US07788256B2
A distributed index for discovering distributed data sources and computing resources based on predicates on attributes is provided. Proposed is a non-altruistic scheme for indexing distributed data, in which nodes are provided with incentives to cooperate in the referencing of data and the routing of search requests for indexed data. Indexed data is mapped to a dynamic routing graph, in which nodes earn credits each time they route a search request. Participatory nodes along a search request traversal continually modify local routing decisions in a manner necessary to maximize profit. Thus, routing paths as a whole are able to dynamically adapt to changing query workloads and access patterns. Dynamic adaptation also occurs by automatic load-balancing of recipients of frequently routed searches, known as “hot spots”, for frequently request data, “hot items”, as a result of an incentive to replicate the indexing strategy of a more profitable node.
US07788254B2
A collection of web pages is modeled as a directed graph, in which the nodes of the graph are the web pages and directed edges are hyperlinks. Web pages can also be represented by content, or by other features, to obtain a similarity graph over the web pages, where nodes again denote the web pages and the links or edges between each pair of nodes is weighted by a corresponding similarity between those two nodes. A random walk is defined for each graph, and a mixture of the random walks is obtained for the set of graphs. The collection of web pages is then analyzed based on the mixture to obtain a web page analysis result. The web page analysis result can be, for example, clustering of the web pages to discover web communities, classifying or categorizing the web pages, or spam detection indicating whether a given web page is spam or content.
US07788253B2
Provided are techniques for building a search index. While building the search index and using the search index to respond to one or more search requests, an anchor information store is maintained, wherein each entry of the anchor information store identifies a referring document, a target document, and anchor text associated with a link from the referring document to the target document; a document is received for processing; one or more entries in the anchor information store for which the document to be processed is identified as the target document are located; anchor text is retrieved from each of the identified entries; and the retrieved anchor text is stored in an entry of the search index for the document.
US07788252B2
A system and method are disclosed for determining local intent. Local intent may reflect whether a search query should receive results and advertisements that are geographically specific. The local intent may be determined using probabilistic models that analyze historical searches to determine which search terms tend to have local intent.
US07788250B2
Methods and systems for database storage allowing subscriber entities to create specialized interfaces for storing different classes of information based on subscribed-defined categories and parameters, allowing for efficient search and retrieval of the information by users using the subscriber-defined categories and parameters. A method for processing a search request comprises receiving from a user a set of search terms, retrieving from a database a set of records satisfying the search terms, sending the search terms to one or more suppliers as indicated by supplier links associated with the records, receiving a set of results from the one or more suppliers, and sending the set of results to the user. A method for information storage comprises sending an interface to a supplier over a network, receiving from the supplier a supplier-defined category, a set of supplier-defined parameters associated with the category, and a supplier link, and adding a record comprising the category, the supplier link, and the set of parameters to a database, thereby allowing the database to be searched for the supplier as a provider according to the category and the parameters, and allowing the supplier to be queried via the supplier link for results according to the category and the parameters.
US07788248B2
Providing immediate search feedback is disclosed. Search input is received within a search field of a web browser application. Based on characteristics of the search input, a determination is made whether to automatically submit a query to a search engine. In one aspect, the query is automatically submitted to the search engine. The query is based on the received first search input. Results are displayed within the web browser application, the results web page returned from the query submitted to the search engine.
US07788245B1
A search engine link provider receives content of a document from a remote computer. Topics for the content are identified and search terms are generated based on the topics. Search engine links are generated based on the search terms. The search engine links are embedded into the content for matches within the content to the search terms. Selection of a search engine link by a user initiates a search for the search term associated with the search engine link.
US07788242B2
A method for inserting an object into a concurrent set including obtaining a key associated with the object, traversing the concurrent set using a first thread containing the key, identifying a first insertion point while traversing the concurrent set, where the first insertion point is before a current node and after a predecessor node, obtaining a first lock for the predecessor node after identifying the first insertion point, validating the predecessor node and the current node after obtaining the lock, inserting a new node into the concurrent set after validating, where the new node is associated with the object, and releasing the first lock after inserting the new node.
US07788233B1
A scalable data store framework is provided to migrate data across partitions in a data store without compromising data availability for customers. The scalable data store framework includes one or more partitions configured to manage a set of “entities” for a network-based service. When a new-partition event is detected, a target partition is identified for bifurcation and various additional partitions are added to the data store. After the target partition is replicated into the additional partitions, some entities associated with the target partition are migrated to the additional partitions in order to maintain good load balance in the data store.
US07788228B2
Methods and systems are provided for recursively backing up modified data files where only modified data files are backed up and that provide a user with an efficient way to determine which original files have been modified to allow the user to readily locate original files if the user is not satisfied with any modifications to the original files. A mirror memory structure is created, but only modified files are saved to the mirror memory structure and modified files bear the same names as original files to assist in easily locating original files.
US07788226B2
A system and method for monitoring availability of applications. According to an embodiment of the invention, a method includes providing a set of monitoring instructions to an agent, with the set of monitoring instructions including a time stamp and the set of monitoring instructions regarding monitoring of the availability of applications. The method includes receiving a status inquiry from the agent, the inquiry including the time stamp, comparing the time stamp received from the agent to a time stamp for up-to-date monitoring instructions, and sending the up-to-date monitoring instructions to the agent if the time stamp of the up-to-date monitoring instructions is later than the time stamp received from the agent.
US07788224B2
The invention relates to a method for updating a remote data base with sets of data of a master data base system. The sets of data are forwarded to an intermediate data base, and the intermediate data base and the remote data base system are coupled by means of a synchronisation protocol. The protocol ensures, that the remote data base is reliably updated, wherein said master data base and said intermediate data base are logically independent data bases each part of a unique data base system controlled by a unique data base management, and also to master data base system therefore.
US07788220B1
Seek operations required to perform backup and/or restore processes at an HFS server are reduced by localizing storage of data referenced by hash values included in a recipe near the recipe. In a typical embodiment, an HFS server receives a recipe and new underlying data for entry into a hash file system. The HFS server identifies a first storage node for the recipe, contiguously stores the new data in the first storage node, and indexes hash values and storage addresses of the new data in storage nodes selected based on the hash values of the new data. Storage addresses for the new data (and other data referenced by the recipe) are appended to the recipe. Later during a restore process, retrieval of the recipe also retrieves the storage addresses. Data pieces stored contiguously can then be collectively retrieved in one seek rather than in separate individual seeks.
US07788218B2
Digital documents are handled in networked document processing system that includes user workstations, document processing devices and a control system. A document storage is used for storing and managing digital documents associated with a user of a workstation. The control system includes a document email server where each email item in the server is linked with a digital document in the control system document storage. A processor manages the digital documents and keeps the owner of a digital document informed on the status thereof by synchronizing with the document email server so as to dynamically reflect status changes in the digital document files in corresponding email items for the owner. The workstations include a respective email client provided with at least one email folder linked to a user account in the document email server.
US07788213B2
Exemplary illustrative embodiments provide for a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for mapping data. The mapping is defined by a user and maps a source datum to a target datum having a target attribute. The mapping is defined using metadata. Source specific information is omitted from the mapping and stored in a target data repository.
US07788208B2
A behavior prediction apparatus includes an input unit inputting sole behaviors of a human and simultaneous occurrence probability of behaviors, a behavior discrimination unit specifying a behavior pattern based on correspondence between behaviors corresponding to simultaneous occurrence probability and actual behaviors, an information generation/recording unit generating behavior history information of the specified behavior pattern, and to generate and record information of each of a behavior transition probability, a behavior time and a behavior occurrence probability based on the behavior history information, a behavior prediction unit obtaining a starting behavior from the behavior occurrence probability, select another behavior pattern in order of behavior occurrence probability, and add the behavior time to the selected behavior pattern to output behavior prediction information, and a social value calculation unit obtaining a social value per unit time using the behavior prediction information, social value unit information and the prediction period.
US07788207B2
Systems and methods are provided for integrating educational software. In one implementation, a first server receives an identifier of a second server that provides at least one source educational course. A second server receives metadata for the at least one source educational course and stores the metadata.
US07788205B2
A plurality of stochastic models is built that predict the probabilities of state transitions for components in a complex system. The models are trained using output observations from the system at runtime. The overall state and health of the system can be determined at runtime by analyzing the distribution of current component states among the possible states. Subsequent to a low level component failure, the state transition probability stochastic model for the failed component can be analyzed by uncovering the previous states at N time intervals prior to the failure. The resulting state transition path for the component can be analyzed for the causes of the failure. Additionally, component failures resulting from the failure, or worsening state transition, in other components can be diagnosed by uncovering the previous states at the N times prior to the failure for multiple components in the system and then analyzing the state transition paths for correlations to the failed component. Additionally, transitions to worsening states can be predicted using an action matrix. The action matrix is created beforehand using state information and transition probabilities derived from a component's stochastic model. The action matrix is populated probabilities of state transitions at a current state for given actions. At runtime, when an action is requested of a component, the probability of the component transitioning to a worsening state by performing the action can be assessed from the action matrix by using the current state of the component (available from the stochastic model).
US07788202B2
A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for inferring a probability of a first inference absent from a database at which a query regarding the inference is received. Each datum of the database is conformed to the dimensions of the database. Each datum of the plurality of data has associated metadata and an associated key. The associated metadata includes data regarding cohorts associated with the corresponding datum, data regarding hierarchies associated with the corresponding datum, data regarding a corresponding source of the datum, and data regarding probabilities associated with integrity, reliability, and importance of each associated datum. The query is used as a frame of reference for the search. The database returns a probability of the correctness of the first inference based on the query and on the data.
US07788199B2
A method of assigning sets of assignments to at least one agent is provided. The agent(s) are capable of assuming a plurality of states. The method comprising, for each agent: constructing a graph having a plurality of vertices and a plurality of edges. Each vertex of the graph represents an assignment performable by the agent while being at a respective state, and each edge connects two vertices hence represents a transition between two states. The method further comprises assigning a predetermined weight for each vertex of the plurality of vertices; and using a longest-path algorithm for obtaining a path over the graph, the path having a plurality of connected vertices and being characterized by a substantial optimal objective function defined using respective weights of the plurality of connected vertices. The agent is thereby assigned with a set of assignments represented by the plurality of connected vertices of the graph.
US07788188B2
A system and method for providing a service to promoters, including venues and advertising sponsors, who wish to provide promotions. The service includes making promoter promotions accessible by the mobile phones of members associated with an organization. Typically a promotion and member are matched based on the member's geographical position, as determined automatically by a position sensor in their mobile phone, and by the member's traits and behaviors. By accepting a promotion, a member receives reward points which can be used to obtain goods and services. In addition to accessing promotions, members have mobile access to real-time information about the venues, such as the demographics of venue attendees and media posted by attendees concerning venue characteristics. Using the system, members can determine before going to a venue, such as a nightclub or bar, which venue has their preferred attendee demographic, atmosphere, music, cover charge, drink specials, friends, etc.
US07788181B2
Software is governed by a digital license that specifies a certificate that must be present in order for the software (or certain features thereof) to be used. A root authority authorizes a license server to issue certificates that are called for in the digital license for an item of software. The software and the digital license are installed on a machine, and the machine enrolls with the license server to obtain the certificate. When the software is run, an enforcement component evaluates the license to determine what certificate is required, and then evaluates the certificate to determine whether it meets the requirements of a license. If the certificate is invalid, the enforcement component may disable the software, or may disable certain features of the software.
US07788159B1
Bid management with a robust set of rules that ties bids to actual site-side performance. From site-side performance data, the invention creates an optimal portfolio of keywords by determining optimal mix of keywords, position, and bids to achieve greatest return for risk, comparing keywords against one another to determine allocation of budget, and automatically implementing recommendations.
US07788158B2
The present invention provides a method of speculating on a future event or the value of an asset in a market. The speculating may take the form of trading, hedging or wagering. A plurality of speculations on the outcome of the future event is received. For each one of the speculations in the market, the status of the speculations at the time that the speculation was received in the market is recorded. After a time period for receiving speculations in the market has closed, the pari-mutuel payoff for each correct speculation is calculated using a computer. The pari-mutuel payoff depends at least in part on the status of speculations at the time that the speculation was received in the market.
US07788157B2
The invention provides a method for business to business communication among trading partners that use differing business rules and processes. A trading partner server provides a center for communication between the trading partners enforcing the business rules and enabling the trading partners to communicate effectively. Legally binding and non-legally binding agreements necessary to support a business discourse are handled electronically through the trading partner server.
US07788156B2
An investor's performance is evaluated by utilizing information pertaining to at least one transaction made by the investor, such as an individual or entity, involving at least one investment. This evaluation includes determining a performance score indicative of the investor's performance relative to other investors. The performance score is determined at least in part by considering an average historical performance of the investment, following the transaction. In addition, the performance score is also determined by a historical consistency of the investor's performances with respect to transactions involving the investment, and the number of transactions made by the investor. Then, the performance score of the investor may be compared against the performance scores of other investors. Advantageously, this performance score may be used to produce a ranked list of investors in a particular industry, as well as with investors in different industries.
US07788154B1
Various embodiments of the present invention relate to methods, systems and securities for assuring a company an opportunity to sell stock (e.g., common stock) after a specified time. More particularly, one embodiment of the present invention relates to a security, comprising: (a) a post-paid forward contract between a first entity and a second entity, which post-paid forward contract obligates the second entity to purchase a fixed number of shares of stock of the first entity; (b) debt of the first entity; and (c) a pre-paid forward contract between the first entity and the second entity, which pre-paid forward contract obligates the second entity to deliver to the first entity a variable number of shares of stock in the first entity.
US07788134B1
An item may be analyzed to identify one or more geographic attributes that are associated with the item. Items are searchable using a geographic attribute to identify geographically related items. A search of a catalog of items identifies items having a geographic attribute shared by the geographic attribute at the focus of the search. Embodiments may enable a user to obtain an identified item in a commercial transaction. A display component can be configured to provide a map on which one or more of the identified items are shown. While not intuitive to users, using geography to search and identify geographically related items in a catalog can provide users with a unique way of looking at items and conducting commercial transactions for such items. Geographic attributes of individual items may also be displayed on a map.
US07788128B2
A system for generating rewards for information rendered by an information provider to a user. The system includes a receiving element to receive an information request from the user and identification elements to identify the user. The system also includes a delivery element for delivery of the information requested by the user from a service provider and a voluntary reward element for allowing the user to provide a reward to the service provider. A value determination element provides a system of value for the user based upon the reward provided by the user.
US07788124B2
A system, method and computer readable medium are provided for performing assortment definitions. The method includes receiving category information regarding a plurality of stores, receiving category information regarding the one or more assortments, identifying the dimensions of the categories of information regarding the one or more assortments, identifying the dimensions of the category information regarding a plurality of stores classifying the assortment by a first dimension, receiving information regarding a plurality of stores, classifying each of the plurality of stores according to the received values of the dimensions and receiving a classification of each of the one or more assortments and assigning each of the plurality of the stores to one or more of the one or more assortments having the same classification.
US07788120B2
A system and method for interfacing a client with a client relationship management (RM) account database. The client RM account database includes an entry for the client, and the entry for the client includes a fields of data. The RM provides an environment for product and relationship management to jointly conduct client analysis, planning and delivery in a coordinated and measurable fashion. The RM includes user terminals for use by relationship managers and product managers. A network communicatively couples the user terminals, which is in turn coupled to a server.
US07788114B2
A computer-implemented method is provided of analyzing budgets for clinical trials. A clinical trial budget is entered into a processor. The budget includes activities and associated activity costs. The activities are classified into a set of standardized service categories. The processor then allocates the associated activity costs with the respective standardized service category. The budget further includes assumption specifications. The processor further calculates per unit costs of the assumption specifications. The activities and the associated activity costs are then equalized against reference assumption specifications using at least the per unit costs.
US07788110B2
The present invention intends to provide various medical-related service by connecting the Medical Application Service Provider (MASP), which is a new institution providing medical care support service, and multiple medical institutions through private lines or general communication network including Internet Connection. The present invention provides the system that receives and transmits medical information among the Medical Application Service Provider (MASP) 2 and online terminals 4-1 to 4-4 placed at the medical institution 4 through the communication line 3. The MASP carries out process of medical data, responding to orders from online terminals, and transmits results to the online terminals placed at the medical institution. Further, the order of medical supply can be transmitted from the online terminal of the medical institution to MASP 2 and processed to efficiently deliver the medical supply.
US07788103B2
Method and system are provided for performing random confirmation in a speech system. When a speech recognition result is received with an associated confidence score indicating a level of confidence with respect to the speech recognition result, a confirmation decision is made in terms of whether a confirmation is to be carried out based on the confidence score. The confirmation decision may be made in a random confirmation mode. A confirmation may be performed when the confirmation decision is to carry out a confirmation on the speech recognition result.
US07788101B2
Embodiments of a system and method for verifying an identity of a claimant are described. In accordance with one embodiment, a feature may be extracted from a biometric sample captured from a claimant claiming an identity. The extracted feature may be compared to a template associated with the identity to determine the similarity between the extracted feature and the template with the similarity between them being represented by a score. A determination may be made to determine whether the identity has a correction factor associated therewith. If the identity is determined to have a correction factor associated therewith, then the score may be modified using the correction factor. The score may then be compared to a threshold to determine whether to accept the claimant as the identity. In accordance with a further embodiment, during enrollment of a subject in a biometric verification system, a feature may be extracted from a biometric sample captured from the subject requesting enrollment and a standard deviation for the feature may then be calculated. A determination may then be performed to determining whether the standard deviation of the feature is greater than a standard deviation of a centroid of a density function. If the standard deviation of the feature is greater than the standard deviation of the centroid, then a correction factor for the subject may be derived based on a trend line of the density function.
US07788096B2
The present invention automatically builds question sets for a decision tree. Under the invention, mutual information is used to cluster tokens, representing either phones or letters. Each cluster is formed so as to limit the loss in mutual information in a set of training data caused by the formation of the cluster. The resulting sets of clusters represent questions that can be used at the nodes of the decision tree.
US07788091B2
An electronic circuit includes a storage circuit and a microprocessor operable together with the storage circuit as a speech coder. The speech coder has a backward pitch enhancement in frames or subframes having a length and at least one main pulse and at least one backward pitch enhancement pulse preceding the main pulse by a portion of the length called a pitch lag, and is operable to limit in number any such backward pitch enhancement pulse or pulses to a predetermined maximum number more than none upon an occurrence when the length divided by the pitch lag is at least one more than that maximum number. Other forms of the invention involve systems, circuits, devices, processes and methods of operation.
US07788085B2
String replacement is performed in text using linguistic processing. The linguistic processing identifies the existence of direct or indirect links between the string to be replaced and other strings in the text. Morphological, syntactic, anaphoric, or semantic inconsistencies, which are introduced in strings with the identified direct or indirect links to the string that is to be replaced are detected and corrected.
US07788066B2
Noise discrimination in signals from a plurality of sensors is conducted by enhancing the phase difference in the signals such that off-axis pick-up is suppressed while on-axis pick-up is enhanced. Alternatively, attenuation/expansion are applied to the signals in a phase difference dependent manner, consistent with suppression of off-axis pick-up and on-axis enhancement. Nulls between sensitivity lobes are widened, effectively narrowing the sensitivity lobes and improving directionality and noise discrimination.
US07788054B2
A scanner instrument used for scanning tubing that is being placed into an oil well or being removed from the oil well can be calibrated during retrieval of tubing from the well. Calibrating the tube scanner includes scanning a tubing standard and comparing the data from the standard scan to the known characteristics of the standard. The relationship between the scanned data and the known characteristics can be computed. The relationship between the scanned data and the known characteristics can be used as the calibration function for the scanner. Calibrating the tube scanner can also include scanning a string of tubing segments and then adjusting the data collected. The adjustment is based upon equalizing the data peaks that occur in the scan data at the coupling joints between tube segments.
US07788021B2
A device for controlling an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, including a control unit for monitoring and limiting the rotational speed of the internal combustion engine that are designed in such a manner that after a predetermined first speed threshold an integral formation of the current present values over time occurs, and that, on reaching a predetermined integral limit value, the rotational speed is automatically limited.
US07788016B2
A method for operating an internal combustion engine in a state of controlled self-ignition. The internal combustion engine includes a combustion chamber, at least one intake valve and at least one exhaust valve whose opening times can be changed. A fresh mixture is introduced into the combustion chamber during an intake stroke and an ignitable gas mixture is produced in the combustion chamber by way of the introduction of fuel and compressed in a compression stroke, whereby the gas mixture self-ignites toward the end of the compression stroke.The fresh mixture is introduced into the combustion chamber by way of a compression mechanism during the intake stroke.
US07788014B2
A system and method for narrowing an assessment of root cause to a single stage within a gas turbine engine module using coupling factors and known instrumentation non-repeatability. Embodiments examine certain root cause (RC) effects that manifest themselves as coupling levels, or ratios (CR), between an engine module's efficiency change Δη and its flow parameter change ΔFP.
US07788013B2
A technique provides a remote adjustment to a portion of an airplane engine. The technique involves attaching a remote adjuster to the portion of the engine at a proximate location to the engine while the engine is not running. The portion is configured to receive a direct manual adjustment from a user while the engine is running and while the user is in direct physical contact with the portion. The technique further involves, after attaching the remote adjuster to the portion of the engine, supplying user input to the remote adjuster at a distal location to the engine to provide a remote adjustment to the portion of the engine through the remote adjuster in place of the direct manual adjustment from the user. The technique further involves, after supplying the user input to the remote adjuster, removing the remote adjuster from the portion of the engine.
US07788011B2
A braking and drive force control apparatus for a vehicle whose wheels are separately driven by electric motors. A controller calculates a drive force or a braking force to be applied to each wheel in accordance with the average sprung displacement and average sprung velocity of the vehicle body which are calculated based on sensed sprung acceleration. By adding the calculated drive force or braking force to the drive force at the time of running, at the time of bouncing of the vehicle body, a downwards force can be generated in the vehicle body which is rising, and an upwards force can be generated in the vehicle body which is descending. By applying an upwards or downwards force to each wheel so as to permit upwards and downwards vibration of the wheels, variations in the ground contact load can be suppressed.
US07788010B2
A controlling system of a vehicle with a continuously variable transmission, which can render a sufficient accelerating feeling in responsive to a driver's requirement. A controller, upon judgment of an acceleration requirement, sets a target drive force higher than the target drive force upon normal calculation upon normal operation of an accelerator pedal, and sets a target rotation speed upon acceleration higher than the target rotation speed upon the normal operation and increasing with an increase of the vehicle speed by a predetermined gradient. The speed change ratio of the continuously variable transmission and the output torque of the engine are controlled such that the set target drive force is achieved, and an input shaft rotation speed of the continuously variable transmission coincides with the target rotation speed upon the set acceleration. Thus upon acceleration, the target drive force and the output rotation speed of the drive source increase.
US07788009B2
A method for compensating roadway changes in a transmission control system of an automatic vehicle transmission, according to which each change in the roadway is recognized and compensated. Also disclosed is a transmission control system of an automatic vehicle transmission, particularly for carrying out the inventive method, comprising at least one device for detecting and compensating changes in the roadway.
US07788008B2
System and method for determining the location of the eyes of a vehicular occupant includes one or more wave-receiving transducers each arranged to receive waves from the passenger compartment generated or modified by the occupant, and a processor coupled to the transducer(s) for analyzing the waves and determining the location of the occupant's eyes relative to the passenger compartment based on the analysis of the received waves. The processor may include a trained pattern recognition algorithm which has been trained using data about known locations of the eyes of occupants in different positions and waves received from the passenger compartment when the occupants in the different positions are present. The location of the eyes of the occupant relative to the passenger compartment may be used to control one or more components, each of which has a variable or adjustable operation based on the location of the eyes of the occupant.
US07788000B1
The public highway system includes automated, elevated single lane throughways having wide and narrow gauge rail track arranged in various combinations. A control system regulates spacing of bimodal vehicles while maintaining a uniform speed for all vehicles on the system. The bimodal vehicles perform as conventional automobiles on conventional roadways and as fully automated safe high speed vehicles on elevated single lane, single speed, high-density electric rail guideways using static vertical switching accomplished by operation of variable gauge rail wheels on the vehicle to engage with or disengage from a wide gauge track portion wider than the bimodal vehicles. Vehicles enter/leave the mainline on the narrower gauge track. The wider gauge is for passing over off-ramps or in switching systems. A single lane can handle 15,800 veh/hr including mixed use such as mail, freight, mass transit in captive driverless vehicles with exclusive off-ramps to federal, commercial, industrial and public terminals.
US07787999B1
A method of displaying flight management system (FMS) data, and an avionics system configured to implement the method, are provided. The method includes the step of providing FMS route data. The method also includes the step of using the FMS route data to display an FMS intent strip which represents current maneuvering intent of the FMS.
US07787995B2
A system (400) and method for controlling an operation of an electrical power network (420) is described. The method includes configuring an allowable performance of an electrical power network over a predetermined time period as a probability expression comprising a historical term and a future term having an electrical power network operating condition variable. The method also includes calculating a network performance target value (300) according to the probability expression by using a historical electrical power network operating condition value for the electrical power network operating condition variable. The method further includes using the performance target value for controlling the electrical power network effective to achieve the allowable performance. The system includes a database (406), a processor (404) coupled to the database, and a monitoring and control module (410) coupled to the processor.
US07787992B2
A method to generate technical information about a device or process by recognizing the identity of a device or process, retrieving a stored image dependent on the device, combining the stored virtual image together with an image of a real device object, displaying the combination on a display and providing a virtual control HMI means to the user for monitoring and/or controlling the device or process. A graphical user interface, computer program and a system are also described.
US07787988B2
The present invention provides for a vending system wherein a monitoring system verifies that a product ordered by a vending customer is actually delivered through a delivery area to the customer. If the product ordered is unavailable either because of an out of stock situation or a blockage of the deliver path for that product, the present invention allows the customer to request a refund or order a second product. Additionally, the present invention helps to prevent theft of product from the vending system.
US07787986B2
The present invention provides a random access and random load dispensing unit including a housing, at least one support located in the housing and defining a first axis, a plurality of platforms movable along the support along the first axis, a plurality of bins supported on the platforms, the bins being movable with the platforms, and a shuttle assembly movable along the first axis and further movable along a second axis substantially perpendicular to the first axis between the plurality of platforms to access and retrieve products stored in the bins.
US07787983B2
In a method for sequentially programming an injection molding cycle of an injection molding machine comprising one or several injection molds, the injection molding cycle is started manually step by step. The parts of the injection molding machine and/or the parts of the injection mold(s) are manually displaced into the positions or states required for the injection molding cycle in the order required for the injection molding cycle. The movement sequence (the actions and the obtained states) of the machine parts and/or the mold parts is stored in a controller.
US07787982B2
The object is to aim at the reduction in the influence of noises in an output of an AE sensor in a working machine. In a working system comprising a working device for working a work W by causing a tool 14 to come into contact work W, an AE sensor 21, and an AE signal processing section 22 for processing an AE signal output from the AE sensor, AE signal processing section 22 comprises an A/D converter 33 for converting an AE signal into a digital signal, a frequency analysis section 34 for calculating the frequency characteristics of a digital AE signal, storage sections 35, 37 for storing the frequency characteristics when the tool is not in contact with the work or tool dresser as non-contact frequency characteristics, and a difference calculation section 35 for calculating a difference between the frequency characteristics of the detected digital AE signal and the non-contact frequency characteristics.
US07787974B2
Systems and methods for recording multiple channels of incoming data. A system and method can receive data streams from a number of sources and distribute the data streams to a number of users. The plurality of data streams are stored in a storage device for later redistribution.
US07787971B2
In a user interface to select a desired rotor from a set of rotors corresponding to compatible rotors for use in a centrifuge device, a home menu is utilized to access a previously selected rotor and an add menu is utilized to add the desired rotor in response to the desired rotor being absent from the home menu. In addition, the add menu includes the set of rotors.
US07787966B2
A control device for operating a machine has a control unit with at least one actuating unit to which actuators and sensors are connected for operating the machine. The control unit has a bus line for transmitting control commands from an operating part to the actuating device. A plug connection between the operating part and the control unit is provided. A monitoring unit monitors an operating signal of the operating part. The monitoring unit triggers a safety function when the operating signal that is a heartbeat of the operating part is absent. Operating states of the operating part are monitored by the monitoring unit. An output signal of the monitoring unit is evaluated in that, when the operating part is switched on, the heartbeat is processed and, when the operating part is switched off, the absence of the heartbeat is ignored.
US07787947B2
A medical device identifies a hemodynamically unstable arrhythmia based upon optical hemodynamic sensor signals. The optical hemodynamic sensor includes a light source for transmitting light corresponding to first and second wavelengths through a blood perfused tissue of a patient and a light detector for generating optical signals corresponding to an intensity of the detected light at the first and second wavelengths. At a low motion period for the patient, optical signals are obtained from the optical hemodynamic sensor and are analyzed to determine a baseline motion level for the patient. Subsequent signals obtained from the optical hemodynamic sensor are compared to the baseline motion levels, with only those signals corresponding to periods where motion does not exceed the baseline level of motion being further analyzed to determine if they are consistent with a hemodynamically unstable arrhythmia.
US07787939B2
The present invention is drawn toward miniaturized imaging devices. In one embodiment, the device can include a utility guide having at least one aperture configured for supporting utilities, and an SSID carried by the utility guide. The SSID can include an imaging array on a top surface, and a conductive element on a side surface, wherein the imaging array is electrically coupled to the conductive element. Further, a lens can be optically coupled to the imaging array, and an umbilical, including a conductive line, can be carried by the at least one aperture. The conductive line can be electrically coupled to the conductive element on the side surface of the SSID. Alternatively, the device can include an SSID having, as an integral structure, an imaging array electrically coupled to a conductive pad, wherein the SSID further includes at least one utility aperture passing therethrough. Further, a lens can be optically coupled to the imaging array, and an umbilical, including a conductive line carried by the at least one aperture, can be configured such that the conductive line is directly electrically coupled to the conductive pad.
US07787931B2
Surgical implements used during an operating procedure are detected in human or animal tissue. Markers attached to the surgical implements change their impedance at a preselected frequency in the presence of an electromagnetic field. Each of the markers is thereby provided with signal-identifying characteristics. The signal-identifying characteristics are detected by a freely movable, portable detection unit from a first location proximate the patient in an accurate, reliable manner. Potential cross-interference with operating room electronic instrumentation is minimized by shielding. System cost and space requirements are substantially lowered. An accidentally retained surgical implement is discovered in a timely manner, prior to completion of surgery and before the patient has been removed from the operating room. The portable detection unit is adapted to be transported to a second location from which the potential cross-interference between the electrical or magnetic fields generated during operation of the detector and the electronics deployed during the surgery is minimized. The patient is interrogated after closure of the wound by being subjected to an interrogating field generated by the surgical implement detector at the second location. Visible and/or audible signals from the detector signify accidental retention of a surgical implement before the patient awakes.
US07787921B2
A field device in an industrial process control system having an electrically grounded housing with an electrical circuit located within the housing is described. The electrical circuit includes wireless communication circuitry and is electrically isolated from the housing. The field device also includes an antenna that is attached to the housing and a cable having a shield positioned between the wireless communication circuitry and the antenna. The cable provides electrical communication between the electrical circuit and the antenna. The electrical circuit is electrically isolated from the housing, and the shield of the cable is electrically grounded to the housing.
US07787920B2
The present invention relates to a portable communication device arrangement comprising a main unit and an auxiliary unit. The main unit includes an electrical interface to an auxiliary unit, a ground plane dimensioned for antenna operation at a multiple of a quarter of a wavelength of a desired frequency, and a radio communication unit connected to the ground plane and to the electrical interface. The auxiliary unit comprises at least one electrical conductor to be connected to the electrical interface and including a first radio frequency trap, where the distance between the first radio frequency trap and an end of the conductor that is to be connected to the electrical interface corresponds to an odd multiple of a quarter of a wavelength of the desired frequency. The invention provides a good antenna through reuse of elements already provided in relation to a portable communication device.
US07787907B2
A method for accessing data files with an in-vehicle control system from a remote source over a communication link. The communication link is established between an in-vehicle control system and the remote source. The method includes: establishing the communication link between the in-vehicle control system and the remote source to facilitate retrieving the data files from the remote source to the in-vehicle control system; retrieving at least one of the data files from the remote source over the communication link, wherein each of the data files may include text and numeric data; identifying the text and numeric data of each of the data files; generating a phonemic representation of the text and numeric data of the data files; and storing the data file retrieved from a remote source in a memory device.
US07787904B2
A system and method are provided for controlling content played by a number of media devices. In general, the system includes a mobile device and the number of media devices. The mobile device includes a wireless communication interface for communicating with the media devices, a media database, and a control system including a media client. When the mobile device enters a Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) associated with a media device, the media client obtains information describing the content residing at the media device and stores the information in the media database at the mobile device. Thereafter, when the mobile device is within the WPAN associated with the media device, the media database is used to select content to be played at the media device.
US07787901B2
A wireless access point and multiple wireless terminals exchange utilization, status, mobility and reception characteristics. Each wireless terminal generates reception characteristics based on transmissions received from the wireless access point and from other devices in the network. In one operating mode, the characteristics gathered by the wireless devices are forwarded to the wireless access point, and, based on all received characteristics, the wireless access point selects its own transmission power for different types of the transmission. In another mode, all characteristics are exchanged between every wireless terminal and the access point so that each can independently or cooperatively make transmission power control decisions. In a further mode, the wireless access point adjusts protocol parameters based on an assessment of the characteristics received from the client devices. The utilization, status, mobility, and reception characteristics include received signal strength, error rates, estimated battery life, availability of unlimited power, active versus sleep mode ratios, anticipated bandwidth utilization, coding schemes available, deterministic/non-deterministic requirements, encryption and security requirements, quality of service requirements, position, velocity, stationary status, etc. Gathering of such characteristics involves both retrieval of preset parameters from memory and generating parameters based on received transmissions (including test packets).
US07787899B1
Methods and systems are provided for dynamic adjustment of the pilot-channel, paging-channel, and sync-channel transmission-power levels based on forward-link and reverse-link RF conditions. In an exemplary embodiment, a base station provides service on a carrier in a wireless coverage area, and computes both an Ec/Ior value and a reverse noise rise (RNR) value for the carrier. Based at least in part on the Ec/Ior value and at least in part on the RNR value, the base station adjusts at least one of a pilot-channel power level, a paging-channel power level, and a sync-channel power level for the carrier. As an example, if (a) Ec/Ior is above a first threshold and (b) RNR is below a second threshold, the base station may increase all three of the power levels, so as to improve service quality and coverage, among other advantages.
US07787897B2
A method is disclosed for optimizing up-link transmit powers of a wireless broadband terminal operating in a predetermined frequency band in a multi-carrier system, the method comprising assigning a transmit signal to one or more sub-carriers of predetermined frequencies, and capping the output powers of the transmit signal to a predetermined level based on the predetermined frequencies, wherein the output power of the transmit signal is lower if frequencies of the transmit signal have less guard band to the edge of the predetermined frequency band.
US07787881B2
The present invention provides a mobile communication system, a radio network controller (RNC), and a neighbor cell list filtering method which can control the selection of a frequency to be used at the hard handover performed in a network environment using a plurality of frequency bands and frequencies to reduce the number of activation of the compressed mode operation as much as possible. The RNC produces a filtered neighbor cell list by using information contained in the UE capability indication reported by the user equipment and the use priority data on frequencies designated by the network operator, and neighbor cell information only suitable for the handover is left in the neighbor cell list and notified to the user equipment.
US07787880B2
The present invention provides a mobile communication system, a radio network controller (RNC), and a neighbor cell list filtering method which can control the selection of a frequency to be used at the hard handover performed in a network environment using a plurality of frequency bands and frequencies to reduce the number of activation of the compressed mode operation as much as possible. The RNC produces a filtered neighbor cell list by using information contained in the UE capability indication reported by the user equipment and the use priority data on frequencies designated by the network operator, and neighbor cell information only suitable for the handover is left in the neighbor cell list and notified to the user equipment.
US07787878B2
A method and system is disclosed for enabling number portability in a communication session between a caller and a callee in an IMS network. When a caller or callee changes her subscription from a first network to a second network, mechanisms are implemented to have the number portability information provided so that the moved caller or callee can still engage in communication sessions using her original public identification number.
US07787875B2
A method is provided of transmitting information from a mobile terminal in a wireless telecommunications network. The method involves sending a radio signal from a first base station to a second base station. The mobile terminal modulates the radio signal so as to include the information into the radio signal. The second base station receives the radio signal and decodes the information.
US07787863B2
The disclosure provides a wireless agent for a mobile device. In one embodiment, the example wireless agent is operable to dynamically determine an access point for wireless communications from a mobile device through a network. The wireless agent is further operable to automatically select one of a plurality of security profiles associated with a mobile device based, at least in part, on the determined access point, with each security profile including a plurality of security parameters for accessing at least one wireless network. The wireless agent then modifies at least one of plurality of network configuration options of the mobile device based on the selected security profile and automatically attempts to communicably connect the mobile device to the access point using the network configuration options.
US07787862B2
The invention is directed to a method for video object monitoring with a mobile communication system, whereby a connection between a transmitter provided with a video camera and at least one receiver is established for transmitting video data over the mobile communication system.To ensure that the video data transmitted by the transmitter can only be received by authorized receivers, the invention provides that before or while the connection is set up, a device of the mobile communication system checks, if the receiver is authorized to receive video data from the transmitter.
US07787855B2
A method in a wireless communications network including receiving (310) a network connection request from a subscriber device having an invalid subscriber identity, connecting (340) the subscriber device, from which the network connection request was received, to the wireless communications network for limited purposes only upon determining (320) that the subscriber device has in invalid subscriber identity in the absence of a limited network connection indicator in the network connection request. In some embodiments, a limited attach message indicates that the attach request is for limited purposes.
US07787853B2
A method is for reducing a DC component of an input signal transposed into baseband and being generated by a first frequency transposition stage starting from an initial signal and from a transposition signal. The method includes amplifying the transposed input signal in a first amplifier. The first amplifier receives at a DC offset compensation input, a compensation signal extracted from an output signal of a second amplifier subjected to a compensation of a offset DC voltage of the second amplifier. The method also included alternating between receiving at an input of the second amplifier, a first auxiliary signal from an auto-transposition of a transposition signal in a second frequency transposition stage and a second auxiliary signal from a transposition of the initial signal in the second frequency transposition stage with the transposition signal.
US07787849B2
An integrated circuit (IC) includes an RF receiver having an AGC module that generates an automatic gain control (AGC) signal based on a strength of a received signal, and a low noise amplifier that amplifies the received signal based on the AGC signal. A processing module generates a power mode signal based on the AGC signal, the power mode signal for adjusting a power consumption parameter of the IC based on the power mode signal.
US07787848B2
A gain control method which includes setting a first initial gain value to a first variable gain amplifier; measuring a first power value corresponding to incoming signals; measuring a second power value corresponding to a target signal; and resetting the first initial gain value according to the first power value and the second power value. Another gain control method is also disclosed, which includes updating a gain value of a first variable gain amplifier by combining an adjustment value with the gain value according to a first tuning direction; obtaining a signal quality indicator; comparing the signal quality indicator with a reference signal quality indicator to generate a comparison result; and referring to the comparison result, further updating the gain value according to the first tuning direction or a second tuning direction opposite to the first tuning direction.
US07787828B2
Radio communication system includes radio transmitter containing unit dividing transmission data into first-code blocks each having N-bit data, unit adding error detection codes to first-code blocks, unit assigning first-code blocks to second-code blocks each including M carriers each having L symbols, and unit transmitting second-code blocks, and radio receiver containing unit receiving second-code blocks, unit converting second-code blocks into first-code blocks, based on values of M and L, unit subjecting first-coded blocks to error correction decoding, unit detecting error of code block of first-code blocks subjected to error correction decoding, unit generating retransmission-request signal for requesting retransmission of code block including error, if error is detected, and unit transmitting retransmission-request signal.
US07787823B2
A radio-over-fiber (RoF) optical fiber cable system with transponder diversity for a RoF wireless picocellular system that includes at least one optical fiber cable. The at least one optical fiber cable supports one or more groups of two or more transponders, wherein the transponders in a given group are arranged to form substantially co-located picocells. The transponders in each transponder group may also have one of two orthogonal antenna polarizations. A diversity combiner optically coupled to each transponder determines respective signal strengths from each transponder in each transponder group. The transponder with the greatest signal strength in a given transponder group is selected to form the picocell for the given group. This allows for the optical fiber cable system to adjust to changes in the signal strength of each picocell, such as caused by a transponder obstruction or failure.
US07787811B2
A continuous intermediate image carrier for an electrophotographic printer or copier has an electrical conductivity in a thickness direction between two opposite measurement points which is smaller than between two laterally-offset measurement points on opposite sides of the intermediate image carrier.
US07787808B2
A developing device is provided having a simple configuration by which a desired amount of developer can be delivered to an image bearing member, and there is provided an image forming apparatus having the developing device. A developing device includes a developing roller by which two-component developer is borne and delivered to a photoreceptor drum, a layer thickness-regulating member for regulating a layer thickness of the developer, and a magnetism-generating member for generating magnetism, and a control unit for controlling an amount of displacement of the magnetism-generating member. The control unit 23 controls an amount of displacement of the magnetism-generating member relative to the development sleeve.
US07787807B2
A developing unit includes a development roller and a magnetic roller. Sleeves of the development roller and the magnetic roller are driven to rotate in the same circumferential direction. A first magnet is provided on the roller shaft in the sleeve of the development roller and a second magnet is provided on the roller shaft in the sleeve of the magnetic roller. The first and second magnets are opposed to each other so that opposite polarities face each other, and are supported non-rotatably in circumferential directions. The first magnet is supported so that the peak of the magnetic force of the first magnet is positioned upstream in the direction of rotation of the sleeve of the development roller from the straight line connecting the center of the roller shaft of the development roller to the center of the roller shaft of the magnetic roller.
US07787806B2
An image forming device has: a developing cartridge for developing an electrostatic latent image on an image carrying member and a toner cartridge. The developing cartridge contains a developing roller and a single auger. The toner cartridge is detachably attached to the developing cartridge and containing toner. The toner cartridge has an agitation mechanism that agitates the toner, a conveyance mechanism that conveys the toner to the agitation mechanism, and two ports, the two ports being aligned in the axial direction and communicated with the developing cartridge, respectively. The toner cartridge and the developing cartridge are arrayed side by side in a horizontal direction. The toner cartridge has a shape having a vertical cross section in which a horizontal length is greater than a vertical length.
US07787805B2
An image forming apparatus includes a detaching and pressing mechanism for releasing developing rollers of developer cartridges mounted in a drum unit from photosensitive drums and pressing the developing rollers on the photosensitive drums. The detaching and pressing mechanism includes a pair of translation cam members, intermediate members provided on the translation cam members, cam holders for holding the translation cam members in such a manner as to be linearly movable in an anteroposterior direction, and a synchronous movement mechanism for allowing the pair of translation cam members to linearly move in synchronization.
US07787803B2
An image forming apparatus includes a developing unit to form an image using a developing agent on one side of a printing medium transported along a simplex printing path, a fixing unit to fix the developing agent on the printing medium, a discharging roller to discharge the printing medium that passes the fixing unit, and a first driving source to drive the developing unit, the fixing unit and the discharging roller.
US07787801B2
An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus cabinet having a bottom face opposed to a floor surface and a front face for operating the apparatus, a plurality of foot members disposed on the bottom face for supporting the apparatus on the floor surface in a movable manner, and a shield member for shielding a gap formed between the bottom face and the floor surface at least at the side of the front face of the apparatus.
US07787795B2
An angle adjustment device includes a main body, an operation panel supported for up-down rotation with respect to the main body, a block mechanism to block rotation of the operation panel with respect to the main body, a release-hold mechanism to release the rotation of the operation panel by the block mechanism and also to hold a released state, and a recovery mechanism to return from a state in which a blocked operation of the operation panel by means of the block mechanism is released to a state in which a rotation of the operation panel is blocked by means of the block mechanism.
US07787794B2
A setting angle adjusting device, includes a first input part configured to input an instruction for changing a setting angle of an operations panel in a first direction; a second input part configured to input an instruction for changing the setting angle of the operations panel in a second direction different from the first direction; a rotation part configured to change the setting angle of the operations panel; and a driving part configured to rotate the rotation part in a designated direction as corresponding to either the first input part or the second input part.
US07787791B2
The present invention relates to printers and media fixing mechanisms such as fusers and management of fuser performance. An article, device, method, and system are provided in which the time to the fuser nip of a sheet of media may be calculated and may be compared to the fuser ramp time. When the fuser ramp time exceeds the time for the sheet of media to reach the fuser nip, the fuser may be turned on.
US07787781B2
The present invention is to provide an optical receiver that prohibits the miss-detection of the recovery from the LOS (Loss-Of-Signal) state. The optical receiver includes an light-receiver device for converting an optical input signal to a photo-current, a pre-amplifier for converting this photo-current into a voltage signal, and a LOS detector to detect the LOS state based on the output from the pre-amplifier. The LOS detector includes a bottom hold that detects and keeps the bottom level of the output from the pre-amplifier and the comparator that sets the output thereof when the output from the bottom hold exceeds the threshold VTH(−).
US07787777B2
An optical packet network system of a ring type, capable of preventing degradation of an optical signal, can be implemented by providing a mechanism relatively simple in structure, capable of erasing light noise if the optical packet signal does not exists. In the optical packet network system made up by interconnecting respective nodes adjacent to each other, and connecting a sending source of an optical packet signal to a ring, a light noise removal function block is provided between the respective nodes adjacent to each other.
US07787775B2
A chromatic dispersion compensation system for an optical transmission system incorporates circuitry which determines the length of an optical fiber extending between an output amplifier and an input amplifier. Based on fiber type, the total chromatic dispersion on the fiber is determined. Compensation can then be automatically implemented.
US07787774B2
An optical transceiver module, having the ability to authenticate itself to a host is disclosed. The transceiver comprises a receive signal line for transferring data from the transceiver to the host and a transmit signal line for transferring data from the host to the transceiver in preparation for transmission to a communications network. The transceiver includes a controller having a processor in communication with the host, and a first memory register assignable by the processor. A consolidated laser driver/post amplifier is also included and features a pattern generator and a data switch. The pattern generator produces a string of bit values that serve as an authenticating data portion. The data switch selectively inputs the authenticating data portion to the receive signal line of the transceiver according to the state of the first memory register, enabling the authenticating data portion to be received by the host, thereby authenticating the transceiver.
US07787772B2
By using wavelength division multiplexing technologies, redundant star topology network is constructed on a ring-shaped optical fiber network. Edge-switches 5a, 5b, 5c, and 5d are connected to client station groups 6a, 6b, 6c, and 6d are connected, respectively. The edge-switches 5a, 5b, 5c, and 5d are connected to edge optical transport device 2a, 2b, 2c, and 2d. Core-switches 4a and 4b are connected to a core optical transport device 1. The edge optical transport device 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, and the core optical transport device 1 are connected to a ring-shaped single optical fiber 3. A communication circuit 7 is formed among core optical transport device 1, edge optical transport devices 2a, 2b, 2c, and 2d, by using wavelength division multiplexing technologies.
US07787770B2
A method is provided for co-modelling and analyzing a packet network operating over an optical network. The method includes co-modelling the packet network and the optical network by generating a basic packet capacity based on a simulated packet network comprising packet network topology information and packet traffic information and generating a basic optical capacity based on a simulated packet transport network comprising optical network topology information and the basic packet capacity. The output of the co-modelled network is then used to perform analysis on the simulated packet transport network. For example, embodiments of the present invention provide methods of survivability analysis for providing packet link is protection in either the packet network or the optical network of the simulated packet transport network.
US07787753B2
In the a data structure, a subtitle area of the recording medium stores a text subtitle stream including text subtitle data and at least one of global style information and local style information. The global style information provides at least one of composition information and rendering information, and the local style information provides font information for at least a portion of the text subtitle data.
US07787752B2
The present invention is intended to control the reproduction, duplication, or charging of content recorded to a recording/reproducing apparatus using a storage-type medium. Storage control information includes data for controlling content recorded to a storage-type medium such as a hard disk drive. For example, if “0x01” is written to the first byte of this data and “0xMM” to the second byte, the content will be deleted when it has been reproduced MM times. If “0x22” is written to the first byte and “0xNN” to the third byte, the content will be deleted after the passing of NN days. If restrictions are set to both the reproduction count and the passing days, different pieces of storage control information are attached to the content; for example, content is deleted in accordance with the number of times the content is copied to another medium and charge discount setting is performed on the number of times the content is reproduced.
US07787748B2
A head position estimator estimates the present position of a head relative to a recording medium, an LBA calculator for calculating positions of a data block to be read next and other data blocks existing before and after the data block, and a moving destination determiner for determining a data block at which the time required to move the head is the shortest, as a data block to be read next, on the basis of the present position of the head, which has been estimated by the head position estimator, and the positions of the respective data blocks, which have been calculated by the LBA calculator.
US07787747B2
A playback apparatus for playing back a moving image at a speed higher than a normal speed of the moving image on the basis of moving image data for displaying the moving image, the moving image data being coded by setting a predetermined number of images as a unit, is provided. The playback apparatus includes a storage section temporarily storing the obtained moving image data; a decoding section decoding the moving image data read from the storage section; a detection section detecting transfer rates; a storage control section controlling the storage of a number of the units; a selection section selecting one of the combinations from among the combinations indicated by the stored combination information in a predetermined procedure; an obtainment control section controlling the obtainment of the image data.
US07787741B2
A storage management system selectively reduces a quality level of previously stored content. When storage in the system is becoming full, selected content is converted to a lower quality or lower storage size, based at least one of priority or age. Such conversion is performed in a computing background to minimize interference with programs being currently viewed. A user interface provides a list of programs that are candidates for conversion. The user selects programs to be converted or deleted to create additional storage for the new programs.
US07787737B2
A fiber optic dust cap assembly for protecting fiber optic components is provided. The protected fiber optic components may include fiber optic adapters and fiber optic connectors. The fiber optic dust cap assembly includes a plurality of dust caps each coupled to a lanyard. Each of the plurality of dust caps is configured for insertion into a fiber optic component. The lanyard is configured to facilitate management of the dust caps. The lanyard is also configured to facilitate removal of the dust caps from the fiber optic components. Each of the dust caps among the plurality of dust caps may be removed by pulling on the lanyard. The lanyard may also facilitate removal of each of the plurality of dust caps in one pulling action. Additionally, by the plurality of dust caps being connected to the lanyard, the plurality of dust caps coupled to the lanyard remain together after removal.
US07787735B2
There is disclosed a waveguide structure that propagates surface plasmon waves, comprising: a quantum well structure, disposed on a semiconductor substrate; wherein the quantum well structure has a quantum well layer, in turn having an intersecting region that intersects a hypothetical plane substantially orthogonal to an alignment direction of the quantum well structure with respect to the semiconductor substrate, and a real part of a dielectric constant of the quantum well structure is negative for THz waves of a predetermined wavelength.
US07787730B2
An optical fiber and a broadband light source that can generate SC light having a broader bandwidth. A broadband light source 1 is equipped with a seed light source 11 and an optical fiber 12. The seed light source 11 outputs light having a central wavelength in the wavelength range of 1500 nm to 1650 nm. The optical fiber 12 outputs supercontinuum light a result of input of the light output from the seed light source. The optical fiber 12, which has a zero dispersion wavelength in the wavelength range of 1300 nm to 1500 nm and an effective area of 12 μm2 or less at the central wavelength, outputs supercontinuum light having a wavelength bandwidth expanded to 1000 nm or more.
US07787729B2
Various embodiments include large cores fibers that can propagate few modes or a single mode while introducing loss to higher order modes. Some of these fibers are holey fibers that comprising cladding features such as air-holes. Additional embodiments described herein include holey rods. The rods and fibers may be used in many optical systems including optical amplification systems, lasers, short pulse generators, Q-switched lasers, etc. and may be used for example for micromachining.
US07787726B2
A blanket or article of wearing apparel for a subject such as an infant. A fiber optic temperature sensing element is integrated into the fabric by a process such as weaving. The temperature sensing element is a optic fiber having inscribed therein one or more fiber Bragg grating sensors such that a light is introduced into the optic fiber and that light directed onto the subject at a grating interface. A return light signal is received, either by a reflectance mode or a transmission mode, where the return light signal has a wavelength shift indicative of the temperature of the subject by Bragg resonant effect. Higher temperature sensitivity is obtained with a metal material of a high thermal expansion coefficient that is coated around the fiber sensor cladding.
US07787722B2
A Passive Optical Network (PON) comprises at least a first sub-network (16) with a first Optical Line Terminal (4) and a first set of Optical Network Units (8, 12), a second sub-network (18) with a second Optical Line Terminal (6) and a second set of Optical Network Units (8) interconnected to a same splitter (14). In downlink direction from Optical Line Terminals to Optical Network Units, each sub-network uses a different wavelength (λ1, λ2) and in uplink direction all ONUs (8, 10, 12) are able to access all Optical Line Terminals through an uplink TDMA access by using one single wavelength (λ3).The dynamic transmission resources allocation units of all Optical Line Terminals have the same process and coordination of the uplink TDMA access is carried out by sending (112) from a determined master Optical Network Unit to the other Optical Line Terminals different from its associated Optical Line Terminal an echoed synchronization message containing synchronization information related to its corresponding Optical Line Terminal referred as master Optical Line Terminal.
US07787720B2
An optical coupling device including: at least a first input port for delivering an optical input signal beam that includes a plurality of wavelength channels; at least a first optical output port for receiving an optical output signal beam; a wavelength dispersion element for spatially separating the plurality of wavelength channels in the optical input signal beam to form a plurality of spatially separated wavelength channel beams; an optical coupling device for independently modifying the phase of each of the spatially separated wavelength channel beams such that, for at least one wavelength channel beam, a selected fraction of the light is coupled to the first output port and a fraction of the light is coupled away from the first output port.
US07787716B2
The present invention provides a polarization mode dispersion compensator comprising: a compensating portion which includes a first polarization controller which performs polarization conversion on light propagating along an optical transmission line and a DGD (Differential Group Delay) emulator which adds a DGD to the light which is polarization-converted by said first polarization controller, said compensating portion being for compensating polarization mode dispersion which occurs in the light while the light propagates along the optical transmission line; a second polarization controller for performing polarization conversion on the light, of which the polarization mode dispersion is compensated, so that a state of polarization of the light can be one linear polarization; a polarization beam splitting portion for splitting the light, which is polarization-converted by said second polarization controller, into the one linear polarization and an other linear polarization which is orthogonal to the one linear polarization; an optical-intensity measuring portion for measuring intensity of the other linear polarization; and a controlling portion for controlling said compensating portion and said second polarization controller so that the intensity of the other linear polarization measured by said optical-intensity measuring portion becomes minimized.
US07787708B2
Systems and methods are provided for rendering symbols with text. In one implementation, the method may comprise selecting a symbol from a repository, selecting text to be combined with symbol, and combining the text with the symbol. To combine the text with the symbol, the method may further comprise combining the text with the symbol according to at least one of inserting text within an defined text box in the symbol, and automatically determining a text box within the symbol to insert the text.
US07787707B2
Image-processing device for ROP is disclosed. Upon receiving a ROP command, the image-processing device determines whether the size of the brush data is required to be modified through a size modifying operation, based on the printing resolution of the printing device. If the size modifying operation is necessary, the image-processing device performs a process to enlarge or reduce the brush data, depending on the printing resolution. The image-processing device converts the ROP code associated with the operational expression using brush data to a combination of ROP codes associated with operational expressions using the source bitmap, but not brush data. The image-processing device controls a ROP processor to perform the ROP processes corresponding to these ROP codes using the enlarged or reduced brush data as the source bitmap in order to implement a ROP process equivalent to the ROP code inputted with the ROP command.
US07787706B2
In an interactive display table that uses infrared (IR) light to detect an object on an interactive display surface, IR light sources within the table are controlled in response to the level of ambient IR light passing through the interactive display surface. Light from the IR light sources that is reflected the regions disposed inside the table and peripherally around the interactive display surface is captured in an image that also includes the ambient IR light passing through the interactive display surface. A signal corresponding to the image is processed, so that the relative levels of the IR light can be compared. The IR light sources are then controlled so that the level of IR light reflected from the regions exceeds the level of ambient IR light by at least a predefined amount.
US07787693B2
A mobile communications device with an integrated camera is directed towards text. A video stream is analyzed in real time to detect one or more words in a specified region of the video frames and to indicate the detected words on a display. Users can select a word in a video stream and subsequently move or extend the initial selection. It is thus possible to select multiple words. A subregion of the video frame comprising the detected word(s) is pre-processed and compressed before being sent to a remote optical character recognition (OCR) function which may be integrated in an online service such as an online search service.
US07787687B2
A pattern shape evaluation method includes acquiring design data accompanied by an evaluation area in which information on a particular evaluation area within a pattern of a semiconductor device is added to the design data for the pattern, acquiring an image of the pattern, generating edge data for the pattern from the image of the pattern, aligning the design data accompanied by the evaluation area with the edge data and evaluating the shape of the pattern within the evaluation area after the alignment.
US07787683B2
A system and method for tree structure based two-dimensional to three-dimensional registration are provided for receiving three-dimensional (3D) data indicative of vessels, segmenting the 3D data with a vessel tree, simulating two-dimensional (2D) data responsive to the segmented 3D data to form a simulated 2D image, receiving 2D data indicative of vessels, segmenting the received 2D data with a vessel tree, finding a distance transform of the segmented 2D data to form a 2D distance map image, considering a set of poses as state vectors with the corresponding probability computed using the similarity measure computation, re-sampling the pose vector to find a set of most probable poses and considering them as hypothesized poses, recomputing the projection and re-evaluating the probability of the hypothesized poses and updating the state vector until the optimal pose is found.
US07787673B2
Disclosed is a method and system for detecting a structure (e.g., an airway) within an image. The method and system generate a segmented image from the original (reconstructed) image. The method and system then iteratively apply three dimensional morphological operators of varying sizes to the image to obtain a resulting image. The method and system obtain a candidate mask, apply the candidate mask to the resulting image to generate a masked resulting image, and update the segmented image using the masked resulting image to detect the structure. In one embodiment, the segmented image is generated from region growing. Also disclosed is a method to determine different regions of interest within a given segmented image based on computed projections and boundary lines of the segmented image.
US07787668B2
The present invention relates to a fingerprint image capture process control method and the apparatus thereof particularly to a method for capturing and mapping fingerprint images and the apparatus for the same. The present invention determines the proper direction of mosaicing the slices to get correct fingerprint image by comparing the leading and trailing image blocks of two adjacent slices (frames) and uses the direction that is more affinitive as forward capture direction after the comparison. In addition, the identification of image direction may be processed repeatedly while mosaicing the slices, and calibrating the capture direction at any time while mosaicing the slices is allowed, thereby the error rate in mosaicing the slices is reduced and the efficiency of capturing and mapping fingerprint images is increased.
US07787663B2
A system and method for detecting a thermal anomaly in humans and/or livestock. In one embodiment, the system includes an image capturing component that captures a visual image of incident light in a screening area, the image capturing component further operable to determine a first coordinate in the captured image, such as the location of a person's eyes. The system further includes a radiation capturing component operable to capture a thermal image of incident radiation in the screening area, the radiation capturing component further operable to determine an analysis area in the captured thermal image based upon the first coordinate in the captured light image. Finally, the system includes a processing component for determining thermal characteristics about the analysis area. As a result, if the thermal characteristics correspond to an alarm event, then an alarm may be triggered and the person or animal may be isolated for further health screening.
US07787662B2
An information processing apparatus includes acquiring means for acquiring setting information arbitrarily set by a user and stored in another apparatus, display controlling means for controlling display of the acquired setting information on a screen, authenticating means for, when the setting information displayed on the screen is indicated to be valid by an operation performed by the user, authenticating whether or not the user is valid, and processing means for, when the user has been authenticated to be valid, executing predetermined processing operated by the user.
US07787631B2
A binaural cue coding scheme in which cue codes are derived from the transmitted audio signal. In one embodiment, an encoder downmixes C input channels to generate E transmitted channels, where C>E>1. A decoder derives cue codes from the transmitted channels and uses those cue codes to synthesize playback channels. For example, in one 5-to-2 BCC embodiment, the encoder downmixes a 5-channel surround signal to generate left and right channels of a stereo signal. The decoder derives stereo cues from the transmitted stereo signal, maps those stereo cues to surround cues, and applies the surround cues to the transmitted stereo channels to generate playback channels of a 5-channel synthesized surround signal.
US07787624B2
A method inserts synchronization markers into a standardized stream of compressed and ciphered data, wherein at least one part of the compressed data stream is ciphered bit by bit, by block cipher, and wherein a synchronization marker is only inserted into the compressed data stream after the number of ciphered bits has reached or exceeded the number of bits of the cipher block.
US07787617B2
An exemplary communication terminal includes a main body, a cover, and a keypad. The main body has a triggering area and a microphone boot near the triggering area. The cover defines an opening and a sound inlet near the opening. The keypad contacts the triggering area and is exposed from the opening. The keypad is integrated with a rib extending from an extremity thereof, along with a sealing gasket formed at a distal end of the rib. The sealing gasket abuts the cover and defines a through hole therein aligned with the sound inlet to form a sound passage towards the microphone boot. The microphone boot is extended into the through hole of the sealing gasket.
US07787599B2
A method and system of an embodiment may include designing two or more test cases for a network, creating one or more test records comprising data and configuration data for the two or more test cases, provisioning a user record on the network, running a first test case using the user record provisioned on the network, the first test case comprising, transmitting at least a first portion of the data to a network element being tested, and receiving a response from the network element based at least in part on the configuration data for the first test case contained in the data transmitted, running a second test case using the user record provisioned on the network, the second test case comprising, transmitting at least a second portion of the data to a network element being tested, and receiving a response from a network element based at least in part on configuration data for the second test case contained in the data transmitted.
US07787595B2
An electron source has an electron emitter, an anode, a voltage source connected between the electron emitter and the anode, as well as a switch connected with the electron emitter. The switch is fashioned as a optoelectronic switching element.
US07787580B2
Method and systems for aligning a clock at a second device based on a reference clock at a first device and reducing clock rate jitter between asynchronous devices in a network are disclosed. A transmission latency may be determined between the first device and the second device. A data packed may be received containing information pertaining to the reference clock at the second device. The phase of the clock may then be adjusted at the second device based on the information contained in the packet and the transmission latency.
US07787574B2
The present invention provides a reception terminal apparatus that can receive signals in a stable state with a simple configuration and hence is highly suitable for mobile reception. The reception terminal apparatus includes an input section that selectively inputs a reception signal from reception signals of a plurality of types in different states of reception, a demodulation section that demodulates the reception signal input by the input section, an error detection section that detects errors in the stream data obtained by the demodulation section by demodulating the reception signal, and a control section that determines if the number of errors as detected by the error detection section exceeds a threshold value or not and controls the input section according to the outcome of determination, the reception signal to be input to the demodulation section by the input section being switched when the number of errors exceeds the threshold value.
US07787566B2
A power management system and method for a wireless communication device generates an average desired transmit power signal based on at least one of a received signal strength indicator signal and a power control instruction signal from a base station. A power supply level adjustment signal is generated based on the data parameters of an outgoing data stream and at least one environmental information signal. A combination of the power supply level adjustment signal and the average desired transmit power or a gain control signal and an altered version of the power supply level adjustment signal is used to generate a variable power supply signal that is provided to an output amplifier block for sufficiently generating outgoing wireless device radio signals while reducing power loss in the output amplifier block.
US07787559B2
A DTV transmitter includes a pre-processor expanding original enhanced data, a data formatter generating enhanced data packets including the expanded enhanced data and inserting known data place holders into the data packets, a multiplexer multiplexing the enhanced data packets with main data packets including main data, and an RS encoder adding systematic RS parity data to each main data packet and adding non-systematic RS parity data holders to each enhanced data packet. It further includes a data interleaver interleaving the RS-coded data packets, a known data generator generating know data symbols, a converter converting the interleaved data packet into symbols, and a symbol processor processing the converted symbols. The symbol processor removes symbols representing the null data, encodes symbols representing the original enhanced data at a rate of N/M, and replaces symbols representing the know data place holders with known data symbols.
US07787558B2
A method of synchronizing a receiver with a transmitter. The method includes determining number of bits, j, for adjusting a bit stream, where the bit stream is generated from n tones and is dividable into codewords having a codeword length of N bytes, and the number of bits for adjusting the bit stream is determined based upon n and N. The method includes detecting a loss of synchronization indication. In response to detection of the loss of synchronization indication, the method includes adjusting the bit stream by j bits. The method includes determining whether synchronization has been regained. When synchronization has not been regained, the method includes adjusting the bit stream again by j bits. When synchronization has been regained, the method includes terminating adjustment of the bit stream.
US07787556B2
A method for computing a factor matrix of an inversion of a matrix, wherein the method comprises the steps of: computing a factor matrix of an inversion of a sub-matrix of a matrix, and recursively obtaining the factor matrix of the inversion of the matrix by using the matrix and the computed factor matrix of the inversion of the sub-matrix of the matrix; and an apparatus for computing the factor matrix of the inversion of a matrix, which can reduce the computational complexity in the signal detection and matrix decomposition and can be implemented with hardware easily.
US07787555B2
Provided is a receiver of a multi-input multi-output system using multiple antennas, the receiver including: a first multiplying unit for multiplying a vector r received via the antenna by a Hermitian matrix Q; a candidate transmitting vector generating unit for detecting a signal on a lowest modulation order transmitting antenna from the received vector y output from the first multiplying unit, creating as many symbol candidates as the modulation order of the detected signal, and generating a candidate transmitting vector using each symbol candidate; a transmitting vector determining unit for obtaining a distance between each candidate transmitting vector generated by the candidate transmitting vector generating unit and the received vector y to determine a final transmitting vector; and a demodulating unit for demodulating the final transmitting vector determined by the transmitting vector determining unit. Since the receiver detects a transmitting vector with reference to a signal on a lowest modulation order transmitting antenna, the receiver can have a simpler structure.
US07787551B2
An improvement for a phasor fragmentation engine and method, whereby a phasor flipping algorithm is applied when determining fragment phasors for a non-constant envelope modulation signal (e.g. OFDM). The phasor flipping algorithm avoids sharp phase transitions for the fragment phasors, which cause an increase in bandwidth, by performing a comparison of the phasor angle separation between the prior and current time samples. This comparison corresponds to a determination of whether the modulation signal V has passed near or through zero. When it is determined that the calculated phases of Vα and Vβ would result in a larger angle of separation between the calculated phase of Vα (for phasor A) for the current time sample (N) and the phase of VA for the previous time sample (N−1) than the angle of separation between the calculated phase of Vα (for phasor B) for the current time sample (N) and the phase of VA for the previous time sample (N−1), the phase values for the phasor fragments Vα and Vβ are swapped so that the phase of VA is that of Vβ (i.e. VA=Vβ) and the phase of VB is that of Vα (i.e. VB=Vα).
US07787550B2
Combined frame alignment and timing recovery in digital subscriber line (DSL) communications systems
Timing recovery circuitry for a digital subscriber line (DSL) modem, including a combined frame and timing function for adjusting frame alignment, and for adjusting sample frequency for frequency offset and for phase offset. Frame alignment is adjusted by averaging estimates of the phase offset over multiple tones within a frame, and then averaging that average estimated phase offset over multiple frames to produce a frame offset measurement. Frequency offset is derived from the constant rate of phase error variation in the received signal varies over a sequence of frames, based on which the sample frequency of the modem is adjusted. Phase offset is determined by averaging the phase offset over a plurality of tones within a frame, and integrating differences in this phase offset from frame to frame.
US07787549B2
An impulsive noise suppresser and method thereof is provided. The impulsive noise suppresser includes an automatic gain control unit, variable gain amplification unit, impulsive detection unit and impulsive suppression unit. The automatic gain control unit determines a gain value according to a PAPR. The variable gain amplification unit amplifies a reception signal by the gain value. The gain value is determined such that the amplified reception signal as unaffected by the impulsive noise can have an amplitude range smaller than a predetermined range. The impulsive detection unit is coupled to the variable gain amplification unit for determining whether the amplified reception signal is larger than a maximum value of the predetermined range and outputting an impulsive alarm signal if the reception signal is larger than the maximum value. The impulsive suppression unit suppresses the impulsive noise as receiving the impulsive alarm signal, and then outputs an output signal.
US07787547B2
A hybrid transmitter includes first and second up-conversion modules, a combining module, and a power amplifier circuit. The first up-conversion module is operably coupled to generate a first up-conversion signal based on a normalized in-phase (I) symbol, an in-phase local oscillation, and phase or frequency information. The second up-conversion module is operably coupled to generate a second up-conversion signal based on a normalized quadrature (Q) symbol, a quadrature local oscillation, and the phase or frequency information. The combining module is operably coupled to combine the first and second up-conversion signals to produce a radio frequency (RF) signal. The power amplifier circuit is operably coupled to adjust amplitude of the RF signal based on amplitude information to produce an amplitude and phase modulated RF signal.
US07787542B2
Adjacent regions are identified in an image. Coding parameters for the adjacent regions are identified. Selective filtering is performed at the region between the identified adjacent regions.
US07787540B2
In one embodiment, decoding of a video signal includes predicting at least a portion of a current image in a current layer based on at least a portion of a base image in a base layer and offset information. The offset information indicates an offset based on at least one pixel in the current image and a corresponding at least one pixel in the base image. For example, the offset information may represent a position offset between at least one sample in the current image and at least one sample in an up-sampled portion of the base image.
US07787539B2
A system, method, and apparatus for time stamping compressed video data is disclosed. A delay parameter is generated and can be encoded with the compressed video, representing the number of picture delay between the decoded sequence and the presented sequence. The presentation time stamp is associated with each of the pictures. The presentation time stamp is a function of the delay parameter and other parameters associated with picture associated therewith.
US07787536B2
An adaptive equalizer apparatus with digital eye-opening monitor unit and the method thereof are provided. The apparatus comprises an equalizer unit, a sampling unit, and an eye-opening monitor unit. The equalizer unit equalizes a first signal to a second signal. The sampling unit over-samples the second signal and determines the logic status of the second signal according to the sampling data. The eye-opening monitor unit processes the sampling data and outputs a detecting signal according to the processing result. The detecting signal represents the adequacy of the parameters of the equalizer unit, and the equalizer unit determines whether to change its parameters according to the detecting signal.
US07787534B2
In one embodiment of the present invention, a method for adjusting a signal includes receiving an input data signal. The method also includes applying an offset compensation to the input data signal to generate an output signal. The method further includes, using a clock signal, sampling the output signal to generate a plurality of data values and boundary values, each value comprising either a high value or a low value based on the sampling of the output signal. The method also includes detecting a transition in value between two successive data values and determining a sampled boundary value between the two successive data values. The method further includes, based at least on the high or low value of the boundary value, adjusting the offset compensation applied to the input data signal.
US07787510B2
Provided are a nitride semiconductor laser chip with a reliability improved by relieving stress due to strain within the nitride semiconductor laser chip, a manufacturing method thereof, and a nitride semiconductor laser device. The nitride semiconductor laser chip comprises: a substrate; and a laminated structure provided on a main surface of the substrate and including a nitride semiconductor layer. In the laminated structure, at least one crack parallel to a resonator end face is formed. By forming a crack within a laser chip, stress due to strain is relieved; therefore, it is possible to obtain a laser chip having a high reliability.
US07787507B2
Laser modulation is controlled by using a measurement of the average output power level of the laser to adjust the amplitude of the modulation current as necessary to prevent the laser from being over- or under-modulated and to adjust the amplitude of the bias current as necessary to maintain the average output power level of the laser at a desired, reasonably constant level. The laser controller receives an electrical feedback signal from a laser output power monitoring device and uses this signal to obtain the measurement of the average output power level of the laser. Based on this measurement, a bias current control signal and a modulation current control signal are generated and output to the laser driver to cause the laser driver to set the amplitude of the bias current to achieve a desired average output power level and to set the amplitude of the modulation current to prevent over- and under-modulation.
US07787503B2
The light includes a laser (4), which operates at or near its fundamental wavelength and produces pulses of a duration longer than 0.5 ns, and a micro-structured optical fibre (9) arranged to guide the pulses, wherein the light is generated by the pulses in the fibre (9). The light source may e.g. be useful in applications such as spectral testing of fibre components and spectral analysis of chemical and biological samples.
US07787499B2
Maintaining synchronization when sending/receiving multiple channels of data with a corresponding common reference clock signal. Synchronization signals (e.g., pulses) are generated periodically and the timing of channels is adjusted. In an embodiment, multiple sequences of parallel data elements are received on corresponding parallel data channels using a first common clock signal. Each sequence of parallel data elements is converted to a corresponding sequence of serial data elements. The serial data elements are transmitted on a corresponding serial channel using a serial clock as a common reference. A synchronization signal may be generated periodically with a time period of (the number of bits in each parallel data element x the time period of the serial clock), wherein ‘×’ represents multiplication operation. As the parallel data channels are synchronized in short intervals, synchronization is maintained.
US07787498B2
A network comprising a destination node, and a plurality of source nodes configured to transmit high-priority data and low-priority data to the destination node, wherein the source nodes correlate the transmission of the high-priority data to the destination node such that the high-priority data from each source node does not substantially contend with the high-priority data from the other source nodes upon arrival at the destination node. Also disclosed is a network component comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising creating a periodic time window, partitioning the time window into low-priority time-bands and high-priority time-bands, placing a plurality of high-priority packets in the high-priority time-bands, and placing a plurality of low-priority packets in the low-priority time-bands.
US07787484B2
A method that includes defining a transmission schedule of a TDM data frame that includes multiple TDM time slots allocated for transmitting data over a TDM line; the method is characterized by including: providing a transmission clock signal having a transmission clock frequency to the TDM line, providing a first clock signal having a first clock frequency to data sources that belong to a first group of data sources and providing a second clock signal having a second clock frequency to data sources that belong to a second group of data sources; wherein the first clock frequency and the second clock frequency are higher than the transmission clock frequency; pre-fetching, to a first intermediate storage a data segment from a data source out of the first group of data sources in response to a fullness level of the first intermediate storage unit and to the transmission schedule; pre-fetching, to a second intermediate storage a data segment from a data source out of the second group of data sources in response to a fullness level of the first intermediate storage unit and to the transmission schedule; providing, in response to the transmission schedule, a stabilized data segment from the first or the second intermediate storage units to a transmission storage unit and transmitting the data segment from the transmission storage unit over the TDM line.
US07787480B1
Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for routing frames in a TRILL network using service VLAN identifiers by: receiving a frame from an ingress bridge node for transmission through the TRILL network to a destination node that connects to the TRILL network through an egress node, the received frame including a customer VLAN identifier, a service VLAN identifier uniquely assigned to the ingress bridge node, and a destination node address for the destination node, the received frame not having mac-in-mac encapsulation; adding, in dependence upon the service VLAN identifier and the destination node address, a TRILL header conforming to the TRILL protocol, the TRILL header including an ingress bridge nickname and an egress bridge nickname; and routing, to the egress bridge node through which the destination node connects to the network, the frame in dependence upon the ingress bridge nickname and the egress bridge nickname.
US07787479B2
There is provided a gateway apparatus that controls a forwarding process of frame data between multiple communication channels, said gateway apparatus including a search engine that is respectively provided for each of the multiple communication channels to route the frame data between the multiple communication channels, and a first storage portion that is respectively provided for each of the multiple communication channels to temporarily stores the frame data routed.
US07787476B2
A layer 2 switch network system includes a terminal, an edge switch, and a Radius server that notifies the edge switch of a temporary MAC address allocated to the terminal. The edge switch stores therein swap data for associating the temporary MAC address with a real MAC address. When receiving a MAC frame from the terminal, the edge switch replaces the real MAC address of a source set in the MAC frame with the temporary MAC address of the source. When transmitting a MAC frame to the terminal, the edge switch replaces the temporary MAC address of a destination set in the MAC frame with the real MAC address of the destination.
US07787474B2
A method and apparatus for deep packet processing including a parsing and a searching method supported by a data structure storing the state-transition rules in the state-transition rule tables of a programmable state machine for parsing. The state-transition rule table is then compressed using the BaRT compression algorithm. Each transition rule comprises a test value, a test mask and a next state field. In a second embodiment the state-transition rule table is split into more than one state-transition rule table corresponding to disjoints state spaces, thus allowing more flexibility in the use of storage space. Finally a parsing and searching method can be implemented using the same hardware. The searching and parsing methods can be implemented alternatively or in any combination at wire-speed.
US07787457B2
A label assigning method for use when a label being used in a unicast Label Switched Path (LSP) between an upstream Label Switching Router (LSR) and a downstream LSR is to be used in a multicast LSP between the upstream LSR and the downstream LSR. The assignment method includes the steps of releasing the label in the unicast LSP, and assigning the label to the multicast LSP. A label replacing method for use when a first label being used in a unicast LSP between an upstream LSR and a downstream LSR is to be used in another LSP between the upstream LSR and the downstream LSR. The replacement method includes the steps of re-assigning a second label for the unicast LSP and releasing the first label in the unicast LSP. These two processes are directed to efficiently establishing a multicast LSP when a conflict of labels occurs between the multicast LSP and an existing unicast LSP.
US07787440B1
A first wireless device may connect to a wireless telecommunications network, and it may communicate with the wireless telecommunications network over an air interface signaling channel. The first wireless device may exchange messages with a second device, such as a wired device or a wireless device, in order to establish a session with the second device. The first wireless device may send or receive the messages over an air interface with its wireless telecommunications network using short data bursts.
US07787438B2
A methodology and network tool for evaluating one-way directional delays in a packet network is described. The invention provides for a discrimination of the directional components of the delay experienced by packets travelling between nodes in a network. This identification of the directional delay component assists in an understanding of network behaviour and can be represented on a graphical user interface. Such methodologies are achieved without requiring clock synchronisation between clocks at each of the nodes.
US07787418B2
In some embodiments, a base station includes a service flow management module having an admission control module and a data path function module in communication with the admission control module. The data path function module is adapted to generate a first dynamic service addition (DSA) request message for a first uplink service flow in an active state to provide voice over internet protocol (VoIP) signaling. the admission control module, in response to the admission control module determining that a second uplink service flow in an admitted state for a VoIP call can be supported, is adapted to generate an admit signal, with the first and the second uplink service flows being substantially in accordance with an Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) 802.16 standard. The data path function module, in response to the admit signal, is further adapted to generate a second DSA request message for the second uplink service flow, with the second DSA message containing an amount of a reserved bandwidth for the VoIP call.
US07787413B2
An apparatus, a method, and a computer program are provided for increasing the efficiency of Radio Frequency (RF) resources. Specifically, a modified Resource Release Request Message (RRRM) is utilized. The modified RRRM incorporates several additional fields that allow for the release of multiple service instances at approximately the same time. The simultaneous or near simultaneous release of multiple service instance is more efficient that the traditional RRRM for the release of a single service instance. Therefore, limited RF resources can be better preserved.
US07787402B2
Systems and methods for providing network access to mobile devices that travel with a vehicle, such as a train, a bus, a boat, etc. along or adjacent to a relatively fixed path that may extend over a large geographic area. Mobile devices access the network through stationary access points arranged along or adjacent to the path and communicate with a communication network. The communication network may be arranged as an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) local area network emulation (LANE) network. One of the mobile devices may be a mobile access point which can couple other mobile devices to the network and record authentication information of other mobile devices so that fast transitions can be made from one stationary access point to another as the vehicle moves along the path.
US07787399B2
In one embodiment, a method for setting up a flow-through mesh group (FTMG) for transmitting link-state packets (LSPs) in a network having a plurality of nodes interconnected by links. The FTMG is a combination of multiple spanning trees for the network through which LSPs are forwarded. FTMG set-up messages are received at ports of each node of the network from peer ports of linked nodes. FTMG set-up messages identify root nodes of the multiple spanning trees and the transmission modes of the peer ports. The FTMG set-up messages are used to determine (1) a root node for each spanning tree, (2) a root port on each node for each spanning tree, and (3) directionality of ports of the nodes. FTMG set-up messages are then used to determine the transmission mode of ports of the nodes and, subsequently, to update the spanning trees and transmission modes, as needed.
US07787396B1
A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing Outbound Route Filtering (ORF) is presented. An ORF list is produced and an ORF filter is built from the ORF list. The ORF list is built from received ORF entries. The ORF list is advertised to client and non-client peers. The ORF filter is built from a received ORF list and is directed toward the advertiser of the ORF list.
US07787384B2
The invention relates to a method for testing a communication network by means of a terminal, which is provided with a screen and is used for exchanging information via a telecommunication network. The inventive method comprises the following steps: a step for periodically totally or partly retrieving values of the terminal screen pixels, a step for computing on the base of said pixel values one or several parameters representative for the screen content and a step for transmitting said one or several parameters to storing and/or analyzing means.
US07787379B2
Described herein is a flow control scheme suitably adaptable to Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP). In an example embodiment, the guaranteed and maximum allowable bandwidths are employed to determine the size of the congestion window. For example, the flow congestion window size starts proportional to the guaranteed bandwidth and increases until reaching the maximum allowable bandwidth. In particular embodiments, a fixed value is used for determining how fast the congestion window increases. For example the congestion window may increase exponentially while the current size of the congestion window is at or below a fixed value, and increase linearly when the current size of the congestion window is above the fixed value. In an example embodiment, the fixed value does not change even if a collision is detected and the current amount of unacknowledged data allowed is reset to an initial value.
US07787377B2
Adaptive redundancy is implemented (either switched on or off) for a voice over internet protocol (VoIP) packet connection by a basic two step approach. A first step of adaptive redundancy implementation involves monitoring relevant sources or indicators to determine when the need for redundancy (e.g., redundancy coding) may arise. A second step of adaptive redundancy implementation involves the triggering of redundancy implementation events when the monitored sources reach or obtain certain threshold value(s) (threshold). The first and second steps of redundancy implementation can be repeated as needed. Scenarios of adaptive redundancy implementation include both network-initiated implementations (e.g., implementations initiated by a radio access network (RAN)) and mobile-initiated implementations (e.g., implementations initiated by a wireless station).
US07787375B2
Provided are a method, system, and program for managing communication between a first device and a second device and performing a recovery action at the second device in response to a credit depletion notification from the first device. The second device assigns credits indicating a number of outstanding frames the first device may transmit to the second device. The second device receives a first type or second type of credit depletion notification from the first device indicating that the first device needs additional credits to transmit further frames to the second device. The second device performs one of a plurality of recovery actions depending on whether the first type or second type of credit depletion notification was received.
US07787374B2
A method and system for analyzing simulated packet delay variation (PDV) using derivative PDV is disclosed. The delay-step method for simulating PDV determines a delay for each packet in a stream of packets generated at a regular interval. Delay target values are randomly selected based on a statistical distribution, such as a Gaussian distribution. Delay-steps are determined for each packet based on the delay target values. The delay-steps can be fixed or variable sized steps which are used to adjust the delay of sequential packets. PDV is generated by delaying each of the packets with the delay determined for that packet. The derivative PDV is calculated to evaluate a delay rate of change on a packet-by-packet basis. The derivative PDV can be used as a metric to specify stresses for adaptive packet timing recovery stress testing.
US07787372B2
The integration of an improved retransmission protocol into a performance enhancing proxy (PEP) for degraded communication links. Various embodiments of the invention include congestion control, window size adjustment algorithms, connection negotiation features, and connection establishment acceleration features.
US07787353B2
In an optical recording medium 1 having a configuration in which on one main surface of a substrate 2, a reflective layer 3, a lower dielectrics layer 4, a recording layer 5, an upper dielectrics layer 6 and a light transmissive layer 7 are sequentially laminated, the lower dielectrics layer 4 is formed of a first lower dielectrics layer and a second lower dielectrics layer that inhibits a material that constitutes the first lower dielectrics layer and a material that constitutes the reflective layer 3 from reacting, and the upper dielectrics layer 6 is formed of a first upper dielectrics layer and a second upper dielectrics layer that inhibits a material that constitutes the first upper dielectrics layer and a material that constitutes the light transmissive layer 7 from reacting.
US07787352B2
A Seek and Scan Probe (SSP) memory device is disclosed. The memory device includes a moving part having microelectromechanical (MEMS) structures fabricated on a first wafer and CMOS and memory medium components fabricating on a second wafer bonded to the first wafer.
US07787350B2
A storage device including a storage medium for storing data in the form of topographic or magnetic marks. At least one probe is mounted on a common frame, the common frame and the storage medium designed for moving relative to each other for creating or detecting said marks. Each probe includes a tip facing the storage medium, a read sensing element, a write element and a capacitive platform, that forms a first electrode and is designed for a voltage potential applied to it independent from a control signal for said read sensing element and for said voltage potential applied to said capacitive platform being independent from a control signal for said write heating element. It further comprises a second electrode arranged in a fixed position relative to the storage medium forming a first capacitor together wherein said first electrode and a medium between the first and second electrode.
US07787346B2
There is provided a hologram recording method, including generating a signal light which is spatially modulated such that digital data is represented by an image of intensity distribution, irradiating the signal light on an optical recording medium after a Fourier transformation of the signal light such that a zero-order component of the signal light comes into focus at a point removed from the optical recording medium, forming a diffraction grating in the optical recording medium by interference between the zero-order component of the signal light and a high-order component thereof, and recording digital data represented by the signal light as a hologram.
US07787342B2
The present invention provides an information processing unit with improved operability. A reading section (10) reads information recorded in an optical disk, and outputs a read signal. A DSP (20) detects the read signal and processes to a reproducible form. A quick return button selects at least one of the processing details for starting or stopping the information processing and for changing a reproducing position of the information. When a reproducing state changing section (120) recognizes a change instruction for changing a processing state for the information, a reproduction control section (52) changes the processing state by the DSP 20 based on the processing details selected with the quick return button. Since the processing details for starting or stopping the information processing and for changing a reproducing position are previously stored in the reproducing state changing section (120) as commonly available change instructions, operating components can be simplified with the operability of the information reproducing unit (1) substantially improved.
US07787341B2
An optical disk device includes a pickup head, and a controller which controls the pickup head. The controller subtracting a second measured value determined from an amplitude value of the tracking error signal when the pickup head irradiates a second area of the optical disk with a first DVD laser beam, from a first measured value determined from the amplitude value of the tracking error signal output when the pickup irradiates a first area of the optical disk with the first DVD laser beam, to determine an evaluation value. The controller determining that the optical disk is the first DVD if the evaluation value is smaller than a reference value, and determining that the installed optical disk is a second DVD if the evaluation value is larger than the reference value, the second DVD optical disk having a smaller track width than the first DVD optical disk.
US07787337B2
A data signal includes a master signal generated by a master part of an optical pickup head in response to a light beam reflected from the optical recording medium and a side signal generated by a side part of the optical pickup head in response to the light beam reflected from the optical recording medium. A discriminating signal is obtained by subtracting the master signal from the side signal. Then, whether a data defect is existent in a data storage region of the optical recording medium can be determined according to the discriminating signal and optionally the side signal. When the data defect is determined existent, a servo tracking operation in the reading procedure is suspended.
US07787335B2
An information recording device, an information recording method, and an information recording program capable of recording information with an appropriate modulation degree, a high asymmetry, and small waveform distortion. The information recording device applies a laser beam to a recording medium such as a DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW and forms a recording mark corresponding to a recording signal, thereby recording information. A recording pulse signal for forming the recording mark corresponding to the recording signal has a mark period for forming the recording mark and a space period not forming the recording mark. In test recording performed prior to actual information recording, a long mark recording power is kept constant while a short mark recording power is changed. Preferably, the short mark recording power in the test write is changed so that the asymmetry and/or the beta value is a value within a desired range.
US07787331B2
A sensor assembly suitable for use in an airborne shooter localization system. The sensor assembly has a pressure sensor subassembly with a pressure transducer positioned to detect pressure variations associated with a shock wave from a passing projectile or the muzzle blast following the shock wave. To substantially increase the signal to noise ratio for measurements of the shock wave, the pressure sensor subassembly attenuates pressure fluctuations triggered by turbulent airflow over the surface of the subassembly more than it attenuates the shock wave. This preferential attenuation is provided by separating the pressure transducer from the surface of the sensor assembly by a cavity large enough that the pressure fluctuations are substantially attenuated as they propagate across the cavity. Additionally, features of a housing that holds the pressure sensor subassembly facilitate use on an aircraft. Those features include flexibility that allows the sensor assembly to conform to curved surfaces, a skin that provides resistance to environmental conditions and allows the sensor assembly to be attached with an adhesive, and a body region that provides high vibrational impedance to prevent low frequency mechanical vibrations from being coupled to the pressure transducer.
US07787321B2
A system and method for sensing a current. The system includes an operational amplifier including a first input terminal, a second input terminal, and a first output terminal. The first input terminal is biased to a predetermined voltage, and the second input terminal and the first output terminal are directly connected. Additionally, the system includes a switch coupled to the first output terminal and a first node. The switch is controlled by at least a first control signal. Moreover, the system includes a comparator including a third input terminal, a fourth input terminal, and at least a second output terminal. The comparator is configured to receive a first input signal at the third input terminal and a second input signal at the fourth input terminal. The first input signal and the second input signal are associated with the first node and the predetermined voltage.
US07787320B2
A sense amplifier according to an example of the present invention has first, second, third and fourth FETs with a flip-flop connection. A drain of a fifth FET is connected to a first input node, and its source is connected to a power source node. A drain of a sixth FET is connected to a second input node, and its source is connected to the power source node. A sense operation is started by charging a first output node from the first input node with a first current and by charging a second output node from the second input node with a second current. The fifth and sixth FET are turned on after starting the sense operation.
US07787318B2
A semiconductor memory device is provided which can reliably detect a memory cell which has an unstable operation due to a small memory cell current. A bit line drive circuit is provided with respect to each pair of first and second bit lines, and has a configuration which can decrease a potential of a selected one of the pair of first and second bit lines. During a test operation, the first bit line in conduction with an H-side memory holding node of a memory cell is grounded for a predetermined time, thereby reducing a potential difference between the pair of first and second bit lines.
US07787314B2
In mask programmable integrated circuit, such as a structured ASIC, a delay chain provides a delay that is set by a mask programmable switch. The delay chain receives an input to allow the delay mask programmed delay to be overridden using a JTAG controller. This allows testing of different delays. The input may also be provided by a fuse block, so that the fuse block can override the mask programmable switch, thus allowing a delay to be changes after mask programming.
US07787307B2
Memory devices and methods are disclosed, such as those facilitating interpolation methods for reference memory cells based on their reference state and/or location in an array of memory cells. For example, a group of reference cells programmed to a subset of possible data states are utilized to interpolate for data states other than those in the subset. Such embodiments might be used to reduce the quantity of reference cells required.
US07787305B2
A flash memory device includes a flash memory cell array having flash memory cells arranged with word and bit lines, a word line driver circuit configured to drive the word lines at a selected step increment during a programming operation, a bulk-voltage supply circuit configured to supply a bulk voltage into a bulk of the flash memory cell array and a writing circuit configured to drive the bit lines selected by conditions during a programming operation. A control logic block is configured to control the writing circuit and the bulk-voltage supply circuit during the programming operation. The control logic block is configured to cause the writing circuit and/or the bulk-voltage supply circuit to change at least one of the conditions of the writing circuit and/or the bulk voltage responsive to the selected step increment.
US07787295B2
A multi-programmable non-volatile device is operated with a floating gate that functions as a FET gate that overlaps a portion of a source/drain region and allows for variable coupling through geometry and/or biasing conditions. This allows a programming voltage for the device to be imparted to the floating gate through variable capacitive coupling, thus changing the state of the device. The invention can be used in environments such as data encryption, reference trimming, manufacturing ID, security ID, and many other applications.
US07787292B2
In one embodiment of the invention, a fuse element for a one time programmable memory may include carbon nanotubes coupled to a first transistor node and to a second transistor node. The carbon nanotubes may have a first resistance which may be changed upon programming the memory cell with low current levels.
US07787290B2
In MRAM using a spin-transfer torque switching, a sufficient writing operation with a small memory cell is realized, and a reading current is enlarged while a reading disturbance is suppressed. In the case where the free layer of the tunnel magneto-resistance element is located on the side of the bit line, using a PMOS transistor, and in the case where the fixed layer of the tunnel magneto-resistance element is located on the side of the bit line, using an NMOS transistor, an anti-parallel writing in a source grounding operation is performed. The reading and writing operation margin is improved by performing a reading operation in an anti-parallel writing direction.
US07787281B2
A phase change memory writing circuit is provided. The circuit comprises a writing path and a fast write control unit. The writing path further comprises a current driving unit, a first switch device and a phase change memory cell. The current driving unit is coupled to a high voltage source and outputs a driving current. The first switch device is controlled by a first control signal. The fast write control unit is coupled to the writing path to provide a writing voltage to the writing path. When the first switch device is turned off, the fast write control unit outputs the writing voltage to the writing path. When the first switch device is turned on, the fast write control unit stops outputting the writing voltage to the writing path.
US07787279B2
An integrated semiconductor memory includes a storage medium (6) arranged between two electrodes (10, 20), which storage medium may be a phase change medium, for example. The storage medium (6) can be put into a first state or a second state by means of an electric current, as a result of which an item of information can be stored. According to embodiments of the invention, a layer plane (L) is provided in which impurity particles made from a material (4) are embedded, as a result of which the current density in the storage medium is locally increased and the programming current required for reprogramming is reduced. As a result, the current consumption of memory elements containing a phase change medium is reduced, so that for the first time they can be embodied with minimal feature size, together with other components such as transistors, and integrated into a single semiconductor circuit and no longer have to be arranged in separate subcircuits.
US07787272B2
A microsource is provided, which includes an inverter, an energy storage device, and a controller. The controller calculates a maximum frequency change for the inverter based on a first comparison between a first power set point and a measured power from the inverter. The first power set point is defined based on a charge level of the energy storage device. A minimum frequency change for the inverter is calculated based on a second comparison between a second power set point and the measured power from the inverter. An operating frequency for the inverter is calculated based on a third comparison between a power set point and a measured power flow. A requested frequency for the inverter is calculated by combining the maximum frequency change, the minimum frequency change, and the operating frequency. The requested frequency is integrated to determine a phase angle of a voltage of the inverter to control a frequency of an output power of the inverter.
US07787270B2
A galvanic isolated DC-DC and DC-AC power conversion system is coupled to a plurality of DC sources which are derived from a combination of a plurality of single-phase and three-phase AC-DC converters. The DC-DC and DC-AC power conversion system in one embodiment is configured to provide mixed type outputs (mixed frequency, e.g. DC with 50 or 60 Hz, with 400 Hz; mixed voltage levels).
US07787262B2
A capacitor charging circuit is provided with a primary side output voltage sensing circuit including an RC network having an RC time constant with a predetermined relationship to the RC time constant of the output capacitor. Once the capacitor voltage reaches a fully charged level, the charging mode is terminated. The output voltage is continuously detected by measuring the voltage across the primary side RC network that decays at a predetermined rate with respect to the output capacitor and the charging mode is commenced once the RC voltage falls to a predetermined level. According to a further aspect of the invention, a switch control circuit in a flyback converter controls the switch off time in response to detection of a change in the slope polarity of the voltage at a terminal of the switch.
US07787259B2
An energy transfer apparatus with a magnetic shield is configured to magnetically couple energy from a fixed location to a mobile or moveable device within a field-activated space of the energy transfer apparatus. Apparatuses include a location sensing surface and a drive coil arranged in relation to a periphery of the location sensing surface. A magnetic shield plate is disposed below the location sensing surface and the drive coil. The shield plate includes a number of radially oriented slots originating at, and distributed about, a periphery of the shield plate.
US07787258B2
An apparatus and method provide supplemental support to an electronic card from above, such as along a longitudinal edge of a PCI card opposite an edge connector on the motherboard. The supplemental support may be provided at any of a plurality of locations along the edge of the card, to avoid interference with certain features on the card and to accommodate cards of a variety of shapes and sizes. One embodiment provides a support apparatus that includes a track secured to the computer chassis over the card, and is generally aligned with a longitudinal edge of the electronic card. A collar is disposed on the track and is moveable to any of a plurality of positions along the track. A plunger is inserted through the collar and is movable with respect to the collar into engagement with the longitudinal edge of the electronic card. A first locking member is activated in response to inserting the plunger into the collar to prevent relative movement of the collar and the plunger with respect to the track. A second locking member locks the plunger with respect to the collar when the plunger engages the card.
US07787257B2
A printed wiring board unit includes an electronic circuit component, a printed wiring board, a plurality of first conductive terminals disposed between the electronic circuit component and the printed wiring board, at least one of the first conductive terminals arranged along a quadrangular outline, and a plurality of second conductive terminals disposed between the electronic circuit component and the printed wiring board, the second conductive terminals arranged at a corner of the quadrangular outline, and the second conductive terminals contacting at least one of the printed wiring board and the electronic circuit component in a relatively displaceable manner.
US07787255B2
A grounding apparatus (200) includes at least one conductive member (20), a sliding mechanism (30) and a flexible printed circuit board (40). The sliding mechanism is conductive and electrically connected to the conductive member. The flexible printed circuit board includes a conductive layer (421) and a grounding end (4231), the conductive layer and the grounding end are electrically connected to the sliding mechanism.
US07787249B2
Systems and methods for printed board assembly isolated heat exchange are provided. In one embodiment, a printed board assembly comprises: at least one electrical power layer; at least one electrical ground layer; a first signal layer having a first signal routing area providing electrical trace connections for signals and a first heat exchange chassis fill conductor area located adjacent to a periphery of the first signal routing area; at least one thermal interface coupled to a chassis for conducting heat from the printed board assembly to the chassis; and at least one via conductively coupling the first heat exchange chassis fill conductor area to the at least one thermal interface.
US07787245B2
An electronic apparatus 10, such as a computer, includes a first unit 20 having a keyboard 21 and a second unit 30 coupled to the first unit 20 having a display screen 31 through a two-axis coupling section 40 to be opened, closed, and rotated relative to the first unit 20. The computer may be used either as a notebook PC or a tablet PC, and includes an optical disk drive 26 for accessing an optical disk. The present invention protects the optical disk and the optical disk drive against damage when the computer is used in the tablet PC mode. Depending on the status of the second unit 30 relative to the first unit 20, the apparatus enables or disables use of optical disk drive 26, including the drive ejection button.
US07787241B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for coupling a display window and buttons for a clothing handler. The apparatus for coupling the display window and the buttons for the clothing handler includes a display window configured to display each kind of information regarding handling clothing, buttons disposed to be adjacent to the display window, for selecting options for handling clothing, and a supporting member interposed between the display window and the buttons, for supporting at least one of the display window and the buttons.
US07787232B2
The present invention is directed to an apparatus for providing law enforcement and private citizens with a single device that integrates law enforcement tools and mechanisms for the application of force. An exemplary device features a metal detector, a light emitting source optionally having a strobe feature, an electric stun system, and a debilitating spray dispensing system. Some embodiments of the present invention include an electric stun system comprising a plurality of probes mounted to the distal terminus of the shaft and configured to protrude from the shaft, a plurality of plates configured longitudinally along the outer surface of the shaft, and a stun system switch disposed on the shaft. Some embodiments of the present invention include the debilitating spray dispensing system comprising at least one nozzle and a dispensing switch disposed on the handle. Some embodiments of the present invention include a handle comprising an ergonomic grip and a guard.
US07787218B2
Embodiments in accordance with the present invention relate to suppressing deterioration in rigidity and dynamic characteristics of a tab even when an initial point of contact between a tab and a ramp during unloading is set closer to the outer periphery of a disk. A data storage device in one embodiment of the present invention includes a head, a ramp for unloading the head, a load beam having a head support portion for supporting the head and a tab adapted to slide on a sliding surface of the ramp on a front end side with respect to the head support portion, and an actuator having the load beam and adapted to actuate the head for loading and unloading. During unloading, a portion of the tab offset from the center in the transverse direction of the tab first comes into contact with the sliding surface of the ramp. The load beam has a flange formed to be bent and continuously from the front end portion of the tab up to both ends of the head support portion.
US07787214B2
A disk apparatus includes a hub having a disk inserting portion having a cylindrical plane in the outer part of one end and a disk receiving portion having a flat part and being pivotably supported, a head having an inner hole through which the disk inserting portion is fitted, facing toward one face of a disk, levitating and scanning above the disk and reading a signal recorded on the disk or recording a signal on the disk, the disk being held by the disk receiving portion, and a clamp unit holding the disk with the disk receiving portion. In this case, the disk receiving portion has an inclined or declined plane. Thus, the amount and direction of deformation of the disk, which is caused by clamping, are defined, and obtaining a stable amount of head levitation independently of temperature changes can prevent the occurrence of a distortion of the disk.
US07787211B2
A method of calibrating a parameter to measure the back electromotive force (BEMF) of a voice coil motor (VCM), and a method and apparatus to use the calibrating method to perform unloading control. The calibration method includes: reading servo data and measuring a BEMF value while seeking two predetermined points on a disk, and storing the servo data and the BEMF value, generating an actual velocity curve of a head using the stored servo data, and an estimated velocity curve of the head using the stored BEMF value and adjusting a parameter related to a BEMF measurement to align the actual velocity curve of the head with the estimated velocity curve of the head.
US07787205B2
A method of determining errors in a data storage device is disclosed. The disclosed method includes receiving a first code word from the data storage device. The method further includes determining whether a data error exists in the code word by analyzing a plurality of subsequent code words. Detecting a data error includes calculating first, second, and third checksums for each of a plurality of subsequent code words and determining whether there is an insertion or deletion error based on the calculated checksums. A further method includes receiving location information of errors on a data medium and adjusting a write clock frequency to reduce the probability of creating errors on the data medium during a write process.
US07787203B2
A method according to one embodiment includes receiving signals from multiple readers; and performing more error control processing on a signal from an outer reader than on a signal from an inner reader. A method according to one embodiment includes receiving signals from multiple readers; and performing different amounts of error control processing on signals from at least two of the readers. A tape drive system according to one embodiment includes a tape head having an array of readers; and a processor coupled to the head for performing error control processing, wherein the processor performs more error control processing on a signal from the outer reader than on a signal from the inner reader.
US07787196B2
An imaging lens is provided and includes: in order from an object side of the imaging lens, a first lens group having a positive power as a whole; a second lens group, in which an object-side surface of a lens closest to the object side is concave toward the object side; a third lens group of a single lens having a positive power; and a fourth lens group having a negative power as a whole.
US07787191B2
A zoom lens including a first lens group with a negative refractive power and a second lens group with a positive refractive power is provided. The first lens group is composed of a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens. Refractive powers of the first lens, the second lens, and the third lens are respectively negative, negative, and positive. Moreover, the second lens group is disposed between the first lens group and an image side. The second lens group is composed of a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. Refractive powers of the fourth lens, the fifth lens, and the sixth lens are respectively positive, negative, and positive. The first lens group and the second lens group are capable of moving between an object side and the image side. The zoom lens has advantages of wide angle and small volume.
US07787187B2
Providing a method and apparatus for efficiently irradiating a uniform laser light on an irradiation surface even when a laser light of high coherence or a large size substrate is used. The laser irradiation apparatus of the invention comprises a laser; means for dividing a laser light emitted from the laser into plural laser beams; means for synthesizing the laser beams on the irradiation surface or place in the vicinity thereof thereby forming a laser light having a periodical energy distribution; and means for moving the substrate relative to the laser light. Such a laser irradiation apparatus may be used to anneal the overall surface of a semiconductor film.
US07787186B2
An optical sheet with better brightness-enhancing effectiveness includes a substrate and pluralities of microstructures disposed on the substrate. The microstructures are spaced from one another at a distance d. The cross-section of the microstructure is formed in a triangle which has a base length D. Distance d and base length D satisfy the following equation: 0
US07787180B2
The present invention relates to projection films and methods of making the same. In particular, the present invention relates to a projection film whereby the microspheres exhibit improved alignment on the light exit surface and have alignment on the light entrance surface that varies according to the individual microsphere diameter. In another embodiment, the present invention relates to a projection film that has the attributes of variable gain within the single projection film. In another embodiment, the present invention relates to an exposed microsphere projection film construction that provides modification of the head-on and angular pattern of light transmission (gain).
US07787178B2
Without setting an examination site, it is possible to easily position an end face of a narrow-diameter end portion at a suitable position with respect to an examination target, allowing an image of the examination site to be acquired quickly and easily. The invention provides an objective-lens guiding device comprising a support portion secured to an objective lens having a narrow-diameter end portion; and a cylindrical portion for accommodating the narrow-diameter end portion. The support portion supports the cylindrical portion such that a front end of the cylindrical portion is disposed at a location farther toward the front than an end face of the narrow-diameter end portion, and so as to be capable of moving in an optical axis direction.
US07787176B2
An on-chip amplifier includes first element that curtails the velocity of an incoming light to the amplifier. A second element is doped so as to make the frequency of the incoming light equal to the electron frequency in order to allow for electron-photon wave interaction, so that when current flows through the amplifier, electron power is transferred to the incoming light, resulting in amplification of the incoming light.
US07787174B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus for creating a pattern on a workpiece sensitive to radiation, such as a photomask a display panel or a microoptical device. The apparatus may include a source for emitting light flashes, a spatial modulator having modulating elements (pixels), adapted to being illuminated by the radiation, and a projection system creating an image of the modulator on the workpiece. It may further include an electronic data processing and delivery system receiving a digital description of the pattern to be written, converting the pattern to modulator signals, and feeding the signals to the modulator. An electronic control system may be provided to control a trigger signal to compensate for flash-to-flash time jitter in the light source.
US07787173B2
A display having a plurality of reflective display elements. In one embodiment, the display elements comprise at least one electrode having a plurality of active areas. In one embodiment, at least two of the sizes of the active areas are different with respect to each other, e.g., they are non-uniform in size. The interferometric modulators have a plurality of states, wherein selected ones of the interferometric modulators are configured to be actuated depending differing electrostatic forces in the interferometric modulators. The electrostatic forces in the interferometric modulators are different at least in part due to variations in the sizes of the active areas of the electrodes.
US07787167B2
In a method for driving a micro mirror such as MEMS mirror and a display apparatus using the method, there are provided a mirror driving unit for driving the micro mirror which operates in a resonant mode and a nonresonant mode, a driving-condition setting unit for setting a mirror driving condition, a switching unit for switching on/off a mirror driving signal in the nonresonant mode, and a look-up table for indicating the relationship of a mirror response with respect to the driving condition already known in advance. The switching unit controls the transmission of the nonresonant-mode mirror driving signal while grasping the mirror response state with respect to the mirror driving signal, thereby finely increasing and decreasing a driving torque for the micro mirror. This fine increase and decrease allows the micro mirror to be fluctuated stably, and a further enhancement in the fluctuation rate.
US07787166B2
An image forming apparatus that previously rotates a polygonal mirror drive motor before starting a job and forms a latent image by using an optical scanning unit including the polygonal mirror drive motor is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a control unit configured to perform control such that, in the determination of the presence or absence of each of color toners before a previous rotation is started, if it is determined that any one of the color toners is absent, only the polygonal mirror drive motor corresponding to a black toner is previously rotated.
US07787157B2
An image reading apparatus is disclosed. The image reading apparatus provides plural sensors and a correction unit that corrects displacement of image data caused by intervals among the plural sensors and includes a first draft reading mode whose scanning direction by the sensors is the same as at the time of shading correction and a second draft reading mode whose scanning direction by the sensors is different from at the time of shading correction. The correction unit includes plural paths in which a different number of delay units are disposed in each path and changing over units that change over a connection between the sensors and the paths. The changing over units are changed over between at the time of reading image data and the shading correction in the first draft reading mode and at the time of reading image data in the second draft reading mode.
US07787155B2
In a communications device, a terminal machine transmits/receives data over a network and makes a request for a response to a data transmission from a receiving-end machine. In the terminal machine, an e-mail message identifying unit determines whether data to be received over the network is response data to the response request, and a main control unit controls so as to preferentially receive data identified as the response data by the e-mail message identifying unit over other data. Thus, if an e-mail message is transmitted with a request for a disposition verification, a reply message to the disposition verification request can be quickly received from the receiving-end machine.
US07787148B2
Dual printhead controller architecture includes a master central processor capable of being interfaced with a first printhead. A slave central processor is capable of being interfaced with a second printhead. Data transfer means is operatively connected between the master central processor and the slave central processor to permit communication between the master and slave central processors. A host link is operatively connected to the master central processor to permit the master central processor to receive page data from a host processor. The master central processor is configured so that the slave central processor is hidden from the host processor.
US07787146B2
A method of setting a user interface of a driver program of an image processing device includes applying a transparent setting to display the driver program in a transparent state on a display device to the driver program, and displaying the driver program with the applied transparent function on the display device when an application program operates the driver program. The driver program does not block an acquired result of the application program, and a user is able to perform a scanning operation at an optimum environment by adjusting a transparency level of the driver program displayed over the application program.
US07787145B2
Method for determining enhanced printing functions on a hand-held inkjet printer having one or more optical sensors configured to measure speed and distance across the page. Collecting a first frame of individual pixel data, mapping the first frame of individual pixel data into a pixel map memory, processing the first frame of individual pixel data to perform additional print quality features. These additional features can be categorized in three main categories: 1) sensing non-printing elements, 2) sensing pre-printed elements, and 3) sensing print elements.
US07787140B2
A printing system which includes a printer connected with at least one user terminal by a wire or wirelessly to print printing data transmitted from the user terminal, prevents printing of data before a special printing job and a printing method for the same. In the printing system, the user terminal connectable with the printer includes a printer driver to set a pause mode to temporarily prevent a printing operation in the printer, and a monitoring program unit to monitor an operation status of the printer and to display information supplied from the printer on the pause-set printing data. The printer includes a control unit to inform the user terminal the pause-set printing data is printed, upon receiving the pause-set printing data and to control second printing data supplied from a second user terminal to stand by.
US07787132B2
A chromatic confocal technique and apparatus for the rapid three-dimensional measurement of an object shape, particularly of a tooth in a patient's jaw, using an array of polychromatic point light sources, a planar detector matrix, a beam splitter for lateral spectral separation, and an objective for illuminating and recording the object. Spectral defined reference light bundles are generated, injected into the detection beam path via a reference beam path and, following spectral splitting, are focused on the detector matrix as reference image points, wherein laterally shifted sub-matrices are numerically defined on the detector matrix for spectral analysis of the object light, which sub-matrices are implemented as spectral cells for three-dimensional measurement of the shape of the object.
US07787130B2
An environmental sensing device includes an interferometric modulator which permanently actuates, in a visually-detectable manner, in response to being exposed to a predetermined environmental threshold or condition. The device can include a reactive layer, coating, or proof mass disposed on a movable member of the interferometric modulator. The reactive layer, coating, or proof mass can expand, contract, bend, or otherwise move when exposed to a predefined chemical, level of humidity, temperature threshold, type of radiation, and/or level of mechanical shock, causing the interferometric modulator to collapse and permanently indicate such exposure.
US07787125B2
Apparatus for measuring a spectral distribution of a printed product produced with a printing device
An apparatus (10) measures a spectral distribution of a printed product (12) produced with a printing device. The apparatus (10) has an illuminating source (20) for illuminating the printed product (12), an optoelectronic measuring means (32) for measurer the reflectance value of a section of the spectrum of the light (26) reflected from the printed product (12), an optical disperser (28) for dispersing the wavelengths of the reflected light (26), and a light entry gap plane that is definitive for the disperser (28). The light entry gap plane that is definitive for the disperser (28) is created by the surface of the printed product (12) to be examined.
US07787122B2
A light-waveform measuring device and method include a complex-refractive-index measuring device and a computer-program recording medium An electric field of an electromagnetic wave, in a light region having wavelengths smaller than those of electromagnetic waves in a near-infrared region, is measured, and time-varying waveforms are outputted. Gate-pulse-light generating means, measurement-light generating means and light-detecting means for detecting measurement light, are included, The measurement light is coherent light having a wavelength smaller than those of a near-infrared region. The gate pulse light is coherent light with a pulse width smaller than a period of the measurement light. A physical quantity, based on carriers generated from the measurement light and the gate pulse light is measured.
US07787117B1
In apparatus for performing Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS), rather than applying a sample to be analyzed to an SERS active substrate, the SERS active substrate is applied to the sample using an inkjet nozzle to apply a substance containing a colloidal metal, such as silver, to the sample. The prepared sample is then analyzed with a Raman spectrometer in a conventional fashion.
US07787114B2
Systems and methods for inspecting a specimen with light at varying power levels are provided. One system configured to inspect a specimen includes a light source configured to generate light. The system also includes a power attenuator subsystem configured to alter a power level of the light directed to the specimen during inspection between at least two power levels including a full power level and a minimum power level equal to or greater than about 10% of the full power level. In addition, the system includes a detection subsystem configured to generate output responsive to the light scattered from the specimen. The output can be used to detect defects on the specimen.
US07787113B2
A method for optically detecting an electrical arc in a power supply. The method includes capturing light with a light pipe, transmitting the captured light along at least a portion of a length of the light pipe, optically detecting the transmitted light with a photodetector which is optically coupled to the light pipe, generating a signal indicative of an intensity of the detected light, and determining whether the detected light is associated with an electrical arc.
US07787104B2
Illumination optics for a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus is used for illumination of an object field in the object plane with illumination light of a radiation source. The illumination optics has an optical beam influencing element which is divided into at least two beam influencing regions in order to generate various illumination modes for the object field which are independent of a light attenuation. The optical beam influencing element is displaceable between a first beam influencing position where a first one of the beam influencing regions is exposed to a bundle of the illumination light, and at least another beam influencing position where another one of the beam influencing regions is exposed to the bundle of the illumination light. Each of the beam influencing regions has a surface which is exposable to illumination light and has a long and a short side length, with the optical beam influencing element being displaceable perpendicular to the long side length. The result is an illumination optics which allows rapid switching between various illumination settings, preferably within fractions of a second and substantially without light loss.
US07787087B2
A tetragonal ring shape aperture is formed in the common electrode on one substrate and a cross shape aperture is formed at the position corresponding to the center of the tetragonal ring shape aperture in the pixel electrode on the other substrate. A liquid crystal layer between two electrodes are divided to four domains where the directors of the liquid crystal layer have different angles when a voltage is applied to the electrodes. The directors in adjacent domains make a right angle. The tetragonal ring shape aperture is broken at midpoint of each side of the tetragon, and the width of the aperture decreases as goes from the bent point to the edge. Wide viewing angle is obtained by four domains where the directors of the liquid crystal layer indicate different directions, disclination is removed and luminance increases.
US07787085B2
An optical alignment method which develops a pretilt angle by batch plane exposure without tilting a substrate. This optical alignment method provides liquid crystal aligning capability to the surface of a polymer film by exposing the surface of the polymer film through a slit exposure mask while the surface of the polymer film and the slit exposure mask are moved relative to each other substantially at a fixed rate. Alternatively, liquid crystal aligning capability is provided to the surface of the polymer film by exposing the surface of the polymer film through an optical exposure pattern while the optical exposure pattern having a plurality of lines with a certain width at certain intervals is formed on the surface of the polymer film continuously.
US07787074B2
An optical sheet, a backlight unit including the optical sheet, and a liquid crystal display including the backlight unit may be provided. The optical sheet may include a reflective polarizing film, a base film on one surface of the reflective polarizing film, and a plurality of projections on the base film. The base film may include a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. A first thickness T1 is a distance between the first surface and the second surface and a second thickness T2 is a distance between the first surface and the second surface. The first and second thickness T1 and T2 satisfy the following equation: 0.1 μm≦|T1−T2|≦10 μm.
US07787055B2
A signal processing method comprises the steps of: inputting three signals specifying a color of one pixel; and generating four signals from the input three signals, wherein each of said four signals represents intensities of four different colors to display a color of one pixel by mixing colors, wherein said generating step includes a first converting step of converting the input three signals to two signals representing intensities of two colors among the four colors and a signal representing intensity of a mixed color obtained by mixing (a) the four colors or (b) a plurality of colors among the four colors; and a second converting step of converting the signal representing intensity of the mixed color to a plurality of signals representing intensities of a plurality of colors including at least other two colors different from the two colors.
US07787050B2
A method and system for decoding and storing encoded control data delivered via the horizontal overscan area of a video signal. An interactive device performs behavior defined by control data encoded into a video signal that can be broadcast or played-back from video tape. The interactive device is equipped with a non-volatile memory that permits the control data to be stored for performance subsequent to, or during, the transmission session. The control data is delivered as a series of control data words that include genus codes identifying the interactive device to which the data word is directed. During a transmission session, control data words will be repeated, so that an interactive device receives several control data words with the same sequence number. Based on the relative gradings, the interactive device will replace previously received control data words of lower quality than subsequently received data words having the same sequence number.
US07787049B2
There is provided an image processing method capable of improving the picture quality. The image processing method comprises: incorporating input frame pictures to be displayed on a display device, on the basis of an input picture signal and an input synchronizing signal which is synchronized with the input picture signal; recording the incorporated input frame pictures in an input frame memory; and producing output frame pictures from input frame pictures, which have been recorded in the input frame memory, by producing an interpolated picture or inserting a black raster picture or thinning out the frame pictures, between input frame pictures corresponding to a picture information of the input frame picture to be displayed, on the basis of the picture information and the input synchronizing signal and an output synchronizing signal.
US07787048B1
One embodiment of a motion-adaptive video de-interlacing system includes a motion estimator and a pixel interpolator. The motion estimator determines the magnitude of motion associated with each pixel within a de-interlaced video frame. In some instances, as determined by the motion values, the pixel interpolator produces final pixel values by blending between pixel values produced through different de-interlacing methods optimized for different levels of pixel motion. The present invention advantageously produces de-interlaced video frames having relatively better picture quality than those produced using prior art techniques, especially for small pixel motions.
US07787045B2
A digital camera of the present invention includes a microcomputer 110 having a live view mode controlling so that image data generated by a CMOS sensor 130 or image data obtained by subjecting the image data generated by the CMOS sensor 130 to predetermined processing is displayed on a liquid crystal monitor 150 as a moving image in real time, and the microcomputer 110 controls so that movable mirrors 121a and 121b to enter an optical path of an image pickup optical system after the amount of light from a subject is obtained based on the image data generated by the CMOS sensor 130, a strobe 137 emits light, and measurement results of an AE sensor 133 are obtained. Due to this configuration, in a digital camera that includes a movable mirror and is capable of displaying a subject image in a live view through an electronic viewfinder, the operability thereof can be enhanced.
US07787041B2
An image reproducing apparatus (10) includes a mode switch key (19) capable of switching a display mode between an image display mode and a related information display mode. When the image display mode is selected, an image reproduced from a recording medium (16) is displayed on a monitor (17), and when the related information display mode is selected, only a character relating to the image is displayed on the monitor (17). In either display mode, a monitor screen is renewed in response to an operation of a cross key (21). A CPU (15) identifies an operating manner of the cross key (21) and validates, when an on state of the cross key (21) continues more than a predetermined time period, the related information display mode.
US07787034B2
Disclosed are various embodiments of methods and corresponding devices for effecting such methods that permit integrated circuits, sensors, chips or dies to be identified. Imperfections or irregularities in pixels or memory cells are used to generate identification codes for integrated circuits, sensors, chips or dies. Addresses or data locations of selected defective pixels or memory cells may be used to generate such identification codes.
US07787033B2
An imager temperature sensor and a current correction apparatus are provided which use dark pixel measurements from an imager chip during operation together with a fabrication process constant as well as a chip dependent constant to calculate chip temperature. The chip temperature may be used to generate a current correction signal. The correction signal is used to tune a current on the imager chip to correct for temperature variations.
US07787016B2
An imaging device (2) for the stabilized imaging of an object onto a detector (14) with a first optical unit (4) and a second optical unit (6) and an optical element that is arranged between the optical units (4, 6) and can be moved for the purpose of stabilizing the imaging on the detector (14). For image stabilization in order to compensate for an undesirable wobbling movement of the imaging over the detector (14), the optical element is constituted of a micro-optical lens array (10).
US07787013B2
A monitor system which can flexibly deal with changes in the system structure and perform monitoring of high quality includes a plurality of cameras and connected via a communication medium. Each of the plurality of cameras includes: an image capturing device which captures an image of an image capturing area included in a monitoring area and changes the image capturing area; a communication unit which (i) transmits, to another camera via the communication medium, the image capturing characteristics information for identifying the image capturing area and (ii) receives image capturing characteristics information from another camera; and an image capturing characteristics change unit which changes the image capturing area by controlling the image capturing device of the camera based on the image capturing characteristics information of the camera and the image capturing characteristics information of another camera received in the communication unit so that the image capturing area of the camera and the image capturing area of another camera have a predetermined relation.
US07787012B2
A system and method for aligning video images with an underlying visual field are provided. A video camera is coupled with a heads up display, and a computer positions images from the video camera on the heads up display based on the relative orientations of the camera and the display. As the video camera moves with respect to the display, the images are repositioned within the heads up display. The video image, which may, for example, come from a weapon sight, is aligned within the heads up display so that an observer can easily view the camera image without having to shift focus from the larger scene.
US07787011B2
Embodiments of the present invention introduce a novel technique to analyze and monitor video streams captured from multiple cameras. It highlights the foreground region of the video streams via local alpha blending and displays the videos in an immersive 3-D environment. The spatial arrangement of the displays can be generated by multi-dimensional scaling of the amount of simultaneous motion across different video streams. This description is not intended to be a complete description of, or limit the scope of, the invention. Other features, aspects, and objects of the invention can be obtained from a review of the specification, the figures, and the claims.
US07787009B2
An apparatus and method for 3D interaction with an autostereoscopic display are presented. A motion tracking system may include video cameras that track a 3D motion of a user within an interaction volume defined by the fields-of-view of the video cameras, as the user moves a light source or other optical marker or an anatomical region of the user within the interaction volume. The motion tracking system may generate 3D tracking data containing position information about the 3D motion. An imaging system may create a virtual scene by tracing 3D virtual objects in virtual space, using the position information in the 3D tracking data. The imaging system may synthesize a plurality of views of the virtual scene, and interlace the plurality of views to generate an interlaced image to drive the autostereoscopic display and to be displayed thereon.
US07787001B2
An image processing apparatus that performs resolution conversion on image data to output to a display unit includes a resolution converting unit configured to perform resolution conversion on the image data to generate pixel data having a resolution α times as high as a resolution of the display unit, where α>1; an image processing unit configured to perform an image processing on the pixel data; and a decimation unit configured to decimate the pixel data on which the image processing has been performed, to have a resolution equal to or lower than the resolution of the display unit, and to output decimated data to the display unit.
US07786999B1
A method of manipulating a time based stream of information to create a presentation is provided in which a processing system is employed. The methods include the rendering of a requested modification, such as adding of an edit feature, to the information in forming the presentation. A simulation of the modification is displayed for the user to observe during the rendering process. A proxy of the information having the changes is generated and shown on a display screen. Other aspects of the present invention relating to the processing system displaying edit information for a time based stream of information for use in authoring a presentation are also described.
US07786993B2
A system and method for environment mapping determines a computer-generated object's reflective appearance, based upon position and orientation of a camera with respect to the object's location. An embodiment of the present invention is implemented as a real-time environment mapping for polygon rendering, however, the scope of the invention covers other rendering schemes. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a vector processing unit (VPU) uses a modified reflection formula—r=e−(e·(n+eo))(n+eo)/(1−nz)=e−(e·[nx, ny, nz−1])[nx, ny, nz−1]/(1−nz), wherein eo=[0,0,−1], and nx, ny, and nz are the components of the surface normal vector n—to compute reflective properties of an object.
US07786992B2
A method for rendering multi-dimensional image data having a plurality of objects is disclosed. The method includes the following steps: providing an object database for storing the objects, providing a first pointer storage block, obtaining a depth value of the objects as a pointer which points to an address of the first pointer storage block, storing the pointers of the objects in the object database into the first pointer storage block and according to the depth value, sequentially searching the first pointer storage block to take out the objects from the object database for displaying the image data. The method is able to skip the comparison operations for every object with different depth values as found in the prior art. Therefore, the method can reduce the amount of computation and the occupied memory bandwidth.
US07786986B2
The invention is to provided an integrated, optical touch panel type image display device free from crosstalk with displayed images. The image display device according to the invention comprises a plurality of pixels having display brightness modulation means controlled with display signals, a display unit in which the plurality of pixels are arrayed, and a plurality of optical detecting means provided within the display unit wherein each of the optical detecting means comprises an optical detection diode for converting incident lights into signal electric-carriers, signal electric-carrier resetting means for resetting the signal electric-carriers, and output impedance modulating means for detecting the signal electric-carriers and modulating output impedances. The output impedance modulating means in the optical detecting elements are connected, in series between each other, to a Y output line and an X output line.
US07786981B2
A circular touch sensor has three or more sensors arranged in an iris pattern. Each pad is defined by continuous edges that spiral outward about a center point. The unique geometric shape allows measurement of relative amounts of contact on adjoining sensors. In one implementation, the sensors measure relative capacitance of two or more sensors, thereby enabling high precision identification of the point of contact. With as few as three pads, the circular touch sensor is less expensive than traditional 12-pad to 16-pad circular sensors.
US07786980B2
A method and apparatus for preventing staining of a display screen by a user's fingers, by encouraging a user not to touch the surface of a display screen while using a graphic user interface associated with the display screen includes determining a first threshold distance from the display screen within which a user's finger may be detected, determining a second threshold distance from the display screen within which a user's fingers may be detected, the second threshold distance being shorter than the first threshold distance, first detecting when a user's finger is within the first threshold distance, indicating to the user, upon a detection in the first detecting step, that the user's finger has entered a zone proximate to the screen where interaction with a graphical user interface (GUI) is enabled, the GUI enabling manipulating various display functions by movements of the user's finger, second detecting when a user's finger is within the second threshold distance, and indicating to the user, upon a detection in the second detecting step, that the user's finger has entered a forbidden zone.
US07786978B2
A sensing device is provided having an image sensor for sensing coded tags disposed on an interactive surface, a force sensor configured to sense a force applied to the interactive surface by the sensing device to generate force data indicative of the force, a processor configured to generate, using at least one sensed coded tag, indicating data, and a transmitter configured to communicate the indicating and force data to a computer system. Each coded tag encoding data identifies an orientation of that coded tag. The indicating data is indicative of a rotational orientation of the sensing device relative to interactive surface.
US07786972B2
A shift register, including first through third output nodes and first through third input lines for first through third clock signals, a fourth input line adapted to supply a start pulse or an output signal, a voltage level controller coupled between the second and fourth input lines, the voltage level controller being adapted to control voltage levels of the first and second output nodes, a first transistor coupled between a first power supply and the third output node, the third output node being an output node of the stage, a second transistor coupled between the third output node and the third input line, and a third transistor coupled between the first output node and a second power supply.
US07786970B2
A driver circuit of a display device according to an embodiment of the invention includes: a dot-inversion switch selectively supplying a driving voltage generated with an operational amplifier to a first pixel electrode or a second pixel electrode, the dot-inversion switch including: an operational amplifier-side switch and a pixel-side switch supplying the driving voltage to the first pixel electrode or the second pixel electrode; and a common short-circuit switch connected to a node between the operational amplifier-side switch and the pixel-side switch to supply an intermediate potential to the node.
US07786966B2
A method for driving a liquid crystal panel that includes horizontal scan wires, data wires, pixel electrodes surrounded by the horizontal scan wires and the data wires; and switching elements connected to the pixel electrodes, wherein the switching elements are controlled by a gate selection signal and during a on-time period, the switching elements is turned on, and an image data signal output from the data wires is supplied to the pixel electrodes by the switching elements. The method includes: detecting a peripheral temperature of the liquid crystal panel; and controlling the gate selection signal so that when the detected temperature is within a normal temperature range, the on-time period is set to a first gate selection period, and that when the detected temperature is within a low temperature range, the on-time period is set to a second gate selection period longer than the first gate selection period.
US07786961B2
A liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same are provided. A liquid crystal display device includes a driving circuit that includes a data driver that is inputted with a m-bit data signal. The data driver is operative to extract a n-bit data signal from the m-bit data signal and a (m-n)-bit data signal, and adjust a gray level of the (m-n)-bit data signal using the n-bit data signal. A liquid crystal panel includes a pixel that is supplied with the (m-n)-bit data signal during a plurality of frames.
US07786949B2
An antenna includes inductance elements that are magnetically coupled together, an LC series resonant circuit that includes one of the inductance elements and capacitance elements, and an LC series resonant circuit that includes another of the inductance elements and capacitance elements. The plurality of LC series resonant circuits are used to radiate radio waves and are used as inductances of a matching circuit that matches an impedance when a power supply side is viewed from power supply terminals and a radiation impedance of free space.
US07786946B2
A waveguide including: a first section including a first surface, a second surface, an upper wall, and a lower wall facing the upper wall; and a second section extending from the second surface; wherein the first section includes an upper ridge on the upper wall of the first section and a lower ridge on the lower wall of the first section, wherein the second section includes an upper conductor extending from a top portion of the second surface and a lower conductor extending from a lower portion of the second surface with a gap between the upper and lower conductors, wherein the upper conductor is electrically connected to the upper ridge, wherein the lower conductor is electrically connected to the lower ridge, and wherein the upper and lower conductors are adapted to propagate a wave and reduce discontinuity of the wave a connection between the first and second sections.
US07786943B2
An antenna device includes: a substrate; first and a second antenna units which are wound coaxially on a surface of the substrate, and include a plurality of antenna elements; and a feeder which feeds power only to the first antenna unit. A separation distance between the antenna elements in each of the first and second antenna units is substantially the same.
US07786938B2
An antenna component (and antenna) with a dielectric substrate and a plurality of radiating antenna elements on the surface of the substrate. In one embodiment, the plurality comprises two (2) elements, each of them covering one of the opposite heads and part of the upper surface of the device. The upper surface between the elements comprises a slot. The lower edge of one of the antenna elements is galvanically coupled to the antenna feed conductor on a circuit board, and at another point to the ground plane, while the lower edge of the opposite antenna element, or the parasitic element, is galvanically coupled only to the ground plane. The parasitic element obtains its feed through the electromagnetic coupling over the slot, and both elements resonate at the operating frequency. Omni-directionality is also achieved. Losses associated with the substrate are low due to the simple field image in the substrate.
US07786926B2
A radar system for motor vehicles, having a radar sensor and an evaluation device for measuring distances and relative velocities of objects in the surrounding field of the vehicle, and a collision detection device, which, on the basis of the measured distances and relative velocities, recognizes an imminent collision and delivers data on the expected time of collision and the impact velocity to a precrash system. The radar sensor is switchable by the collision detection device to a velocity measurement mode in which a more precise measurement of the relative velocity is made.
US07786921B2
In a solid-state imaging device with an AD converter mounted on the same chip, to enable an efficient product-sum operation while reducing the size of the circuit scale and the number of transmission signal lines. A pixel signal during an n-row readout period is compared with a reference signal for digitizing this pixel signal, and a counting operation is performed in one of a down-counting mode and an up-counting mode while the comparison processing is being performed, and then, the count value when the comparison processing is finished is stored. Subsequently, by using the n-row counting result as the initial value, a pixel signal during an (n+1)-row readout period is compared with the reference signal for digitizing this pixel signal, and also, the counting operation is performed in one of the down-counting mode and the up-counting mode, and then, the count value when the comparison processing is finished is stored. If the count mode for the n+1 row is set to be opposite to the count mode for the n row, the count value obtained by the counting operation for the n+1 row is a subtraction result. If the count modes for the n+1 row and the n row are set to be the same, the count value obtained by the counting operation for the n+1 row is an addition result.
US07786917B2
A digital-to-analog converter is disclosed for converting a digital signal into its analog equivalent. The digital-to-analog converter includes a two switches capable of coupling circuit nodes to ground, a scaling capacitor having a capacitance value that equals a unit capacitance value, a first array of capacitors coupled to the first circuit node and a first switching array which couples the first array of capacitors to either ground or a reference voltage depending on the digital values of the least significant bits of the digital word being converted, a second array of capacitors coupled to the second circuit node and a second switching array which couples the second array of capacitors to either ground or the reference voltage depending on the digital values of the most significant bits of the digital word being converted.
US07786915B1
An adaptive digital pre-distortion block is used to cancel device nonlinearities to improve the overall linearity of a Delta-Sigma DAC system. In particular, the pre-distortion block may be implemented all in digital components and utilize programmable registers that change the pre-distortion transfer function either statically or dynamically, or both. Static changes can be for variation in process corners during production, whereas, dynamic changes can be used to correct nonlinear changes that can occur from environmental reasons such as voltage, temperature, aging and device stress.
US07786912B2
A sigma delta converter system and method includes a multi bit quantizer circuit coupled to an output of the converter. A single bit analog-to-digital converter circuit is contained in a feedback path of the converter. The converter includes a feed forward path operable to multiply an input voltage by a feed forward coefficient having a value that is a function of a gain control input signal. The gain control input signal can have a value that is a function of the output of the multi bit quantizer.
US07786910B2
A device and method for correlation-based background calibration of pipelined converters with a reduced power penalty. A pipelined analog-to-digital converter (ADC) utilizes a random or pseudorandom signal to reduce the quantization error of subconverting stages. Stages within the ADC comprise an injection circuit having a plurality of capacitive branches in parallel. Less than all of the branches can function during a given clock cycle of the ADC. This allows a subconverting stage within the ADC to be accurately trimmed before operation using a large amplitude signal. At the same time, the capability to inject smaller amplitude random or pseudorandom signals into the subconverting stage during operation is maintained, saving valuable dynamic range and power. The various capacitive branches are cycled through either randomly or in sequence such that the quantizer manifests the same average gain error over time for which the quantizer was initially trimmed.
US07786904B1
A digital system programmed to accept words wherein each of said words is a collection of “bit” voltage values with each bit value represented by its position in the word and the value of a base raised to a power, said base multiplied by an integer, m.
US07786900B2
Navigation of an aircraft is facilitated through the displaying on a map of an over flown region, and of the limits of zones within range of the aircraft in an emergency situation. The points of the zones within range of the aircraft are tagged on the basis of: an estimate of the vertical margins to reach these points, taking into account non-maneuverability zones neighboring the aircraft to be circumvented; a vertical flight profile to be complied with; and a safety height margin.
US07786897B2
An HOV enforcement system comprises roadside imaging units connected over a network to a central processing center. The roadside imaging units include Ethernet cameras with integrated vehicle detectors, night-time lighting, and image servers. The central processing center includes a central server with license plate reading and vehicle matching software, storage and databases, and review staff to issue bills and citations.
US07786895B2
A multi-user vehicle telemetric system comprises vehicle interface units (VIUs), wireless gateways, and one or more central hosts. The VIU in a vehicle collects data over the OBD-II bus and stores the data in the form of DataPoint Records (DPRs) in an on-board non-volatile (e.g. flash) memory. When the VIU is within wireless range of a gateway, it establishes a WiFi (802.11b) connection with the gateway, and submits stored DPRs to the gateway, to be stored in permanent storage at the gateway. Although the DPRs are stored in permanent storage on the gateway, they are deleted from permanent storage on the gateway after they are successfully uploaded to the central hosts. The gateways are shared, and communicate with the central hosts over a wide area network (WAN). When a gateway has gathered new DPRs from a VIU, it submits these to selected central hosts. The central hosts collect vehicle data for a plurality of users, each user being assigned a central host exclusively, or sharing a central host with other users. Each of the VIUs may be exclusively accessed by a single user or a number of users, and the shared gateways forward DPRs from a VIU only to the central hosts of the users which are authorized to access the VIU.
US07786878B2
A signal representative of a pressure is received from an industrial transmitter. An isolation indicator signal may be obtained by control signals from an isolation valve assembly or by signals from a DCS to indicate that isolation has occurred.
US07786854B2
A system and method for performing a walk test for an alarm system having an alarm panel and at least one zone, each zone having at least one sensor, having steps of placing the alarm panel in an engineering mode, establishing a communications channel between the alarm panel and a communication device and remotely placing the alarm panel in an appropriate state for each walk test, selecting a zone, triggering an alarm for each sensor in the selected zone, and using the communications channel to report the triggered alarm to the communication device, and remotely placing the alarm panel in an appropriate state for the next walk test after triggering all of the sensors in the zone. The system and method can also include user input to the alarm panel to indicate the desired communications channel.
US07786848B2
A complementary security system for installation, at least in part in a vehicle, has an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) security system installed therein. The complementary security system for communicating an alarm condition beyond the communication range of the OEM security system. The complementary security system comprising: a control module for receiving a trigger signal being indicative of the alarm condition detected by the OEM security system; a communication module for transmitting by Radio Frequency (RF) an alert signal upon receipt of the trigger signal by the control module; and a remote transmitter for alerting a user upon receipt of the alert signal. The remote transmitter being located beyond the communication range of the OEM security system. A corresponding method is also described.
US07786841B2
A fuse cutout assembly having enhanced safety features to aid in both removal and replacement of fuse tubes. The inventive assembly can be produced by making modifications to standard fuse cutout assemblies. The modifications include lengthening the trunnions of the lower contact assembly and adding reflectors as a further visual aid for positioning the lower contact portion of the fuse tube within the trunnion sockets. Additionally, a molded plastic guide placed proximate the lower contact area of the fuseholder of the cutout promotes “self guiding” of the fuseholder during replacement. Also, the pull ring is modified by the addition of protruding arcuate sections extending from a standard pull ring, the sections allowing the technician to engage the pull down ring without aiming the hook stick through the ring. Additional reflectors are strategically placed to facilitate replacement of the fuseholder.
US07786834B2
An inductor 10 has a magnetic body 11 of a rectangular solid shape and a coil 12 embedded in the magnetic body 11. The coil 12 integrally has a part constituted by a helically wound coil wire, two leader parts 12a provided at the two ends of the wound part, and terminal parts 13 connected to the ends of the leader parts and wider than the leader parts 12a, where the boundary between each leader part 12a and each terminal part 13 is positioned in the magnetic body 11, and the end of each terminal part 13 is exposed from the corresponding side face of the magnetic body 11 and folded in an L shape along the side face and bottom face.
US07786831B2
A modular terminal for a molded case circuit breaker by which various types of terminals can be joined together and configuration and assembly are simplified, the modular terminal comprising a plurality of terminal bases each of which is provided for each phase, a terminal which is detachably supported at each terminal base, and a joint piece which connects a pair of the terminal bases adjacent to each other to form a terminal module.
US07786828B2
In a bandstop filter having an input port (2; 3), an output port (3; 2) and a waveguide (1, 1′) connecting the two ports, at least one resonator body (4, 5; 4′ 5) is located in the waveguide (1, 1′), which resonator body has resonance frequency above the limit frequency of the waveguide (1; 1′).
US07786825B2
A bulk acoustic wave device includes first and second resonators, which are acoustically coupled and electrically connected in parallel.
US07786821B2
A compact end launch transition for providing a connection between a housing having an electrical terminator and a waveguide component and associated method are described. The transition includes a having a rear side presenting a substantially flat surface to abut the housing and has a front side having an aperture. An antenna located within the body is configured to interact with the aperture to form an end launch transition. An electrical connector is in electrical communication with the antenna and exposed from the rear side of the body to connect directly to the electrical terminator. This avoids the need to use cable to connect the housing and waveguide component and provides a particularly compact device.
US07786819B2
An apparatus including a matching circuit; a first variable reactance component, having a first range of reactance values, and connected to the matching circuit and connectable to an antenna element operable in a first frequency band and a second frequency band; a second variable reactance component, having a second range of reactance values, and connected to the matching circuit; a detector for detecting a parameter, indicative of the impedance of the apparatus, over at least a part of the first range and second range of reactance values; and a controller configured to determine, using information provided by the detector, optimum ratios of second reactance values to first reactance values, at a frequency in the first frequency band, and configured to select a first optimum ratio when the second frequency band is greater than the first frequency band and configured to select a second different optimum ratio when the second frequency band is less than the first frequency band.
US07786817B2
An integrated circuit comprises a microelectromechanical (MEMS) resonator circuit that generates a reference frequency. A temperature sensor senses a temperature of the integrated circuit. Memory stores calibration parameters and selects at least one of the calibration parameters as a function of the sensed temperature. A phase locked loop module receives the reference signal, comprises a feedback loop having a feedback loop parameter and selectively adjusts the feedback loop parameter based on the at least one of the calibration parameters.
US07786809B1
A system that includes a phase locked loop and an activation circuit; wherein the phase locked loop includes an oscillator, a frequency divider, a phase detector, a control circuit, and a memory circuit. The activation circuit is adapted to activate the memory circuit and the oscillator; to deactivate the frequency divider, the phase detector and the control circuit during deactivation periods and to activate the frequency divider, the phase detector and the control circuit during activation periods. The timing relationship between a deactivation period and an activation period is responsive to an output signal jitter limitation and to a power consumption limitation.
US07786808B2
A micro-structured optics apparatus includes a concave microlens to expand a beam of light, a reflector to provide a first reflection of at least a portion of the beam of light and a micro-Fresnel lens to collimate the at least a portion of the beam of light after the expansion.
US07786806B2
A cascode LNA circuit is provided with a tuned inductive load. The circuit shows a flat response over a wide frequency range.
US07786805B2
A power amplifier module comprises a power amplifier circuit having an output power level controlled by a power supply voltage. A power supply transistor controls the power supply to the power amplifier circuit from a drive signal which is received from a drive circuit. The drive circuit generates the drive signal in response to a power level input signal, which specifically may correspond to a power ramping for a GSM cellular communication system. The power amplifier module furthermore comprises a detection circuit which determines an operating characteristic of the power supply transistor. The operating characteristic is preferably a saturation characteristic. A control circuit controls the drive signal in response to the operating characteristic. The control circuit preferably controls the drive signal such that the power supply transistor does not enter the linear region for a Field Effect Transistor and the saturated region for a bipolar transistor.
US07786798B2
An amplifier stage capable of delivering a peak limited voltage pulse with sharp transitions, at a desired width and duty cycle, and with high efficiency is disclosed. One disclosed embodiment relates to a circuit that includes a tuned class D amplifier that receives an input signal and generates a pulsed RF output signal in response to the input signal. The pulsed RF output signal has a greater power than that of the input signal.
US07786794B2
An amplifier circuit is disclosed that includes a first input terminal; a second input terminal; a first differential amplifier circuit that samples signals input to the first and second input terminals and outputs signals obtained by applying a gain to the sampled input signals having different voltages; and a second differential amplifier circuit that supplies first and second reference voltages referred to when a sampling operation is performed in the first differential amplifier circuit to the first and second input terminals, respectively. A potential difference between the first and second reference voltages is equal to an offset voltage of the first differential amplifier circuit.
US07786791B2
Internal voltage generation circuit including a reference oscillation signal generator for generating a reference oscillation signal according to a comparison result of a pumping voltage with a reference voltage, an oscillation signal generator for generating a plurality of oscillation signals with a predetermined phase difference and a pumping voltage generator for generating a pumping voltage through sequential charge pumping operations performed in response to the plurality of oscillation signals, respectively.
US07786788B2
A level shifter includes a voltage distributor for receiving an input signal and respectively outputting a first signal and a second signal at a first node and a second node according to the input signal; and an output circuit coupled to the voltage distributor for generating an output signal according to the first signal and the second signal, wherein the voltage distributor includes: a first transistor having a first electrode, a second electrode coupled to the first node, and a first control electrode for receiving the input signal; a switch coupled between the first node and the second node for selectively establishing an electrical connection between the first and the second nodes; and a second transistor having a third electrode coupled to the second node, a fourth electrode, and a second control electrode coupled to the first node.
US07786768B2
A spread spectrum clock generator is provided which improves the spread spectrum effect with little increasing the circuit cost by modifying the shape of a triangular wave used for frequency modulation by a simple method. The output signal of the modulation waveform generating circuit has such a modulation waveform as indicated by solid lines in FIG. 2A. The modulation waveform is input to a VCO (voltage-controlled oscillator). In response to the modulation waveform, the oscillation frequency of the VCO is modulated, and the output clock that varies its frequency as illustrated in FIG. 2B is obtained. The frequency transition of the output clock involves such temporal variations as indicated by solid lines in FIG. 2C.
US07786756B1
Systems and methods of suppressing latchup. In accordance with a first embodiment of the present invention a latchup suppression system comprises a voltage comparator for comparing a voltage applied to a body terminal of a semiconductor device to a reference voltage. The voltage comparator is also for controlling a selective coupling mechanism. The selective coupling mechanism is for selectively coupling the body terminal to a respective power supply. The latchup suppressing system is preferably independent of a voltage supply for applying a voltage to the body terminal.
US07786748B1
In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a single-flux quantum logic gate capable of providing output from one of the two inputs, which is also known as the A and NOT B gate. The logic gate includes a first input gate and a second input gate for respectively receiving a first input pulse and a second input pulse. An output gate is wired in parallel with the first input gate. A first Josephson junction and a second Josephson junction are connected to the first input gate and the second input gate, respectively. A cross-coupled transformer is also provided. The cross-coupled transformer diverts the first pulse from the output gate if the second pulse is detected at the second input gate. In an optional embodiment, the first Josephson junction has a first critical current which is selected to be less than the critical current of the second Josephson junction.
US07786739B2
Embodiments of the invention include testing arrangements for detecting proper DC-coupled board connections on the input legs of a differential receiver. The testing implementation includes a first test receiver AC-coupled to the connection between the first input/output (I/O) pad and the differential receiver positive input and/or a second test receiver coupled to the connection between the second I/O pad and the differential receiver negative input. The test receiver protects the test receiver input from DC voltages applied to the differential receiver via the differential receiver input. Also, the test receiver includes a high-pass filter arrangement that generates data capable of detecting whether the I/O pad connected to the test receiver has a proper DC-coupled connection or an improper connection when presented with a stimulus pulse. The test receiver is less susceptible to noise because than conventional arrangements that use a low-pass RC filter.
US07786737B2
A three-port TDR front end comprises numerous components. An exemplary three-port TDR front end is a DSL modem. Information-bearing TDR signals are distorted as they pass through these components. With a perfect model of the response of its front-end, a TDR system usually can compensate for the effects of its front-end. In reality, however, the electrical characteristics of each component vary from design-to-design, board-to-board, and slowly over time The result is imperfect knowledge about the true response of the front-end, errors in the model of the front-end, and degraded TDR performance. At least for this reason it is important to precisely calibrate the response of the TDR front-end through the use of a TDR modeling system.
US07786733B2
A resistivity array having a modular design includes a transmitter module with at least one antenna, wherein the transmitter module has connectors on both ends adapted to connect with other downhole tools; and a receiver module with at least one antenna, wherein the transmitter module has connectors on both ends adapted to connect with other downhole tools; and wherein the transmitter module and the receiver module are spaced apart on a drill string and separated by at least one downhole tool. Each transmitter and receiver module may comprise at least one antenna coil with a magnetic moment orientation not limited to the tool longitudinal direction. A spacing between the transmitter and receiver module may be selected based on expected reservoir thickness.
US07786731B2
A receiver and tracking system for identifying a location of a magnetic field source. In a preferred embodiment a plurality of tri-axial antennas are positioned at three distinct points on a receiver frame. Each antenna detects a magnetic field from a source and a processor is used to determine a location of the source relative to the frame using the antenna signals. Each tri-axial antenna comprises three windings in each of three channels defined by a support structure. The windings each define an aperture area. The windings have substantially identical aperture areas and have a common center point. The receiver may to display to the operator the relative location of the field source or may direct the operator to a spot directly above the field source.
US07786729B2
A method of magnetic resonance imaging based on rapid acquisition by sequential excitation and refocusing is provided. The method comprises turning on a first time-encoding gradient and applying an excitation pulse in the presence of the first time-encoding gradient. The excitation pulse excites magnetization sequentially along one spatial axis. Thereafter, a first refocusing pulse is applied. A second time-encoding gradient is turned on followed by a second refocusing pulse. A third time-encoding gradient is turned on and a signal is acquired in the presence of the third time-encoding gradient. The third time-encoding gradient sums to zero with the first time-encoding gradient and the second time-encoding gradient for sequential points in space.
US07786727B2
A small rotary encoder capable of easily fitting a substrate into a proper position without using an adhesive or the like is provided. Slits are formed in an encoder case so that the encoder case is partially plate-spring shaped, a step portion and a claw portion are formed on the inner circumference of the encoder case, convex portions and concave portions that are combined with each other are formed on the inner circumference of the encoder case and a substrate, respectively. When the substrate is inserted into the encoder case, the encoder case is bent by the slits so that the substrate can be inserted into the encoder case. The substrate is inserted between the step portion and the claw portion, so that the substrate can be fitted into the encoder case, and the substrate is prevented from being incorrectly fitted in a circumferential direction, so that a position can be easily determined.
US07786716B2
A solar cell regulator in a nanosatellite includes a pulse width modulated DC-DC boost converter and a peak power tracking controller for converting solar cell power to bus power for charging of system batteries and powering loads while the controller controls the pulse width modulation operation of the converter for sensing solar cell currents and voltages along a power characteristic curve of the solar cell for peak power tracking, for determining any power data point, including a peak power point, an open circuit voltage point, and a short circuit current point along the power characteristic curve of the solar cell, and for communicating the power data to a satellite processor for monitoring the performance of the solar cell during operational use of the satellite.
US07786711B2
Conduction loss in the body-diode of a low side MOSFET of a power switching stage of one phase of a coupled-inductor, multi-phase DC-DC converter circuit, associated with current flow in the output inductor of that one phase that is induced by current flow in a mutually coupled output inductor of another phase, during normal switching of that other stage, is effectively prevented by applying auxiliary MOSFET turn-on signals, that coincide with the duration of the induced current, to that low side MOSFET, so that the induced current will flow through the turned-on low side MOSFET itself, thereby by-passing its body-diode.
US07786703B2
An electronic device which is capable of performing high-accuracy remaining battery capacity management. The electronic device has a plurality of battery pack compartments assigned specific addresses, respectively. A remaining capacity-detecting unit detects the remaining battery capacity of a battery pack mounted in a battery pack compartment. A control microcomputer receives information indicative of a remaining battery capacity sent from a battery pack accommodated in one of the battery pack compartments and address information on the battery pack compartment, and sends correction information concerning the remaining battery capacity to the battery pack.
US07786696B2
A battery pack that is charged with power generated in an external power generator and supplies battery power to an external load in parallel with the external power generator, and a power receiving device of a portable electronic device that receives and supplies battery power to an external load in parallel with the external power generator, the battery pack including: a battery cell to discharge power based on a charged amount of electric charge; an external power input terminal to receive power from an external power generator; a power output terminal to supply power to an external load; and a voltage transforming circuit to transform voltage of the power received through the external power input terminal to transfer the transformed voltage to the power output terminal.
US07786688B2
A drive signal generation circuit generates drive signals that control ON and OFF states of transistors of a H-bridge circuit, in accordance with a target value of torque. A driver circuit alternatively turns ON and OFF high side transistors, and low side transistors of the H-bridge circuit, based on the drive signals outputted from the drive signal generation circuit. The driver circuit immediately turns OFF the high side transistors, when an instruction is issued to stop a motor, and after a predetermined delay time τd has elapsed, turns OFF the low side transistors.
US07786685B2
A linear motor includes a primary part arranged as a guideway stator and at least one secondary part that is movable with respect to the primary part, the at least one secondary part having device(s) for controlling the generation of a magnetic field, causing its motion, in the primary part. It is possible to avoid costly control devices for the application of current to the stator.
US07786684B2
Flight control systems and methods for rotorcraft are provided. The flight control system includes a user input device and a motor in operable communication with the user input device. The motor includes a plurality of winding sets and an armature coupled to the plurality of winding sets. The armature includes multiple magnets. The winding sets and the armature are configured such that when one or more of the plurality of winding sets are selectively energized, the armature moves relative to the one or more of the plurality of winding sets.
US07786682B2
Lighting of a discharge lamp is controlled in a manner to reduce deterioration of the discharge lamp subjected to high temperature and extend the lifetime of the discharge lamp. A method for controlling lighting of the discharge lamp includes a first constant current control process (period T1, which corresponds to steps S3 and S4) in which constant current control is executed by supplying a first current to the discharge lamp, a second constant current control process (period T3, which corresponds to steps S7 and S8) in which constant current control is executed by supplying a second current greater than the first current to the discharge lamp after the first constant current control process, and a constant power control process (period T4) in which constant power control is executed after the second constant current control process.
US07786681B2
A driving apparatus and a driving method are disclosed that are capable of uniformly lighting each entire fluorescent tube irrespective of the length or number of fluorescent tubes when simultaneously driving a plurality of fluorescent tubes in a fluorescent tube lighting apparatus. When two inverter circuits having respective transformers are provided at both ends of a fluorescent tube to light the fluorescent tube by push-pull driving, feedback windings of transformers not used in self-excited oscillation of each inverter circuit are connected together, with the transformer connection that connects together the feedback windings being either in-phase or in opposite phase, and the method of connection for fluorescent tubes connecting to secondary windings of each transformer can be changed in accordance with that connection method.
US07786680B2
The invention is a driving apparatus and circuit for efficiently converting a direct current (DC) signal into an alternating current (AC) signal to drive a fluorescent lamp. A semi class E configuration which utilizes only one transistor is employed in the invention. The invention comprises a power transistor, a transformer wherein a primary winding is used as a load for the power transistor and a secondary winding is used to transfer energy to the load for the driving apparatus, i.e. the CCFL tube, and control means which extracts the frequency and current of the power transistor and corrects the deviation between the frequency of the power transistor and that of the control means.
US07786675B2
The present invention relates to methods and systems for fast ferroelectric tuning of RF power used in a particle accelerating system. By adjusting the voltages fed to the ferroelectric phase shift controller, the amplitude and phase of the RF power wave are altered, thus changing the coupling of the power generating circuit and the superconducting cavity. By altering this coupling rapidly, maximum power transfer efficiency can be achieved, which is important given the large amounts of power shunted through the particle accelerating system. In one embodiment, the ferroelectric tuner is optimally made of a magic-T waveguide circuit element and two phase shifters, although other implementations of the system may be utilized. Alternative phase shifters are shown.
US07786674B2
A quartz metal halide lamp includes an outer sealed envelope defining an interior space, and an arc tube disposed in the interior space. The arc tube has a fill space. A chemical fill is disposed in the fill space. The chemical fill includes sodium halide and lanthanide halide, with the lanthanide halide selected from the group consisting of europium iodide, europium bromide, praseodymium iodide, praseodymium bromide, ytterbium iodide, ytterbium bromide and combinations thereof. The lanthanide halide is between 2 and 6 weight percent of the chemical fill. Electrodes are partially disposed within the fill space.
US07786667B2
An organic electroluminescent element including a substrate, a first electrode, a partition wall next to the first electrode, an organic luminescent medium layer including an organic luminescent layer on the first electrode and second electrode is provided. The organic luminescent medium layer can be between the first electrode and the second electrode. An area where the organic luminescent medium layer is between the first electrode and the second electrode is a light emitting area. At least one layer among the organic luminescent medium layer is continuously formed from the light emitting area to a top face of the partition wall.
US07786666B2
An organic electroluminescent display device with an extended lifetime is provided. When at least a hole transport layer HTR, a light emitting layer LUM, an electron transport layer ETR and an electron injection layer EIN are stacked between one electrode (an anode AND or a cathode CTD) formed on the principal surface of an insulating substrate SUB1 and the other electrode (the cathode CTD or the anode AND) by vapor deposition, the concentration of a plasticizer trapped into the layers in a vapor deposition apparatus is limited to less than or equal to 100 ppm.
US07786664B2
An embodiment of the invention provides a plane display device in which a cathode panel having a plurality of electron emitting areas provided therein, and an anode panel having phosphor layers and an anode electrode provided therein are joined to each other in their peripheral portions, and a space defined between the cathode panel and the anode panel is kept at a vacuum, the plane display device, including: an exhaust tube made of a conductive material, the exhaust tube having one end portion communicating with the space, and the other end portion located outside the plane display device; and an elastic member made of a conductive material; in which the exhaust tube and the anode electrode are electrically connected to each other through the elastic member disposed in the space; and a predetermined voltage is applied to the anode electrode through the exhaust tube and the elastic member.
US07786663B2
A method for providing a flat panel display includes the steps of: providing an anode assembly containing a plurality of pixels; applying a photoresist to a surface of the anode assembly; applying a mask that defines a control frame top surface; exposing the mask to UV radiation and causing the photoresist to cross link at the exposed areas of the photoresist such that the exposed photoresist is inert and does not outgas in a vacuum; removing the unexposed areas of the photoresist to define a pedestal; forming a planarizing layer over the exposed photoresist pedestal; applying a metal layer over the planarizing layer; applying a second photoresist over the metal layer; exposing portions of the second photoresist and removing excess of the metal layer and the planarizing layer to form the metal layer only on top of the exposed photoresist pedestal; and applying nanotube emitters on the metal layer.
US07786654B2
A compact rake piezoelectric assembly comprises a body (110), a plurality of blades (120) extending away from the body, and a piezoelectric patch (130) attached to the body. The piezoelectric patch has a fixed portion (138) and a free portion (139), with the fixed portion being constrained to be in physical contact with the body.
US07786646B2
A magnetic force rotation device includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor is provided with a plurality of magnetic assemblies containing permanent magnet. The plurality of magnetic assemblies are arranged along the circumferential direction of the rotating shaft to form a wheel-shaped ring, and each magnetic assembly is provided with two magnetic poles. The stator is provided with a plurality of magnetically isolated electromagnets coaxially arranged. The electromagnets form a wheel-shaped ring around the rotating shaft, and each electromagnet is provided with paired poles. The wheel-shaped ring of the stator is at least party surrounded by the wheel-shaped ring of the rotor, so that each pole of the paired poles of the electromagnets of the stator corresponds to one magnetic pole of the two magnetic poles of the magnetic assemblies of the rotor respectively. Two axial component air gaps are provided between the rotor and the stator. One of the above two axial component air gaps and two radial component air gaps are provided between one of the paired poles of the electromagnets of the stator and one corresponding magnetic pole of the two magnetic poles of the magnetic assemblies of the rotor.
US07786643B2
The electrical machine (1) has a stator (2) and a rotor (5), wherein the stator (2) has stator slots (8), in which a stator winding (4) with redundant and at least three-phase winding systems (U1, V1, W1; U2, V2, W2) is laid. According to the invention, the electrical machine (1) has a large number of poles with a pole number (PZ) of at least four, a number (NZ) of stator slots (8) which corresponds to the product of a phase number and the square of the pole number (PZ) of the electrical machine (1) or an integral multiple thereof, and a number of winding systems (U1, V1, W1; . . . ; U4, V4, W4) which corresponds to the pole number (PZ). In each case a number of in-phase winding sections (U1-U4, V1-V4, W1-W4) which corresponds to the pole number (PZ) are combined to form a group of phase winding sections (PU, PV, PW). The phase winding section groups (PU, PV, PW) are laid, phase-cyclically and pole-for-pole, in the stator slots (8) of the stator (2). Depending on the pole and phase winding section group (PU, PV, PW), in each case are slot region (N1-N4) which corresponds to the pole number (PZ) is provided. The slot assignment takes place in such a way that the in-phase winding sections (U1-U4, V1-V4, W1-W4) are distributed, corresponding to their numbering, uniformly amongst the slot positions (N1, . . . , N4) of the associated slot regions (N1-N4).
US07786640B2
A drive device includes an input shaft connected to an engine; a first rotating electrical machine and a second rotating electrical machine; a differential gear unit including a first rotating element, a second rotating element, and a third rotating element; and a control device. The first rotating electrical machine and the differential gear unit are positioned coaxially with the input shaft. The first rotating electrical machine and the second rotating electrical machine are positioned on different axes from each other so as to axially overlap each other. A first component of the control device is positioned lower than the first rotating electrical machine and positioned so that at least a part of the first component overlaps the first rotating electrical machine when viewed in a vertical top plan view.
US07786634B2
The disclosure relates to a motor- or generator-related arrangement or structure (20) with two parts (5, 15) rotatably disposed in relation to one another, where a first part (5), serving as rotor unit, is rotatably disposed about a shaft (7) in a first selected direction of rotation, and a second part (15), serving as stator unit, is rotatably disposed about said shaft (7) in a second selected direction of rotation counter directed to said first selected direction of rotation. Means (2, 3, 4, 14 and 13) are arranged for transforming the speed of the first direction of rotation to the second direction of rotation. Said means includes a first gear rim or ring (14), associated with the stator unit (15), at least two gear rotary wheels (4, 4′), coordinated with a housing (1, 11), and a second gear rim or ring (3) associated with the rotor (5).
US07786633B2
An electric motor (100) for controlling the lateral displacement of a shaft (114) connected to a rotor (104) of the electric motor (100) is provided. The electric motor (100) includes one or more stator conductors (106) for carrying a current and one or more permanent magnets (108) to produce a magnetic field (504). The one or more stator conductors (106) interact with the magnetic field (504) when the power is applied, to purposely generate a force with an axial (Fa) and a circumferential component (Fc). The electric motor (100) includes the shaft (114) that travels along a rotor axis (506) in an axial direction when the power is applied, under an action of the axial component of the force. However, when the power is removed, the shaft (114) retracts under the action of a biasing force from a tension device (118).
US07786625B2
A bus structure includes multiple soft buses and a soft separation layer. These multiple soft buses are stacked side by side each other. The soft separation layer is sandwiched between two adjacent soft buses.
US07786623B2
A cordless electronic device with power management system and method is provided that includes an outer surface, a power consumption circuit operable to consume power and for use in a cordless electronic device, a power supply circuit operable to regulate the power from a power source used to power the power consumption circuit of the cordless electronic device, a power control circuit operable to receive an input signal and to place the power consumption circuit in a lower or higher power state upon receipt of the input signal, a presence sensor operable to detect the presence of a user and to provide a presence sensor input signal to the power control circuit to place the power consumption circuit in the higher power state.
US07786621B2
Circuit arrangement and method for reducing electromagnetic interference. The circuit arrangement includes a supply potential connection, a reference-ground potential connection, a controllable impedance element, a signal generator, and a circuit unit. The controllable impedance element is connected between the supply potential connection and the reference-ground potential connection, and has a control connection for receiving a control signal for controlling the impedance of the impedance element. The signal generator is coupled to the control connection of the impedance element. The circuit unit is connected between the supply potential connection and the reference-ground potential connection, and originates the electromagnetic interference during operation. The signal generator is designed to produce the control signal, which varies over time, in such a manner that the electromagnetic interference which originates from the circuit unit during operation is changed.
US07786620B2
A super capacitor energy storage supplementing a battery providing power to a direct current bus including charge and discharge converters is disclosed. A bank of super capacitors may be charged by a battery with a pulse-width modulation controller and an electromagnetic interference filter. The bank of super capacitors may be controllably connected to the direct current bus through an isolating transformer implemented as a isolated boost converter.
US07786618B2
According to one aspect of the invention, a UPS includes an input configured to be coupled to an AC power source, a DC power source, an output configured to receive power from at least one of the AC power source and the DC power source, a first switched receptacle outlet coupled to the output and configured to be coupled to a first electrical load and a second receptacle outlet coupled to the output and configured to be coupled to a second electrical load. According to some embodiments, the UPS also includes a control unit configurable to provide a first configuration associated with the first switched receptacle outlet, where the first configuration is employed by the control unit to control a connection of the first switched receptacle outlet to the output independent of the second receptacle outlet.
US07786615B2
The invention relates to an electrical power distribution architecture specially adapted for actuating in sequence aircraft moving elements such as doors, undercarriages, or high-lift elements, said moving elements being actuated by electromechanical actuators powered in sequence from electrical power delivered by at least one electrical power bus of the aircraft.
US07786610B2
An aircraft adapted to house a wind funnel and a wind turbine configured to convert the airflow through the wind funnel into electricity. An electrical cable between the aircraft and a ground station transfers the generated electricity from the aircraft to the receiving ground station for distribution. A plurality of aircraft according to certain embodiments may form a system for generating electricity from airflow.
US07786608B2
A braking system for a wind turbine is provided, and the wind turbine includes a rotor having at least one blade. A generator includes a plurality of stator windings having a plurality of phases. The braking system includes a plurality of resistors, and at least one switch connected between the stator windings and the resistors. The switch can be configured to connect the stator windings to each other via the resistors, for the effect of slowing down or stopping the rotor of the wind turbine.
US07786606B2
A resin-sealed semiconductor device includes a metal frame, an electronic substrate, an adhesive agent, a molded resin, and a bonding agent. The electronic substrate includes a first surface having a circuit element wiring part, a second surface facing the metal frame, and a side surface arranged approximately perpendicularly to the first surface and the second surface. The adhesive agent is disposed between the metal frame and the second surface to cover the second surface and a portion of the side surface adjacent to the second surface. The molded resin covers the metal frame and the electronic substrate, and holds the other portion of the side surface adjacent to the first surface. The bonding agent is disposed between the circuit element wiring part and the molded resin so that the molded resin holds the circuit element wiring part through the bonding agent.
US07786599B2
A semiconductor device with an improved solder joint system is described. The solder system includes two copper contact pads connected by a body of solder and the solder is an alloy including tin, silver, and at least one metal from the transition groups IIIA, IVA, VA, VIA, VIIA, and VIIIA of the Periodic Table of the Elements. The solder joint system also includes, between the pads and the solder, layers of intermetallic compounds, which include grains of copper and tin compounds and copper, silver, and tin compounds. The compounds contain the transition metals. The inclusion of the transition metals in the compound grains reduce the compound grains size and prevent grain size increases after the solder joint undergoes repeated solid/liquid/solid cycles.
US07786595B2
The present invention provides a chip-stacked package structure with leadframe having bus bar, comprising: a leadframe composed of a plurality of inner leads arranged in rows facing each other, a plurality of outer leads, and a die pad, wherein the die pad is provided between the plurality of inner leads and is vertically distant from the plurality of inner leads; a chip-stacked structure formed with a plurality of chips that stacked together and set on the die pad, the plurality of chips and the plurality of inner leads being electrically connected with each other; and an encapsulant covering over the chip-stacked package structure and the leadframe, in which the leadframe comprises at least a bus bar, which is provided between the plurality of inner leads arranged in rows facing each other and the die pad.
US07786589B2
In one aspect of the present invention, a semiconductor device may include a semiconductor substrate having a semiconductor element on an upper surface, a first dielectric film provided on the semiconductor substrate, a second dielectric film provided on the first dielectric film, a metal ring provided in the first dielectric film and the second dielectric film and configured to form a closed loop in a plan view, a first region surrounded by the metal ring in a plan view, a second region provided outside of the metal ring in a plan view, a plurality of via contacts provided in the first dielectric film in the first and second region, a plurality of wirings provided in the second dielectric film in the first and second region, and an air gap provided in the second dielectric film in the first region.
US07786574B2
Methods for manufacturing microelectronic imaging units and microelectronic imaging units that are formed using such methods are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes providing a plurality of imaging dies on a microfeature workpiece. The individual imaging dies include an image sensor, an integrated circuit operably coupled to the image sensor, and a plurality of external contacts operably coupled to the integrated circuit. The method further includes attaching a plurality of covers to corresponding imaging dies, cutting the microfeature workpiece to singulate the imaging dies, and coupling the singulated dies to a support member. The covers can be attached to the imaging dies before or after the workpiece is cut.
US07786571B2
A heat-conductive package structure includes a carrier board having a first surface and an opposing second surface and formed with a through opening passing the carrier board; a first heat-conductive structure including a heat-conductive hole in the through opening, a first heat-conductive sheet on the carrier board, and a second heat-conductive sheet on the carrier board, wherein the first and second heat-conductive sheets are conductively connected by the heat-conductive hole; a first dielectric layer formed on the first surface of the carrier board and formed with a first opening for exposing the first heat-conductive sheet; a second dielectric layer formed on the second surface of the carrier board and formed with at least a second opening for exposing a portion of the second heat-conductive sheet; and a second heat-conductive structure formed in the second opening and mounted on the second heat-conductive sheet.
US07786567B2
Substrate for electrical devices and methods of manufacturing such substrate are disclosed. An embodiment for the substrate comprised of an insulator and a plurality of conductive elements, wherein the conductive elements embedded in the insulator, and two surfaces of the conductive element exposed to two surfaces of the insulator for electrical connection respectively, meanwhile a portion of conductive element may protrude the insulator, in this manner, solder balls are not needed, moreover the conductive element of substrate may further include either an extending portion or a protruding portion, and the present invention may be capable of affording a thinner electrical device thickness, enhanced reliability, and a decreased cost in production.
US07786550B2
A p-type semiconductor includes a host material that is a semiconductor, an acceptor element and a localized band formation element. The acceptor element is doped to the host material and has fewer valence electrons than valance electrons of at least one of the elements which compose the host material. The localized band formation element is doped to the host material, is isovalent with at least one of the elements which compose the host material, has smaller electronegativity than the electronegativity of the element(s), and forms the localized band which activates holes of an acceptor level.
US07786546B2
A system-on-chip (SoC) that is immune to electromagnetic interference has block shield rings fabricated therein. The SoC includes a microprocessor core; an on-chip bus interface; an embedded memory block; and an analog/mixed-signal integrated circuit shielded by an EMI shield ring encircling the analog/mixed-signal integrated circuit for protecting the analog/mixed-signal integrated circuit from electromagnetic interference. The EMI shield ring is grounded and includes a metal rampart consisting of multi-layer metals and vias. A pickup diffusion is connected to the metal rampart. In one embodiment, the memory block is also shielded.
US07786543B2
A MOS or CMOS based active pixel sensor with special sampling features to substantially eliminate clock noise. The sensor includes an array of pixels fabricated in or on a substrate, each pixel defining a charge collection node on which charges generated inside a photodiode region are collected, a charge integration node, at which charges generated in said pixel are integrated to produce pixel signals, a charge sensing node from which reset signals and the pixel signals are sensed. In preferred embodiments the sensor includes a continuous electromagnetic radiation detection structure located above the pixel circuits providing a photodiode region for each pixel. The sensor includes integrated circuit elements adapted to maintain voltage potentials of the charge integration nodes substantially constant during charge integration cycles. The sensor also includes integrated circuit elements having electrical capacitance adapted to store charges providing an electrical potential at the charge integration node. In preferred embodiments this is a pinned diode.
US07786542B2
Embodiments relate to a dual image sensor which includes a first device including a first wafer having a first inclined step, a first reflective face on an inclined plane on the first inclined step, at least one first microlens over a lower end surface adjacent the first inclined step, and a first via-hole filled with metal on an upper end face adjacent the first inclined step. A second device in the dual image sensor includes a second wafer having a second inclined step, a second reflective face on an inclined plane on the second inclined step, and at least one second microlens over a first portion of an upper end face adjacent the second inclined step. A dual image sensor is formed by connecting the metal in the first via-hole and the metal in the second via-hole together. The dual image sensor is capable of imaging light incident from one or both sides as well as light incident in front or rear of the image sensor.
US07786530B2
A vertical field-effect transistor having a semiconductor layer, in which a doped channel region is arranged along a depression. A “buried” terminal region leads as far as a surface of the semiconductor layer. The field-effect transistor also has a doped terminal region near an opening of the depression as well as the doped terminal region remote from the opening, a control region arranged in the depression, and an electrical insulating region between the control region and the channel region. The terminal region remote from the opening leads as far as a surface containing the opening or is electrically conductively connected to an electrically conductive connection leading to the surface. The control region is arranged in only one depression. The field-effect transistor is a drive transistor at a word line or at a bit line of a memory cell array.
US07786525B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes an element isolation insulating film buried in first trenches, a floating gate electrode formed on an element forming region with a first gate insulating film being interposed between them, and a second gate insulating film formed on upper portions of the floating gate electrode and an element isolation insulating film. The floating gate electrode is formed so as to have a side that extends from a bottom thereof to its upper portion and is substantially an extension of a sidewall of each first trench. The element isolation insulating film includes a portion located between its sidewall and the sidewall of a second trench, and the portion of the element isolation insulating film having a film thickness in a direction along the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate. The film thickness is equal to a film thickness of the second gate insulating film.
US07786496B2
A FET is formed on a semiconductor substrate, a curved surface having a radius of curvature is formed on an upper end of an insulation, a portion of a first electrode is exposed corresponding to the curved surface to form an inclined surface, and a region defining a luminescent region is subjected to etching to expose the first electrode. Luminescence emitted from an organic chemical compound layer is reflected by the inclined surface of the first electrode to increase a total quantity of luminescence taken out in a certain direction.
US07786491B2
A semiconductor light-emitting device includes: a substrate; a plurality of semiconductor layers grown on the substrate and including an active layer; and an electrode formed on the semiconductor layers. An opening in which at least a portion of the semiconductor layers is exposed is formed in the substrate. The electrode faces the opening in the substrate and a portion of the substrate surrounding the opening.
US07786488B2
Nitride semiconductor wafers which are produced by epitaxially grown nitride films on a foreign undersubstrate in vapor phase have strong inner stress due to misfit between the nitride and the undersubstrate material. A GaN wafer which has made by piling GaN films upon a GaAs undersubstrate in vapor phase and eliminating the GaAs undersubstrate bends upward due to the inner stress owing to the misfit of lattice constants between GaN and GaAs.
US07786469B2
A silicon/germanium (SiGe) superlattice thermal sensor is provided with a corresponding fabrication method. The method forms an active CMOS device in a first Si substrate, and a SiGe superlattice structure on a second Si-on-insulator (SOI) substrate. The first substrate is bonded to the second substrate, forming a bonded substrate. An electrical connection is formed between the SiGe superlattice structure and the CMOS device, and a cavity is formed between the SiGe superlattice structure and the bonded substrate.
US07786467B2
Various embodiments of the present invention include three-dimensional, at least partially nanoscale, electronic circuits and devices in which signals can be routed in three independent directions, and in which electronic components can be fabricated at junctions interconnected by internal signal lines. The three-dimensional, at least partially nanoscale, electronic circuits and devices include layers, the nanowire or microscale-or-submicroscale/nanowire junctions of each of which may be economically and efficiently fabricated as one type of electronic component. Various embodiments of the present invention include nanoscale memories, nanoscale programmable arrays, nanoscale multiplexers and demultiplexers, and an almost limitless number of specialized nanoscale circuits and nanoscale electronic components.
US07786466B2
Gate electrodes are formed on a semiconducting carbon nanotube, followed by deposition and patterning of a hole-inducing material layer and an electron inducing material layer on the carbon nanotube according to the pattern of a one dimensional circuit layout. Electrical isolation may be provided by cutting a portion of the carbon nanotube, forming a reverse biased junction of a hole-induced region and an electron-induced region of the carbon nanotube, or electrically biasing a region through a dielectric layer between two device regions of the carbon nanotube. The carbon nanotubes may be arranged such that hole-inducing material layer and electron-inducing material layer may be assigned to each carbon nanotube to form periodic structures such as a static random access memory (SRAM) array.
US07786465B2
Carbon nanotube template arrays may be edited to form connections between proximate nanotubes and/or to delete undesired nanotubes or nanotube junctions.
US07786462B2
A chalcogenide material and chalcogenide memory device having less stringent requirements for formation, improved thermal stability and/or faster operation. The chalcogenide materials include materials comprising Ge, Sb and Te in which the Ge and/or Te content is lean relative to the commonly used Ge2Sb2Te5 chalcogenide composition. Electrical devices containing the instant chalcogenide materials show a rapid convergence of the set resistance during cycles of setting and resetting the device from its as-fabricated state, thus leading to a reduced or eliminated need to subject the device to post-fabrication electrical formation prior to end-use operation. Improved thermal stability is manifested in terms of prolonged stability of the resistance of the device at elevated temperatures, which leads to an inhibition of thermally induced setting of the reset state in the device. Significant improvements in the 10 year data retention temperature are demonstrated. Faster device operation is achieved through an increased speed of crystallization, which acts to shorten the time required to transform the chalcogenide material from its reset state to its set state in an electrical memory device.
US07786453B2
A charged-particle beam writing apparatus includes first and second storage devices, a transfer processor for sequentially sending to the first storage several design data files per pattern layout-defined region, a first data processor which sequentially reads design data files from the first storage and converts each data file's design data into draw data for storage in the second storage while being pipelined with the transfer processing, second to n-th data processors which sequentially read data files from the second storage and apply mutually different ones of second to n-th data processings to each draw data in a way that the first to n-th data processings are pipelined and store the processed draw data in the second storage, and a pattern-writing unit for writing a pattern on a workpiece by using a beam that is controlled based on each n-th data processing-completed data being stored in the second storage.
US07786447B2
A scintillator panel comprising: a radiation-transparent substrate; and a phosphor layer provided on the substrate, the phosphor layer emitting light when irradiated with a radiation, wherein at least one edge of the substrate and at least one edge of the phosphor layer are arranged on a same plane.
US07786434B2
The invention provides a planar component for interfacing an atmospheric pressure ionizer to a vacuum system. The component combines electrostatic optics and skimmers with an internal chamber that can be filled with a gas at a prescribed pressure and is fabricated by lithography, etching and bonding of silicon.
US07786428B2
An optical controlling circuit and an electrical controlled circuit such as a motor control circuit are interconnected by an electro-optic interface. A passive optical switch located in the optical circuit at a position remote from the electrical circuit is physically actuated to generate a change in optical transmission state of the optical circuit. At the electro-optic interface, the change in optical transmission state of the optical circuit is detected and triggers a change in the electrical transmission state of the electric circuit. Embodied as STOP and START pushbuttons, a pair of such passive optical switches at a position remote from the electric circuit reduces the risk that actuating motor control circuits and the like will cause arcing and, in hazardous environments, explosion.
US07786426B2
There is provided a solid-state imaging device including a substrate of which surface is provided with a pixel area where a plurality of pixels arranged, each pixel including a photoelectric converting element to receive light from a subject image and perform photoelectric conversion on the received light to generate signal charge, and a surrounding area that is positioned around the pixel area and that includes a surrounding circuit to process the signal charge generated by the photoelectric converting elements. The solid-state imaging device includes a color filter facing the substrate so as to receive the light from the subject image in a surface corresponding to the surface of the substrate and to allow the light to transmit therethrough onto the surface of the substrate. The color filter includes a first colored layer and a second colored layer.
US07786416B2
A combination conductor-antenna apparatus is provided comprising a surface that defines a passage for use as a receptor for a second conductor and for use as a waveguide. The surface is at least partially formed of an electrically conductive material, thus allowing the apparatus to serve as a medium by which an electrical signal can be transferred from a second conductor. Disposed within the passage is a pickup element for sensing and/or injecting electromagnetic energy in the passage, thus allowing the apparatus to serve as a medium for wireless communications.
US07786402B2
A method and apparatus for assembly of small structures is disclosed. The present invention discloses electron beams created from one or more nanotips in an array operated in a field emission mode that can be controlled to apply heat to very well defined spots. The multiple electron beams may be generated and deflected and applied to electron beam heating and welding applications.
US07786390B2
A printed wiring board has an insulating resin substrate having a first surface and a second surface, the insulating resin substrate having one or more penetrating-holes passing through the insulating resin substrate from the first surface to the second surface, a first conductor formed on the first surface of the insulating resin substrate, a second conductor formed on the second surface of the insulating resin substrate, and a through-hole conductor structure formed in the penetrating-hole of the insulating resin substrate and electrically connecting the first conductor and the second conductor. The penetrating-hole has a first portion having an opening on the first surface and a second portion having an opening on the second surface. The first portion and the second portion are connected such that the first portion and the second portion are set off from each other.
US07786386B2
A method and apparatus provide an electrical splice between different high-voltage components in a high-voltage propelled vehicle (HVPV), which enables a daisy-chain or series connection of the components. The method includes connecting a first end of a cable to a first component, a second end of the cable to a high-voltage bus bar within a second component to form a splice, and using the outer housings of the components to provide an environmental seal and electromagnetic capability (EMC) shield for the splice, rather than providing such a splice within a dedicated or shared power distribution box. A ring terminal connects to an end of a cable by a press-fitting process or a soldering process. The components can be an energy storage system (ESS), a power inverter module (PIM), an air conditioning control module (ACCM), an auxiliary power module (APM), a power steering controller, and an electrical motor/generator.
US07786379B1
A mounting assembly for connecting a housing of an electrical fixture to an electrical junction box, in which a plate attached to the housing includes a locking member having an engager at a first end moveable relative to the plate between a first position and a second position. A locking post adapted for connecting to an electrical junction box includes a receiver for engaging the engager. The locking post secures the housing to the electrical junction box upon moving the locking member to the second position to engage the engager with the receiver of the locking post. A method of attaching a housing for an electrical fixture to an electrical junction box is disclosed.
US07786377B2
The invention of the present application provides a device that includes an assembly of a toroid and a rod with one or several pointed ends; and a filter system; wherein, around the pointed end or the pointed ends of the rod, an electrical field is formed with air ionization, wherein in the space around the toroid formation of electrical fields and air ionization are minimized, wherein the pointed end projects out above the toroid level, and wherein the filter system attenuates the electrical discharge of lightning rays. The device of the present invention is connected to a low resistance cable that goes to ground.
US07786370B2
A system and method for processing and generating control signals for the real-time controlling of signal processors, synthesizers, musical instruments, MIDI processors, lighting, video, and special effects in performance, recording, and composition environments. The invention provides for the use of incoming control signals to control events and parameters of low-frequency oscillators and transient generators. The invention also provides for the processing of control signal values such as addition, multiplication, mirroring, offset, etc., individually or in combination with one another. The invention further provides for the conversion of one type of control signal to another type of control signal, for example conversion of MIDI “note-on message” parameters such as note number and velocity into MIDI “continuous controller messages” etc. The invention is particularly directed towards, but not limited to, the processing and generation of control signals in the form of MIDI messages.
US07786365B1
The present invention relates to the foot operated musical instruments like tambourine, cymbals, jingles and cowbells. These musical instruments can be operated by using one or both feet at the same time. The tambourine playing shoes can be converted to a percussion shoe very easily. The foot operated instruments of the present invention lets musicians to play multiple instruments at the same time, while giving a new found sound to a musician's tapping foot.
US07786364B2
A percussion musical instrument comprises a beating surface (13) fastened to a shell (2), the shell (2) comprises at least two, preferably three or more, hollow shells (4) telescopically coupled to each other and movable along a common axis (X) of translation at least between a closed configuration in which a hollow body contains at least partially the next hollow body and an open configuration in which the hollow bodies are substantially superposed.
US07786360B2
A novel rice cultivar, designated ‘CL131,’ is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of rice cultivar ‘CL131,’ to the plants of rice ‘CL131,’ and to methods for producing a rice plant produced by crossing the cultivar ‘CL131’ with itself or another rice variety, and to single gene conversions of such plants. The invention further relates to hybrid rice seeds and plants produced by crossing the cultivar ‘CL131’ with another rice cultivar. The invention further relates to other derivatives of the cultivar ‘CL131.’
US07786355B2
Methods for producing polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) from fatty acid biosynthetic pathways using a 3-hydroxy acyl ACP thioesterase, a PHA synthase, and an acyl CoA synthetase, have been developed. Methodology for enabling PHA production from fatty acid biosynthetic pathways in non-native bacterial PHA producers and plants using an enzyme having the catalytic activity of 3-hydroxy acyl ACP thioesterase, an acyl CoA synthetase with substrate specificity for medium chain length 3-hydroxy fatty acids, and a medium chain length PHA synthase, has been developed. Acyl CoA synthetase activity can be supplied either by the endogenous acyl CoA synthetase of the host organism, when sufficiently expressed, or the host organism's activity can be supplemented by the expression of a recombinant acyl CoA synthetase gene. New strategies are described for plant based PHA production in the chloroplasts, cytosol, and peroxisomes of biomass crops as well as the plastids, cytosol, and peroxisomes of oil seed crops.
US07786351B2
The present invention provides molecular constructs and methods for use thereof, including constructs including heterologous miRNA recognition sites, constructs for gene suppression including a gene suppression element embedded within an intron flanked on one or on both sides by non-protein-coding sequence, constructs containing engineered miRNA or miRNA precursors, and constructs for suppression of production of mature microRNA in a cell. Also provided are transgenic plant cells, plants, and seeds containing such constructs, and methods for their use. The invention further provides transgenic plant cells, plants, and seeds containing recombinant DNA for the ligand-controlled expression of a target sequence, which may be endogenous or exogenous. Also disclosed are novel miRNAs and miRNA precursors from crop plants including maize and soy.
US07786348B2
The present invention relates to enzymes from the cytochrome P450 family and to the nucleotide sequences encoding them, and to their use in a method for the generation of pathogen-resistant plants.
US07786339B2
A method of removing organic contaminants from surfaces of solid wastes is disclosed. The method includes the steps of forming a TiO2 sol; mixing the solid wastes and the TiO2 sol by stirring. Furthermore, the mixture undergoes photo-catalytic remediation under illumination of a UV source prior to a solid-liquid separation process of the illuminated TiO2 sol and solid wastes.
US07786338B2
A process for oligomerizing isobutene includes contacting a feedstock including isobutene with a catalyst comprising an EMM-10 molecular sieve under conditions effective to oligomerize said isobutene and produce an effluent containing less isobutene than the feedstock.
US07786336B2
The present invention relates to a catalyst composition for ethylene oligomerization and the use thereof. Such catalyst composition includes chromium compound, ligand containing P and N, activator and accelerator; wherein the chromium compound is selected from the group consisting of acetyl acetone chromium, THF-chromium chloride and Cr(2-ethylhecanoate)3; general formula of the ligand containing P and N is shown as: in which R1, R2, R3 and R4 are phenyl, benzyl, or naphthyl. R5 is isopropyl, butyl, cyclopropyl, cyclopentyl, cyclohexyl or fluorenyl; the activatior is methyl aluminoxane, ethyl aluminoxane, propyl aluminoxane and/or butyl aluminoxane; the accelerator is selected from the group consisting of 1,1,2,2,-tetrachloroethane, 1,1,2,2-tetrabromoethane, 1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethane, and compounds having a formula of X1R6X2, in which X1 and X2 are F, Cl, Br, I or alkoxyl, R6 is alkylene or arylene group; the molar ratio of chromium compound, ligand containing P and N, activator and accelerator is 1:0.5˜10:50˜3000:0.5˜10. After mixing the four components mentioned previously under nitrogen atmosphere for 10 minutes, they are incorporated to the reactor, or these four components are incorporated directly into the reactor. Then ethylene is introduced for oligomerization. Such catalyst can be used in producing 1-octene through ethylene oligomerization. It is advantageous in high catalysing activity, high 1-octene selectivity, etc. The catalytic activity is more than 1.0×106 g product·ma−1 Cr·h−1, the fraction of C8 linear α-olefin is more than 70% by mass.
US07786335B2
A process for the production of C2-C4 hydrofluorocarbon, such as 1,1,1,3,3-pentafluoropropane, by contacting a non-fluorinated hydrochlorocarbon with a fluorinating agent, such as hydrogen fluoride, in a liquid catalyst system preferably comprising fluorinated superacid catalyst prepared from SbF5, NbF5, TaF5 or TaF5/SnF4 and HF.
US07786333B2
A process for the production of fluorinated olefins, preferably fluorinated propenes, by contacting a feed stream containing a fluorinated olefin and hydrogen with a first amount of catalyst to produce the hydrofluorocarbon, wherein a first exit stream contains unreacted fluorinated olefin and hydrogen; contacting the first exit stream with a second amount of catalyst to produce a hydrofluorocarbon, wherein the second amount of catalyst is preferably greater than the first amount of catalyst; and contacting the hydrofluorocarbon with a catalyst for dehydrohalogenation to produce a product stream of fluorinated olefin.
US07786332B2
In a process for the preparation of ring compounds via a combinatorial synthesis, the reaction procedure is based on a Suzuki coupling, subsequent halo-demetallation and finally a further Suzuki coupling. The Suzuki couplings are each carried out with a boronic acid or a boronic acid ester. The reaction procedure uses provides novel ring compounds and uses novel synthesis units used for this purpose. The novel ring compounds are suitable for use as constituents in liquid-crystalline mixtures.
US07786323B2
(Meth)acrolein or (meth)acrylic acid is collected by bringing a reaction gas (1) containing (meth)acrolein or (meth)acrylic acid obtained through a vapor-phase catalytic oxidation reaction into contact with an aqueous solution as a collecting solvent in a collecting tower main body (2). The reaction gas (1) is supplied to the collecting tower main body (2) from two nozzles (2c) facing each other, and is caused to collide in the collecting tower main body (2). According to the present invention, (meth)acrolein or (meth)acrylic acid can be efficiently collected from a gas containing (meth)acrolein or (meth)acrylic acid while preventing polymerization.
US07786320B2
Silicon precursors for forming silicon-containing films in the manufacture of semiconductor devices, such as low dielectric constant (k) thin films, high k gate silicates, low temperature silicon epitaxial films, and films containing silicon nitride (Si3N4), siliconoxynitride (SiOxNy) and/or silicon dioxide (SiO2). The precursors of the invention are amenable to use in low temperature (e.g., <500° C.) chemical vapor deposition processes, for fabrication of ULSI devices and device structures.
US07786317B2
The present invention provides a process for the epoxidation of propene which comprises reacting propene with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of methanol as solvent and a titanium zeolite catalyst, the process further comprising separating propylene oxide from the reaction mixture to obtain a mixture comprising methanol, water, at least one carboxylic acid and at least one carbonyl compound, wherein the at least one carboxylic acid is at least partially neutralized, said process optionally comprising a hydrogenation stage.
US07786312B2
In the context of synthesizing heterocyclic boronic acid compounds, a convergent synthetic methodology is particularly efficient for preparing boropyrrolidines and derivatives of boropyrrolidines.
US07786306B2
The present invention provides a method of resolving piperdin-yl-alkylene-alcohols, in high yield at high enantiomeric purity, for example 2-piperidin-2-yl-ethanol.
US07786303B2
For manufacturing particularly uniform and mirror bright copper coatings that are leveled and ductile as well using a relatively high current density, halogenated or pseudohalogenated monomeric pheanzinium compounds or a purity at least 85 mole-% and having the general chemical formula (I) are utilized in which R1, R2, R3, R4, R7′, R7″, R8, R9, X and A have the significations denoted in the claims. The compounds are prepared by diazotizing a suited starting compound prior to halogenating or pseudohalogenating it in the presence of mineral acid, diazotization means and halide or pseudohalide, with the reaction steps being run in one single vessel.
US07786299B2
Disclosed are new dihydropteridinones of general formula (I) wherein the groups L and R1-R5 have the meanings given in the claims and specification, the isomers thereof, intermediates and processes for preparing these dihydropteridinones and the use thereof as pharmaceutical compositions.
US07786298B2
In accordance with the present invention there are provided sterically demanding intercalators. These compounds are useful for detection of a base-pair mismatch, such as by measuring fluorescence of complexes formed by the compounds of the invention and nucleic acid duplexes. The compounds are also capable of catalyzing photolytic cleavage of nucleic acids.
US07786297B2
Micronized tanaproget, purified tanaproget Form I, and micronized, purified tanaproget Form I are provided. Also provided are compositions containing one or more of the prepared tanaproget forms, methods of using one or more of the prepared tanaproget forms, and kits containing one or more of the prepared tanaproget forms.
US07786289B2
The invention provides a rapid sample-processing method for preparing hybridization reaction mixtures substantially depleted of RNA, and a method of identifying the methicillin-resistance status and vancomycin-resistance status of an organism.
US07786288B2
The present invention relates to an immunogenic composition. More particularly, the present invention is a composition directed to eliciting an immune response to at least one binding site of Cyclophilin A on the HIV capsid protein. (SEQ ID NOS: 2, 4, and 6) The present invention contemplates three categories of embodiments: protein or protein fragments (SEQ ID NOS: 2, 4, and 6), messenger RNA, or DNA/RNA. DNA/RNA compositions (SEQ ID NOS 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11) may be either naked or recombinant. The present invention further contemplates use with a variety of immune stimulants.
US07786255B2
The present invention relates to peptides, particularly human monoclonal antibodies, that bind specifically to poly-N-acetyl glucosamine (PNAG), such as Staphylococcal PNAG, in acetylated, partially acetylated and/or fully deacetylated form. The invention further provides methods for using these peptides in the diagnosis, prophylaxis and therapy of infections by bacteria that express PNAG such as but not limited to Staphylococci and E. coli. Some antibodies of the invention enhance opsonophagocytic killing and in vivo protection against bacteria that express PNAG such as but not limited to Staphylococci and E. coli. Compositions of these peptides, including pharmaceutical compositions, are also provided, as are functionally equivalent variants of such peptides.
US07786251B2
To provide a process for producing a polyester ether poly- or mono-ol having a narrow molecular weight distribution, which is obtained by copolymerizing an initiator having hydroxyl groups with a cyclic ester compound and an alkylene oxide.It is possible to produce a polyester ether poly- or mono-ol having a molecular distribution (Mw/Mn) of from 1.02 to 1.4 by copolymerizing a cyclic ester compound which carbon number is from 3 to 9 and an alkylene oxide which carbon number is from 2 to 20 with an initiator having from 1 to 12 hydroxyl groups and having a number average molecular weight (Mn) of from 18 to 20,000 in the presence of a double-metal cyanide complex catalyst is having tert-butyl alcohol as at least a part of an organic ligand.
US07786250B2
Vector-directional polymers and polymer systems are disclosed. In accordance with the embodiments of the invention, the polymer has aromatic moieties that are restrained or fixed through conformational linkage units bonding nearest neighbor aromatic moieties together to form the polymer backbone. The conformational linkage units preferably include conformational ring structures which exhibit hydrogen bonding or other Lewis acid-Lewis base type of interactions. The conformational ring structures can include hetero-atoms and cationic metal atoms. The chemical groups and bonding features of the polymer backbone constrain bond movement and bond rotation along the polymer backbone. Accordingly, the vector-directional polymers of the present invention can assemble into or form extended three dimensional structures or arrays.
US07786249B2
This disclosure covers polymers, which are useful in medical device applications. The polymers comprise at least two different blocks, at least one L1 block with the formula and at least one L2 block with the formula Medical devices comprising these polymers, mixtures of these polymers with therapeutic agents, and methods of making these polymers and mixtures are within the scope of this disclosure. Some of these medical devices are implantable within a mammalian body, such as in a body lumen.
US07786242B2
The ring-containing modified resin is represented by the following chemical formula (1) R1[—(—O—CO—NH—R2—NH—CO—O—R3—)p—O—R4]q (1) (in the chemical formula (1), R1 is a dehydroxyl residue of a resin having a benzene ring and/or a condensed ring and hydroxyl group: —R2— is deisocyanate group derived from an organic diisocyanate: —R3— is a dehydroxyl residue of polyol having number-average molecular weight of 200 to 30000: p is 1 to 3: —R4 is a hydrogen atom, alkyl group having 1 to 18 carbons, phenyl group: q is the same number as the number of the dehydroxyl residue of R1).
US07786240B2
The present invention relates to new high-functionality, highly branched or hyperbranched polylysines, to processes for preparing them, and to their use.
US07786234B2
The invention is based on the discovery that certain polyester compounds bearing free-radical curable moieties are useful as b-stageable adhesives for the microelectronic packaging industry.
US07786233B2
A polyvinylpyrrolidone powder composition including polyvinylpyrrolidone with a K value of not lower than 50 and not higher than 120, wherein a content of insoluble substances remaining on a membrane filter having a pore size of 1.2 μm when a 2 wt % aqueous solution of the composition is filtered with the filter is not higher than 70 ppm; a polyvinylpyrrolidone powder composition including polyvinylpyrrolidone with a K value of not lower than 50 and not higher than 120, wherein a K value lowering ratio to be observed when the composition is heated at 80° C. in air for 14 days is not higher than 12%; and a polyvinylpyrrolidone powder composition including polyvinylpyrrolidone with a K value of not lower than 50 and not higher than 120, wherein a content of insoluble substances remaining on a membrane filter having a pore size of 1.2 μm when a 2 wt % aqueous solution of the composition is filtered with the filter is not higher than 70 ppm, and a K value lowering ratio to be observed when the composition is heated at 80° C. in air for 14 days is not higher than 12%.
US07786229B2
A product comprising a cold water soluble film wherein: a) the film comprises a copolymer of vinyl alcohol (VOH) with a minor amount of 2-acrylamido-2-methyl propane sulfonic acid in free acid form or as a salt of the free acid (AMPS); and b) the film has a harsh chemical dissolution time of less than about 80 seconds measured by the harsh chemical dissolution test method after 8 weeks.
US07786225B2
A curable resin composition, which is a solid resin at ordinary temperatures obtained by reacting an epoxy resin with a (meth)acrylic anhydride, contains an unsaturated resin having a (meth)acryloyl group (A) which has a double bond equivalent weight of 200 to 500, an ester number of 100 to 300, and a hydroxyl number of no more than 130, an ethylenically unsaturated monomer (B), and a radical polymerization initiator (C).
US07786224B2
A liquid epoxy resin composition of an epoxy resin, a curing agent, and a curing accelerator, where the epoxy resin is an alicyclic epoxy compound present in an amount from 100 to 30% by weight. The alicyclic epoxy compound is preferably produced by using a percarboxylic acid having a water content of 2% by weight. The curing agent is preferably a liquid acid anhydride.
US07786223B2
A curable composition comprising a) an epoxy resin containing on average more than one epoxy group per molecule, and b) as curing agent a composition comprising b1) 40-100 wt % of a reaction product from the reaction of b1a) at least one diglycidyl- and/or at least one monoglycidylether with b1b) a composition comprising a volatile monoamine and a polyamine, said composition b1b) is used in an amount to provide an excess amino groups relative to epoxy groups from b1a), and whereby the excess of monoamine is removed off from the reaction product, b2) 0-60 wt % of a polyamine, and b3) 0-25 wt % of a polyphenol novolac, and whereby the sum of components b1), b2) and b3) is 100 wt %, providing long pot life combined with fast cure times at low temperatures, thus making said compositions especially useful for marine and offshore coatings, industrial maintenance, construction, tank and pipe linings, adhesive, automobile and electrical potting applications.
US07786220B2
The present invention relates to a block copolymer formed by coupling the following components with each other, as well as a hydrogel composition comprising the block copolymer and a hydrogel formed from the composition: (a) a copolymer of a polyethylene glycol (PEG)-based compound with a biodegradable polymer; and (b) a sulfonamide-based oligomer. The inventive block copolymer shows the sol-gel transition behavior sensitive to changes in not only temperature but also pH. Thus, the inventive block copolymer overcomes the shortcomings of temperature-sensitive copolymers, form a more strong and stable hydrogel, and is stable in vivo. Accordingly, the inventive block copolymer can be used in various applications in the medical and drug delivery fields.
US07786216B2
Polymer blends comprise at least one ethylene/α-olefin interpolymer and one or more oil. The oil can be an aromatic oil, napththenic oil, paraffinic oil or a combination thereof. The ethylene/α-olefin interpolymers are random block copolymers comprising at least a hard block and at least a soft block. The resulting blends can be used to make flexible molded articles.
US07786215B2
The invention provides a novel thermoplastic polymer comprising at least one polyalkylene oxide block. It relates to a process for preparing the thermoplastic polymer and to an application of this polymer as a hydrophilicity and/or antistatic modifier, especially in polyamide compositions. These compositions are particularly suitable for the manufacture of yarns, fibres and filaments.
US07786212B2
Polyurethane and polyurea compositions for golf balls with improved stability of the curative blend, wherein the curative blend includes a pigment, a curing agent, and a compatible freezing point depressing agent so that the curative blend has a lower freezing point than the curing agent by itself and the blend does not lose pigment dispersion upon solidification and subsequent thawing.
US07786208B2
This invention provides a method for producing a modified natural rubber masterbatch, which comprises the step of mixing a modified natural rubber latex, which is formed by adding a polar group-containing monomer to a natural rubber latex to graft-polymerize the polar group-containing monomer onto a natural rubber molecule in the natural rubber latex, with a slurry solution formed by previously dispersing a filler into water, and a modified natural rubber masterbatch produced by the method and capable of highly improving a low loss factor, a wear resistance and fracture characteristics of a rubber composition.
US07786205B2
A foamable copolymer based coupling is provided for securely affixing a light emitting glass lamp in a metal base to form a lamp assembly. The copolymer is preferably selected from ethylene vinyl acetate, ethylene methyl acrylate, and combinations thereof. The foamable coupling may be placed around one end of the glass lamp or in the lamp base before the lamp and base are matingly engaged. The assembled lamp is then heated to a temperature, which causes the foamable coupling to expand and securely affix the lamp in the base.
US07786196B2
Disclosed herein is a flameproof thermoplastic resin composition comprising (A) about 5 to about 40 parts by weight of a rubber modified aromatic vinyl copolymer resin; (B) about 30 to about 90 parts by weight of a polycarbonate resin; (C) about 30 to about 90 parts by weight of a polyester resin comprising (c1) about 0.01 to about 99% by weight of a semi-crystalline polyester resin and (c2) about 1 to about 99.99% by weight of a noncrystalline polyester resin; and (D) about 5 to about 30 parts by weight of an aromatic phosphate ester compound, per 100 parts by weight of a base resin comprising (A), (B) and (C).
US07786182B2
The present invention provides a method for producing a water absorbing agent which excels in water absorption properties. In detail, the present invention provides a method for the production of a water absorbing agent, comprising a) a step of mixing a water absorbing resin, water, and a mixing aid without adding a water-soluble radical polymerization initiator and an ethylenically unsaturated monomer and b) a step of irradiating the resultant mixture with ultraviolet rays while keeping the mixture with flowed state.
US07786167B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods for administering florfenicol to mammals. The compositions contain a prodrug of florfenicol in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. In one embodiment the prodrug is an esterized form of florfenicol. Examples of suitable prodrugs include one or a combination of one or a combination of the following: florfenicol acetate, florfenicol propionate, florfenicol butyrate, florfenicol pentanoate, florfenicol hexanoate, florfenicol heptanoate, florfenicol octanoate, florfenicol nanoate, florfenicol decanoate, florfenicol undecanoate, florfenicol dodecanoate, and florfenicol phthalate. In another embodiment the prodrug is converted into the florfenicol in vivo by the action of one or more endogenous esterases. The invention also provides new compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds, and methods for their administration.
US07786166B2
Methods and compositions for protecting muscarinic receptor(s) in a subject by administering at least one protective agent alone, in combination with other protective agents, or in combination with at least one neurologic agent.
US07786165B2
A compound represented by the formula (1): wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification, and a salt thereof and a prodrug thereof unexpectedly have superior GPR40 receptor agonist activity, superior in the properties as a pharmaceutical product such as stability and the like, and can be a safe and useful pharmaceutical agent as a drug for the prophylaxis or treatment of GPR40 receptor related pathology or diseases such as diabetes and the like.
US07786164B2
Lipophilic di(anticancer drug) compounds, compositions that include the compounds, and methods for treating a cell proliferative disease using the compounds.
US07786162B2
The present invention provides compounds and methods of administering compounds to a subject that can reduce βAPP production and that is not toxic in a wide range of dosages. The present invention also provides non-carbamate compounds and methods of administering such compounds to a subject that can reduce βAPP production and that is not toxic in a wide range of dosages. It has been discovered that either the racemic or enantiomerically pure non-carbamate compounds can be used to decrease βAPP production.
US07786158B2
The present invention is directed to novel opioid receptor modulators of Formula (I). The invention further relates to methods for preparing such compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and their use in the treatment of disorders that may be ameliorated or treated by the modulation of opioid receptors.
US07786147B2
The present invention relates to novel analogs of choline and methods of use or treatment of neurodegenerative disorders and/or conditions such as Parkinson's disease, Huntington disease, Alzheimer's disease and related disorders such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, spinal muscular atrophy, Friedrich's ataxia, Pick's disease, Bassen-Kornzweig syndrome, Refsom's disease, retinal degeneration, Cruetzfelt-Jacob syndrome or prion disease (mad cow disease), dementia with Lewy bodies, schizophrenia, paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration and neurodegenerative conditions caused by stroke. The present compounds are effective to treat any neurological condition where acetylcholine transmission neurons and their target cells are affected. Compounds according to the present invention are effective to alleviate and/or reverse the effects of a neurodegenerative condition, prevent further deterioration and/or enhance cognition and memory in patients suffering from neurodegenerative disorders, especially Alzheimer's disease.
US07786143B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula I wherein R1, R2 and R3 are as defined in the description and claims. It further relates to pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof as well as to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and to methods for their preparation. The compounds are useful for the treatment and/or prevention of diseases which are associated with the modulation of H3 receptors.
US07786135B2
The present invention is directed to novel substituted pyrroline compounds useful as kinase inhibitors and methods for treating or ameliorating a kinase mediated disorder.
US07786134B2
Lipophilic anticancer drug compounds, compositions that include the compounds, and methods for treating a cell proliferative disease using the compounds.
US07786131B2
The present invention relates to pyrimido [5,4-d] pyrimidine compounds of Formula II or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein Q is and X, E1, E2, E3, R6 and p are as defined herein. The compounds of this invention are irreversible inhibitors of tyrosine kinases and are useful in the treatment of cancer, atherosclerosis, restenosis, endometriosis and psoriasis.
US07786121B2
A compound of formula (I), or an enantiomer or diastereoisomer thereof, or a salt, hydrate or solvate thereof: for the treatment or prophylaxis of arthritis in mammals.
US07786103B2
The invention describes a method for isolating an intestinal protein which is able to bind cholesterol and/or cholesterol uptake inhibitors.
US07786102B2
The invention relates to compounds of formula (I): wherein R is ethyl, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates or amino acid conjugates thereof. The compounds of formula (I) are useful as FXR agonists.
US07786098B2
Combretastatin derivatives of formula (I), preparation and use thereof are disclosed, wherein: Rf is alkyl with 1-8 carbon atoms and 1-17 fluorine atoms, R is amino, substituted amino, hydroxyl, nitro, halo, alkyloxy, phosphate or amino acid side chain. Said derivatives have a capability to inhibit the polymerization of microtubules and are useful in treatment against tumor and neovascularization.
US07786096B2
Methods to prevent the rejection of immunogenic tissues in an animal by administering a non-immunogenic, poorly catabolized molecule in an amount sufficient to inhibit an immune response are described herein. Also described are compositions that are useful for inhibiting immune responses in animals that are recipients of cellular transplants. For example, these methods and compositions can be used to prevent the rejection of xenografted and allografted tissues in an animal.
US07786094B2
The present invention provides a means to broadly protect the military and the public from injury from biological warfare weapons, particularly infective agents such as anthrax. Beta (1,3)-glucans, particularly whole glucan particles, PGG-Glucan, and microparticulate glucan, provide general immune enhancement, thereby increasing the body's ability to defend against a wide variety of biological threats. Beta (1,3)-glucans have been shown to increase the resistance to infection by anthrax and other infectious organisms when administered before and after infection. The anti-infective mechanism of β(1,3)-glucan appears to involve stimulation of the innate immune system through increased cytokine release and CR3 receptor activation. Beta (1,3)-glucan is pharmaceutically stable, relatively compact, and can also be used without significant side effects. Beta (1,3)-glucan can also enhance the effectiveness of other medical countermeasures such as antibiotics, vaccines, and immune antibodies.
US07786092B2
Compositions and methods are provided for treatment of diseases involving unwanted neovascularization (NV). The invention provides treatments that control NV through selective inhibition of pro-angiogenic biochemical pathways, including inhibition of the VEGF pathway gene expression and inhibition localized at pathological NV tissues. Tissue targeted nanoparticle compositions comprising polymer conjugates and nucleic acid molecules that induce RNA interference (RNAi) are provided. The nanoparticle compositions of the invention can be used alone or in combination with other therapeutic agents such as VEGF pathway antagonists. The compositions and methods can be used for the treatment of NV diseases such as cancer, ocular disease, arthritis, and inflammatory diseases.
US07786086B2
A nanostructure composed of a plurality of peptides, each peptide containing at least one aromatic amino acid, whereby one or more of these peptides is end-capping modified, is disclosed. The nanostructure can take a tubular, fibrillar, planar or spherical shape, and can encapsulate, entrap or be coated by other materials. Methods of preparing the nanostructure, and devices and methods utilizing same are also disclosed.
US07786068B2
Cleaning compositions are described comprising an aqueous component: an organic solvent; an anionic surfactant; an amine co-surfactant containing either (a) an N-oxide group or (b) a zwitterionic group; and a nonionic surfactant; in a form of a microemulsion or microemulsion preconcentrate. Methods of cleaning a hard surface using such compositions are also described.
US07786067B2
The present invention relates to a composition comprising: (i) a lipase; and (ii) a bleach catalyst that is capable of accepting an oxygen atom from a peroxyacid and transferring the oxygen atom to an oxidizeable substrate.
US07786063B2
The invention relates to a detergent composition for CIP, which comprises (A) a solvent having an SP value of 6 to 9 at 25° C. and (B) a surfactant such as a nonionic surfactant.
US07786055B2
This invention relates to the clear, substantially anhydrous, warming compositions containing one or more polyhydric alcohols. The invention also relates to the compositions that include at least one or more antioxidant or antioxidants in combination selected from the group consisting of tocopherol, ascorbic acid and butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), to prevent oxidation of polyhydric alcohol combination that results in the development of odor.
US07786048B2
Bicyclo-pyrazole compound of formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, as defined in the specification, processes for their preparation, combinatorial libraries comprising a plurality of them and pharmaceutical compositions thereof, are herewith disclosed: the compounds of the invention are useful, in therapy, as protein kinase inhibitors, for instance in the treatment of cancer.
US07786047B2
The invention relates to an immunoglobulin having determined antigen specificity, and having a variable fragment which is derived from a so-called heavy-chain immunoglobulin having two heavy polypeptide chains capable of recognizing and binding one or several antigens and which is further naturally devoid of light chains, wherein the immunoglobulin having determined antigen specificity is devoid of CH1 constant region between the variable region and the hinge region and has within its constant region at least part of a constant region of a human antibody.
US07786045B2
The invention relates to aryl ether compounds and its preparation method and use thereof. The aryl ether compounds of the invention having general formula (I): The groups are as defined as specification. The aryl ether compounds of present invention have wide spectrum fungicidal activity, and may be used to control diseases in all sorts of plants caused by oomycete, basidiomycete, ascomycete pathogens and deuteromycete. The some of the compounds have very good insecticidal and acaricidal activity, and may be used to control insects and mites.
US07786040B2
The present invention relates to 1,2,3 -thiadiazole compounds represented by formula (I): wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 each represents H, halogen, CN, alkyl, alkoxyalkyl, aryl, arylalkyl, alkylcarbonyl or the like; R6 represents —C═(W1)YR7 in which R7 represents H, alkyl, alkenyl, phenylcarbonyl, heterocyclic ring-carbonyl, arylsulfonyl or the like; Y represents O, S, —N(R11), —N(R11)O— in which R11 represents H, alkyl, cycloalkyl, substituted phenyl, or the like; W1 represents O or S; and symbols in the formula are defined in detail in the specification or salts thereof, and to a plant disease control agent for agricultural and horticultural use which contains the compound as an active ingredient.
US07786027B2
A functionalized substrate comprising: from about 1% to about 20% of a water-dispersible and/or a water-disintegrating material comprising a cellulose by weight; from about 0.001% to about 50% of a binder material by weight; and a plurality of microcapsules encapsulating at least one functional material, wherein said plurality of microcapsules is incorporated with said functionalized substrate.
US07786021B2
A thin-film transistor (TFT) with a multilayer gate insulator is provided, along with a method for forming the same. The method comprises: forming a channel, first source/drain (S/D) region, and a second S/D region in a Silicon (Si) active layer; using a high-density plasma (HDP) source, growing a first layer of Silicon oxide (SiOx) from the Si active layer, to a first thickness, where x is less than, or equal to 2; depositing a second layer of SiOx having a second thickness, greater than the first thickness, overlying the first layer of SiOx; using the HDP source, additionally oxidizing the second layer of SiOx, wherein the first and second SiOx layers form a gate insulator; and, forming a gate electrode adjacent the gate insulator. In one aspect, the second Si oxide layer is deposited using a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) process with tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS) precursors.
US07786009B2
An advanced modular plug connector assembly incorporating an insert assembly disposed in the rear portion of the connector housing. In one embodiment, the connector has a plurality of ports in multi-row configuration, and the insert assembly includes a substrate adapted to receive one or more electronic components such as choke coils, transformers, or other signal conditioning elements or magnetics. The substrate also interfaces with the conductors of two modular ports of the connector, and is removable from the housing such that an insert assembly of a different electronics or terminal configuration can be substituted therefor. In this fashion, the connector can be configured to a plurality of different standards (e.g., Gigabit Ethernet and 10/100). In yet another embodiment, the connector assembly comprises a plurality of light sources (e.g., LEDs) received within the housing. Methods for manufacturing the aforementioned embodiments are also disclosed.
US07786005B2
An increase of the via resistance resulted due to the presence of the altered layer that has been formed and grown after the formation of the via hole can be effectively prevented, thereby providing an improved reliability of the semiconductor device. A method includes: forming a TiN film on the semiconductor substrate; forming an interlayer insulating film on a surface of the TiN film; forming a resist film on a surface of the interlayer insulating film; etching the semiconductor substrate having the resist film formed thereon to form an opening, thereby partially exposing the TiN film; plasma-processing the exposed portion of the TiN film to remove an altered layer formed in the exposed portion of the TiN film; and stripping the resist film via a high temperature-plasma processing.
US07786003B1
A buried local interconnect and method of forming the same counterdopes a region of a doped substrate to form a counterdoped isolation region. A hardmask is formed and patterned on the doped substrate, with a recess being etched through the patterned hardmask into the counterdoped region. Dielectric spacers are formed on the sidewalls of the recess, with a portion of the bottom of the recess being exposed. A metal is then deposited in the recess and reacted to form silicide at the bottom of the recess. The recess is filled with fill material, which is polished. The hardmask is then removed to form a silicide buried local interconnect.
US07786002B2
The invention provides a process for producing a substrate having a conductor arrangement that is suitable for radio-frequency applications, with improved radio-frequency properties. For this purpose, the process includes the steps of: depositing a structured glass layer having at least one opening over a contact-connection region by evaporation coating on the substrate and applying at least one conductor structure to the structured glass layer so that the at least one conductor has electrical contact with the contact-connection region.
US07785996B2
A nonvolatile memory device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The nonvolatile memory device includes a semiconductor substrate on which a source region, a drain region, and a channel region are formed, a silicon oxide layer formed on the channel region, a transition metal oxide layer having trap particles that trap electrons, formed on the silicon oxide layer, and a gate electrode formed on the transition metal oxide layer.
US07785991B2
A process is provided for integrating a III-N component, such as GaN, on a (001) or (100) nominal silicon substrate. There are arranged a texture of elementary areas each comprising an individual surface, with the texture comprising at least one hosting area intended to receive a III-N component. A mask layer is deposited on non-hosting areas which are not intended to receive a III-N type component. The hosting area is locally prepared so as to generate on the surface of the area one domain comprising one single type of terrace. There is grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy or Metalorganic Vapor Phase Epitaxy on the hosting area one intermediary AlN buffer layer, followed by the growth of one III-N based material so as to realize a substantially monocrystalline structure. There is eliminated the mask layer located on non-hosting areas as well as surface polycrystalline layers deposited above the mask layers, and MOS/CMOS structures are subsequent integrated on at least some of the non-hosting areas.
US07785988B2
A non-linear element is formed on a flexible substrate by securing the substrate to a rigid carrier, forming the non-linear element, and then separating the flexible substrate from the carrier. The process allows flexible substrates to be processed in a conventional fab intended to process rigid substrates. In a second method, a transistor is formed on a insulating substrate by forming gate electrodes, depositing a dielectric layer, a semiconductor layer and a conductive layer, patterning the conductive layer to form source, drain and pixel electrodes, covering the channel region of the resultant transistor with an etch-resistant material and etching using the etch-resistant material and the conductive layer as a mask, the etching extending substantially through the semiconductor layer between adjacent transistors. The invention also provides a process for forming a diode on a substrate by depositing on the substrate a first conductive layer, and a second patterned conductive layer and a patterned dielectric layer over parts of the first conductive layer, and etching the first conductive layer using the second conductive layer and dielectric layer as an etch mask. Finally, the invention provides a process for driving an impulse-sensitive electro-optic display.
US07785982B2
Methods for electrodepositing germanium on various semiconductor substrates such as Si, Ge, SiGe, and GaAs are provided. The electrodeposited germanium can be formed as a blanket or patterned film, and may be crystallized by solid phase epitaxy to the orientation of the underlying semiconductor substrate by subsequent annealing. These plated germanium layers may be used as the channel regions of high-mobility channel field effect transistors (FETs) in complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) circuits.
US07785979B2
The fabrication of integrated circuits comprising resistors having the same structure but different sheet resistances is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method of fabricating an integrated circuit comprises: concurrently forming a first resistor laterally spaced from a second resistor above or within a semiconductor substrate, the first and second resistors comprising a doped semiconductive material; depositing a dopant receiving material across the first and second resistors and the semiconductor substrate; removing the dopant receiving material from upon the first resistor while retaining the dopant receiving material upon the second resistor; and annealing the first and second resistors to cause a first sheet resistance of the first resistor to be different from a second sheet resistance of the second resistor.
US07785977B2
A thin film capacitor including a substrate, a capacitor portion having an upper conductor, a lower conductor, and a dielectric thin film, and a resin protective layer for protecting the capacitor portion. A barrier layer is interposed between the capacitor portion and the resin protective layer. The barrier layer includes a crystalline dielectric barrier layer formed in contact with the capacitor portion and having the same composition system as the dielectric thin film, and an amorphous inorganic barrier layer formed on the surface of the crystalline dielectric barrier layer and composed of silicon nitride having non-conductivity. The inorganic barrier layer prevents deterioration in the properties of the dielectric thin film by blocking diffusion of the constituent elements of the inorganic barrier layer toward the capacitor portion.
US07785971B1
Fabrication of complementary first and second insulated-gate field-effect transistors (110 or 112 and 120 or 122) from a semiconductor body entails separately introducing (i) three body-material dopants into the body material (50) for the first transistor so as to reach respective maximum dopant concentrations at three different locations in the first transistor's body material and (ii) two body-material dopants into the body material (130) for the second transistor so as to reach respective maximum dopant concentrations at two different locations in the second transistor's body material. Gate electrodes (74 or 94 and 154 or 194) are subsequently defined after which source/drain zones (60, 62 or 80, 82 and 140, 142 or 160, 162) are formed in the semiconductor body. The vertical dopant profiles resulting from the body-material dopants alleviate punchthrough and reduce current leakage.
US07785970B2
Method of forming source and drain regions utilizing dual capping layers and split thermal processes
Source and drain regions are formed in a first-type semiconductor device. Then, a high tensile stress capping layer is formed over the source and drain regions. A thermal process is then performed to re-crystallize the source and drain regions and to introduce tensile strain into the source and drain regions of the first-type semiconductor device. Afterwards, source and drain regions are formed in a second-type semiconductor device. Then, a high compressive stress capping layer is formed over the source and drain regions of the second-type semiconductor device. A thermal process is performed to re-crystallize the source and drain regions and to introduce compressive strain into the source and drain regions of the second-type semiconductor device.
US07785964B2
Example embodiments relate to a non-volatile semiconductor memory device and a method of manufacturing the same. A semiconductor device includes an isolation layer protruding from a substrate, a spacer, a tunnel insulation layer, a floating gate, a dielectric layer pattern and a control gate. The spacer may be formed on a sidewall of a protruding portion of the isolation layer. The tunnel insulation layer may be formed on the substrate between adjacent isolation layers. The floating gate may be formed on the tunnel insulation layer. The floating gate contacts the spacer and has a width that gradually increases from a lower portion toward an upper portion. The dielectric layer pattern and the control gate may be sequentially formed on the floating gate.
US07785961B2
A DRAM array having trench capacitor cells of potentially 4F2 surface area (F being the photolithographic minimum feature width), and a process for fabricating such an array. The array has a cross-point cell layout in which a memory cell is located at the intersection of each bit line and each word line. Each cell in the array has a vertical device such as a transistor, with the source, drain, and channel regions of the transistor being formed from epitaxially grown single crystal silicon. The vertical transistor is formed above the trench capacitor.
US07785957B2
A method for fabricating a CMOS integrated circuit (IC) includes providing a substrate having a semiconductor surface, wherein the semiconductor surface has PMOS regions for PMOS devices and NMOS regions for NMOS devices. A gate dielectric layer is formed on the semiconductor surface followed by forming at least a first metal including layer on the gate dielectric layer. A polysilicon or amorphous silicon layer is formed on the first metal including layer to form an intermediate gate electrode stack. A masking pattern is formed on the intermediate gate electrode stack. The polysilicon or amorphous silicon layer is dry etched using the masking pattern to define a patterned intermediate gate electrode stack over the NMOS or PMOS regions, wherein the dry etching stops on a portion of the first metal comprising layer. The masking pattern is removed using a first post etch clean for stripping the masking pattern. A multi-step solution cleaning sequence is used after the removing step and includes a first wet clean including sulfuric acid and a fluoride, and a second wet clean after the first wet clean including a fluoride. Fabrication of the IC is then completed.
US07785953B2
A method for forming trenches on a surface of a semiconductor substrate is described. The method may include: etching a first plurality of trenches into the surface of the semiconductor substrate; filling the first plurality of trenches with at least one material; and etching a second plurality of trenches into every second trench of the first plurality of trenches. Furthermore, a method for forming floating-gate electrodes on a semiconductor substrate and an integrated circuit is described.
US07785949B2
A composite dielectric layer including a nitride layer over an oxide layer serves the dual function of acting as an SMT (stress memorization technique) film while an annealing operation is carried out and then remains partially intact as it is patterned to further serve as an RPO film during a subsequent silicidation process. The need to form and remove two separate dielectric material layers is obviated. The nitride layer protects the oxide layer to alleviate oxide damage during a pre-silicidation PAI (pre-amorphization implant) process thereby preventing oxide attack during a subsequent HF dip operation and preventing nickel silicide spiking through the attacked oxide layer during silicidation.
US07785939B2
A method utilizing localized amorphization and recrystallization of stacked template layers is provided for making a planar substrate having semiconductor layers of different crystallographic orientations. Also provided are hybrid-orientation semiconductor substrate structures built with the methods of the invention, as well as such structures integrated with various CMOS circuits comprising at least two semiconductor devices disposed on different surface orientations for enhanced device performance.
US07785938B2
A step of forming a through hole in a semiconductor substrate, or a step of polishing the semiconductor substrate from its back surface requires a very long time and causes decrease of productivity. In addition, when semiconductor substrates are stacked, a semiconductor integrated circuit which is formed of the stack is thick and has poor mechanical flexibility. A release layer is formed over each of a plurality of substrates, layers each having a semiconductor element and an opening for forming a through wiring are formed over each of the release layers. Then, layers each having the semiconductor element are peeled off from the substrates, and then overlapped and stacked, a conductive layer is formed in the opening, and the through wiring is formed; thus, a semiconductor integrated circuit is formed.
US07785936B2
The present invention relates to a method for repairing a semiconductor device. The method includes cutting a fuse without creation of residue by transforming the fuse into a nonconductor of high resistance by oxidizing the fuse by irradiating the fuse with an oxygen ion beam instead of a laser in a blowing process. The method includes transforming a fuse corresponding to a defective cell among a plurality of fuses formed in an upper portion of a semiconductor substrate into an oxide film.
US07785934B2
A structure fabrication method. The method includes providing a structure. The structure includes (a) a substrate layer, (b) a first fuse electrode in the substrate layer, and (c) a fuse dielectric layer on the substrate layer and the first fuse electrode. The method further includes (i) forming an opening in the fuse dielectric layer such that the first fuse electrode is exposed to a surrounding ambient through the opening, (ii) forming a fuse region on side walls and bottom walls of the opening such that the fuse region is electrically coupled to the first fuse electrode, and (iii) after said forming the fuse region, filling the opening with a dielectric material.
US07785930B2
The present invention relates to affixing components of optical packages. The optical packages can include an optical component, such as a TO-Can. The TO-Can can house an optical transmitter and/or an optical receiver. Another optical component of the optical package can be a barrel for aligning the TO-Can with an optical fiber. The TO-Can can be affixed within an open end of the optical barrel using a bonding substance, such as an epoxy, that has wicking properties. The wicking properties cause the bonding substance to enter a gap between the optical barrel and the TO-Can by capillary action. Use of the bonding substance with wicking properties creates a more robust optical package in a cost effective manner.
US07785925B2
A method of manufacture of an integrated circuit packaging system includes: providing a stack board with a side having a connect contact next to a connect edge and a top contact next to a top edge perpendicular to the connect edge, and a bottom contact on an opposite side; mounting a circuit assembly having an assembly end next to the connect contact and an edge pad over the stack board; connecting the edge pad with the stack board; and applying an edge encapsulant over the connect contact and over the assembly end with the edge encapsulant extending no more than half the width of the stack board.
US07785924B2
A method for making semiconductor chips having coated portions can include mounting the chips in lead frames, stacking the lead frames in an orientation in which a portion of one lead frame masks a portion of a chip mounted on another lead frame but leaves another portion of the chip mounted on the other lead frame exposed to receive a coating, and depositing a coating on the stacked lead frames using, for example, an evaporative coating machine. In this manner, the coating is deposited on exposed portions of chips, such as its edges, and is not deposited on masked portions of chips, such as bond pads.
US07785921B1
A sputtering target, including a sputtering layer and a support structure. The sputtering layer includes an alkali-containing transition metal. The support structure includes a second material that does not negatively impact the performance of a copper indium selenide (CIS) based semiconductor absorber layer of a solar cell. The sputtering layer directly contacts the second material.
US07785919B2
An image sensor and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The image sensor can comprise a substrate, a metal pad, and a sulfur layer. The substrate can include a pixel region and a pad region. The metal pad can be formed of a material containing sulfur and can be disposed in the pad region of the substrate. The sulfur layer can be formed from the sulfur of the metal pad and provided on a top surface of the metal pad.
US07785916B2
Embodiments relate to an image sensor and a method for manufacturing the same. According to embodiments, a semiconductor substrate may include a pixel part and a peripheral part. A photo diode pattern may be formed over the pixel part having a height that is greater than a height of a surface of an interlayer dielectric film over the peripheral part. A device isolation film and a metal layer may be provided over the photodiode and over interlayer dielectric film over the peripheral part. A planarization layer may be provided and may compensate for a height difference so that a first metal film pattern connected to the photo diode pattern and a second metal film pattern connected to the metal wire in peripheral part may be simultaneously formed by patterning the planarization layer and metal film.
US07785915B2
A method is disclosed which includes providing an imager substrate comprised of at least one imager device, providing a transparent substrate, forming a plurality of standoff structures on one of the imager substrate and the transparent substrate, the standoff structures having a width, forming an adhesive material having an initial thickness on a surface on at least one of the standoff structures, the adhesive material having an initial width that is less than the width of the standoff structures, and urging one of the imager substrate and the transparent substrate toward the other until such time as the imager substrate and the transparent substrate are in proper focal position relative to one another, the urging causing the initial thickness of the adhesive material to be reduced to a final thickness that is less than the initial thickness.
US07785903B2
The invention provides polypeptides comprising a variant heavy chain variable framework domain (VFR). In some embodiments, the amino acids defining the VFR form a loop of an antigen binding pocket. In an embodiment, the polypeptide is a variable domain of a monobody and has a variant VFR. The polypeptide may optionally comprise one or more complementary determining regions (CDRs) of antibody variable domains. In an embodiment, the polypeptide is a variable domain of a monobody and has a variant VFR and one or more variant CDRs. Libraries of polypeptides that include a plurality of different antibody variable domains generated by creating diversity in a VFR, and optionally, one or more CDRs are provided and may be used as a source for identifying novel antigen binding polypeptides that can be used therapeutically or as reagents. The invention also provides fusion polypeptides, compositions, and methods for generating and using the polypeptides and libraries.
US07785878B2
The present invention provides novel mammalian alpha-kinase proteins: melanoma alpha-kinase (MK), heart alpha-kinase (HK), kidney alpha-kinase (KK), skeletal muscle alpha-kinase (SK), and lymphocyte alpha-kinase (LK). In particular, a novel kinase type is herein provided, characterized by the presence of an alpha-kinase catalytic domain and an ion channel domain. Isolated nucleic acids of the alpha-kinases MK, HK, KK, SK and LK are provided. Methods for making the novel alpha-kinases, cells that express the alpha-kinases and methods for treating an animal in need of either increased or decreased activity of the alpha-kinases are provided.
US07785877B2
This invention pertains to BIV constructs encompassing BIV combination vectors, BIV vectors and BIV packaging vectors and particularly the invention pertains to a three vector system comprising: a) a BIV vector construct including a DNA segment from a BIV genome, a packaging sequence to package RNA into virions; a promoter operably linked to the DNA segment; and a transgene operably linked to a second promoter; b) a BIV packaging vector construct comprising a BIV DNA sequence fragment comprising at least a gag gene or pol gene of BIV; a promoter operably linked to the BIV DNA fragment; and a polyadenylation sequence located downstream of the BIV DNA fragment; and c) an expression vector construct comprising a gene encoding a viral surface protein. Also provided is a method for transferring a gene of interest into a mammalian cell.
US07785876B2
The present invention relates to culturing cells which may be used in hair induction. In one aspect of the invention there is provided a method for cultivation of hair inductive cells, comprising the step of culturing the hair inductive cells in a culture medium comprising a medium conditioned by conditioning cells, in which the conditioning cells are derived from non-epidermal tissue.
US07785875B2
There are provided a polynucleotide encoding HCV epitopes, an immunogenic composition including same, and a method of inducing an HCV-specific immune response using same.
US07785871B2
The present invention is a group of cloning vector plasmids for use in constructing DNA molecules, such as transgenes, for the purpose of gene expression or analysis of gene expression. The present invention is also a method for using the cloning vector plasmids in a variable series of cloning steps to produce a final transgene product. The plasmid cloning vectors are engineered to minimize the amount of manipulation of DNA fragment components by the end user of the vectors and the methods for their use. Transgenes produced using the invention may be used in a single organism, or in a variety of organisms including bacteria, yeast, mice, and other eukaryotes with little or no further modification.
US07785866B2
An apparatus and method of producing compost tea comprising a hopper, a separator having an intake and a discharge, the hopper communicating compost to the intake, a u-shaped screen, an auger rotably mounted thereon for conveying compost through the separator, and a plurality of spray nozzles directing spray onto the auger and compost, whereby water flows from the nozzles onto the compost separating nutrients and microorganisms from the compost producing compost tea, the compost tea passes through the screen into a catch basin, and the auger conveys the compost through the separator toward the discharge.
US07785861B2
The present disclosure identifies pathways and mechanisms to confer improved industrial fitness on engineered organisms. It also discloses engineered organisms having improved industrial fitness. Synthetic biologic engineering modules are disclosed that provide for light capture, carbon dioxide fixation, NADH production, NADPH production, thermotolerance, pH tolerance, flue gas tolerance, salt tolerance, nutrient independence and near infrared absorbance. The disclosed engineered organisms can include one or more of these modules. Also provided are methods of using the engineered organism to produce carbon-based products of interest, biomass or pharmaceutical agents.
US07785860B2
A method is provided for producing L-histidine using bacterium of the Enterobacteriaceae family wherein the L-amino acid productivity of said bacterium is enhanced by enhancing an activity of the AICAR transformylase-IMP cyclohydrolase encoded by the purH gene.
US07785845B2
L-Glutamic acid is produced by culturing a microorganism in which an expression of L-glutamic acid-export gene, a yhfK gene, is enhanced or overexpressed, in a medium to produce and cause accumulation of L-glutamic acid in the medium, and collecting L-glutamic acid from the medium.
US07785833B2
Described are methods for identifying, selecting, and obtaining mammalian cells capable of producing proteinaceous molecules having predetermined post-translational modifications, wherein the post-translational modifications are brought about by the mammalian cell in which the proteinaceous molecule is expressed. Preferably, the predetermined post-translational modifications include glycosylation. Also described are methods for obtaining and producing proteinaceous molecules, using mammalian cells obtainable by a method of the present invention. Preferably, the proteinaceous molecules include erythropoietin (EPO), since EPO's effect depends heavily on its glycosylation pattern. Mammalian cells that have been obtained on the basis of their ability to produce proteins and/or post-translational modifications that are indicative for a predetermined post-translational modification that is desired are also provided. Preferably, the mammalian cells have neural characteristics and properties such that significant amounts of recombinant proteins can be produced that harbor “neural- or brain-type” properties.
US07785831B2
The present invention is directed generally to activating gene expression or causing over-expression of a gene by recombination methods in situ. The invention also is directed generally to methods for expressing an endogenous gene in a cell at levels higher than those normally found in the cell. In one embodiment of the invention, expression of an endogenous gene is activated or increased following integration into the cell, by non-homologous or illegitimate recombination, of a regulatory sequence that activates expression of the gene. The invention also provides methods for the identification, activation, isolation, and/or expression of genes undiscoverable by current methods since no target sequence is necessary for integration. Thus, by the present invention, endogenous genes, including those associated with human disease and development, may be activated and isolated without prior knowledge of the sequence, structure, function, or expression profile of the genes.
US07785829B2
The invention provides Sp35 polypeptides and fusion proteins thereof, Sp35 antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof and nucleic acids encoding the same. The invention also provides compositions comprising, and methods for making and using, such Sp35 antibodies, antigen-binding fragments thereof, Sp35 polypeptides and fusion proteins thereof.
US07785822B2
The present invention provides methods for the detection of biliverdin in birds (avian species) and reptiles.
US07785812B2
Compositions and methods are disclosed for improving the effectiveness of a chemotherapeutic regimen to eradicate multidrug-resistant transformed cells from the body of a mammal, preferably from the body of a human. The present disclosure capitalizes on the discovery of a novel multidrug-resistance associated protein (MRP), herein designated MRP-β. The disclosed compositions include MRP-β nucleic acids, including probes and antisense oligonucleotides, MRP-β polypeptides and antibodies, MRP-β expressing host cells, and non-human mammals transgenic or nullizygous for MRP-β. The disclosed methods include methods for attenuating aberrant MRP-β gene expression, protein production and/or protein function. In addition, methods are disclosed for identifying and using a modulator, such as an inhibitor, of MRP-β. Preferably, the modulator is a small molecule.
US07785810B2
The present invention relates to novel methods and compositions for detection and isolation of cancer cells with metastatic potential. The invention further relates to assays for measuring the metastatic potential of such cancer cells and drug screening assays for the identification of agents having anti-metastatic potential. The present invention further provides methods and compositions for inhibiting the metastatic potential of cancer cells by modulating the activity of serine integral membrane proteases [(SIMP) consisting of seprase and dipedidyl peptidase IV (DPPIV)] expressed on the surface of metastasizing cancer cells.
US07785804B2
Nucleic acids encoding a new family of chemokines, the CX3C family, from a mammal, reagents related thereto, including specific antibodies, and purified proteins are described. Methods of using said reagents and related diagnostic kits are also provided.
US07785788B2
A method for determining whether an individual is at an increased risk for myocardial infarction, comprising screening for the presence of Factor II and Factor XIII alleles associated with myocardial infarction. Also provided are kits and primers that specifically hybridize adjacent to the allele-specific regions of the Factor II and Factor XIII genes.
US07785779B2
The present invention relates to the use of nucleic acid sequences for regulating the transcription and expression of genes, the novel promoters and expression units themselves, methods for altering or causing the transcription rate and/or expression rate of genes, expression cassettes comprising the expression units, genetically modified microorganisms with altered or caused transcription rate and/or expression rate, and methods for preparing biosynthetic products by cultivating the genetically modified microorganisms.
US07785778B2
Identification of a pig as resistant or non-resistant to enterotoxigenic E. Coli (ETEC). Particularly, there is provided methods, probes and DNA molecules involved in identifying a pig as resistant or non-resistant to ETEC. There is also provided methods for breeding pigs using the information of resistance/non-resistance, mixed boar semen, and methods for developing drugs to compensate for non-resistance to ETEC.
US07785776B2
Methods for analyzing a target nucleic acid are provided. A fluorescent label attached to a nucleic acid is incorporated into at least one strand of the target nucleic acid and the methods include monitoring change in fluorescence emission resulting from dissociation of the labeled strand of the amplification product from its complementary strand.
US07785773B1
This invention is directed to diagnostic methods detecting the presence of an antibody to a virus in a sample from a subject and kits for using the methods.
US07785771B2
The invention provides an assay kit for the measurement of free D-galactose and/or L-arabinose in a sample, the kit comprising galactose mutarotase and (3-galactose dehydrogenase. The kit may further comprise a reagent capable of hydrolysing molecules containing D-galactose and/or L-arabinose, to yield the free mono- or disaccharide so that the kit finds use for determination of not just of free D-galactose and/or L-arabinose but also those molecules as released (or synthesized) from other molecules, including lactose, D-galactose-1-phosphate, galactosyl-sucrose oligosaccharides (such as raffinose), galactan, galactomannan, arabinan and arabinogalactan.
US07785768B2
A thermoacid generator for antireflective film formation, characterized by being represented by the following formula (1): (wherein R1 represents C1-20 alkyl, alkenyl, oxoalkyl, or oxoalkenyl (hydrogen atoms in these groups may have been replaced with fluorine atoms); R2 represents linear, branched, or cyclic C1-20 alkyl, alkenyl, oxoalkyl, or oxoalkenyl, C6-20 aryl, or C7-12 aralkyl or aryloxoalkyl; R3 represents hydrogen or alkyl; and Y− represents a non-nucleophilic counter ion); a composition for forming an antireflective film; and an antireflective film made from the composition. With the thermoacid generator and composition, satisfactory etching resistance and the satisfactory ability to prevent the reflection of short-wavelength light (ability to absorb short-wavelength light) are attained. Furthermore, the antireflective film can inhibit an overlying photoresist film from generating a scum.
US07785761B2
A transparent toner to be used for a transparent toner image formed with a color toner image, wherein a thermoplastic resin constituting the transparent toner is made of a resin obtained by melt-mixing a crystalline polyester resin and an amorphous resin under the conditions such that supposing that T0 (° C.) is the temperature at which the visual reflectance Y of 20 μm thick film formed by the resin obtained by melt-mixing the crystalline polyester resin and the amorphous resin for a period of time t0 (minute) is 1.5%, the melt-mixing temperature is T (° C.) and the melt-mixing time is t (minute), T (° C.) is predetermined to be from T0 to (T0+30), t (minute) is predetermined to be from t0 to (10×t0) and the temperature Tα at which the viscosity of the thermoplastic resin is 103 Pa·s is from 70° C. to 110° C.
US07785759B2
A photoconductor that includes, for example, a supporting substrate, a photogenerating layer, and at least one charge transport layer containing at least one charge transport component, and wherein the charge transport layer also contains a thiadiazole.
US07785742B2
Coagulated particles of nickel-cobalt-manganese hydroxide wherein primary particles are coagulated to form secondary particles are synthesized by allowing an aqueous solution of a nickel-cobalt-manganese salt, an aqueous solution of an alkali-metal hydroxide, and an ammonium-ion donor to react under specific conditions; and a lithium-nickel-cobalt-manganese-containing composite oxide represented by a general formula, LipNixMn1-x-yCoyO2-qFq (where 0.98≦p≦1.07, 0.3≦x≦0.5, 0.1≦y≦0.38, and 0≦q≦0.05), which is a positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary cell having a wide usable voltage range, a charge-discharge cycle durability, a high capacity and high safety, is obtained by dry-blending coagulated particles of nickel-cobalt-manganese composite oxyhydroxide formed by making an oxidant to act on the coagulated particles with a lithium salt, and firing the mixture in an oxygen-containing atmosphere.
US07785741B2
An electrochemical cell, comprising: a first electrode structure formed from a sheet of electrode material folded along a plurality of spaced apart intervals to form a U-fold structure having a plurality of spaced apart double-layer sections; and a second electrode structure spaced apart from and operatively disposed between the plurality of spaced-apart double layer sections of the first electrode structure.
US07785738B2
The lithium-ion secondary battery has a portion where a thickness of a sealing member from a surface of an outer package to a surface of a lead in a laminating direction of electrode bodies on one side of the lead differs from that on the other side of the lead such that two leads connected to each electrode body are arranged within the same plane perpendicular to the laminating direction of the electrode bodies. The electrode bodies are laminated in the outer package such as to yield portions where only one of the planar leads of a first electrode body overlaps one of the planar leads of a second electrode body in the laminating direction of the electrode bodies in the opening part of the outer package.
US07785726B2
Polymer ion-exchange membranes having outstanding electrical conductivity, water retention and oxidation resistance are produced by the steps of uniformly mixing an organic high-molecular weight resin with functional inorganics having the abilities to promote graft polymerization of polymerizable monomers, adsorb water and conduct protons, irradiating the resulting functional inorganics/polymer membrane to initiate graft polymerization or graft copolymerization of polymerizable monomers having functional groups, and then introducing sulfonic acid groups into the graft chains.
US07785723B2
A battery device includes a battery set, and a casing; the casing includes a right covering part and a left covering part, which are joined together to provide a holding room for the battery set; the battery set include at least two batteries, and are held in the casing with positive and negative poles thereof being exposed through front and tail ends of the casing respectively; a socket is held in the casing, and electrically connected with the positive and the negative poles of the battery set; thus, after a plug of a charger is inserted in the socket, the single-part batteries together will be charged through the charger without the battery device being located on the charger.
US07785721B2
A layer system that filters sun and heat can be applied to glass by a vacuum coating process. The system comprises at least one series of metal layers in addition to a respective series of lower dielectric layers and a respective series of upper dielectric layers. At least one series of metal layers and one series of upper and lower dielectric layers are configured as a sandwich system, wherein one metal layer is encapsulated by an upper and a lower intermediate layer consisting of hypostoichiometrically nitrided or oxidized metal of the metal layer and sandwich systems of the series of layers contain individual sandwich layers of a stoichiometric and hypostoichiometric oxide or nitride of a metal or semiconductor. An oxygen or nitrogen deficit of the sandwich layers increases towards a neighboring sandwich system and the oxide and nitride layers are produced in a vacuum coating process.
US07785717B2
A fluorescent ink composition comprising functionalized fluorescent nanocrystals, an aqueous-based ink carrier comprising water or a water-based solution, and a binder. Also provided are methods of providing an image or a security mark on a substrate for subsequent identification by applying a fluorescent ink composition onto the substrate.
US07785712B2
A structural insulated panel, which includes a carbon foam core having a high ratio of compressive strength to density, desirable fire retardant properties, and resistance to environmental stress. The carbon foam structural insulated panel also includes a first layer and a second layer bound to a first surface and second surface of the carbon foam core. Applications of the carbon foam structural insulated panel include structural and fire retardant elements of residential and commercial buildings, aircraft and also watercraft.
US07785711B1
Expandable or pre-expanded thermoplastic particles, e.g. polystyrene particles, used to form foam containers e.g. cups, bowls, are coated with a coating composition comprising a liquid part consisting of a) liquid polyethylene glycol with an average molecular weight of 200 to 800; and a solid part comprising components selected from the group consisting of b) polyolefin wax, e.g. polyethylene wax, c) a metal salt of higher fatty acids, e.g. zinc stearate or calcium stearate; d) polyethylene glycol with an average molecular weight of 900 to 10,000; and e) a fatty bisamide or fatty amide, e.g. ethylene bis-stearamide; and combinations of b) through e). The coating composition prevents or resists leakage of liquids and foods with oil and/or fatty components and improves the rim strength and ATF properties of foam containers.
US07785699B1
A protective covering constructed from an electrostatically charged sheet having a top and bottom surface and an absorbent layer. The absorbent layer has top and bottom surfaces, the bottom surface of the absorbent layer being bonded to the top surface of the electrostatically charged sheet. The absorbent layer is divided into a plurality of cells for containing liquid spilled on the absorbent layer. The absorbent layer can be constructed from paper, open cell foam, fibrous mat, or any other absorbent material. In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the cells are constructed by providing hydrophobic barriers in the absorbent layer. The barriers can be constructed from paraffin, plastic, or any other material that can penetrate the absorbent layer. In one embodiment of the present invention, a hydrophobic layer is bonded to the top surface of the absorbent layer. The hydrophobic layer has a plurality of pores that allow liquid spilled on the hydrophobic layer to penetrate the hydrophobic layer and be absorbed by the absorbent layer.
US07785697B2
The present invention provides a thin film device in which resin film does not easily separate. In a thin film device, a conductor pattern is formed on one of the main surfaces of a plate-shaped base, and the conductor pattern is covered with a resin film. This conductor pattern has a bottom face disposed on the main surface of the base, a top face that faces the bottom face and is distant from the main surface of the base, and two side faces that connect the bottom face and the top face. A depressed portion is formed in these side faces, and an insulation film extends into the depressed portion.
US07785694B2
The invention relates to an arrangement for lining the interior of a passenger vehicle such as an airplane including a honeycomb formation of several honeycombs arranged side by side. At its end, the honeycomb body is supported by a cover layer supported above and below the honeycomb formation such that by means of two cover layers glued onto the honeycomb formation, a layer design of the honeycomb paneling is created, which layer design is arranged so as to extend parallel to the outer skin of the aircraft and follow the curvature of the outer skin. The honeycomb formation used is made of paper or aramide honeycombs or of a mixed combination of both honeycomb types; on whose cross section of the honeycomb body a CFK cover layer is positioned to both ends of the honeycomb bodies. As an alternative, further CFK insulation layers are glued onto the outer surface of the respective cover layer supported above and below the honeycomb formation, which cover layers comprise a CFK or GFK. Moreover, the layer design of the honeycomb paneling may comprise further honeycomb formations which are additionally stacked on and glued to the honeycomb formation used.
US07785692B1
A floormat arranged to shed fluids has a topside and an underside. The floormat is placed where a user is expected to stand during a procedure. Fluids released during the procedure are allowed to fall onto and be shed off the floormat before being removed. The floormat may be discarded before starting another procedure. The mat is formed, at least in part, of compressible and resilient material. The topside of the mat has a spaced plurality of channels. In one instance, each of the channels has a floor sloping in opposite directions from a central peak. In another instance, the mat has a tapered apron bordering a central section that is convexly crowned to shed fluids. In other embodiments the topside of the central region is substantially flat except for the spaced plurality of channels. The floormat may be placed where an operator is expected to stand during the procedure. Fluids that fall onto the floor mat are shed therefrom and then removed. The floormat is discarded before starting another procedure.
US07785681B2
A method of manufacturing elongate wooden handles for floor mops and the like comprises (a) splitting a green bamboo cane lengthwise and then spreading it into the shape of a sheet, (b) planing both surfaces of the sheet to give it a substantially uniform thickness, (c) cutting the bamboo sheet into an elongate section of selected width, (d) drying that bamboo section, (e) providing an assembly comprising a pair of dowels, at least one elongate core member, said bamboo sections and an adhesive, with the bamboo section wrapped around the dowels and the core member and the adhesive disposed between the bamboo section and the dowels and core member, (f) heating that assembly under pressure so the adhesive will bond the dowels and core member to the surrounding bamboo section and thereby form an elongate pole, and (g) turning the elongate pole to a selected outer diameter.
US07785680B2
A multilayer card has (i) an opaque polyester film substrate containing 0.2 to 30% by weight, relative to the total weight of the substrate, of at least one copolyesterether, (ii) a first ink-receptive layer on at least one surface of the substrate, (iii) a cover layer on the surface of the ink-receptive layer and/or surface of the substrate and (iv) a second ink-receptive heat-sealable layer comprising a polyester resin on a second surface of the substrate. The presence of the copolyesterether in the substrate reduces the tendency of the card to delaminate in use. Suitable for use, inter alia, in identification, magnetic, credit, pre-paid and smart cards.
