achieving predetermined microstructure orientation in copper hollow cathode magnetron (HCM) sputter targets and targets prepared by such methods are disclosed.
US07776161B2
The present invention provides a steel sheet excellent in workability, which may be used for components of an automobile or the like, and a method for producing the same. More specifically, according to one exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a steel sheet excellent in workability, including in mass, 0.08 to 0.25% C, 0.001 to 1.5% Si, 0.01 to 2.0% Mn, 0.001 to 0.06% P, at most 0.05% S, 0.001 to 0.007% N, 0.008 to 0.2% Al, at least 0.01% Fe. The steel sheet having an average r-value of at least 1.2, an r-value in the rolling direction of at least 1.3, an r-value in the direction of 45 degrees to the rolling direction of at least 0.9, and an r-value in the direction of a right angle to the rolling direction of at least 1.2.
US07776160B2
An apparatus (10) includes a low-carbon steel tube (24). The low-carbon steel tube (24) yields plastically more than about 5% before fracturing at temperatures down to about −40° C. when stress is applied to the low-carbon steel tube sufficient to cause the low carbon steel tube to so yield.
US07776152B2
Apparatus and method for growing and observing the growth of epitaxial layers on a wafer. The apparatus includes: epitaxial growth apparatus; a source of light mounted to illuminate an entire surface of the wafer in the apparatus during growth of the epitaxial layer on the entire surface of the wafer; and apparatus for observing scattering of the light from the entire surface of the wafer during growth of the epitaxial layer on the entire surface of the wafer. The method includes growing the epitaxial layer on a surface of the wafer and observing scattering of the light from the entire surface of the wafer during growth of the epitaxial layer on the entire surface of the wafer. The growing process is varied in accordance with the observation. With an epitaxial layer of gallium nitride (GaN) the entire surface of the wafer is observed for balls of gallium.
US07776151B2
A crystallization method which generates a crystallized semiconductor film by irradiating at least one of a polycrystal semiconductor film and an amorphous semiconductor film with light beams having a light intensity distribution with an inverse peak pattern that a light intensity is increased toward the periphery from an inverse peak at which the light intensity is minimum, wherein a light intensity value α (standardized value) in the inverse peak when a maximum value of the light intensity in the light intensity distribution with the inverse peak pattern is standardized as 1 is set to 0.2≦value α≦0.8.
US07776147B1
A phase change ink composition includes an ink vehicle and at least one pigment, wherein the ink composition is substantially solid at room temperature and includes at least one dispersant for the at least pigment and at least one synergist.
US07776145B2
The present invention provides an ink comprising at least a pigment, water, a water-soluble organic solvent, a lithium ion and one or more of cation other than the lithium ion, which can be applied particularly favorably for an inkjet method; an ink set at least comprises the ink and/or a processing solution containing at least an aggregating agent; a recording method and a recording device using the ink set in which the ink and the processing solution are applied so as to contact with each other to form an image onto a recording medium.
US07776143B2
A composition comprising a glass-forming binder component and a particulate corrosion resistant component. The particulate corrosion resistant component comprises corrosion resistant particulates having: a CTEp of at least about 4 and being solid at a temperature of about 1300° F. (704° C.) or greater; and a maximum median particle size defined by one of the following formulas: (a) for a CTEp of 8 or less, an MP equal to or less than (4.375×CTEp)−10; and (b) for a CTEp of greater than 8, an Mp equal to or less than (−4.375×CTEp)+60, wherein CTEp is the average CTE of the corrosion resistant particulates and wherein Mp is the median equivalent spherical diameter (ESD), in microns, of the corrosion resistant particulates. Also disclosed is an article comprising a turbine component comprising a metal substrate and a corrosion resistant coating overlaying the metal substrate, as well as a method for forming at least one layer of the corrosion resistant coating adjacent to the metal substrate. The corrosion resistant coating has a maximum thickness defined by one of the following formulas: (3) for a CTEp of 8 or less, an Tc equal to or less than (1.5×CTEp)−3.5; and (4) for a CTEp of greater than 8, an Tc equal to or less than (−1.5×CTEp)+20.5, wherein Tc is the thickness, in mils, of the corrosion resistant coating.
US07776135B2
The invention relates to a method for the recovery of gold in connection with the hydrometallurgical production of copper from a residue or intermediate product containing sulphur and iron generated in the leaching of copper raw material. The recovery of both copper and gold takes place in a chloride milieu. The gold contained in the residue or intermediate product is leached using bivalent copper and oxygen in copper (II) chloride-sodium chloride solution in the conditions, where the oxidation-reduction potential is a maximum of 650 mV and the pH at least 1. The iron and sulphur contained in the residue remain for the most part undissolved.
US07776134B2
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.
US07776124B2
Provided are various embodiments of a fertilizer composition. The fertilizer compositions include one or more compounds having a high nitrogen content, which may be measured by a carbon to nitrogen atom ratio. Also provided are methods for increasing nitrogen content in soil, promoting crop production and fertilizing.
US07776123B2
Foldable filter assemblies and methods of use thereof are disclosed. An air filter assembly including a frame having opposed substantially rigid end members and a flexible side member, the end members being connected to the flexible side member, and an air filter media connected to and disposed within the frame such that the frame is adapted to be disposed in a planar use position, and the end members of the frame are adapted to be moved toward each other prior to installation into the planar use position.
US07776122B2
The invention pertains to a filter system, particularly for cleaning the air of a switchgear cabinet to be ventilated, wherein a filter housing can be inserted into an insertion shaft in a first direction and is subjected to a motion perpendicular to the first inserting direction during the course of the inserting motion in order to reach the desired end position of the filter housing.
US07776120B2
A surface cleaning apparatus comprises a dirt inlet, a handle, a cyclone separator having an outer wall, a fluid inlet downstream from the dirt air inlet and a fluid outlet, a plate having a cyclone chamber surface and positioned to substantially divide the cyclone separator into a cyclone chamber and a dirt collection chamber, the plate being removably mounted in the cyclone separator, a passage extending between the cyclone chamber and the dirt collection chamber and a fluid flow motor.
US07776115B2
A multi cyclone dust-separating apparatus is disclosed that includes a cyclone unit having a first cyclone, a plurality of second cyclones, and a dust collecting unit. The first cyclone is disposed so that a longitudinal axis thereof is substantially vertically arranged. The first cyclone separates relatively large dust or dirt from air drawn in through a first air inflow part. Each of the second cyclones is disposed so that longitudinal axes thereof are substantially vertically arranged. Each of the second cyclones has a second air inflow part to communicate with the first cyclone and an air discharging part to discharge the air. The second cyclones separate relatively minute dust or dirt from the air drawn in through the second air inflow part. The dust collecting unit is disposed below the cyclone unit to collect and store the dust or dirt separated from the air by the cyclone unit.
US07776109B2
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of solid acylphosphine oxides by converting an acylphosphine oxide which is in the form of a melt or in dispersed form into the solid state of aggregation with mechanical stress, shearing/internal agitation of the melt.
US07776108B2
The present disclosure provides compositions, methods, apparatuses, kits, and combinations thereof for permanently or temporarily re-designing, decorating, and/or re-coloring a surface. The décor product is formulated to be applied and affixed to a surface, and may be substantially removed from the surface before being affixed thereto. If the user desires to affix the décor product to the surface in a permanent or semi-permanent manner, methods such as heat, pressure, emitted waves, an emitted electrical field, a magnetic field, and/or a chemicals may be used. The décor product may also be utilized in the form of a kit or in conjunction with a design device, such as a stencil, to control the application of the décor product to create, for example, a pattern on the surface.
US07776097B2
The invention solves the problem of anchoring a prosthetic component into compliant, cancellous bone by a thin, preferably pure titanium, or a titanium-based alloy, perforated, hence hydraulically open, shell (1, 13), spaced apart from the second, non-perforated shell (2, 14). In most applications, dictated by the anatomical site of insertion, shells are approximately hemispherical in form, connected to each other at the equator. The solid shell may contain a further, articulating component of the joint, e.g. a polymer or a ceramic insert, or it may serve that function itself. One or both components of a joint prosthesis can be anchored according to the invention.
US07776092B2
In an intervertebral disc prostheses having a pair of rigid endplates and an elastomeric core structure between the endplates. The core structure is designed to provide desired functional characteristics of the prosthesis.
US07776088B2
An intraocular lens (IOL) that provides for optical power adjustment following its implantation, for example, for use in treating cataract patients. The lens body has first and second surface portions that bound at least one interior chamber or space that extends from the central optic portion to the lens periphery. The interior chamber or space has a microporous body that is intermediate inner and outer portions of the space. In one embodiment, the microporous body is capable of cooperating with an external Rf or light source to expose a charge to a charge-carrying fluid within the interior chamber. By this system, fluid flows are induced to alter the optical parameters of the lens.
US07776087B2
An intraocular implant including a sealed capsule adapted for intraocular placement upstream of a retina, an electronic display located within the sealed capsule, electronic circuitry located within the sealed capsule for operating the electronic display, the electronic circuitry and the electronic display operative to selectably provide multiple display options, the multiple display options including allowing at least some light from the outside to pass through the electronic display and focusing optics located within the sealed capsule.
US07776082B2
A method and device for repairing incompetent venous valves and more specifically relates to repair method and an implantable support device—extravenous corrector (3), which is positionable about a dilated veins of the Sapheno-Femoral Junction (SFJ) (1) with the aim to apply an external compression force on the insufficient veins of SFJ and especially in the area of the venous valves. There are proposed several embodiments of a extravenous corrector for external correction of insufficient valves in venous junctions. The corrector is adapted to be placed immediately around the junction with venous valves, in abutting contact with its external area. The extravenous corrector comprises a central support member (11) and at least three band lengths (13, 15, 17), connected to the member, adapted for placement around at least two veins of the venous junction in area of location of their insufficient valves, these band lengths possessing different rigidity and compressing force in direction from their proximal end to the distal end.
US07776079B2
A bifurcated catheter assembly has an undeployed state and a deployed state. The assembly comprises a bifurcated inflation shaft defining a shaft inner lumen, a first balloon defining a first balloon lumen, and a second balloon defining a second balloon lumen. The inflation shaft has a first inflation shaft defining a first lumen and a second inflation shaft defining a second lumen. The first balloon defines a first balloon lumen which is in fluid communication with the first lumen. The second balloon defines a second balloon lumen which is in fluid communication with the second lumen. The second balloon has a conical shape.
US07776078B2
A catheter for delivering a medical device into a body lumen, and method for preparing said catheter, wherein the catheter comprises an elongate body, at least a portion of which defines a medical device retaining region for retaining a medical device thereon. At least a portion of the medical device retaining region comprises a predetermined pattern of material. The predetermined pattern of material is a photoresist material that may be placed on the outer surface of the catheter to modify at least one physical property of the catheter.
US07776075B2
A spinal rod having first and second end members. The end members may be flexible or rigid. An expandable intermediate section is positioned between the first and second end members. The intermediate section may be axially expandable upon the introduction of a substance into a port that may be located in either of the first and second end members or the intermediate section. The intermediate section may be expandable between a first size, where the first and second end members are spaced a first distance apart, and a second enlarged size, where the first and second end members are spaced a second greater distance apart.
US07776073B2
A formed in-place spinal implant comprising a hardenable, resorbable, bone fusion-promoting composition, wherein the implant may be rigidly connected to adjacent vertebrae until fusion occurs.
US07776069B2
The invention concerns an assembly (1) comprising an interspinous wedge (5) configured to be inserted between the spinous processes (9) of two vertebrae (2) to be treated, whereof at least one zone designed to be placed between the spinous processes of the vertebrae is made of an elastically deformable material. The assembly (1) further comprises: two compressive lateral elements (6), designed to be placed on either side of the wedge (5) in the longitudinal direction, said compressive lateral elements (6) being deformable between releasing positions, wherein they are relatively spaced apart from the wedge (5) in the transverse direction, and compressive positions, wherein they are relatively close to the wedge (5) in the transverse direction; and two lateral transmission elements (7), placed between the compressive lateral elements (6) and the wedge (5), configured to press against the wedge (5) in the transverse direction thereof, at the interspinous zone (10) of the wedge (5).
US07776062B2
An improved endoluminal device. The device includes at least a control element (such as a guide wire) connected to a surrounding sheath and an elastic bias section to control changes to a bias force formed between the control element and the sheath. By applying an external force at a proximal end of the device, the shape can change between varying degrees of deformed shapes and an undeformed shape. In this way, both ease of insertion into the body lumen and anchoring to the lumen is promoted. A distal end of the assembly can be made to change shape for improved steerability, anchoring or both. In a particular form, the anchoring section can work as a floating parachute-like device to pull the assembly by means of the flow in the body lumen, while in a more particular form, the floating parachute-like device may be modified to act as a filter for trapping emboli.
US07776061B2
A surgically implantable fluid adjustable device, such as an adjustable gastric band, having an elongated substantially flexible inflatable portion, and an elongated flexible and substantially inextensible band portion attached to the inflatable portion. The device further includes a member for changing the shape of the device from a straight configuration to a curved configuration after being implanted within a body.
US07776052B2
A medical grasping device (10) for vascular use, having an outer sheath (12), an elongate control member (50) extending within an outer sheath (12) to a distal tip section (54), and a proximal control assembly (22) including an actuation section (24) joined to the elongate control member (50). Adjacent to the distal tip section (54) is a grasping portion (70,70′) that is extendable from the outer sheath (12) to create loops (74,74′) for grasping a target object (T) for repositioning within the vascular system, or for removal from the patient, with loops being retractable into the outer sheath to hold the target object against the device (10) during movement of the device. Elongate control member (50) is preferably a cannula or tube having a lumen (58) extending completely therethrough for placement over a guide wire (28) already in the patient.
US07776046B2
A method and instrumentation particularly adapted for disc space preparation from an anterior approach to the spine. In one aspect, an expandable template is provided having guides to guide a cutting device for bilateral formation of openings in the disc space. In another aspect, an improved guide member is provided for guiding a cutting tool. Still further, the invention provides an improved double barrel guide sleeve with a central distraction extension and lateral non-distracting extensions. Optionally, the guide sleeve includes windows and covers to selectively cover the windows. An improved reamer with an internal chamber and optional modular coupling is also provided. A depth stop is provided to selectively engage a tool shaft and a guide sleeve to control tool penetration into the disc space. A method of using the disclosed instruments is also provided.
US07776044B2
A tibial tray inserter for use during knee joint replacement surgery is provided.
US07776041B1
An apparatus and method for delivering biologic material to a bone hole includes a delivery structure defining a proximal end and a distal end. The delivery structure includes a first longitudinal member defining a first cavity and extending between the distal and proximal end. A second longitudinal member is disposed around the first longitudinal member and extends between the distal and proximal end. The first and second longitudinal members define a second cavity therebetween. The first cavity is adapted to receive a flexible member therethrough. The second cavity is adapted to receive the biologic material and deliver the biologic material out of the distal end into the bone hole. The first longitudinal member precludes the biologic material from contacting the flexible member while the biologic material is delivered to the bone hole.
US07776037B2
An electrosurgical system for sealing tissue is disclosed that includes an electrosurgical forceps. The forceps includes a drive rod and an end effector assembly coupled to the drive rod at a distal end thereof. The end effector assembly includes jaw members wherein longitudinal reciprocation of the drive rod moves the jaw members from a first position in spaced relation relative to one another to a subsequent position wherein the jaw members cooperate to grasp tissue therebetween. Each of the jaw members includes a sealing plate that communicates electrosurgical energy through tissue held therebetween. The jaw members are adapted to connect to an electrosurgical generator. The system also includes one or more sensors that determine a gap distance between the sealing plates of the jaw members and a pressure applicator coupled to the drive rod. The pressure applicator is configured to move the drive rod in a longitudinal direction. The system further includes a controller adapted to communicate with the sensors and to control the pressure applicator in response to the determined gap distance during the sealing process.
US07776036B2
A bipolar electrosurgical forceps for treating tissue includes a pair of opposing first and second jaw members each having a tissue engaging surface disposed thereon. Each of the jaw members is movable relative to one another from a first position to approximate tissue to a second position for engaging tissue therebetween. The first jaw member includes a plurality of ring electrodes disposed thereon having a first electrical potential and the second jaw member includes a corresponding plurality of post electrodes disposed thereon having a second electrical potential. Each of the plurality of post electrodes is inwardly disposed of a respective ring electrode to form an electrode micro-sealing pad wherein upon activation of the forceps tissue grasped between each electrode micro-sealing pad is sealed while tissue adjacent to each electrode micro-sealing pads remains viable.
US07776030B2
Some embodiments of a medical infusion pump system include a pump device and a removable controller device. When the pump device and the removable controller device are removably attached to one another, the components may provide a portable infusion pump unit to dispense medicine to a user. In particular embodiments, the removable controller device includes a user interface to readily provide information, for example, about the operation of the pump.
US07776029B2
An implantable microminiature infusion device includes a reservoir for holding a therapeutic fluid or other substance and a driver, e.g., a pump, that delivers the therapeutic fluid or substance to a patient within whom the device is implanted. The device further includes at least two electrodes coupled to pulse generation circuitry, thereby allowing therapeutic electrical stimulation to also be delivered to the patient.
US07776021B2
Methods and materials for making an apparatus which duplicates the functionality of a physiological system id provided.
US07776017B2
The present invention is directed to a catheter clamp that is affixable to a patient's skin to hold a catheter in position while in use within a patient's body. In one embodiment, the clamp has a base adapted to be removably adhered to the patient's skin, two clamp members supported on the base and defining a region therebetween to receive the catheter body, the clamp members being adapted to move between an open position and a closed position, and locking means for releasably locking said clamp members in said closed position to hold the catheter body in a generally fixed position relative to said clamp. In another embodiment, the clamp includes a base adapted to be removably adhered to the patient's skin, two clamp members supported on the base and defining a space therebetween to receive the catheter body, the clamp members being adapted to move between an open position and a closed position, and an elongated release tab extending between the two clamp members and configured to releasably lock the clamp member around the catheter body. The two clamp members may be pivotably coupled to each other and the tab may be pivotably attached on one of the clamp members.
US07776010B2
A hollow inner plunger for use within a syringe-in-syringe mixing system for mixing a two-part dental composition. The hollow inner plunger includes a body having a continuous cylindrical wall defining an internal chamber for containing a first component. The body includes a proximal end and a distal end. A sealing plug and rupturable membrane are disposed at the distal end of the body, and the sealing plug and rupturable membrane are integrally formed together as a single piece (e.g., formed of a single piece of elastomeric material). An associated syringe-in-syringe mixing system includes a first plunger, the hollow inner plunger as described above, and a syringe barrel configured to contain a second component. When assembled, the first plunger is slidably disposed within the hollow inner plunger, and the hollow inner plunger is slidably disposed within the syringe barrel. The two components are initially separated by the rupturable membrane.
US07776008B2
A manually actuated breast pump is provided. The breast pump has a breast cup, pump mechanism and a container. The components of the breast pump are easily assembled and disassembled to facilitate use, cleaning, manufacture and transport. The breast pump can apply a negative pressure, a positive pressure or both to a user's breast. The breast pump provides fluid isolation between the pressure source and the expressed milk.
US07776006B2
A medical fluid pumping system includes a medical fluid pump; a first pressure chamber connected fluidly to the medical fluid pump; a second pressure chamber connected fluidly to the medical fluid pump; first and second pressure sensors connected operably to the first and second pressure chambers, respectively; and at least one processor operable with the pressure sensors to calculate a volume of gas in the medical fluid pump prior to a pump-out stroke using a reading from the first pressure sensor after exposing the pump to gas pressure from the first pressure chamber and to use the calculated volume of gas in combination with a known volume of the second pressure chamber and a pressure decay reading taken via the second pressure sensor during the pump-out stroke to calculate at least one volume of fluid pumped during the pump-out stroke.
US07775995B2
The invention relates to a device for the generation of shock waves for medical therapy, having a shock source, an energy storage and a switch, wherein the energy storage is a capacitor with a high capacity.
US07775992B2
During use there is a risk that a male connector for a guide wire is bent. With the present male connector (1) more material with high modulus of elasticity can be provided inside the male connector (1), which makes the male connector (1) more bending resistant. The male connector (1) comprises a core wire (3), a plurality of conductive members (4) spaced apart longitudinally along said core wire (3), a plurality of conductors (5) disposed along the core wire (3), each of the conductors (5) being connected to a respective conductive member (4). The connector (1) has such a configuration that the conductors (5) are protected from damage at the location where the conductors (5) connect to the conductive members (4).
US07775991B2
A blood sampling device includes a lancet having a skin piercing member disposed at an end thereof. The lancet is slidable within and releasably engaged with an elongated lancet guide that remains stationary with use of the device. A shell is axially movable relative to the lancet guide between a rest position and an actuate position, with the lancet being spring loaded within the lancet guide by movement of the shell from the rest position to the actuate position.
US07775987B2
A blood pressure measurement system that utilizes a non-invasive blood pressure (NIBP) monitor having a blood pressure cuff and pressure transducer. The measurement system provides a plurality of separate processing techniques that each receive a plurality of oscillometric data values from the pressure transducer. Each of the processing techniques separately constructs an oscillometric envelope based upon the oscillometric data values. Based upon the plurality of separate oscillometric envelopes, the system compares the envelopes and develops a calculated blood pressure from the plurality of envelopes. The calculated blood pressure is then displayed by the NIBP system. The plurality of oscillometric envelopes can be compared and combined in different manners to calculate the patient's blood pressure from the plurality of different processing techniques.
US07775984B2
At the time of blood pressure measurement by an electronic blood pressure monitor, a calculation portion calculates a blood pressure based on a pressure within a cuff detected by a pressure sensor, and outputs blood pressure data. A data storing portion stores the blood pressure data in a memory in association with condition data indicating a condition concerning the blood pressure. A manipulation portion is manipulated by a user to designate a desired condition from among a plurality of conditions. When the manipulation portion is manipulated, a read and display portion searches the memory based on the condition designated by the manipulation, reads the blood pressure data associated with the designated condition from the memory, and displays the read data on a display portion.
US07775981B1
A transmit sequence for contrast agent imaging that improves sensitivity and minimizes image artifacts. The number of pulses and the interleaving of spatially distinct pulses between spatially co-linear pulses are selected such that a substantially similar pulse sequence for substantially each line in a scanned region is generated. A collateral pulse from a different scan line is interleaved between at least two imaging pulses along a scan line of interest. Such pulse sequences provide sensitive contrast agent imaging with minimized spatial variation. In another aspect, responsive signals representing the first and second scan lines are obtained. Intensities associated with the signals are determined. The intensities associated with the first scan line are compared to a value. The signals associated with the first scan line are replaced by the signals associated with the second scan line, signals associated with the first and second scan lines, or neighboring signals in time or space as a function of the comparison. Thus, signals associated with an image artifact may be replaced by signals along other scan lines so good spatial resolution is maintained.
US07775976B2
Apparatus and method for analysing a biological fluid sample to determine a disturbance of haemostasis resulting in a change of viscosity.
US07775973B2
An endoscope of an endoscope system includes a channel of which a distal end forms a distal opening at a distal end of an insertion portion, of which a proximal end forms a proximal opening at an operating portion, and used for at least suction, and a suction duct of which a distal end forms a suction opening at the operating portion and of which a proximal end is connected to a suction device. An endoscopic accessory includes a capture portion to be connected to an accessory insertion portion and detachably attached to the operating portion of the endoscope, and the capture portion includes a communication path to communicate the proximal opening with the suction opening when the capture portion is attached to the endoscope, and a capture unit interposed in the communication path and to capture the tissue being sucked from the channel into the suction duct.
US07775969B2
The present invention relates to an endoscope, in particular an ureterorenoscope. The endoscope comprises a lumen for insertion of a light and energy transmitting fiber. According to the invention during insertion of the fiber into a working channel of the endoscope the sharp edges of the fiber are protected by a flexible sleeve in order to avoid damages of a wall limiting the working channel. Prior to using the fiber for transmitting energy emitted by a laser the flexible sleeve is completely removed from the working channel in order to free a lumen that might be used for additional instruments or delivery of a fluid. Furthermore the stiffness of the endoscope is reduced by removing the flexible sleeve.
US07775956B2
A processing unit for processing at least one filter tow strip to produce filters for rod-shaped smoking articles includes at least one tow guidance section along which the filter tow strip is moved in a direction of a longitudinal extension of the filter tow strip. The tow guidance section includes processing devices used for processing the filter tow strip. The processing devices are arranged in a sequence essentially one above the other, so that at least a segment of the tow guidance section that is located in a region of the processing devices is oriented at an angle to a horizontal line.
US07775937B2
Systems and methods for facilitating an isometric contraction exercise regimen for many subjects across a network are provided. One or more exercise constraints are developed for a subject as a function of the medical health information of the subject. The subject performs a plurality of isometric contraction exercises using exercise equipment always in the presence of a personal fitness trainer thereby producing an exercise result. The exercise equipment has a strain gauge in order to impose exercise constraints in the one or more exercise constraints. A mandatory recovery period for the subject is then imposed. During this mandatory recovery period, the subject does not perform isometric contraction exercises. These steps are repeated using a new set of one or more exercise constraints that were refined based upon the exercise result of a previous isometric contraction exercise work out session.
US07775926B2
A differential device includes a differential casing 15 having a cylindrical part 3, first and second sidewalls 5, 7 formed on both sides of the cylindrical part 3 and a flange part 13 formed on the outer circumference of the first sidewall 5, a differential mechanism 23 having a differential member 17 to which a driving force is transmitted from the differential casing 15 and first and second output members 19, 21 both engaged with the differential member 17 to distribute the driving force, a diff lock mechanism 29 having a clutch member 25 rotatable integrally with the first sidewall 5 and connectable with the first output member 19 by a relative movement of the clutch member 25 to the first sidewall 5 in the axial direction of the cylindrical part 3 and an actuator 27 for moving the clutch member 25 in the axial direction of the cylindrical part 3 and a differential restraint mechanism 33 having a frictional clutch 31 arranged on the side of the second sidewall 7, for restraining a relative rotation of the differential casing 15 to the second output member 21.
US07775925B2
An oil-free chain has bushings which protrude from the outer surfaces of the inner link plates into which they are press-fit, and extend into bushing supporting bores formed in the inner surfaces of the outer link plates of the chain. These bushing supporting bores are formed by a pressing operation which produces offsets in portions of the outer plate, so that, as the bushing supporting bores are formed in the inner surfaces of the outer plates, bosses are simultaneously formed on the outer surfaces. The connecting pins of the chain are press-fit into pin holes in these bosses. The bushing supporting bores are formed without removal of material by machining, and therefore the strength of the outer plates is not compromised.
US07775923B2
A chain tensioner for use with a chain of a vehicle engine, includes a housing and a plunger slidably mounted in a cylinder chamber formed in the housing. The plunger is biased outwardly by a return spring mounted in a pressure chamber defined in the cylinder chamber by the plunger. A check valve is provided in the cylinder chamber to prevent backflow of hydraulic oil in the pressure chamber. A relief valve, provided in the plunger, opens above a relief pressure, thereby discharging hydraulic oil in the pressure chamber. An oil leakage clearance is defined between the plunger and the inner wall of the cylinder chamber. The relief pressure and the oil leakage clearance dimension are determined such that the tension in the chain is kept at such a level that vibrations of the chain are minimum at any temperature of hydraulic oil and at any engine revolution speed.
US07775916B1
The present invention is a system for joining tubes in a structure. The system includes hollow tubes and pressure assemblies. The tubes have tool holes spaced from the ends which are to be joined together. The pressure assemblies include members which can be spread apart by threaded inserts threaded into one of the members. The threaded inserts are spaced to correspond to the spacing between the tool holes as occurs when the tube ends are placed together. Accordingly, a pressure assembly can be inserted into adjacent tube ends and then expanded with sufficient expanding force for joining the tube ends in a rigid, strong joint. The system of the present invention may be used to make highly versatile and portable structures such as soccer goals, American football uprights and basketball goals.
US07775914B1
Baseball swing training apparatus having elongate base member and forward stop member, step member and connecting member extending laterally therefrom. Pivot stop member extends rearward from connecting member. Baseball swing training apparatus having elongate base member with forward member and rear member slidably engaged thereto. A forward stop member and a step member extend laterally from the forward member. A connecting member extends laterally from the elongate base member. A pivot stop member extends rearward from the connecting member. Means such as pins, holes, latches and the like secure the forward member in longitudinal position and the connecting member in transverse position. A method of teaching a batter to swing a bat including providing an apparatus having elongate base member and forward stop member, step member and connecting member extending laterally therefrom is also disclosed.
US07775910B2
A ball game kit is easily carried and readily assembled to facilitate play in recreational areas such as parks or beaches. The kit includes a container housing paddles, balls, and a unilateral court assembly appointed to be laid on a ground surface and secured thereto by way of securing mechanism to yield a playing field. The playing field is divided into two opposing player courts separated by a middle zone or dead zone. The court assembly includes a continuous rope or cord-like member. The court can be readily and accurately adjusted from a singles playing court to a doubles playing court by condensing and/or expanding the court assembly, without having to add sections or dismantle the court assembly. Glow in the dark properties may be provided to the court assembly, paddles, and/or balls for play in dimly lit or foggy conditions.
US07775904B2
A wood-type golf club head has a hollow structure comprising a face portion having a back surface and a front surface defining a club face for striking a ball, a crown portion, a sole portion, and a side portion between the crown portion and sole portion. The hollow structure is provided with a hollow and a solid part. The solid part extends forward from the backmost point of the club head by a distance of from 0.08 to 0.20 times the maximum size of the club head in the back-and-forth direction, the hollow extends between the front surface of the solid part and the back surface of the face portion. The main frame of the hollow structure integrally includes the solid part.
US07775902B2
A separable or collapsible golf club, comprising a first shaft member and a second shaft member, which are secured together by means of a connector having two or more biased releasable ring-shaped fasteners positioned apart from one another to provide counterbalanced engagement, to afford an interconnection of the shaft members to form a single golf club when assembled, but that allows for prompt disconnection, through the remote actuation of the fasteners, when the golf club members are to be separated or collapsed, or a different club head is to be installed for usage and application for driving or putting of a golf ball.
US07775899B1
The present invention helps golfers consistently execute the ideal golf swing. To consistently execute the ideal swing, golfers must consistently align the shafts of their clubs at the ideal angle with respect to the horizontal at setup, prior to executing the swing. The present invention helps golfers set their clubs at the ideal angle by attaching an angle indicating device to the club that indicates the angle of the club with respect to the horizontal. The preferred embodiment of the angle indicating device is a small, lightweight circular bubble level, that has angle markings around its edge, and quickly clips onto an off of the golf club. The angle indicating device is sufficiently small and lightweight that it does not affect the golfers swing. The same device may be used on different golf clubs to show the desired angle for the club in use.
US07775889B2
A universal joint comprises a first joint yoke having bearing bores at axially opposite yoke arms and being connected with the drive shaft, a first pin bearer being connected to the first joint yoke; a second joint yoke having bearing bores at axially opposite yoke arms and being connected with the driven shaft, a second pin bearer being connected to the second joint yoke; and an elastic coupling element connected to the cross member at each pin bearer. The first and second joint yokes are arranged radially at an angle of 90° in relation to each other to form an internal space. The first and second pin bearers each comprise an appendage such that each pin bearer extends through a respectively associated joint yoke and protrudes with its appendage over an outer side of the respective joint yoke opposite to the internal space.
US07775880B2
This invention relates to sports and event wagering, particularly to a new sport and event wagering game and system. This game and supporting system allows pari-mutuel wagering with respect to new areas other than horse or dog racing, which will expand the sports wagering industry to encompass new areas of interest and enjoyment to bettors. Specifically, pari-mutuel wagering is enabled with respect to the performance statistics of individual sport or event participants, combinations of sport participants, combinations of event participants, and sport teams. This wagering game is supported by an electronic system, which allows interaction with the game via various communications methods, remotely or in-person, which can allow or restrict wagering activity based upon bettor location.
US07775876B2
The invention is a method for tracking activities at a gaming machine and a system for player tracking. One embodiment of a method comprises generating data regarding individual activities associated with the operation of a gaming machine, transmitting the generated activity data to a remote location, storing the data at the remote location, and mining or manipulating the stored data based on one or more characteristics or criteria and generating an output. In one embodiment, the data is mined and the output is represented graphically, such as in a three-dimensional graph. In one embodiment, the generated data includes information regarding the identify of the player associated with the event, and the stored individual event data is mined to determine if the player has met criteria entitling the player to an award or “comp” separate from the awards provided by the gaming machine.
US07775874B2
A gaming device including a award mode in a primary game that increases the probability of obtaining an award in the primary game. The gaming device includes a plurality of reels having several symbols where the symbols include award symbols, at least one trigger symbol and at least one wild symbol. The gaming device activates the reels and initiates the award mode when the trigger symbol is indicated on one of the paylines associated with the reels. In the award mode, the gaming device re-activates all of the reels except the reel including the trigger symbol until those reels indicate a wild symbol on the payline. The gaming device then re-activates the reel including the trigger symbol until an award symbol is indicated on that reel. The gaming device provides the award associated with the indicated award symbol on the payline on that reel to the player.
US07775866B2
Display control is made so that meteor blocks (101-104) falling from the outer space are piled up on the surface of earth. When the player operates a cursor (106) for piled up meteor blocks (105) to designate them as objects to be operated, and presses a button, the meteor blocks are vertically re-arranged. When the meteor blocks of the same type line up as a result of re arranging, they can be ignited and launched. When the meteor blocks rise up to the outer space, they can be cleared. On the other hand, when the meteor blocks stall halfway, they cannot be cleared, and fall on the surface of earth again.
US07775861B2
The invention concerns a method of and an apparatus for redistribution of pasty filling material in a closed, individually separated packaging casing in tube or bag form. At least two conveyor belts form between mutually facing first belt portions a through-passage cross-section which is of such a dimension that, when the packaging casing is conveyed through the through-passage cross-section, the filling material is distributed substantially over the entire length of the closed packaging casing in tube or bag form. The invention further concerns a manufacturing installation in which such a redistribution apparatus is disposed upstream of a closure device for dividing off a sausage, closing it by means of closure clips and individually separating the closed sausage.
US07775854B1
A continuous flow recirculating jet machining system incorporates a dynamic particle separator downstream of the fluid collection reservoir, for directing the water or other liquid in a serpentine path to promote separation of larger-diameter particulates. A filter bank downstream of the dynamic separator removes fine particles in several stages, providing several alternative fluid flow paths at each stage to facilitate filter replacement and other maintenance at each stage without interrupting system operation. The system further can incorporate a settlement tank between the dynamic separator and the filter bank to separate larger and intermediate sized particles upstream of the filter bank.
US07775851B2
A soft, protective breast support worn by pregnant, postpartum and nursing mothers when showering to support engorged breasts, function as a warm compress to soothe breasts and ease engorgement, and to shield the breasts, nipples and areolas from direct contact with harsh shower sprays, drying soap and other chemical residues found in toiletries that can damage sensitive nipple and areola skin, while leaving the wearer's hands free. The breast support is a two-sided, rectangular fabric panel made of soft, lightweight, elastic and absorbent material. The wearer snuggly wraps the fabric panel lengthwise around her bustline and back, so that the width of the panel covers the breasts, and attaches the opposing ends of the panel along the front mid-line of her chest using a hook and loop closure mechanism.
US07775848B1
A hand-held fan and object holder generally comprises a housing; a fan that rotates with respect to the housing; and a coupling member for securing an object, such as a candy item. The housing encloses the internal components that operate the fan, including a motor and a battery. At the lower end of the housing, the coupling member secures the object, such as a candy item, to the housing.
US07775846B2
A flat panel display device which is capable of preventing in-line shorts by forming as a face plate a common power line impressing an equal power supply to all pixels. The flat panel display includes a power supply layer formed on an insulation substrate and connected with source/drain electrodes through contact holes; and an insulating layer formed with a contact hole to insulate the power supply layer and a thin film transistor, wherein the thin film transistor is formed over the insulating layer and includes the source/drain electrodes.
US07775837B2
An electrical connector includes an insulating housing defining a receiving cavity opening forwards for receiving a mating plug in a mating direction and a mounting face, a plurality of contacts retained in the insulating hosing and having contacting portions projecting into the cavity, and a clip member retained in a rear portion of the housing and having a connecting portion and a pair of resilient arms extending from two opposite ends of the connecting portion. The two resilient arms and the connecting portion each define a clamping portion respectively to retain the mating plug in the receiving cavity.
US07775835B2
An electrical card connector (100) includes a metal shield (1), an insulated housing (2) and a terminal module (3) having a plurality of terminals (33) received therein. The metal shield covers the insulated housing to define a card receiving room and a card insertion/ejection direction. The insulated housing defines a receiving cavity (24, 25) and forms an elastic piece (26). The terminal module is slidably received in the receiving cavity of the insulated housing along the card ejection direction and is fixed in the insulated housing by the elastic piece.
US07775832B2
An electrical connecter capable of preventing a contact member from being lifted up without inhibiting reduction in height is provided. A contact member of an electrical connector, which is held in a housing including a press-fit hole and a support surface, and is to be connected to a mating contact member is provided. The contact member includes a flat contact portion for contact with the mating contact member, and is disposed along the support surface, a flat press-fit fixing portion, which is connected to the contact portion, and is press-fitted into the press-fit hole, a tine portion connected to the press-fit fixing portion, and a lug extending from a side surface of the press-fit fixing portion, and the lug includes a support piece and an inclined piece.
US07775830B2
A connector including an insulating housing, a plurality of signal terminals, and at least a metal fixing element is provided. The signal terminals are disposed in the insulating housing, wherein a portion of each signal terminal is protruding out from the insulating housing. The metal fixing element has an inserting part and a fixing part connected to the inserting part. The inserting part is inserted in the insulating housing, and the fixing part is protruding out from the insulating housing at a same side with the signal terminals. The connector is suitable for welding on a circuit board through the fixing part.
US07775826B1
A card connector includes an insulating housing defining a receiving room for receiving an electronic card, a cover coupled on the insulating housing, and a monitoring member having a base plate disposed in the insulating housing, a monitoring means extending along the insertion direction of the card, and a connecting arm perpendicularly connecting the monitoring means to the base plate. The connecting arm is inclined upward into the receiving room to make the monitoring means locate in the receiving room. One end of the monitoring means is higher than the other end thereof for electrically abutting against the cover, wherein the lower end of the monitoring means is adapted for being pressed downward by the card to make the connecting arm move downward and further make the upper end thereof disconnect from the cover so as to monitor whether the card is fully inserted in the card connector or not.
US07775822B2
Preferred embodiments of power contacts have alignment features that can maintain conductors of the power contacts in a state of alignment during and after insertion of the power contacts into a housing.
US07775821B2
A socket adapted for interconnecting an IC package (3), such as TSOP (Thin Small Outline Package), and a circuit board, includes a socket body (1), a plurality of contacts (2) received in the socket body, and an operating member (5) movable mounted on the socket body. Each contact includes a base portion (21) retained into the slot of the socket body and a first and a second contact beams (24, 25), each extending upwardly from an upper edge of the base portion. When a force is applied on the operating member, both of the first and the second contact beams cooperated with the operating member and moving away from its original position. A stick (6) mounted to the member (5) may be provided to cause movement of the second contact (25).
US07775820B2
A ceramic connector body for a high temperature electrical connector, such as those used in high temperature gas sensors, incorporates a pair of opposing ceramic body portions which are operative for pivoting engagement and to be fixed in a connector body retainer which also enables their pivoting, hinged movement. The pivoting engagement permits the ceramic body portions to hinge open to receive a gas sensor with a low insertion force and a hinge close to provide the desired contact force. The ceramic body portions are also operative to house conductive terminals which provide electrical contact for power and signal communication with a gas sensor.
US07775815B2
The invention provides a LIF connector in which the number of component parts is reduced, and the efficiency of an assembling operation is enhanced, and further an automatic mounting operation can be effected, and a good operability is obtained. The LIF connector of the present invention includes a frame forming an opening and including a guide hole, a fulcrum boss guide groove extending from the opening, a fulcrum boss passage portion formed between the guide hole and the fulcrum boss guide groove, and a first groove; a first connector accommodated by the frame through the opening and including a fulcrum boss to be engaged with the guide hole by passing through the fulcrum boss guide groove and the fulcrum boss passage portion and a second groove; and a second connector including an application boss engaged with the first and the second groove. The second connector is engaged with the first connector by pivotally moving the frame.
US07775810B2
A voltage tap apparatus functions as both a voltage tap and a cell isolator for conductive case battery cells that are joined end-to-end in a series chain. The apparatus includes conductive leadframe elements partially encased in a plastic frame that engages the joined cells about their juncture, with portions of the lead-frame elements exposed to electrically contact the conductive cases of the cells. In a first embodiment, the plastic frame is in the form of a hinged clamp that closes about the juncture of the cells, and the lead-frame elements are routed to terminals formed on one end of the frame. In a second embodiment, the plastic frame and a connector are mounted on a printed circuit board and the leadframe elements in the plastic frame couple the battery cells to the connector.
US07775798B2
An educational restaurant and travel game system and method of use include a plurality of educational games each having a plurality of game pieces disposed in a game container. The game container is adapted to house the plurality of educational games and has a size and shape so that the game container is adapted for portability. A game book setting forth rules for each of the educational games, age ranges, number of players, list of items needed, a stated educational objective, and an educational goal is included within the container. Reading, math, fine motor skills, eye-hand coordination, memory enhancement and retention, and social skills games are included within the compact travel container. Playing the games of the educational restaurant and travel game system fosters an educational environment, while at the same time offers entertainment and quality family interaction. The game system finds use during travel and during moments of idle time for children, such as doctor's office and restaurant visits. Its entertaining and educational features further commend it for use in a home or school environment.
US07775791B2
A method for operating a fuel-fired furnace including at least one burner is provided. The method includes channeling a first fluid flow to the at least one burner at a first predetermined velocity, and channeling a second fluid flow to the at least one burner at a second predetermined velocity during a first mode of operation of the at least one burner. The second predetermined velocity is different than the first predetermined velocity.
US07775783B2
A scroll expander that is efficient in a wide range of operating conditions by suppressing leakage loss and decreasing in recovered power using a simple construction includes: an expansion mechanism, including an orbiting scroll and a first fixed scroll, recovers power by expanding a refrigerant; and an auxiliary compression mechanism, including an orbiting scroll and a second fixed scroll, compresses a refrigerant using power recovered by the expansion mechanism. A tip seal is mounted only on a spiral tooth of an orbiting scroll and a fixed scroll of one of the expansion mechanism or the auxiliary compression mechanism.
US07775780B2
A cassette having an elastomeric sheet that is bonded or mechanically attached to a rigid substrate. A flow channel is molded into the rigid substrate that corresponds to a flow channel molded into the elastomeric sheet. The cassette is used in combination with a peristaltic pump having pump head rollers that are mounted radially from the axis of rotation of the pump motor so as to compress the elastomeric flow channels against the rigid substrate during operation. The flow channels molded into the rigid substrate have smooth, fluid lines free from sharp edges and abrupt direction changes and correspond with the fluid channels molded into the elastomeric sheet so as to provide a transition region with a relatively constant cross-section over its entire length that approximates the cross-sectional area of the flow channels molded into the rigid substrate and the fluid channel molded into the elastomeric sheet so that the entire fluid path is of relatively constant cross-sectional area.
US07775775B2
A two stage reciprocating compressor includes a casing. A first compressing unit is disposed in the casing and includes a first piston and a first cylinder, the first compressing unit being driven by a reciprocating motor to linearly reciprocate the first piston in the first cylinder to suck in and compress gas. A second compressing unit is disposed in the casing and includes a second piston and a second cylinder, the second compressing unit being driven by vibration of the first compressing unit to linearly reciprocate the second piston in the second cylinder to suck in and compress gas. A vibration transfer member transfers the vibration from the first compressing unit to the second compressing unit. The first and second compressing units extend in parallel and face in the same direction, the second compressing unit being located adjacent to a suction passage of the first compressing unit.
US07775769B1
A stator vane with a serpentine flow cooling circuit having a first leg extending along the leading edge of the vane to supply compressed cooling air to the vane, and a last leg extending along the trailing edge of the vane and connected to a row of exit holes to discharge cooling air out through the trailing edge region of the vane. Inner diameter and outer diameter turn manifolds connect the adjacent legs of the serpentine flow circuit. A local impingement cavity is formed within the fillet region of the outer endwall of the trailing edge portion of the vane, and is connected to the outer diameter turn manifold by a metering hole to provide cooling air from the serpentine flow circuit into the local impingement cavity. A plurality of cooling holes are connected to the local impingement cavity and discharge cooling air out the endwall through holes that extend around the airfoil trailing edge from the suction side to the pressure side of the airfoil.
US07775768B2
An airfoil for a gas turbine engine component such as a turbine blade or a vane includes at least one microcircuit cooling channel having a plurality of sub-channels extending along a radial direction of the airfoil. The plurality of channels are axially spaced, and are fed by radially spaced inlets.
US07775767B2
A fan assembly includes a plurality of rotor vanes, a motor rotating the rotor vanes with a center axis J1 as center, a plurality of stator vanes arranged in a passage of air flow generated by rotation of the rotor vanes, and a base portion including a plate-like portion and side circumferential wall. A radially inner end of the stator vane is connected to the side circumferential wall of the base portion, and a side opening is arranged in the side circumferential wall. The air flow generated by rotation of the rotor is guided along the stator vane and taken into the motor to cool of the heat generating source arranged therein.
US07775756B2
A bucket carrier for carrying buckets (2) to store them in each storage shelf of a cart (4), the bucket carrier comprising a holding means (20) for holding buckets (2), and carrier means (28) for carrying the buckets (2) held by the holding means (20) to each storage shelf (49) of the cart (4). The arrangement is such that the holding means (20) and a transfer means (49) are drive-controlled so that the buckets (2) are stored in the storage shelves (49) obliquely from above. Thereby, the buckets (2) can be automatically stored in the cart (4).
US07775753B2
A transportation system for a wind turbine component such as a wind nacelle or a section of a tubular wind turbine tower is provided, including a wind turbine component with a rigid structure. The system further includes at least two frame elements directly or indirectly connected to the rigid structure of the wind turbine component, where the at least two frame elements define a space enclosing the component. A a displacement system and a method of establishing a transportation or displacement system for a wind turbine component are also provided.
US07775745B2
A method of adjusting gel time of a grouting system used for anchoring a reinforcement in a mine includes adding inhibitor to initiator of the grouting system, the inhibitor and initiator being disposed together in a first compartment of a multi-compartment shreddable package.
US07775743B1
An erosion control device is provided, comprising a panel having a concrete matrix having a top surface and a bottom surface; a turf reinforcement material contained within the concrete matrix; and a geotextile material bonded to the bottom surface of the concrete matrix. The device includes a plurality of shear connectors inserted through the geotextile material, the concrete matrix, and the turf reinforcement material, and at least one flap of geotextile material extending along an edge of the device for overlapping by adjacent panels. The top surface includes score lines adapted to permit the panel to crack and bend along the score lines to adapt to uneven terrain, and also includes installation holes adapted to anchor the device to a levee or shoreline.
US07775742B2
A roller for compacting a subsurface, in particular for road building, comprising a roller body with a central axis. The roller body is made up of a plurality of compartments (2), the compartments (2) being provided distributed in the circumferential direction around the central axis. In particular, each compartment (2) comprises at least one fluid chamber (3). More particularly, the fluid chambers (3) in the compartments (2) are in flow communication.
US07775740B2
A self-propelled concrete finishing trowel has a steering system that counteracts a portion of the load associated with operator manipulation of a steering handle. A steering linkage connects the steering handle to a rotor assembly. A steering assist mechanism, preferably including a torsion bar or a spring, imposes a preload on the steering linkage to reduce handle actuation forces. The steering assist mechanism reduces handle retention forces, required to maintain the handle in a particular position after moving the handle to that position, to less than about 20 lbs throughout the stroke of the operating handle.
US07775739B1
A method for shaking vehicles comprises driving them over a series of appropriately spaced-apart, mutually parallel bars to vigorously shake the wheels, undercarriage, and body to free them of dirt, gravel and debris. An apparatus may have bars with the appropriate spacing. A track may include a frame and the spaced-apart bars may form part of the frame. The track may be large enough to accommodate all the wheels of a vehicle at once. Alternatively, smaller tracks may be flexibly connected end-to-end to form a shaker that will receive right and left hand wheels of the vehicle on respective rows. The shaker may be deployed onto a bed of aggregate that is sufficiently coarse to allow the fallen dirt to sift or be washed through the bed of aggregate. The aggregate may also assist in holding the shaker in place and may provide ramps at the ends of the shaker.
US07775736B2
A portable conversion washing device includes a pole, a brush support having a soap container, a brush, and a soap dispensing device that has a soap plug that plugs a dispensing opening, an actuator that moves the soap plug away from the dispensing opening whereby soap is dispensed out of the soap container, and a return device that moves the soap plug back to the dispensing opening. The washing device also includes a running water supply device having a first pipe connected to a running water supply hose, a second pipe that is in fluid communication with the first pipe, an angle adjusting device that adjust the angle between the first pipe and the second pipe. The second pipe has a tapered water conduit, a water flow plug that is moved along the conduit, and a water flow shaft that moves the water flow plug within the conduit.
US07775729B2
A developing apparatus, a developing processing method, a developing processing program, and a computer readable recording medium recording the program, which can reduce the consumption amount of the developing solution and the developing processing time irrespective of the type of resist materials or the shape of resist patterns, are provided. A step of horizontally holding a substrate and rotating the substrate around a vertical axis at a prescribed rotation rate, and a step of intermittently supplying a developing solution to a center of the substrate from a discharge port of a developing solution nozzle arranged opposing to the surface of the substrate are executed. In the step of intermittently supplying the developing solution to the center of the substrate, an intermittence time and a substrate rotation rate in the intermittence time are set to prevent the developing solution supplied to the substrate from drying.
US07775719B2
A bearing unit (90) for rotatably supporting a shaft (100) comprises a seamless holding member (120) with a gap allowing a shaft to run through and extend to the outside, a bearing (130) arranged in the inside of the holding member to rotatably support the shaft so as to make it radially revolvable, an anti-shaft-release member (115) fitted to the shaft so as to abut the bearing in order to prevent the shaft from slipping away in the thrusting direction and a space-forming member (113) arranged in the inside of the holding member so as to secure a space around the anti-shaft-release member. A bearing unit may further comprise an lubricating oil seal member and the space-forming member may be used to form a passage way for lubricating oil to prevent lubricating oil from leaking.
US07775715B2
A method of calibrating a computed tomography system includes the steps of mounting a scan geometry defining tool on a rotating object positioning unit of a computer tomography scanner. The scan geometry defining tool has structure of precisely measured dimensions. A beam is directed from an x-ray source of the computed tomography system through the structure of the scan geometry defining tool. A detected image after absorption of the x-ray from the scan geometry defining tool is analyzed, and utilized to determine a distance from the x-ray source spot location to the center of rotation of the object positioning unit. A beam is also directed from the x-ray source through a system performance test standard tool and analyzes a number of electronic and computer performance characteristics. The analyzed characteristics can be compared to expected characteristics to provide feedback on the operation of electronic and computer functions within the computed tomography system.
US07775712B1
A modified grid cabinet or “bucky” assembly intended for use with a digital imaging system and dimensioned and structured to retrofit a conventional film type x-ray device originally intended for use in combination with a conventional film bucky. The bucky assembly includes a frame having an at least partially hollow interior and a tray movably connected to the frame and slidably positionable between an outwardly extending open position and an inwardly disposed closed position. The tray is structured to support and position a digital sensor into an imaging position relative to the operative image capturing components of the digital imaging system. The tray includes a retaining assembly disposed and structured to removably retain the digital sensor in any a plurality of operative orientations including a portrait orientation and a landscape orientation.
US07775694B2
A vehicle interior illumination lamp unit includes: a designed unit disposed on a lower side of a ceiling plate of a vehicle; and a functional unit disposed on an upper side of the ceiling plate of the vehicle and coupled to the designed unit. A spacer insertion space is provided on an outside of an operation plate of the functional unit, and an insertion plate portion of the spacer is inserted into the spacer insertion space, whereby engagement between an engagement hook and an engaged portion is inhibited from being released by an impact.
US07775681B2
A backlight unit including a circuit board mounted with light emitting diodes and formed with connecting pads electrically connected with the light emitting diodes, a driver installed on one surface of the circuit board and configured to drive the light emitting diodes, a connector coupled to the connecting pads of the circuit board, in which the connector has a connecting direction changed toward the driver, and a connecting line for connecting the connector to the driver.
US07775674B1
A light emitting system to illuminate ice and a method for illuminating ice are disclosed herein. The system includes multiple light emitting modules that each includes a light source having at least one light emitting element and a cover having a base. The base substantially surrounds the light source. The light emitting modules may then be electrically connected to each other.
US07775673B1
A non-backboard reflector mirror includes a mirror body with a rim, a locating bar affixed to the back side of the rim of the mirror body, a locating frame, which has a clamping portion coupled to the locating bar and movable along and rotatable relative to the locating bar and affixed thereto at the desired elevation and angle, and a mounting frame selectively fastened to an array of mounting through holes at the locating frame at the desired angle for installation in a ceiling, overhead wall, or vertical wall, short wall. An alternate mounting frame may be used for installation in a post so that the non-backboard reflector mirror is used as a traffic mirror.
US07775665B2
A method for clarifying an image of an object to perform a procedure on an object includes applying electromagnetic energy to the object to provide reflected and/or transmitted energy according to an interaction of the electromagnetic energy and the object, determining an image quality metric in accordance with the reflected and/or transmitted energy to provide a determined image quality metric, determining an image in accordance with the determined image quality metric to provide a determined image, and performing the procedure in accordance with the image quality metric and the determined image.
US07775662B2
A visual acuity testing apparatus includes a target presenting unit for displaying various targets to be presented to a subject's eye, an optical element arranging device for retaining various optical elements, and selectively arranging the optical element corresponding to a response from the subject between the subject's eye and the target presenting unit, an operation section which is operated for selecting each of targets and each of the optical elements, a display section for displaying an operation image illustrating an operation content of the operation section, a memory for storing a plurality of target data illustrating each of the targets and operation image data illustrating the operation image, an arithmetic control section for extracting the target data and the operation image data from the memory according to an operation of the operation section, and an image output section having at least two output ports.
US07775650B2
A liquid container includes: a container body attachable to a container attachment portion of an apparatus side; a liquid chamber, provided in the container body, for accommodating a liquid therein; a liquid supply hole connectable to a liquid receiving portion of the apparatus side; a liquid leading path for leading the liquid stored in the liquid chamber to the liquid supply hole; an air open hole for introducing outside air into the liquid chamber as the liquid in the liquid chamber is consumed; pressure regulating means, provided in a portion of the liquid leading path, for regulating a pressure of the liquid to be supplied to the liquid receiving portion through the liquid supply hole and hindering a reverse flow of the liquid from the liquid supply hole to the liquid chamber; a first bypass path for causing first and second liquid leading passages of the liquid leading path, provided respectively before and after the pressure regulating means, to communicate with each other; and a first bypass blocking portion capable of blocking the bypass path.
US07775649B2
The present invention relates to a printer ink supply cartridge assembly. The assembly includes an elongate printer ink supply cartridge including a pair of internal walls separating a triplet of longitudinally extending ink supply reservoirs for storing respective colored inks. The ink supply cartridge defines a plurality of support ribs extending between the internal walls. The walls extend toward each other so that the ink supply reservoirs taper. An elongate ink ejection printhead unit is received within the ink supply cartridge so that ink from the tapered ends of the ink supply reservoirs can be supplied to the printhead unit.
US07775648B2
This invention provides for a disposable print cartridge for an in-vehicle information retrieval system. The system includes a video output module, a display facility and a printer controller for a printer. The cartridge includes a base molding with a cover operatively locating a stack of paper therein and together defining a paper feed slot through which a sheet of such paper can be fed. A platen is housed within the molding and is biased via a plurality of leaf springs engaging a floor of the base molding for urging the stack of paper against the cover. The cartridge also includes an ink supply reservoir having an ink supply molding formed integrally with the base molding, the ink supply molding defining a number of ink channels each closed off by a flexible bladder-like membrane, the ink channels in fluid communication with a respective ink outlet.
US07775640B2
The present invention relates to an ink delivery system for a printhead. The ink delivery system includes an ink delivery extrusion defining a plurality of ink flow passages. The ink delivery extrusion also defines a series of patterned holes in fluid communication with the passages and through which ink can be provided to printhead modules. At least one endcap has a spine from which a pair of plates is integrally hinged so that the extrusion can be clamped between the plates. The spine includes a row of plugs that can be received within respective flow passages of the extrusion.
US07775632B2
A nozzle arrangement is provided for an inkjet printhead. The nozzle arrangement includes a substrate assembly. A nozzle extends from the substrate assembly and defines an ink ejection portal through which ink supplied therein can be ejected. An expandable actuator is located within the nozzle and can expand to eject ink within the nozzle out through the ink ejection portal. Preferably, the expandable actuator includes a stacked capacitor device which, in turn, includes a stack of capacitive plates between which is sandwiched a compressible material.
US07775627B2
An inkjet printer assembly includes a cartridge which has a pagewidth printhead integrated circuit (IC) and a printhead auxiliary member. The auxiliary member is operatively rotatable between a platen position, to support a printing medium proximate the IC, a blotting position, to blot the printhead IC, and a capping position, to cap the printhead IC. The assembly also includes a cradle configured to receive the cartridge such that the printhead IC is adjacent a media feed path. The cradle has a transmission assembly arranged selectively to engage and rotate the printhead auxiliary member. The assembly also includes a controller arranged to determine a performance characteristic of the cartridge and to operate said transmission assembly, printhead IC and printhead auxiliary member in response to the determined performance characteristic.
US07775626B2
A cleaning mechanism for cleaning a print head in an inkjet printer with the print head having ink nozzles for discharging ink including a drive control unit which operates the cleaning mechanism at a first process level or a second process level that consumes less ink than the first process level; a timer which counts the elapsed time passed in which the print head is in a no-printing state; and a process selection unit responsive to a predetermined input cleaning command for selecting the first process level when the no-printing state has continued for less than a predetermined time or the second process level when the no-printing state has continued for greater than the predetermined time, based on the value of the timer when the predetermined input cleaning command is received. The predetermined input cleaning command can be received from a cleaning button or from a host computer. The drive control unit operates the cleaning mechanism at the process level selected by the process selection unit according to the predetermined input cleaning command.
US07775618B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a recording apparatus in which the occurrence of smearing and bleeding in the borders between black and color pixels can be reduced, and in which high-quality black characters and black images can be recorded. Black adjacent pixels, in which pixels adjacent to their periphery are black pixels, and color adjacent pixels, which are composed of pixels wherein pixels adjacent to their periphery are recorded with colored ink, are extracted from each pixels constituting a black image, and color ink data is created so that color ink is applied according to a certain ratio for the black adjacent pixels or color adjacent pixels. The occurrence of smearing and bleeding is suppressed by performing recording according to original data and the created color ink data.
US07775616B2
A printhead is provided having elongate printhead modules arranged parallel to each other to extend across a pagewidth and controllers for processing print data into dot data and for controlling the printhead modules in accordance with the dot data. Each printhead module has plural ink ejection nozzles. At least one of the printhead modules is longer than the other printhead modules. The controllers control ink ejection of the nozzles of the printhead modules in accordance with the dot data. At least one of the controllers is arranged to control all of the printhead modules and at least one other of the controllers is arranged to control only one of the printhead modules. Each controller has serial outputs for supplying the dot data for channels of the associated printhead module or modules.
US07775614B2
The present invention provides complementary recording in that when a defective nozzle is generated, recording is performed by other normal nozzles. According to the present invention, a mask pattern used for multipath recording, which completes an image by multiple scannings with a recording head, is rewritten when a defective nozzle is generated. Rewriting mask data is produced in a CPU register, and the mask pattern is rewritten by repeating the produced mask data. According to the present invention, it is not necessary to prepare mask data by assuming a defective nozzle in advance, so that high speed complementary recording processing can be performed with simple configuration.
US07775610B2
A flotation drive wheel is provided for a self-propelled irrigation system such as a center pivot irrigation system, a linear irrigation system or a corner irrigation system. The flotation drive wheel of this invention comprises a hub portion which is directly attached to an associated gearbox of the conventional drive tower. A metal band or plate is welded to the outer periphery of the hub portion of the wheel with a plurality of pivotal flotation shoes being attached to the band or plate. The pivotal shoes include structure for preventing soil from being pushed laterally of the flotation wheel and from being pushed forwardly from the drive wheel. The flotation wheel of this invention substantially eliminates the creation of wheel ruts or tracks.
US07775608B2
A method for controlling a brake pressure in at least two wheel brakes preferably mounted on one axle of the vehicle, is performed during a braking operation on a road surface having a heterogeneous coefficient of friction.This method works as follows: A low coefficient of friction side and/or a high coefficient of friction side is detected, a stability index representing the driving state of the vehicle is formed, the stability index is evaluated on the basis of the low coefficient of friction side and/or of the high coefficient of friction side and the brake pressure is altered in at least one wheel brake as a function of the value of the stability index and as a function of the result of the evaluation of the stability index on the basis of the low coefficient of friction side and/or the high coefficient of friction side.
US07775606B2
A motor vehicle brake power proportioning device has a brake control force proportioned by a balance-beam-type device at a variable ratio onto different brake cylinders, particularly to the master brake cylinders of the front and rear axle of the motor vehicle. The balance-beam-type device is configured so that a lever arm adjustment, that is continuously a function of the brake control force, can be achieved for a constant course of the proportioning of the brake control force onto the brake cylinders. For achieving the lever arm adjustment as a function of the brake control force, at least one section of the balance-beam-type device is continuously deformable as a function of the brake control force.
US07775604B2
An interlocking method and its structure for wheel-rim cover is provided and includes a plurality of engaging seats integrally formed along the peripheral edge of the rear side of a wheel-rim cover body. Each engaging seat has an interlocking block pivotally coupled thereto. An inner edge of the interlocking block forms the pivotal axis thereof and is displaceably disposed on an inclined surface of an engaging slot formed in the engaging seat. The outer edge of the interlocking block is displaceably disposed in an engaging groove of the wheel-rim body. By that arrangement, displacement of the wheel-rim cover body toward the hub of the wheel-rim body results in a displacement of the interlocking block to provide respective frictional engagement of the inner and outer ends of the interlocking block with the inclined surface of the engaging slot and the surface of the engaging groove.
US07775601B2
A rack structure for a chair includes a chair back member having a frame and a mounting support. The frame includes a support cushion disposed on the front side thereof for supporting a user's waist correspondingly. The frame further includes two first connecting tabs fixed on the back sides of the top ends of two sides thereof individually and two second connecting tabs formed on and extending from the two sides thereof respectively. The mounting support is fixed onto a base and extends upwardly therefrom. The mounting support includes two coupling segments and two connecting projections arranged on the top ends and the intermediate sections of two sides thereof respectively. Between each coupling segment and each connecting projection is couplingly attached a resilient member. The first and second connecting tabs of the frame are connected with the coupling segments and the connecting projections of the mounting support individually.
US07775600B2
A seating unit includes a rearwardly-open base frame with a pair of uprights on opposite rear side portions in spaced apart positions. A molded back has corner sections with cavities for matably telescopingly engaging the uprights, and a beam section extending between the corner sections for stabilizing the rear side portions when the molded back is engaging the uprights. A seat fastened to the base frame engages the molded back to retain the molded back on the upright sections. A cushion attached by a line of adhesive is perforated inward of the line, such that a majority of the cushion can be pulled off by tearing along the perforation line, allowing quick separation for recycling. The uprights have reduced an upper diameter for aesthetics but extend upwardly sufficiently to support armrest on the back.
US07775586B2
A roof structure for a motor vehicle, which has a roof-supporting roof frame, which is suitable to receive different roof modules, such as panoramic roofs, sliding roofs etc. The roof frame of the roof structure according to the invention has a surrounding flange directed towards the roof centre. The flange is additionally formed on the side of the vehicle such that it has a longitudinal supporting section, which extends parallel to the roof frame over the length of the roof frame from the free end of the flange in the direction of the center of the vehicle roof. The flange and the supporting section are formed in one piece according to the invention.
US07775585B2
A fender configuration for a motor vehicle has a fender and a deformation element which is C-shaped in cross section. For the substantially vertically oriented supporting of an upper edge of the fender, an upper limb of the deformation element is connected to the fender and a lower limb is connected to the vehicle body. It is important that the C-shaped deformation element is arranged such that it is open toward the associated fender.
US07775580B2
A door glass guiding structure is provided which can be constituted by using a glass guide member made from a low-priced material such as rolled sheet, and is capable of satisfactorily maintaining required functions.The door glass guiding structure 3 comprises the glass guide member 10 which is disposed between two door glasses supported side by side on a door for example, the side door 2) of the vehicle so as to guide the vertical movement of at least one of the door glasses, the core bracket 21 which is constituted of a member different from the glass guide member 10 and is mounted on top end of the glass guide member 10 so as to extend the length thereof upward, and the guide upper end seal member 13 attached to cover the external surface of the core bracket 21 so as to provide water-tight sealing on the top ends of the two door glasses.
US07775579B2
A top drive for a flexible vehicle roof which can be transferred from a closed position into a storage position and vice versa. At least one roof link is movable via a linear drive, the roof link and a fixed end of the linear drive being fastened to a main bearing of the top, wherein an actuating end of the linear drive is fastened pivotably to a throw-over lever which is fastened to the main bearing of the top and at the free end of which there is arranged a drive connecting rod which is fastened at a first end in an articulated manner to the free end of the throw-over lever and at a second end in an articulated manner to a section of the roof link, which section is spaced apart from the pivot point on the main bearing of the top, as a result of which a driving movement of the linear drive can be transmitted to the roof link.
US07775575B2
A system and method for setting the power operating condition of a photographic wireless communication device. An information representing a shutter speed of a camera body is detected from the camera body. A shutter speed of the camera body is determined from the information representing a shutter speed. The power operating condition of the photographic wireless communication device is automatically set based on the shutter speed of the camera body.
US07775574B2
A stretcher fixture installed on the floor surface of the cargo bed of an ambulance or the like to fix a stretcher on the cargo bed of the ambulance or the like, characterized by having a front hook which is mounted on the front floor surface of the cargo bed of an ambulance or the like to fix the front part of the stretcher; and a lock plate which is installed on the rear floor surface and has a lock piece engaging with a lock supporter installed in the rear part of the stretcher.
US07775572B2
A gripping tool has at least one body, including an associated load adaptor adapted to be connected to and interact with one of a drive head or reaction frame. A gripping assembly, carried by the body, has a grip surface adapted to move from a retracted position to an engaged position to radially engage one of an interior surface or an exterior surface of a work piece upon relative axial displacement of the body relative to the grip surface in at least one axial direction. A fluid activated grip activation assembly acts between the at least one body and the grip surface. Axial movement of the load adaptor displaces fluid into a fluid chamber between the at least one body and the grip surface to create relative axial displacement of the at least one body relative to the grip surface.
US07775563B2
The two-point mortise latch of the present invention includes, a central actuator having teeth that are meshed with the teeth of a gear wheel, wherein the gear wheel and the central actuator are pivotally connected to at least one hook, via the hook arm. Wherein the top and bottom surfaces of the hooks have guide protrusions that are set in a guide their respective guide areas. The hooks are designed to contact the bottom interior surface of the keeper housing when latched. The central actuator and gear are meshed together via teeth. In addition, the central actuator and gear wheel are biased with springs so as to facilitate opening and closing of the door latch. The components of the present invention are retained inside of the housing, which is set inside the lock stile of a door.
US07775555B2
A vehicle includes a first structure, a pedal pivotably connected to the first structure for pivoting between rest and fully-applied positions, a control attachment connecting the pedal to a vehicle system to be controlled, a second structure located rearward of the pedal, and an engagement bracket connected to the pedal to engage the second structure upon rearward movement of the pedal during a vehicle frontal collision. The control attachment is connected to the engagement bracket and disengages from the pedal so that the pedal pivots independent of the control system when the engagement bracket strikes the second structure with a predetermined force. There is a constant distance between the engagement bracket and the second structure as the pedal pivots so that the position of the pedal does not affect the disengagement of the control attachment during the frontal collision.
US07775554B2
An apparatus (10) for helping to protect an occupant (20) of a vehicle (24) includes an inflatable vehicle occupant protection device (14). An inflator (30) provides inflation fluid for inflating the protection device (14). A support member (80) supports the inflator (30) and the protection device (14). A retainer (120) helps secure the protection device (14) to the support member (80). At least one vent opening (132) formed in the retainer (120) enables flow of inflation fluid away from the protection device (14) through the support member (80).
US07775549B2
The disclosed roof-lining module is used for installation in a motor vehicle. The roof-lining module comprises a roof-lining covering for covering an inside of a motor vehicle roof skin, wherein a side of the roof-lining faces the vehicle floor; and an airbag module secured on the roof-lining covering with at least one gas generator. The gas generator extends longitudinally over at least a partial region of the roof-lining covering.
US07775548B2
A stroller for transporting a child includes a wheeled frame including at least two base rails interconnected by a cylindrical hub, a spine, and a bracing linkage. A basket attaches to the spine, confining the child and supporting a seat ring. The seat ring includes upper and lower connected concentric arcs having different radii and supports a seat back on its lower arc. The seat back reclines, and the seat ring rotates from center. A seat base is supported on the frame and includes a platform movable between an extended position disposed inside the seat ring and a retracted position withdrawn from the seat ring. The stroller permits the child to be safely and comfortably transported in a standing, seated, or reclined position.
US07775541B2
A wheeled vehicle including a platform portion having a mounting bracket for coupling a fifth wheel hitch to the vehicle. A pair of elongate frame members are located beneath the platform portion, and each having a lengthwise axis oriented substantially parallel to a forward direction of travel of the vehicle. A brace frame beneath the platform that is coupled between the pair of elongate frame members. The mounting bracket is secured to the brace frame and includes a stabilizer including a pair of elongate support arms joined by a cross-member. An anchor arrangement fixes the bracket relative the platform with long axes of the pair of arms transverse to the forward direction of travel. The mounting bracket has a lower portion in abutting engagement with the platform portion of the vehicle and an upper portion configured for receiving fixed coupled engagement of a fifth wheel hitch.
US07775539B2
The preferred embodiment relates a method and device for joining structural members together, in a substantially transverse or in-line orientation, without the use of tools. This method and device can be used to join the structural members of a bicycle frame together, forming one or more sub-assemblies that can be easily disassembled or knocked down by hand for fast and easy shipping or storage. The current state of the art with knockdown bicycle frames requires detailed knowledge of bicycle assembly and components as well as a substantial amount of time to do so. The preferred embodiment does not require the use of specific tools and allows the novice to knockdown and re-assemble a bicycle frame in a few minutes, providing a quick, simple, and affordable way to temporarily store, ship, or travel with a bicycle. In addition to joining the structural members of a bicycle frame, this method and device can be used for various applications requiring a simple and quick way to join in-line or transverse structural members together without the use of tools.
US07775533B2
A payload-carrying motor vehicle comprises a steer axle, at least one drive axle and a tag axle. All of the axles have wheels with tires and air brakes and a tag axle suspension system is adapted to suspend the tag axle in an active condition wherein the tag axle is pivotal about a first axis parallel to the other axles and also about a second axis located equidistant from the tag axle wheels and laying in a plane at right angles to the first axis and wherein the tag axle is forced to urge the tag axle tires against a road surface to aid in supporting the vehicle. An air brake system is adapted to operate the air brakes of all the wheels and a tag axle operating system is adapted to establish the tag axle in the active condition while enabling operation of the air brakes of the tag axle wheels and to disable operation of the air brakes of the tag axle wheels when the tag axle pivots about the second axis and reaches a predetermined tilt angle in maintaining contact of the tag axle tires with a road surface.
US07775532B2
A stroller is connected with a car seat, and includes a frame, a seat portion disposed on the frame, and a supporting member mounted to the seat portion. The supporting member is convertible between a supporting state where the supporting member stands on the seat portion, and a retracted state where the supporting member is disposed under the seat portion.
US07775530B2
An integrated multi-purpose deployment field system enables a user to build a plurality of field pieces of equipment for field use in recreation, rescue, medicine, military operations, disaster relief and non-motorized cargo hauling. The system includes assembling the field equipment from a plurality of interchangeable T-shaped load support components. Each load support component has a generally horizontal load support member which is configured to support a particular type of load in the field, and a generally vertically extending support strut which extends from a midsection of the horizontal load support member. A load support attachment, such as a wheel axle or a cross brace, engages with each horizontal load support member, and joins the horizontal support members so that the T-shaped load support components, vertical struts, and load support attachments form a load bearing structure when assembled.
US07775529B2
An independent adjustable axle suspension system for mounting a wheel to a frame of a trailer for transport of the trailer over a support surface. The axle suspension system includes a tower adapted to be attached to the frame and an axle unit adapted to receive the wheel. The tower is selectively moveable with respect to the axle unit along guide assemblies between extended and retracted positions to thereby selectively position the height of the frame with respect to the support surface.
US07775528B2
A bi-directional dynamic seal advantageously provides for the return of captured lubricant to the lubricant side regardless of a direction of relative rotation between the seal and the shaft. The seal utilizes a pattern of symmetrical pumping elements to facilitate the hydrodynamic pumping of the captured lubricant in response to the relative rotation. The symmetrical pumping elements have ending points that stop short of the seal edge of the seal. The seal may utilize secondary pumping elements that communicate with the primary pumping elements to capture lubricant that is not captured by the primary pumping elements.
US07775526B1
A bullet trap is disclosed which is formed without intervening sidewalls to enable cross-shooting and the like with reduced risk or ricochet or damage to the bullet trap. Furthermore, the bullet trap can be configured in a variety of ways to eliminate the need for facing plates while providing a removable attachment mechanism, to enable repair on the trap, to reduce bullet adhesion to the trap and to provide improved containment of lead and improved access to the trap.
US07775522B2
An automatic dice shaking system includes multiple dice seat holders each having two locating grooves, multiple dice seats selectively attachable to the dice seat holders, each dice seat having an inner thread and locating rods attachable to the locating grooves of one dice seat holder to prohibit rotation of the respective dice seat relative to the respective dice seat holder, a dice cup connectable to one dice seat by threading an outer thread thereof into the inner thread of one dice seat and movable with the connected dice seat away from the dice seat holders to shake the respective set of dice, and a mechanical arm controllable to move the dice cup horizontally and vertically and to rotate the device cup.
US07775515B2
In one aspect of a sheet conveying device, a sheet member is guided from a sheet feeding port through a reading position to a terminal end positioned above the sheet feeding port on a first path, guided from the terminal end through the reading position to the terminal end again on a second path, and guided from the terminal end through the reading position to a sheet discharging port on a third path. A transfer member rotates a conveying member and halts the rotation of the conveying member respectively according to first and second rotations of a driving source. A first detecting unit is provided downstream of the sheet feeding port on the first path. A control unit switches the driving source from the first rotation to the second rotation on the basis that the first detecting unit detects a trailing end of the sheet member.
US07775509B2
A method and apparatus for producing a digitally printed product that includes at least one section of sequentially printed sheets folded approximately in the center. The sequentially printed sheets are conveyed one after another on a conveying device and folded inside a folding apparatus to form a first fold. The folded sheets are gathered in a gathering station to form a section which is fed to a work station where the section is folded approximately in the center to form a second fold.
US07775508B2
A method and apparatus for providing a precursor to a process chamber is described. The apparatus comprises an ampoule capable of receiving either a liquid precursor source material or a solid precursor source material. The ampoule is capable of delivering either a liquid precursor material to a vaporizer coupled to the process chamber, or a vaporized or gaseous precursor material to the process chamber. The ampoule also includes a continuous level sensor to accurately monitor the level of precursor source material within the ampoule.
US07775500B1
A modular forming system with nesting brackets between associated stacked modular panels to join modular panels when stacked. As a part of the forming system, a modular panel is described having a forming member with a plurality of studs affixed to the non-forming surface, and a plurality of stiff-back structures affixed in a spaced-apart relationship to the plurality of studs. Each stiff-back structure includes a lower bracket having a slot therein and an upper lifting bracket having a lifting member adapted to slidably engage the slot in a lower bracket of an associated stacked panel arranged above the modular panel, and allowing the engaged brackets to be removably joined together.
US07775490B2
A suction cup, includes: a suction cup body made of a synthetic resin material having elasticity; and a gel layer bonded to the suction cup body and having a surface serving as a suction face; the suction cup body being made of thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer, the gel layer being made of two-pack thermosetting polyurethane gel, the suction cup body and the gel layer being bonded to each other by bonding of an isocyanate group which the thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer has and a hydroxyl group which the two-pack thermosetting polyurethane gel has.
US07775481B2
The invention is directed to a device for heating lock elements in aircraft, in particular to prevent icing up of door locks and emergency slide locks. The object of the invention, to find a novel possibility for heating lock elements in aircraft, particularly for preventing icing of door locks and emergency slide locks, which reliably eliminates icing of the lock elements without requiring frequent maintenance and repair due to high mechanical, chemical and thermal stresses, is met according to the invention in that a base body which is mounted in the floor of the aircraft and contains an insert profile has an integrated, inserted sliding plate and in that the sliding plate is hollowed out from the bottom over a large surface to receive a heating foil, wherein the heating foil is embedded in the hollowed out recess in a sandwich-type construction, and the sliding plate is hermetically sealed from the bottom.
US07775479B2
Disclosed is a lining framework for fastening seats in an aircraft. The lining framework preferably comprises three seat rails, which are arranged in a spaced apart manner parallel to each other along both side walls of the fuselage cell. Sitting surfaces of a plurality of seats are suspended on the seat rails by textile straps consisting of high-strength, woven plastic material. At least two straps are arranged between the upper seat rail and two frames of the fuselage cell of the aircraft. In this case, a strap length is measured so that forces from the fuselage cell cannot be transmitted into the lining framework. By the same token, however, forces from the lining framework can be introduced into the fuselage cell by means of the straps so that the lining framework can be designed statically lighter. This leads to a weight reduction of the lining framework.
US07775473B2
In a motorized retractor, due to an ECU and a driver switching a speed of rotation of an output shaft of a motor to a first speed or a second speed, a transfer path of rotational force from the motor to a spool is switched to a first driving force transferring section (a path through a meshing clutch and a slip mechanism) or a second driving force transferring section (a path through an overload mechanism and a centrifugal clutch). Accordingly, there is no need for a complex switching mechanism including a solenoid which is employed in conventional motorized retractors. A device can thereby be made more compact.
US07775471B2
An indicating section is formed in a rear flange portion of a metal spool. The indicating section includes first and second stepped portions. These portions are indicators for the amount of fishing line wound around spool. The first stepped portion is formed by first and second surfaces. The first surface is part of the surface of the rear flange portion. The second surface is formed radially outward of the first surface. The axial heights of the first and second surfaces are different from each other. The second stepped portion is formed by third and fourth surfaces and is also formed radially outward of the first stepped portion. The third surface is part of the surface of the rear flange portion. The fourth surface is formed radially outward of the third surface. The axial heights of the third and fourth surfaces are different from each other.
US07775470B2
Relative line tension indicators and related methods particularly for fishing reels where the indicators include a body; a mechanical distance determining arrangement housed in the body, such as an axially translating probe shaft/actuator pin, or an electronic distance determining arrangement such as an optical distance determining integrated circuit; and a mechanical display arrangement, such as an indicator linked to the probe shaft/actuator pin, or an electronic display coupled to the distance determining arrangement. In select embodiments, the indicator is mounted to or integrated with the handle of a fishing reel, which is directly proximate to a line tension adjustment wheel. By determining and indicating the axial position of the adjustment wheel relative to an axially constant reference such as the reel handle, a user can determine where, along the continuum of relative positions, the adjustment wheel is positioned. By correlating this axial position with an actual drag value or level, the user can determine the relative over and under drag state from this reference.
US07775462B2
A spray device for use as a supplementary fluid output, having a mixing chamber for receiving and mixing fluid from two input supplies which supplies mixed fluid to a spray head through a flexible conduit. The relative proportions of input supplies received in the mixing chamber is controlled by a mix controller having a mix actuator which is connected to a mix valve associated with the mixing chamber by an upstanding rotatable sleeve. The spray device is mounted on a hole in a work surface by mounting means. The flexible conduit and the upstanding rotatable sleeve pass through the hole in the work surface and a bore in the mounting means. The mix controller may control the rate of fluid flow through the device.
US07775456B2
A fluidic device, that operates on a pressurized liquid flowing through it to generate an oscillating spray having desired three-dimensional flow characteristics, includes a member that has fabricated within it at least two liquid flow channels that are configured in the form of a fluidic circuit having an inlet and an outlet and a centerline therebetween. These flow channels are further configured so that the straight line projections of their centerlines, that extend from their outlets, intersect at a prescribed intersection angle, Θ, and the outlets are separated by a characteristic separation distance, “w.” We have found that the values of the intersection angle, Θ, and separation distance, “w,” can be are chosen so as to yield the desired three-dimensional flow characteristics of the spray.
US07775453B2
A vehicle air-conditioner control system according to the present invention activates an air conditioner in response to a command from an air-conditioner remote controller before a passenger is onboard, controls the air conditioner based on a heat load detected by a heat load detector, controls the air conditioner to be set in a silent mode so as not to make the passenger feel uncomfortable due to an air-conditioning wind when a passenger-proximity determiner determines that the passenger is proximate to the vehicle.
US07775445B2
Reference equipment including a reference card and a reference reader is provided for testing electronic payment devices such as cards and card readers. The reference equipment is designed to simulate the external behavior of a variety of payment devices that are currently or expected to be deployed in electronic payment systems. Further, the reference equipment is configured to subject devices under test to extreme behaviors which are expected in field use or which are representative of a large class of payment devices. The external behaviors may relate to functional parameters, for example, power consumption, resonance frequency, Q-factor, modulation depth, noise, and timing. Exemplary reference devices are configured to exhibit representative external behavior, which is an empirically determined average behavior of the product devices in the field. Use of the reference equipment for product specification compliance testing will enhance the interoperability of product payment devices.
US07775442B2
In a mobile terminal device a Secure Element, a main controlling unit, and near-field-communication Module form a communication triangle. A method is disclosed for providing an interface communication in the mobile terminal device comprising an operation for detecting by the main control unit that a communication between a secure element and external device has ceased.
US07775439B2
Passive wands, tracked by one or more cameras, are used as user interface devices. The wands are inexpensive, and are a natural way for users to interact with devices such as large displays. Each wand may be used to specify a full 6 degrees of freedom, which can be helpful for manipulation of 3D applications. The wands may also be used to identify 3D world points, which is useful for multi-camera calibration, and for building 3D models of physical spaces. The described methods provide a more precise estimation of wand pose, and can be implemented with a single camera. Also described is a method for estimation wand pose using information available along a one dimensional ‘line scan’ within the image, which simplifies processing.
US07775425B1
The invention involves a system and a method of approving a money limit of check cashing for a time period during which a check writer may cash checks up to the limit. The invention provides for an improvement of approving a money limit of check cashing in order to provide in advance a check cashing limit for at least one period of time. The invention includes storing historical check writing information of check writers, receiving identification information to access respective check writing information, processing the respective check writing information to determine a score for the check writer, classifying the check writer in a predetermined category, and determining the limit over the time period during which the check writer may cash checks up to the limit based on the category in which the check writer is classified. The invention further includes declining the check writer from cashing checks for the time period of the check writer is classified in one category, and approving the check writer to cash checks for the limit over the time period if the check writer is classified in another category.
US07775407B2
The contents extractor for jars is a device that is inserted into a food jar or household container. The extractor has a handle with an actuator that the operator squeezes; an elongated mechanized shaft that transmits movement from the actuator; and, a flexible material that retracts and transforms into a 360° disk shape to the inner surfaces of container. When the extractor is inserted into the jar and retracted, the operator pulls the entire device upward out of the container, thus removing the residue remaining. The extractor allows the consumer to use more of the product than would otherwise be possible, thereby saving money for the consumer and reducing resources used to make the product.
