US07791700B2
The present invention features a liquid crystal display device including a printed circuit board, PCB, substrate composed of non-conductive material and having a front surface and having an opposing back surface that contains electrical circuitry and is located near the back of the display device. A liquid crystal display is disposed on the front PCB substrate surface and includes first and second electrode layers and a dispersion layer disposed between the first and second electrode layers. The dispersion layer includes liquid crystal (e.g., cholesteric liquid crystal) dispersed in a polymer matrix. Electrical through-conductors extend between the front substrate surface and the back substrate surface. The through-conductors are in electrical contact with the first and second electrode layers. Drive electronics are disposed on the PCB substrate and are adapted to apply voltage pulses to the first and second electrodes effective to form images on the liquid crystal display. In one aspect the front of the PCB substrate is a non-component surface free of drive electronics. In another aspect, the PCB substrate is the only substrate of the display device. Also featured are methods of making the display device, including forming the display as a transfer film, which forms an electrical connection when the first electrode layer is applied to the PCB substrate. Another method forms the device by printing or coating the display component layers on the PCB substrate.
US07791697B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate arranged on a viewer side, and a liquid crystal between the first and second substrates. A light guide plate is arranged on a back surface of the first substrate, a polarization plate is arranged between the first substrate and the light guide plate, and a prism sheet is arranged between the light guide plate and the polarization plate with prisms being provided on a light guide plate side thereof. A diffusion layer is arranged between the prism sheet and the polarization plate, and a light control sheet is arranged between the diffusion layer and the polarization plate. The light control sheet, which is a λ/2 retardation plate, rotates a polarization of light emitted from the diffusion layer, is arranged in contact with the polarization plate.
US07791696B2
Disclosed is an optically anisotropic film used for a liquid crystal display of a vertical alignment liquid crystal mode comprising a fatty acid cellulose aster film, a retardation value (Rt value) in the thickness direction of the fatty acid cellulose ester film is from 60 to 300 nm, and the number of luminescent points having a size exceeding 50 μm is zero per 250 mm2, and the number of luminescent points having a size of 5 to 50 μm is 200 or less per 250 mm2 when the fatty acid cellulose ester film is observed with two polarizing plates being provided on both surfaces of the fatty acid cellulose ester film so as to shield transmission light.
US07791695B2
A liquid crystal display device is provided having a transmissive region and a reflective region in a pixel region in which a protective film is formed covering a thin film transistor over a substrate, wherein in the reflective region, an uneven surface is formed on a surface of the protective film, and a capacitor electrode which comprises a transparent conductive film and which is electrically connected to a source electrode of the thin film transistor, a first capacitor insulating film, and a reflective plate which also functions as an opposing electrode and in which the uneven surface formed on the protective film surfaces and appears with the capacitor electrode and the first capacitor insulating film therebetween are formed over the surface of the protective film, a second capacitor insulating film and a pixel electrode are formed covering the reflective region and the transmissive region.
US07791689B2
An exemplary liquid crystal display (2) includes a liquid crystal panel (20), and a backlight module (22) located adjacent to the liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal panel includes a first substrate assembly (24) and a second substrate assembly (26) parallel to the first substrate assembly. The second substrate assembly includes a color filter layer (262). The color filter layer includes red units, green units, and blue units. The red, green and blue units are approximately strip-shaped. A ratio of a width of each red unit to a width of each green unit is in direct proportion to a ratio of the wavelength of red light to the wavelength of green light. A ratio of the width of each green unit to a width of each blue unit is in inverse proportion to a ratio of the wavelength of green light to the wavelength of blue light.
US07791687B2
A display device includes a display panel and a biaxial reflective polarizer having a plurality of layers characterized by a varying optical thickness. A majority of the layers of the biaxial reflective polarizer having a smaller optical thickness are disposed closer to the display panel than the layers having a larger optical thickness.
US07791683B2
A backlight system for a liquid crystal display includes a substantially planar, refractive waveguide having a first major face and a second major face opposite the first major face. The waveguide includes a viewable region corresponding to a viewable area of the liquid crystal display. The system further includes a light source positioned proximate to the second major face and within the viewing region for producing light. An injection feature is proximate to one or more of the second major face and the first major face and within the viewing region to optically couple the light into the waveguide such that the light becomes waveguided light. A plurality of extraction features is proximate to one or more of the second major face and the first major face and within the viewing region to optically couple the waveguided light out of the waveguide.
US07791681B2
A thin film transistor array substrate for a liquid crystal display includes a substrate, and a gate line assembly formed on the substrate to receive gate signals. The gate line assembly has gate lines proceeding in the horizontal direction, and gate electrodes connected to the gate lines. A storage capacitor line assembly proceeds in the horizontal direction. A gate insulating layer is formed on the substrate while covering the gate lines and the storage capacitor line assembly. A semiconductor pattern is formed on the gate insulating layer over the gate electrodes. A data line assembly is formed on the gate insulating layer. The data line assembly has data lines crossing over the gate lines to define pixel regions, source electrodes connected to the data lines while being placed on the semiconductor pattern, and drain electrodes facing the source electrodes around the gate electrodes while being placed on the semiconductor pattern. A protective layer covers the data line assembly and the semiconductor pattern with contact holes. Pixel electrodes are formed on the protective layer at the respective pixel regions such that the pixel electrodes are connected to the drain electrodes through the contact holes. The gate lines or the pixel electrodes are provided with repair members, and the repair members are partially overlapped with the front gate lines or the pixel electrodes.
US07791679B2
Alternative thin film transistors for liquid crystal displays are disclosed. The alternative transistors can be used for panels of displays such as liquid crystal displays (LCDs), especially those having alternative pixel arrangements. These transistors can be oriented on a panel of an LCD using different, non-traditional configurations, while addressing misalignment and parasitic capacitance.
US07791677B2
Provided is a novel structure of an active matrix TFT backplane. In order to form an auxiliary capacitor by a pixel electrode or a drain electrode of a TFT connected therewith, a base metal layer is formed on a glass substrate and a substrate insulating layer is formed on an entire surface thereof. By the structure, position alignment of the drain electrode with a counter electrode is unnecessary. An area for electrical capacitor formation is determined by size precision of the drain electrode, so a variation in electrical capacitance is suppressed to a small value.
US07791675B2
A variable retarder is inserted in one or more light channels of a kernel. The variable retarder is a nematic liquid crystal layer that is energized by an electric field and, for example, the voltage or frequency of the electric field dictates an amount of retardation effected by the variable retarder. The variable retarder either increases or decreases an optical path in which it is inserted relative to a reference. The amount of increase or decrease is utilized to place light paths in the kernel within acceptable tolerances. The acceptable tolerances are, for example, a tolerance of difference-light paths expected by a projection lens of device using the kernel for light modulation. In one embodiment, the variable retarder includes a polymer that can be used to fix a retardation value of the variable waveplate.
US07791650B2
Information regarding free space on a recording medium is acquired. The free space is classified into a plurality of classes according to a writing speed. Then, image data is recorded at predetermined position on the recording medium determined on the basis of a bit rate of the image data to be recorded and the classified class.
US07791642B2
Provided is an image-taking apparatus having an easier human machine interface than before. Instead of operating an operator, a mode for a flash condition among multiple shooting conditions displayed on a display panel of a liquid crystal display device is switched from an automatic mode to a forced on mode by shaking a digital camera vertically. Then, the shooting condition is switched to a focusing condition by shaking the digital camera horizontally. The shooting condition is switched from the focusing condition to a white balance condition by shaking this image-taking apparatus horizontally again. Thereafter, a mode for the shooting condition is switched from a macro mode to a macro-off mode by shaking this image-taking apparatus vertically again. Likewise, it is possible to set up various modes for the respective shooting conditions by shaking this image-taking apparatus.
US07791630B2
A method of adjusting an exposure device suited for an electrophotographic printer, the exposure device includes a plurality of light-emitting elements. The method includes the steps of energizing selected light-emitting elements according to a selection scheme, using a pre-determined energy level for energizing each selected light-emitting element and obtaining a corresponding exposure intensity distribution from the exposure device. The method further includes the steps of predicting a toner area coverage distribution, based on the obtained exposure intensity distribution and on a pre-established transfer function, obtaining an attribute of the predicted toner area coverage distribution and determining the setting values for the energy levels for energizing each selected light-emitting element such that the obtained attribute becomes a target attribute.
US07791628B2
A deviation amount detecting device for use in an electrophotographic color image forming device is configured to correct, during an inter-cycle period in which computation of a first deviation amount using a result of reading of deviation detection patterns is held in a waiting state, a second deviation amount computed using a result of measurement of a scanning time of a light beam, based on a first deviation amount computed at a latest cycle, so that a corrected amount of deviation of a main scanning direction and a corrected amount of deviation of a sub-scanning direction are computed.
US07791622B2
There are included a communication unit, a resolution adjustment unit, a storage unit, a video signal output unit, and a resolution information correction unit.The communication unit requests an image display device that displays an image to transmit first resolution information specifying the resolutions at which the image display device can perform output, and receives the first resolution information. The resolution adjustment unit adjusts the resolution when outputting a video signal outputted to the image display device. The image display device and the display output device conform to a standard for transmission and reception of video signals at one predetermined resolution or more which are determined in advance. The storage unit stores the first resolution information. If the predetermined resolution determined by the standard is not included in the received first resolution information, the resolution information correction unit appends the predetermined resolution determined by the standard to the first resolution information, which it stores in the storage unit.
US07791616B2
Method for efficiently transforming a raster image from one map projection to another map projection
A method and system for efficiently converting an image from a first map projection to a second map projection image. The method includes precomputing coordinates in the first map projection for a subset of the total number of pixels in an empty second map projection image and subsequently, finding the first map projection coordinates of each of the remaining pixels by linear interpolation using the precomputed first map projection coordinates of the nearest surrounding precomputed pixels. A color is assigned to the second map projection image pixel with bilinear interpolation using color values of surrounding first map projection pixels. If the first map projection has fiducials, only the area within the fiducials is considered. An embodiment converts a USGS DOQ in UTM format into Geodetic coordinates.
US07791615B2
A method of processing image data produced by a solid state image sensor that is overlaid with a color filter array is based on range scaling, demosaicing, matrixing, range clipping and gamma correction being performed in two data collection passes. The demosaicing can be performed with pixels grouped in 2×2 blocks, or quads.
US07791607B1
Systems and methods for integrating graphic animation technologies with fantasy sports contest applications are provided. This invention enables a fantasy sports contest application to depict plays in various sporting events using graphic animation. The fantasy sports contest application may combine graphical representation of real-life elements such as, for example, player facial features, with default elements such as, for example, a generic player body, to create realistic graphic video. The fantasy sports contest application may provide links to animated videos for depicting plays on contest screens in which information associated with the plays may be displayed. The fantasy sports contest application may play the animated video for a user in response to the user selecting such a link. In some embodiment of the present invention, the fantasy sports contest application may also customize animated video based on user-supplied setup information. For example, the fantasy sports contest application may provide play information and other related data to allow a user to generate animated videos using the user's own graphics processing equipment and graphics animation program.
US07791602B2
The present invention relates to computer graphics applications involving scene rendering using objects modeled at multiple levels of detail. In accordance with an aspect of the invention, a ray tracer implementation allows users to specify multiple versions of a particular object, categorized by LOD ID's. A scene server selects the version appropriate for the particular scene, based on the size of the object on the screen for example, and provides a smooth transition between multiple versions of an object model. In one example, the scene server will select two LOD representations associated with a given object and assign relative weights to each representation. The LOD weights are specified to indicate how to blend these representations together. A ray tracer computes the objects hit by camera rays associated with pixels in the camera window, as well as secondary rays in recursive implementations, and rays striking LOD objects are detected and shaded in accordance with the weights assigned to the different representations. Embodiments are disclosed for level of detail control using both forward ray tracing and backward ray tracing, including handling of camera rays, reflected rays, refracted rays and shadow rays.
US07791597B2
A method of interacting with a computing device via one or more inking instruments to generate digital ink may include the steps of emitting light from a light emitting device to an inking instrument, receiving first user inputs from the inking instrument, and identifying the inking instrument based on sensed light reflected from the inking instrument. Another method may include the steps of simultaneously detecting first user inputs from a first inking instrument and second user inputs from a second inking instrument by receiving first light emitted from the first inking instrument and second light emitted from a second inking instrument that each have one or more identifying characteristics, identifying the inking instrument based on their identifying characteristics, and generating corresponding digital ink. These methods may be implemented via computer-executable instructions and may be used with a horizontally-placed display, tablet-based laptop computers, and passive or active digital inking instruments.
US07791595B2
A user interface for a load control device comprises a bezel, a touch sensitive device, and a touch sensitive actuator. The touch sensitive actuator is received in an opening of the bezel and comprises a plurality of force concentrator for actuating the touch sensitive device. A front surface of the touch sensitive actuator is operable to be actuated by a user of the load control device such that the touch sensitive actuator transmits the force from the front surface of the touch sensitive actuator to the touch sensitive device. Preferably, the touch sensitive actuator is provided in an opening of a faceplate of the load control device along a linear axis. The load control device is operable to control a connected electrical load in response to an actuation of the touch sensitive actuator. The load control device further comprises a plurality of status indicators mounted immediately behind the touch sensitive actuator and above the touch sensitive device.
US07791590B1
An optical mouse includes a housing movable across a work surface with a source of non-coherent light in the movable housing for illuminating the work surface at a low or grazing angle of incidence, and may include a two dimensional array of photodetectors, each of which may produce an output in response to light reflected from surface irregularities on the illuminated work surface. The housing may include a memory for storing the photodetector outputs captured at one or more times. Circuitry in the housing may track movement of the housing relative to the work surface by comparing at least some of the photo detector outputs captured at a first time with at least some of the photo detector outputs captured at a second time depending upon whether a characteristic condition in the photo detector outputs, such as uniformity, is detected. The circuitry may track movement of the housing by comparing light reflected from the surface irregularities a first time with light reflected there from at a second time unless a detectable image is not included therein.
US07791589B2
A display apparatus (50) that appropriately displays a dynamic layout type electronic document having a handwritten memo additionally input to a main body even in different environments includes: a display unit (74) also serving as a handwritten data input unit (76); a layout calculating unit (72) calculating a layout of the dynamic layout type electronic document and giving a display on the display unit (74); a user writing processing unit (78) causing handwritten data of a user input through handwritten data input unit (76) to be displayed overlapping the electronic document that is being displayed; and a user data input/output unit (66) storing user data used for displaying the handwritten data in a user data storing unit (64) in relation to the electronic document. The user data includes shape data of the handwritten data, write area information specifying an area in the electronic document where the handwritten data was written, and layout information at the time of writing specifying the display layout of the electronic document when the handwritten data was formed.
US07791587B2
A display portion 3 and a camera portion 4 are disposed in a main body 1. A housing of the main body 1 is made of an non-electroconductive material. One side surface of the main body 1 is an information input surface 5 of an input apparatus. Disposed in the housing on the side surface of the information input surface is a light, thin-film shaped electrostatic sensor. By moving a finger tip 6 on the information input surface 5 upward and downward while contacting thereon, a cursor moves on the display portion 3. Tap positions U, C, and L into which the information input surface 5 is divided in its height direction are defined. When each tap position is lightly tapped one time, releasing and touching states of the finger tip 6 are detected by the sensor and a tap operation is recognized. The tap operation includes a confirmation of a menu at the cursor position, a shutter operation, and so forth. The difference of tap positions can be detected by the sensor.
US07791586B2
An entertainment system includes a housing adapted for being mounted within a seat of a vehicle and a media unit housed within the housing and pivotably coupled to the housing. The housing includes at least one of a groove formed within a sidewall of the housing adapted to engage a movable latch of the media unit, a first flexible member provided on a sidewall of the housing to engage a portion of the media unit for snapping the media unit into place within the housing, or a second flexible member disposed in a face of the housing to provide a spring force on the media unit in a direction away from the housing.
US07791584B2
A system for powering and controlling an LED backlight, the system comprising: a control circuitry; a plurality of LED strings; a pulse width modulation functionality associated with the control circuitry and arranged to pulse width modulate a current flow through each of the plurality of LED strings; and a plurality of current limiters responsive to the control circuitry, each of the plurality of current limiters being associated with a particular one of the plurality of LED strings and operative to limit current flow of the pulse width modulated current there-through, the control circuitry being operative in the event of a thermal condition of one of the plurality of current limiters to reduce a duty cycle of the pulse width modulation functionality of the current flow through the one of the plurality of current limiters.
US07791583B2
A method of operating a display includes deriving first pixel data for overdriving pixel circuits of the display from initial gray levels to target gray levels based on values in the first and second lookup tables, rendering the second lookup table unavailable in memory in response to a change in a temperature of the display, and deriving second pixel data using the first lookup table for overdriving the pixel circuits when the second lookup table is unavailable in the memory.
US07791577B2
Each pixel includes first and second subpixels with different luminances. Each subpixel includes a liquid crystal capacitor and a storage capacitor. The storage capacitor counter electrodes of the subpixels (such as those of the first subpixel of an arbitrary pixel and the second subpixel of a vertically adjacent pixel) are electrically independent. A storage capacitor counter voltage supplied through each storage capacitor trunk has a first period (A) with a first waveform and a second period (B) with a second waveform within one vertical scanning period (V-Total) of an input video signal, where V-Total=A+B. The first waveform oscillates between first and second voltage levels in a first cycle time PA, which is an integral number of times, and at least twice, as long as one horizontal scanning period (H). The second waveform is defined such that the effective value of the storage capacitor counter voltage has a predetermined constant value every predetermined number of (but 20 or less) consecutive vertical scanning periods. Thus, the viewing angle dependence of the γ characteristic can be reduced.
US07791574B2
There is provided an electro-optical device including pixels arranged in a matrix, each pixel having a plurality of color-display sub-pixels corresponding to a plurality of colors and a monochrome-display sub-pixel. The color-display sub-pixel and the monochrome-display sub-pixel can perform gray-scale display independently. One of the color-display sub-pixel and the monochrome-display sub-pixel displays images in a transmissive mode in which light emitted from a light source is modulated, while the other sub-pixel displays images in a reflective mode in which light incident from outside is modulated.
US07791572B2
A method of controlling a picture quality of a flat panel display device includes storing a first compensation data used to compensate a panel defect area of a display panel, wherein the first compensation data is judged by a first inspection process, storing a second compensation data used to compensate a boundary between the panel defect area and a non-defect area of the display panel, wherein the second compensation data is judged by a second inspection process; a first compensation step to modulate data using the first compensation data stored in a memory, wherein first modulated data are supplied to the panel defect area; a second compensation step to modulate data using the second compensation data stored in the memory, wherein second modulated data are supplied to the boundary of the panel defect area and the non-defect area; and displaying the second modulated data on the display panel.
US07791569B2
A light emitting element circuit includes a current minor circuit having two thin film transistors, two current input terminals, and two output terminals, a capacitor for holding voltage in accordance with an electric current to be input from one of the two current input terminals, and a light emitting element connected to the current minor circuit. An electric current is supplied to the light emitting element through the current mirror circuit in accordance with the voltage held in the capacitor. The two output terminals of the current mirror circuit are connected to the light emitting element, and the two current input terminals of the current minor circuit are connected with each other through a switch in a time period other than a time period during which an electric current is input from the one of the two current input terminals. In addition, a switching circuit connects the current minor circuit to a matrix wiring, and the current minor circuit includes a switch to connect one of the two output terminals of the current minor circuit to a ground.
US07791568B2
A display panel (110) includes a plurality of optical elements (OEL) each having a pair of electrodes and performing an optical operation according to current passing between the pair of electrodes, a current line (DL), a switch circuit (Tr2) that passes a write current (Ia) with a predetermined current value through the current line (DL) during a selection time (Tse) and stops passing current during a non-selection time (Tnse), and a current storage circuit (Tr1, Tr3, Cs, Cp) that stores current data according to the current value of the write current (Ia) passing through the current line (DL) during the selection time (Tse) and that supplies a drive current (Ib) having a current value, which is obtained by subtracting a predetermined offset current (Ioff) from the current value of the stored write current (Ia), to the optical elements (OEL) during the non-selection time (Tnse).
US07791552B1
A method of manufacturing a cellular reflectarray antenna arranged in an m by n matrix of radiating elements for communication with a satellite includes steps of determining a delay φm,n for each of said m by n matrix of elements of said cellular reflectarray antenna using sub-steps of: determining the longitude and latitude of operation, determining elevation and azimuth angles of the reflectarray with respect to the satellite and converting theta0 (θ0) and phi0 (φ0), determining Δβm,n, the pointing vector correction, for a given inter-element spacing and wavelength, determining Δφm,n, the spherical wave front correction factor, for a given radius from the central element and/or from measured data from the feed horn; and, determining a delay φm,n for each of said m by n matrix of elements as a function of Δβm,n and Δφm,n..
US07791544B2
Disclosed is a built-in antenna apparatus comprising a plurality of antenna blocks, and an electrical connection device for connecting adjacent antenna blocks, the electrical connection device selectively connecting the antenna blocks so as to form varieties of the antenna. This enables the antenna blocks to be easily and detachably arranged according to the external shape, available mounting space and antenna characteristics of the mobile communications terminal.
US07791541B2
There is provided a printed circuit board comprising: a mounting area of a chip antenna provided on one surface thereof, and a tuning ground pattern formed on a surface opposing the one surface of the printed circuit board to have one end connected to a ground part so as to be used for tuning frequency characteristics of the chip antenna.
US07791539B2
A system comprising at least one antenna and a circuit, wherein the circuit is at least in part not a semiconductor chip or a die. The at least one antenna and the circuit are arranged on a package. Alternatively described is a system comprising at least one antenna and at least one circuit, wherein the at least one antenna and the at least one circuit are arranged on a package, wherein the at least one circuit performs a radio-frequency and optionally a base-band and/or a digital functionality.
US07791532B2
A radar wherein, in response to an increase in the level of noise appearing in a frequency spectrum caused by interference being superimposed on a beat signal, peaks exceeding a threshold are extracted as target peaks in an ordinary state and a predetermined number of peaks in descending order starting from the peak having the highest peak value are extracted in the case where interference occurs.
US07791531B2
A VOR monitoring receiving apparatus includes a receiving circuit for receiving a field signal from a VOR apparatus, and outputting content of the field signal to a plurality of signal systems, first and second monitoring receiving circuits provided in first and second signal systems included in the plurality of signal systems, respectively, for monitoring the content of the field signal, a self-check signal generator for generating a self-check signal necessary to confirm whether the first and second monitoring receiving circuits normally operate, a VOR monitoring controller for detecting an abnormality of the VOR apparatus based on monitoring results of the first and second monitoring receiving circuits, a switch for performing switching to alternately output the field signal and the self-check signal to the first and second signal systems, and a switch controller for controlling the switch to perform switching whenever a preset time elapses.
US07791528B2
A radar apparatus and method for determining the range to and velocity of at least one object comprising, transmitting a plurality of RF signals, each comprising a particular frequency and being transmitted during a particular unique finite period, the plurality of signals collectively comprising at least one first subset of signals having the same frequency and at least one second subset of signals having different frequencies, receiving the plurality of signals after reflection from an object, determining a phase difference between each of the signals and the corresponding reflected signal, each piece of phase difference information herein termed a sample, organizing the samples in two-dimensions wherein, in a first dimension, all samples have the same frequency and, in a second dimension, all consecutive samples are separated from each other by a fixed time interval; processing the samples in the first dimension to determine a phase rotation frequency corresponding to the samples in the first dimension, the phase rotation frequency comprising a Doppler frequency for the at least one object, processing the samples in the second dimension to determine a second phase rotation frequency corresponding to the samples in the second dimension; the phase rotation frequency comprising Doppler frequency and range frequency for the at least one object; comparing the first phase rotation frequency to the second phase rotation frequency to distinguish range frequency from Doppler frequency of the at least one object; and converting the Doppler frequency to a velocity of the object and converting the range frequency to a range of the object.
US07791515B2
A receiver uses a sigma delta ADC (126) and an adaptable digital filter (132). Detector circuitry detects information about unwanted parts of the signal from an oversampled digital signal, before the filtering, and feeds forward the detected information to the filter, to adapt the filter. By feeding forward the detection information, rather than feeding back an output of the filter, the adaptation can respond much more quickly to rapid changes in the unwanted interference. This enables reduced filtering to save power when interference is low, without risking a sudden increase in interference causing an avalanche of errors before the filter can be adapted correctly. The filter receives the oversampled digital signal combines decimation and channel filtering in one stage.
US07791512B1
A physical layer (PHY) device includes a first encoder that receives a first data stream at a first data rate, that encodes the first data stream using a first type of encoding, and that outputs first encoded data. A second encoder receives a second data stream at a second data rate different than the first data rate, encodes the second data stream using a second type of encoding different than the first type of encoding, and outputs second encoded data. An output selector outputs the first encoded data to a serializer of the PHY when the PHY transmits at the first data rate, and outputs the second encoded data to the serializer when the PHY transmits at the second data rate.
US07791507B2
A coder converts M-bit information words into N-bit code words by generating a first and a second provisional code sequence using a coding rule by which, code words are logically assigned to information words so that a two's complement of a sum of coding bits included in the first provisional code sequence, is always different from a two's complement of a sum of coding bib included in the second provisional code sequence, when a first code state of the first sequence encoded starting from a predetermined original state is identical to a second code state of the second sequence encoded starting from said predetermined original state. Then, selecting either the first sequence or the second sequence depending on a value of at least one parameter that correlates with a DC content of the coded bit stream.
US07791501B2
A system for monitoring and tracking vehicles in parking locations, public roadways and highway entrances and exits and other public vehicle access areas is provided, such as to monitor and track vehicles in parking spaces, public roadways and highways without the need for parking or traffic personnel. The system includes a meter system that generates image data of a vehicle in a parking space, public roadway and highway entrances and exits such as by creating an array of pixel data in a predetermined field of view that includes a vehicle identification tag and facial imaging. An enforcement and tracking system receives the image data and generates a vehicle license number, vehicle tag identification number and facial image from the image data, such as by analyzing the image data to identify the vehicle license number, vehicle tag identification number and facial image based on the expected location of the license tag, identification tag and field of view image data characteristics of the license tag, facial image or other suitable data. From the image data acquired, monitoring of parking spaces is performed and violation citations or notices are generated for errant vehicles in parking locations as well as notification to law enforcement and homeland security agencies of vehicles and facial images identified as being on a watch list.
US07791486B2
Various embodiments of a magnetic detacher with open access are described. In one embodiment, the magnetic detacher may include magnet assembly to provide open access to a hard tag and a magnetic field sufficient to disengage a clamping mechanism of the hard tag. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07791485B2
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to electronic tag decommissioning and provide a method, system and computer program product for electronic tag decommissioning. In one embodiment of the invention, an electronic tag decommissioning system can be provided. The system can include a database housing link data associating a plurality of electronic tags with respective objects, and a decommissioning bin. The decommissioning bin can include an electronic tag reader coupled to decommissioning logic programmed to decommission the electronic tag in the database.
US07791484B2
The present invention relates to a system for tamper detection. A tamper detection system in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: a passive electronic sensor including a circuit having first, second, and third nodes; a load connected between the first and second nodes of the circuit; a friable electrical connection element connected between the second and third nodes of the circuit; and a storage unit, connected to the second node of the circuit, for storing an identification code of the sensor; wherein in use a voltage is applied across the first and third nodes of the circuit, and when the friable electrical connection element is intact, the second node of the circuit is at a first voltage, and when the friable electrical connection element is broken, the second node of the circuit is at a second voltage.
US07791482B2
A material is laced with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags at a known concentration of RFID tags per unit of material. Subsequently, if an interrogation of the RFID tags reveals a reduced concentration of RFID tags in the material, then a conclusion is drawn that the material has been diluted.
US07791480B2
A system comprises a valve; a plurality of RFID sensor assemblies coupled to the valve to monitor a plurality of parameters associated with the valve; a control tag configured to wirelessly communicate with the respective tags that are coupled to the valve, the control tag being further configured to communicate with an RF reader; and an RF reader configured to selectively communicate with the control tag, the reader including an RF receiver. Other systems and methods are also provided.
US07791472B2
Notifying a user of a device event, including receiving a device event, associating the device event with a user, receiving an RFID signal from a user's RFID tag, determining the user's location in dependence upon the RFID signal, selecting a user notification appliance in dependence upon the user's location, and notifying the user of the device event with the selected user notification appliance. In typical embodiments, associating the device event with a user also includes reading a user ID from a device record for the device. In typical embodiments, associating the device event with a user also includes identifying the location of the device, identifying a previous location of the user, and associating the device event with a user in dependence upon the location of the device and the previous location of the user.
US07791465B1
A graphical taillight system for efficiently alerting a driver of a vehicle behind a signaling vehicle of the operations (e.g. braking, turning, reversing, etc.) of the signaling vehicle. The graphical taillight system generally includes a tail light cover including a rear surface, wherein the rear surface is comprised of a substantially nontransparent configuration. At least one signaling portion extends through the rear surface of the tail light cover, wherein the signaling portion is comprised of a substantially transparent configuration and wherein the signaling portion is graphically shaped to represent at least one operation of a vehicle. At least one light is aligned with the respective signaling portion, wherein the light shines through the signaling portion.
US07791463B2
The Universal Help Light is a rectangular shaped light that is positioned or mounted along the rear windshield of an automobile.When the light is connected to the vehicles flasher system, it flashes the word “H E L P” concurrently with the auto's hazard or emergency flashers.The light flashes as described, to give clear notice that help is needed and is being summoned.
US07791458B2
An alerting illumination device, which includes a detecting component, a danger degree estimating component, a danger assuming component, an illuminating component and a controlling component, is provided. The danger degree estimating component estimates a degree of danger, with respect to a subject vehicle, of the person detected by the detecting component. The danger assuming component, on the basis of the estimated degree of danger, assumes whether or not the person detected by the detecting component is a danger with respect to the subject vehicle. The illuminating component illuminates light. The controlling component, in a case in which the danger assuming component assumes that the person is a danger, controls the illuminating component such that light, which shows a direction of the person who is assumed to be a danger and a distance to the person, is illuminated onto a road surface.
US07791457B2
An apparatus and method is provided for identifying unauthorized access to a vehicle having a keyless-passive entry system. An interrogation signal is broadcast from a vehicle based transmission device. The interrogation signal includes a first pulse transmitted at a first amplitude and a second pulse transmitted at a second amplitude where the second amplitude is greater than the first amplitude by at least a predetermined difference threshold. The interrogation signal is received by a portable communication device. A determination is made whether the second amplitude of the second pulse is greater than the first amplitude of the first pulse by a predetermined difference threshold. A determination is made that the interrogation signal is an authorized interrogation signal in response to the determination that the interrogation signal includes the first pulse transmitted at the first amplitude following by the second pulse transmitted at the second amplitude where the second amplitude is greater than the first amplitude by at least a predetermined difference threshold.
US07791456B2
A vibrator includes a voice coil and a vibrating member that vibrates along the axial direction of the voice coil when it is excited by application of an alternating current thereto. A suspension supports the vibrating member vibratably in the axial direction. A casing houses the voice coil, the vibrating member, and the suspension. A buffering member is provided so that the vibrating member strikes the buffering member when the vibration amplitude of the vibrating member has exceeded a predetermined value in a resonance region around the resonance point of the vibrating member.
US07791454B2
A switch for urging a driver to perform an operation that is required when the smart ignition function is invalid. The switch is used by a driver to start the engine of a vehicle when the vehicle communicates with a portable device to verify the portable device. The portable device has an end portion. The switch includes a push button pushed by the driver. The push button includes a guide portion engaged with the end portion of the portable device.
US07791450B2
Provided are a ceramic component and a method of manufacturing the ceramic component. The ceramic component includes a previously fired insulation ceramic base, a functional ceramic sheet bonded to the insulation ceramic base by a diffusion bonding layer having an anchoring structure, internal electrodes embedded into the functional ceramic sheet, and external electrodes connected to the internal electrodes. A functional ceramic paste corresponding to the functional ceramic sheet is applied to the insulation ceramic base and is dried to form a functional ceramic film. The functional ceramic film is pressed against the insulation ceramic base to anchor functional ceramic film into the insulation ceramic base for sure attachment. The functional ceramic film is fired to allow functional oxide materials included in the functional ceramic film to permeate the insulation ceramic base by solid diffusion to form the diffusion bonding layer and to change the functional ceramic film into the functional ceramic sheet.
US07791444B2
A balun transformer includes: a drum-shaped core having a core unit and a pair of flanges arranged on both sides of the core unit; a plurality of terminal electrodes arranged on the flanges; a primary winding wound around the core unit, both ends of the primary winding being connected to the terminal electrodes; and a secondary winding wound around the core unit, both ends and a center tap of the secondary winding being connected to the terminal electrodes, wherein the secondary winding includes a first wire extending from one end to the center tap, and a second wire extending from the other end to the center tap, and the first wire and the second wire are wound around the core unit so as to extend along each other.
US07791423B2
The present invention relates to a two-frequency switchover type crystal oscillator in which first and second IC chips and first and second crystal resonators are connected to wiring patterns of a circuit substrate to form first and second oscillation circuits, and the first and second oscillation circuits are selectively operated in accordance with a selection mechanism; a two-frequency switchover type crystal oscillator in which surfaces opposite to circuit function surfaces of the first and second IC chips are connected to form a two-stage structure; IC terminals of the circuit function surface of the first IC chip are directly connected both electrically and mechanically to the wiring patterns; and IC terminals of the circuit function surface of the second IC chip are connected electrically by wire bonding to the wiring patterns; wherein those wiring patterns of the wiring patterns that are connected to power source, output, and ground terminals of the first and second IC chips are connected in common with respect to the first and second oscillation circuits. This configuration reduces the mounting surface area of the first and second IC chips, facilitating the wiring patterns thereof, thus making it possible to provide a two-frequency switchover oscillator in which the surface area of the external plan view is reduced.
US07791421B2
Surface-mounted piezoelectric oscillators are disclosed that include a package in which a piezoelectric vibrating piece and an electronic circuit (IC) are mounted. At least two external terminals are formed on the external surface of the package and electrically connected to the piezoelectric vibration piece and the electronic circuit. The front surfaces of the external terminals are recessed inwardly (ΔZ) from the external surface of the package.
US07791420B2
A circuit includes a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), which includes a voltage input node having an input voltage; and a start-up circuit. The start-up circuit includes a first current path and a second current path. The first current path has a first current and is configured so that the first current increases in response to a decrease in the input voltage and decreases in response to an increase in the input voltage. The second current path has a second current and is configured so that the second current decreases in response to the decrease in the input voltage and decreases in response to the increase in the input voltage. The VCO further includes a third current path combining a first proportion of the first current and a second proportion of the second current into a combined current; and a current-controlled oscillator (CCO) including an input receiving the combined current and outputting an AC signal.
US07791405B2
A voltage controller for controlling an output voltage to a predetermined value. The voltage controller has a first terminal configured to connect a supply voltage, a second terminal configured to output the output voltage, a control voltage generating unit configured to provide a control voltage, and a control transistor. The control transistor is connected as a series controller between the first terminal and the second terminal. The control voltage can be applied to the control terminal of the control transistor, wherein the output voltage is controlled in a manner dependent on the supply voltage and the control voltage. Furthermore, an offset voltage is superposed on the control voltage.
US07791403B2
Circuits and methods are provided for facilitating transitioning of a digital circuit from backgate biased standby mode to active mode. The digital circuit includes a semiconductor substrate, multiple n-channel transistors disposed at least partially in one or more p-type wells in the semiconductor substrate, multiple p-channel transistors disposed at least partially in one or more n-type wells in the semiconductor substrate, and a backgate control circuit. The backgate control circuit is electrically coupled to the p-type well(s) and to the n-type well(s) to facilitate transitioning of the multiple n-channel transistors and the multiple p-channel transistors from backgate biased standby mode to active mode by automatically shunting charge from the n-type well(s) to the p-type well(s) until a well voltage threshold is reached indicative of a completed transition of the transistors from backgate biased standby mode to active mode.
US07791387B1
Fine resolution pulse width modulation is achieved through feed-forward edge extending logic. A ring-oscillator produces phase-shifted versions of a system clock and two latches operate in parallel with the system clock output from the multiplexer clocking a first latch and a selected phase-shifted version of the system clock from the multiplexer clocking the second latch. The first latch receives a coarse output pulse equal to a selected number of clock periods as an input, while the second latch receives the output of the first latch as an input. A logic gate combines outputs from the latches to produce the output pulse having a trailing edge extended by a selected number of phase divisions.
US07791379B1
A CMOS comparator having a high-speed reduced-output-swing is provided. The high-speed reduced-output-swing comparator may have a fully complementary CMOS design, be self-biased, and have a rail-to-rail input common-mode range. The self-biasing scheme yields a robust comparator with a low sensitivity to temperature, processing variations, supply-voltage variations, and common-mode input voltages. The fully-complementary design leads to a physically small device with low power consumption. The rail-to-rail input common-mode range leads to a versatile comparator which may take a wide range of inputs. The high-speed reduced-output-swing allows for a quick output response to changes in the input.
US07791376B2
Provided is a logic circuit comprising a metal-insulator transition (MIT) device, including: an MIT device unit including an MIT thin film, an electrode thin film contacting the MIT thin film, and at least one MIT device undergoing a discontinuous MIT at a transition voltage VT; a power source unit including at least one power source applying power to the MIT device; and at least one resistor connected to the MIT device, wherein a logic operation is performed on a signal through the power source to output the result of the logic operation as an output signal.
US07791373B2
The invention provides a low cost and high performance functional circuit by reducing time required for the repetition of logic synthesis and routing of layout in a functional circuit design. A standard cell used for the logic synthesis and the routing of layout is configured by a logic circuit on an output side and a logic circuit on an input side and a driving capacity of the logic circuit on the output side is made large while gate input capacitance of the logic circuit on the input side is made small. By forming the standard cell in this manner, a ratio that the gate delay occupies in the delay time of a functional circuit can be relatively increased. Therefore, even when wiring capacitance after the routing of layout is not estimated at high precision in advance, an operating frequency can be obtained at high precision in the logic synthesis as long as a gate delay of each standard cell can be estimated at high precision. That is, a reliability of the logic synthesis result is improved, therefore, the logic synthesis and an automatic routing of layout are not required to be repeated, which can shorten the design period.
US07791371B2
A level shift circuit includes a drive transistor, a first PMOS transistor, and first and second clamp transistors of PMOS type. The drive transistor, which drives the gate of the high-side NMOS transistor in a power semiconductor device, has a source-drain path coupled between a boot potential generated by a bootstrap circuit provided in the semiconductor device and a source potential of the high-side NMOS transistor. The first PMOS transistor has a source coupled to the boot potential, and a drain coupled to the gate of the drive transistor. The first clamp transistor has a gate coupled to the source potential of the high-side NMOS transistor, and a source coupled to the drain of the first PMOS transistor. The second clamp transistor has a gate coupled to the source potential of the high-side NMOS transistor, and a source coupled to the gate of the first PMOS transistor.
US07791367B1
An integrated circuit is configured to be in a calibration mode of operation to establish a desired output impedance of a driver circuit. A predetermined constant voltage is established at a circuit node within the integrated circuit. A calibration current is conducted through a transistor connected in series with a variable value resistance in the integrated circuit at the circuit node. A resistance value of the variable value resistance is varied to establish a value of the calibration current which establishes the desired output impedance. The calibration mode is exited and a functional mode is entered. A calibrated resistance value is used during the functional mode of operation. The calibration current is conducted as a calibrated current through the transistor and calibrated resistance value. Variation of the calibrated current is corrected in response to voltage and process variations to maintain the calibrated current and output impedance of the driver circuit.
US07791364B2
The probe card includes a plurality of probes arranged on one surface side of a board. These probes belonging to any one of a first probe group including a plurality of probes contacting respective electrodes in a first electrode row of an electronic device, a second probe group including a plurality of probes contacting respective electrodes in a second electrode row of the electronic device, and a third and fourth probe groups respectively including a plurality of probes contacting respective electrodes in a middle electrode row of the electronic device alternately.
US07791361B2
A novel planarizing probe card for testing a semiconductor device is presented. The probe card is adapted to come into contact with a probe card mount that is in adjustable contact with the prober. The probe card includes a printed circuit board affixed to a stiffener and a probe head that is in electrical contact with the printed circuit board. The probe head also includes a plurality of probe contactor tips that define a first plane. The stiffener further contains at least two planarizing adjusters that comes into contact with the probe card mount. The adjusters may be actuated to alter the position of first plane. A surface of the semiconductor device under test may define a second plane, and the adjusters may be adjusted to position the first plane to be substantially parallel to the second plane.
US07791340B2
A magnetic resonance apparatus has a basic field magnet that generates a basic magnetic field with a homogeneity region of the basic magnetic field in which the basic magnetic field is homogeneous and with a maximum real measurement volume contained in the homogeneity region. The apparatus has a movable patient bed and a control unit that controls the movable patient bed. The maximum measurement volume thereby exhibits a cylindrical shape. A virtual total measurement volume that is greater than the maximum real cylindrical measurement volume can be generated by the control unit together with the movable patient bed.
US07791337B2
A vibration canceling circuit for a metal detector. The metal detector includes a transmit coil, first and second receive coils, a differential circuit coupled to the first and second receive coils, a controller coupled to the differential circuit, and a vibration canceling circuit coupled to the controller. The controller uses a signal provided by the vibration canceling circuit to remove a vibration component from a metal detection signal.
US07791328B2
A method enables measurement of an inverter loss within a motor control circuit for an appliance. The method includes applying a constant DC current generated from a first AC supply voltage to a motor winding through an inverter at a first duty cycle, measuring a first voltage corresponding to the current through the motor at a motor current sense resistor, computing a first ratio of the first measured voltage at the motor current sense resistor to a first DC input voltage corresponding to the first AC supply voltage, identifying a second duty cycle from the first computed ratio, comparing the second duty cycle to the first duty cycle, and identifying a first inverter loss factor from the difference between the first duty cycle and the second duty cycle.
US07791321B2
In a multi-phase power converter, efficiency is increased and ripple reduced while maintaining transient response and dynamic performance improved by electrically coupling secondary windings of transformers or provided for inductors of respective phases such that current to a load is induced in each phase by current in another phase. Magnetic coupling can also be provided between phases using a multi-aperture core of a configuration which minimizes primary winding length and copper losses. Efficiency at light load is enhanced by controlling current in the series connection of secondary windings in either binary or analog fashion.
US07791311B2
An apparatus and method of wirelessly sharing power by an inductive method are provided. The apparatus includes a first battery supplying power; a rectifier supplied with an AC voltage, converts the AC voltage into a DC voltage, and outputs the DC voltage; an inverter supplied with the DC voltage, converts the DC voltage into the AC voltage, and outputs the AC voltage; a power control/conversion unit connected to the rectifier or the inverter and supplying power to charge the first battery or a second battery that is provided in an external device as a power supply for the first battery; and a communication unit communicating with the external device.
US07791309B2
The present invention relates a motor controller and a motor control method of controlling a motor having a stator coil and a rotator. The motor controller includes: an activating operator receiving an operation command with a prescribed target frequency while the motor remains stationary, activating the motor at a prescribed voltage and a voltage phase, and then gradually increasing an operation frequency of the motor; an operation exchanger switching an activation operation into a normal operation when the operation frequency reaches a prescribed frequency lower than the target frequency; an evaluator evaluating a location of the rotor included in the motor and the operation frequency based on a current or voltage detected from the motor; a normal operator operating the motor in a normal manner based on the evaluated rotor location; an error determiner determining during the normal operation whether there is an error on the motor based on at least one of the detected current, the detected voltage, and the evaluated operation frequency; and an operation controller enabling the motor to stop in a case where it is determined that there is an error on the motor. The motor controller and the motor control method determine failure of location detection in a sensor-less manner and enable the motor to be stably stopped according to such a determination.
US07791307B2
A system, method, and device for monitoring an AC induction motor are disclosed. The exemplary system provides the architecture of an intelligent motor controller. On one hand, the controller has self-commission and adaptive tuning capability and can provide smooth start and stop for motor driven systems. On the other hand, the controller can provide fault detection, power metering, and history data logging, to ensure motor operates under optimal conditions. The exemplary system may have one or more sensors for monitoring characteristics of the AC induction motor and producing one or more inputs from the characteristics.
US07791302B2
The invention relates to a method for measuring a current that flows through a motor, in which a power switch that supplies the motor with electric energy is controlled by a control unit via a pulse width-modulation signal. The pulse width-modulation signal comprises a cycle of operation and the motor current is determined in a feeder to the power switch or a feeder to the motor. Since exactly one measured value representing the motor current is sampled in each cycle of operation, this permits the provision of a method for measuring the motor current, which determines the motor current in a more rapid, more cost-effective manner than in prior art. The method is used for the motor control of direct current motors.
US07791287B2
A LED arrangement includes:—a plurality of cells (0, 1, 2, 3) each including at least one respective LED having a binning class as a function of its emission wavelength (L1, L2) and brightness (B1, B2) characteristics, —a plurality of impedance elements (R0, R1, R2, R3) respectively coupled with the cells (0, 1, 2, 3), each impedance element (R0, R1, R2, R3) having an impedance value indicative of the binning class of the at least one LED included in the respective cell (0, 1, 2, 3), and —a controller (5) configured for sensing (6, 80, 81, 82, 83) the impedance values of the impedance elements (R0, R1, R2, R3) and adaptively drive each cell (0, 1, 2, 3) as a function of its binning class as indicated by the impedance element (R0, R1, R2, R3) coupled to the cell.
US07791286B2
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.
US07791279B2
Provided is a plasma display panel having flexibility. The plasma display panel includes a panel assembly that displays images and has flexibility, a plurality of base members that are attached to a surface of the panel assembly and support the panel assembly, and connection members that connect the base members to each other and are installed to be bent in the same direction as the panel assembly is bent. The base members that support the panel assembly having flexibility on a rear surface of the panel assembly can be bent or folded in the same direction as the panel assembly by the connection members.
US07791250B2
The present invention relates to a device and corresponding method for ultrafast controlling of the magnetization of a magnetic element. A device (100) includes a surface acoustic wave generating means (102), a transport layer (104), which is typically functionally and partially structurally comprised in said SAW generating means (102), and at least one ferromagnetic element (106). A surface acoustic wave is generated and propagates in a transport layer (104) which typically consists of a piezo-electric material. Thus, strain is induced in the transport layer (104) and in the ferromagnetic element (106) in contact with this transport layer (104). Due to magneto elastic coupling this generates an effective magnetic field in the ferromagnetic element (106). If the surface acoustic wave has a frequency substantially close to the ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) frequency νFMR the ferromagnetic element (106) is absorbed well and the magnetization state of the element can be controlled with this FMR frequency. The device can be used in an RF-magnetic resonator, a sensor and a camera. The corresponding method can be used for ultrafast reading-out and switching of magnetic components and in magnetic logic.
US07791249B2
A surface acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate on which is formed a transducer that generates acoustic waves on the surface of the substrate from electrical waves received by the transducer. The waves are carried along an acoustic track to either a second transducer or a reflector. The transducers or transducer and reflector are formed of subsections that are constructed to operate at mutually different frequencies. The subsections of at least one of the transducers or transducer and reflector are out of alignment with respect to one another relative to the transverse of the propagation direction. The out of aligned subsections provide not only a frequency component but also a time to the signal output signal. Frequency response characteristics are improved. An alternative embodiment provides that the transducers and/or reflectors are continuously tapered instead of having discrete frequency subsections.
US07791246B2
An axial motor includes an armature side stator (13), a pair of rotors, and a pair of stators, which are arranged with gaps left therebetween in the axial direction of a drive shaft (34). The armature side stator (13) includes armature coils (24). The pair of rotors are a first rotor (12) and a second rotor (14) that are arranged on both sides of the stator (13) and include inducers (20, 21, 27, 28). The pair of stators are a first field side stator (11) and a second field side stator (16) that are arranged respectively on oppositely spacing sides of the first rotor and the second rotor. The first and second rotors (12, 14) are mounted to the drive shaft (34). The first and second field side stators (11, 15) include respectively first and second field coils (18, 31) arranged in a toric form about the axis of the drive shaft (34). The first and second field coils (18, 31) are supplied with currents in opposed directions such that magnetic fluxes are generated in the first and second field coils (18, 31) in opposed directions.
US07791242B2
An electromagnetic apparatus has a rotating element acting as a transfer bridge between two active energetic suppliers, the rotating element providing a ferromagnetic core with plural solenoid coils having induced electric energy from external permanent magnets; the core transferring energy by induction to the inner stator's wound active permanent magnet, the energy collector and inductor acting as a generator.
US07791236B2
A permanent magnet electric machine with optimum motoring efficiency is disclosed. It is adapted for use in a hybrid electric vehicle powertrain. An asymmetric magnetic flux distribution pattern in the rotor of the machine is established to improve operating efficiency of the machine when it is in a motoring mode.
US07791235B2
A system for transferring torque between a pair of independently, concurrently rotating shafts of a turbofan engine includes a magnetic gearbox. The magnetic gearbox has a first ring structure, a second ring structure and an intermediate ring structure. Each ring structure has an annular aperture therethrough and a plurality of permanent magnets embedded therein. The intermediate ring structure is disposed between the first and the second ring structures. Each ring structure is coaxially concentric with, and independently rotatable with respect to the remaining ring structures. The first and second ring structures are each coupled to separate ones of the rotating engine shafts, and the intermediate ring is operable to transfer torque between the pair of shafts. Preferably, the intermediate ring structure is coupled to a rotating machine. The rotating machine has a controller, and is operable for adjusting a ratio of torque transferred between the pair of shafts.
US07791227B2
In electronic devices with signal traces positioned between a ground layer and a voltage reference layer, systems and methods are provided for connecting a hot pluggable device to the electronic device in a manner that diminishes signal degradation due to parasitic effects. The first device has a second reference layer near the connector that connects to a second device voltage reference layer maintained at a given voltage level across the connector. In the first device near the connector the signal trace is positioned in between a ground layer of the first device and the second reference layer which is maintained at a given voltage by a voltage regulator of the second device. The signal return current travels past the second reference layer to a first reference layer of the first device which is maintained by the first device's voltage regulator through AC decoupling capacitors minimizing the current return path discontinuity.
US07791222B2
A multi-output power supply device includes a first power switch, a first switch controller that controls the first power switch, a transformer that transforms a power supplied from the first power switch, first through Nth output circuits connected to a secondary side of the transformer, where N is a positive integer greater than 1, a second power switch that switches the power output from one of the first through Nth output circuits, a second switch controller that controls the second power switch, a feedback circuit that feeds back output voltages of the first through Nth output circuits, and a feedback compensation circuit that performs a switching operation complementarily with the second power switch to compensate for a resistance of the feedback circuit. Accordingly, when power output to one of the output circuits is blocked, the multi-output power supply device can stably control the power output to the other output circuits.
US07791213B2
A vertical motion wave power generator having a flotation device, a vertical support structure fixed to the ocean bottom, and a single power shaft attached rotatably to the flotation device. By the use of a pair of one-way clutches the single power shaft converts the up and down motion of ocean waves into continuous unidirectional rotational force to drive an electric generator. The power shaft, transmission, and generator are all attached to the flotation device and move up and down in unison with the flotation device.
US07791204B2
Even when a stiffener is omitted, the semiconductor device which can prevent the generation of twist and distortion of a wiring substrate is obtained.As for a semiconductor device which has a wiring substrate, a semiconductor chip by which the flip chip bond was made to the wiring substrate, and a heat spreader adhered to the back surface of the semiconductor chip, and which omitted the stiffener for reinforcing a wiring substrate and maintaining the surface smoothness of a heat spreader, a wiring substrate has a plurality of insulating substrates in which a through hole whose diameter differs, respectively was formed, and each insulating substrate contains a glass cloth.
US07791201B2
A device including a layered heterostructure with an oxygen-containing material, with a carbon layer and an amorphous oxygen diffusion barrier protecting the carbon layer from etching by oxygen. One or more of a metal, a carbide or an oxide may be in contact with the amorphous oxygen diffusion barrier that has the lowest free energy of oxide formation in the device. Various devices are disclosed as are varieties of carbon allotropes. Methods of protecting carbon, such as diamond from the oxygen etching in processes such as device manufacture are also disclosed.
US07791198B2
Semiconductor device including a coupling region which includes layers of aluminum and copper alloys
An improved reliability in a region of a junction between a bonding wire and an electrode pad at higher temperature is achieved. A semiconductor device 100 includes a semiconductor chip 102, AlCu pads 107, which are provided in the semiconductor chip 102 and which contain Al as a major constituent and additionally contain copper (Cu), and CuP wires 111, which function as coupling members for connecting inner leads 117 provided outside of the semiconductor chip 102 with the semiconductor chip 102, and primarily contain Cu. The AlCu pads 107 and the CuP wires 111 are encapsulated with an encapsulating resin 115 that contains substantially no halogen.
US07791184B2
A semiconductor package such as an image sensor package. A frame structure includes an array of frames, each having an aperture therethrough, into which an image sensor die in combination with a cover glass, filter, lens or other components may be installed in precise mutual alignment. Singulated image sensor dice and other components may be picked and placed into each frame of the frame structure. Alternatively, the frame structure may be configured to be aligned with and joined to a wafer bearing a plurality of image sensor dice, wherein optional, downwardly protruding skirts along peripheries of the frames may be received into kerfs cut along streets between die locations on the wafer, followed by installation of other package components. In either instance, the frame structure in combination with singulated image sensor dice or a joined wafer is singulated into individual image sensor packages. Various external connection approaches may be used.
US07791181B2
A device structure with preformed ring includes a sensor chip and a ring disposed and surrounded on periphery of sensitive area of an active surface thereof. The device structure with preformed ring may batchly bind and electrically connect to a carrier by a way of two-dimension array, and then a packaging process is performed. During the packaging process, the top portion of the ring can be used to against the inner side of a packaging mold, so as to stop the packaging material covering the device at outside of the ring and stick with the ring. Therefore, an opening is formed on the sensitive area surface of the device. Depending on the ring, the extra process for eliminating the packaging material on the sensitive area surface can be avoided in the conventional process.
US07791172B2
The invention relates to a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device including a semiconductor layer which has a source region, a drain region, and a channel forming region which is provided between the source region and the drain region; and a first insulating layer, a first gate electrode, a second insulating layer, and a second gate electrode which are layered over the semiconductor layer in that order. Part or all of the source and drain regions is formed using a metal silicide layer. The first gate electrode contains a noble gas element.
US07791164B2
Provided are an electrical fuse, a semiconductor device having the same, and a method of programming and reading the electrical fuse. The electrical fuse includes first and second anodes disposed apart from each other. A cathode is interposed between the first and second anodes. A first fuse link couples the first anode to the cathode, and a second fuse link couples the second anode to the cathode.
US07791156B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor device which is capable of preventing operation of the signal processing part from being unstable due to light not blocked by the light blocking layer by being obliquely incident on the signal processing part and preventing the operation of the signal processing part from being unstable due to stray charges occurring by light with which the light blocking layer is irradiated. In a light-incident part 12 having a light receiving element 36 and a signal processing circuit 38 that processes an output signal from the light receiving element 36, which are formed on a SOI substrate, a plurality of contact plugs 52 electrically connected to the light blocking layer 42 are laminated in the thickness direction of the SOI substrate along an edge of the light blocking layer that blocks the sunlight, with the uppermost of wiring layers on the signal processing circuit 38 as the light blocking layer 42. The plurality of contact plugs 52 have a ground or a potential sufficient to draw out stray charges occurring in the light blocking layer.
US07791154B2
An object is to provide a photoelectric conversion element having a side surface with different taper angles by conducting etching of a photoelectric conversion layer step-by-step. A pin photodiode has a high response speed compared with a pn photodiode but has a disadvantage of large dark current. One cause of the dark current is considered to be conduction through an etching residue which is generated in etching and deposited on a side surface of the photoelectric conversion layer. Leakage current of the photoelectric conversion element is reduced by forming a structure in which a side surface has two different tapered shapes, which conventionally has a uniform surface, so that the photoelectric conversion layer has a side surface of a p-layer and a side surface of an n-layer, which are not in the same plane.
US07791153B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, which is flexible and superiority in physical strength. As a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, an element layer including a plurality of integrated circuits is formed over one surface of a substrate; a hole having curvature is formed in part of one surface side of the substrate; the substrate is thinned (for example, the other surface of the substrate is ground and polished); and the substrate is cut off so that a cross section of the substrate has curvature corresponding to a portion where the hole is formed; whereby a laminated body including an integrated circuit is formed. Further, a thickness of the substrate, which is polished, is 2 μm or more and 50 μm or less.
US07791152B2
A magnetic tunnel junction transistor and method of operating the same. In a particular embodiment, the magnetic tunnel junction transistor includes electrically conductive source, drain and gate electrodes. An electrically insulating material having a non-magnetoelectric region and a magnetoelectric region is positioned such that the non-magnetoelectric region is, at least partially, between the source electrode and the drain electrode. The magnetoelectric region of the insulating material, when energized, is configured to change magnetic state of the insulating material. The gate electrode is positioned proximate the magnetoelectric region of the insulating material.
US07791150B1
A sensor for selectively determining the presence and measuring the amount of hydrogen in the vicinity of the sensor. The sensor comprises a MEMS device coated with a nanostructured thin film of indium oxide doped tin oxide with an over layer of nanostructured barium cerate with platinum catalyst nanoparticles. Initial exposure to a UV light source, at room temperature, causes burning of organic residues present on the sensor surface and provides a clean surface for sensing hydrogen at room temperature. A giant room temperature hydrogen sensitivity is observed after making the UV source off. The hydrogen sensor of the invention can be usefully employed for the detection of hydrogen in an environment susceptible to the incursion or generation of hydrogen and may be conveniently used at room temperature.
US07791147B2
An embodiment of a MOS device resistant to ionizing-radiation, has: a surface semiconductor layer with a first type of conductivity; a gate structure formed above the surface semiconductor layer, and constituted by a dielectric gate region and a gate-electrode region overlying the dielectric gate region; and body regions having a second type of conductivity, formed within the surface semiconductor layer, laterally and partially underneath the gate structure. In particular, the dielectric gate region is formed by a central region having a first thickness, and by side regions having a second thickness, smaller than the first thickness; the central region overlying an intercell region of the surface semiconductor layer, set between the body regions.
US07791144B2
The invention relates to a semiconductor structure and method of manufacturing and more particularly to a CMOS device with a stress inducing material embedded in both gates and also in the source/drain of the PFET and varying thickness of the PFET and NFET channel. In one embodiment, the structure enhances the device performance by varying the thickness of the top Silicon layer respective to the NFET or the PFET.
US07791136B1
An integrated configuration comprising trench MOSFET having trench contacts and trench Schottky rectifier having planar contacts is disclosed. The trench contacts for trench MOSFET provide a lower specific on-resistance. Besides, for trench gate connection, planar gate contact is employed in the present invention to avoid shortage issue between gate and drain in shallow trench gate. Besides, W plugs filled into both trench contacts and planar contacts enhance the metal step coverage capability.
US07791121B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes bit line diffusion layers extending along the X direction in an upper portion of a semiconductor substrate; and gate structures extending along the Y direction on the semiconductor substrate and each including a charge trapping film and a gate electrode. The nonvolatile semiconductor memory device further includes a first interlayer insulating film in which first contacts respectively connected to the bit line diffusion layers are formed; and second contacts that penetrate through a UV blocking film and a second interlayer insulating film formed on the first interlayer insulating film and have bottom faces respectively in contact with the first contacts and top faces respectively in contact with metal interconnections.
US07791119B2
An electro-resistance element that has a different configuration from conventional elements and is excellent in both affinity with semiconductor manufacturing processes and heat treatment stability under a hydrogen-containing atmosphere is provided. An electro-resistance element includes an electro-resistance layer that has two or more states in which electric resistance values are different and being switchable from one of the two or more states into another by applying a predetermined voltage or current. The electro-resistance layer includes first and second elements being capable of forming a nitride, and nitrogen.
US07791115B2
Disclosed is an organic light emitting display, which includes a large quantity of a hydroscopic layer having a good hydroscopic ability by changing a mounting structure of the hydroscopic layer. An organic light emitting display includes a first substrate. An organic emission portion is formed at one surface of the first substrate. A second substrate is formed at a surface of the first substrate on which the organic emission portion is formed for sealing the organic emission portion from external air. A first hydroscopic layer is formed between the first and second substrates. A third substrate is formed at another surface of the first substrate for sealing the first substrate. A second hydroscopic layer is formed between the first and third substrates.
US07791112B2
Channel stress engineering using localized ion implantation induced gate electrode volumetric change
A method for fabricating a semiconductor structure uses a volumetric change ion implanted into a volumetric change portion of a gate electrode that is located over a channel region within a semiconductor substrate to form a volume changed portion of the gate electrode located over the channel region within the semiconductor substrate. The volume changed portion of the gate electrode is typically bidirectionally symmetrically graded in a vertical direction. The volume-changed portion of the gate electrode has a first stress that induces a second stress different than the first stress into the channel region of the semiconductor substrate.
US07791109B2
A local interconnect is formed with a gate conductor line that has an exposed sidewall on an active area of a semiconductor substrate. The exposes sidewall comprises a silicon containing material that may form a silicide alloy upon silicidation. During a silicidation process, a gate conductor sidewall silicide alloy forms on the exposed sidewall of the gate conductor line and an active area silicide is formed on the active area. The two silicides are joined to provide an electrical connection between the active area and the gate conductor line. Multiple sidewalls may be exposed on the gate conductor line to make multiple connections to different active area silicides.
US07791102B2
Methods and devices are provided for protecting semiconductor devices against electrostatic discharge events. An electrostatic discharge protection device comprises a silicon substrate, a P+-type anode region disposed within the silicon substrate, and an N-well device region disposed within the silicon substrate in series with the P+-type anode region. A first P-well device region is disposed within the silicon substrate in series with the first N-well device region and an N+-type cathode region is disposed within the silicon substrate. A gate electrode is disposed at least substantially overlying the first N-well and P-well device regions of the silicon substrate.
US07791097B2
A nitride semiconductor device includes an n-type GaN substrate with a semiconductor device formed thereon and an n-type electrode which is a metal electrode formed on the rear surface of the GaN substrate. A surface modified layer and a reaction layer are interposed between the GaN substrate and n-type electrode. The surface modified layer serves as a carrier supplying layer, and is formed by causing the rear surface of the GaN substrate to react with a Si-containing plasma to be modified. The reaction layer is generated by partially removing a deposited material deposited on the surface modified layer by cleaning to generate a deposited layer and then causing Ti contained in a first metal layer and the deposited layer to partially react by heat treatment.
US07791096B2
A mount for a semiconductor device includes a carrier, at least two metal leads disposed on a bottom surface of the carrier, and a cavity extending through a thickness of the carrier to expose a portion of the top surfaces of the metal leads. A semiconductor light emitting device is positioned in the cavity and is electrically and physically connected to the metal leads. The carrier may be, for example, silicon, and the leads may be multilayer structures, for example a thin gold layer connected to a thick copper layer.
US07791085B2
Disclosed herein is a semiconductor light emitting apparatus that includes: a semiconductor light emitting device having a first semiconductor laminate structure including a light emitting region, and a light outgoing window permitting the light emitted from the light emitting region to go out therethrough in the lamination direction; a light transmitting part provided in a region corresponding to the light emitting region; a metal part provided in a region, corresponding to an outer peripheral region of the light emitting region, of the first semiconductor laminate structure; and a semiconductor light detector having a second semiconductor laminate structure including a light absorbing layer for absorbing a part of the light incident from the lamination direction. In the apparatus, the semiconductor light emitting device, a layer including the light transmitting part and the metal part, and the semiconductor light detector are integrally formed in the state of being laminated in this order.
US07791068B2
A vertical organic light emitting transistor assembly and a horizontal organic light emitting transistor assembly are provided. The vertical organic light emitting transistor assembly comprises a first/second vertical transistor and a first/second organic light emitting diode perpendicularly integrated with the first/second vertical transistor, respectively. The horizontal organic light emitting transistor assembly comprises a substrate, a third vertical transistor and a third organic light emitting diode. The third vertical transistor and the third organic light emitting diode are arranged abreast on the substrate. By integrating the organic light emitting diode and the vertical transistor into a unitary electronic element, the vertical transistor can efficiently drive the organic light emitting diode so that the organic light emitting transistor assembly can overcome limitations caused by existing manufacturing processes and adapt to extensive applications.
US07791051B2
In a complex, multi-processor software controlled system, such as proton beam therapy system (PBTS), it may be important to provide treatment configurable parameters that are easily modified by an authorized user to prepare the software controlled systems for various modes of operation. This particular invention relates to a configuration management system for the PBTS that utilizes a database to maintain data and configuration parameters and also to generate and distribute system control files that can be used by the PBTS for treatment delivery. The use of system control files reduces the adverse effects of single point failures in the database by allowing the PBTS to function independently from the database. The PBTS accesses the data, parameter, and control settings from the database through the system control files, which insures that the data and configuration parameters are accessible when and if single point failures occur with respect to the database.
US07791042B2
An ion source includes structure having separate first and second ion volumes therein, and electron source structure having first and second portions that selectively supply electrons to the first and second ion volumes, respectively. The electron source structure has a first operational mode in which the second portion substantially prevents a supply of electrons to the second ion volume and in which electrons are supplied to the first ion volume under control of the first portion, and has a second operational mode in which the first portion substantially prevents a supply of electrons to the first ion volume and in which electrons are supplied to the second ion volume under control of the second portion.
US07791033B2
An imaging system is based on in-line x-ray optics arranged in combination with an X-ray detector to detect radiation from radio-labeled substances within an object to be imaged. This arrangement will provide a nuclear imaging device with potentially orders of magnitude higher resolution and efficiency and it will moreover be relatively easy to align and to produce and assemble in large quantities.
US07791025B2
An apparatus and method for characterizing gas flow through features fabricated in a hollow part. A pressure regulated cooled gas is applied to an interior of the part to the features fabricated in the part. At the same time, a pressure regulated heated gas is applied to an exterior part skin; and the heated gas has a controlled temperature differential from the pressure regulated cooled gas applied to the part interior. An infrared signature of escaping gas and the surrounding part skin is analyzed by a classification method to identify acceptable and unacceptable fabricated features.
US07791017B2
A method comprising using inelastic and capture gamma-ray count rates from two detectors in a borehole logging tool and determining formation water saturation. In this method the formation water saturation is determined without prior knowledge of the carbon density in the pore hydrocarbons.
US07791014B2
The present invention provides an optical device that is miniature, is highly sensitive and has a simplified package, and a manufacturing method thereof with high production efficiency and high reliability. The present invention is an optical device comprising: a photoelectric conversion element (50) having at least one photoelectric conversion portion (1) which is formed on a substrate (10); a sealing material (14); and a connection terminal (3). The optical device comprises an optical window which is an interface between the photoelectric conversion element (50) and an outside of the optical device; and an aperture (6) formed in the sealing material 14, and whose bottom face is the optical window. An entire face of the optical window is exposed to the outside. An optical adjustment element (13) may be formed on the interface. In this case, the interface between the optical adjustment element (13) and the outside is the optical window.
US07791011B2
A solid-state imaging device is provided. The solid-state imaging device includes a substrate having a light sensing part for each of pixels; and one or more rod members made of a light transmissive material above the light sensing part for each of the pixels.
US07791007B2
A guidable projectile has a central shaft, a projectile body, and a surface control assembly. The projectile body is arranged to rotate around at least a portion of the central shaft during flight of the guidable projectile to provide stabilization. The surface control assembly is supported by the central shaft. The surface control assembly includes a movable member arranged to control a trajectory of the guidable projectile during flight of the guidable projectile, and an electromagnetic actuator interconnected between the central shaft and the movable member. The electromagnetic actuator is arranged to control movement of the movable member relative to the central shaft.
US07791003B2
An insulated bag has generally flat top and bottom walls connected by foldable back and opposite side walls which cooperate to define a chamber having a front opening for receiving a food product. Flexible closure flaps extend from the bottom wall and opposite side walls and have releasable fasteners for closing the front opening. Each wall has an outer fabric covering and a porous inner liner and also inner and outer layers of flexible thermal insulation material. A vapor barrier film separates the inner and outer layers of insulation material in each wall and provides for moisture absorption by the inner layers. The top and bottom walls each have a compartment with an edge opening closed by a releasable fastener, and a vacuum insulation panel is confined within each compartment. The top and bottom walls move between a collapsed storage position and an expanded position to receive the product.
US07790998B2
A vacuum insulated switchgear comprising a vacuum container accommodating at least a pair of movable contacts and a pair of fixed contacts, wherein the movable contacts are capable of taking three positions, the switchgear being a double-break three-position type switch having breaking and disconnecting functions.
US07790992B1
A weight scale consistent with certain implementations has a case having a weight supporting surface that supports an object being weighed. An array of load cells is provided upon which the weight supporting surface rests. A weight measuring circuit receives output signals from the array of load cells and calculates a weight responsive thereto. A first switch trips when a weight is applied to the weight supporting surface while the weight scale is situated on a soft surface. A second switch trips when a weight is applied to the weight supporting surface while the weight scale is situated on a hard surface. A power source is provided and a turn-on circuit responsive to the first and second switch applies power from the power source to the weight measuring circuit upon detection that either the first or second switch has tripped as a result of a weight being applied to the weight supporting surface. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since certain embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
US07790991B2
A weighing apparatus for bales as they are released from the bale chute of an agricultural baler has a weighting table supported on a first side of a support frame by a single load beam and supported on a second side by a support element. The weighing apparatus has a mechanism for measuring the inclination of the weighing table relative to the horizontal as well as a load beam and processor. The processor receives the signal from the load beam and based upon the sensed inclination provide an indication of a weight supported by the weighing table.
US07790987B2
Methods and apparatus provide for connecting an integrated circuit having a ball grid array to a printed circuit board having a matrix of contact pads for electrical connection to the ball grid array.
US07790978B1
This invention relates to the field of thermophotovoltaic (TPV) direct energy conversion. In particular, TPV systems use filters to minimize parasitic absorption of below bandgap energy. This invention constitutes a novel combination of front surface filters to increase TPV conversion efficiency by reflecting useless below bandgap energy while transmitting a very high percentage of the useful above bandgap energy. In particular, a frequency selective surface is used in combination with an interference filter. The frequency selective surface provides high transmission of above bandgap energy and high reflection of long wavelength below bandgap energy. The interference filter maintains high transmission of above bandgap energy and provides high reflection of short wavelength below bandgap energy and a sharp transition from high transmission to high reflection.
US07790956B2
The present invention concerns a method for improving growth characteristics of plants by modulating expression of a nucleic acid sequence encoding a NAP1-like protein. The invention also relates to transgenic plants having improved growth characteristics, which plants have modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a NAP1-like protein.
US07790955B2
Rice having reduced levels of starch branching enzymes produce grain having a high relative amylose content in the endosperm. The rice grain of this invention can be of a non-shrunken phenotype despite a lesion in the amylopectin synthesis pathway and may be transgenic or nontransgenic. 1 GCCACCGACA TCCGCCGCAA TGCTGTGTCT CACCTCCTCT TCCTCCTCCG CGCCCGCTCC 61 GCTCCTTCCC TCTCTCGCTG ATCGACCGAG CCCGGGAATC GCGGGCGGGG GTGGCAATGT 121 TCGCCTGAGC GTGGTTTCTT CGCCGCGCCG GTCGTGGCCT GGAAAGGTCA AGACCAATTT 181 CTCAGTTCCT GCGACTGCGC GAAAAAACAA AACCATGGTG ACTGTTGTGG AGGAGGTCGA 241 CCACCTTCCT ATATATGATC TGGACCCTAA GTTGGAGGAA TTCAAGGATC ACTTCAACTA 301 TAGGATAAAA AGATACCTCG ACCAGAAATG CCTGATTGAA AAACATGAGG GGGGCCTTGA 361 AGAATTTTCT AAAGGCTATT TGAAGTTTGG GATTAATACA GTTGATGGTG CCACAATATA 421 TCGTGAATGG GCGCCTGCTG CACAAGAAGC ACAGCTCATT GGTGAGTTCA ATAACTGGAA 481 TGGTGCAAAA CACAAGATGG AGAAGGATAA ATTTGGCATT TGGTCAATCA AGATTTCACA 541 TGTCAATGGG AAGCCTGCCA TCCCTCACAA TTCCAAGGTT AAATTTCGCT TTAGGCATGG 601 GGGTGGAGCA TGGGTTGATC GTATTCCCGC ATGGATTCGT TATGCAACTT TTGATGCCTC 661 TAAATTTGGA GCTCCATATG ATGGTGTACA CTGGGATCCT CCAGCCTGTG AAAGGTACGT 721 GTTTAAGCAT CCTCGACCTC CAAAACCTGA TGCTCCACGC ATCTATGAGG CTCATGTGGG 781 GATGAGTGGT GAAGAGCCAG AAGTAAGCAC ATACAGAGAA TTTGCAGACA ATGTGTTACC 841 ACGCATACGG GCAAATAACT ACAACACAGT TCAGTTAATG GCAATCATGG AACATTCCTA 901 CTATGCTTCT TTTGGGTATC ACGTGACAAA TTTTTTCGCA GTCAGCAGCA GATCAGGAAC 961 ACCAGAGGAT CTGAAATATC TTGTTGACAA GGCACATAGT TTAGGATTAC GAGTTCTGAT 1021 GGATGTTGTC CATAGCCATG CGAGTAATAA TGTGACCGAT GGTCTAAATG GCTATGACGT 1081 TGGACAAAAC ACTCATGAGT CTTATTTTCA TACAGGAGAT AGGGGCTACC ATAAACTCTG 1141 GGATAGTCGT CTGTTCAACT ATGCCAATTG GGAGGTCTTA AGATTTCTTC TTTCTAATTT 1201 GAGATATTGG ATGGACGAAT TCATGTTTGA TGGCTTCCGA TTTGATGGGG TTACATCAAT 1261 GCTATACCAT CACCATGGTA TCAATAAGGG ATTTACTGGA AACTACAAGG AGTATTTCAG 1321 TTTGGATACC GATGTGGATG CAATTGTTTA CATGATGCTC GCAAACCATT TAATGCATAA 1381 ACTCTTGCCG GAAGCAACTA TTGTTGCTGA AGATGTTTCG GGCATGCCAG TGCTTTGTCG 1441 GCCAGTTGAT GAAGGTGGAG TAGGGTTTGA CTTCCGCCTG GCAATGGCCA TTCCTGATAG 1501 ATGGATTGAC TACCTGAAGA ACAAAGAGGA CCGCAAATGG TCAATGAGTG AAATAGTGCA 1561 AACTTTGACT AACAGGAGAT ATACAGAAAA ATGCATTGCC TATGCCGAGA GCCATGATCA 1621 GTCCATTGTT GGTGACAAGA CTATAGCATT TCTCTTGATG GACAAGGAAA TGTACACTGG 1681 CATGTCAGAC TTGCAGCCTG CTTCACCTAC CATCAACCGT GGCATTGCAC TCCAAAAGAT 1741 GATTCACTTC ATTACGATGG CCCTTGGAGG TGATGGCTAC TTAAATTTTA TGGGCAATGA 1801 GTTTGGCCAT CCAGAATGGA TTGACTTTCC AAGAGAAGGC AACAACTGGA GCTATGATAA 1861 ATGCAGACGT CAGTGGAGCC TTGTCGACAC TGATCACCTT CGATACAAGT ATATGAATGC 1921 ATTTGATCAA GCAATGAATG CACTCGAGGA GGAATTTTCC TTCCTGTCAT CATCAAAGCA 1981 GATTGTTAGC GACATGAACG AGAAAGATAA GGTTATTGTC TTTGAACGTG GAGATTTGGT 2041 TTTTGTTTTC AATTTTCATC CCAACAAAAC TTATAAGGGT TACAAAGTCG GATGTGACTT 2101 GCCCGGGAAG TACAGAGTAG CTCTGGACTG TGATGCTTTG GTCTTTGGTG GCCATGGAAG 2161 AGTTGGCCAT GATGTGGATC ACTTCACGTC TCCCGAGGGA ATGCCAGGAG TACCAGAAAC 2221 AAATTTCAAC AACCGCCCTA ACTCATTCAA AGTCCTTTCC CCGCCCCGTA CCTGTGTGGC 2281 TTACTATCGC GTTGATGAAG ATCGTGAAGA GCTCAGGAGG GGTGGAGCAG TTGCTTCTGG 2341 AAAGATTGTT ACAGAGTATA TCGATGTTGA AGCAACAAGT GGGGAGACTA TCTCTGGTGG 2401 CTGGAAGGGC TCCGAGAAGG ACGATTGTGG CAAGAAAGGG ATGAAGTTTG TGTTTCGGTC 2461 TTCTGACGAA GACTGCAAAT GAAGCATCAG ATTTCTTGAT CAGGAGCAAC TGTTGGTGCC 2521 CTTGTAATCT GGAGATCCTG GCTTGCCTTG GACTTGGTTG TGGTTCTTTA GCAGTTGCTA 2581 TGTACCTATC TATGATATGA ACTTTATGTA TAGTTCGCCT TAAAGAAAGA ATAAGCAGTG 2641 ATGATGTGGC CTTAAACCTG AGCTGCACAA GCCTAATGTA AAAATAAAGT TTCAGGCTTT 2701 CATCCAGAAT AAAACAGCTG TTCATTTACC ATCTCAAAA
US07790949B2
The invention relates to methods and compositions for identifying soybean plants that are tolerant, have improved tolerance or are susceptible to Sclerotinia sp. infection (the causative agent of white mold). The methods use molecular genetic markers to identify, select and/or construct disease-tolerant plants or identify and counterselect disease-susceptible plants. Soybean plants that display tolerance or improved tolerance to Sclerotinia sp. infection that are generated by the methods of the invention are also a feature of the invention.
US07790942B2
A process for continuous heterogeneously catalyzed partial dehydrogenation of at least one hydrocarbon to be dehydrogenated in a reactor which is manufactured from a steel with specific elemental composition on its side in contact with the reaction gas, and also partial oxidations of the dehydrogenated hydrocarbon and the reactor itself.
US07790936B2
The present invention provides a process in which a ketone is directly reacted with an aromatic compound in a single reaction step to obtain the corresponding alkylated aromatic compound in a higher yield. By reacting an aromatic compound with a ketone and hydrogen in the presence of a solid acid substance and a catalyst composition containing Cu and Zn in a ratio of Zn to Cu ranging from 0.70 to 1.60 (atomic ratio), the corresponding alkylated aromatic compound is prepared.
US07790932B1
A catalyst, useful for the hydroformylation of allyl alcohol, is described. The catalyst comprises a rhodium complex and a 6-bis(3,5-dialkylphenyl)phosphino-N-pivaloyl-2-aminopyridine or a 3-bis(3,5-dialkylphenyl)phosphino-2H-isoquinolin-1-one. The invention also includes a process for the production of 4-hydroxybutyraldehyde comprising reacting allyl alcohol with a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of a solvent and the catalyst. The process gives a high ratio of the linear product 4-hydroxybutyraldehyde to the branched co-product 3-hydroxy-2-methylpropionaldehyde.
US07790929B2
The invention relates to chiral phenols, preferably of formula (I), the different parameters having the meaning indicated in the description, liquid crystal media which contain said compounds as chiral doping agents and/or stabilizers, and the use thereof in electro-optical displays.
US07790923B2
The invention is directed to a process for the production of certain phosphorous, namely urea, thio-urea and sulphonamide phosphorous compounds. The present invention provides a process for the production of phosphorous compounds which process allows an easy and effective separation of the reaction products from impurities by applying a solid alkaline ion-exchange resin.
US07790922B2
There is shown a method of purifying glacial acetic acid containing terpene and terpenoid impurities. Substantially dry acetic acid containing terpene and terpenoid impurities is combined with water and a suitable organic solvent, which is substantially immiscible with acetic acid and water, to form a separating composite extraction medium having a weight ratio of acetic acid:water of at least 1:1. The components are separated into an organic phase and an aqueous acid phase, with the terpene and terpenoid impurities concentrated in the organic phase, and with the aqueous acid phase purified of terpene and terpenoid impurities. The purified aqueous acid phase is recovered, and the purified acetic acid is dried.
US07790914B2
There is provided a catalyst for dimethyl carbonate synthesis which has a high conversion rate under the supercritical condition of CO2 and can be handled easily. The catalyst for dimethyl carbonate is obtained by loading SO42− or PO43− on a carrier composed of a compound having a solid acid site, and is used to produce dimethyl carbonate from acetone dimethyl carbonate and CO2 in a supercritical state. The component having a solid acid site is preferably one or more of ZrO2, Al2O3, and TiO2.
US07790911B2
The present invention relates to an advanced preparation method of organic-transition metal hydride used as hydrogen storage materials, the method including: preparing organic-transition metal-aluminum hydride complexes by reacting the organic-transition metal halide with metal aluminum hydride compounds; and preparing the organic-transition metal hydride by reacting the organic-transition metal aluminum hydride complexes with Lewis bases.Since the preparation method of the organic-transition metal hydride according to the present invention does not use catalysts, it has advantages that it does not cause problems due to poisoning and can prepare the organic-transition metal hydride at high yield under less stringent conditions. The hydrogen storage materials containing the organic-transition metal hydride prepared from the preparation method can safely and reversibly store a large amount of hydrogen.
US07790909B2
Provided are a novel compound which improves the solubility of any one of various lubricating oil additives when used as base oil, in particular, a base oil component in a lubricating oil composition, and is capable of realizing low viscosity/low volatility characteristics that have not been achieved in PAO compositions to which conventional additives are added, and a method for producing the compound. Disclosed is 2-alkyl-4,4-dialkyl-1,3-dioxolane having a structure represented by the general formula (I) below: wherein R1 to R4 each independently represent an alkyl group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms.
US07790907B2
A method produces a uretonimine-modified isocyanate composition having increased low-temperature tolerance. The method comprises providing a first polyisocyanate composition having two or more isocyanate groups and comprising 4,4′-diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI) and reacting the first polyisocyanate composition at a temperature of from about 90° C. to about 115° C. and in the presence of a catalyst such that the isocyanate groups form carbodiimides for forming uretonimine and uretonimine oligomers. The reaction of the first polyisocyanate composition is quenched with a quenching agent to produce an intermediate composition having an intermediate isocyanate value of from about 21.0 to about 26.0. The intermediate composition is blended with a second isocyanate composition to form a stable uretonimine-modified isocyanate composition.
US07790906B2
The invention relates to a method for purification of synthetically-produced compounds, comprising a betaine structure in the molecule, for example, indocyan green, characterized in that reaction by-products, starting materials and/or other impurities such as NaI used during production are separated by extraction.
US07790904B2
The invention is concerned with novel substituted benzimidazole derivatives of formula (I) wherein R1 to R10 and X are as defined in the description and in the claims, as well as physiologically acceptable salts and esters thereof. These compounds bind to FXR and can be used as medicaments.
US07790902B2
The present invention relates to compounds of the formula 1 and to pharmaceutically acceptable salts, prodrugs and solvates thereof, wherein X1, R1, R2 and R3 are as defined herein. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing the above compounds and to methods treating hyperproliferative disorders in mammals by administering the above compounds.
US07790893B2
Chemically reactive carbocyanine dyes incorporating an indolium ring moiety that is substituted at the 3-position by a reactive group or by a conjugated substance, and their uses, are described. Conjugation through this position results in spectral properties that are uniformly superior to those of conjugates of spectrally similar dyes wherein attachment is at a different position. The invention includes derivative compounds having one or more benzo nitrogens.
US07790887B2
The present invention provides the compound of formula (I) in a solid form which, as a bulk medicament for pharmaceutical manufacture, is uniform, has a high purity, and is easy to work with. The invention further provides a process for preparing this compound, and pharmaceutical compositions containing the same. A solid form of (8E,12E,14E)-7-{(4-cycloheptylpiperazin-1-yl)carbonyl}oxy-3,6,16,21-tetrahydroxy-6,10,12,16,20-pentamethyl-18,19-epoxytricosa-8,12,14-trien-11-olide which has uniform specifications and is easy to work with was developed.
US07790886B2
The present invention is related to crystalline forms of ziprasidone and its hydrochloride salt and an amorphous form of ziprasidone hydrochloride and the process for the preparation thereof. The crystalline forms and amorphous form of the invention are suitable for pharmaceutical purposes in the treatment of psychosis. The processes of the invention are simple, non-hazardous and commercially suitable.
US07790881B2
This invention pertains generally to the field of chemical synthesis and purification, and more specifically to methods of synthesizing and purifying certain 3,7 diamino-phenothiazin-5-ium compounds (referred to herein as “diaminophenothiazinium compounds”) including Methylthioninium Chloride (MTC) (also known as Methylene Blue). In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of, in order: nitrosylation (NOS); nitrosyl reduction (NR); thiosulfonic acid formation (TSAF); oxidative coupling (OC); Cr(VI) reduction (CR); isolation and purification of zwitterionic intermediate (IAPOZI); ring closure (RC); chloride salt formation (CSF); one of: sulphide treatment (ST); dimethyldithiocarbamate treatment (DT); carbonate treatment (CT); ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid treatment (EDTAT); organic extraction (OE); and recrystallisation (RX). The present invention also pertains to the resulting (high purity) compounds, compositions comprising them (e.g., tablets, capsules), and their use in methods of inactivating pathogens, and methods of medical treatment and diagnosis, etc., for example, for tauopathies, Alzheimer's disease (AD), skin cancer, melanoma, viral diseases, bacterial diseases, or protozoal diseases. Wherein: each of R1 and R9 is independently selected from: —H; C1-4 alkenyl; and halogenated C1-4alkyl; each of R3NA and R3NB is independently selected from: C1-4 alkyl; C2-4alkenyl; and halogenated C4-1 alkyl; each of R7NA and R7NB is independently selected from: C1-4 alkyl; C2-4alkenyl; and halogenated C1-4 alkyl; and X is one or more anionic counter ions to achieve electrical neutrality.
US07790875B2
The invention provides methods to detect group B streptococcus (GBS) in biological samples using real-time PCR. Primers and probes for the detection of GBS are provided by the invention. Articles of manufacture containing such primers and probes for detecting GBS are further provided by the invention.
US07790871B2
Novel TNFα antibody polypeptides and nucleic acids are disclosed. Methods of utilizing the polypeptides to treat TNFα-related diseases are also disclosed.
US07790866B2
The present invention provides: a novel DNA, a carcinoma-associated gene comprising the DNA, a recombinant protein encoded by the DNA, an antibody binding to the protein, an anti-carcinoma agent comprising the antibody, a low-molecular-weight compound binding to the protein, and a screening system. An example of such a novel DNA is a DNA comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding the following polypeptide (a) or (b): (a) a polypeptide, consisting of an amino acid sequence identical to or substantially identical to the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2; or (b) a polypeptide, consisting of an amino acid sequence derived from the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2 by deletion, substitution, or addition of one or a plurality of amino acids and having biological activity substantially equivalent to the functions of the polypeptide (a).
US07790862B2
The present invention relates to blocking, inhibiting, reducing, antagonizing or neutralizing the activity of IL-17, IL-23 via it's p19 subunit or both IL-17 and IL-23 (via p19). IL-17 and IL-23 are cytokines that are involved in inflammatory processes and human disease.
US07790860B2
Disclosed is the surprising discovery that aminophospholipids, such as phosphatidyserine and phosphatidylethanolamine, are specific, accessible and stable markers of the luminal surface of tumor blood vessels. The present invention thus provides aminophospholipid-targeted diagnostic and therapeutic constructs for use in tumor intervention. Antibody-therapeutic agent conjugates and constructs that bind to aminophospholipids are particularly provided, as are methods of specifically delivering therapeutic agents, including toxins and coagulants, to the stably-expressed aminophospholipids of tumor blood vessels, thereby inducing thrombosis, necrosis and tumor regression.
US07790853B2
The invention relates to antibodies or a plurality of antibodies against human bone sialoprotein (BSP), characterized in that the antibodies bind to epitopes which are present only in human bone sialoprotein from tumor cells, the post-translational glycosylation of which is modified or incomplete in the region of amino acids of 120 to 135, containing the amino acids TGLAA (SEQ ID NO: 2), in comparison with normal bone sialoprotein from bones. The antibodies are put to use in an immunoassay for the diagnosis and prognosis of tumor diseases, in particular the diagnosis and prognosis of bone metastases in the case of primary breast carcinoma.
US07790849B2
An isolated polypeptide includes the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ. ID No. 13 and an isolated nucleic acid encoding the polypeptide, such as an isolated nucleic acid including the nucleic acid sequence shown in SEQ. ID No. 17. The isolated polypeptide includes two heparin binding polypeptides connected in tandem and the isolated nucleic acid encodes these. The polypeptide and nucleic acid sequences can improve retroviral vector mediated gene transfer efficiency into target cells.
US07790845B2
The present invention relates to a functionally expressed bacterial voltage-sensitive ion-selective channel. The novel channel can be used in conjunction with mammalian ion channel pore-containing regions in assays for screening for compounds that modulate activity of the channel. One bacterial ion channel of the present invention, called NaChBac, is derived from Bacillus halodurans (GenBank#BAB05220 (8)).
US07790844B2
The present invention provides an improved coating for surfaces of medical implants. The coating comprises at least one interfacial biomaterial (IFBM) which is comprised of at least one binding module that binds to the surface of an implant or implant-related material (“implant module”) and at least one binding module that selectively binds to a target analyte or that is designed to have a desired effect (“analyte module”). The modules are connected by a linker. In some embodiments, the IFBM coating acts to promote the recognition and attachment of target analytes to surface of the device. The IFBM coating improves the performance of implanted medical devices, for example, by promoting osteointegration of the implant.
US07790840B2
A method of crystallizing a plurality of polymeric pellets includes a step of introducing the pellets into a pneumatic conveying system with an initial average temperature. The plurality of polymeric pellets are pneumatically transferred from the inlet to an outlet with a conveying gas. While residing within the conveying system, the pellets have a sufficient temperature for crystallization to occur. A pneumatic conveying system implementing the methods of the invention is also provided.
US07790835B2
Methods for forming maleimide functionalized polymers are provided. In one such embodiment, a maleimide functionalized polymer is prepared in a method that includes a step of carrying out a reverse Diels-Alder reaction. Intermediates useful in the methods, as well as methods for preparing the intermediates, are also provided. Also provided are polymeric reagents, methods of using polymeric reagents, compounds and conjugates.
US07790833B2
This invention relates to solventless processes for the polymerization of an unsubstituted or substituted trimethylene carbonate to an unsubstituted or substituted poly(1,3-propanediol carbonate 1,3-propanediol ether)diol, using one or more solid acid catalysts.
US07790832B2
A method for purifying a 2-aryl-3,3-bis(hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine comprises contacting a crude 2-aryl-3,3-bis(hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine with a purification agent, removing a 2-aryl-3-(aminoaryl)-3-(hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine compound from the crude 2-aryl-3,3-bis(hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine, and producing a purified 2-aryl-3,3-bis(hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine product comprising less than 200 parts per million of the 2-aryl-3-(aminoaryl)-3-(hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine compound. The purification agent is selected from the group consisting of an acidic material, an organic acid chloride, an organic anhydride, or a combination thereof. The 2-aryl-3-(aminoaryl)-3-(hydroxyaryl)phthalimidine compound has a formula: wherein each R1 is independently selected from a group consisting of a hydrocarbyl radical, a nitro radical, and a halogen atom; “a” is an integer from 0 to 4; and Ar1 and Ar2 are independently at each occurrence an aromatic radical. The purified 2-aryl-3,3-bis(hydroxyaryl)phthalimidines have low color, and are useful for preparing polymers, such as polycarbonates having a low color. The polycarbonates are useful for producing articles.
US07790831B1
In accordance with the present invention there are provided hyperbranched benzobisazole polymers having repeating units of the formulas: and hyperbranched bibenzazole polymers having repeating units of the formulas: wherein Q is —S— or —NH—; the terminal groups X and Y are COOH and respectively, with their total number (X+Y) equals n+1, where n=degree of polymerization. The ratio X:Y can be controlled by varying the stoichiometric ratio of trimesic acid (A3 monomer) and 2,5-diamino-1,4-dimercaptobenzene dihydrochloride (B2 monomer) from 1:1 to 1.1.35.
US07790830B2
The present invention relates to a method of making a swellable sol-gel composition that involves the use of a bridged silane precursor. The resulting sol-gel includes residual silanols, which are derivatized with a reagent having at least one silanol-reactive group and at least one alkyl group; and the sol-gel is then dried. Sol-gels of the invention are demonstrated to swell up to about 8-10 times their original volume in the presence of a non-polar sorbate. The sol-gel compositions can be used in a sorbate-activated actuator or in a detector for non-polar sorbates. The sol-gel compositions can further be used to take up non-polar sorbates for purposes of chemical remediation, extraction from aqueous systems or vapor, and chemical sensing.
US07790824B2
High refractive index copolymers suitable for use in ophthalmic devices are disclosed. The copolymers comprise two or more aryl hydrophobic monomers and a non-polymerizable propylene oxide-ethylene oxide-propylene oxide block copolymer surfactant having a molecular weight of approximately 3600 and approximately 40% ethylene oxide units by weight. The copolymers have a reduced tendency to form glistenings when stored in water at physiological temperatures compared to similar copolymers lacking the non-polymerizable surfactant.
US07790823B2
The present invention relates to novel hydrophilic swellable addition polymers comprising improved odor control, a process for their preparation and their use for absorbing aqueous fluids and a process for screening superabsorbents.
US07790819B1
Cyclic organosilicon compounds that may be employed as an electron donor for polymerization catalyst systems, polymerization catalyst systems employing the cyclic organosilicon compounds as an electron donor, methods of making the polymerization catalyst systems, and polymerization processes to produce polyolefin are disclosed. The organosilicon compounds, which are useful as electron donors in polymerization catalyst systems for the production of polyolefins, are represented by the formula: where Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4 may be identical or different and are each hetero-atoms selected from the group consisting of N, O, S, Si, B, and P. R1, R2, R3, and R4 may be identical or different and are each hydrocarbon-based substituents to Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4, respectively. The subscripts i, j, m, and n are independently 0 to 3 R5 and R6 may be identical or different and are each a bridging group with a backbone chain length between the two hetero-atoms Q1 and Q3, and Q2 and Q4, respectively, 1-8 atoms. The bridging group is selected from the group consisting of aliphatic, alicyclic, and aromatic bivalent radicals.
US07790817B2
Provided is a process for producing a fluoropolymer containing repeating units based on a fluoromonomer represented by the following formula (m) in an amount of from 5 to 50 mol % based on the entire repeating units in the polymer by polymerization reaction of tetrafluoroethylene and the fluoromonomer, wherein the polymerization reaction is carried out by continuously charging the reactor with tetrafluoroethylene and the fluoromonomer: wherein ml is an integer of from 1 to 6. Also provided is an electrolyte material for an electrolyte fuel cell which can be operated at a high temperature to obtain a high output, wherein the electrolyte material contains the fluoropolymer produced by the process.
US07790814B2
The thermosetable composition incorporating organo-iodine compounds that provide improved x-ray contrast are prepared by reacting an epoxy resin with crosslinking agents, wherein the crosslinking agents include compounds having iodo-phenyl functionalities, and wherein the iodine atoms include iodine-127 isotope. The resulting thermoset material includes sufficient iodine-127 isotope covalently bound to the polymer matrix to impart excellent x-ray contrast. The cured polymer materials of this invention may be utilized as underfill material for electrical components, thereby facilitating use of x-ray analysis to detect problematic voids in the underfill.
US07790802B2
Disclosed herein is a liquid coating material curable with actinic radiation, substantially or entirely free from organic solvents, comprising (A) at least two compounds of general formula X—O—Y(—OH)—Z-Gr wherein X is a C6-C14 aromatic radical, C5-C20 heterocyclic aromatic radical or C6-C30 alkyl radical, Y is a trivalent organic radical, Z is a linking functional group, and Gr is an organic radical comprising one group which can be activated with actinic radiation; with the proviso that at least one of the two compounds (A) comprises aromatic or heterocyclic aromatic radical X and at least one comprises alkyl radical X; (B) oligo- and polyurethanes and/or oligo- and polyesters comprising two or three groups which can be activated with actinic radiation; (C) color and/or effect pigments; (D) waxes; (E) matting agents; and (F) polysiloxane additives comprising groups which can be activated with actinic radiation, a process for preparing it, and use thereof.
US07790795B2
Provided is a polymer composition comprising a thermoplastic, an ethylene alpha-olefin plastomer, a fibrous inosilicate and a slip agent. The polymer composition exhibits superior scratch and mar resistance as indicated by a Ford Five Finger scratch resistance on Ford Fawn 2ZK grain of at least 15 N. Also provided are shaped articles made from the polymer compositions. Also provided are methods for making scratch and mar resistant polymer compositions. Finally, articles made from the polymer compositions are also provided, particularly automotive exterior, interior and fascia parts, requiring scratch and mar resistance.
US07790792B2
The adhesive bonding of matted PMMA with customary polymerization adhesives leads to very shiny bond seams, since the cured polymerization adhesives have a shiny surface. This emphasizes the very joining zones which it is intended that the viewer of bonded products should not perceive. The adhesive should therefore be matted after curing. The adhesive has for its basis a polymerization adhesive, preferably a (meth)acrylate-based adhesive. Two different kinds of silica are added as disperse powder to the polymerization adhesive, namely a silica powder having an average particle size of from 1 μm to 10 μm (matting agent) and a silica powder having an average particle size of more than 10 μm up to 200 μm (texturing agent).
US07790783B2
A water-base ink composition comprising: a chromatic color pigment covered with a water-insoluble vinyl polymer; a titanium dioxide pigment; and water; and a water-base ink composition containing, in addition to a chromatic color pigment, dispersant and water, both a titanium dioxide pigment and silica pigment.
US07790779B2
The present invention provides partial and complete shielding approaches to alter the cross-linking characteristics of irradiated polymers, such as polyethylene. Irradiated polymers and fabricated articles, such as medical prosteses, comprising irradiated polymers also are provided.
US07790776B2
A process for hydrogenation of carbon oxides comprising contacting a gas mixture containing carbon oxides and of hydrogen with a catalyst comprising bimetallic iron-nickel or iron-cobalt alloys as the active catalytic material supported on a carrier of an oxide. The carrier is preferably formed to have a surface area greater than 20 m2/g.
US07790772B2
Treatment of CNS disorders with (1R,4S)-trans 4-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1-napthalenamine; and (1S,4R)-trans 4-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1-napthalenamine is disclosed. A process for preparing 4-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1-napthalenamine is also disclosed. The process includes the preparation of all four isomers of N-[4-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalen-1-yl]formamide, which are also useful.
US07790770B2
Compounds of formula Ia and Ib wherein A, B, C and R1 are described herein.
US07790768B2
The present invention provides a method for stimulating hair follicle growth, which comprises applying a composition containing a follicle stimulating effective amount of a creatine compound. The method can be used to treat and prevent conditions such as male pattern baldness, hair loss due to aging, or hair loss due to chemotherapy or drug exposure.
US07790765B2
The present invention provides sodium 6-hydroxy-2,2-dimethyl-5-oxo-3,4,5,6-tetrahydro-2H-benzo(h)chromene-6-sulfonate, and its synthesis and uses in the treatment of cancer.
US07790762B2
Methods for therapy of cystic fibrosis and other conditions such as cancer are provided. The methods comprise one or more agents capable of increasing thiol-containing compound transport via a transporter system (i.e. ABC transporters such as MDR-1 or MRP-2) in cells. Other embodiments include the use of agents to modulate transport of thiol-containing compounds within the cell. Therapeutic methods involve the administration of such agents to a patient afflicted with cystic fibrosis, cancer and/or another condition responsive to stimulation of thiol-containing compound transport.
US07790760B2
Compounds in accord with Formula I: wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are as defined in the specification, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, methods of making, pharmaceutical compositions containing and methods for using the same.
US07790754B2
α-Hydroxy amide derivatives of the general formula (I) are bradykinin B1 antagonists or inverse agonists useful in the treatment or prevention of symptoms such as pain and inflammation associated with the bradykinin B1 pathway. R2a is selected from (1) a group selected from Ra. (2) (CH2)nNRbC(O)Ra. (3) (CH2)nNRbSO2Rd. (4) (CH2)nNRbCO2Ra. (5) (CH2)k-heterocycle optionally substituted with 1 to 3 groups independently selected from halogen.nitro, cyano.ORa.SRa.C1-4 alkyl and C1-3 haloakyl wherein said heterocycle is (a) a 5-membered heteroaromatic ring having a ring heteroatom selected from N.O and S. and optionally having up to 3 additional ring nitrogen atoms wherein said ring is optionally benzo-fused; or (b) a 6-membered heteromatic ring containing from 1 to 3 ring nitrogen atoms and N-oxydes thereof. Wherein said ring is optionally benzo-fused. (6) (CH2)kCO2Ra. and (7) (CH2)C(O)NRbRc. R2b is OH or a group selected from R2a; or R2a and R2b together with the carbon atom to which they are attached form a 3- to 7-membered carbocyclic ring optionally substituted with 1 to 4 groups independently selected from halogen. ORa. C1-4 alkyl and C1-4 haloalkyl.
US07790753B2
Compounds of formula (I) as defined herein: are useful for treating behavioral disorders associated with dementia, psychoses, in particular schizophrenia (deficient form and productive form) and acute or chronic extrapyramidal symptoms induced by neuroleptics; for the treatment of various forms of anxiety, panic attacks, phobias, and compulsive obsessive disorders; for treating various forms of depression, including psychotic depression; for treating disorders caused by alcohol abuse or weaning from alcohol, sexual behavior disorders, eating disorders and for treating migraine. Moreover, the compounds of the invention may be used for treating painful muscle contracture in rheumatology and in acute spinal pathology; for treating spastic contractures of medullary or cerebral origin; for the symptomatic treatment of acute and subacute pain of light to moderate intensity; for treating intense and/or chronic pain, neurogenic pain and intractable pain; for treating Parkinson's disease and Parkinson-like symptoms of neurodegenerative origin or induced by neuroleptics; for treating partial primary and secondary generalized epilepsy of simple or complex symptomology, mixed forms and other epileptic syndromes in addition to another antiepileptic treatment, or in monotherapy, for the treatment of sleep apnea, and for neuroprotection.
US07790748B2
Compounds of Formula (I): are effective in the treatment of a microbial infection.
US07790744B2
Provided are compounds of the formula (1): wherein R′ is hydrogen, methyl or NH2C(O)CH2—; R″ and R′″ are independently methyl or hydrogen; R adn Ry are independently hydroxy or hydrogen; R1 is hydroxy, hydrogen, or hydroxysulfonyloxy; R7 is hydroxy, hydrogen, hydroxysulfonyloxy or phosphonooxy; R2 is a novel acyl side chain. Also provided are novel formulations, methods of inhibiting fungal and parasitic activity, and a process for preparing dideoxy (R═H) forms of the compounds.
US07790740B2
The present invention provides compounds of formula (I) wherein R1 and R2 are as defined hereinabove. The compounds of the present invention are modulators, especially antagonists, of the activity of chemokine CCR5 receptors. Modulators of the CCR5 receptor may be useful in the treatment of various inflammatory diseases and conditions, and in the treatment of infection by HIV and genetically related retroviruses.
US07790738B2
The present invention provides a method of treating or preventing a disorder typified by an immunodificiency (e.g. HIV), wherein the patient is administered a COX-2 inhibitor or derivative or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, preferably diisopropylfluorophasphate. L-745337, rofecoxib, NS 398, SC 58125, etodolac, meloxicam, celecoxib or nimesulide, and compositions and products containing the same or use of the same in preparing medicaments and for treatment.
US07790737B2
A compound represented by the following general formula (I), wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 represent hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a lower alkyl group and the like, R6 represents an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group and the like, R7 and R8 represent hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a (lower cycloalkyl)(lower alkyl) group and the like, R9 represents hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a lower alkoxy group and the like, R10 and R11 represent hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a lower alkoxy group, a halo(lower alkyl) group and the like, and A represents a heterocyclic ring constituted by 6 to 10 atoms, which has potent inhibitory activity on cholesterol ester transfer protein (CETP).
US07790735B2
The present invention provides novel nucleoside and nucleotide derivatives that are useful agonist or antagonists of P1 and P2 receptors. For example, the present invention provides a compound of formula A-M, wherein A is modified adenine or uracil and M is a constrained cycloalkyl group. The adenine or uracil is bonded to the constrained cycloalkyl group. The compounds of the present invention are useful in the treatment or prevention of various diseases including airway diseases (through A2B, A3, P2Y2 receptors), cancer (through A3, P2 receptors), cardiac arrhythmias (through A1 receptors), cardiac ischemia (through A1, A3 receptors), epilepsy (through A1, P2X receptors), and Huntington's Disease (through A2A receptors).
US07790733B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula wherein R1, R2, R3, and n are as described in the specification and pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts thereof. The compounds of formula I can be used for the treatment of 5-HT5A receptor antagonists related diseases, which include depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, panic disorders, agoraphobia, social phobia, obsessive compulsive disorders, post-traumatic stress disorders, pain, memory disorders, disorders of eating behaviors, sexual dysfunction, sleep disorders, withdrawal from abuse of drugs, motor disorders such as Parkinson's disease, dementia in Parkinson's disease, neuroleptic-induced Parkinsonism and tardive dyskinesias, as well as other psychiatric disorders and gastrointestinal disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome.
US07790730B2
The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment or prevention of viral infections comprising as an active principle at least one compound having the general formula (A): wherein U is N or C; X is selected from C1-C10 alkylene, C2-10 alkenylene or C2-10 alkynylene, where each may include one or more intrachain heteroatoms selected from O, S, or NR11, provided any such heteroatom is not adjacent to the N in the ring; R3 is selected from aryl, aryloxy, arylthio, cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, cycloalkynyl, aryl-N(R10)—, or heterocycle, where each said substituent is optionally substituted with at least one R17, provided that for cycloalkenyl the double bond is not adjacent to a nitrogen; and the other substituents are described in the specification. The invention also relates to processes for the preparation of compounds according to the invention having above mentioned general formula, their pharmaceutically acceptable formulations and their use as a medicine or to treat or prevent viral infections.
US07790722B2
The present invention relates generally to the field of ligands for nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR), activation of nAChRs, and the treatment of disease conditions associated with defective or malfunctioning nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, especially of the brain. Further, this invention relates to novel compounds for example, indoles, 1H-indazoles, 1,2-benzisoxazoles, and 1,2-benzisothiazoles, which act as ligands for the α7 nAChR subtype, methods of preparing such compounds, compositions containing such compounds, and methods of use thereof.
US07790721B2
Compounds of formula I where X is a bond; A1 and A2, together with the atoms to which they are attached, is pyrrole; and A3 and A4, together with the atoms to which they are attached, are benzene; are poly(ADP-ribose)polymerase inhibitors. The compounds of formula I are useful for the treatment of diseases such as cancer.
US07790708B2
The present invention provides prodrugs of GABA analogs, pharmaceutical compositions of prodrugs of GABA analogs and methods for making prodrugs of GABA analogs. The present invention also provides methods for using prodrugs of GABA analogs and methods for using pharmaceutical compositions of prodrugs of GABA analogs for treating or preventing common diseases and/or disorders.
US07790702B2
The present invention relates to a protein/phospholipid or protein hydrolyzate/phospholipid complex containing 10 wt % or more of bound phospholipid, a lipid metabolism improving agent comprising the complex, and a functional food comprising the complex.The present invention provides a lipid metabolism improving agent and a functional food, containing the complex.
US07790698B2
Compounds of the class of adenosines, represented by structural formula I, wherein R is C1-4 alkoxy, and X is H or OH, are useful in a method of preventing, treating, or ameliorating various conditions or disorders, e.g., inflammation, which comprises administering a compound of formula I to a subject in need of such prevention, treatment, or amelioration, for example, at a dosage which gives rise to a peak plasma concentration in the subject that is less than the EC50 value of the compound at adenosine receptors at nH 7.4.
US07790696B2
Cationic liposomes with entrapped polynucleotide in the intravesicular space are described. The liposomes include cationic components such as cationic lipids such as DOTAP. Preferably the method of forming liposomes uses the dehydration-rehydration method in the presence of the polynucleotide. The polynucleotide preferably operatively encodes an antigen capable of eliciting a desired immune response, that is, is a gene vaccine.
US07790688B2
Compositions and methods for increasing muscle mass, strength, and functional performance in the elderly by delivering a selection of amino acids, carnitine, and carboydrates with a low glycemic index.
US07790683B2
The present invention relates to methods and compositions containing novel leptin peptides, preferably for the modulation of body mass (i.e., weight), more specifically for novel diagnostic and therapeutic applications in homeostasis of body weight and adipose tissue mass.
US07790682B1
An engineered, purified polypeptide of acidic fibroblast growth factor (FGF-1) is described, the amino acid sequence of which consists essentially of SEQ ID NO: 1. The engineered polypeptide provides 70 times the mitogenic activity of wild type acidic fibroblast growth factor. Other engineered FGFs are also described, having altered properties, including reduced heparin binding affinity and increased mitogenicity as demonstrated with a model mammalian cell line derived from mice, NIH 3T3 fibroblasts.
US07790677B2
Novel pro-insulin having specific amino acid and/or nucleic acid modifications suitable for improved methods of insulin production are provided. Novel and highly efficient processes for preparing the pro-insulin preparations and preparations containing them are also disclosed. The novel pro-insulin preparations may be converted into human insulin useful in therapeutic preparations. Novel peptides of the C-peptide, and N terminus, including RREAEALQVGQVELGGGPGAGSLQPLALEGSLQAR (SEQ ID NO: 32), and MHHHHHHGGR (SEQ ID NO: 2) respectively are provided, as well as the unique nucleic acid molecules encoding them.
US07790675B2
Use of human erythropoietin or a derivative of erythropoietin having the biological activity of human erythropoietin of increasing the expression of frataxin for the production of a pharmaceutical preparation for the treatment of Friedreich's ataxia or for the treatment or prevention of a disease associated with Friedreich's ataxia.
US07790669B1
The present invention features methods and compositions for treating a patient who has a neurological deficit. The method can be carried out, for example, by contacting (in vivo or in culture) a neural progenitor cell of the patient's central nervous system (CNS) with a polypeptide that binds the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor and directing progeny of the proliferating progenitor cells to migrate en masse to a region of the CNS in which they will reside and function in a manner sufficient to reduce the neurological deficit. The method may include a further step in which the progeny of the neural precursor cells are contacted with a compound that stimulates differentiation.
US07790667B2
Water-soluble copolymers which comprise, in copolymerized form, (a) 60 to 99% by weight of at least one monoethylenically unsaturated polyalkylene oxide monomer of the formula I H2C═CR1—X—YR2—OnR3 I in which the variables have the following meanings: X is —CH2— or —C(O)—, if Y is —O—; is —C(O)—, if Y is —NH—; is —O— or —O—(CH2)4—, if Y is a chemical bond; Y is —O—, —NH— or a chemical bond; R1 is hydrogen or methyl; R2 is C2-C4-alkylene radicals, which may be identical or different and also linear or branched, but where at least 50% of the radicals R2 are ethylene; R3 is C1-C22-alkyl, phenyl, p-(C1-C12-alkyl)phenyl or hydrogen; n is an integer from 6 to 50, (b) 1 to 40% by weight of at least one nonquaternized dipolar monomer comprising at least one nitrogen atom, (c) 0 to 39% by weight of other nonionic monoethylenically unsaturated monomers and (d) 0 to 10% by weight of other anionic monoethylenically unsaturated monomers and have an average molecular weight Mw of from 2000 to 500 000 D, and the use of the copolymers as dispersants and sequestrants for pigmented materials, as additive for detergents, laundry pretreatment compositions, cleaners for hard surfaces, dentifrices and bodycare compositions, and as auxiliaries for textile processes, paper making and paper processing and deinking processes.
US07790656B2
Spherical and rod-shaped proppants and anti-flowback agents made from sillimanite minerals possess high strength and high conductivity. The sillimanite minerals may be selected from the group consisting of kyanite, sillimanite, and andalusite and may be used alone or in combination with other materials, such as bauxite, kaolin, meta-kaolin, pure or technical grade alumina (about 98%-99.9% alumina by weight), alumina-containing slag, zirconia, silica, iron, alkali elements (such as calcium, magnesium, and sodium), and virtually any other mineral containing alumina. The starting material may optionally be milled to achieve better compacity and crush resistance in the final proppant or anti-flowback agent. A fracturing fluid may comprise the rods or spheres alone, or in combination with each other or other proppants or anti-flowback agents of different shapes.
US07790655B2
The present invention relates to a viral vector encoding for a library of antibodies or antibody fragments that are displayed on the cell membrane when expressed in a cell. The present invention provides cells comprising the viral vector nucleic acids and methods of screening the libraries for antibodies or antibody fragments with desired characteristics.
US07790651B2
A recyclable esterification or transesterification catalyst and methods for making and using the same are provided herein. The catalyst can be used to prepare biodiesel or methyl soyate from various feedstocks, including vegetable oils and animal fats. The catalyst can both esterify free fatty acids and transesterify mono-, di-, and triglycerides. The catalyst can also be combined with a metal oxide, and optionally calcined, prior to carrying out a catalytic reaction.
US07790650B2
The present invention relates to catalysts comprising at least one support and at least one layer applied to said support, said layer containing a) 20 to 95% by weight of at least one aluminum, silicon, titanium or magnesium oxide compound or a silicon carbide or a carbon support or mixtures thereof, and b) 5 to 50% by weight of at least one nanocarbon. The catalysts can be used to produce unsaturated hydrocarbons by means of the oxidative dehydrogenation of alkylaromatics, alkenes and alkanes in the gas phase.
US07790649B2
The present invention relates to a production process of an exhaust gas purifying catalyst, comprising impregnating a support with a solution containing a metal salt and then drying it to load a particle of the metal salt on the support, (a) wherein a base having a less tendency to adsorb and coordinate to the metal salt particle than ammonia is incorporated into the solution to make the solution basic, and thereby the metal salt particle is caused to have a negative zeta potential; or (b) wherein an acid and a base that adsorbs and coordinates to the metal salt particle are incorporated into the solution to make the solution acidic, and thereby the metal salt particle is caused to have a positive zeta potential.
US07790646B2
A process for converting fine catalyst slurried in heavy oil into a coke-like material from which catalytic metals can be recovered comprises mixing fine catalyst slurried in heavy oil with solvent, which causes asphaltenes in the heavy oil to precipitate from the heavy oil; separating fine catalyst and precipitated asphaltenes from the heavy oil and solvent; and converting precipitated asphaltenes to a coke-like material by pyrolizing fine catalyst and precipitated asphaltenes separated from the heavy oil.
US07790644B2
The invention provides a zinc-oxide-based target, having excellent environmental durability. The target contains zinc oxide as a predominant component, and both titanium (Ti) and gallium (Ga) in amounts of 1.1 at. % or more and 4.5 at. % or more, respectively.
US07790643B2
A reinforcing material for urethane foam effectively protects a molded urethane foam body and suppresses fricatives with a metal spring, having high productivity and excellent handleability and being applicable to a molded urethane foam body with highly uneven shape at low cost. It is a reinforcing material for urethane foam wherein a nonwoven fabric A having single fiber linear density of 1.0 to 3.0 dtex and a nonwoven fabric B having single fiber linear density of 0.5 to 2.5 dtex are laminated by needlepunching process by inserting needles from a direction of the nonwoven fabric A with a needle density of 35 to 70 needles/cm2.
US07790642B2
A waterproof sheet which allows for better adhesion between multiple waterproof sheets, the sheet including at least one layer of waterproof material arranged between a first and a second layer of spunbonded fabric, the layers of spunbonded fabric having a surface covered by waterproof material and being laterally offset one with respect to the other so as to have a projection of the first layer with respect to the second layer on one side and a projection of the second layer with respect to the first layer on the opposite side.
US07790639B2
A blowable insulation material comprising random shaped blowable clusters which are comprised of natural fibers or material. In preferred embodiments, the clusters also comprise man-made fibers or materials. A process to produce the blowable clusters is also disclosed.
US07790636B2
A method for configuring J electromagnetic radiation sources (J≧2) to simultaneously irradiate a substrate. Each source has a different function of wavelength and angular distribution of emitted radiation. The substrate includes a base layer and I stacks (I≧2) thereon. Pj denotes a same source-specific normally incident energy flux on each stack from source j. For simultaneous exposure of the I stacks to radiation from the J sources, Pj is computed such that an error E being a function of |W1−S1|, |W2−S2, . . . , |WI−SI| is about minimized with respect to Pj=1, . . . , J). Wi and Si respectively denote an actual and target energy flux transmitted into the substrate via stack i (i=1, . . . , I). The stacks are exposed to the radiation from the sources characterized by the computed Pj (j=1, . . . , J).
US07790633B1
A silicon dioxide-based dielectric layer is formed on a substrate surface by a sequential deposition/anneal technique. The deposited layer thickness is insufficient to prevent substantially complete penetration of annealing process agents into the layer and migration of water out of the layer. The dielectric layer is then annealed, ideally at a moderate temperature, to remove water and thereby fully densify the film. The deposition and anneal processes are then repeated until a desired dielectric film thickness is achieved.
US07790626B2
The present invention relates to a technology for depositing a thin metal film by using a plasma sputtering technique on a top surface of a target object, e.g., a semiconductor wafer or the like, and on a surface of a recess opened at the top surface. The film deposition method is characterized in that a film deposition process to deposit a metal film on a sidewall of the recess by generating metal ions by way of making a metal target sputter with a plasma generated from a discharge gas in the processing container and by applying to the mounting table a bias power to cause a metal film deposition based on a metal ion attraction and a sputter etching based on the plasma generated from the discharge gas simultaneously on the top surface of the target object.
US07790625B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes preparing a semiconductor wafer, forming a semiconductor function element on the semiconductor wafer, drying the semiconductor wafer after forming the semiconductor function element by using an isopropyl alcohol vapor, heating the semiconductor wafer after drying the semiconductor wafer, and performing a cleaning on the semiconductor wafer after heating the semiconductor wafer by using a fuming nitric acid.
US07790617B2
A method of fabrication of a sputtered metal silicide layer over a copper interconnect. We form a dielectric layer over a conductive layer. We form an interconnect opening in the dielectric layer. We form a copper layer at least filling the interconnect opening. We planarize the copper layer to form a copper interconnect in the interconnect opening. The copper interconnect is over polished to form a depression. We form metal silicide layer over the copper interconnect using a low temperature sputtering process. We can form a cap layer over the metal silicide layer.
US07790614B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming on a lower insulating layer first to third electrically conducting layers sequentially, forming a mask pattern on the third conducting layer, dry-etching the first to third conducting layers with the mask pattern as a mask, thereby dividing the conducting layers, and forming an insulating layer between the adjacent second conducting layers by an HDP-CVD process so that a void is defined so as to be located lower than an interface between the first and second conducting layers and higher than an interface between the second and third conducting layers so as to have a sectional area larger than the second conducting layer. The forming of the insulating layer by the HDP-CVD process includes burying the insulating layer and sputtering to spread a frontage of a buried region buried by the burying process, both burying and sputtering being repeated alternately.
US07790613B2
A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a memory cell selection transistor that is formed on the semiconductor substrate and has a source and a drain; a contact plug; a polysilicon interlayer film that is formed above the memory cell selection transistor and has a cylinder-shaped through-hole; and a storage capacity part that is formed in the through-hole and is connected to the source and the drain of the memory cell selection transistor via the contact plug, wherein a boundary between a bottom and a side wall of the through-hole has a curved surface.
US07790612B2
A method for forming a wiring structure includes forming a metal layer on a substrate, and annealing the metal layer by irradiating the metal layer with light emitted from at least one flash tube, thereby growing crystalline grains of the metal layer.
US07790608B2
A three dimensional integrated circuit and method for making the same. The three dimensional integrated circuit has a first and a second active circuit layers with a first metal layer and a second metal layer, respectively. The metal layers are connected by metal inside a buried via. The fabrication method includes etching a via in the first active circuit layer to expose the first metal layer without penetrating the first metal layer, depositing metal inside the via, the metal inside the via being in contact with the first metal layer, and bonding the second active circuit layer to the first active circuit layer using a metal bond that connects the metal inside the via to the second metal layer of the second active circuit layer.
US07790602B1
A method of forming capacitive structures in trenches which have been formed in a multilevel metal interconnect structure is disclosed. The method of forming the capacitive structures allows the capacitance of the multilevel metal interconnect structure to be adjusted, and thereby optimized, to respond to signals from devices that are formed on an underlying substrate.
US07790601B1
Disclosed is a process of an integration method to form an air gap in an interconnect. On top of a metal wiring layer on a semiconductor substrate is deposited a dielectric cap layer followed by a sacrificial dielectric layer and pattern transfer layers. A pattern is transferred through the pattern transfer layers, sacrificial dielectric layer, dielectric cap layer and into the metal wiring layer. The presence of the sacrificial dielectric layer aids in controlling the thickness and profile of the dielectric cap layer which in turn affects reliability of the interconnect.
US07790590B2
A substrate provided thereon with an electrical insulating film which carries holes or the like filled with a Cu-containing electrical interconnection film is subjected to a pre-treatment in which the surface of the electrical insulating film and that of the Cu-containing electrical interconnection film are treated at a temperature of not more than 300° C. using, in a predetermined state, a gas of a compound containing an atom selected from the group consisting of N, H and Si atoms within the chemical formula thereof, before selectively forming a W-capping film on the electrical interconnection film. After the completion of the pre-treatment, a W-capping film is selectively formed on the electrical interconnection film and then an upper Cu electrical interconnection is further formed.
US07790581B2
A pair of semiconductor structures and a method for fabricating a semiconductor structure each utilize a semiconductor substrate having a first crystallographic orientation, and a dielectric layer located thereupon. The method provides for epitaxially growing a semiconductor layer on the semiconductor substrate to encapsulate the dielectric layer. The method also provides for patterning the semiconductor layer to yield a semiconductor structure that comprises a bulk semiconductor structure and a semiconductor-on-insulator structure, or alternatively a patterned semiconductor layer that straddles the dielectric layer and contacts the semiconductor substrate.
US07790576B2
A semiconductor wafer contains a plurality of semiconductor die. The semiconductor wafer is diced to separate the semiconductor die. The semiconductor die are transferred onto a carrier. A die extension region is formed around a periphery of the semiconductor die on the carrier. The carrier is removed. A plurality of through hole vias (THV) is formed in first and second offset rows in the die extension region. A conductive material is deposited in the THVs. A first RDL is formed between contact pads on the semiconductor die and the THVs. A second RDL is formed on a backside of the semiconductor die in electrical contact with the THVs. An under bump metallization is formed in electrical contact with the second RDL. Solder bumps are formed on the under bump metallization. The die extension region is singulated to separate the semiconductor die.
US07790572B2
When a single crystal semiconductor layer is bonded to a base substrate, a silicon oxide film is preferably used for one or both of the base substrate and a single crystal semiconductor substrate. According to this structure, an SOI layer having a strong bonding strength in a bonding portion can be obtained even when a substrate having an upper temperature limit of 700° C. or lower such as a glass substrate is used. In addition, a single crystal semiconductor substrate from which the single crystal semiconductor layer has been separated is reprocessed in such a manner that the single crystal semiconductor substrate is irradiated with laser light from the separation surface side of the single crystal semiconductor substrate, to melt the surface of the single crystal semiconductor substrate during the melting time per area of 0.5 microseconds to 1 millisecond. Then, the reprocessed single crystal semiconductor substrate is reused.
US07790566B2
A method is disclosed for preparing a surface of a Group III-Group V compound semiconductor for epitaxial deposition. The III-V semiconductor surface is treated with boron (B) at a temperature of between about 250° C. and about 350° C. A suitable form for supplying B for the surface treatment is diborane. The B treatment can be followed by epitaxial growth, for instance by a Group IV semiconductor, at temperatures similar to those of the B treatment. The method yields high quality heterojunction, suitable for fabricating a large variety of device structures.
US07790563B2
A semiconductor device of the present invention is manufactured by the following steps: forming a single-crystal semiconductor layer over a substrate having an insulating surface; irradiating a region of the single-crystal semiconductor layer with laser light; forming a circuit of a pixel portion using a region of the single-crystal semiconductor layer which is not irradiated with the laser light; and forming a driver circuit for driving the circuit of the pixel portion using the region of the single-crystal semiconductor layer which is irradiated with the laser light. Thus, a semiconductor device using a single-crystal semiconductor layer which is suitable for a peripheral driver circuit region and a single-crystal semiconductor layer which is suitable for a pixel region can be provided.
US07790562B2
Source implantations are performed at a first implantation angle to areas between stacked gate structures of a NAND string. Drain implantations are performed at a second implantation angle to areas between the stacked gate structures. The drain implantations create lower doped regions of a first conductivity type in the substrate on drain sides of the stacked gate structures. The source implantations create higher doped regions of the first conductivity type in the substrate on source sides of the stacked gate structures.
US07790552B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a plurality of bulb-shaped recesses in a substrate, forming a gate insulation layer over the substrate including the bulb-shaped recesses, forming a patterned first conductive layer over sidewalls of a bulb pattern of the corresponding bulb-shaped recesses, and forming a patterned second conductive layer over the gate insulation layer while filling the bulb-shaped recesses.
US07790549B2
This invention discloses a semiconductor power device disposed in a semiconductor substrate and the semiconductor substrate has a plurality of deep trenches. The deep trenches are filled with an epitaxial layer thus forming a top epitaxial layer covering areas above a top surface of the deep trenches covering over the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor power device further includes a plurality of transistor cells disposed in the top epitaxial layer whereby a device performance of the semiconductor power device is dependent on a depth of the deep trenches and not dependent on a thickness of the top epitaxial layer. Each of the plurality of transistor cells includes a trench DMOS transistor cell having a trench gate opened through the top epitaxial layer and filled with a gate dielectric material.
US07790547B2
A method and non-volatile memory device are provided that are characterized by ion-implantation of impurities in the sidewalls of a first electrode. The inclusion of impurities in the sidewalls eliminates geometric abnormalities, referred to herein as a bird's beak, in the first electrode, which are caused by numerous oxidation processes being performed in the overall memory fabrication process. By eliminating these geometric abnormalities, thickening of the block oxide layer proximate the area of geometric abnormalities does not occurring, resulting in a memory device capable of efficiently programming and erasing data.
US07790545B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device such as a MOS transistor. The device comprises a polysilicon gate (10) and doped regions (22,24) formed in a semiconductor substrate (12), separated by a channel region (26). The exposed surface of the semiconductor substrate is amorphized, by ion bombardment for example, so as to inhibit subsequent diffusion of the dopant ions during thermal annealing. Low thermal budgets are favored for the activation and polysilicon regrowth to ensure an abrupt doping profile for the source/drain regions. As a consequence an upper portion (10b) of the gate electrode remains amorphous. The upper portion of the gate electrode is removed so as to allow a low resistance contact to be made with the polysilicon lower portion (10a).
US07790541B2
A method for forming multiple self-aligned gate stacks, the method comprising, forming a first group of gate stack layers on a first portion of a substrate, forming a second group of gate stack layers on a second portion of the substrate adjacent to the first portion of the substrate, etching to form a trench disposed between the first portion and the second portion of the substrate, and filling the trench with an insulating material.
US07790531B2
Different portions of a continuous loop of semiconductor material are electrically isolated from one another. In some embodiments, the end of the loop is electrically isolated from mid-portions of the loop. In some embodiments, loops of semiconductor material, having two legs connected together at their ends, are formed by a pitch multiplication process in which loops of spacers are formed on sidewalls of mandrels. The mandrels are removed and a block of masking material is overlaid on at least one end of the spacer loops. In some embodiments, the blocks of masking material overlay each end of the spacer loops. The pattern defined by the spacers and the blocks are transferred to a layer of semiconductor material. The blocks electrically connect together all the loops. A select gate is formed along each leg of the loops. The blocks serve as sources/drains. The select gates are biased in the off state to prevent current flow from the mid-portion of the loop's legs to the blocks, thereby electrically isolating the mid-portions from the ends of the loops and also electrically isolating different legs of a loop from each other.
US07790525B2
Components in integrated circuits (ICs) are fabricated as small as possible to minimize sizes of the ICs and thus reduce manufacturing costs per IC. Metal interconnect lines are formed on minimum pitches possible using available photolithographic printers. Minimum pitches possible for contacts and vias are larger than minimum pitches possible for metal interconnect lines, thus preventing dense rectilinear grid configurations for contacts and vias. The instant invention is an integrated circuit, and a method of fabricating an integrated circuit, wherein metal interconnect lines are formed on a minimum pitch possible using a photolithographic printer. Contacts and vias are arranged to provide connections to components and metal interconnect lines, as required by the integrated circuit, in configurations that are compatible with the minimum pitch for contacts and vias, including semi-dense arrays.
US07790511B2
A system and method of attaching a heat sink to an integrated circuit chip includes providing a compliant material for constraining the heat sink's mechanical motion while simultaneously allowing for thermal expansion of the heat sink.
US07790509B2
Attaching a semiconductor chip to a substrate by applying mechanical vibrations (150) to a polymeric compound (130) and the contacting areas (114, 124) of a first (113) and a second (121) metallic member immersed in the compound, while the two metallic members approach (140) each other until they touch. The mechanical vibration causes displacements of the first member relative to the second member, and the vibration includes displacements (150) oriented at right angles to the direction (140) of the approach. The polymeric compound (130) includes a non-conductive adhesive resin paste (NCP) and filler particles; the paste is deposited before the attaching step. The first member (113) is affixed to the chip and the second member (121) to the substrate.
US07790504B2
An integrated circuit package system is provided providing a first structure, forming a compression via in the first structure, forming a stud bump on a second structure and pressing the stud bump into the compression via forming a mechanical bond.
US07790503B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes providing a substrate with an insulation layer disposed on a top surface of the substrate, forming a passive device over the top surface of the substrate, removing the substrate, depositing an insulating polymer film layer over the insulation layer, and depositing a metal layer over the insulating polymer film layer. A solder mask can be formed over the metal layer. A conformal metal layer can then be formed over the solder mask. A notch can be formed in the insulation layer to enhance the connection between the insulating polymer film layer and the insulation layer. Additional semiconductor die can be electrically connected to the passive device. The substrate is removed by removing a first amount of the substrate using a back grind process, and then removing a second amount of the substrate using a wet dry, dry etch, or chemical-mechanical planarization process.
US07790502B2
A method for producing flexible semiconductor assemblies is described. For example, an integrated circuit package consisting of an X-Y axes sensor die and a Z-axis sensor die disposed at 90 degrees to each other may be formed by applying a flexible dielectric membrane to a semiconductor wafer, creating bending gaps between the sensor dice, singulating the IC package from the wafer, and bending the flexible dielectric membrane so that the sensor dice are disposed orthogonally to each other. This method eliminates the need to precisely position previously singulated sensor dice relative to each other in order to apply a flexible dielectric membrane for purposes of interconnecting the dice.
US07790493B2
Disclosed herein is a method of fabricating a device having a microstructure. The method includes forming a connector on a semiconductor substrate, coating the connector with a polymer layer, and immersing the semiconductor substrate and the coated connector in an etchant solution to form the microstructure from the semiconductor substrate and to release the coated connector and the microstructure from the semiconductor substrate such that the microstructure remains coupled to a further element of the device via the coated connector. In some cases, the microstructure is defined by forming an etch stop in the semiconductor substrate, and the microstructure and the semiconductor substrate are coated with a polymer layer, which may then be selectively patterned. The microstructure may then be released from the semiconductor substrate in accordance with the etch stop.
US07790471B2
A diagnostic method and associated test kit for detecting an analyte residing in a test sample is provided. A sample membrane is utilized having a collection region and a detection region, the collection region having a known saturation volume for the intended test sample. A barrier is defined between the collection region and the detection region. The collection region is saturated with the test sample having a volume of less than about 100 microliters so that a known volume of the test sample is contained in the collection region. The barrier is removed from between the collection region and detection region of the membrane and a diluent is supplied to the collection region of the membrane to facilitate flow of the test sample from the collection region to the detection region of the membrane.
US07790467B1
An apparatus and method for quantifying ketone or alydehyde concentrations of gas. The invention includes passing a gas sample through a reactor and an optical cell and determining a concentration of a gaseous reaction product. Using the concentration of the gaseous reaction product and a predetermined reaction conversion efficiency, a ketone or aldehyde concentration is calculated. This invention can be used for diabetes screening, diabetes maintenance, identification and quantification of ketosis, explosives detection and formaldehyde detection.
US07790464B2
Systems and methods for determining the concentration of hemoglobin derivatives in bodily fluids include devices for measuring and comparing the absorption of electromagnetic radiation by cellular and cell-free hemoglobin at two or more wavelengths in the Soret region. Systems and methods for determining erythrocyte membrane fragility include devices for measuring the concentration of at least one cell-free hemoglobin derivative, and using the absorption properties of cellular and cell-free hemoglobin derivatives in the Soret region.
US07790461B2
Embodiments of the invention provide to apparatuses and media used in drug elution studies and methods for making and using them. One embodiment of the invention is a drug elution method that can be used for in-vitro studies of a matrix impregnated with a compound such as a drug blended polymer matrix. Such methods and materials can be used for example to assess and control the manufacturing process variability of drug eluting implantable devices such as cardiac leads.
US07790459B2
The invention provides methods for in vitro maturation of immature human oocytes. In one aspect, the invention provides a method for in vitro maturation of immature human oocytes, comprising the steps of: (a) inducing in a female human subject an increase in endogenous luteinizing hormone levels, said subject having not undergone an ovarian stimulation protocol prior to said inducing step; (b) obtaining from said subject an immature oocyte; and (c) culturing said oocyte until maturity.
US07790454B2
The invention relates to DNA-sequences, their use and the use of DNA-sequences of the MAG gene or genes encoding the high mobility group proteins, agents for the treatment of various diseases including tumors, influencing the development of the vascular system, as well as for contraception and tissue regeneration, and appropriate kits and processes. The sequences, agents, uses, kits and processes enable the specific influencing of molecular mechanisms that jointly form the basis for various diseases, the development of the vascular system, the contraception and the regeneration of tissue. Thus, the disadvantages associated with other agents or processes are decreased.
US07790453B2
Purified populations of smooth muscle progenitor cells are provided as well as methods of making and using the cells.
US07790447B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an expression vector that allows for stable production of N-deacetylase/N-sulfotransferase 2 in large amounts and a process for production of N-deacetylase/N-sulfotransferase 2 using the same. The present invention provides a recombinant baculovirus expression vector obtained by incorporating into baculovirus DNA, a DNA fragment having lobster L21 DNA, DNA encoding gp67 signal peptide and DNA encoding the 79th to 883rd amino acids of human N-deacetylase/N-sulfotransferase 2 in this order in the 5′ to 3′ direction.
US07790442B2
A bacteriorhodopsin based chemical sensing architecture based upon the collective response of bacteriorhodopsin and a number of its mutants; the wild type protein and a selection of genetically-engineered variants was able to respond differentially to a selection of amines. The observable response to the presence of a target chemical was manifested through a modulation of bacteriorhodopsin's photokinetic properties, which are monitored through pump-probe techniques using a custom prototype flash photolysis system. Differential responsivity exists at two levels; (1) bacteriorhodopsin proteins (wild-type and genetically-engineered variants) respond differentially upon exposure of a target chemical, and (2) the response pattern exhibited by the proteins differs from chemical to chemical. This dichotomy forms the basis for a BR-mediated chemical sensing technology that is highly sensitive and selective and may therefore discriminate between different chemicals.
US07790434B2
The present invention provides novel canine pol I regulatory nucleic acid sequences useful for the expression of nucleic acid sequences in canine cells such as MDCK cells. The invention further provides expression vectors and cells comprising such nucleic acids as well as methods of using such nucleic acids to make influenza viruses, including infectious influenza viruses.
US07790432B2
The present invention is directed to polypeptides that have enhanced alanine 2,3-aminomutase (AAM) activity and/or thermostability relative to the wild-type enzymes that have incidental AAM activity as a result of cross reactivity with alanine. In addition, the present invention is directed to a polynucleotides that encodes for the AAM polypeptides of the present invention, to nucleic acid sequences comprising the polynucleotides, to expression vectors comprising the polynucleotides operatively linked to a promoter, to host cells transformed to express the AAM polypeptides, and to a method for producing the AAM polypeptides of the present invention.
US07790419B2
A viral vector production system is provided which system comprises: (i) a viral genome comprising at least one first nucleotide sequence encoding a gene product capable of binding to and effecting the cleavage, directly or indirectly, of a second nucleotide sequence, or transcription product thereof, encoding a viral polypeptide required for the assembly of viral particles; (ii) a third nucleotide sequence encoding said viral polypeptide required for the assembly of the viral genome into viral particles, which third nucleotide sequence has a different nucleotide sequence to the second nucleotide sequence such that said third nucleotide sequence, or transcription product thereof, is resistant to cleavage directed by said gene product. The viral vector production system may be used to produce viral particles for use in treating or preventing viral infection.
US07790414B2
The invention relates to a method of obtaining an antibody with a desired function, the method comprising: a) bringing a population of B cells into contact with a capturing agent; b) separating the captured B cells from the uncaptured B cells; c) culturing a plurality of captured B cells wherein said B cells have not been sorted into single B cells immediately prior to culturing; d) screening a plurality of the cultured cells to identify cells capable of producing an antibody with the desired function; and e) obtaining the desired antibody therefrom.
US07790398B2
Method for determining the active parathyroid hormone content in a sample, wherein the component of parathyroid hormone polypeptide chains which are oxidized at one or more sites near the PTH receptor binding structure having the amino acids 15 to 22 are specifically excluded from the content determination. Oxidation of the parathyroid hormone occurs in particular in dialysis patients, their blood plasma being exposed to an oxidation stress in the dialysis. The invention is based on the use of antibodies which bind specific conformation epitopes of the oxidised or reduced parathyroid hormone and its fragments. Further, there is provided a test system for the quantitative determination of parathyroid hormone and active fragments hereof in a sample.
US07790397B2
The present invention concerns methods for diagnosing myocardial infarction, for performing risk stratification of myocardial infarction, for making a prognosis of a disease course in a myocardial infarction patient, for identifying a patient with elevated risk of myocardial infarction, or combinations thereof, wherein a determination of at least three markers is performed on a patient sample. Furthermore, kits for performing the methods are provided.
US07790393B2
The present invention provides methods and routines for developing and optimizing nucleic acid detection assays for use in basic research, clinical research, and for the development of clinical detection assays. In particular, the present invention provides methods for designing oligonucleotide primers to be used in multiplex amplification reactions. The present invention also provides methods to optimize multiplex amplification reactions.
US07790390B2
The present invention provides methods of identifying a subject having an increased or decreased risk of developing cardiovascular disease, comprising: a) correlating the presence of one or more genetic markers in chromosome 3q13.31 with an increased or decreased risk of developing cardiovascular disease; and b) detecting the one or more genetic markers of step (a) in the subject, thereby identifying the subject as having an increased or decreased risk of developing cardiovascular disease. Also provided are methods of identifying subjects with cardiovascular disease as having a good or poor prognosis, as well as methods of identifying effective treatment regimens for cardiovascular disease, based on correlation with genetic markers in chromosome 3q13.31.
US07790387B2
In various embodiments of the invention, novel compositions having a polynucleotide bound to a substrate via a cleavable linker are provided, and methods of cleaving a polynucleotide from a substrate are provided.
US07790385B2
The present invention provides a novel method for detection and/or genotyping of nucleic acids that utilizes the specificity of an AP endonuclease. In addition, the present invention provides a novel method for nucleic acid amplification.
US07790378B2
A method is provided for screening for agents that affect protein degradation rates, the method comprising: taking a library of cells, the cells expressing a fusion protein comprising a reporter protein and a protein encoded by a sequence from a cDNA library derived from a sample of cells, the sequence from the cDNA library varying within the cell library; contacting the library of cells with a plurality of agents which may affect protein degradation rates; for each agent, selecting cells in the library which express short-lived proteins based on whether the cells have different reporter signal intensities than other cells in the library, the difference being indicative of the selected cells expressing shorter lived fusion proteins than the fusion proteins expressed by the other cells in the library; and characterizing the fusion proteins expressed by the selected cells for each agent.
US07790377B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for screening for compounds that act to modulate insect growth. Bioassays including cell culture and/or transgenic insects engineered with various components of the ecdysoid receptor (EcR) and/or the farsenoid-X receptor (RXR) systems to identify compounds that act as insecticides and/or hormone receptor activators are described. Also described are compounds, and compositions, identified as being putative insecticides based upon their ability to activate EcR and/or FXR mediated transcription.
US07790365B2
The invention provides in vitro and cell-based assays for parkin activity, in which parkin-mediated ubiquitination of the S5a subunit of the 26S proteasome is measured, or ubiquitination of troponin 1. The assays may be used to screen for agents that modulate parkin protein ligase activity.
US07790358B2
There is provided a method for forming a continuous thin film circuit pattern with good precision, at low cost and with low environmental burden; an electronic circuit fabricated by the same, and an electronic device including the same.There are a step for forming a mask layer 2 on a substrate 1; a step for forming an opening pattern in the mask layer 2; a step for forming a thin film 3 on the substrate 1 and on the mask layer 2; and a step for removing, from the substrate 1, the mask layer 2 and a portion of the thin film 3 formed on the mask layer 2; wherein the opening pattern is formed under a dry condition.
US07790357B2
A method for forming a fine pattern of a semiconductor device includes forming a first photoresist pattern over a semiconductor substrate including an underlying layer. A cross-linking layer is formed on the sidewall of the first photoresist pattern. The first photoresist pattern is removed to form a fine pattern including a silicon polymer. A second photoresist pattern is formed that is coupled to the fine pattern. The underlying layer is etched using the fine pattern and the second photoresist pattern as an etching mask. As a result, the fine pattern has a smaller size than a minimum pitch.
US07790355B2
A method of deactivating and on-press developing an exposed lithographic printing plate is disclosed. The plate comprises on a substrate a photosensitive layer developable with ink and/or fountain solution and capable of hardening upon exposure to a radiation. The plate is exposed with the radiation, deactivated, and then on-press developed with ink and/or fountain solution. The deactivation of the exposed plate allows the handling of the plate under regular office light or any other light without causing the hardening of the non-exposed areas of the photosensitive layer.
US07790352B2
A lithographic printing plate precursor having a good press life with a practical energy amount, which can be on-press developed without passing through a development processing step after recording an image by a laser of emitting an infrared ray, is provided, which is a lithographic printing plate precursor capable of performing a development and printing by loading on a printing press after imagewise exposure and supplying an oily ink and an aqueous component, the lithographic printing plate precursor comprising a support and an image recording layer, wherein the image recording layer comprises (A) a polymerization initiator, (B) a polymerizable monomer, (C) a binder polymer, and (D) a crosslinked resin particle having a reactive group or (F) a microcapsule containing a polymerizable monomer in the capsule wall, and the image recording layer is imagewise polymerization-curable upon irradiation of actinic ray.
US07790345B2
A positive type photoresist resin film includes a support film and a thermosetting positive type photoresist resin layer laminated over the support film. The positive type photoresist resin layer contains alkali soluble resin, a diazide based photosensitive compound and a sensitivity enhancer. The support film has a surface roughness that inhibits the formation of defect structures such as fish eye. The invention overcomes process inefficiencies and defects cause by spin coating photoresist technologies.
US07790335B2
A double exposure process is performed using a halftone phase shift mask (11) including gate patterns (1), assist patterns (2a) and (2b) with different resoluble line widths, and an assist pattern (2c) with a line width equal to or smaller than a resolution limit which are respectively inserted into portions in each of which a distance between the gate patterns (1) is large, and a Levenson phase shift mask (11) including shifter patterns (3) corresponding to the gate patterns (1) of the photomask 11. On this occasion, the assist patterns (2a), (2b), and (2c) are erased and only the gate patterns (1) are transferred. Consequently, when patterns are transferred by the double exposure process, a common depth of focus of the patterns is improved and highly uniform line widths are realized, which makes it possible to manufacture a highly reliable semiconductor device.
US07790332B2
A fuel cell, comprising an electrolyte body and, embedded within it, at least two separate electrodes capable of conducting electrons; the electrodes being sufficiently porous to allow gas flow through them; one electrode being an electrically negative anode and the other electrode being an electrically positive cathode, and the electrolyte body being capable of carrying charged particles between the anode and cathode; the anode and cathode being electrically connected to form an electrical circuit.
US07790322B2
Disclosed herewith are an additive mixture for the electrolyte of lithium ion secondary batteries and electrolyte of lithium ion secondary batteries comprising the said additive mixture. The additive mixture comprises biphenyl based compound 0.5-95.4 wt %, cyclohexyl benzene based compound 0.1-93.8 wt %, vinylene carbonate 0.4-93.2 wt %, t-alkyl benzene based compound 0.5-96.5 wt %, and phenyl vinyl sulfone 0.5-95.8% based on total weight of the additive mixture.
US07790318B2
Disclosed in a positive active material for a lithium secondary battery including a compound represented by formula 1 and having a 10% to 70% ratio of diffracted intensity of diffraction lines in 2θ=53° (104 plane) with respect to diffracted intensity of diffraction lines in the vicinity of 2θ=22° (003 plane) in X-ray diffraction patterns using a CoKα-ray, LixCoO2-yAy (1) wherein, x is from 0.90 to 1.04, y is from 0 to 0.5, and A is selected from the group consisting of F, S and P.
US07790312B2
An electrolyte composition includes (a) a solvent composition including at least one hydrofluoroether compound, the hydrofluoroether compound including two terminal fluoroalkyl groups and an intervening substituted or unsubstituted oxymethylene group, each of the fluoroalkyl groups including only one hydrogen atom and, optionally, at least one catenated (that is, in-chain) heteroatom, with the proviso that, when the oxymethylene group is unsubstituted, at least one of the terminal fluoroalkyl groups is branched and/or includes at least one catenated heteroatom; and (b) at least one electrolyte salt.
US07790305B2
A membrane electrode assembly (MEA) is provided for a fuel cell and includes gas diffusion layers with integrated seals having interlocking features. The interlocking features of the gas diffusion layers allow the MEA to be constructed with a catalyst coated membrane between two gas diffusion layers with the integrated seals of the gas diffusion layers interlocking the gas diffusion layers together to complete the MEA.
US07790304B2
Components that include catalyst layers used in membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs), and methods of making such components are described. The catalyst layers yield more uniform current distributions across the active area of the MEA during operation. The catalyst layers may have a uniform catalyst activity profile of a less active catalyst to achieve more uniform current density over the MEA active area. The catalyst layers may have a variable activity profile, such as an activity profile with a varying slope, to compensate for the inherent nonlinearities of catalyst utilization during operation of an electrochemical fuel cell. Desired variable catalyst activity profiles may be achieved, for example, by varying the catalyst loading across the MEA from inlet to outlet ports or by varying the surface area of the catalyst loading or by varying the surface area of the catalyst support elements.
US07790299B2
A light emitting device having an anode and a cathode provided on a substrate, and an organic light emitting layer between the anode and the cathode, where the organic light emitting layer includes a light emitting material and first and second dopants for improving the dispersability thereof. The first and second dopants are metal organic complex compounds having the same central metal, and the second dopant transmitting energy to the first dopant.
US07790296B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a functional layer for protecting a light emitting element from being deteriorated by a physical or chemical influence when the light emitting element is manufactured or driven, and to attain extension of lifetime of an element and improvement of element characteristics without increasing a drive voltage and degrading transmittance and color purity by providing such a functional layer. One feature of the present invention is to provide a buffer layer made of a composite material for a light emitting element including aromatic hydrocarbon containing at least one vinyl skeleton and metal oxide in part of a light emitting substance containing layer, in the light emitting element formed by interposing the light emitting substance containing layer between a pair of electrodes. The composite material for a light emitting element for forming the buffer layer of the present invention has high conductivity and is superior in transparency.
US07790271B2
A dielectric ceramic composition includes about 10% to about 40% by weight of BaO, about 20% to about 65% by weight of SiO2, about 6% to about 40% by weight of Al2O3, about 1% to about 15% by weight of B2O3, about 0.3% to about 3% by weight of Cr2O3, and about 1% to about 40% by weight of ZrO2. A multilayer ceramic substrate has a laminated structure including an inner layer portion and outer layer portions that have a smaller thermal expansion coefficient than that of the inner layer portion. The use of the dielectric ceramic composition for the outer layer portions enables the ceramic to be resistant to erosion caused by a plating liquid used for plating external conductive films, thus maintaining good adhesiveness between the external conductive films and the outer layer portions.
US07790269B2
To produce an ultra-thin copper foil with a carrier foil that microscopic crystal grains can be deposited without being affected by the surface roughness of a carrier foil, etching can be performed until an ultra-fine width such that line/space is 15 mum or less, and the microscopic line and a wiring board have large peel strength even after line of 15 mum is etched. An ultra-thin copper foil wherein a carrier foil, a peeling layer, an ultra-thin copper foil are laminated in this order, the ultra-thin copper foil (before roughening treatment is performed) is an electrolytic copper foil that surface roughness of 2.5 mum as ten point height of roughness profile, and the minimum distance between peaks of salients of a based material is 5 mum or more. Moreover, the surface of the ultra-thin copper foil is performed roughening treatment.
US07790265B2
A surface energy gradient on a fluid-impervious surface and method of its creation comprising the steps of a) Exposing a base surface having a proximal and a distal portion to a first solution comprising at least one molecule of the formula X-J-M1 wherein X and M1 represent separate functional groups and J represents a spacer moiety that, together, are able to promote formation from solution of a self-assembled monolayer for sufficient time to form a monolayer surface having a uniform surface energy on the base surface. b) Removing a portion of the monolayer of (a) such that a portion of the base surface is again fully or partially exposed. (c) Exposing the portion of the base surface from (b) to at least one other molecule including a functional group having a different surface energy from that of the functional group removed in(b) such that a surface energy gradient from a proximal location to a distal location is formed.
US07790248B2
An active matrix type liquid crystal display apparatus has a pair of substrates, at least one of the substrates being transparent; a liquid crystal layer arranged between the pair of substrates; and electrode structure for generating an electric field having a dominant component parallel to a surface of the substrate and passing through the liquid crystal layer, the electrode structure being formed on one of the pair of substrates; a pair of alignment layers formed on respective surfaces in contact with the liquid crystal layer of the pair of substrates; and a pair of polarizing plates arranged so as to sandwich the pair of substrates, wherein the glass transition temperature Tg of a boundary surface between said liquid crystal layer and the alignment layer is higher than the nematic-isotropic phase transition temperature T(N−I) of a liquid crystal composite forming the liquid crystal layer.
US07790247B2
Disclosed are a liquid-crystalline medium, which contains one or more compounds of formula I their use for electro-optical purposes, to displays containing this medium, and to novel LC compounds for use in LC media and displays.
US07790244B2
This invention relates to strongly adhering coating compositions comprising at least one copolymer or cooligomer as an adhesion promoter, which copolymer or cooligomer comprises monomer units derived from at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of the acrylate and acrylamide monomers, at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of the amine containing ethylenically unsaturated monomers, at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of ethylenically unsaturated associative monomers and at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of the polyacrylates of polyols. The amine sites of the copolymers or cooligomers are at least partially neutralized with acid prior to film casting the coating formulation.
US07790243B2
A method includes imparting energy to a target in an oxygen-containing atmosphere at room temperature to provide a substrate facing the target with a carbonaceous coating that includes nested carbon structures.
US07790240B2
Provided is a coated nonwoven mat prepared by the process of passing a nonwoven mat over the surface of a binder or coating slurry to touch the bottom side of the mat sufficiently to fully wet the glass mat. The wetted nonwoven mat is then immersed in a slurry of the binder or coating material to fully saturate the mat with the slurry material. The process of the present invention allows one to control the porosity of the saturated fibrous nonwoven mat at high consistency with reduced scrap rate. The saturated mat will have improved tensile strength.
US07790238B2
The process for finishing textile materials by treatment with at least one aqueous liquor which comprises at least one organic polymer and at least one organic or inorganic solid in particulate form, wherein the organic or inorganic solid or solids are present in the liquor in a fraction of at least 5.5 g/l.
US07790237B2
A multilayer film formed by a solution process. The multilayer film includes a plurality of basic film structures positioned in contiguous overlying relationship to form a common multilayer film. Each of the plurality of basic film structures includes one of: a first two-layer structure with a first layer including either a polymer material or an organic material and a second layer including a functionalized inorganic material; a second two-layer structure with a first layer including either a polymer material or an organic material and a second layer including either a polymer binder and/or an organic binder; and a three layer structure with a first layer including either a polymer material or an organic material, a second layer including a functionalized inorganic material, and a third layer including one of a polymer binder and/or an organic binder.
US07790227B2
The resist coating unit (COT) has a spin chuck (41) which holds the wafer to be supplied with a resist liquid, and a process cup (50) which accommodates the spin chuck (41) and exhaustes an atmosphere around the wafer W from a bottom thereof. The process cup (50) comprises a first cup (51) with an outer circumferential wall (61a), and an airflow control member (52) laid out close to the wafer W in the first cup (51) in such a manner as to surround the wafer W. The airflow control member (52) has a vertical cross section of an approximately rectangular shape defined by the upper ring portion (62a) having a cross section of an approximately triangular shape and protruding upward, and a lower ring portion (62b) having a cross section of an approximately triangular shape and protruding downward. An exhaust passage (55) for substantially exhausting the atmosphere around the wafer W is formed between the outer circumferential wall (61a) and the airflow control member (52).
US07790210B2
Composite food products comprising a first soft plastic nonfrangible major portion having a water activity of 0.5 or less and about 1% to 15% % of a second food portion of small direct expanded puffed particulates fabricated from a cooked cereal dough. The puffed pieces are formed by direct puffing or expansion into individual pieces rather than by grinding or size reducing larger cereal pieces. The puffed cereal particulates thus have a continuous unbroken skin or surface surrounding the particulates as a result of the direct expansion formation. The particulates have a size ranging from about 0.5 to 2 mm, a moisture content of less than 6%, and, a bulk density ranging from about 0.15 to 0.25 g/cc. The cooked cereal dough from which the particulates are fabricated comprises at least 45% rice flour. The products exhibit a crispy texture notwithstanding the softer texture of the major phase.
US07790208B2
A process of producing a rich-flavor soy sauce, including mixing soy sauce koji and salt water in a tank for preparing moromi mash, adding soy sauce and soy sauce koji at an appropriate point in time during the period of fermentation and aging, and subsequently effecting further aging. The process does not require any special treatment, and is quite convenient, in that it employs conventional process steps for producing a soy sauce. The resultant soy sauce has a light color and yet gives a rich flavor comparable to that of regular soy sauce, has a rich taste comparable to that of saishikomi-shoyu having a total nitrogen content of not less than 2% (W/V), and is mild in terms of saltiness.
US07790204B2
The presently disclosed subject matter provides methods for increasing perfusion in hypoxic regions of tissues in subjects. Also provided are methods for treating diseases and/or disorders associated with hypoxia in subjects, methods for increasing sensitivity of tumors to radiation and/or chemotherapy treatments, methods for delaying tumor growth in subjects, and methods for inhibiting tumor blood vessel growth in subjects. In some embodiments, the presently disclosed methods involve administering to subjects in need thereof a first composition selected from the group consisting of a nitrosylated hemoglobin and an agent that induces nitrosylation of endogenous hemoglobin in the subject and a second composition comprising a hyperoxic gas. In some embodiments, the presently disclosed methods also include treating a tumor with radiation therapy, chemotherapy, photodynamic therapy, immunotherapy, or combinations thereof. Also provided are inhalable gases that can be employed in the presently disclosed methods.
US07790203B2
A composition and treatment regimen for the amelioration of epidermal herpetic lesions caused by Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV-1) symptoms, Herpes Zoster, and Herpes Genitalia. The treatment includes a regimen of oral administration of a composition including from about 15 to 50 mg of zinc sulfate, from about 5 to 20 mg of magnesium sulfate, from about 15 to 60 mg of thiamin, from about 10 to 30 mg of riboflavin, from about 4 mg to 12 mg of pyridoxine hydrochloride, from about 300 to 1000 mg of ascorbic acid, from about 90 to 300 mg of niacin, and from about 20 to 70 mg of pantothenic acid. The composition and regimen may optionally include an efficacious amount of an amino acid, and preferably about 500 mg of lysine.
US07790197B2
A wet granulated pharmaceutical composition comprising atorvastatin or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof with less than about 5 weight % of an alkaline earth metal salt additive with a disintegrant which provides the atorvastatin with not more than about 3% atorvastatin lactone based on the ratio of lactone peak area compared to the total drug-related peak integrated areas, as well as said wet granulated pharmaceutical composition comprising atorvastatin or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in combination with at least one other active drug, methods for preparing said compositions, kits for containing such compositions, and a method of treating hypercholesterolemia and/or hyperlipidemia, osteoporosis, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), and Alzheimer's disease using a therapeutically effective amount of the pharmaceutical compositions.
US07790193B2
Methods of inhibiting proliferation of a plurality of proliferating cells are disclosed. Methods of inhibiting cell overgrowth on compositions that are in an animal's body are disclosed. Methods of inhibiting cell overgrowth on a device that is in an animal's body are disclosed. Devices that have on their exterior surface an alginate matrix that comprises Strontium are disclosed. Compositions comprising an alginate body and alginate sheets that each comprise a single layer of cells coating the exterior surface of the alginate body are disclosed. Methods of preparing an artificial tissue are disclosed. Devices comprising cells encapsulated within an alginate matrix and/or maintained as a monolayer on an alginate body, and methods of making and using the same are disclosed. Methods of coating compositions and devices are disclosed.
US07790192B2
Apparatus for sealing a puncture communicating with a blood vessel includes a porous carrier formed from lyophilized hydrogel or other material. The plug may include at least first and second hydrogel precursors and a pH adjusting agent carried by the porous carrier in an unreactive state prior to exposure to an aqueous physiological environment. Once exposed to bodily fluids, the carrier expands as the lyophilized material hydrates to enhance and facilitate rapid hemostasis of the puncture. When the plug is placed into the puncture, the natural wetting of the plug by bodily fluids (e.g., blood) causes the first and second precursors to react and cross-link into an adhesive or “sticky” hydrogel that aids in retaining the plug in place within the puncture.
US07790185B2
Methods and compositions are provided for the enhanced production of bacterial toxins in large-scale cultures. Specifically, methods and compositions for reducing bacterial toxin expression inhibitors are providing including, but not limited to, addition of toxin expression inhibitor binding compounds, culture media having reduced concentrations of toxin inhibitor metabolic precursors and genetically modified toxogenic bacteria lacking enzymes required to metabolize the toxin inhibitor metabolic precursors.
US07790183B2
This invention relates to a method for coating a medical device comprising the steps of applying to at least a portion of the surface of said medical device, an antimicrobial coating layer and a non-pathogenic bacterial coating layer, wherein the antimicrobial and non-pathogenic bacterial coating layers inhibit the growth of pathogenic bacterial and fungal organisms. The non-pathogenic bacterium used in the bacterial coating layer is resistant to the antimicrobial agent. Furthermore, the non-pathogenic bacterium layer includes at least one of the following: viable whole cells, non-viable whole cells, or cellular structures or extracts. The antimicrobial agent and non-pathogenic bacterium are used to develop a kit comprising these compositions in one container or in separate containers. The kit is used to coat a catheter prior to implantation in a mammal.
US07790175B2
The present invention provides a new strain of turkey tail mushroom (Trametes versicolor (L.: Fr.) Pilat) having excellent biological activities (Accession number: FERM BP-10633). The strain is excellent in platelet aggregation inhibitory effect, chemokine gene expression inhibitory effect, antimutagenic effect, antitumor effect, antihypertensive effect, and immunomodulatory effect. The effect of the strain is enhanced synergistically by combining with microalgae and other basidiomycetes. The turkey tail mushroom of the present invention has high safety, and a possibility that a side effect is caused because of long-term continuous use is very low. Thus, it is useful for food/drink, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals or the like, the objective of which is the prevention and improvement in inflammation, allergy, tumor, and other diseases. The turkey tail mushroom strain of the present invention has very high hyphal growth property and very high physiological functions compared with conventional strains; therefore, it can be used stably.
US07790174B2
The present invention relates to G-CSF polypeptides and their uses, particularly for therapeutic or prophylactic treatment in human subjects. The invention also relates to nucleic acids encoding said polypeptides, vectors comprising such nucleic acids and recombinant cells containing the same. The invention further discloses methods of producing such polypeptides, as well as methods and tools for detecting or dosing these polypeptides in any sample.
US07790173B2
This invention describes a pharmaceutical compound which has the capsid protein of Dengue virus and which is capable of inducing, in the receptor, a protective immune response before the viral challenge, without inducing the Ab-dependent enhancement phenomenon.
US07790170B2
The present invention provides nucleic acid sequences encoding a modified leukotoxin protein, wherein the modification comprises the removal of nucleic acid sequences encoding amino acids within hydrophobic transmembrane domains of full length leukotoxin protein, preferably from Mannheimia haemolytica. The modified leukotoxin proteins are useful in vaccine compositions effective against Mannheimia haemolytica in animals.
US07790168B2
The invention relates to the therapeutic use of oligonucleotides or oligonucleotide analogs as immunostimulatory agents in immunotherapy applications. The invention provides methods for enhancing the immune response caused by immunostimulatory oligonucleotide compounds.
US07790162B2
The present invention discloses antibodies, antigen binding fragments, peptides and peptidomimetics immunoreactive with provasopressin and compositions thereof, methods of phenotyping tissue samples, methods of treating cancer, and kits for phenotyping test biopsy samples and bodily fluids for breast cancer, small cell lung cancer, ductal carcinoma in situ, and atypical ductal hyperplasia.
US07790159B2
Disclosed are surprising discoveries concerning the role of anionic phospholipids and aminophospholipids in tumor vasculature and in viral entry and spread, and compositions and methods for utilizing these findings in the treatment of cancer and viral infections. Also disclosed are advantageous antibody, immunoconjugate and duramycin-based compositions and combinations that bind and inhibit anionic phospholipids and aminophospholipids, for use in the safe and effective treatment of cancer, viral infections and related diseases.
US07790152B2
An enhancer, for treatment of lymphocytic tumors, of an antibody that specifically binds to protein having the amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1 and that has a cytotoxic activity, said enhancer comprising a biological response modifier as an active ingredient.
US07790148B2
The invention relates to compositions containing at least one polyorganosiloxane-containing polymer, at least one volatile non-silicone oil, at least one alkylene polymer wax, at least one silicone film-forming agent and, optionally, at least one long-chain alcohol wax, at least one coloring agent, and/or at least one volatile silicone oil, as well as to methods for using such compositions and to kits containing such compositions.
US07790131B2
The present invention relates to a highly dispersible silica which has a high surface area, a process to manufacture the aforesaid silica and its use as a tire filler for utility vehicles, motor cycles and high speed vehicles.
US07790123B2
An auxetic fiber and corresponding material that not only responds to an external force, but also responds to moisture. The auxetic fiber is made in part from a moisture activated shrinking filament. Even if no external force is applied to the fiber, a pseudo tensile force is created by wetting the auxetic fiber.
US07790115B2
A pipetting device including a pipetting unit (12) having an application chamber (26) and a first end (16) that is realized with a discharge opening (18), and a second, open end (20). In the vicinity of the second, open end (20) of the pipetting unit (12), a sleeve-like receptacle unit (14) is guided so that it can move axially on at least two sealing lips (22, 24) that project radially inward and are at some distance from each other, which is provided on the side facing the application chamber (26) of the pipetting unit (12) with a base element (28), and on the side facing away from the application chamber (26) has an opening (32) and which has, in the vicinity of its periphery, at least one opening (34), the axial dimensions of which are somewhat smaller than or equal to the distance between the sealing lips (22, 24). The receptacle unit (14) can be moved with respect to the pipetting unit (21) from a closed position into an activation position, in which an interior (36) of the receptacle unit (14) is in communication via the at least one opening (34) of the receptacle unit (14) with the application chamber (26) of the pipetting unit.
US07790114B2
A reagent-containing assembly comprising: a reagent-accommodating section comprising an opening sealed by a seal member; and a seal-opening section comprising a breaking portion for breaking the seal member, and a suction hole configured to provide access to the reagent-accommodating section; wherein the reagent-accommodating section and the seal-opening section are configured for detachable engagement with each other is disclosed.
US07790109B2
A micro-fluid reaction vessel includes an upper plate formed of an elastomer, a lower plate adhered to the upper plate, a micro-chamber and a micro-channel formed on an inner surface of the upper plate facing the lower plate and an inlet hole and an outlet hole formed in the upper plate and through which a fluid flows into or out of, respectively. The micro-channel is constructed to be closed by pressure applied to the upper plate and elastically restored when the pressure is not applied. A micro fluid reaction method uses the micro fluid reaction vessel and a method of manufacturing forms the microfluid reaction vessel.
US07790108B2
The invention relates to a reagent cartridge for receiving containers. These each contain particle-charged reagents and particle-free reagents. The container receiving the particle-charged reagent is received so as to be able to rotate. The reagent cartridge comprises interconnectable cartridge parts which form containers and which, in the interconnected state, ensure that the container receiving the particle-charged reagent is mounted so as to be able to rotate.
US07790098B2
A molten metal holding furnace for supplying a constant quantity of the molten metal to a casting machine is composed of a holding chamber having a melt supply port, and a pressurization chamber having an upward melt outlet port. The holding chamber and the pressurization chamber are communicated with each other via an openable/closable first melt flow passage. The pressurization chamber is composed of a outlet section at which the melt outlet port is positioned and a pressurization section positioned on one side closer to the holding chamber. The holding chamber and the outlet section are juxtaposed with the pressurization section interposed therebetween, where the first melt flow passage is formed at a hearth of the pressurization section, and an openable/closable second melt flow passage communicating with the outlet section is formed at a hearth of the pressurization section.
US07790093B2
The invention relates to a process or a device for the production of a three-dimensional object by layer-wise solidification of a material which is solidifiable under the application of electromagnetic irradiation by means of mask illumination, wherein the mask is produced using an image forming unit having a prescribed resolution, which is formed from a constant number of image forming elements (pixels) being discrete and being arranged in a spatially mutually fixed manner. For the improvement of the resolution along the outer and inner contours of the sectional areas of the object to be generated layer-wise in the sub-pixel range, a multiple illumination per layer is performed, which consists of a series of multiple images that are mutually shifted in the sub-pixel range in the image/construction plane, wherein a separate mask/bitmap is produced for each shifted image.
US07790092B2
A system is provided for forming solid ink sticks comprising a molten ink delivery station for introducing molten ink material into a forming tub to form a solid ink stick. The forming tub includes an open top for receiving the molten ink material and a cavity defining a lower portion of a solid ink stick shape. The system includes a top surface conditioning station for altering the top surface of the ink material introduced into the cavity of the forming tub.
US07790091B2
Device and method for producing objects molded from paste-like molded materials, and production mold
The invention relates to a device and a method for producing objects, for example lipsticks, that are molded from paste-like materials, while using an elastic mold part (28), into which the paste-like material is introduced by means of a filling device, is hardened, and from which the at least largely hardened object is removed by a removing device while said mold part is elastically stretched. It is provided a dimensionally stable housing element (12) for housing said mold part, wherein said housing element is held inside a stationary or moveable support of said device, wherein said mold part (28) is placed in a housing space of said housing element at least during the filling and removal process, andwherein said housing space can be enlarged for removing the object and/or a thin fluid layer is placed between said mold part and said housing element, which is removable from said housing element for the removal process. Such a production mold prevents/limits the stretching of said mold part during filling and consequently the production tolerances of the end product. The invention also relates to a production mold for such a device.
US07790089B2
A process for in-mold coating and a mold is disclosed. The process entails (i) obtaining a mold having at least two cavities, (ii) molding a thermoplastic substrate in a first cavity, (iii) introducing the substrate into a second cavity, and (iv) coating said substrate with lacquer, the coating being carried out under enhanced pressure.
US07790081B2
A process producing an in-mold coated molded product. The process molds a thermoplastic resin material under a mold-clamping pressure in a mold including a fixed mold part and a movable mold part each heated at a predetermined temperature, separates the fixed mold part and the movable mold part when the molded material surface is solidified such that it is durable to a pressure of injection and flow of a coating agent, and injects the coating agent containing a thermosetting resin material between an inner surface of the mold and the molded product obtained. The process also coats the molded product surface with the coating agent as the mold is re-clamped after injecting the coating agent, takes out the molded product coated with the coating agent when the coating agent is cured such that it is neither peeled off nor cracked by opening the mold, and re-heats the molded product after taking it out.
US07790075B2
An apparatus and method for reducing the magnitude of multiple harmonics of uniformity characteristics in a cured tire is claimed. A signal is generated which indicates the magnitude of the uniformity characteristic. A ring containing multiple plates is utilized to permanently deform portions of the carcass reinforcing member of the tire at locations indicated by the signal. The configuration of the plates is automatically determined based on the tire radial force variation waveform and the number of plates used.
US07790064B2
A polycrystalline aluminum thin film is made of polycrystals of an alloy of aluminum. The polycrystalline aluminum thin film includes a first additive which is distributed with even concentration over an inside of each crystal grain and an interface of the crystal grain and a second additive which is distributed with higher concentration in the interface of the crystal grain than in the inside of the crystal grain.
US07790063B2
There are disclosed a highly packed, mixed conductive powder with a relative packing density of at least 68%, a process for producing the same, a conductive paste using the mixed conductive powder and a process for producing the same, as well as a sheet and a sheet with attached film using the mixed conductive powder. This mixed conductive powder comprises substantially monodispersed conductive scale-like particles (A1) and conductive substantially spherical particles (B1). Or, this mixed conductive powder comprises substantially monodispersed, conductive, substantially spherical particles (A2) and conductive substantially spherical particles (B2) with a smaller particle diameter than that of the substantially spherical particles (A2).
US07790060B2
Silicon oxide and electrically conductive doped silicon materials are sintered in a protective environment to yield a composite SiOx:Si material that exhibits the properties of SiOx, and yet is electrically conductive due to the presence of Si. Such a composite material finds many uses, such as a target for DC and/or AC sputtering processes to produce silicon oxide thin films for touch-screen applications, barrier thin films in LCD displays and optical thin films used in a wide variety of applications.
US07790056B2
The invention relates to a composition for a coding forming at least part of a coding system having a luminescent basic substance and at least one luminescent additive, the composition of the coding being formed by the presence or absence of a luminescent additive and/or the type of additives and/or the number of additives.
US07790049B2
A process for producing a structure containing silicon oxide includes a step of forming a first layer of organic spin-on glass on a substrate and a step of forming a second layer of inorganic spin-on glass on the first layer. Thereafter, the first layer is etched by using a pattern formed on the second layer as a mask and then the first layer and the second layer are calcined to prepare the structure containing silicon oxide.
US07790047B2
Methods for removing masking materials from a substrate having exposed low-k materials while minimizing damage to exposed surfaces of the low-k material are provided herein. In one embodiment a method for removing masking materials from a substrate includes providing a substrate having exposed low-k materials and a masking material to be removed; exposing the masking material to a first plasma formed from a reducing chemistry for a first period of time; and exposing the masking material to a second plasma formed from an oxidizing chemistry for a second period of time. The steps may be repeated as desired and may be performed in reverse order. Optionally, at least one diluent gas may be added to the oxidizing chemistry.
US07790046B2
A method of texturing a surface of a magnetic hard disk substrate includes the steps of rotating the magnetic hard disk substrate, supplying polishing slurry on the surface of the substrate, and pressing a polishing tape on the substrate surface and running the polishing tape. The polishing slurry includes abrading particles of monocrystalline diamond that are cluster particles with corners having diameters in the range of 1-10 nm, dispersed in a dispersant such as water and a water-based aqueous solution. The cluster particles are tasseled assemblies of crystalline particles with no directionality.
US07790041B2
A process for reducing the fluorosurfactant content of an aqueous fluoropolymer dispersion by filling a shipping container with fluoropolymer dispersion and contacting the dispersion with a fluorosurfactant sorbent in the shipping container.
US07790036B2
The present disclosure provides for a method of rapid expanded solvent extraction of biopolymers, such as rubber, from plant materials, such as guayule, using an expanded hexane solvent. As is illustrated herein, the use of the expanded hexane solvent results in a markedly more efficient and rapid extraction process over other supercritical carbon dioxide extraction systems, including those systems using a hexane cosolvent.
US07790033B1
A method and system for removing pollutants from water are provided. The system includes at least one settling basin having shallow and deep areas. Coagulants can be added to bring pollutants down to the bottom surface of the basin. During dry periods, the deep areas retain a level of water therein, and the flocs that have settled on the bottom of the shallow areas will dry out, and can be tilled into the soil until re-flooding.
US07790029B2
A filter device having filter means, in particular hollow fiber membranes, arranged in more than one filtration compartment within a filter housing. The filter device thereby allows more than one filtration process to be carried out serially and/or simultaneously within a single housing. For example a dialysis type filtration process such as hemofiltration or hemodiafiltration or hemodialysis may be carried out at the same time as an ultrafiltration process or as another hemofiltration, hemodiafiltration or hemodialysis process. The device may have a split shell construction bonded or welded together along longitudinal seams. Internal separating walls within the housing are formed integrally with the shell portions of the housing to form adjacent filtration compartments when the housing portions are joined together.
US07790021B2
An improved method for desulfurizing a fuel stream such as a diesel stream is disclosed which includes generation of a sulfone oil, the desulfurization of the sulfone oil and the recycling of the resulting biphenyl-rich stream and ultra-low sulfur diesel streams. The method includes combining a thiophene-rich diesel stream with an oxidant to oxidize the thiophenes to sulfones to provide a sulfone-rich diesel stream. Sulfone oil is extracted from the sulfone-rich diesel stream to provide sulfone oil and a first low-sulfur diesel stream The low-sulfur diesel stream is recycled. The sulfone-rich oil stream is combined with an aqueous oxidant-containing stream, such as caustic stream, which oxidizes the sulfones to biphenyls and forms sulfite to provide a second low-sulfur diesel stream.
US07790002B2
Devices and improved methods are provided for operation of ultrasonic transducers and horns.
US07790000B2
The present invention relates to an evaporation apparatus capable of supplying active ingredients sufficiently and stably. One embodiment of the invention includes a retention vessel keeping a liquid formulation which contains active ingredients, a liquid absorbing mechanism which absorbs the liquid formulation from said retention vessel, an evaporation mechanism which evaporates active ingredients of said liquid formulation absorbed into said liquid absorbing mechanism and adjusting means which adjusts the evaporation of active ingredients.
US07789999B2
Described is a thermal decomposition treatment system and method of using the thermal decomposition treatment system wherein flammable waste is inputted into a trash burner which is shielded from air or gas and the waste is thermally decomposed and carbonized. The thermal decomposition treatment chamber includes a plurality of heating tubes wherein the flammable waste is inputted into the chambers while hot air is passed through the heating tubes which indirectly heats the flammable waste in an anaerobic environment the resulting gases are purified, recovered and reused.
US07789993B2
A coil is provided for use in a semiconductor processing system to generate a plasma with a magnetic field in a chamber. The coil comprises a first coil segment, a second coil segment and an internal balance capacitor. The first coils segment has a first end and a second end. The first end of the coil segment is adapted to connect to a power source. The second coil segment has a first and second end. The second end of the first coil segment is adapted to connect to an external balance capacitor. The internal balance capacitor is connected in series between the second end of the first coil segment and the first end of the second coil segment. The internal balance capacitor and the coil segments are adapted to provide a voltage peak along the first coil segment substantially aligned with a virtual ground along the second coil segment.
US07789987B2
To provide a method of manufacturing a resin hollow molded body wherein, predetermined parts can be simply attached when attaching them in the inside of the blow molded hollow body; and the resin hollow molded body, such as a vehicle fuel tank containing a volatile liquid inside thereof, has a good barrier property against a gas component.There is provided a method for obtaining a product of a hollow molded body characterized in that: a thermoplastic resin parison 6, extruded to a tubular state, is expanded by blow molding; then dies 2, 4 are once divided to assemble predetermined parts 32, 34 inside of the hollow molded body; and the surfaces of the divided dies are joined again.
US07789975B2
The present invention relates generally to a shape memory and/or super-elastic material, such as a nickel titanium alloy. Additionally or alternatively, the present invention relates to a super-elastic or pseudo-elastic material that has an initial transition temperature Af above a body temperature. The shape memory material can have a super-elasticity or pseudo-elasticity property at a temperature below the initial transition temperature Af of the material. For example, the shape memory material can have its workable temperature for producing super-elasticity or pseudo-elasticity of about 0° C. to 15° C. below the initial transition temperature Af. The shape memory material can be malleable at a room temperature, and become super-elastic or pseudo-elastic at a body temperature. In addition, the present invention relates to a method of making a shape memory or a super-elastic material. The treatment protocols can include but not limited to thermo-mechanical, thermo-mechanical, radiation, and ternary alloying treatments.
US07789964B2
A method of cleaning a surface of a photomask by removing contaminants from its surface that includes placing the photomask in a vessel, which is held under an elevated pressure and feeding a supercritical fluid, in particular, CO2 in a supercritical state, to the vessel. An additive, such as alcohol, water ketones, esters, surfactants, and organic solvents, can be added to the fluid. The vessel can be held under a pressure higher than the critical pressure of the fluid and at a temperature higher than the critical temperature of the fluid.
US07789961B2
A process for depositing a thin film material on a substrate is disclosed, comprising simultaneously directing a series of gas flows from the output face of a delivery head of a thin film deposition system toward the surface of a substrate, and wherein the series of gas flows comprises at least a first reactive gaseous material, an inert purge gas, and a second reactive gaseous material, wherein the first reactive gaseous material is capable of reacting with a substrate surface treated with the second reactive gaseous material. A system capable of carrying out such a process is also disclosed.
US07789960B2
A clay plaster formulation and application. The clay plaster is a mixture of various clays, and aggregate. This plaster is both functional and decorative and is for use on new and existing construction.
US07789951B2
A method and system for purifying air while moving. The system for purifying air includes an air purification unit inhaling and purifying the air, a moving unit moving the system, and an object sensing unit sensing a wall existing at a side of the system in a direction in which the moving unit moves, wherein the moving unit moves while keeping a distance within a predetermined range from the wall sensed by the object sensing unit.
US07789941B2
Hydrogen-producing fuel processing systems, hydrogen purification membranes, hydrogen purification devices, fuel processing and fuel cell systems that include hydrogen purification devices, and methods for operating the same. In some embodiments, operation of the fuel processing system is initiated by heating at least the reforming region of the fuel processing system to at least a selected hydrogen-producing operating temperature. In some embodiments, an electric heater is utilized to perform this initial heating. In some embodiments, use of the electric heater is discontinued after startup, and a burner or other combustion-based heating assembly combusts a fuel to heat at least the hydrogen producing region, such as due to the reforming region utilizing an endothermic catalytic reaction to produce hydrogen gas.
US07789937B2
Ice-clad machinery and equipment in very cold environments are made more easily recoverable by enclosing the machinery and equipment in an environmentally contained area and introducing desiccant dehumidified air into the contained area to lower the vapor pressure in fostering a “sublimation” process conversion from the solid state of the ice to a gaseous state which can be exhausted without first going through any intermediate liquid state.
US07789935B2
A method of forming an ink, including photochemically producing stabilized metallic nanoparticles and formulating the nanoparticles into an ink.
US07789934B2
A lubricant for powder metallurgy which includes a polyhydroxycarboxylic acid amide. The lubricant improves both flowability and lubricity, irrespective of a presence or absence of any complicated pretreatment step.
US07789933B2
An R-T-B based sintered magnet according to the present invention comprises: 12 at % to 15 at % of a rare-earth element R; 5.0 at % to 8.0 at % of boron B; 0.02 at % to 0.2 at % of Mn; and a transition metal T as the balance. The rare-earth element R is at least one element selected from the rare-earth elements, including Y (yttrium), and includes 0.2 at % to 8 at % of Pr. And the transition element T includes Fe as its main element.
US07789932B2
A water-dispersible particle is provided that includes a sulfate or phosphate of potash in an amount ranging from 5% to 99.9% by weight of the total dry weight of the particle. A binder component is present in an amount from 1% to 95% by weight. The sulfate or phosphate of potash and the binder component on that contact with water causes particle dispersion into more than 100 pieces.A process for making a water-dispersible particle includes mechanical aggregation of a sulfate or phosphate of potash into a pellet. A binder component is present in the particle in an amount ranging from 1% to 95% by weight. The sulfate or phosphate of potash and the binder component are present in a form such that contact with water causes particle dispersion into more than 100 pieces. The pellet is then dried and ready to be applied.
US07789926B2
In a filter housing (100) for at least one axial flow filter element (70) capable of receiving axial flow between its end faces and having at least one continuous sealing collar on its outer circumference which can be pressed against a sealing flange (17) on the housing, a plurality of filter elements (70) can be inserted side by side into cutouts (19) of a common clamping frame element (30). Each of the sealing collars rests on the clamping frame element (30) which is plane parallel to the at least one sealing flange (17) and displaceable toward the sealing flange (17) by a clamping device (50).
US07789925B2
A purge exhaust processor includes an inlet chamber receiving a purge exhaust. A portion of the purge exhaust including at least one of moisture, air, and oil is passed from the inlet chamber to a sump volume. A heat source changes a phase of the moisture from liquid to gas. A wick transfers the oil from the sump volume to an oil collector.
US07789916B2
Disclosed are triarylmethane dye compounds of formula (2) wherein R8 is C1-C12alkyl, C1-C12alkoxy, phenyl, hydroxy, halogen, sulfonic acid, carboxylate, or the radical —NR6R7 or —OR8; B1 and B2, independently from each other are C6-C10aryl; or a 5-7-membered heterocyclic compound, which may be substituted by C1-C12alkyl, C1-C12alkoxy, phenyl, hydroxy, halogen, sulfonic acid, carboxylate, or by the radical —NR6R7 or —OR6; and R6 and R7 independently from each other are hydrogen; or C1-C12alkyl, which may be substituted by hydroxy or C6-C10aryl.
US07789913B2
A method for treating a diseased or damaged spinal disc comprises the steps of: (a) providing access to the nucleus pulposus through the annulus; (b) removing at least a portion of the nucleus pulposus to create an intradiscal space; determining the size of the intradiscal space; and (c) sealably introducing under pressure a curable biomaterial through the annulus directly into the intradiscal space. The method may include the additional steps of applying a force to distract the opposing vertebral bodies about the intradiscal space and then removing the distraction force after the biomaterial has cured. The step of determining the size of the intradiscal space may be accomplished by expanding a compliant balloon within the intradiscal space using a contrast medium capable of visualization under fluoroscopy. The curable material is sealably introduced through a vented needle inserted through the opening. The curable biomaterial is introduced until a quantity of the material flows into the vent.
US07789911B2
A human prosthesis, in particularly a human mammary prosthesis, is disclosed which includes a resilient shell at least partly filled with a fluid filler material and having at least one resilient layer and at least one layer being substantially non-permeable with respect to at least the filler material of the shell, and with the filler material being fluid based.
US07789900B2
A connector assembly including a bone anchoring element including a spherical head, a double collet that includes an inner clamping portion formed by inner surfaces of a plurality of resilient fingers, the resilient fingers defining a first wedge surface and a second wedge surface, an outer closure element that includes an inner clamping portion that corresponds in shape to an outer contour of the double collet, the outer closure element including a pair of arms that define a channel shaped for receiving therein a connector element, and an interface ring that includes a base formed with an inner wedge surface and a pair of wing extensions that extend from the base.
US07789895B2
A sacral reconstruction fixation device aids in stabilizing the pelvis and the lumbar spine after a sacrectomy in cooperation with a spinal rod and transiliac rod. A pair of the fixation devices may be secured to respective ilia and respective spinal rods. The transiliac rod may be secured to both of the fixation devices. The fixation devices include first and second parts that are initially relatively rotatable about a common axis to aid in connecting the fixation devices to the spinal rod and transiliac rod. The body part is intended to be mated to the spinal rod, while the second part is intended to be mated to the transiliac rod. The fixation device's parts are subsequently locked against rotation and against longitudinal translation, advantageously both relative to each other and the rods.
US07789887B2
The present invention relates to a three-needle type vascular closure system. The closure system utilizes three needles in the form of a guiding device, an expandable needle, and a hooking device. The guiding device is used to make the initial opening in the vessel, where the opening provides access for a sheath through which a medical procedure is to be performed. The expandable needle is inserted into the vessel in which it expands radially from the needle to form a target. The hooking device is also inserted into the vessel and is used to hook the expandable needle so as to form an internal union between the hooking device and the expandable needle. The needles can then be retracted thereby extending a suture from the hooking device and forming an internal suture pass that can be used to approximate the tissue surrounding the initial opening in the vessel. In one embodiment, the suture is passed across the vessel opening prior to dilation of the vessel opening.
US07789879B2
An apparatus and method for cutting a material including conducting and non-conducting materials such as biological tissue, cellulose or plastic while the material is submerged in a conductive liquid medium. The apparatus has a cutting electrode with an elongate cutting portion having an aspect ratio (length to width) of 1 or more and a return electrode. The two electrodes are immersed in the conductive medium and a voltage is applied between them to heat the medium, thus producing a vapor cavity around the elongate cutting portion and ionizing a gas inside the vapor cavity to produce a plasma. The voltage applied between the electrodes is modulated in pulses having a modulation format selected to minimize the size of the vapor cavity, its rate of formation and heat diffusion into the material while the latter is cut with an edge of the elongate cutting portion. The modulation format includes pulses ranging in duration from 10 μs to 10 ms, as well as minipulses and micropulses, as necessary. The apparatus and method of invention allow the user to perform efficient thermal ablation and electrosurgical procedures in particular at power levels as low as 10 mW with minimal thermal and cavitation damage.
US07789878B2
An endoscopic forceps includes a housing having a shaft attached thereto, the shaft including a pair of jaw members disposed at a distal end thereof. The forceps also includes a drive assembly disposed in the housing which moves the jaw members relative to one another from a first position wherein the jaw members are disposed in spaced relation relative to one another to a second position wherein the jaw members are closer to one another for manipulating tissue. A pair of handles is operatively connected to the drive assembly and the handles are movable relative to the housing to actuate the drive assembly to move the jaw members. Each of the jaw members is adapted to connect to a source of electrical energy such that the jaw members are capable of conducting energy for treating tissue. The forceps also includes a first switch disposed on the housing which is activatable to selectively deliver energy of a first electrical potential to at least one jaw member for treating tissue in a monopolar fashion. A second switch is disposed on the housing and is activatable to selectively deliver energy of a first electrical potential to one jaw member and selectively deliver energy of a second electrical potential to the other jaw member for treating tissue in a bipolar fashion.
US07789869B2
A method for detecting and conveying an alarm signal, when an absorbent article is unfastened or, completely removed from the body of the wearer. The method is intended to be used in parallel with a method for detecting wetness in the absorbent article and further relates to an integrated detection-and-alarm method for detecting unfastening and/or wetness in an absorbent article. A system for detecting and conveying an alarm signal when an absorbent article is unfastened or removed from the body of the wearer and/or when the article is wet. The system includes (a) and absorbent article having at least one absorbent layer, the object to be displaced, such as a fastening system, one or more sensoring devices, one or more transmitting devices, and (b) a remote receiver. Furthermore, the system relates to the use of the system in the care of children and adults suffering from incontinence and/or psychological illnesses.
US07789868B2
A worn article includes a fitting portion 1 that fits around a torso of a wearer, and an absorbent portion 2 covering a crotch of the wearer and absorbing body fluid from the wearer. The absorbent portion 2 includes a first end portion 23 and a second end portion 24 that are connected to the fitting portion 1. The first end portion 23 of the absorbent portion 2 can be detached from the fitting portion 1. A cover sheet 4 is provided covering at least a portion of the first end portion 23. A portion of the cover sheet 4 is processed so that the cover sheet 4 is tearable.
US07789865B2
A portable, hands-free and user friendly breast pump for facilitating breast-feeding, incorporates a dome-shaped housing having a servomotor mechanism; a hat-shaped flange having a chamber portion, a brim portion and an outlet, the chamber portion being formed so as to be placed over a nipple on a breast so as to define a chamber between the flange and the breast, and the brim portion being formed to surround the nipple and thereby form a suction seal therebetween; and a one-way venting element formed to operatively communicate with the chamber so as to vent pumped milk from the chamber via the outlet. The housing, the flange and the venting element are connected into an integral device held against the breast and underneath clothing so as to keep the integral device hidden. Breast milk is collected via a plastic collection bag that connects directly with the pump underneath clothing such that the milk is isolated from any contaminants in the air and may be easily stored immediately after being collected.
US07789860B2
A catheter for delivery or retrieval of a medical device such as a filter 10 or a stent 16 has an outer shaft 1 with a pod 2 providing a medical device reception space at the distal end. An inner shaft 3 includes a solid pod with a longitudinally extending surface pathway 4 for a guidewire 7. The inner shaft 3 defines an abutment surface 9 at its distal end for deployment of the device 10, 16. The outer shaft 1 has an exit port 8 at which the guidewire 7 exits the catheter in a rapid exchange manner.
US07789859B2
Some embodiments of a medical infusion pump system include a pump device and a removable controller device. When the pump device and the removable controller device are removably attached to one another, the components may provide a portable infusion pump unit to dispense medicine to a user. In particular embodiments, the removable controller device includes a user interface to readily provide information, for example, about the operation of the pump.
US07789858B2
An administering device for a fluid product includes a product receptacle that accommodates the product to be administered, a fluid reservoir for a driving fluid, a driving means, a product chamber, and a fluid connection. The product receptacle includes an opening at a forward end and a product stopper at a rear end. The driving means acts upon the fluid reservoir, the pressure chamber adjoins the product stopper while the fluid connection is located between the fluid reservoir and the pressure chamber, and the driving means acts upon the fluid reservoir in such a way that the pressure chamber is impinged upon by pressure which affects the product stopper and the product is discharged from the product receptacle.
US07789855B2
The present invention provides an improved barrel type plunger for use with needle-retractable safety syringes. The plunger includes a barrel, a needle retracted trigger and a supporting member. A front portion of the barrel is fitted over a sealing rubber pad, a slotted hole is provided at a wall of the front portion of said barrel, a bearing piece is provided in the slotted hole, and one end of the bearing piece is connected to the front side wall of the slotted hole. The supporting member is releasably engaged in the barrel. After having released from the barrel, the supporting member is able to translate backwards under the action of a needle retraction force so that the bearing piece can be returned to such a position that the needle can be retracted backwards to the interior of the barrel.
US07789841B2
The invention relates to methods and apparatus for therapeutically treating connective tissue or increasing vascularization in tissue using ultrasound. More particularly, the present invention relates to methods and apparatus which use ultrasound to stimulate growth or healing, or to treating pathologies, of connective tissue, or to increase vascularization in ischaemic or grafted tissue using ultrasound.
US07789839B2
A guide wire (1) for use with a catheter for accessing a remote site in the venal or other system of the body of a human or animal subject comprises a core wire (2) extending from a proximal end (5) to a distal end (6). The core wire (2) terminates at the distal end (6) in a distal portion (16) which is of rectangular transverse cross-section defining a pair of opposite major surfaces (18,19) and minor surfaces (20,21). The distal portion (16) also defines a central major plane (24) which lies between the major surfaces (18,19) and bisects the minor surfaces (20,21), and a central minor plane (25) which lies between the minor surfaces (20,21) and bisects the major surfaces (18,19). An alignment portion (27) for aligning the distal end (6) with a branched vessel of the vascular system is formed in the distal portion (16) by bending the distal portion (16) in the central major plane 24 to form a curved portion (28) from which the alignment portion (27) extends, the curved portion 28 and the alignment portion 27 lying in the central minor plane 24. By bending the distal portion (16) in its central major plane, the column strength of the guide wire (1) is such as to minimise the danger of buckling of the distal portion in the central minor plane (25).
US07789833B2
An integrated ultrasound and nerve stimulation system, ultrasound probe and method are provided. The system may include a transcutaneous electrode adapted for external placement on a patient, a percutaneous electrode having an electrically-conducting tip adapted for percutaneous placement proximate a nerve in the patient and a control for causing a current to flow between the electrodes. The system may also include a probe having an ultrasound transducer that transmits ultrasound waves into the patient and receives reflected ultrasound waves from the patient. The probe also has a communication interface for transmitting a signal representative of the received reflected ultrasound waves to a main unit. The main unit is in operative communication with the communication interface and includes a display and a processor, which receives the signal from the probe and causes the display to display an image in accordance with the received signal.
US07789831B2
Using configurable arrays, synthetic aperture processes may be used along an elevation dimension for increasing resolution. The increased resolution is used for two-dimensional or three-dimensional imaging. Alternatively or additionally, wide band synthetic elevation aperture focusing processes, such as beamformation, are provided along the elevation dimension to increase resolution. In yet another alternative or additional embodiment, a transducer is rotated about a center of the transducer within the elevation and azimuth plane. An aperture associated with the transducer is mechanically or electronically rotated, and ultrasound data acquired associated with a plurality of different positions. The ultrasound data is then used for synthetic elevation aperture processing. In yet another alternative or additional embodiment, multiple scanning modes are provided. In a survey mode, imaging is provided without synthetic elevation aperture processing. For greater detailed imaging, imaging is responsive to synthetic elevation aperture processes with different elevation focusing and scanning.
US07789811B2
A method and apparatus for a physical training device is provided to accommodate one or more athletes during support of a plurality of independent training scenarios for each athlete. The physical training device provides a plurality of training stations, where each training station may be specific to martial arts training activities, or may be generalized to facilitate training that is effective for a plurality of other sporting disciplines. The physical training device provides removable casters that facilitate maneuvering and reconfiguration of the physical training device. Lifting devices may also be configured along the bottom surface of the physical training device so as to provide a mechanism whereby the casters of the physical training device may be lifted off of the surface that is supporting the casters. Two or more physical training devices may be interconnected so as to provide a localized cluster of physical training devices.
US07789797B2
The present disclosure improves both the D-N and N-D garage shift by reducing torque applied to the powertrain mount system and vehicle suspension systems during garage shifts. Since less energy in stored in the mount system and suspension system, the reaction bump during garage shifts will be reduced without compromising vehicle performance. For the N-D garage shift, such as after key-on when a shift lever is positioned in drive, a vehicle shifts to second gear (or some other higher gear) which provides reduced torque applied to the powertrain mount system and vehicle suspension system. For the D-N garage shift, as a vehicle slows down to a zero speed with the brake on, the vehicle is shifted into a higher gear. As the vehicle starts to launch, the vehicle is immediately shifted back to first gear, launching the vehicle with its first gear ratio.
US07789796B2
A method for controlling an idle stop mode in a hybrid electric vehicle includes performing an engine RPM lift-up control to raise an engine RPM if a deceleration is less than a medium deceleration when a speed of a hybrid electric vehicle reaches an idle stop mode entering speed such that as the engine RPM is raised, a gear changing oil pressure is increased, so that a continuously variable transmission (CVT) gear ratio according to a deceleration reaches a target minimum gear ratio, and as the CVT gear ratio reaches the target minimum gear ratio, entering an idle stop mode even when a deceleration is less than a medium deceleration while a transmission control unit (TCU) does not perform a control operation for preventing an idle stop mode from being entered.
US07789788B2
A transmission is provided having an input member, an output member, three planetary gear sets, a plurality of coupling members and a plurality of torque transmitting devices. Each of the planetary gear sets includes a sun gear member, a planet carrier member, and a ring gear member. The torque transmitting devices include clutches and brake arranged within a transmission housing.
US07789787B2
A transmission is provided having an input member, an output member, three planetary gear sets, a plurality of coupling members and a plurality of torque transmitting devices. Each of the planetary gear sets includes a sun gear member, a planet carrier member, and a ring gear member. The torque transmitting devices include clutches and a brake arranged within a transmission housing.
US07789786B2
An embodiment of a differential device of the present invention comprises a pair of side gears and a pair of pinion gears housed inside a differential case, with the pinion gears supported by a pinion shaft fixed to the differential case at axial end sections thereof so as to be capable of sliding freely thereabout. Lubricating oil channels are provided that pass through each of the end sections of the pinion shaft in the axial direction thereof. One end of each lubricating oil channel opens to the exterior of the differential case at a shaft-end corner section of the pinion shaft corresponding to an upstream side thereof in a direction of rotation of the differential case, and another end opens to a sliding surface of the pinion shaft with respect to one of the pinion gears. The differential device also comprises a mechanism for providing lubricating oil to the lubricating oil channels upon rotation of the differential case.
US07789783B2
An inverted tooth chain includes a plurality of rows. The inside flanks of the leading toes of each chain row project outwardly relative to the outside flanks of the trailing toes of the preceding chain row by a maximum amount λMAX wherein: 0.010×P≦λMAX≦0.020×P or, preferably, 0.015×P≦λMAX≦0.020×P, where P =chain pitch. The inverted tooth chain is meshed with a sprocket to define a system having a maximum chordal rise distance CR wherein said chordal motion in the inverted tooth chain upstream relative to said sprocket is less than 40% of said maximum chordal rise distance CR.
US07789782B2
In a silent chain comprising interleaved and relatively pivotable rows of link plates, protrusions formed in the link plates contact relatively pivotable link plates in adjacent rows so that the area of contact is reduced. The protrusions can be annular, or they can be in the form of arcs that are of a size and position such that the arcuate protrusions of each plate do not interfere with the arcuate protrusions of an adjacent plate as the chain bends during use. The plates can have rectangular protrusions, or arcuate protrusions each consisting of an arc-shaped collection of dot-shaped protrusions.
US07789774B2
A hollow wood-type golf club head having an increased weight budget and improved mass characteristics at minimum structural mass is disclosed. The club head has a striking face portion, a sole portion, a skirt portion, and a crown portion having a total surface area. A hosel portion joins the club head for connecting a shaft to the club head. The crown portion has a major crown portion and a minor crown portion, the major portion having greater surface area than the minor portion, and the major portion being displaced vertically lower relative to the minor crown portion. The major crown portion may have a generally concave curvature and the minor crown portion may have a generally convex curvature such that the major crown portion is in effect inverted with respect to the minor crown portion. The major crown portion may be upwardly inclined from the heel to the toe of the head. The head may exhibit a parabolic top view silhouette.
US07789766B2
A golf club incorporating an interchangeable shaft system includes a shaft, a shaft sleeve, a club head and a fastener. The shaft sleeve is coupled to an end of the shaft and is received in a hosel included in the club head. The fastener retains the shaft sleeve in the hosel. Hosel and shaft sleeve alignment features are provided that provide discreet orientations between the shaft and club head.
US07789763B1
A golf swing teaching aid includes an arm cuff positionable on an upper portion of a golfer's forward arm. A hand engaging member is positionable on a hand of the forward arm and has a first side, a second side, a forward edge, a rear edge, a first lateral edge and a second lateral edge. A plurality of couplers engages and urges toward each other the first and second lateral edges. An elongated rod has a cuff end and a hand end. The cuff end is pivotally coupled to the arm cuff. The hand end is pivotally coupled to the first side of the hand engaging member. The rod is straight and maintains a distance between the arm cuff and the hand engaging member. The hand engaging member and the arm cuff are positionable on the forward arm to resist bending of the forward arm during a golf swing.
US07789760B2
A gaming machine includes a cabinet having a glass panel, a player interaction device disposed in the cabinet for determining a winning outcome of the game, and a light emitting device, such as, EL wire, sheet, and the like, extends about the periphery of the glass panel and/or behind the glass panel. A plurality of reels are disposed inside the cabinet and are rotatable about an axis with each reel having an outer surface and a reel strip mounted thereto and a plurality of symbols defined on the reel strip and exposed to the glass panel. At least one pay line is spaced from each of the reels. The pay line is illuminated independent from and in alternating mode with the symbols in response to the winning outcome of the game.
US07789756B2
A wagering gaming device that enables a player to affect the movement of a functional element of a game by use of a user input device. More specifically, the present invention provides a processor controlled wagering gaming device that receives input from a user input device. The user manipulates the input device in the manner in which he wishes the functional element or to move. The processor receives the information from the input device and calculates parameters. The processor moves the functional element. This sequence or feature may be employed in a primary game, bonus game or in any stand alone game.
US07789754B2
One or more inputs, such as one or more cards from a deck of cards, to a card game are determined from one or more event results from a sporting event. A result of the card game is based at least on the one or more determined inputs.
US07789751B2
A gaming device having wild indicator symbols associated with symbols displayed within a display device on a set of reels. The wild indicator symbols may also be associated with a card or plurality of cards within a display device. A processor determines whether the wild indicators will be associated with the symbols or cards and also determines if the wild indicators will be activated. If the wild indicators are activated, the processor transforms those symbols or cards associated with the wild indicators into wild symbols or wild cards.
US07789746B2
A roulette gaming machine comprises a roulette board, a ball, a rotatable portion, ball receiving parts, numerals, a driving motor and a main control CPU. The rotatable portion is rotatably provided at a center portion of the roulette board. The ball receiving parts receives the ball and circularly arranged on an inner periphery side of the rotatable portion. The numerals are circularly arranged on an outer periphery side of the rotatable portion so as to be opposed to the ball receiving parts respectively. The driving motor rotates the rotatable portion in a certain direction. The main control CPU selects a drive control pattern. The main control CPU varies a constant speed rotation period for rotating the rotatable portion at a certain rotation speed according to the drive control pattern, and controls the driving unit according to the constant speed rotation period and the certain rotation speed.
US07789745B2
Products and processes are disclosed for receiving a lottery record associated with a sale of a lottery ticket. The lottery record includes a plurality of lottery numbers, and a condition for creating at least one entry that includes the lottery numbers in a lottery drawing. It is determined if the condition is satisfied. The at least one entry in the lottery drawing is created only if the condition satisfied.
US07789741B1
A squad versus squad shooter video game receives input from one or more players via their respective use of controllers in communication with one or more console-based video game systems. The input from each controller is interpreted as a command to a squad in a competition against one or more other squads that are respectively commanded by one or more players via their respective use of controllers. Each squad includes a plurality of characters. Each player is assigned to one of the squads. Actions of each character in the video game are a function of commands given to that character by one of the players. Players can join or exit their assigned squad during game play.
US07789737B2
A rapid locking device axially secures a disc-type tool (16), in particular a grinding disc on the flange (24) of a driven spindle (14), the spindle (14) having an axial bore containing at least one locking element in the form of a plate spring (28), which co-operates with a locking pad (22). The tool can be locked between contact surfaces of the flange (24) and the locking pad (22), the distance between said surfaces being modifiable. The shank (30) of the locking pad (22) can be accommodated in the bore of the spindle (14) and can be secured in a friction fit by the locking element (20).
US07789734B2
A fluid jet based micromachining device and method include a workpiece, and fluid jets directing synchronized forces at the workpiece so as to converge forces at a dynamic contact zone on the workpiece and provide mechanical support to the workpiece during periods of contact with the fluid jets.
US07789727B2
A novelty device and the associated method of fabricating component parts of the novelty device. The novelty device has at least one protrusion that is made from an elastomeric material. The protrusion has a distal end. A hole is disposed through the protrusion proximate its distal end. A secondary object is provided. The secondary object is made from a rigid material. The secondary object defines an interior space. Sounding elements are disposed within the interior space of at least some of the secondary objects. The sounding elements are free moving and produce noise within said secondary objects when said novelty device is manually shaken.
US07789724B2
An OLED display for improving white light emitting efficiency and simplifying a manufacturing process includes a plurality of pixels, each of the pixels having a transistor unit, a color filter unit and an organic light emitting device unit. The transistor unit converts signals from the outside into driving signals for driving an organic light emitting device unit. The organic light emitting device unit is composed of blue, red and green emission layers each having different areas. By passing white light through a color filer, the OLED display can realize full color.
US07789721B1
An electrical connector is provided. The electrical connector includes a socket housing and a plurality of socket contacts disposed within the socket housing. Each of the plurality of socket contacts comprises a body and at least two members extending from the body towards a pin-receiving end and separated by longitudinal slots. Each of the members has a tapered cross-section thicker towards an end adjacent to the body than towards a distal end through which the socket contact receives a mating pin.
US07789701B2
A connector assembly adapted for mounting to a panel having a cutout includes a connector having a body including sides defining a perimeter configured to fit within the cutout. The connector includes a flange extending outward from one of the sides of the body, and the flange is configured to engage a front surface of the panel to define a stop against the panel when the connector is in a mated position. The connector is configured to be one of either front loaded through the cutout from a front of the panel to the mated position or rear loaded through the cutout from a rear of the panel to the mated position.
US07789696B2
A drawing part of a cable 3 in a waterproof case for an electrical apparatus is sealed. On an outer circumferential part of the cable 3, a first bushing member 2a and a second bushing member 2b are formed by injection molding to be spaced with respect to each other. A box part 35 of the waterproof case is located between the first busing member 2a and the second bushing member 2b. After locating the cable 3 in the waterproof case, a filling material 40, such as epoxy resin or urethane resin, is filled into the inside of the box part 35.
US07789693B2
A socket assembly for electrically connecting an IC package to a printed circuit board, comprises an insulative housing, at least two retainers mounted on the printed circuit board and a loading plate. The insulative housing defines a receiving space for the IC package. The retainers are mounted on the printed circuit board and located on two sides of the insulative housing, and the retainer has a latching portion with a latching slot. The loading plate is mounted above the insulative housing and has two opposite lateral portions retained in the latching slot of the retainer, respectively, to retain the loading plate.
US07789692B2
A card edge connector comprises an insulating housing comprising a receptacle provided with a plurality of terminals therein and a pair of support arms disposed at opposite ends of the insulating housing. Each of the support arms comprises a flexible portion having a distal free end. The flexible portion comprises a latch element configured for establishing a latching engagement with the card module and a resistance provider applying a relievable resistant upward force to an improperly inserted card module and causing the flexible portion to deflect while an unusually large force is applied thereto.
US07789688B2
The present invention provides a connector that has high contact reliability and versatility enabling the reliable electric connection of flexible printed boards with a spread in thickness and flexible printed boards with different thicknesses. In this connector, a wider portion of a connection terminal fixed to a base is lifted with a control lever in which rotatable shafts extending coaxially from end surfaces on both sides are rotatably supported on the base. In particular, bearing grooves extending in the vertical direction are provided at a pair of support clasps that are attached to respective end surfaces on both sides of the base. The rotary shafts of the control lever are mated with, and supported by, the bearing grooves rotatably and slidably in the vertical direction.
US07789686B2
Disclosed are methods and devices for the use of electricity. The methods and devices generally relate to receptacles and plugs in which two electrical sockets share a circuit forming aperture 2030. This not only saves space, but, depending upon the configuration and wiring of the device, allows for new uses. Disclosed are methods and device for inserting oversized plugs into a socket without covering another socket. Disclosed are methods and devices for allowing access to two different circuits at a single receptacle. This can be achieved without having to exclusively dedicate each socket of a receptacle to only a single circuit. Disclosed are methods and devices for providing/obtaining two-phase power from a tri-aperture dual socket receptacle.
US07789671B2
An electrical contact includes a first contact pin, a second contact pin and an elastic member surrounding the first contact pin and the second contact pin. Both of the first contact pin and the second contact pin include contacting portions. The first contact pin has a guiding portion including two lead-in arms and a stop portion between the two leading arms. The second contact has a main body and a protrusion on a top end of the main body. The leading arms define a guiding groove therebetween for the main body of the second contact pin moving up and down. The protrusion abuts against the stop portion of the first contact pin to prevent the second contact from sliding out of the guiding groove.
US07789666B2
A reusable ballistic door for use in the training of individuals such as police officers and military personnel. The door may be formed to have different weak spots, requiring different techniques to enter the door. The door may be quickly and inexpensively rebuilt for subsequent training. A reusable training door may also be used inside of a shoot house to provide realistic training scenarios.
US07789660B2
A pusher furnace includes furnace sections having respective susceptors, a slide rail extending through the furnace sections for sliding pusher plates thereon and an alignment assembly for aligning the susceptors and slide rails of adjacent furnace sections. A support structure spaces the susceptors from insulation therebelow to protect the insulation from degradation from contact with the susceptors. The susceptors are slidably mounted on the support structure to accommodate thermal expansion and shrinkage of the susceptor. The upstream end of the slide rails have beveled upper edges to help prevent the pusher plates from catching thereon. The upstream ends are also laterally tapered to reduce the degree of force encountered should a pusher plate catch thereon. Adjacent insulation members have expansion joints filled with a refractory felt. The susceptors slidably and sealingly engage exhaust ports to allow for thermal expansion and shrinkage of the susceptor without damaging the exhaust port.
US07789652B2
A roller extruder for manufacturing Fresnel lens angular segments from raw plastic, the roller extruder having a blank roller and a die roller positioned a desired roller clearance from the blank roller, the die roller having two peripheral lens dies with an angular displacement between the lens dies increasing linearly from a die junction at the inside roller edge to approximately three hundred sixty degrees at the outside roller edge, and the die roller having peripheral Fresnel facet dies.
US07789642B2
In a gear pump equipped with a pump assembly formed from a driving gear supported by a driving shaft, a driven gear supported by a driven shaft, a pair of side plates disposed at both sides in an axial direction of driving and driven shafts, and a seal block that seals tips of the gears and forms a first fluid chamber by installation onto the side plates, and a casing that houses the pump assembly and forms a second fluid chamber therein, ribs are provided for at least one member of the side plates or the seal block, and fluid tightness between the first and second fluid chambers is secured by exerting pressure between the side plates and seal block and additionally plastically deforming the ribs. By this, it is possible to provide the gear pump which is capable of achieving improvement of the seal integrity while reducing the parts count.
US07789635B2
A high-pressure pump piston/cylinder unit includes a pump cylinder having a piston which oscillates therein provided in a housing. The piston is connected to a controlled drive to vary a suction and compression stroke volume of the pump cylinder. The pressure of the fluid drawn into the pump cylinder is increased by the stroke of the piston to make it available to a further supply element through a conveying valve. A centering cone in the form of a straight truncated cone having a circular base area and top area is formed integrally on the pump piston a maximum half diameter reduction of the centering cone with respect to the diameter of the piston skirt being in a ratio of approximately 1:200, and an axial length of the centering cone being designed in relation to the axial length of the entire piston skirt in a ratio of approximately 1:6.6.
US07789633B2
The automatically deformable nozzle regulator described herein is for use in a venturi pump. The automatically deformable nozzle regulator automatically adjusts its output area as needed to provide an increased suction force at a venturi pump inlet. The nozzle regulator includes an outer tubular cylinder and an inner tubular cylinder, concentrically arranged, and an inlet section join the two cylinders at one end. The nozzle regulator is constructed of a flexible material, such that when a constricting force is applied an output area of the nozzle regulator is decreased. Fluid backpressure at the nozzle regulator caused by obstructions at the pump inlet or the head at the outlet cause backpressure and the resultant constricting force. Because the nozzle is deformable, the output area is reduced, thereby increasing suction force at the inlet to remove the obstruction and increased velocity at the outlet to increase the head at the outlet.
US07789627B2
A centrifugal impeller employed in a centrifugal machine, includes a main body, the main body generally being conical and defining a shaft bore in a center portion thereof; and a plurality of blade groups evenly arranged surrounding the shaft bore in sequence, each of the blade groups having a plurality of blades wherein neighboring blades having an interval angle, and the number and corresponding interval angles of the blades of different blade groups are identical. The present impeller structure can be employed to distribute the concentrated energy of the discrete tones noise of the blades, which is generated by the high-speed rotation impeller, and further to reduce the operating tones noise.
US07789617B2
A suction stage for a pump with a centrifugal wheel, the suction stage including a rotational impeller equipped with a hub and arranged upstream of the centrifugal wheel, the suction stage further including a diffuser arranged between the impeller and the centrifugal wheel, the diffuser including a plurality of blades. The hub has a downstream surface extending axially so as to converge toward the centrifugal wheel, and the blades of the diffuser have free ends, the blades protruding radially toward the downstream surface.
US07789610B2
Methods for preventing or treating damage to sensory hair cells and cochlear neurons are disclosed. The methods comprise the administration of an effective amount of a compound of Formula I or Formula II. The method provides for the prevention/treatment of both hearing loss and loss of the sense of balance.
US07789605B2
A slide lock fastener assembly for removeably fastening a first part to a second part, in which the fastening and unfastening operations include a sliding operation, the fastener assembly having a locking pin, a cylindrical isolation sleeve, and a slider member. A fastened condition is created between the two parts by inserting the slider member between a surface of the first part and a locking pin head of the locking pin. The insertion causes a deformation of a wall portion of the isolation sleeve such that a portion of the wall engages a surface of the second part.
US07789587B2
A road shoulder working, grooming and compacting apparatus is configured to demountably cooperate with self-propelled operator-controlled machines. The apparatus comprises a first component for controllably working an outer portion of a road shoulder region to urge granular aggregate materials therefrom toward and onto a road surface, a second component positioned posterior to the first component and vertically movable between disengaged and engaged positions for controllably transferring granular aggregate material from a road surface to a road shoulder region, and a third component positioned posterior the second component for controllably distributing, grooming and compacting granular aggregate materials contained within the road shoulder region. The first and third components are movable between raised retracted positions and laterally-deployed lowered positions for engaging and working road shoulder regions while the self-propelled operator-controllable machine travels along a road surface. A fourth component is optionally provided interposed the second and third components for brushing road surfaces.
US07789580B2
An ergonomic pen having a convex device for an index finger exerting force thereon includes a first indentation proximate a tip thereof, a second indentation besides the first indentation, and an elongate member between the first and second indentations. The elongate member has a convex top surface. The first indentation is adapted to be urged by the muscle opposing the finger nail of the thumb, the second indentation is adapted to be urged by the muscle opposing the finger nail of the middle finger, and the elongate member is adapted to be urged by the muscle opposing the finger nail of the index finger, respectively, with the wrist being disposed in a relatively relaxed position in writing. Easy, labor saving writing can be effected.
US07789575B2
An optical device includes an optical element, a transparent member arranged on the optical element, and a transparent resin adhesive for causing the transparent member to adhere and be fixed onto a circuit formation face of the optical element. The optical device includes a light detecting region having a plurality of micro lenses, a peripheral circuit region formed in the outer peripheral part of the light detecting region, and an electrode region formed at the outer peripheral part of the peripheral circuit region. A roughed region in a saw-toothed shape in section is formed in part of a face of the transparent member which adheres to the optical element, the part being overlapped with the outer peripheral part of the light detecting region as viewed in plan.
US07789573B2
An optoelectronic module having an optoelectronic device with a contact conductor and a connection carrier with a connection area. The contact conductor is electrically conductively and/or thermally conductively connected to the connection area. A local, delimited heating region is formed on the contact conductor or the connection carrier has a cutout, which is at least partly covered by the contact conductor. A method which enables simplified and reliable production of an optoelectronic module is also described.
US07789572B2
A secure transceiver system for use with a connector system comprising a set of plugs, each plug having a housing having a front and back orientation and having a front face defining an opening, said ferrule being disposed within said opening, said housing defining a first keying element on said front face around said opening, said keying element for each plug of said set of plugs being different; said secure transceiver system comprising: a set of transceivers, each transceiver having a different receptacle, each receptacle having an opening to receive said plug and a ferrule-receiving portion to receive said ferrule, said ferrule-receiving portion defining a second keying element to cooperate with said first keying element, said second keying element for each receptacle being different and being adapted to cooperate with one and only one of said first keying elements, wherein plugs and receptacles having keying elements that cooperate are mating pairs.
US07789557B2
A superconducting radiometry apparatus has a micro-calorie meter that detects an energy of a radiant ray as a temperature change. A signal detection mechanism detects an electric current flowing to the micro-calorie meter. A heat addition device adds a quantity of heat to the micro-calorie meter. A peak value monitor measures, in synchronization with the addition of the quantity of heat to the micro-calorie meter, a peak value of an output voltage corresponding to an output signal from the signal detection mechanism. An energy correction device corrects, on the basis of an output from the peak value monitor, an energy value so as to become a peak value corresponding to the quantity of heat added to the micro-calorie meter.
US07789551B2
A device for blending materials and a bag for use in such devices. The device has at least one paddle for acting on a sample and a carrier against which a sample may be crushed by the paddle. The device is arranged to allow adjustment of the spacing between the paddle and carrier during operation. The bag is suitable for use in such a device but can be used in other devices.
US07789545B2
A headlight assembly includes a housing, a light source, a light shielding plate, and a light guiding plate. The housing defines a compartment, and includes a reflector and a lens disposed in front of the reflector. The light source is mounted in the compartment and is disposed on an optical axis. The light shielding plate is mounted between the light source and the lens. The light guiding plate is disposed below the optical axis. A first portion of light beams emitted upwardly is reflected by the reflector, passes over the light shielding plate and through the lens, which refracts the first portion of the light beams to form a first illuminating pattern. A second portion of the light beams passes through the light guiding plate and through the lens, which refracts the second portion of the light beams to result in a second illuminating pattern that is directed forwardly and upwardly.
US07789538B2
A directly illuminated display unit has a display panel and one or more light sources disposed behind the display panel. A diffuser is disposed between the one or more light sources and the display panel, and a light diverting layer is disposed between the one or more light sources and the diffuser. The light diverting layer has a first light-diverting surface facing the one or more light sources and a second light diverting surface facing the display panel. The light diverting layer diverts light passing from the one or more light sources to the diffuser, thus improving the uniformity of the light in the display unit.
US07789537B2
An LED (10) includes a chip with a light-emitting surface (140) and an encapsulation on the chip. The encapsulation has a light output surface (110) facing the light-emitting surface of the chip and has a convex surface (112) surrounding a concave surface (114). A portion of light (30) emitted by the light-emitting surface is refracted divergently via the concave surface to a predetermined area above and around the concave surface, and another portion of light (40) emitted by the light-emitting surface is refracted convergently via the convex surface to the predetermined area.
US07789534B2
An LED lamp with heat dissipation mechanism having double heat pipe and tridimensional LEDs arrangement is disclosed. The lamp is composed of a heat-dissipation unit, a heat pipe whose one end is mounted on the heat-dissipation unit, a plurality of LED units mounted on an outer surface of the heat pipe, a fin module encompassing the heat-dissipation unit and a reflector mounted on a bottom of the heat-dissipation unit. The heat-dissipation unit has two basin-like casings. The LED units on the heat pipe are towards the reflector. Thus the reflector concentrates the light from the LED units.
US07789532B2
A light source device includes a light source lamp, a rotary plate, a heat absorbing portion, and a filter mounting member. The light source lamp emits illumination light. The rotary plate includes multiple opening portions that are selectively disposed in the illumination light path of the light source lamp. A reflective filter that reflects light of a wavelength that acts a heat source in illumination light is provided in one of the multiple opening portions of the rotary plate. The heat absorbing portion absorbs heat included in reflected light reflected by the reflective filter in the opening portion. The filter mounting member disposes the reflective filter in the opening portion at a predetermined angle of inclination to the optical axis of the illumination light. By disposing the inclined reflective filter in the illumination light path, reflected light reflected by the reflective filter is reflected towards the heat absorbing portion.
US07789530B2
A modular light bar having crisscross lighting in the front and rear. Each module may include two horizontal layers of lighting supported on the underside of a mounting plate and connected to a terminal strip. A quick disconnect connects the terminal strip to a dimmer/flasher and controller.
US07789529B2
An LED light unit includes a tile, a plurality of discrete LED light sources, and an edge connector. The LED light sources are on and dispersed across a major surface of the tile and are electrically connected to electrical pads along an edge region of the tile. The edge connector includes a plurality of contacts that are connected to a plurality of wires extending away from the edge connector, and is configured to releasably connect to an edge of the tile so that the contacts directly connect to the pads and electrically connect the wires of the edge connector to the LED light sources. An LED lighting assembly includes a plurality of the discrete tiles mounted to a plurality of bars, and a plurality of edge connectors that are each connected to an end one of the tiles along different ones of the bars.
US07789527B2
Disclosed is a backlight device which is used for a color liquid crystal display and includes a light source and a backlight housing (23). The light source includes a red light emitting diode (21R), radiating red light, having a peak wavelength λpr such that 625 nm≦λpr≦685 nm, a green light emitting diode (21G), radiating green light, having a peak wavelength λpg such that 505 nm≦λpg≦540 nm, and a blue light emitting diode (21B), radiating blue light, having a peak wavelength λpb such that 420 nm≦λpb≦465 nm. The backlight housing mixes the red light, the green light and the blue light, radiated from the light source, to generate white light. A light emission intensity is adjusted so that a half value width of a spectrum of the red light, a half value width of a spectrum of the green light and a half value width of a spectrum of the blue light are such that 20 nm≦hwr≦25 nm, 30 nm≦hwg≦40 nm and 25 nm≦hwb≦30 nm, respectively.
US07789519B2
A display window is particularly suited for LED and/or LC displays. The display window includes a lighting device and a microstructure for illuminating the display window. The microstructure is disposed on the side of the display window facing the display.
US07789518B2
An imaging system suitable for projecting an image beam provided by a light valve unto a screen is provided. The imaging system includes a projection lens and a light beam modulation module. The projection lens is disposed on an optical path of the image beam, so as to project the image beam unto the screen. The light beam modulation module comprising a fixed light shutter and a movable light shutter is disposed between the projection lens and the light valve. The fixed light shutter is disposed on the optical path of the image beam so as to shield off a portion of the circumferential light of the image beam. The movable light shutter is suitable for moving into the optical path of the image beam to shield off another portion of the circumferential light of the image beam.
US07789510B2
Systems and methods for improving the peripheral vision of a subject are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure includes a method, which may be embodied on a system, for improving peripheral vision of a subject using a visual marker on a display screen, the method includes, displaying a peripheral target on the display screen, the peripheral target having a visually discernable characteristic and determining whether the subject is able to correctly identify the peripheral target displayed on the display screen using the peripheral vision. The visual marker is intended for viewing using central vision of the subject and the peripheral target is intended for identification using the peripheral vision of the subject.
US07789503B2
The image forming apparatus, comprises: a plurality of ejection heads which eject liquid containing, a first ultraviolet curing initiator having spectral absorption characteristics at least in a first wavelength range, a second ultraviolet curing initiator which has spectral absorption characteristics at least in a second wavelength range being on a shorter wavelength side from the first wavelength range and has no spectral absorption characteristics in the first wavelength range, an ultraviolet-polymerizable compound, and a coloring material, onto a medium; a semi-curing device which radiates, at least once, ultraviolet light having at least a wavelength which is in the first wavelength range and which is on a longer wavelength side from the second wavelength range, onto dots formed by the liquid ejected from the ejection heads onto the medium; an intermediate processing device which performs intermediate processing of an image formed on the medium by the dots; and a main curing device which radiates ultraviolet light having at least a wavelength in the second wavelength range, onto the image which has undergone intermediate processing by the intermediate processing device.
US07789500B2
Various embodiments of a printing device fluid reservoir with alignment features and various embodiments of a printing device fluid reservoir chassis with alignment features are disclosed. According to some aspects of these embodiments, the alignment features are grouped together near an ultimate connection point between a fluid reservoir and a chassis to increase design freedom on other regions of the fluid reservoir/chassis. Other aspects of these embodiments include specially designed and located alignment features of a fluid reservoir that engage specially designed and located alignment features of a chassis in sequence throughout the process of inserting the fluid reservoir into the chassis in order to facilitate simple and effective engagement.
US07789498B2
An inkjet head includes a passage unit having a pressure chamber which is in communication with a nozzle and which is defined by a recessed portion provided in one surface of the passage unit; and an actuator unit including: (a) an oscillating plate fixed to the one surface of the passage unit so as to close the recessed portion defining the pressure chamber; (b) a piezoelectric layer disposed on the oscillating plate so that the piezoelectric layer and the oscillating plate cooperate with each other to constitute a piezoelectric unimorph; (c) a first electrode provided on a side of one surface of the piezoelectric layer so as to correspond to the pressure chamber; and (d) a second electrode provided on a side of an other surface of the piezoelectric layer and opposed to the first electrode in a direction of thickness of the piezoelectric layer. The pressure chamber has an elongate shape. The piezoelectric layer includes an active portion that is interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and, as seen in the direction of thickness of the piezoelectric layer, is not located in a central portion of an opposed area thereof opposed to the pressure chamber and is located on either side of said central portion of the opposed area in a widthwise direction perpendicular to a lengthwise direction of the pressure chamber, the opposed area of the piezoelectric layer being deformed to increase a volume of the pressure chamber when an electric field is applied to the active portion.
US07789485B2
A printhead assembly is provided having a pagewidth inkjet printhead and an ink distribution system. The ink distribution system has a longitudinal distribution housing having ducts extending longitudinally therealong which each correspond to a different ink, a longitudinal cover cooperating with the housing and having ink inlet ports which each correspond to, and are in fluid communication with, one of the ducts and being, and a laminated ink distribution structure fixed to the housing for distributing ink from the ducts to the printhead. The distribution structure includes multiple layers positioned one upon another with at least one of the layers having ink holes therethrough. Each ink hole conveys ink from one of the ducts en route to the printhead. At least some of the layers has an array of aligned air holes therethrough.
US07789482B2
A waste ink liquid absorber for a waste ink tank of an inkjet-type recording apparatus, which includes: an impregnation liquid containing at least one of the following: a water-hardly-soluble resin; a water-soluble resin; or both of a moisturizing agent and a base. The impregnation liquid is included at least a part including a surface coming into contact with a waste ink Also, a waste ink tank having the waste ink liquid absorber, and an inkjet-type recording apparatus having the waste ink liquid absorber.
US07789479B2
An image recording apparatus has a recording head for recording an image on a recording medium, an ink supply source for supplying an ink to the recording head through an ink tube, a carriage for mounting the recording head thereon reciprocating in a primary scanning direction, and first and second guide members for supporting the carriage thereacross and guiding reciprocating movement of the carriage. The apparatus includes a scale provided on the second guide member along the primary scanning direction, a detector provided on the carriage for detecting a reciprocating position of the carriage in corporation with the scale, and a partition disposed in the vicinity of the scale for separating at least a part of the ink tube from the scale.
US07789477B2
Provided is a method for testing integrity of a base for printhead integrated circuits. The base has at least one fluid inlet in fluid communication with a plurality of fluid outlets via discrete fluid paths. The method includes the steps of engaging the, or each, fluid inlet of the base to a fluid supply in a sealing manner, charging the base with pressurized fluid until a predetermined pressure is reached, and monitoring the pressure in the base for a predetermined period of time, wherein a rate of pressure decay is indicative of an integrity of the base.
US07789476B2
Multiple alignment patterns, each composed of first and second alignment pattern elements printed by forward and backward movements of a print head, respectively, are formed while the relative printing positions of the two elements are shifted. From optical characteristics data thereof, whether the data is influenced by a disturbance is determined. When the data is determined to be less influenced by the disturbance and therefore to be reliable, an adjusting value for aligning positions in printing in reciprocal movements is calculated by use of: data with the smallest relative printing position misalignment between the first and second alignment pattern elements; and data of optical characteristics close to the data. When the data is largely influence by the disturbance, a range of shifting of relative position is widened than that of the data less influenced by the disturbance so that more data pieces are used to obtain the adjusting value.
US07789469B2
The method and system for increasing accuracy of clamping force of electric aircraft carbon brakes, once braking has been commenced, provides a first pair of electric brake actuators with a range of low brake clamping force responsive to low brake clamping force commands, and a second pair of electric brake actuators with a range of high brake clamping force responsive to high brake clamping force commands. The first pair of electric brake actuators is actuated to apply a minimum residual braking force once wheel braking is commenced, and the second pair of electric brake actuators is actuated only when the commanded braking force is in the high range of brake clamping force.
US07789468B2
A bit holder for use in a bit assembly in road milling, mining and trenching equipment has a hollow generally cylindrical shank and first and second elongate slots positioned in spaced axial relation through the shank. The first slot extends along the shank to the distal end thereof. The second slot may be altered in length and/or shape to fine tune the outward radial force the shank exerts against the bore of a bit block into which it is inserted.
US07789467B2
The side dump trailer including a side dump body pivotally mounted on a wheeled frame and which is pivotally moveable between a transport position to at least one side dumping position. A body stiffening structure assembly is secured to the exterior surface of the side dump body and is comprised of two or more body stiffening structures welded to the exterior surface of the side dump body in a spaced-apart relationship. The body stiffening structures include elongated stiffening rails secured thereto and extending therebetween which are also welded to the side walls of the side dump body.
US07789452B2
A travel trailer is provided. The travel trailer may include a camping pod that contains tent fabric. The travel trailer may also have a telescoping member that is configured for raising and lowering the camping pod.
US07789450B2
A flush-flush horizontal vehicle window assembly is provided that includes a sliding panel with guide pins, formed with a load-bearing shoulder, on sliding panel corners, and a frame defining a window opening. The frame is attached to two fixed panels. Upper/lower tracks are attached above/below the window opening. Each track has a leading and a trailing guide path formed through a surface of the respective tracks, where the pins partially project into the guide paths and where load-bearing shoulder surfaces smoothly and reliably slide on the track surfaces. Each leading guide path is “S” shaped and each trailing guide path is shaped in a perpendicular manner at one end, which causes the sliding panel to smoothly enter and seal the window opening in a flush manner. An aesthetically pleasing flush-flush slider results when the sliding panel is in the plane of the window opening and further in the plane of the outer vehicle body panel.
US07789447B2
The present invention provides a height adjuster for a seat of a vehicle capable of lowering equipment height in an accommodated state. A four-joint link mechanism 40a, 40b configuring the fourth layer are provided with a first arm 47 formed the first guide face 47d guiding a guide roller 35 formed on a third layer, a second arm 42 and a first reinforce member 43. The arms and the rear end of a first reinforce member is turnably pivoted to a first bearing 41 and the front end of a first reinforce member is turnably pivoted to a second bearing 48 by the shaft members 45 and 42h. Each link mechanism is lowered while depicting the trajectory that corresponds to the curve of the first guide face 47d and turning the front end. Because a first reinforce member 43 is provided. Although a portion at which the first guide face 47d of the first arm 47 is formed is smaller in thickness of a vertical direction than a portion at which the first guide face 47d is not formed. It is possible to compensate for insufficient strength of the first arm 47. Thus, the height of the height adjuster for a seat of a vehicle can be lowered.
US07789446B2
The moveable storage assembly of the invention is well suited to vehicles with tall ceilings, such as a truck cab. The storage assembly has a storage unit attached to guide assemblies. The guide assemblies allow the storage unit to move on guide rails from a retracted to an extended position for easy access to items within the storage unit. The guide assemblies have guides slidingly engaging the guide rails and end brackets at each end of the guide rail. A linear actuator attached to the storage unit moves the storage unit on the guide rails.
US07789444B1
A method and apparatus for transporting a turkey tail to a hunting site are provided by the present invention. The apparatus is formed of an outer camouflaged base fabric sewn at its edges to an inner fabric. When folded along a diameter, the apparatus is semi-circular in shape. Hook and loop straps along the base fabric secure the apparatus and two handles attached to the base fabric facilitate transport. Reinforcing members between the fabrics protects the turkey tail from damage during transport.
US07789443B2
A gripper for use with a robot includes a support body for removably attaching the gripper to a moveable arm and a workpiece contact body having a groove extending along at least a portion of the contact body for engaging a curved outer edge of the workpiece. A coupling member connects the support body to the workpiece contact member and includes a flexure component that flexes to allow radial and/or tangential relative movement of the workpiece contact body with respect to the support body to diminish slippage between the workpiece and the contact body as the gripper engages the workpiece.
US07789436B2
A sleeve for joining two pipes (4, 5), each configured with an end flange (2, 3), comprises a base plate (6) with a pipe receiving aperture (7) that is open on one side and is designed to receive a first pipe (4), two side walls (9, 10), and two cover plates (11, 12) between which a second pipe (5) can be interposed. Also present is a spring arm (13), which is connected to one side wall (10) and extends in the direction of the opposite side wall (9) and is able to pivot resiliently toward and away from the base plate (6) within a flexion zone (15). Configured on the spring arm (13) are an engaging claw (16) that extends in the direction of the base plate (6) and is configured to engage in a locking recess (17) introduced into at least one end flange, and a releasing element that extends away from the base plate (6). The pipes can thus be disconnected with relative ease.
US07789424B2
The all terrain vehicle safety attachment includes an adjustable frame having first and second frame portions. Upper ends of the first and second frame portions are pivotally secured to one another by a hinge or the like. The first and second frame portions are selectively, angularly adjustable with respect to one another. The first frame portion is secured to the back end of the all terrain vehicle, and a safety device is releasably and removably secured to the second frame portion. The safety device includes a pair of spaced apart, lower horizontal members. Each of the lower horizontal members has a front portion, a central portion and a rear portion. The rear portions thereof are angled upwardly so that the rear portions form a support base for the all terrain vehicle when a front end of the all terrain vehicle accidentally tips off the ground.
US07789417B2
An occupant restraining device that can maintain the internal pressure of a bag at a high level is provided. In one form, a bag has its left and right ends both provided with stationary sections that are fixed to a seat pan. The stationary sections have therebetween a gas chamber that is inflated as a result of gas entering from an inflator. The bag is made into the form of a pouch by stacking an upper panel and a lower panel one on top of the other, which are to respectively define an upper half and a lower half of an outer periphery surface of the bag in an inflated state, and then bonding and sewing these panels together along the edges thereof. Specifically, the bonding of these panels together along the edges thereof involves the use of elastic adhesive having a stretchability of 200% or more, for example, between 200% and 400%.
US07789415B2
A mounting arrangement for mounting an air-bag module to a hub of a steering wheel. The hub being provided with apertures and cutaway sections and a spring. The spring is moveable from a release position in which parts of the spring do not extend across the apertures or the cutaway sections to a locking position in which parts of the spring extend across the apertures and the cutaway sections. The spring is initially deformed and is held in the release position against blocking elements. The air-bag module is provided with hooks which are positioned on the air-bag module to correspond to the positions of the apertures and the cutaway sections on the hub. The air-bag module is provided with an actuation member which, when the hooks are inserted into the apertures, engages part of the spring to urge the spring out of engagement with the blocking elements. When the spring is moved out of engagement with the blocking elements the spring moves from the release position to the locking position and parts of the spring extend into recesses in the hooks to lock the hooks in position relative to the hub.
US07789410B1
A motorcycle support stand with a folding design, not attached to the motorcycle, but available for portability directly on motorcycles that have no attached means of upright support. The support device comprises an extended finger for intermittently interfacing with the hollow rear axle holes on these types of motorcycles, two support legs that pivot near the top, and a bottom brace member that pivots on the bottom of one support leg and intermittently latches to the bottom of the other support leg. When folded in this triangle shaped configuration, the extended finger can be inserted into the hollow rear axle hole, at the exact center of the rear wheel hub, on either side, and the weight of the motorcycle can be leaned onto the stand. When the stand is folded to its small straight configuration, it can be transported on the motorcycle for use in remote locations. The rider also has the option of having no stand on the bike, for competition situations.
US07789404B2
A steering assembly for a motor vehicle including and axle interconnecting a pair of wheels, a pair of tie rods coupled to the wheels, and a cross bar having a piston mounted thereon interconnecting the rods. A steering damper may be integral with the cross bar such that the piston is housed within said steering damper, and the steering damper may be mounted to the axle.
US07789401B2
The present invention the present invention relates to methods and systems for performing security screening using trays and a cart to facilitate the management and flow of those trays.
US07789394B2
A suspended horseshoe game comprised of a horseshoe, a tether attached at its lower end to the horseshoe, and at its upper end to a supporting structure, and of a target vertical pole. This game consists of swinging the horseshoe toward the target pole such that the horseshoe wraps itself around the target pole.
US07789385B2
A machine that is operable to create a series of holes in at least one sheet of paper includes a base, a punch mechanism positioned on the base, and a tray coupled to the base. The tray includes a first guide and a second guide. The tray is configured to move between a first position and a second position. Movement of the tray between the first position and the second position adjusts a position of the first guide and a position of the second guide relative to the punch mechanism.
US07789383B2
A saddle stitcher for making paperback books is provided by the present invention. The saddle stitcher is provided for manually assembling one or a few (or a greater number if desired by the user) booklets in a cost-effective, yet professional manner. The saddle stitcher generally includes a tray, a saddle, and a plurality of staplers. The tray is provided for receiving a plurality of pages to be made into a booklet and in which the pages are stitched to form the booklet. The staplers are provided for stitching the plurality of pages to form a booklet and are pivotally and slidably mounted within the tray in order to accommodate booklets of varying sizes. An engagement device is provided for engaging each of the staplers in tandem in order to fabricate a booklet.
US07789382B2
Data table specifying the relationship between the number of sheets per one copy of a booklet produced by a bookbinding apparatus B and the working speed of a coating section 60 is selected based on printing speed information of an image forming apparatus A, and the working speed of the coating section 60 is changed in accordance with the number of sheets per one copy of a booklet to be produced.
US07789380B2
Two supply streams (1.1 and 1.2) of printed products are combined to form a combined printed-product stream. For this purpose, the supply streams are conveyed into a combining region (V) in a main conveying direction (F) in a state in which they, for example, rest loosely on conveying surfaces (3.1 and 3.2), are parallel to one another, adjacent to one another and on the same level, inner and outer edges of the printed products (P) of the two supply streams (1.1 and 1.2) being oriented parallel to the main conveying direction (F). At the entrance to the combining region (V), the inner edge region of each printed product of the first supply stream (1.1) is raised and, as they are conveyed through the combining region (V), the printed products of the two supply streams (1.1 and 1.2) are pushed transversely to the main conveying direction (F) and towards one another. An inner edge region of a printed product of the second supply stream (1.2) is, thus, respectively pushed beneath the raised inner edge region of the printed product of the first supply stream (1.1), in which case these supply streams end up located one upon the other, and are conveyed away in this state.
US07789379B2
A solid surface clamp is provided. The solid surface clamp has a top jaw and a bottom jaw. A connecting rod is attached to one of the jaws, and slideably extends through the other jaw. Alignment surfaces may be incorporated into the jaws to assist in accurately positioning the material to be laminated. A compression device is connected to the portion of the connecting rod that extends through the jaw. A shroud shields the compression device, thereby protecting the compression device from contamination by the laminating adhesive. An elongated stiffening member may be used to apply the clamping force over a longer surface, allowing for greater spacing between clamps and extended regions of even clamping pressure.
US07789375B2
Provided are a portable winch assembly for use in lifting equipment and a planetary reduction gearbox that may be incorporated into existing winch assemblies. The planetary reduction gearbox of the winch assembly includes a primary sun gear, a first plurality of planet gears, a secondary sun gear, a second plurality of planet gears, and a ring gear. The primary sun gear is fitted with a drive head, which is configured for engagement by a handheld torquing device, such as an electric drill. The rotation of the primary sun gear results in the subsequent rotation of a cooperatively engaged gear-driven lifting assembly, to which a rope, cable, or strap may be attached for hoisting equipment. Optionally, a handle assembly may also be included, the handle being selectively disengageable from the lifting assembly, so that the handle may be remain stationary with respect to the rotation of the primary sun gear.
US07789369B2
A method for installing a means capable of removably securing a pole, comprising installing a first support, installing a second support, inserting said pole into said first support, and thereafter, inserting said pole into said second support.
US07789364B2
The display monitor of a rear projection system is pivotally connected to the projector body and provided with a resilient member that permits opening of the monitor in a vertical direction by the application of a small force during maintenance of the system.
US07789361B2
A transfer device for transferring an apparatus from one support to another support. The transfer device is comprised of a housing and two movable clamping elements that are mounted to the housing. Each of the clamping elements is movable between a support-clamping position and a non-clamping, release position. An actuator is in operative engagement with the two clamping elements to move each of the clamping elements between the support-clamping position and the release position. The actuator has a first actuator position wherein one of the clamping elements is in the support-clamping position and another of the clamping elements is in the release position. In a second position, one of the clamping elements is in the release position and the other of the clamping elements is in the support-clamping position.
US07789359B2
An auxiliary cable bracket having a main plate and a mounting plate. The mounting plate is connected to the main plate and is positioned spaced apart from the main plate such that the frame of a ladder rack section can be positioned therebetween. At least one tooth is formed on a surface of at least one of the mounting plate and the main plate.
US07789358B1
A two piece plastic paint can hook has a transverse bracket with an integral downward pointing bucket hook. A channel in the transverse bracket accepts a tip of a plastic rung hook. The rung hook is assembled through the channel, thus setting a stem of the rung hook in a pivoting mount in the transverse channel. The devise is suited to hang a paint can from either the left or the right side of a ladder rung.
US07789357B2
In a releasable rotationally fixed mechanical connection between a functional part and a connecting part of which one is provided with a receiver neck and the other with an insertion element adapted to be snugly received in the receiver neck, an intermediate wedge member provided with slightly conical outer surface areas is disposed on the insertion element for reception in the receiver neck which has cooperating inner surfaces with which the wedge member is pressed into firm engagement by a collar disposed on the insertion element which is threaded onto the receiver neck.
US07789354B2
An adjustable support mechanism (30) includes a fixed unit (70), an adjustable suspension unit (80) and a connecting unit (90). The adjustable suspension unit is slidably mounted on the fixed unit. The connecting unit is configured for connecting the fixed unit and the adjustable suspension unit. The connecting unit comprises a first elastic member (96) and an adjusting bracket (94). Opposite ends of the first elastic member are connected to the fixed unit and the adjustable suspension unit correspondingly. The adjusting bracket includes two rotary wheels (942, 945) and a coiling member (944) looped around the rotary wheels. The adjustable suspension unit is fixed to the coiling member. At least one of the rotary wheels is rotatable relative to the fixed unit to coil the coiling member around the rotary wheels, sliding the adjustable suspension unit relative to the fixed unit.
US07789350B2
A cable management apparatus (CMA) is attached to a slide assembly. The slide assembly includes a stationary rail secured to an electronic equipment rack and a slidable rail slidably engaged with the stationary rail, the CMA includes a pair of holding arms, a connecting member, a first mounting assembly, and a second mounting assembly. The connecting member is capable of foldably connecting the two holding arms. The first mounting assembly includes a first mounting bracket and a first locking member attached to the first mounting bracket. The second mounting assembly includes a second mounting bracket and a second locking member attached to the second mounting bracket. The first mounting bracket is pivotally engaged with one of the holding arms and capable of being retained to the slidable rail by the first locking member. The second mounting bracket is pivotally engaged with the other holding arm and capable of being retained to the stationary rail by the second locking member.
US07789347B2
An articulation device connects a door (46) of an aircraft nacelle (30), the nacelle (30) including an external wall called a fairing including at least one opening (44) adapted to be closed by at least the door (46). The articulation device includes at least one arm (56) connected by a first pivotal axle (58) to the nacelle (30) and by a second pivotal axle (60) to the door (46), the two pivotal axles (58, 60) being substantially parallel.
US07789346B2
A method and apparatus for distributing air. The apparatus includes an air distribution vent that distributes air into a compartment, wherein the distribution of air into the compartment causes compartment air from the compartment to be drawn from the compartment. The apparatus also includes a contaminant removal system, wherein compartment air drawn from the compartment is processed to remove contaminants before being distributed back into the compartment by the air distribution vent.
US07789343B2
A morphing aircraft includes a lifting body and a telescopic lifting or control surface, such as a wing, coupled to the lifting body. The lifting surface is deployable between extended and retracted positions relative to the lifting body and configured such that, when disposed in the extended position, the flight characteristics of the aircraft correspond to those of a low-speed, high-lift aircraft, and when disposed in the retracted position, the flight characteristics of the air-craft correspond to those of a high-speed, low-lift aircraft, the lifting surface is disposed entirely within the lifting body, and an outboard end surface of the lifting surface blends continuously into an outer mold line surface of the lifting body.
US07789332B2
The invention relates to a method for controlling the partial pressure of oxygen when mutually separating minerals in the different process steps of the separation process. In order to control the partial pressure of oxygen, the gases fed in the different process steps are recirculated in an essentially closed gas circulation created around the equipment used in the different process steps, so that the gas recirculation is controlled by measuring the potential of the slurry containing valuable minerals.
US07789325B2
A spray device is provided that includes a body portion having a fluid passageway therein. A spray nozzle is affixed to the body portion. The spray nozzle includes a discharge orifice for directing fluid from the fluid passageway in the body portion in a predetermined spray pattern. A valve needle is supported in the body portion and spray nozzle for movement between an open position for permitting fluid discharge through the discharge orifice and a closed position for preventing fluid discharge through the discharge orifice. A control piston assembly is provided for controlling movement of the valve needle. The control piston assembly is movably supported in the body portion and is non-mechanically coupled to the valve needle by magnetic attraction.
US07789324B2
A connector system for releasably securing a reservoir to a spray gun includes hook members on a lid of the reservoir that engage a flange of an inlet adaptor on the spray gun with a push/twist action to secure the reservoir to the spray gun. A retainer clip mounted on the inlet adaptor is movable between an inoperative position to allow the reservoir to be connected to and disconnected from the spray gun, and an operative position in which the clip blocks release of the reservoir. The clip provides security against accidental release of the reservoir in use of the spray gun.
US07789319B2
One embodiment of the present subject matter includes a system which includes a tank, a conduit is adapted to carry a recirculating supply of fluid from the tank and into the tank, and at least one injector adapted to dispense fluid from the recirculating supply of fluid into a chamber.
US07789318B2
A wall mounted domestic combined heat and power appliance comprising housing (1) containing a prime mover to generate electrical power and heat output. At least one bracket (2) at each side of the housing mounts the housing to a wall (W). Each bracket comprises a main body which is elongate in a vertical direction and has a L-shape cross section. Each extremity of the L-shape cross section has an enlarged portion (22, 23), a first (23) of which provides a spacer between the main body and the housing, and a second (22) of which provides a spacer between the main body and the wall.
US07789309B2
An automatic digital video-imaging based code symbol reading system for use in point of sale (POS) environments, employing automatic object motion detection and illumination control, and digital video-imaging based code symbol reading techniques, which ensures the reliable reading of code symbols graphically represented in digital images, in high-throughput point-of-sale and other environments, while providing the versatility required to accommodate the different ways in which operators present objects for code symbol reading at POS environments.
US07789304B2
A method for controlling a display device, such as, for example, the display device mounted on a shopping cart, the shopping cart having a wheeled base and a basket portion in connection with the wheeled base and a handle in connection with the wheeled base, the method comprising: allowing a user to enter information at and obtain information from the display device; and providing a locking mechanism located on or implemented within the device for permitting the user to activate or deactivate the display device in order to prevent unauthorized access.
US07789303B2
An information processing apparatus permits a device which has set secret information into the information processing apparatus to refer to the secret information and inhibits other devices than the device from referring to the secret information, to thereby prevent secret information from leaking via any of the other devices. A determination is made whether there is a match between a device ID acquired from a device connected to an expansion card and stored in the expansion card and a device ID acquired in response to a request for reference to the secret information from a device to which the expansion card is currently connected. Reference to be made by the device to the secret information stored in the expansion card is permitted or inhibited according to a result of the determination.
US07789295B2
A card actuated automated banking machine (152, 198, 200) includes a plurality of transaction function devices. The transaction function devices include a card reader (170), a printer (174), a bill dispenser (176), a coin dispenser (178), a display (182), a check imaging device (186) and at least one processor (190). The automated banking machine is operative responsive to receiving a check and certification data to dispense cash in exchange for the check. The person presenting the check need not provide user identifying inputs through input devices in order to receive cash for the check. A check recipient prior to presenting the check for payment is also enabled to verify that the check will be paid through communication with at least one computer (204) through at least one consumer interface device (208).
US07789287B2
The present invention provides a bonding method in which a bonded portion having a sufficient bonding strength can be obtained at a relatively low temperature, for example, in die bonding a semiconductor chip. A metal paste 20 was applied to a semiconductor chip 10, the metal paste 20 consisting of metal powder of one or more kinds selected from gold powder, silver powder, platinum powder, and palladium powder having a purity not lower than 99.9 wt % and an average particle diameter of 0.005 μm to 1.0 μm and an organic solvent. After being applied, the metal paste 20 was dried in a vacuum in a dryer. The chip was heated at 230° C. for 30 minutes to sinter the metal paste, by which a metal powder sintered compact 21 was formed. Next, a nickel plate 30 was placed on the semiconductor chip 10, and bonded to the semiconductor chip 10 by heating and pressurization.
US07789277B2
A closure assembly for a container, the container including a raised outlet defining a dispensing opening, includes a closure body having a nestable and extendable spout formed with a generally cylindrical section, a frustoconical section, and a transitioning region, including an invertible fold, located between these two sections so as to enable the closure body to be either nested or extended. The generally cylindrical section defines an outlet opening and a threaded closing cap is assembled to the generally cylindrical section for closing off the outlet opening. A retainer is used for connecting the closure body to the raised outlet wall and the frustoconical section includes a thicker wall portion for enabling the spout to maintain a selected orientation upon deflection into the selected orientation in order to provide directional discharge of the container contents.
US07789270B2
A chemical reaction cartridge enabling chemical reaction to be stably and safely carried out therein, and a method of using the same are provided. A chemical reaction cartridge is provided with a substrate, and an elastic member 2 overlaid on the substrate. A recess of a predetermined shape, depressed toward the top surface of the elastic member is formed in the back surface of the elastic member. The recess creates space between the substrate, and the elastic member, thereby making up a well, for holding the main ingredient of the epoxy adhesive, a flow path communicating with the well, a well for holding a curing agent for the epoxy adhesive, a flow path communicating with the well, a mixing part for mixing the main ingredient with the curing agent, and a discharge path for discharging a mixture. While the chemical reaction cartridge is not in use as yet, the flow paths, and the discharge path are closed, so that the wells are, in effect, in a hermetically sealed condition. The mixing part is made up of a plurality of flow paths intersecting each other. The respective starting ends of the flow paths are each linked with the flow path, or the flow path, and the respective terminals of the flow paths are linked with the discharge path. The terminal of the discharge path communicates with the outside via an end face of the cartridge.
US07789269B2
A fitment for package holding a liquid and a package including such a fitment. The fitment is a metering dispensing valve arranged to be secured to a flexible bag for selectively dispensing a metered quantity of the liquid therefrom. It includes a compressible bulb and a piercing member which when actuated pierces through the bag to enable a metered amount of the liquid to be drawn into a reservoir in the bulb. The bulb can then be compressed to dispense the metered amount of liquid from the reservoir. The dispensing valve also includes a inlet valve to the reservoir and an outlet valve from the reservoir. The fitment may include a pair of barriers to enable it to be sterilized before being secured to the bag form an aseptic package.
US07789268B2
An assembly for dispensing sterile lancets one at a time from a clip holding a plurality of lancets is described. The assembly is configured to dispense the lancets easily and conveniently under laboratory conditions where the lancet user is gloved and must manipulate the dispenser using only one hand while holding the animal being bled in the other. The assembly and its components are made of polycarbonate and rubber and are therefore capable of being sterilized by steam autoclaving methods or by other means of sterilization.
US07789259B2
A cover-handle assembly for a kitchen vessel comprises a cover element having an outer central support element swingably housing plate gripping means which, in a rest position thereof, adjoin the surface of the cover element and, in a use position thereof, project with a slanted attitude from the cover element surface.
US07789255B2
A bottle base made of plastic material, particularly for beverages, of the type which has, on its bottom, reinforcement recesses. The reinforcement recesses comprise a recess which runs along a transverse reference dimension of the base; the recess forms a main rib inside the base.
US07789246B1
A biological sample collector is adapted to a collect several biological samples in a plurality of filter wells. A biological sample collector may comprise a manifold plate for mounting a filter plate thereon, the filter plate having a plurality of filter wells therein; a hollow slider for engaging and positioning a tube that slides therethrough; and a slide case within which the hollow slider travels to allow the tube to be aligned with a selected filter well of the plurality of filter wells, wherein when the tube is aligned with the selected filter well, the tube is pushed through the hollow slider and into the selected filter well to sealingly engage the selected filter well and to allow the tube to deposit a biological sample onto a filter in the bottom of the selected filter well. The biological sample collector may be portable.
US07789243B2
In a bank note processing machine, a method of adjusting the threshold values associated with whether a particular note is fit or unfit for circulation is provided. The starting point is that at least one bank note fit for circulation is selected, at least one bank note unfit for circulation is selected, and the selected bank notes are processed by the bank note processing machine. The data of at least one sensor are stored, and at least one threshold value for the at least one sensor is defined by evaluating the stored data of the at least one sensor.
US07789239B2
Trays for securing an article of manufacture within a container include a recess for receiving at least a portion of the article of manufacture therein. The trays also may include one or more sidewalls extending from an edge of the tray towards a container-bearing surface of the tray. At least a portion of the sidewalls may comprise a plurality of generally curved regions defining a plurality of steps leading from the edge of the tray towards the container-bearing surface of the tray. Methods of packaging an article of manufacture include providing such a tray into a container, causing a surface of the tray to abut against a corner or edge of the container, and inserting the article of manufacture into the recess in the tray. Packages for shipping and/or storing such articles of manufacture may include one or more of such trays disposed within a container.
US07789235B2
The present invention is directed toward a product fastening system and, in particular, to a mechanism for securing a toy within product packaging. The packaging may include a toy support platform having a through-hole extending from a first surface to a second surface; a pliable strip configured to pass through the through-hole formed in the toy support platform and a fastener clip that captures the pliable strip to secure the toy to the support platform. The fastener clip may include a base with a plurality of notches formed therein. In operation, the pliable strip is wrapped around the toy object. The ends of the pliable strip are inserted through the through hole and inserted into the notch, becoming secured therein without the need for braiding or twisting the ends of the pliable strip.
US07789229B2
A magnetic tool holder includes a body having an area defining a cavity, the body including an inner surface and an outer surface, a magnet disposed on the outer surface of the body, wherein the magnet is operable to releasably adhere the body to a magnetic surface, an insert, wherein the insert is operable to be received within the cavity, wherein the insert includes at least one area defining a compartment, at least one tool, wherein the tool is selectively operable to be received within the compartment, and a cap, wherein the cap is selectively operable to engage an end portion of the outer surface of the body, wherein a magnet is disposed on an outer surface of the cap, wherein the magnet is operable to releasably adhere the cap to a magnetic surface.
US07789228B2
A waterproof case is provided for an electronic device having a touch panel display. The waterproof case includes an operating member for operating the touch panel display. The operating member includes: an operating portion which penetrates from the outer surface to inner surface of a wall forming the waterproof case in a watertight manner and which is disposed to be able to be pushed from the outer surface of the wall; an arm extending from a portion of the operating member, the portion being disposed inwardly from the wall, in the direction transverse to the direction in which the operating portion is pushed; and a contact portion which is provided to an end of the arm and is contacted with the touch panel display in response to the push of the operating portion.
US07789227B2
A handheld storage and mixing device is disclosed. The device can include first and second separate containers each defining a distinct internal cavity. The first container can be movable (e.g., rotatable) relative to the second container between a first position and a second position. In the first position, the cavities can be substantially sealed from one another. In the second position, a first gas forming ingredient in one of the cavities can mix with a second gas forming ingredient in the other cavity to form a gas, such as chlorine dioxide gas. The device can have one or more filtered openings to allow gas generated by mixing the first and second gas forming ingredients to escape into the ambient environment.
US07789219B2
A conveyor device, in particular for an automatic packaging machine for paper rolls, having a horizontal plane of advance, at least one pair of motorized flexible transmission members extending along a closed loop and bearing a plurality of transverse bars fastened to said flexible transmission members, a plurality of thruster elements borne by said bars, and a stationary adjustment station provided with at least one adjustment assembly having a grip organ movable in transverse direction and arranged in such a way as to displace in the transverse direction along the respective bar a thruster element positioned at the grip organ.
US07789217B2
A device for eliminating fugitive material dust emanating from material being transferred from an upper conveyor, feeder or crusher to a lower position, or other location. The device allows adjustability of the chute's total flow capacity where increased capacity is required. The device has a sliding gate disposed in the hopper to control the rate of transfer of the material from the hopper. A chute is disposed below the hopper and is movable in both a lateral direction (transverse to the direction of belt travel), and movable in the axis of belt travel. A choke is slidably attached to the chute, and slidable therein. The gate is positioned to maintain a level of material in the hopper to prevent dust from emanating out of the hopper from the chute. The choke is positioned to reduce airflow through the material as it passes through the chute to a lower position.
US07789194B2
A silencer for a CPAP device comprises a housing assembly defining a flow path passing therethrough and including at least one of an inlet chamber, an acoustic chamber and a blower chamber. Each of the chambers has an inlet and an outlet for fluid communication therebetween. The silencer includes a combination of reactive components, resonators and dissipative elements disposed within the inlet, acoustic and blower chambers. The reactive component may be configured as a compliant-walled reactive tube. The resonator may be configured as a perforated plate defining a cavity volume. The dissipative element may comprise porous material substantially occupying the cavity volume bounded by the perforated plate in the chamber walls.
US07789193B2
In a sound insulating device, a long sound insulating member including a polyhedron body bent at a predetermined angle to open a sound source side is sequentially stacked between supporting columns arranged in an upstanding manner at a predetermined spacing to configure a sound insulating wall 10 having an appropriate height. Sound waves from a sound source interfere with each other due to the polyhedron body to reduce noise.
