US07800517B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a data acquisition section inputting data; a data conversion section performing data conversion processing on the data input through the data acquisition section; and a control section performing data processing using the data converted by the conversion processing by the data conversion section, wherein when non-standard compliant data other than standard compliant data capable of being subjected to data processing by the control section is input from the data acquisition section, the data conversion section performs conversion processing of the non-standard compliant data into standard compliant data.
US07800513B2
A system for communicating information in a borehole between tool assemblies in a tool string includes receiving an information signal and separating a first signal that may be a power and low speed signal. A second signal is separated and demodulated from the information signal. The first signal and second signal are transmit to electronic devices that process data from an earth formation. After the first and second signals are transmit to one or more electronic devices, the signals are modulated and/or filtered and then combined into the information signal. The first signal is at one frequency and the second signal is at a different frequency. The apparatus includes a main signal line that couples to a second signal line and third signal line in the tool assembly.
US07800508B2
A system for adjusting a bias voltage of a flame sensing system. The system may use pulse width modulation to adjust the bias voltage. The system may have a flame sensing rod that conveys an electrical equivalent circuit of a flame presence to a detector via low pass filter. An excitation voltage may be conveyed via a DC blocking mechanism to the sensing rod. A pulse width modulation signal may be conveyed via a bias resistor to a node of the low pass filter and the detector. The input of an A/D converter may be that of the detector for flame signals. Also, leakages between the node of the A/D converter connection and the voltage source and/or ground may be detected and compensated. Further, leakage of the DC blocking mechanism may be minimized.
US07800506B2
A computerized security system which enhances the security provided by watchdogs on a given premises by analyzing the auditory and physiological indications given by the dogs to assess the level of security at any point in time. By attaching sensors to the dogs and placing microphones in their proximity the system continuously collects information about the dogs' auditory and physiological behavior, and according to predetermined parameters it assesses the watchdogs' physiological and emotional state. Having concluded that any of the dogs sense a threat or has been neutralized in any way the system may update the state of security on the users' security terminals. The system determines between three possible security states: no alert when no irregular activity is registered, medium alert if the dogs indicate a state of moderate alertness and high incase there are indications for a definite hostile presence.
US07800505B2
A device for continuously monitoring one or more indicators relating to the health or comfort of a person 12 includes one or more sensing means for measuring a value of one or more desired indicators and a communicating means 13 communicating an alarm signal when the measured value is above or below a predetermined value or range of values range, wherein the device 10 is adapted to be attached to an item of clothing 14 of the person 12.
US07800490B2
A method, system and computer program product for managing false alarms in a security system. A detection zone is established. An alarm event is triggered based on the detection of a tag in the detection zone using an initial alarm trigger sensitivity. The initial alarm trigger sensitivity is based on an initial set of one or more detection criteria. The set of detection criteria is modified to adjust the alarm trigger sensitivity of the security system.
US07800488B2
A wheel condition monitoring system includes a plurality of transmitters; a receiver; an antenna directivity control unit; a memory unit; and a wheel position determination unit. The transmitters are at each wheel of the vehicle, and transmit signals that include wheel condition data and identification data of themselves. The receiver receives the transmission signals so that the wheel condition monitoring system monitors the conditions of the respective wheels based thereon. The antenna directivity control unit controls the antenna directivity of the receiver. The memory unit stores the identification data by assigning relations between the identification data and the position of the corresponding wheel. The wheel position determination unit determines the position of the wheel at which the transmitter is installed based on the relations.
US07800487B2
It is the purpose of the present invention to provide a method, apparatus and program for alarming decrease in tire air-pressure capable of precisely detecting decrease in tire air-pressure even during turning round a corner with a large bank angle.The present invention discloses a method for alarming decrease in tire air-pressure that detects decrease in tire air-pressure using a judgment value obtained based on rotational wheel speeds obtained from tires loaded on a vehicle, comprising a step of detecting the rotational wheel speeds of respective tires when a vehicle turns round a corner, a step of calculating a vehicle speed from the rotational wheel speeds of respective tires, a step of detecting the yaw rate of the vehicle, a step of detecting acceleration to a lateral direction by a lateral directional acceleration sensor, a step of estimating a bank angle at a corner during turning using the yaw rate, vehicle speed and lateral directional acceleration of the vehicle, a step of calculating a judgment value from the rotational wheel speeds of respective tires and a step of preventing erroneous judgment occurring during turning round a corner with a bank angle based on the estimated bank angle.
US07800485B2
Embodiments of the invention include methods and apparatuses relating to bicycle turn signals. In one embodiment, a bicycle turn signal apparatus includes left and right switches, left and right turn lights, a controller, and a power supply.
US07800468B2
A strain relief mechanism is provided for an accessory for an electrical switching apparatus, such as a circuit breaker. The accessory includes an enclosure having a first end with an aperture, a second end disposed opposite and distal from the first end, and a number of electrical conductors, such as wires, extending through the aperture and outwardly from the first end of the accessory enclosure. The strain relief mechanism includes a support extending outwardly from the first end of the enclosure, and being proximate the aperture and the number of electrical conductors extending therethrough. A fastening mechanism, such as a wire tie, wraps around the electrical conductors and the support in order to secure the number of electrical conductors to the support and resist undesired movement thereof. First and second portions of the enclosure are fastened together without a plurality of separate fasteners.
US07800464B2
A surface acoustic wave device includes a supporting substrate, a LiTaO3 piezoelectric substrate joined on the supporting substrate, which has a normal line direction on a main surface thereof in a direction rotated 43° to 53° from a Y axis to a Z axis direction about an X axis, and an electrode pattern formed on the piezoelectric substrate.
US07800463B2
A band pass filter includes partial filters, each of which has a pass band. Pass bands of different ones of the partial filters have center frequencies that are different. A partial filter with a lowest center frequency has a pass band with a first low-frequency edge and a first high-frequency edge. The first low-frequency edge is steeper than first high-frequency edge. A partial filter with a highest center frequency has a pass band with a second low-frequency edge and a second high-frequency edge. The second high-frequency edge is steeper than the second low-frequency edge.
US07800462B2
A printed board is mounted with a chip-type solid electrolytic capacitor of a four-terminal structure where a pair of positive electrode terminals are disposed at opposite positions and a pair of negative electrode terminals are disposed at opposite positions on a mounting surface. The printed board has a pair of positive electrode patterns and a pair of negative electrode patterns to which the positive electrode terminals and negative electrode terminals of the chip-type solid electrolytic capacitor are connected, respectively. The printed board further has an inductor section that is insulated from the negative electrode patterns, and electrically connects the positive electrode patterns.
US07800460B2
An elastic wave filter device includes first and second elastic wave filter units connected to an unbalanced terminal. The first and second elastic wave filter units include first to third IDTs and fourth to sixth IDTs, respectively. One end of the first IDT, one end of the second IDT, one end of the fourth IDT, and one end of the sixth IDT are commonly connected together and are connected to the unbalanced terminal. The second IDT and the fifth IDT are each divided into first to third sub-IDT portions in the elastic wave propagation direction, respectively. The second sub-IDT portions of the second and fifth IDTs are connected to first and second balanced terminals, respectively.
US07800456B2
In one embodiment, an oscillator circuit is configured to oscillate at a base frequency. The oscillator is configured to receive a synchronization signal and restart a period of the oscillator signal responsively to the synchronization signal.
US07800452B2
The present invention provides a PLL circuit containing a loop gain circuit capable of suppressing loop gain variation.This PLL circuit includes a counter that is driven by a voltage controlled oscillator within the PLL circuit, an accumulator (ACL) that accumulates the output of the counter, and a comparison operation circuit block that compares the count value of the ACL and the design value pre-stored in a register, and the loop gain of the PLL circuit is detected taking advantage of the fact that the ACL count value is inversely proportional to the loop gain. Based on the detection result, the loop gain is calibrated by correcting the loop gain with a charge pump current, etc. This allows the PLL circuit to maintain stable loop characteristics that will not affect the characteristics variation of each element constituting the PLL.
US07800438B2
The invention relates to a bypass device for a microwave amplifier unit, the microwave amplifier unit (1) comprising at least one low noise amplifier (LNA) and amplifying communication signals in at least one microwave frequency band above 500 MHz, the bypass device extending in parallel to said microwave amplifier unit (1), both extending between an input port (3) and an output port (4), in which amplifier unit (1) switching elements (9,10,16,21) for activating said bypass segment (2) in a bypass mode of the device in case said amplifier unit (1) becomes inoperable and for effectively blocking the bypass segment (2) in an active mode of the device are arranged, said bypass segment comprising a series of bypass segment sections (14,19,17) having at least one junction point connected to an associated one of said switching elements (16,21), where each of said bypass segment sections (14:19:17) comprises at least two coupled transmission lines (31,32;31,33,32;31,34,32:51,52;51,53,52:41,42;41,43,42;41,44,42), where the coupled transmission lines form sets (31,32,51,52,42,41;31,33,32,51,52,42,41;31,34,32,51,53,52,42,44,41) of transmission lines, where only one of the sets is in use at a time, and where each set of coupled transmission lines optimizes the bypass segment (2) to different operating frequencies, whereby the bypass segment is able to operate properly in the bypass mode at more than one frequency.
US07800437B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for closed loop feedback for pulse width modulated (PWM) switching amplifiers using predictive feedback compensation (PFC) for suppressing distortions caused by supply voltage variations and output amplitude switching non-idealities in pulse width modulated (PWM) switching amplifiers by pre-compensating the PWM input based upon the supply voltage or output pulse amplitude and using closed loop timing feedback. Output amplitude errors associated with previous PWM output signals are used to predict output amplitude errors expected for future PWM output signals. These predicted output amplitude errors are then used to adjust the pulse widths for the future PWM output signals. Timing differences between pulse widths for the uncompensated PWM input signal and the pre-compensated PWM signal are used as feedback to provide closed loop width adjustment.
US07800430B2
A current generator arrangement for use, e.g., in 1-10V interfaces for lighting systems, includes at least one transistor (Q3) having a base-emitter junction wherein the voltage drop across the base-emitter junction defines the intensity of the output current and wherein the base-emitter junction is exposed to temperature drift. A resistive network (Req2) is coupled to the transistor (Q3), whereby the intensity of the output current is a function of both the voltage drop across the base-emitter junction of the transistor (Q3) and the resistance value of the resistive network (Req2). The resistive network (Req2) includes at least one resistor element (NTC3; NTC4) whose resistance value varies with temperature to keep constant the intensity of the output current irrespective of any temperature drift in the voltage drop across the base-emitter junction of the transistor (Q3).
US07800423B2
A duty correction circuit includes a duty ratio sensor for controlling a duty ratio sensing speed by a sensing speed control signal and outputting a correction signal by sensing a duty ratio of a clock, and a duty ratio corrector for controlling the duty ratio of the clock in response to the correction signal.
US07800422B2
A semiconductor memory apparatus having a clock signal generation circuit and a data output circuit is presented. The apparatus includes a delay locked loop (DLL), a phase locked loop (PLL), a frequency discrimination unit, and a data output buffer. The DLL circuit is configured to negatively delay a clock signal to generate a DLL clock signal. The PLL circuit is configured to receive the DLL clock signal to generate a control voltage in response to a frequency of the DLL clock signal and to generate a PLL clock signal of a frequency corresponding to a level of the control voltage. The frequency discrimination unit is configured to discriminate a frequency of the DLL clock signal in accordance with the level of the control voltage to generate a frequency discrimination signal. The data output buffer is configured to receive the DLL clock signal or the PLL clock signal to buffer output data signals.
US07800406B2
An apparatus includes a transmission circuit which transmits a data by a differential signal, and a control circuit which halts a portion of the differential signal under a predetermined condition.
US07800401B1
A logic element includes memory elements, multiplexers, and controls. The multiplexers are arranged in levels including a highest level of multiplexers with inputs connected to the memory elements and outputs connected to inputs of a next-to-highest level of multiplexers and a first level of multiplexers with inputs connected to outputs of a second level of multiplexers and at least one output. The controls are connected to the multiplexers. In a first operational mode the controls determine a first-mode output at the at least one output of the first level of multiplexers, and in a second operational mode the controls determine a plurality of second-mode outputs at selected outputs of multiplexers not at the first level of multiplexers.
US07800400B2
Integrated circuits such as programmable logic device integrated circuits are provided that have configuration random-access memory elements. The configuration random-access memory elements are loaded with configuration data to customize programmable logic on the integrated circuits. Each memory element has a capacitor that stores data for that memory element. A pair of cross-coupled inverters are connected to the capacitor. The inverters ensure that the memory elements produce output control signals with voltages than range from one power supply rail to another. Each configuration random-access memory element may have a clear transistor. The capacitor may be formed in a dielectric layer that lies above the transistors of the inverters, the address transistor, and the clear transistor. The inverters may be powered with an elevated power supply voltage.
US07800397B2
An on-die termination circuit of a semiconductor memory apparatus includes a comparator that compares a voltage corresponding to a normal code with a reference voltage to output a comparison signal. A code adjusting unit varies the normal code according to the comparison signal, outputs the varied normal code, and resets the normal code to a predetermined reset code or a variable fuse code.
US07800395B2
A coupling system to couple a first and a second qubit in response to a state of the coupling system that may be set by two input signals.
US07800388B2
A curved spring structure includes a base section extending parallel to the substrate surface, a curved cantilever section bent away from the substrate surface, and an elongated section extending from the base section along the substrate surface under the cantilevered section. The spring structure includes a spring finger formed from a self-bending material film (e.g., stress-engineered metal, bimorph/bimetallic) that is patterned and released. A cladding layer is then electroplated and/or electroless plated onto the spring finger for strength. The elongated section is formed from plating material deposited simultaneously with cladding layers. To promote the formation of the elongated section, a cementation layer is provided under the spring finger to facilitate electroplating, or the substrate surface is pre-treated to facilitate electroless plating.
US07800385B2
A test system including a package with interconnect paths. The package may have electrical paths that are electrically connected by the interconnect paths. The electrically connected electrical paths may yield increased data without significantly increasing the required testing hardware.
US07800384B2
A ceramic substrate has, on its surface, a multilayer wiring division, on which micro cantilever type probes are fixed. The multilayer wiring division has the first conductor layer, which includes through-hole junction pads, flatness improvement rings surrounding the through-hole junction pads and a grounding region further surrounding the flatness improvement rings. Since the flatness improvement rings are located around the through-hole junction pads, the surface of the first insulating layer, which is located above the first conductor layer, is free from severe undulation even near the through-hole junction pads. Accordingly, the multilayer wiring division has less irregularity in shape as a whole, and thus the probe mounting pads on the surface of the second insulating layer do not slope but keep almost horizontal. The probe unit substrate according to the invention has an advantage of less surface undulation and having non-sloping probe mounting pads without using a complicated manufacturing process.
US07800379B2
A sensing apparatus for determining a property of a fuel such as a gasoline and ethanol blend known as flex fuel includes an acetal plastic tube with an inlet, an outlet and a fuel passage in between. One property of the fuel is a dielectric constant. A pair of sensing plates are placed on opposite sides of the tube leaving the fuel passage unobstructed. A processing circuit on a printed circuit board (PCB) is located near to and is connected with the sensing plates. The circuit applies an excitation signal, senses a capacitance, and generates an output signal indicative of a property of the fuel. The sensed capacitance will increase with increasing concentration of ethanol in the fuel flowing through the passage. A shield for reducing EMI surrounds and encloses the sensing plates and the PCB. An interface connector allows the sensing apparatus to output the capacitance indicative signal to an engine controller or the like.
US07800373B2
A method of determining an orientation of a data acquisition system deployed on a seafloor includes measuring horizontal magnetic fields using detectors on the data acquisition system while the data acquisition rotates and descends to the seafloor or rises from the seafloor. Resting horizontal magnetic fields are measured after the data acquisition system is on the seafloor. A heading of the data acquisition system on the seafloor may be determined based on maximum and minimum horizontal magnetic fields measured during the descent and the resting horizontal magnetic fields.
US07800365B2
An integrated circuit is provided with two output terminals and a mode switch circuit which includes a pair of switch terminals. The mode switch circuit is allowed to switch the output mode between the 1-output mode for outputting the (+) magnetic field detection signal and the (−) magnetic field detection signal from the output terminal, and the 2-output mode for outputting the (+) magnetic field signal from the output terminal as one of the output terminals, and the (−) magnetic field detection signal from the output terminal as the other output terminal in accordance with the shortcircuit state or the non-shortcircuit state between the switch terminals. The switch terminals are exposed on the surface of the device, and the shortcircuit state and the non-shortcircuit state may be externally adjusted.
US07800363B2
Using eddy currents for automatic inspection of a rectilinear hole formed in a metal part. An eddy-current probe is carried by a drive system associated with a positioning baseplate that carries a calibration part including a hole similar to the hole for inspection and in alignment with an orifice thereof.
US07800362B1
A pressure distribution detector is less influence by installation environment, that is, a pressure distribution detector that detection sensitivity or detection accuracy is less adversely affected even if the device is fitted not only to a flat surface but also a surface having an arbitrary shape such as a curved surface. The pressure distribution detector comprises a plurality of drive coils (1) provided on a substrate, a plurality of detection coils (2) electromagnetically coupled with the plurality of drive coils in pairs respectively, and a spacer (4) for keeping a constant distance between the plurality of drive coils and the plurality of detection coils, respectively. In order to vary the degree of electromagnetic coupling between the drive coil and the detection coil, a variable electromagnetic coupling (3) formed of a conductor or a magnetic body is provided movably adjacent to the drive coil and/or the detection coil. The drive coil is driven through a drive circuit and a change in the degree of electromagnetic coupling between the drive coil and the detection coil is detected by a detection circuit from the detection coil.
US07800356B2
A circular surface of a magnet is magnetized to an N-pole, and a back surface is magnetized to an S-pole. A detection unit moves in an X-Y plane at a position apart from the surface of the magnet. An X-direction detection element and a Y-direction detection element are installed in the detection unit. Both the X-direction detection element and the Y-direction detection element are magnetoresistive effect elements each having the bias magnetic field in a B-direction applied to a free magnetic layer directed perpendicular to the surface of the magnet. Each bias magnetic field is stabilized both in the X-direction detection element and the Y-direction detection element such that the detection unit accurately provides position detection output values in the X- and Y-directions.
US07800355B2
Apparatus for measuring the electrical energy supplied to a rail traction unit by a high voltage line (1), the apparatus comprising measurement means (5, 26) for measuring the current drawn, and measurement means (12, 27) for measuring the voltage of the power supply, said measurement means themselves possessing a low voltage power supply (23, 24) necessary to enable them to operate, the apparatus being characterized in that the low voltage electrical power supply is taken from light energy converted (22) into electrical energy.
US07800348B2
Apparatus and methods are disclosed for providing VAR compensation using an AC motor drive, in which an off-line motor drive is configured to prevent power transfer to a motor load output, with a line side converter being operated to control a voltage or current in an intermediate circuit for leading or lagging VAR compensation of an AC power system.
US07800347B2
A control apparatus of a DC-DC converter includes a reactor and a switching element, repeats an accumulation and a discharge of energy of the reactor by a switching operation of the switching element, and converts a direct-current input voltage to acquire a direct-current output voltage. The control apparatus includes: a current value acquiring unit that acquires current values of the reactor in a current rising section and a current descending section of a current waveform of the reactor at a time interval of a half of a switching period of the switching element; and a center value estimating unit that estimates a center value of a current of the reactor based on the current values acquired in the current rising section and the current descending section.
US07800346B2
A device and method for equalizing the charges of series-connected individual cells of an energy storage device with a DC/DC converter, which draws energy from the energy storage device or from another energy source, charges an intermediate circuit capacitor whose voltage is inverted in a DC/AC converter, converts the alternating voltage via AC bus lines and coupling transformers by way of a rectifier into a pulsating direct current, and charges the cell having the lowest cell voltage with the pulsating direct current.
US07800342B2
The battery pack management apparatus for managing a battery pack having a series connection of battery cells is provided with a management unit for each of unit batteries each of which includes a single battery cell or a plurality of adjacent battery cells included in said battery pack. The battery pack management apparatus includes a selection circuit selecting one of the unit batteries, and a voltage detection circuit detecting a voltage across the selected unit battery. The management unit provided for the selected unit battery is configured to perform a management process (discharge process, for example) other than detection of the voltage across the selected unit battery on the selected unit battery.
US07800337B2
A control apparatus for an AC rotary machine, including first voltage command calculation means for calculating first voltage commands from current commands, an angular frequency, and constant set values of the AC rotary machine, second voltage command calculation means for calculating second voltage commands on the basis of difference currents between the current commands and current detection values, so that the difference currents may converge into zero, third voltage command calculation means for calculating third voltage commands by adding the first voltage commands and the second voltage commands, voltage application means for applying voltages to the AC rotary machine on the basis of the third voltage commands, and constant measurement means for calculating the constant set values on the basis of the second voltage commands.
US07800335B2
A method, apparatus, and program for driving a motor in a feedback control system, capable of suppressing oscillation of the motor are disclosed. A motor drive controller includes a drive motor, a detector, and a motor drive controller. The drive motor drives a moving body around a target moving speed. The detector detects a current moving speed of the moving body and output it as a detector pulse signal. The controller calculates a difference between the current moving speed and the target moving speed, calculates a control value based on the difference, calculates a pulse rate of a drive pulse signal based on the control value after having controlled the control value to be within a predetermined value, and feedback controls the drive motor based on the pulse rate.
US07800328B2
A fan motor driving circuit controls an energized state of a fan motor by performing on and off control of a switching circuit connected to a coil of the fan motor of a driving object. A variable reference voltage circuit generates a voltage whose voltage level changes with time by charging or discharging a capacitor at the start of starting up the fan motor. A drive signal combining unit generates drive signals on the basis of the voltage when at least starting up, and performs on and off control of the switching circuit by the drive signals. An initialization circuit initializes the capacitor before starting up with a transition from off to on of a power supply voltage to be supplied to the fan motor driving circuit as a turning point.
US07800319B2
A lighting control system is operable to be coupled to a security system and is pre-programmed such that the control devices of the lighting control system behave out-of-box in a predetermined manner in response to the security system. The lighting control system comprises a contact closure input that is operable to be simultaneously coupled to both a momentary contact closure output and a maintained contact closure output of the security system. Preferably, the lighting control system enters a first mode of operation when the contact closure input detects a closure, enters a second mode of operation if the contact closure input continues to detect the closure after a predetermined amount of time, and enters a third mode of operation if the contact closure input no longer closed. Accordingly, the lighting control system is responsive to either the momentary contact closure output or the maintained contact closure output.
US07800318B2
The present invention provides an improved power supply circuit for a backlight control of the LCD panel, capable of initiating a plurality of CCFL. The electrical lighting device comprises an switching electronic ballast circuit, a CCFL abnormal detective circuit, an impedance matching device at positive end of balancing current, an adjusting and enabling control device and an auxiliary power source circuit. The circuit of the electrical lighting device is designed to protect the circuit from abnormal conditions such as short-circuit occurred on a seal cover. The impedance matching device at positive end is provided in between negative ends of some cold cathode fluorescence lamps and an anode of secondary winding of the transformer to balance the CCFL current. Detective units and signals are provided to detect anode voltage in order to determine abnormality in the circuit.
US07800316B2
A driver for driving a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) is formed of a plurality of LED controllers connected in series between a power supply and a reference voltage. Each controller drives one or more LEDs directly connected to it. Each controller has a voltage input terminal coupled to an output terminal of an adjacent upstream controller, and an output terminal coupled to the voltage input terminal of an adjacent downstream controller. Each controller has a normally-on bypass switch coupled between its voltage input terminal and the voltage input terminal of the adjacent upstream controller. The bypass switch completely bypasses the adjacent upstream controller when the adjacent downstream controller detects that its input voltage is below a threshold insufficient to drive the LED in the adjacent upstream controller. The bypass switch is turned off if the voltage is above the threshold.
US07800313B1
A multi-mode LED retrofit module is provided for a flashlight of a type having a serious circuit including a battery power supply, a light bulb, and a single pull, single throw rotary on/off switch. The retrofit module includes a logical control device which measures an on/off time of the rotary switch, subsequent to a previous on-time which is greater than a pre-determined threshold. If the subsequent on/off time is less than a pre-determined threshold (preferably 0.5 seconds), the subsequent short on/off cycle is interpreted as an instruction to change mode.
US07800310B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for a lamp assembly having a novel design for fitting two or more tube-shaped lamps end-to-end. Such an end-to-end structure may be constructed for use inside a single protective sleeve, such as one constructed of transparent quartz in embodiments where the assembly is used in a decontamination reactor equipment. In exemplary embodiments, the lamps are securely coupled, or otherwise fastened or linked, together end-to-end using any appropriate means for ensuring the integrity and longevity of the connection between the ends of the lamps. The integrity of this end-to-end connection would prevail under any and all circumstances, such as shipping or otherwise moving the assembly, or under normal or abnormal operating conditions, or even in the event that any equipment in which the lamp assembly is used fails during its operation.
US07800305B2
A Plasma Display Panel (PDP) in which a dummy area is arranged so as to retain phosphor paste ejected from extra nozzles when a plurality of nozzles are used to apply phosphor paste. The PDP includes a first substrate and a second substrate opposing each other; address electrodes arranged on the first substrate; display electrodes arranged on the second substrate perpendicular to a direction of the address electrodes; barrier ribs arranged in a space between the first substrate and the second substrate to define a plurality of discharge cells; and phosphor layers arranged in each of the discharge cells; wherein a display area comprises a plurality of the discharge cells arranged at positions where the address electrodes and the display electrodes cross each other; wherein a non-display area is arranged adjacent to an edge of the display area along a direction perpendicular to a direction in which phosphor layers of the same color are applied to discharge cells neighboring each other; and wherein the phosphor layers are arranged in portions of the non-display area.
US07800279B2
Disclosed is a thermo-buckled micro actuation unit made of parylene, which is a polymer having high thermal expansion coefficient, for delivering liquid from a source liquid section to a target liquid section, including a substrate on which a thermo-buckled micro actuation unit is formed. The thermo-buckled micro actuation unit includes upper and lower films made of polymers of high thermal expansion coefficient, a metal resistor arranged between the two films, and a flow channel defined between the lower film and the substrate. When electrical power is supplied to the metal resistor, the metal resistor generates heat and the heat is conducted to the upper and lower films, of which the thicknesses are different, whereby a temperature difference is induced therebetween and causing deformation of thermo-buckling, as a result of which the liquid is pumped from the source liquid section, through the flow channel, toward the target liquid section.
US07800277B2
A vehicle drive unit includes a crank case with a crank shaft operatively disposed therein and an attached axial gap type rotating machine. The crank shaft is driven via internal combustion to rotate about a center axis. The axial gap type rotating machine includes a rotor fixed to an end of the crank shaft that extends outside of the crank case and a stator fixed to the crank case and facing the rotor. The stator includes a first stator that has first teeth that form the magnetic flux generating area and a second stator that has second teeth. A gap between the first teeth and the second teeth can be varied to vary magnetic resistance by rotating the second stator relative to the first stator. Preferably, a drive mechanism is provided to rotate the second stator relative to the first stator.
US07800265B2
A motor for an electric power steering apparatus can ensure an appropriate preload to an outer race of a rolling element bearing by adjusting the thickness of a spacer without replacement of a wave washer for a change in an axial dimension between a bottom surface of a bearing box and the bearing. The motor includes a rotor, a casing that receives the rotor and has the bearing box in which the bearing rotatably supporting a shaft of the rotor is received, an annular wave washer that is arranged between the bottom surface of the bearing box and the bearing, and applies a preload to the outer race of the bearing, and an annular spacer that is arranged between the bottom surface of the bearing box and the bearing so as to be in abutment with the wave washer for adjusting the preload applied to the outer race.
US07800262B1
A combined centrifugal fan and valve to exhaust air outside of a building when running and to prevent air from escaping when not running. The electrical motor design is to allow the rotating parts of the motor to slide along the motor shaft axis. The vertical position of the motor will allow the sliding capacity of the motor to utilize the weight of the fan, motor shaft and motor armature to hold the base plate of the fan tightly against the inlet opening when the motor is not running and lift the fan, motor shaft and motor armature when running by the magnetic forces of the motor windings.
US07800250B2
An integrated circuit device provides a choice of external pins (connections) that may be user selectable for coupling an external filter/stabilization capacitor to an internal voltage regulator. However, connecting the output of a internal voltage regulator to an uncharged external filter/stabilization capacitor (or to a capacitor charged to a different voltage level than the internal regulation voltage) through a low impedance path can cause the regulator output voltage to sag/spike if the internal voltage regulator tries to charge/discharge the capacitor up/down to equilibrium with the regulator output voltage. To minimize this potential sag/spike, the voltage on the external filter/stabilization capacitor may be adjusted in a controlled manner to substantially the same voltage as the voltage on the output of the internal voltage regulator, and then the internal voltage regulator is operationally coupled through a low impedance to the external regulator filter/stabilization capacitor.
US07800242B2
A method of controlling the output power from a wind energy installation to a utility grid having a specified nominal frequency is provided, in which the output power is controlled depending on the actual grid frequency in the utility grid such that the output power is reduced when the grid frequency exceeds a predetermined value. The predetermined value is at most two per mill higher than the nominal frequency of the grid and the output power is reduced as soon as any increase of the grid frequency above the predetermined value is detected.
US07800241B2
A semiconductor device with semiconductor device components embedded in a plastics composition is disclosed. In one embodiment, organosilicon and organometallic compounds are used for producing an adhesion promoter layer. The adhesion promoter layer on the surfaces of the semiconductor device components of a semiconductor device has a microporous morphology and has an average thickness D of between 5 nm≦D≦300 nm. In this case, the adhesion promoter layer has nanoscale ceramic grains applied wet-chemically.
US07800235B2
Method of fabricating thin-film transistors in which contact with connecting electrodes becomes reliable. When contact holes are formed, the bottom insulating layer is subjected to a wet etching process, thus producing undercuttings inside the contact holes. In order to remove the undercuttings, a light etching process is carried out to widen the contact holes. Thus, tapering section are obtained, and the covering of connection wiring is improved.
US07800233B2
A method of manufacturing according to an embodiment of the present invention includes forming a seed metal layer 20a on a supporting substrate 70, forming an interconnect layer 10 including an interconnect 18 on the seed metal layer 20a, removing the supporting substrate 70 after forming the interconnect layer 10, and patterning the seed metal layer 20a thus to form an interconnect 20 after removing the supporting substrate.
US07800226B2
A method for forming a metal silicide region in a silicon region of a semiconductor substrate. The method comprises forming a metal layer over the silicon region, then in succession forming a titanium and a titanium nitride layer thereover. As the substrate is heated to form the silicide, the titanium getters silicon dioxide on the surface of the silicon region and the titanium nitride promotes the formation of a smooth surface at the interface between the silicide layer and the underlying silicon region.
US07800202B2
In order to obtain substantially the same operating speed of a p-type MOS transistor and an n-type MOS transistor forming a CMOS circuit, the n-type MOS transistor has a three-dimensional structure having a channel region on both the (100) plane and the (110) plane and the p-type MOS transistor has a planar structure having a channel region only on the (110) plane. Further, both the transistors are substantially equal to each other in the areas of the channel regions and gate insulating films. Accordingly, it is possible to make the areas of the gate insulating films and so on equal to each other and also to make the gate capacitances equal to each other.
US07800197B2
The present invention relates to a semiconductor device and a method of manufacture thereof, being capable of improving the high integration by increasing a cell region while securing the reliability of device and the process margin through forming a cell region and a core region with the stacking structure.
US07800189B2
The invention relates to a microfabricated capacitive ultrasonic transducer (20) comprising at least one thin plate (21), provided with a metallization (24), suspended over a conductive substrate (23) through supporting elements integrally coupled to the conductive substrate (23), the conductive substrate (23) forming one or more electrodes corresponding to said at least one thin plate (21), characterized in that said supporting elements comprise an ordered arrangement of columns or “pillars” (22) to which the thin plate (21) is integrally coupled, whereby the pillars (22) operate as substantially punctiform constraints. The invention further relates to a surface micro-mechanical process for fabricating such microfabricated capacitive ultrasonic transducers (20).
US07800187B2
In a semiconductor device including a gate electrode buried in a trench of the device, the trench is constructed by a first opening with a uniform width the same as that of an upper portion of the first opening and a second opening beneath the first opening with a width larger than the uniform width. A bottom of a base region adjacent to the trench is adjacent to the second opening.
US07800182B2
In a method of making a semiconductor device, a first gate stack is formed on a substrate at a pFET region, which includes a first gate electrode material. The source/drain regions of the substrate are etched at the pFET region and the first gate electrode material of the first gate stack is etched at the pFET region. The etching is at least partially selective against etching oxide and/or nitride materials so that the nFET region is shielded by a nitride layer (and/or a first oxide layer) and so that the spacer structure of the pFET region at least partially remains. Source/drain recesses are formed and at least part of the first gate electrode material is removed by the etching to form a gate electrode recess at the pFET region. A SiGe material is epitaxially grown in the source/drain recesses and in the gate electrode recess at the pFET region. The SMT effect is achieved from the same nitride nFETs mask.
US07800179B2
A semiconductor device 100 has N-well regions 18 holding PMOS devices 110, 112 and P-type regions 14 holding NMOS devices 114, 116. Devices 110 and 114 have high thresholds and devices 112 and 116 have low thresholds. The PMOS devices are junction isolated from the substrate 10 by the N-well 18 and the NMOS devices are isolated from the substrate by the N-type layer 13. Field oxide regions 20 laterally isolate the PMOS from the NMOS devices. The high threshold CMOS devices 110, 114 connect the low threshold CMOS devices to opposite rails Vdd and Vss. A control terminal 121 turns the high threshold devices on to let the low threshold devices switch rapidly. In stand-by mode, the high threshold devices are off and there is very low leakage current.
US07800164B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a first dielectric layer over a semiconductor substrate, forming a plurality of discrete storage elements over the first dielectric layer, thermally oxidizing the plurality of discrete storage elements to form a second dielectrics over the plurality of discrete storage elements, and forming a gate electrode over the second dielectric layer, wherein a significant portion of the gate electrode is between pairs of the plurality of discrete storage elements. In one embodiment, portions of the gate electrode is in the spaces between the discrete storage elements and extends to more than half of the depth of the spaces.
US07800160B2
A semiconductor device includes a tunnel insulation film formed on a semiconductor substrate, a floating gate electrode formed on the tunnel insulation film, an inter-electrode insulation film formed on the floating gate electrode, a control gate electrode formed on the inter-electrode insulation film, a pair of oxide films which are formed between the tunnel insulation film and the floating gate electrode and are formed near lower end portions of a pair of side surfaces of the floating gate electrode, which are parallel in one of a channel width direction and a channel length direction, and a nitride film which is formed between the tunnel insulation film and the floating gate electrode and is formed between the pair of oxide films.
US07800152B2
A method is provided for producing a fin structure on a semiconductor substrate using a thin SiGe layer to produce a void between a silicon substrate and a silicon fin portion. A fin structure produced by such a method is also provided.
US07800151B2
In the present invention, a decoupling capacitance circuit, a first output terminal and a second output terminal are provided. The decoupling capacitance circuit comprises a TDDB control circuit consisting of a first Tr and a second Tr, and a third Tr. Conductivity types of the first and second Trs are different from each other. A source of the first Tr is connected to a first power supply wiring, and a drain of the first Tr is connected to a gate of the second Tr. A source of the second Tr is connected to a second power supply wiring, and a drain of the second Tr is connected to a gate of the first Tr. The third and first Trs have the same conductivity type. A source and a drain of the third Tr are connected to the first power supply wiring, and a gate of the third Tr is connected to the drain of the second Tr. The first output terminal is connected to the drain of the first Tr, and the second output terminal is connected to the drain of the second Tr.
US07800134B2
Methods of forming CMOS integrated circuit devices include forming at least first, second and third transistors in a semiconductor substrate and then covering the transistors with one or more electrically insulating layers that impart a net stress (tensile or compressive) to channel regions of the transistors. The covering step may include covering the first and second transistors with a first electrically insulating layer having a sufficiently high internal stress characteristic to impart a net tensile (or compressive) stress in a channel region of the first transistor and covering the second and third transistors with a second electrically insulating layer having a sufficiently high internal stress characteristic to impart a net compressive (or tensile) stress in a channel region of the third transistor. A step may then performed to selectively remove a first portion of the second electrically insulating layer extending opposite a gate electrode of the second transistor. In addition, a step may be performed to selectively remove a first portion of the first electrically insulating layer extending opposite a gate electrode of the first transistor and a second portion of the second electrically insulating layer extending opposite a gate electrode of the third transistor.
US07800132B2
A semiconductor device includes a T-gate disposed between drain and source regions and above a barrier layer to form a Schottky contact to the channel layer. A first inactive field mitigating plate is disposed above a portion of the T-gate and a second active field plate is disposed above the barrier layer and in a vicinity of the T-gate.
US07800125B2
An LED package including a carrier, a LED chip, and a lens is provided. The LED chip is disposed on the carrier. The lens is disposed on the carrier and above the LED chip. A gap is formed between the LED chip and the lens. The lens has a first surface, a second surface, a protrusion, and at least one protruding ring. The first surface faces the LED chip. The second surface is opposite to the first surface. The protrusion is located at the first surface. The protruding ring is located at the first surface and surrounds the protrusion.
US07800122B2
A light emitting diode device includes a multi-layer stack of materials including a p-layer, a n-layer, and a light generating region for emission of light in a primary emission direction towards one of the p- and n-layers; a substantially transparent layer located at or adjacent said one of the p- and n-layers, having a first surface facing said one of the p- and n-layers and an opposed second surface; and a reflective surface formed at or adjacent the second surface of the transparent layer for directing at least a portion of the emitted light in a direction away from the primary emission direction so as to enhance light emission from a side of the light emitting diode device.
US07800119B2
A semiconductor lamp having a light-emitting semiconductor device, the semiconductor device comprising a carrier and at least one light-emitting semiconductor component on the carrier, and a heatsink. The heatsink has a first main face, the semiconductor device is located adjacent to the first main face, and the carrier faces the first main face. The semiconductor device is thermally coupled to the heatsink, and the heatsink has at least one feedthrough for electrical connection of the semiconductor device.
US07800107B2
A test module for measuring electrical characteristics of a semiconductor device includes a plurality of shallow trench isolation (STI) layers formed over a semiconductor substrate. An active area includes not only an extended part enclosing the STI layers but also a plurality of minute line-width parts isolated by the STI layers. A gate oxide layer is formed over the STI layers and the active area. A gate electrode is formed over the STI layers and the minute line-width parts of the active area with interposing the gate oxide layer. An interlayer insulating layer, a metal wiring layer, a contact plug, and test pads allow non-destructive testing of the semiconductor device.
US07800106B2
OPC results may be efficiently evaluated on the basis of a test structure containing a plurality of line features with opposing end portions. Thus, for different line parameters, the effect of OPC may be determined for a given critical tip-to-tip distance by determining the leakage behavior of the test assemblies, each having different design parameter values for line width and lateral distance between adjacent lines.
US07800099B2
A light emitting device capable of reducing degradation caused by dispersion of impurities such as moisture, oxygen, an alkaline metal, and an alkaline earth metal is provided. Specifically, a flexible light emitting device with an OLED formed on a plastic substrate is provided. In a light emitting device using a substrate, a circular polarizing plate has a single layer or two or more layers of barrier films formed of a compound or compounds selected from AlNXOY, AlXNY, and Al2O3, which is (are) capable of preventing oxygen and moisture from seeping into an organic light emitting layer of an OLED as well as preventing an alkaline metal, an alkaline earth metal, and other impurities from penetrating an active layer of a TFT.
US07800096B2
A semiconductor element is disclosed having a layered body of a first conductivity type, a light emitting layer, a layered body of a second conductivity type, a constriction layer having a constriction hole, and a first electrode having a lighting hole, a second electrode positioned such that charge traveling between the first and second electrodes passes through the light emitting layer. The constriction hole area is larger than the lighting hole area, and the lighting hole and the constriction hole expose a part of the layered body of the second conductivity type. A mirror is positioned such that the mirror receives light emitted from the light emitting layer that passes through the layered body of the first conductivity type, and the mirror is constructed to have a high reflection ratio for light having peak wavelengths between 200 nm to 350 nm.
US07800079B2
An assembly for detection of at least one of radiation flux and contamination on an optical component includes a detector configured to receive at least one of the radiation flux and contamination, and when the assembly is in use, to generate a detector signal correlated to at least one of the radiation flux and contamination on the component. A meter is configured to measure the detector signal. The detector includes at least one wire.
US07800075B2
A multifunction module for an electron beam column comprises upper and lower electrodes, and a central ring electrode. The upper and lower electrodes have multipoles and are capable of deflecting, or correcting an aberration of, an electron beam passing through the electrodes. A voltage can be applied to the central ring electrode independently of the voltages applied to the upper and lower electrodes to focus the electron beam on a substrate.
US07800073B2
Moldable neutron sensitive compositions containing an inorganic scintillating component, and neutron capture component, and a moldable resin component, are described. They are prepared with optimized compositions for maximized thermal neutron sensitivity. Methods for preparing such compositions, and articles and radiation detectors made from them are described as well.
US07800071B2
Method, apparatus and system for reducing or preventing polarization in semiconductor radiation detectors for medical imaging. For example, an apparatus includes a semiconductor with electrodes coupled thereto, configured to generate an electrical signal in the electrodes in response to absorption of ionizing radiation in the semiconductor, wherein the absorption of the ionizing radiation generates a space charge in the semiconductor; and an infra-red (IR) generator configured to generate IR radiation of a selectable wavelength, the selectable wavelength being chosen so as to at least partially reduce an effect of the space charge on the electrical signal.
US07800065B2
An apparatus is provided that includes an electronic assembly having a panel and a circuit board, a casing surrounding the electronic assembly and at least one isolated member coupled to the casing. The apparatus further includes a shock absorbing material flexibly coupling the electronic assembly directly or indirectly to the at least one isolated member.
US07800063B2
A manipulator for use in e.g. a Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) is described, said manipulator capable of rotating and translating a sample holder (4). The manipulator clasps the round sample holder between two members (3A, 3B), said members mounted on actuators (2A, 2B). Moving the actuators in the same direction results in a translation of the sample holder, while moving the actuators in opposite directions results in a rotation of the sample holder.
US07800062B2
The present invention provides, according to a first aspect, a method for the examination of specimen with a beam of charged particles. The method provides one or more images of the specimen made with different view angles, so that, compared to a single image of the specimen, a lot of additional information about the specimen can be accessed. The different view angles (angles of incidence) are achieved by tilting the beam between the two images and moving the specimen to a new position so that the displacement of the beam caused by the tilting of the beam is compensated. Accordingly, while displaying/recording the second image the beam scans over the same area as it has scanned while displaying/recording the first image.
US07800058B2
A mass spectrometer that is switchable to operate as a linear trap or as a mass filter, and attaining both high ejection efficiency when operated as a linear trap and high mass resolving power when operated as a mass filter. A mass spectrometer includes an ion source for ionizing a sample, a linear trap quadrupole rod lens supplied with ionized ions, a trap electrode for forming a potential to trap the supplied ions between one end of the quadrupole lens and the other end, a control unit to regulate the trap lens voltage, and a mass analyzer or detector to detect ions ejected from the linear trap, and characterized in switching between an operation where the supplied ions are trapped in a section quadrupole rod lens and ejected by the controller unit regulating the trap electrode voltage; and an operation where ions are selective passed through according to their mass. The ejection efficiency when operated as an ion trap, and the mass resolving power when operated as a quadrupole mass filter are vastly improved compared to conventional methods.
US07800050B2
Pressure spring pieces elastically bias a free-form curved mirror such that the free-form curved mirror is pressed against positioning sections and positioned thereby. Displacement restricting sections are disposed opposite to the pressure spring pieces with respect to the free-form curved mirror in biasing directions of the pressure spring pieces with gaps. The gaps are set such that deformation of the pressure spring pieces remain within an elastic range when the free-form curved mirror moves against biasing forces of the pressure spring pieces to come into contact with the displacement restricting sections.
US07800047B2
A computerized apparatus and method for detecting unauthorized activity in a protected area in real-time using a fiber optic cable having an optical sensor line, a fiber scanning unit, and a computer. Detecting unauthorized activity is done by scanning the sensor line using the scanning unit to obtain repetitive scan signals representing the state of the sensor line, receiving scan signals at the computer, processing the scan signals to determine an initial baseline representing the normal state of the sensor line, storing the baseline, continuously monitoring the sensor line using the scan signals received in real-time by the computer, comparing the scan signal to the baseline, determining if a fault has occurred based on an predetermined attenuation change in one or more of the scan signals as compared to the baseline, generating a fault signal, and providing a warning of a fault in response to the fault signal.
US07800036B2
A roadway system for energy generation and distribution is presented. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, the roadway system comprises a plurality of solar energy generating devices, and a roadway system electricity grid. The solar energy generating devices are electrically connected to the roadway system electricity grid and are positioned on part of or near to a road in a system of roads and being optionally fixed in a position such that a multi-form, solar energy gathering network can be formed.
US07800033B1
An aircraft in the form of multi-stage missile 1 with a spiral inducing assembly 2 which is capable of inducing the missile to travel in a continuous spiraling motion without the missile rolling. A fin 6a is attached to a tube 3 that is able to rotate around the encircled part of the fuselage. The fin 6a is able to rotate in a pivoting manner on the rotate-able tube 3 with respect to the rotate-able tube 3, thereby changing the pitch relative to the longitudinal axis of the rotate-able tube 3. Fin 6a is rotated to a greater than another fin on the right side of the tube 3. The difference in degree of rotation between the fins makes the fin 6a exert a greater force on the rotate-able tube 3 than the fin on the right side when the fins are rotated in the same direction. The imbalance between the rotational forces thus causes the rotate-able tube 3 to rotate. When rotated, the fins would exert a lateral force on the rotate-able tube 3. Thus, as well as forcing the rotate-able tube 3 to rotate, the fins would also push the rotate-able tube sideways. But as the rotate-able tube is pushed sideways, it rotates, and hence the lateral direction of push constantly revolves, causing a spiraling motion of the missile when in flight. Rotation of the fins is activated automatically by separation of sections of the main body.
US07800026B2
A heating body is provided. The heating body includes a plurality of heating members having different thermal expansion coefficients and a tube in which the heating members are disposed. At least one of the plurality of heating members supports other heating member.
US07800016B2
A method of performing polarity switching short circuiting arc welding is provided. In the arc welding, a welding wire is fed at a constant feeding rate, a short circuiting state and a arcing state appear repeatedly between the welding wire and a base metal, and the output polarity of a welding power source is switched in accordance with a polarity switching signal for performing electrode positive welding and electrode negative welding. In accordance with the method, the welding current is reduced during a predetermined short circuit initial period, when a first arc is formed after the polarity switching signal changes. Then, the output polarity of the welding power source is changed when the short circuit initial period has lapsed. Further, the welding current is increased for terminating the arc forming between the welding wire and the base metal.
US07799997B2
Provided herein are flexible, low friction innerduct structures configured to contain at least one cable within a conduit. The innerduct structures, or conduit inserts, include one or more strip-shaped panels of flexible material that are joined to define at least one channel through which a cable can extend. The innerduct structures preferably are formed from a woven textile fabric having warp yarns that are monofilaments and fill yarns that are an alternating pattern of monofilament yarns and multifilament yarns. Such construction increases the flexibility of the fabric, as compared to previous innerduct fabrics, resulting in a reduction of the pulling force required to draw the cable through the innerduct and into position.
US07799989B2
Disclosed is a photo-electrode for a dye-sensitized solar cell comprising a conductive substrate; a meso-porous metal oxide thin film formed on the surface of the conductive substrate; a porous film formed on the meso-porous metal oxide thin film and comprising metal oxide nanoparticles; and a photosensitive dye adsorbed on the surface of the porous film; and a process for preparation thereof.
US07799987B1
A solar tracker has a mounting surface to which a solar device is mounted and means for causing the mounting surface to change its orientation so as to be substantially perpendicular to the sun's rays as the sun travels through a useful arc relative to the solar tracker wherein change of orientation of the mounting surface is caused by bending of the solar tracker attributable. The bending can be caused by mechanical contraction or due to shrinkage caused by loss of water in which case capillary action causes the outer surface material to be saturated and grow when it is not exposed to sunlight. The bendable mounting surface support is an elongated tube held in a nominally vertical position in the absence of sunlight by a vertical support which can be a coiled compression spring, an extruded tube of closed-end structural foam, a vertical floating pole or an air-inflated tube.
US07799986B2
Disclosed is a stringed instrument that includes a plurality of strings and a pickup to which each of the plurality of strings is respectively coupled that is connectable to a computer to implement DSP modeling. A serial interface circuit is coupled to the pickup and to a digital connector that formats each digital string vibration signal received from the pickup into a digital serial protocol. A computer is coupled by a serial link to the digital connector such that the computer receives each serially formatted digital string signal (SFDSS). The computer operates at least one audio DSP-based software module to process each received SFDSS wherein each SFDSS is processed in order to emulate a corresponding string tone of one of a plurality of stringed instruments to create an emulated digital string tone signal (EDSTS). Each EDSTS is then transmitted back over the serial link to the stringed instrument for playback.
US07799984B2
A video game system comprising a standard drum set having at least one drum set component (30). An electrical pick-up is attached to each component. A game grid (12) is displayed on a display monitor and is electrically resonsive to the electrical pick-up. The game grid being similar to a musical staff with objects, which are moving along the musical staff, that will change appearance when the drum set component is struck at an appropriate moment.
US07799979B2
According to an embodiment, a plectrum apparatus comprises a ring capable of being releasably mounted to a user's finger, and a harness capable of releasably securing a plectrum, the harness being hingedly coupled to the ring. In one embodiment, a first spring is further provided and configured to bias the harness in a stowed position. A plectrum secured to the harness may be positioned toward a thumb side of the user's finger in the stowed position when the ring is mounted on the user's finger. The harness may be further capable of being retracted in a deployed position, the plectrum secured to the harness engaged between the user's finger and thumb.
US07799972B2
The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 05H284. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 05H284. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the cotton variety 05H284 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing cotton plants by crossing the cotton variety 05H284 with itself or another cotton variety and plants produced by such methods.
US07799968B2
A sponge-like pad used for cleaning and other wiping and polishing applications is disclosed. The sponge-like pad is made from a plurality of textured paper webs attached together at selected locations. The paper web can be, for instance, a highly textured throughdried paper web containing high-yield fibers and a wet strength agent. In one embodiment, the stacked plies can be contained within a cover material that is liquid pervious. The sponge-like product of the present invention can be used alone or it can be incorporated into a cleaning tool, such as a mop.
US07799962B2
This invention relates to a process for the selective alkylation of toluene and/or benzene with an oxygen-containing alkylation agent. In particular, the process uses a selectivated molecular sieve which has been modified by the addition of a hydrogenation component, wherein at least one of the following conditions is met: (a) the selectivated molecular sieve has an alpha value of less than 100 prior to the addition of the hydrogenation component, or (b) the selectivated and hydrogenated catalyst has an alpha value of less than 100. The process of this invention provides high selectivity for the alkylated product while reducing catalyst degradation.
US07799961B2
A process for producing an alkylated aromatic compound from polyalkylated aromatic compound(s) having bi-alkylated aromatic compound(s) and tri-alkylated aromatic compound(s), comprising the step of contacting alkylatable aromatic compound(s) with the polyalkylated aromatic compound(s) at a transalkylation condition in the presence of a transalkylation catalyst. The transalkylation catalyst has high activity sufficient to achieve a ratio of bi-alkylated aromatic compound(s) conversion over tri-alkylated aromatic compound(s) conversion in a range of from about 0.5 to about 2.5.
US07799955B2
There are disclosed compounds of formulae (I) or (II) in which A is selected from the group consisting of (1), (2), (3) and (4); OH, and one of R1 and R2 is selected from H, OH and OCH3, and the other of R1 and R2 is selected from OH and OCH3; one of R3 and R4 is selected from H, OH and OCH3, and the other of R3 and R4 is selected from OH and OCH3; provided that at least one of the pairs R1, R2 and R3, R4 are both OH; R5 is selected from OH and OCH3; and denotes a single or double bond; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and prodrugs thereof. The compounds of the invention are useful for the treatment of hormone-dependent conditions and cancers.
US07799951B2
The instant invention discloses a process for preventing contact discoloration of substrates coming into contact with elastomers and stabilizing elastomers to prevent oxidative, thermal, dynamic, light-induced and/or ozone-induced degradation, which comprises incorporating into the elastomers, or applying to these, at least a compound of the formula (I) wherein R1 is C1-C12alkyl, R2 is C1-C12alkyl, or R1 and R2 together with the carbon atom to which they are attached form an unsubstituted or with C1-C4alkyl substituted C5-C12cycloalkyl ring; R3 is hydrogen or —CH2—S(O)m—R5, R4 and R5 independently of each other are unsubstituted or with cyano substituted C5-C18-alkyl; C7-C9phenylalkyl, unsubstituted or with halogen, hydroxyl, cyano or C1-C4alkyl substituted phenyl or naphthyl; benzothiazolyl or —R6—CO2—R7, R6 is C1-C18alkylene, R7 is C1-C18alkyl, and m is 0, 1 or 2. The instant invention discloses also novel compounds of the formula (I), new mixtures of compounds of the formula (I) and compositions thereof in elastomers.
US07799945B2
A catalytic process for preparing aliphatic straight-chain and β-alkyl-branched carboxylic acids of 5 to 13 carbon atoms by catalytic oxidation of the corresponding aldehydes by means of oxygen or oxygen-containing gas mixtures in the liquid phase in the presence of a catalyst system contains alkali metal carboxylates or alkaline earth metal carboxylates or a mixture thereof in an amount, calculated as alkali metal or alkaline earth metal, of 0.5 mmol to 15 mmol per mol of aldehyde used and also metals of groups 4 to 12 of the Periodic Table of the Elements, cerium or lanthanum in amounts of not more than 5 ppm, based on the aldehyde used, or compounds of such metals, with the catalyst system being the reaction product from an aldehyde oxidation reaction.
US07799942B2
Disclosed is a process for the preparation of a terephthalic acid di-ester by the esterification of terephthalic acid with an alcohol at elevated and normal temperature and pressure while the water of the reaction is removed from the reaction mixture via an inert gas or a column.
US07799934B2
A process for the preparation of a nucleophilic addition product of an aziridine and a nucleophile, the process comprising treating the arizidine with the nucleophile in the presence of a biaryl phosphoric acid catalyst.
US07799933B2
The invention is concerned with novel sulfonamide derivatives of formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, X and Y are as defined in the description and in the claims, as well as physiologically acceptable salts and esters thereof. These compounds inhibit L-CPT1 and can be used as medicaments.
US07799924B2
A novel class of substituted homopiperidine, piperidine and pyrrolidine derivatives, methods for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions comprising them and use thereof in the treatment of disorders related to the histamine H3 receptor. More particularly, the compounds possess histamine H3 receptor antagonistic activity and are thus useful in the treatment of disorders in which a histamine H3 receptor blockade is beneficial.
US07799920B2
A process for preparing perylene-3,4-dicarboximides which bear a sterically demanding substituent on the imide nitrogen atom by reacting a perylene-3,4:9,10-tetracarboxylic dianhydride with a sterically hindered primary amine in a substantially anhydrous reaction medium, which comprises undertaking the reaction in the presence of a tertiary amine, of a solvent based on a cyclic imine or amide and of a Lewis acid as a catalyst.
US07799914B2
The present invention provides a process for the preparation of a compound of formula (I): wherein X is halogen; Y is ZR1; Z is oxygen or sulphur; and R1 is C1-6 alkyl, C1-6 haloalkyl or C3-7 cycloalkyl; the process comprising either: a. hydrogenating a compound of formula (II): with a suitable transition metal catalyst in a C1-6 aliphatic alcohol, an ether, an ester or a hydrocarbon as solvent; or, b. conducting a one-pot hydrogenation of a compound of formula (III): wherein R2 is phenyl optionally substituted by chloro, C1-6 alkyl, C1-6 alkoxy or (C1-6 alkyl)2N; i. firstly at about 20° C. to form a compound of formula (IV): ii. and then at about 40° C.; both steps (i) and (ii) being carried out in the presence of a suitable catalyst and in the presence of a suitable solvent.
US07799912B2
A bifunctional compound comprising a molecular unit (I) intercalating between nucleobases (B) of nucleic acids, an active molecular unit (AD) capable of emitting a detectable signal, and optionally a spacer unit, in which the active molecular unit (AD) is selected from amongst chemical entities having a structure such as to interact electronically with the intercalating molecular unit (I) in such a way that, during the reaction of oxidation, the reduction-oxidation potential (EI+/I) of the semicouple I+/I defined by the intercalating molecular unit (I) is lower than the reduction-oxidation potential (EB+/B) of the semicouple B+/B defined by the nucleobases (B), and in such a way that, during the reaction of reduction, the reduction-oxidation potential (EI/I−) of the semicouple I/I− defined by the intercalating molecular unit (I) is higher than the reduction-oxidation potential (EB/B−) of the semicouple B/B− defined by the nucleobases (B). Moreover the use of the compound for detecting nucleic acids, a process for its synthesis, and a system comprising the same are described.
US07799909B2
A free-flowing, hydrophobic starch composition has a near-neutral dry product pH. Methods for making the hydrophobic starch composition by preparing an aqueous mixture comprising a starch, a siliconate, and an acid, where the aqueous mixture has a near-neutral pH, and drying the starch solids to obtain a hydrophobic starch. Novel fuel compositions comprise hydrophobic starch which can be used in internal combustion engines, such as diesel engines. Hydrophobic starch compositions may be used as fuels or fuel components. Novel methods of fueling and operating internal combustion engines use hydrophobic starch as fuel or fuel components.
US07799906B1
Novel plant monolignol synthesis, monolignol transport, and lignin polymerization genes and polypeptides encoded by such genes are provided. These genes and polynucleotide sequences are useful regulating the lignification process and plant phenotype. Moreover, these genes are useful for expression profiling of plant monolignol synthesis, monolignol transport, and lignin polymerization genes. The invention specifically provides polynucleotide and polypeptide sequences isolated from Eucalyptus and Pinus.
US07799900B2
The invention provides humanized and chimeric anti-CD20 antibodies for treatment of CD20 positive malignancies and autoimmune diseases.
US07799891B2
Polyesters whose polycondensation is catalyzed by titanium-containing catalysts and which are susceptible to acetaldehyde formation during polycondensation or subsequent molding operations are prepared with low finished acetaldehyde content and reduced acetaldehyde generation by adding an ammonium or amine salt of an oxyphosphorus-acid. Polyesters, especially polyethylene terephthalate, may be produced with high inherent viscosity in reduced processing time, without the necessity of further polymerization in the solid state.
US07799889B2
The present invention provides a polycarbonate resin produced by the continuous interfacial process characterized in that after alkaline hydrolysis with sodium hydroxide, the polycarbonate resin contains an amount of 0.01 to 150 ppm of carbamate compounds according to formula (1) said amount measured by high pressure liquid chromatography, wherein R1 and R2 independently of one another denote hydrogen or C1-C12-alkyl, or together denote C4-C12-alkylidene, and R3 and R4 independently of one another denote hydrogen. C1-C12-alkyl or phenyl, or together with the carbon atom to which they are bonded form cyclohexyl or trimethylcyclohexyl, the process comprising phosgene reacting with at least one bisphenol at 8 to 17% molar excess of phosgene relative to the bisphenol.
US07799878B2
A dinuclear transition metal compound of Formula 1 is provided: where R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R, L, A, B, X, M, z, and n are the same as in the description of the present invention. The dinuclear transition metal compound includes two transition metal compounds connected each other by a bridging group so that a decrease in catalyst activation due to a polar functional group can be prevented. A catalyst composition including the dinuclear transition metal compound is highly active for a monomer having a polar functional group.
US07799876B2
A method for controlling sheeting in a gas phase reactor that includes producing a polyolefin with at least one metallocene catalyst and at least one static control agent in at least one gas phase reactor, measuring entrainment static using a static probe, and adjusting the concentration of the static control agent in response to changes in the measured entrainment static is disclosed.
US07799862B2
A composition having a reduced hysteresis which is usable in a crown reinforcement for a heavy-vehicle tire, includes an elastomeric matrix comprising natural rubber or a synthetic polyisoprene in a majority proportion, and a reinforcing filler comprising a carbon black, where the carbon black fulfills the following conditions: (i) 45≦CTAB specific surface area in m2/g≦70, (ii) 45≦BET specific surface area in m2/g≦70, (iii) 45≦iodine adsorption index IA in mg/g≦70, (iv) ratio (BET surface area/index IA)≦1.07, (v) 115≦DBP structure value in ml/100 g≦170, (vi) 85 nm≦Stokes diameter dst in nm≦145, where dst is the diameter of aggregates corresponding to the maximum frequency of the Stokes diameters in a distribution of aggregates, and (vii) D50/dst≦0.0090·CTAB+0.19, where D50 is the difference, in the distribution of aggregates, between the Stokes diameters of two aggregates corresponding to one and the same frequency equal to 50% of the maximum frequency of the Stokes diameters, dst and D50 being measured by centrifugal photosedimentometry.
US07799858B2
The use of a commixture as a sag control agent (SCA) in a composition to be cured at a temperature (Tcur) greater than 60° C., said composition comprising a binder and the commixture and wherein said commixture comprises: (a) a thixotropy-inducing particulate polyurea product having a melting temperature (Tm1) at least 10° C. below the intended curing temperature, thereby satisfying the requirement Tm1<(Tcur−10° C.); and (b) a second thixotropy-inducing particulate component that retains its particulate nature at temperatures at least up to said curing temperature.
US07799838B2
A composition comprising: (1) from 50 to 99 wt % of a modified, random copolyetherester containing: (i) a modified, random polybutylene terephthalate copolymer block that is derived from a polyethylene terephthalate component selected from the group consisting of polyethylene terephthalate and polyethylene terephthalate copolymers and combinations thereof; and that contains at least one residue derived from the polyethylene terephthalate component; and (ii) a polyalkylene oxide copolymer block that is derived from a polyethylene terephthalate component and polyalkylene oxide glycol, and contains polyalkylene oxide and at least one residue derived from the polyethylene terephthalate component; and (2) from 1 to 50 wt % of a polyester; wherein the copolyetherester, the polyester, and optionally any additives, are present in a total amount of 100 wt %.
US07799833B2
A method for the pre-treatment of an intervertebral disc prior to the introduction of a disc prosthesis or implant includes removing at least a portion of the nucleus pulposus of the intervertebral disc to expose at least a portion of the endplate of an adjacent vertebra to the disc. A fluent treatment material is then injected into the disc space to come into contact with the portion of the endplate. The fluent treatment material is operable to prepare the portion of the endplate to accommodate a disc prosthesis, implant or graft subsequently introduced into the disc space. Different fluent treatment materials are provided that depend upon the condition of the vertebral endplates.
US07799831B2
The present invention relates to the use of lipophilic diesters of the chelating agent 1,2-bis(2 aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,N′,N′-tetraacetic acid (BAPTA) for inhibition of proteolytic activities of certain metalloproteinases and of calpain. The invention further relates to methods for preventing, treating or managing MMP-related and calpain-related diseases or disorders in mammals comprising administering to a mammal in need thereof, a pharmaceutical composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of said lipophilic diesters of the chelating agent BAPTA.
US07799810B2
The present invention concerns a compound of formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, or solvate thereof, wherein the groups Ri- Rs are defined in the description, to compositions and use of the compounds in the treatment of diseases ameloriated by inhibition of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase.
US07799800B2
Lipid-modified immune response modifier compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds and methods of use of these compounds as immunomodulators, for inducing or inhibiting cytokine biosynthesis in animals and in the treatment of diseases including viral and neoplastic diseases, are disclosed.
US07799795B2
Provided herein are compounds of the formula where A1, A2, A3, A4, L, Q, R1, R2, R3, R4, Rx, Ry, Rz, X, Y1, Y2, Y4 and Z are as described herein, and compositions thereof that are useful in the treatment of inflammatory and immune conditions and diseases. In particular, the invention provides aryl nitrile compounds which modulate the expression and/or function of a chemokine receptor.
US07799789B2
The present application discloses a compound, or enantiomers, stereoisomers, rotamers, tautomers, racemates or prodrug of said compound, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates or esters of said compound, or of said prodrug, said compound having the general structure shown in Formula 1: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate or ester thereof. Also disclosed is a method of treating chemokine mediated diseases, such as, palliative therapy, curative therapy, prophylactic therapy of certain diseases and conditions such as inflammatory diseases (non-limiting example(s) include, psoriasis), autoimmune diseases (non-limiting example(s) include, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis), graft rejection (non-limiting example(s) include, allograft rejection, zenograft rejection), infectious diseases (e.g, tuberculoid leprosy), fixed drug eruptions, cutaneous delayed-type hypersensitivity responses, ophthalmic inflammation, type I diabetes, viral meningitis and tumors using a compound of Formula 1.
US07799786B2
A compound of formula: wherein A, Ar, R3, R6, and m are disclosed herein, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof (a “Cyanoiminopiperazine Compound”), compositions comprising an effective amount of a Cyanoiminopiperazine Compound, and methods for treating or preventing pain, urinary incontinence, an ulcer, inflammatory-bowel disease, irritable-bowel syndrome, an addictive disorder, Parkinson's disease, parkinsonism, anxiety, epilepsy, stroke, a seizure, a pruritic condition, psychosis, a cognitive disorder, a memory deficit, restricted brain function, Huntington's chorea, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, dementia, retinopathy, a muscle spasm, a migraine, vomiting, dyskinesia or depression in an animal comprising administering to an animal in need thereof an effective amount of a Cyanoiminopiperazine Compound are disclosed.
US07799776B2
Inhibitors of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) are provided as are pharmaceutical compositions containing such inhibitors as well as the use of such inhibitors and compositions for the treatment of a condition in a mammalian subject characterized by pathology of the IDO-mediated tryptophan metabolic pathway. Such conditions may involve suppression of T-cell mediated immune response or may directly result from depletion of tryptophan or accumulation of a product of tryptophan degradation. Specific disease conditions include cataracts, age-related yellowing in the eye, neurodegenerative disorders, mood disorders, cancer and various bacterial/viral infections. IDO inhibitors of this invention are substituted naphthalene and anthracene diones. Novel compounds of this invention include the following taurine-substituted naphthaquinone structure.
US07799773B2
The present invention relates to novel benzazepine derivatives having pharmacological activity, processes for their preparation, to compositions containing them and to their use in the treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders.
US07799767B2
The present invention is directed to a stabilized cross-linked hydrogel matrix comprising a first high molecular weight component and a second high molecular weight component that are covalently linked, and at least one stabilizing or enhancing agent, wherein the first high molecular weight component and the second high molecular weight component are each selected from the group consisting of polyglycans and polypeptides. This stabilized hydrogel matrix may be prepared as bioactive gels, pastes, slurries, cell attachment scaffolds for implantable medical devices, and casting or binding materials suitable for the construction of medical devices. The intrinsic bioactivity of the hydrogel matrix makes it useful as a gel or paste in multiple applications, including as a cell attachment scaffold that promotes wound healing around an implanted device, as gels and pastes for induction of localized vasculogenesis, wound healing, tissue repair, and regeneration, as a wound adhesive, and for tissue bulking.
US07799759B2
The present invention encompasses albumin fusion proteins. Nucleic acid molecules encoding the albumin fusion proteins of the invention are also encompassed by the invention, as are vectors containing these nucleic acids, host cells transformed with these nucleic acids vectors, and methods of making the albumin fusion proteins of the invention and using these nucleic acids, vectors, and/or host cells. Additionally the present invention encompasses pharmaceutical compositions comprising albumin fusion proteins and methods of treating, preventing, or ameliorating diseases, disorders or conditions using albumin fusion proteins of the invention.
US07799752B2
A composition such as a water-based consumer product comprises material (e.g. perfume) encapsulated within shell capsules, each capsule comprising an encapsulating wall having an inner surface and an outer surface, with a coating on the inner surface and/or outer surface of the shell wall, the composition further comprising surfactant and/or solvent. The coating can improve the barrier properties of the shell and can enhance retention of the encapsulated materials within the shell.
US07799750B2
At least one kind of solvent selected from among nitromethane, nitroethane, d-limonene and 3-methoxybutyl acetate is mixed to 1,1,1,3,3-pentafluorobutane to such an extent as not imparting any flammability. Also, propylene glycol based solvent(s) is mixed to 1,1,1,3,3-pentafluorobutane to such an extent as not imparting any flammability.
US07799746B2
The present invention relates to beauty wash bar compositions which deliver enhanced visual benefits to the skin with specific optical attributes. This is accomplished using specific deposition systems (where oil/emollient comprises part of deposition system) and/or by ensuring dispersion of particles onto skin.
US07799744B2
The present invention relates to polymer-coated particulates suitable for use in subterranean operations such as gravel packing, frac-packing, and hydraulic fracturing. One embodiment of the present invention provides improved particulates for use in a subterranean formation, comprising particulates at least partially coated with a polymer, wherein the polymer is deposited on the particulates by at least partially coating the particulates with a polymer solution comprising the polymer and a solvent and then exposing the particulates to an aqueous medium such that the solvent substantially dissociates from the polymer solution and such that the polymer substantially remains on the particulates.
US07799743B2
Additive for a drilling fluid to block drilling-induced or pre-existing rock fractures comprising polymeric granules with a diameter distribution peak between 1000 and 200 microns and an average resiliency of at least 10% rebound after compression by a load of 200 N and uses thereof.
US07799740B2
Method for monitoring and controlling a combinatorial process are presenting including: receiving a substrate; executing the combinatorial process, wherein the combinatorial process includes an in-line chemical preparation; analyzing the in-line chemical preparation for conformance with a corresponding in-line chemical preparation parameter using an in-line chemical analysis; and if the in-line chemical preparation is out of conformance with the corresponding in-line chemical preparation parameter, adjusting the in-line chemical preparation to conform with the corresponding in-line chemical preparation parameter utilizing a replenishing chemical preparation. In some embodiments, methods further include: performing a post-chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) clean before executing the combinatorial process, wherein the combinatorial process is a pre-clean; and depositing a capping layer after the pre-clean.
US07799739B2
Novel biphenylcarboxamides of the formula (I) There is further provided a plurality of processes for preparing these compounds and their use for controlling unwanted microorganisms, and also novel intermediates and their preparation.
US07799727B2
A layered composition which can be used in various processes has been developed. The composition comprises an inner core such as a cordierite core and an outer layer comprising a refractory inorganic oxide, a fibrous component and an inorganic binder. The refractory inorganic oxide layer can be alumina, zirconia, titania, etc. while the fibrous component can be titania fibers, silica fibers, carbon fibers, etc. The inorganic oxide binder can be alumina, silica, zirconia, etc. The layer can also contain catalytic metals such as gold and platinum plus other modifiers. The layered composition is prepared by coating the inner core with a slurry comprising the refractory inorganic oxide, fibrous component, an inorganic binder precursor and an organic binding agent such as polyvinyl alcohol. The composition can be used in various hydrocarbon conversion processes.
US07799723B2
This invention relates to a process for preparing magnesium alkoxide granulates. The process includes the steps of reacting magnesium metal with at least one compound of formula AlR3-nHaln and an alcohol in a non-coordinating solvent. R is an alkyl or aryl radical, Hal is a halogen radical and n is in the range of between 0 and 2.
US07799715B2
Boron carbide ceramics produced by spark sintering methods have more desirable mechanical properties than conventionally produced carbides. The boron carbide ceramics include amorphous boron, amorphous carbon, and Al2O3 powder as a sintering aid. The boron carbides may also contain a carbon nano fiber in a nearly homogeneously dispersed state. The sintered compact has a relative density of a boron carbide ceramic of approximately not less than 99%. The boron carbide ceramics are prepared preferably by subjecting a mixed powder of the starting raw materials and the carbon nano fiber to simultaneous synthesis and sintering using the spark plasma sintering method.
US07799713B2
Glass batch compositions for the formation of high-modulus, and high-strength glass fibers as well as fibers suitable for use as textile and reinforcements are disclosed. Fibers formed of the composition are especially suitable for use in high-strength, low-weight applications such as windmill blades and high strength and modulus applications where strength and stiffness are required in the composite. The glass composition is up to about 70.5 weight % SiO2, about 24.5 weight % Al2O3, about 22 weight % alkaline earth oxides and may include small amounts of alkali metal oxides and ZrO2. Fiberglass-reinforced composite articles such as windmill blades are also disclosed.
US07799708B2
A silicone coating is applied to fabrics to increase the abrasion resistance while enhancing the natural absorbency and breathability. These fabrics can be used for a variety of applications such as components for shoes, inkjet receptive media, automotive air bags, facing for insulation, tapes and other uses.
US07799705B1
Methods of preparing a low stress porous low-k dielectric material on a substrate are provided. The methods involve the use of a structure former precursor and/or porogen precursor with one or more organic functional groups. In some cases, the structure former precursor has carbon-carbon double or triple bonds. In other cases, one or both of the structure former precursor and porogen precursor has one or more bulky organic groups. In other cases, the structure former precursor has carbon-carbon double or triple bonds and one or both of the structure former precursor and porogen precursor has one or more bulky organic groups. Once the precursor film is formed, the porogen is removed, leaving a porous low-k dielectric matrix with high mechanical strength. Different types of structure former precursors and porogen precursors are described. The resulting low stress low-k porous film may be used as a low-k dielectric film in integrated circuit manufacturing applications.
US07799704B2
Apparatus and methods for distributing gas in a semiconductor process chamber are provided. In an embodiment, a gas distributor for use in a gas processing chamber comprises a body. The body includes a baffle with a gas deflection surface to divert the flow of a gas from a first direction to a second direction. The gas deflection surface comprises a concave surface. The concave surface comprises at least about 75% of the surface area of the gas deflection surface. The concave surface substantially deflects the gas toward a chamber wall and provides decreased metal atom contamination from the baffle so that season times can be reduced.
US07799702B1
A method of manufacturing a nonvolatile memory device according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: forming a metal film containing metal whose oxide functions as a variable resistive material and which reacts with silicon through heat treatment and forms metal silicide, on an interlayer insulating film having a silicon layer, which is patterned in a predetermined shape and connected to a first wire, with the surface thereof exposed, performing heat treatment to form a silicide layer on the surface of the silicon layer, oxidizing the silicide layer to form a variable resistive layer on an upper part of the silicon layer, and forming a second wire coupled to the variable resistive layer.
US07799701B2
A method of coating by supplying a liquid material from a nozzle tip to form a film on a substrate surface facing to the nozzle, having the steps of: preparing a translation mechanism, which is capable of moving the nozzle in an in-plane direction and in a thickness direction of the substrate; making the nozzle to come gradually closer to the substrate, after positioning of the nozzle on the in-plane of the substrate, by using the translation mechanism; detecting electric current flowing through the nozzle from the substrate surface, when a semiconductor droplet supplied from the nozzle tip contacts with an electrode installed at the substrate surface; stopping accession of the nozzle to the substrate, when the electric current exceeds threshold value set in advance; and making the nozzle tip apart from the substrate farther than in the stopping, so as to coat the substrate with the liquid material.
US07799694B2
The invention includes methods of forming isolation regions for semiconductor constructions. A hard mask can be formed and patterned over a semiconductor substrate, with the patterned hard mask exposing a region of the substrate. Such exposed region can be etched to form a first opening having a first width. The first opening is narrowed with a conformal layer of carbon-containing material. The conformal layer is punched through to expose substrate along a bottom of the narrowed opening. The exposed substrate is removed to form a second opening which joins to the first opening, and which has a second width less than the first width. The carbon-containing material is then removed from within the first opening, and electrically insulative material is formed within the first and second openings. The electrically insulative material can substantially fill the first opening, and leave a void within the second opening.
US07799692B2
Treatment of a semiconductor wafer employs: a) position-dependent measuring of a parameter characterizing the semiconductor wafer to determine a position-dependent value of the parameter over an entire surface of the semiconductor wafer, b) oxidizing the entire surface of the semiconductor wafer under the action of an oxidizing agent with simultaneous exposure of the entire surface, the oxidation rate and thus the thickness of the resulting oxide layer dependent on the light intensity at the surface of the semiconductor wafer, and c) removing of the oxide layer, the light intensity in step b) predefined in a position-dependent manner such that differences in the position-dependent values of the parameter measured are reduced by the position-dependent oxidation rate resulting in step b) and subsequent removal of the oxide layer in step c).
US07799691B2
A method and apparatus for anisotropically etching a recess in a silicon substrate is disclosed. Generally, a plasma is used for energetic excitation of a reactive etching gas, wherein the reactive etching gas is a constituent of a continuous gas flow. A recess is anisotropically etched in a silicon substrate using the reactive etching gas, during which time the recess id deepened by at least fifty micrometers without interrupting the gas flow of the reactive etching gas.
US07799689B2
A method and apparatus for performing first and second polishings on a workpiece wherein the first and second polishings are performed using different operating parameters.
US07799680B2
Methods are provided for treating germanium surfaces in preparation for subsequent deposition, particularly gate dielectric deposition by atomic layer deposition (ALD). Prior to depositing, the germanium surface is treated with plasma products or thermally reacted with vapor reactants. Examples of surface treatments leave oxygen bridges, nitrogen bridges, —OH, —NH and/or —NH2 terminations that more readily adsorb ALD reactants. The surface treatments avoid deep penetration of the reactants into the germanium bulk but improve nucleation.
US07799678B2
A method for forming a TSV layout reduces recessing in a silicon nitride layer caused by forming the TSV through a silicon nitride layer having an intrinsic tensile stress or neutral stress. In one embodiment, the method includes compensating for the tensile stressed silicon nitride layer by either moving the TSV location to an area of intrinsic tensile stress, or by substituting a compressively stressed silicon nitride layer in the area of the TSV. The compressively stressed silicon nitride layer experiences less recessing during a TSV etch process than a silicon nitride layer under tensile stress. The smaller recesses are more readily filled when a dielectric liner is applied to the sidewalls of the TSV, reducing the possibility of voids being formed. Also, the smaller recesses require smaller exclusion zones, resulting in less surface area of an integrated circuit being used for the TSVs, as well as greater reliability and improved yields.
US07799677B2
A device comprises a multi-layered thin film having excellent adhesion due to the method of fabricating the same. More particularly, the device includes a multi-layered thin film consisting of a tantalum nitride layer, a tantalum layer formed on the tantalum nitride layer, and a gold thin film formed on the tantalum layer.
US07799671B1
Protective caps residing at an interface between metal lines and dielectric diffusion barrier (or etch stop) layers are used to improve electromigration performance of interconnects. Protective caps are formed by depositing a source layer of dopant-generating material (e.g., material generating B, Al, Ti, etc.) over an exposed copper line, converting the upper portion of the source layer to a passivated layer (e.g., nitride or oxide) while allowing an unmodified portion of a dopant-generating source layer to remain in contact with copper, and, subsequently, allowing the dopant from the unmodified portion of source layer to controllably diffuse into and/or react with copper, thereby forming a thin protective cap within copper line. The cap may contain a solid solution or an alloy of copper with the dopant.
US07799668B2
The present invention provides method of forming a gate dielectric that includes forming a metal source layer (210) comprising a metal and at least one nonmetallic element over a substrate (110). The metal source layer (210) is formed having a composition rich in the metal. A dielectric layer (310) comprising the metal is formed over the metal source layer (210).
US07799663B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor metamaterial is provided, comprising providing a sample of engineered microstructured material that is transparent to electromagnetic radiation and comprises one or more elongate, high aspect ratio voids, passing through the voids a high pressure fluid comprising a semiconductor material carried in a carrier fluid, and causing the semiconductor material to deposit onto the surface of the one or more voids of the engineered microstructured material to form the metamaterial. Many microstructured materials and semiconductor materials can be used, together with various techniques for controlling the location, spatial extent, and thickness of the deposition of the semiconductor within the microstructured material, so that a wide range of different metamaterials can be produced.
US07799648B2
A semiconductor device formed on a strained silicon layer and a method of manufacturing such a semiconductor device are disclosed. In accordance with this invention, a first silicon germanium layer is formed on a single crystalline silicon substrate; a second silicon germanium layer is formed on the first silicon germanium layer, the second silicon germanium layer having a concentration of germanium in a range of about 1 percent by weight to about 15 percent by weight based on the total weight of the second silicon germanium layer; a strained silicon layer is formed on the second silicon germanium layer; an isolation layer is formed at a first portion of the strained silicon layer; a gate structure is formed on the strained silicon layer; and, source/drain regions are formed at second portions of the strained silicon layer adjacent to the gate structure to form a transistor.
US07799647B2
A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes forming a channel layer; forming a superlattice barrier layer overlying the channel layer, and forming a gate dielectric overlying the superlattice barrier layer. The superlattice barrier layer includes alternating first and second layers of barrier material. In addition, the superlattice barrier layer is configured for increasing a transconductance of the semiconductor device by at least a factor of three over a semiconductor device absent such superlattice barrier layer.
US07799643B2
Methods of fabricating a semiconductor device having a self-aligned contact plug are provided. Methods include forming a lower insulating layer on a semiconductor substrate, forming a plurality of interconnection patterns parallel to each other on the lower insulating layer; forming an upper insulating layer that is configured to fill between the interconnection patterns, and forming a plurality of first mask patterns crossing the plurality of interconnection patterns, ones of the plurality of first mask patterns parallel to each other on the semiconductor substrate having the upper insulating layer. Methods may include forming a second mask pattern that is self-aligned to the plurality of first mask patterns and that is between ones of the plurality of first mask patterns, etching the upper insulating layer and the lower insulating layer using the first and second mask patterns and the plurality of interconnection patterns as etch masks to form a plurality of contact holes exposing the semiconductor substrate, and forming a plurality of contact plugs in respective ones of the plurality of contact holes. Semiconductor devices are also provided.
US07799626B2
A lateral DMOS device and a fabrication method therefor that may include forming a second conductive type well in a first conductive type semiconductor substrate and forming a Schottky contact in contact with the second conductive type well in a Schottky diode region, thereby preventing breakdown of the device due to high voltage.
US07799623B2
A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate having a first semiconductor layer, an insulation layer and a second semiconductor layer, which are stacked in this order; a LDMOS transistor disposed on the first semiconductor layer; and a region having a dielectric constant, which is lower than that of the first or second semiconductor layer. The region contacts the insulation layer, and the region is disposed between a source and a drain of the LDMOS transistor. The device has high withstand voltage in a direction perpendicular to the substrate.
US07799621B2
A method of manufacturing a thin film transistor array substrate according to the present invention includes: forming a pattern made of a first conductive film; stacking a gate insulating film, a semiconductor layer, and a resist in the stated order; forming a resist pattern having a step structure in a thickness direction; forming an exposed area of the first conductive film and a pattern of the semiconductor layer by using the resist pattern; forming a pattern made of a second conductive film in contact with the first conductive film in the exposed area of the first conductive film; and forming a pattern made of a third conductive film. The first conductive film forms a gate electrode, and the second conductive film forms each of a source electrode and a drain electrode. The third conductive film forms a pixel electrode, and the second conductive film is coated with an upper-layer film.
US07799620B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device provided with a circuit capable of high speed operation while the manufacturing cost is reduced. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device which includes forming an ion-doped layer at a predetermined depth from a surface of a single-crystal semiconductor substrate and forming a first insulating layer over the single-crystal semiconductor substrate; forming a second insulating layer over part of an insulating substrate and forming a non-single-crystal semiconductor layer over the second insulating layer; bonding the single-crystal semiconductor substrate to a region of the insulating substrate where the second insulating layer is not formed, with the first insulating layer interposed therebetween; and forming a single-crystal semiconductor layer over the insulating substrate by separating the single-crystal semiconductor substrate at the ion-doped layer which acts as a separation surface so that the ion-doped layer is separated from the insulating substrate.
US07799618B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: forming a plurality of regions extending in a predetermined direction on a substrate; and ejecting a liquid material on the plurality of regions to form an electrically conductive film, wherein the electrically conductive film extends in the same direction as the plurality of regions so as to overlap the plurality of regions.
US07799614B2
An electronic device and method is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes providing an electrically insulating substrate. A first electrically conductive layer is applied over the electrically insulating substrate. A first semiconductor chip is placed over the first electrically conductive layer. An electrically insulating layer is applied over the first electrically conductive layer. A second electrically conductive layer is applied over the electrically insulating layer. A through connection is formed in the electrically insulating layer to couple the second electrically conductive layer to the first electrically conductive layer.
US07799612B2
Methods and systems of applying a plurality of pieces of die attach film to a plurality of singulated dice are provided. The method can involve making intervals between rows and columns of a plurality of pieces of die attach film. The interval can be made by expanding an underlaid expandable film on which the plurality of pieces of die attach film are placed or by removing portions of the die attach film between rows and columns of the plurality of pieces of die attach film. The method can further involve placing a plurality of singulated dice back side down on the plurality of pieces of die attach film.
US07799611B2
A method of making a lead frame and a partially patterned lead frame package with near-chip scale packaging (CSP) lead-counts is disclosed, wherein the method lends itself to better automation of the manufacturing line as well as to improving the quality and reliability of the packages produced therefrom. This is accomplished by performing a major portion of the manufacturing process steps with a partially patterned strip of metal formed into a web-like lead frame on one side, in contrast with the conventional fully etched stencil-like lead frames, so that the web-like lead frame, which is solid and flat on the other side is also rigid mechanically and robust thermally to perform without distortion or deformation during the chip-attach and wire bond processes, both at the chip level and the package level. The bottom side of the metal lead frame is patterned to isolate the chip-pad and the wire bond contacts only after the front side, including the chip and wires, is hermetically sealed with an encapsulant. The resultant package being electrically isolated enables strip testing and reliable singulation without having to cut into any additional metal. The use of the instant partially patterned lead frame in making ELP, ELPF and ELGA-type CSPs is also disclosed.
US07799597B2
A thin film transistor includes: a gate electrode; source and drain electrodes insulated from the gate electrode; an organic semiconductor layer that is insulated from the gate electrode and electrically connected to the source and drain electrodes; an insulating layer that insulates the gate electrode from the source and drain electrodes or the organic semiconductor layer; a hydrophobic layer which covers the source and drain electrodes or insulating layer and has an opening that defines a region corresponding to the organic semiconductor layer; and a hydrophilic layer formed in the opening of the hydrophobic layer, wherein the organic semiconductor layer is formed on the hydrophilic layer. The thin film transistor includes the organic semiconductor layer having a highly precise pattern that is formed without an additional patterning process.
US07799595B2
In a semiconductor physical quantity sensor of electrostatic capacitance type, mutually facing peripheral areas (bonding areas) of a glass substrate and a silicon substrate are contacted for anodic bonding, while at the same time, both substrates have an anodic bonding voltage applied therebetween so as to be integrated. A fixed electrode is formed on a bonding face-side surface of the silicon substrate, while a movable electrode is formed on a bonding face-side surface of the semiconductor substrate. An equipotential wiring, which short-circuits the fixed electrode to the movable electrode as a countermeasure to discharge in anodic bonding, is formed on the bonding face-side surface of the glass substrate inside the bonding area before the anodic bonding. After the anodic bonding, the equipotential wiring is cut and removed. By manufacturing the sensor in this manner, the fixed electrode of the insulating substrate is made equipotential to the movable electrode of the semiconductor substrate when the insulating substrate is anodically bonded to the semiconductor substrate, thereby preventing discharge from occurring. Accordingly, it is possible to obtain a high bonding strength and desired sensor characteristics without causing bonding voids to occur and a sensor chip to increase in size.
US07799591B2
A semiconductor device comprises a first contact plug, a first structure and a second insulating layer, or comprises a first contact plug, a first structure, a protruding region and a second insulating layer. The first contact plug extends in a predetermined direction and including a step converting a cross section area of the first contact plug perpendicular to the predetermined direction discontinuously via the step in one end side. The second insulating layer is formed on side surface of a part of the first contact plug closer to the first structure than the step, or on side surfaces of the protruding region and a part of the first contact plug closer to the first structure than the step.
US07799586B2
Methods of packaging a semiconductor light emitting device include dispensing a first quantity of encapsulant material into a cavity including the light emitting device. The first quantity of encapsulant material in the cavity is treated to form a hardened upper surface thereof having a selected shape. A luminescent conversion element is provided on the upper surface of the treated first quantity of encapsulant material. The luminescent conversion element includes a wavelength conversion material and has a thickness at a middle region of the cavity greater than proximate a sidewall of the cavity.
US07799584B2
An attaching device and a method of manufacturing a light emitting device using the same are provided. The attaching device includes a process chamber, first and second supporters, and an open-close valve. The first and second supporters are disposed inside the process chamber to safely load and fix substrates. The open-close valve is disposed at a predetermined area of the process chamber to control a pressure inside the process chamber by opening and closing the process chamber. At least one of the first and second substrate supporters includes an electro static chuck including more than two of electrodes having different polarities and a polarity inverting unit for inverting polarities of the electrodes.
US07799583B2
An integrated component includes a semiconductor substrate; at least one interconnect applied on the semiconductor substrate; an insulating layer applied on the at least one interconnect; and at least one opening through the insulating layer which interrupts the at least one interconnect into a first section and a second section.
US07799579B2
The present invention refers to a method of processing a biological fluid which comprises cellular components by heat treatment. The method is particularly useful for preparing biological samples for analyte detection. Further, the invention refers to a processed biological fluid comprising substantially quantitatively disintegrated cellular components.
US07799571B2
This invention relates to the preparation of N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine (“glyphosate”) from N-(phosphonomethyl)iminodiacetic acid (“PMIDA”), and more particularly to methods for control of the conversion of PMIDA, for the identification of reaction end points relating to PMIDA conversion and the preparation of glyphosate products having controlled PMIDA content.
US07799564B2
Disclosed are the complete polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) polyketide synthase (PKS) systems from the bacterial microorganisms Shewanella japonica and Shewanella olleyana, and biologically active fragments and homologues thereof. More particularly, this invention relates to nucleic acids encoding such PUFA PKS systems, to proteins and domains thereof that comprise such PUFA PKS systems, to genetically modified organisms (plants and microorganisms) comprising such PUFA PKS systems, and to methods of making and using the PUFA PKS systems disclosed herein. This invention also relates to genetically modified plants and microorganisms and methods to efficiently produce lipids enriched in various polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) as well as other bioactive molecules by manipulation of a PUFA polyketide synthase (PKS) system.
US07799554B2
An analytical test for an analyte comprises (a) a base, having a reaction area and a visualization area, (b) a capture species, on the base in the visualization area, comprising nucleic acid, and (c) analysis chemistry reagents, on the base in the reaction area. The analysis chemistry reagents comprise (i) a substrate comprising nucleic acid and a first label, and (ii) a reactor comprising nucleic acid. The analysis chemistry reagents can react with a sample comprising the analyte and water, to produce a visualization species comprising nucleic acid and the first label, and the capture species can bind the visualization species.
US07799552B2
Among the inventions disclosed herein are: nucleic acid expression systems for bacteria having an intracytoplasmic membrane system, including, for example, methanotrophic bacteria; recombinant nucleic acid constructs comprising a pmo promoter operably linked to an expressible nucleic acid; cloning vectors suitable for making recombinant nucleic acid constructs and methods for the production of proteins such as membrane proteins.
US07799539B2
Cellular physiology workstations for automated data acquisition and perfusion control are described. The cellular physiology workstation may be used for physiological and electrophysiological experiments. Methods for employing such cellular physiology workstations in physiological and electrophysiological experiments are also disclosed. The cellular physiology workstations comprise one or more recording chambers each for holding one or more cells to be measured. One or more cells are place in each recording chamber. Perfusions means, such as an automatic perfusion system is connected to the recording chamber to perfuse the cells with a plurality of solutions containing different concentration of one or more agents to be tested. Biosensors, such as patch clamps, electrodes, or microscopes are positioned to detect a response from the cell. The cellular physiology workstation may optionally comprise injecting means for introducing an injection solution into the cell before and during analysis.
US07799536B2
A diagnostic tool and method of diagnosing brain injury and brain injury type (traumatic vs. ischemic) by detecting the level of expression of endothelial monocyte-activating polypeptide II (EMAP-II) and comparing to a control. An increase of EMAP-II indicates the presence of traumatic brain injury and a decrease of EMAP-II indicates the presence of ischemic brain injury. Detection of EMAP-II can be done in brain tissue, biofluids such as cerebrospinal fluid or blood (including plasma and serum).
US07799535B1
The present invention provides a yeast cell based system for determining factors that control the folding of amyloid proteins of diverse origins. Further the present invention provides methods of using such a system to screen for reagents that affect amyloid formation, a process that is integral to several devastating human disease including Creutzfeld-Jacob disease (CJD), fatal familial insomnia (FFI), Gertsmann-Straussler-Scheinker (GSS) syndrome, and kuru. The system of the present invention provides a rapid screening system to quickly and cheaply identify reagents that affect the folding and aggregation properties of the target protein.
US07799531B2
The invention provides tandem single nucleotide polymorphisms and methods for their use, for example, in diagnosing Down Syndrome.
US07799523B2
Compositions and methods are provided for determining in a subject a risk for having, or presence of, altered bone mineral density such as osteoporosis or osteopenia or other conditions characterized by decreased or increased bone density. Specifically, the invention relates to determination of a sclerostin gene region nucleotide polymorphism (SRP) in DNA of the sclerostin gene region of human chromosome 17. In certain embodiments, SRPs that indicate an increased risk for altered bone mineral density occur as gender-associated polymorphisms. Isolated polynucleotides comprising representative SRPs are also provided.
US07799503B2
A method and a structure. The structure includes: a solid core comprising a first photoresist material, the core having a bottom surface on a substrate, a top surface and opposite first and second side surfaces between the top surface and the bottom surface; and a shell comprising a second photoresist material, the shell on the top surface of the substrate, the shell containing a cavity open to the top surface of the substrate, the shell formed over the top surface and the first and second side surfaces walls of the core, the core completely filling the cavity. The core is stiffer than the shell. The method includes: forming the core from a first photoresist layer and forming the shell from a second photoresist layer applied over the core. The core may be cross-linked to increase its stiffness.
US07799501B2
Methods for making dispersions, which are of various rheologies, various pigment/binder ratios, various particle sizes, and possess less impurities or large particles are provided. These dispersions may be utilized to form layers of photoreceptors.
US07799500B2
Disclosed is an electrophotographic image forming method which comprises steps of forming a toner image on an image support, fixing the toner image on the image support in a fixing nip section of a fixing device employing a contact heating system and the toner contains a first releasing agent, a dynamic viscosity of the first releasing agent is 4-20 mm2/sec; and a fixing temperature in the fixing nip section of the fixing device is 75-100° C. higher than a melting point of the first releasing agent.
US07799496B2
An electrophotographic photosensitive member having excellent electrophotographic properties while being prevented from the generation of blade turn-up, a method of manufacturing the electrophotographic photosensitive member, and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus each having the electrophotographic photosensitive member are provided. The surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a polymer having a specific repeating structural unit.
US07799488B2
Disclosed herein is a method for manufacturing a phase shift mask. An embodiment of the disclosed method includes forming a conductive layer on a mask substrate, irradiating a predetermined area of the mask substrate on which the conductive layer is formed with an electron beam to selectively reduce a portion of silicon oxide (SiO2) in the substrate to silicon (Si), etching only the predetermined area converted to Si, and removing the conductive layer to form the phase shift mask.
US07799486B2
Lithography masks and methods of manufacture thereof are disclosed. A preferred embodiment comprises a method of manufacturing a lithography mask. The method includes providing a substrate, forming a first pattern in a first region of the substrate, and forming a second pattern in a second region of the substrate, the second pattern comprising patterns for features oriented differently than patterns for features of the first pattern. The method includes affecting a polarization rotation of light differently in the first region than in the second region of the substrate.
US07799475B2
A method of fuel cell shutdown and start-up is provided. The method of shutdown includes introducing hydrogen gas into the cathode passages to purge a cathode gas from the cathode passages, then introducing air through the cathode and anode passages to remove water droplets and vapor from the fuel cell stacks. The method from fuel cell start-up includes introducing hydrogen gas into the anode and cathode passages to consume/purge oxygen in both the anode and cathode passages, and then introducing a cathode gas into the cathode passages. The introduction of hydrogen into the cathode passages in both the shutdown and start-up procedures allow a rapid draw down of the anode/cathode open circuit voltage and avoids providing a hydrogen/air front while the cathode is filled with air.
US07799468B2
An electrolyte material for polymer electrolyte fuel cells, which is made of a polymer containing repeating units based on a fluoromonomer having a radical polymerization reactivity, wherein the repeating units contain a 5-membered ring (which may contain 1 or 2 oxygen atoms), of which at least one carbon atom is contained in the main chain of the polymer, and an ionic group such as a sulfonic acid group which is bonded to the 5-membered ring directly or via a perfluoroalkylene group having a linear or branched structure; and the polymer has a softening temperature of at least 120° C.
US07799467B2
A solid polymer electrolyte produced using a layer-by layer (LBL) assembly process. The solid electrolyte is assembled on a substrate by alternating exposure to dilute solutions of polycation and polyanion or hydrogen-bonding donor and hydrogen-bonding acceptor. Ethylene oxide content is introduced into the LBL film by 1) covalent grafting onto a polyionic species, 2) inclusion of an ethylene oxide (e.g. PEO) polymer as one of the two component species of a LBL assembly, or 3) the addition of ethylene oxide-containing small molecule, oligomer, or polymer to a fully assembled LBL polymer matrix. The prepared films were to be ultrathin SPE films with sound mechanical properties and ion conductivity to meet the needs of current applications, such as batteries, fuels cells, sensors and electrochromic devices.
US07799462B2
Provided is an anode mix for a secondary battery comprising an anode active material, a conductive material and a binder, wherein the anode mix contains 0.01 to 1.0% by weight of alumina having an average particle diameter of less than 1000 nm, based on the total weight of the mix, and a lithium secondary battery comprising the same. Therefore, the present invention can achieve increases in anode active material-conductive material adhesion and anode active material-current collector adhesion which are exerted by a binder, and ultimately can improve lifespan characteristics or cycle characteristics of the battery.
US07799456B2
A rechargeable battery having an electrolyte sealing member covering and sealing the electrolyte injection opening. An electrode assembly includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a separator wound in a jelly roll configuration. A case houses the electrode assembly. A cap assembly is combined with the case to seal the case, the cap assembly including a positive terminal connected to the positive electrode and a negative terminal connected to the negative electrode. An electrolyte injection opening is formed on the case or the cap assembly. A groove is formed along a periphery of the electrolyte injection opening. An electrolyte sealing member engages the groove.
US07799449B2
A fuel cell system includes a reformer that includes a plurality of reaction sections for generating hydrogen from hydrogen-containing fuel; a plurality of heating sections which supply thermal energy to the plurality of heating sections and which have a catalyst; and a main body receiving the plurality of reaction sections and the plurality of heating sections. The respective heating sections generate different amounts of thermal energy for the reactions of the respective reaction sections.
US07799448B2
A battery pack including a housing, a terminal block, a printed circuit board electrically connected to the terminal block, at least one battery cell, and a spark gap device on the printed circuit board to provide electrostatic discharge protection and disposed between the printed circuit board and the terminal block.
US07799445B2
A perpendicular magnetic recording medium including a soft magnetic underlayer. The perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes: a lower structural body including an anti-ferromagnetic layer; a first soft magnetic underlayer, a non-magnetic layer, and a second soft magnetic underlayer sequentially formed on the anti-ferromagnetic layer, where the thickness ratio of the second soft magnetic underlayer to that of the first soft magnetic underlayer is designed to be within specific range; and a recording layer formed on the second soft magnetic underlayer. Therefore, noise generated on the soft magnetic underlayer due to external magnetic fields of a magnetic head and a voice coil motor can be reduced greatly.
US07799439B2
An organic device including at least two electrodes; at least one organic active layer, wherein the organic active layer is disposed in between two electrodes; and an electrode modification layer, wherein the electrode modification layer is disposed in between two electrodes and in contact with one of the electrodes; and the electrode modification layer includes a fluorocarbon compound selected from the materials having a chemical structure of (CxFy)n, wherein the “x”, “y”, and “n” are integers, and wherein 1
US07799434B2
Polysiloxanes terminated with one or more hydroxy functional carbamate groups are provided. The polymers may have the formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, and R4 are independently hydrogen, C1-C10 alkyl, C1-C10 fluoro-substituted alkyl; cyclopentyl, cyclohexyl, benzyl, toluoyl, xylyl and/or phenyl; R5 and R6 are linking groups; R15 and R16 are independently hydrogen, C1-C10 alkyl, cyclopentyl, cyclohexyl, benzyl, toluoyl, xylyl or phenyl; and L1 and L2 are linking groups. Typically, x is such that the polymer has a molecular weight of about 1,000 to 100,000. Other polymeric materials produced by reacting with an isocyanate functional compound or a lactone and coating compositions containing such polymeric materials are also provided.
US07799427B2
A body of single crystal CVD (chemical vapour deposition) diamond particularly suitable as a wear resistant material for wear applications, such as wire drawing dies, graphical tools or stichels, or fluid jet nozzles. The diamond typically has a low wear rate, exhibits a low birefringence indicative of low strain and possesses an ability to be processed to show a high surface polish.
US07799424B2
A resin composition includes an aliphatic polyester resin. The resin has carboxyl groups at the end termini of the molecular chain and at least one compound represented by the general formula (I), the compound being added to the resin to cap a part or all of the carboxyl groups at the end termini of the molecular chain of the resin. A process for producing a fiber includes mixing a pellet comprising an aliphatic polyester resin having carboxyl groups at the end termini of the molecular chain with a compound represented by the general formula (I) so that the content of the compound becomes 0.1 to 8% by weight and then melt-spinning the resulting mixture under the conditions of a spinning temperature of 200 to 250 C.°, a melt residence time of 180 to 1800 sec and a spinning rate of 500 to 10000 m/min. (I) wherein at least one of R1 to R3 represents a glycidyl group and the other group or groups independently represents or represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, a hydroxyl group or an allyl group.
US07799423B2
Described herein are fabricated microstructures to adhere in shear to a contact surface. A fabricated microstructure comprises a substrate and a plurality of nano-fibers attached to the substrate. The nano-fibers have an elasticity modulus E, an interfacial energy per unit length of contact w, a length L, a radius R, and are oriented at an angle θo relative to the substrate. The length L of the nano-fibers is greater than 0.627θoR2(E/w)1/2 with θo in radians. Also described herein is a method of forming a fabricated microstructure to adhere in shear to a contact surface and a method of adhering in shear a fabricated microstructure to a contact surface.
US07799422B2
A high oscillator strength thin film has an absorption constant greater than or equal to 106 cm−1.
US07799421B2
The invention relates to polymers whose water solubility may be triggered by changes in pH, salt concentration, concentration of surfactant or a combination of both. The polymer is a copolymer or terpolymer containing from 2 to 60 mole percent of an amine functionality that has been neutralized with a fixed acid. Specifically films formed from these polymers will be insoluble at a higher pH, but will become soluble at a lower pH. The polymers are also insoluble at a higher salt concentration, but become soluble at a lower salt concentration. The polymers can be used to coat or encapsulate active ingredients, that are released based on changes in the environment, such as in the rinse cycle of a dishwasher or laundry washing machine.
US07799415B2
A surface-coated cutting tool according to the present invention includes a base material and a coated film formed on the base material. The coated film serves as an outermost layer on the base material and has compressive stress. The compressive stress is varied so as to have strength distribution in a direction of thickness of the coated film. The strength distribution is characterized in that the compressive stress at a surface of the coated film continuously decreases from the surface of the coated film toward a first intermediate point located between the surface of the coated film and a bottom surface of the coated film and the compressive stress attains a relative minimum point at the first intermediate point.
US07799413B2
A CVD-coated cutting tool insert with improved toughness properties having the ability to withstand high temperatures without sacrificing edge line security is disclosed. The insert coating comprises a TiCxNy-layer with a low tensile stress level of 50-500 MPa and an α-Al2O3-layer with a high surface smoothness with a mean Ra<0.12 μm as measured by AFM-technique, obtained by subjecting the coating to an intensive wet blasting operation.
US07799412B2
The polylactic acid-based resin laminate sheet is a laminate sheet including Layer A and Layer B of a polylactic acid-based resin composition, and the Layer A and the Layer B contain poly(meth)acrylate in a specified amount. The laminate sheet is excellent in transparency and heat resistance and, in addition, provides a polylactic acid-based resin laminate sheet capable of obtaining a molded product of high biobased content therefrom.
US07799407B2
There is provided a bank structure which partitions off a pattern formation region in which a functional liquid is to be disposed and flow. The pattern formation region includes a first pattern formation region, and a second pattern formation region which is continuously connected to the first pattern formation region and which has a larger width than the first pattern formation region. The second pattern formation region is provided with at least one partition bank which partitions off the second pattern formation region to regulate the flow direction of the functional liquid. A partition width substantially orthogonal to the flow direction of the functional liquid which is regulated by the partition bank is less than ±20% of the width of the first pattern formation region.
US07799404B2
A photo-curable transfer sheet having a photo-curable layer comprising a photo-curable composition, the photo-curable composition being deformable by application of pressure and containing a reactive polymer having a photopolymerizable functional group. The photo-curable transfer sheet preferably has a light transmittance of not less than 70% in a wavelength rang of 380 to 420 nm. An optical information recording substrate and medium prepared by the sheet. The sheet easily and precisely enables transfer of unevenness of the surface of a stamper by pressing.
US07799396B2
A gas barrier layered product including a base material and a layer stacked on a surface of the base material, wherein the layer is formed of a composition including: a hydrolyzed and condensed product of a compound (L) containing a metal atom to which a group selected from a halogen atom and an alkoxy group is bonded, and a compound (A) in which an organic group selected from a halogen atom, a mercapto group and a hydroxyl group is further bonded to the metal atom; a neutralized product of a polymer containing a functional group selected from a carboxyl group and a carboxylic anhydride group, wherein at least 40 mol % of a —COO— group contained in the functional group has been neutralized with a metal ion having a valence of two or more; and a compound (D) bonded to both the —COO— group and a group on the surface of the hydrolyzed and condensed product of the compound (L). A method for producing the gas barrier layered product.
US07799392B2
A color filter substrate includes a substrate, a black matrix that defines cell areas on a substrate and prevents light leakage, a color filter formed in the cell areas defined by the black matrix, and a conductive thin film formed on the rear surface of the substrate for preventing the generation of static electricity, wherein the conductive thin film is formed of a photo-resist containing a conductive material.
US07799378B2
A solution having a polymer dissolved in a hydrophobic organic solvent is cast on a substrate, said organic solvent is evaporated in a moist atmosphere to condense moisture contained in an atmosphere prevailing on a surface of said cast solution into micro-droplets, said micro-droplets are dispersed on the surface of said cast solution or in said cast solution into a close-packed structure, said micro-droplets, condensed and dispersed on the surface of said cast solution or in said cast solution, are evaporated to obtain a porous honeycomb structure with said droplets used as casts, and said porous honeycomb structure is at least bisected by peeling in a thickness direction, thereby obtaining honeycomb structures wherein micro-pillars or anisotropic micro-pillars are regularly formed and arranged by said bisection on the peeled sections.
US07799376B2
A structural film, typically of silicon, in MEMS or NEMS devices is fabricated by depositing the film in the presence of a gas other than nitrogen, and preferably argon as the carrier gas.
US07799371B2
A method for extruding composite materials on a substrate includes feeding a first material into a first channel and a second material, used to maintain a shape of the first material, into one or more second channels residing on at least one side of the first channel, merging the flows of the first and second materials into a single flow in which the second material surrounds the first material, applying the single flow to a substrate to produce at least one composite material, and post-processing the composite material to form a solid.
US07799349B2
This invention provides methods of forming new blood vessels in diseased or damaged tissue in a subject, methods of increasing blood flow to diseased or damaged tissue in a subject, and methods of increasing angiogenesis in diseased tissue in a subject, which methods comprise: a) isolating autologous bone marrow-mononuclear cells from the subject; and b) transplanting locally into the diseased or damaged tissue an effective amount of the autologous bone-marrow mononuclear cells, thereby forming new blood vessels in the diseased or damaged tissue. The new blood vessels may be capillaries or collateral vessels in ischemic tissue or any site of angiogenesis. Also provided are methods of treating tissue in disease or injury by local transplantation with an effective amount of the autologous bone marrow-mononuclear cells so as to induce vascularization in such diseased tissue.
US07799348B2
Therapeutic composition comprising hyaluronic acid and chondroitin sulfate and method of making same
Hydrolyzed collagen type II powder compositions for inducing cartilage formation in an individual, method of preparing the compositions and use of the compositions in treating connective tissue disorder, replenishing skin viscoelasticity. The compositions are administered through an orally ingestible delivery medium for absorption into the gastrointestinal tract. The compositions are administered through a topical delivery medium for absorption into a dermis of the individual.
US07799340B2
Stable solutions of lipophilic drugs, such as cyclosporin, forming a polar lipid self-emulsifying drug delivery system. The solutions can include lipophilic drugs, such as cyclosporin, dissolved in a polar lipid, such as having a C6-C12 fatty acid monoglyceride content of at least about 50%, surfactants and triglycerides. The composition forms a fine emulsion on exposure to water. The encapsulated dosage form of this composition needs neither a hydrophilic component nor air-tight blister packaging, and is particularly suitable for oral administration.
US07799339B2
The present invention relates to the field of polymer chemistry and more particularly to multiblock copolymers and micelles comprising the same.
US07799337B2
Methods, kits, apparatus, and compositions for inhibiting a cerebral neurovascular disorder, a muscular headache, or cerebral inflammation in a human patient are provided. The methods comprise intranasally administering to the patient a pharmaceutical composition comprising a local anesthetic, and preferably a long-acting local anesthetic ingredient. A composition useful for practicing the methods of the invention is described which comprises at least one local anesthetic in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, wherein the composition is formulated for intranasal delivery. Cerebral neurovascular disorders include migraine and cluster headache. Muscular headaches include tension headaches and muscle contraction headaches. A kit comprising the composition and an intranasal applicator and a method of systemically delivering a pharmaceutically active agent to an animal are also included in the invention. Apparatus for directed intranasal administration of the compositions of the invention and for performing the methods of the invention are also described.
US07799336B2
Biocompatible intraocular implants include a prostamide component and a biodegradable polymer that is effective in facilitating release of the prostamide component into an eye for an extended period of time. The prostamide component may be associated with a biodegradable polymer matrix, such as a matrix of a two biodegradable polymers. The implants may be placed in an eye to treat or reduce a at least one symptom of an ocular condition, such as glaucoma.
US07799332B2
The present invention includes a clear cosmetic stick that has a clarity that is stable over a temperature of 5 to 45 degrees Centigrade for a time period of at least about twelve months. The clear cosmetic stick includes one or more of a branched chain fatty acid surfactant and a straight-chain fatty alcohol surfactant.
US07799328B2
The present invention relates to a method of treating or preventing weight loss of patients with inflammatory bowel diseases comprising administering to said patients an effective amount of Saccharomyces boulardii.
US07799324B2
This disclosure provides a system for minimizing the alloreactivity of tissue transplants. The patient is administered with undifferentiated embryonic stem cells or early progenitor cells. This induces a state of inflammatory quiescence or immune unresponsiveness, which in turn enhances engraftment of cells derived from the same stem cell line given for purposes of regenerative medicine.
US07799321B2
Color cosmetic compositions include a rheology modifier (thickener) and film-former copolymer which is a crosslinked, linear copolymer of poly(vinyl amide polymerizable carboxylic acid) e.g. poly(vinyl pyrrolidone-acrylic acid), which is compatible with iron oxides generally present in such compositions, e.g. gel and emulsion color cosmetic formulations such as gel eyelid enhancers, oil-in-water emulsion eyeliner and oil-in-water emulsion foundation products.
US07799316B2
A method of manufacturing a molecular sieve of the MCM-22 family, said method comprising the steps of (a) providing a mixture comprising at least one source of ions of tetravalent element, at least one source of alkali metal hydroxide, at least one directing-agent (R), water, and optionally at least one source of ions of trivalent element, said mixture having the following mole composition: Y:X2 =10 to infinity H2O:Y =1 to 20 OH−:Y =0.001 to 2 M+:Y =0.001 to 2 R:Y =0.001 to 0.34 wherein Y is a tetravalent element, X is a trivalent element, M is an alkali metal; (b) treating said mixture at crystallization conditions for less than 72 hr to form a treated mixture having said molecular sieve, wherein said crystallization conditions comprise a temperature in the range of from about 160° C. to about 250° C.; and (c) recovering said molecular sieve.
US07799308B2
The present invention discloses ultra-fine fibrous carbon and preparation of the same. Specifically, the present ultra-fine fibrous carbon is characterized by the graphite-like structure with the sp2 hybrid carbon content of more than 95% per total content; the (002) plane interlayer spacing (d002, d-spacing of C(002) profiles determined by X-ray diffraction method) of 0.3370˜0.3700 nm; the (002) plane stacking of more than 4 layers, namely the stacking height (Lc002) of more than 1.5 nm; fibrous carbon length per fibrous carbon width or diameter (aspect ratio) of more than 20; the average diameter of 5˜50 nm.
US07799300B2
The present invention concerns a method and an apparatus for removing substances from gases discharged from gas phase reactors. In particular, the invention provides a method for removing substances contained in gases discharged from an ALD reaction process, comprising contacting the gases with a “sacrificial” material having a high surface area kept at essentially the same conditions as those prevailing during the gas phase reaction process. The sacrificial material is thus subjected to surface reactions with the substances contained in the gases to form a reaction product on the surface of the sacrificial material and to remove the substances from the gases. The present invention diminishes the amount of waste produced in the gas phase process and reduces wear on the equipment.
US07799297B2
This combustion exhaust gas processing device comprises a dust collector collecting dust in combustion exhaust gas, a wet dust collector collecting water soluble components and dust in the combustion exhaust gas passed through the dust collector, and a catalyst tower decomposing and removing NOx and/or dioxins in the combustion exhaust gas passed through the wet dust collector. The device also comprises a reheater heating the combustion exhaust gas discharged from the wet dust collector at the front stage of the catalyst tower, an oxidizer adding device adding an oxidizer to the combustion exhaust gas passed through the dust collector, a solid/liquid separator separating slurry discharged from the wet dust collector into solid and liquid phases, a mercury adsorbing tower adsorbing mercury in liquid separated in the solid/liquid separator, and a heat recovering device heating the combustion exhaust gas discharged from the catalyst tower at the rear stage thereof.
US07799291B2
An apparatus for fabricating ZnO nanostructures includes a heating element, a horizontal reaction tube having an inlet and an outlet. The reaction tube is positioned inside the interior cavity of the heating element with the inlet disposed to introduce a carrier gas into the reaction tube. The apparatus includes a source of a carrier gas in flow communication with the inlet, a container within the reaction tube that is disposed to receive and contain source materials comprising ZnO and graphite. An array of solid substrates is located on the container above the source materials. Adjacent substrates in the array are positioned with a space in between to allow the carrier gas to impinge on the source materials in the container.
US07799287B2
Disclosed is an apparatus and process for disengaging regenerated catalyst from flue gas in a catalyst regenerator so as to avoid re-entrainment of catalyst that has settled into a bed in the catalyst regenerator using a disengaging device. A disengaging arm of the disengaging device has an outer shell that encloses the arm, an inner shell with a slot for allowing catalyst and flue gas to exit the arm and an outer baffle having a lower edge located below the opening in the outer wall. The baffle directs the catalyst and flue gas downwardly and limits radial flow. Catalyst and flue gas enter the disengaging arm through an opening in an outer wall of a riser section at a first superficial velocity and exits through a slot in a bottom of the disengaging arm at no more than 1.33 the first superficial velocity.
US07799284B2
A sample container includes a cap that covers a container body holding a liquid sample containing a reagent and a test body. The cap includes an outer lid that covers the container body, an inner lid that is slidably attached to the outer lid and has an opening for dispensing the liquid sample, a shutter that has a shaft engaging with the inner lid, a translating unit that is fitted to the outer lid and translates sliding movements of the inner lid against the outer lid to rotation of the shutter around the shaft, and a pressing member that presses the shutter in a direction to close the shutter. The rotation of the shutter opens and closes a hole formed in the translating unit for dispensing the liquid sample.
US07799281B2
A tip for a biomagnetic particle transfer device generally includes a solid body made from a highly magnetically permeable material and having a shape adapted to concentrate a magnetic field generated by the transfer device on the body. The tip body preferably includes a truncated cone-shaped portion and a solid probe portion. The cone-shaped portion defines an attachment end engageable with an end of the transfer device and an apex opposite the attachment end. The probe portion extends from the apex of the cone-shaped portion, and the magnetic field is concentrated on the probe portion.
US07799277B2
A detection device is provided which comprises an examination flow channel for passing a fluid containing a detection object, a reference flow channel extending adjacently along the examination flow channel, an interaction film interposed between the examination flow channel and the reference flow channel for causing an interaction thereof, a light emission unit for injecting a detecting light into the reference flow channel, and a detection unit for receiving the detecting light. This device is used for recognizing the state of the detection object in the examination flow channel from deflection of the optical path of the detecting light caused by the interaction.
US07799276B2
A chemical sensor having a transducer element and a layer of composite material including a polymer matrix and a solid particulate filler disposed in the polymer matrix provides chemical sensors exhibiting improved properties. In particular, the device allows polymer matrix materials to be selected based primarily on diffusion properties, strength, stability and other physical characteristics substantially independent of limitations and compromises that arise when attempting to synthesize polymers having specific types of sensory groups chemically bound to the polymer. The invention also allows greater ability to modify sensor response characteristics by appropriate modification of the particulate filler, whereby a diverse sensor array may be fabricated more easily and at a lower cost.
US07799268B2
A piezoelectric device is produced by providing a material having a hydroxyapatite (HA) component. The HA component is textured by, for example uniaxial pressing, to impart one of the limiting symmetries ∞, ∞ mm, or ∞2. The textured material may then be poled to enhance the piezoelectric properties.
US07799261B2
The disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for coating a medical device. The method includes providing an electrospinning apparatus and simultaneously electrospinning at least one solution onto a first surface and an opposing second surface. The apparatus comprises a first spinneret and a second spinneret. An energy source is electrically coupled to the first spinneret and the second spinneret. The first spinneret and second spinneret comprise a reservoir and an orifice fluidly coupled to the reservoir. The first spinneret orifice is located substantially opposite the second spinneret orifice.
US07799259B2
A two-color molding method with a short cycle time and a multicolor molding method including that two-color molding method, whereby, by performing an elastomer molding step using a time Z from a time t2 to t7 in the range of the time Y needed for the shaped article takeout step (A and B) and mold closing step (C) in the time t1 to t9, it becomes possible to effectively use the time of the shaped article takeout step (A and B) and mold closing step (C) which could not be utilized at all for the molding process in the past for the molding process, whereby the cycle molding time X can be shortened.
US07799256B2
Methods of manufacturing molds and parts include generating a computer representation of a master part, determining an undercut region of the master part, generating a computer representation of a core to fill the undercut region, manufacturing a master part assembly having a master part and an embedded core, manufacturing a master mold core, creating a master mold using the master part assembly, placing the master mold core in the master mold and manufacturing a prototype part.
US07799240B1
Refrigerant composition are disclosed which comprises: (a) pentafluoroethane, trifluoromethoxydifluoromethane or hexafluorocyclopropane, or a mixture of two or more thereof, in an amount of at least 75% based on the weight of the composition, (b) 1,1,1,2- or 1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethane, trifluoromethoxypentafluoroethane, 1,1,1,2,3,3-heptafluoropropane or a mixture of two or more thereof, in an amount of from 10 to 20% by weight based on the weight of the composition and (c) an ethylenically unsaturated or saturated hydrocarbon, optionally containing one or more oxygen atoms, with a boiling point from −50° C. to +35° C., or a mixture thereof in an amount from 1% to 4% by weight based on the weight of the composition the weight ratio of component (a):component (b) being at least 4:1.
US07799233B2
The invention provides a method of treating a target area with an ultrasound wave pattern, including: providing an ultrasound apparatus having an ultrasound wave generator operatively attached to a plurality of transducers, coupled to an immersible support and configured to emit an ultrasound wave; immersing the apparatus into a water environment; positioning the apparatus proximate to a target area to treat at least one in situ organism; and emitting a pattern of ultrasound waves from the transducers, the pattern of ultrasound waves additive in effect and emitted onto the target area to threat an in situ underwater organism.
US07799229B2
Process for the selective removal of Iridium carbonylation catalyst metal and/or at least one promoter selected from ruthenium, osmium and rhenium from a liquid composition comprising a carbonylation product, iridium carbonylation catalyst metal and/or the promoter metal, corrosion metals and optionally alkali or alkaline earth metals. The process is carried out by contacting the liquid composition with a chelating resin to remove at least a portion of the iridium carbonylation catalyst metal and/or at least one promoter metal contained in the liquid composition. The chelating resin contains at least one thiourea functional group. The process is suitable for treating process streams obtained in the production of carboxylic acids and/or carboxylic anhydrides.
US07799224B2
Systems and methods for wastewater treatment. A nitrate source may be dosed to a collection tank, such as a wet well, for downstream control of hydrogen sulfide levels in the wastewater. A source of a strong oxidizer may also be dosed to the wet well. The oxidizer, such as chlorite, may temporarily interrupt denitrification processes in the wet well to prevent floatation of undesirable constituents therein. The oxidizer dosage may be generally consistent with the nitrate dosage. An ORP sensor may facilitate regulation of dosing. The nitrate and the oxidizer may be present in a single mixture to be dosed to the wet well.
US07799222B2
The invention relates to using alcalophilic sulphate-reducing bacteria selected from at least one species of a Desulfohalobiaceae or Desulfonatronum species family or from species whose gene encoding for ribosomal PARN 16S has a homology equal to or greater than 97% with a corresponding gene of any species of the Desulfohalobiaceae or Desulfonatronum species family for producing a hydrogen sulphide substantially soluble in an aqueous medium.
US07799221B1
A pumping machine, that can serve a system as the sole main pump for pressurizing a primary liquid flow, incorporates, in a single machine, a rotor-drum type AP (axial piston) pump and a PX (pressure exchanger) that recovers energy from a secondary liquid flow such as the brine discharge from an RO seawater desalination system, with benefits including fewer moving parts and small machine size along with lower capital and operating costs. A single rotor-drum containing the cylinders and pistons is located between two end blocks, one or both configured with manifold passageways, ports and sliding valves. A swash-plate at one end reciprocates the pistons axially when the rotor-drum is rotated. Two working chambers, primary and secondary, are formed at opposite ends of a single piston in each cylinder, thus enabling the single rotor-drum to function as a primary liquid-pressurizing axial pump (AP) with sliding valves at the primary end enabling primary liquid pumping, and as a secondary outflow-driven pressure exchanger (PX) recovering energy from pressure drop in the secondary liquid flow and thus contributing work to primary pumping, saving energy and reducing operating costs.
US07799218B2
A paint reclamation clarifier system in communication with a sump tank in a paint booth containing a carrier fluid for capturing paint droplets and a conduit for transporting the carrier fluid mixed with paint droplets to the reclamation clarifier system is presented. The clarifier system includes an influent port, a detackification agent inlet, a sludge tank in a lower portion of the clarifier for collecting the dispersed carrier liquid, where the paint droplets bond with the agent and settle to the bottom of the sludge tank, a sludge outlet, and, at least one effluent port located on or near an upper portion of a sidewall of the clarifier system permitting unsettled material to exit from the clarifier.
US07799216B2
Drain trap assembly for separating sediment from discharged wastewater including a conduit with a first upper inlet portion and a second upper outlet portion. Between the inlet and outlet is located a lower bend portion. Interrupting the lower bend portion is a third conduit portion including a cup closure for sediment accumulation out of the wastewater pathway. Affixed to the cup closure and extending generally upwardly within the assembly and across the wastewater flow is a strainer including at least one plate with through-holes sized to reject particulate sediment and other solids of a predetermined size. Another strainer embodiment includes fibers affixed to the closure and extending across the wastewater flow. A strainer support leg may be concave to guide or deflect sediment-laden wastewater downwardly to the accumulation area and may include at least one wastewater flow aperture. Closure removal automatically withdraws the strainer, offering ready access to accumulated sediment.
US07799214B2
A filtration device for a surface treatment liquid, in which deposited precipitates can be quickly transferred regardless of the magnitude of the diameter, material, and the like, of particles contained in a used surface treatment liquid. Further, the precipitates are not influenced by the flow caused by the transfer, so that such a situation that the deposited precipitates rise to flow into a surface treatment tank can be prevented. The filtration device for a surface treatment liquid comprises a surface treatment tank in which the surface of an object is treated by a surface treatment liquid; a pool tank connected to a pressure reduction mechanism and communicated with the surface treatment tank through interconnection control valve, in which the pool tank, when its communication with the surface treatment tank is interrupted by the closure of the interconnection control valve after the internal pressure is reduced to a predetermined level by the pressure reduction mechanism, performing in the surface treatment tank surface treatment of the object by utilizing negative pressure to collect and receive the contaminated surface treatment liquid; and a participates liquefaction tank that communicates with the lower end of the pool tank through a communication pipe provided with an open/close valve and into which the participates in the pool tank is introduced.
US07799211B2
A crude oil feedstream is treated to remove or reduce the content of known undesired heteroatomic and polynuclear aromatic compounds containing nitrogen and sulfur by contacting the feedstream with one or more solid adsorbent materials selected from attapulgus clay, alumina, silica gel and activated carbon in a mixing vessel for a time that is sufficient to optimize the adsorption of the undesired compounds from the crude oil, subjecting the mixture to atmospheric flash distillation and then to vacuum flash distillation to recover presorbed boiling ranges of products having a lowered content of the undesired compounds, and preferably regenerating at least a portion of the solid adsorbent material for reuse in the process.
US07799208B2
Methods of hydrocracking hydrocarbon streams are provided that employ substantially liquid-phase continuous hydroprocessing conditions. In one aspect, the method includes a separate hydrotreating and hydrocracking system where the hydrocracking zone is a substantially liquid-phase continuous system. In another aspect, the method includes a two-stage hydrocracking system where one or both of the hydrocracking zones is a substantially liquid-phase continuous reaction system.
US07799204B2
A method and device for the quantitative determination of an ion in a fluid which comprises subjecting the fluid to voltammetry using a sensing electrode which comprises an electrically conducting support having a surface which is coated with a support matrix, the support matrix containing an electroactive species capable of being oxidised or reduced to form a charged species, and an ionophore.
US07799203B2
A gas detection apparatus including a gas sensor element and a gas-sensor control circuit. The gas sensor element includes at least one sensor cell including a solid electrolyte member and a pair of electrodes, and external connection terminals electrically connected to the electrodes. The gas-sensor control circuit includes control terminals electrically connected to respective external connection terminals of the gas sensor element, an inspection current supply circuit for supplying an inspection current to an inspected terminal, which is a control terminal to be inspected for presence or absence of a short circuit to a predetermined potential, an inspection potential measurement circuit for measuring the potential of the inspected terminal, and an uninspected terminal impedance increasing circuit for increasing the impedance of the gas-sensor control circuit as viewed from an uninspected terminal, which is a control terminal other than the inspected terminal.
US07799197B2
A nanopump for pumping small volumes of electrolyte solution under the control of a voltage source is described. The device includes a chamber and a nanopore membrane which partitions the chamber into upstream and downstream regions. When a voltage potential is applied across the membrane, electroosmotic flow through the membrane channels produces a precise-volume flow between the two chamber regions. A method for precise-volume pumping employing the nanopump and a nanopump device for determining the lengths of nucleic acid fragments in an electrolyte solution of different-length fragments are also described.
US07799196B2
Methods and apparatus for forming devices using nanotubes. In one embodiment, an apparatus for depositing nanotubes onto a workpiece comprises a vessel configured to contain a deposition fluid having a plurality of nanotubes including first nanotubes having a first characteristic and second nanotubes having a second characteristic. The apparatus further includes a sorting unit in the vessel configured to selectively isolate or otherwise sort the first nanotubes from the second nanotubes, and a field unit in the vessel configured to attach the first nanotubes to the workpiece. For example, the field unit can attach the first nanotubes to the workpiece such that the first nanotubes are at least generally parallel to each other and in a desired orientation relative to the workpiece.
US07799194B2
The invention relates to a method of preparing a gel for use in electrophoresis, which method comprises:(a) providing a mixture comprising a solvent, agarose or a derivative thereof, one or more vinyl monomers, and a polymerisation initiator, the initiator forming a redox system with agarose or the derivative thereof;(b) exposing the mixture to polymerisation conditions to graft-polymerise the one or more monomers onto the agarose or derivative thereof; and(c) allowing the mixture to form a gel.
US07799193B2
An electrochemical sensor is provided that includes a housing having an outer wall, a plurality of longitudinal walls disposed within the outer wall, and a reference chamber housing a reference electrode. The longitudinal walls define a plurality of longitudinal chambers. Ionic communication between the target fluid and the reference electrode passes sequentially through each of longitudinal chambers from a first longitudinal chamber to the reference chamber. In this manner, the sensor provides generally a long, tortuous flow path, or salt bridge, between the target fluid and the reference electrode, resulting in a high resistance factor for the sensor.
US07799192B2
A sensor element to determine the temperature or the oxygen concentration of an exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine includes a first solid electrolyte film, a second solid electrolyte film, and a diffusion barrier disposed in a layer plane between the first and the second solid electrolyte film. A gas-impermeable or at least largely gas-impermeable cover layer is provided locally on the diffusion barrier, so that in the regions in which the cover layer is provided on the diffusion barrier, diffusion of the measured gas into or out of the diffusion barrier is at least largely prevented. A corresponding method for manufacturing a sensor element includes ablating a diffusion barrier using a laser in order to adjust the diffusion resistance of the diffusion barrier. A cover layer that, after a sintering process, is gas-impermeable or at least largely gas-impermeable is applied onto a side of the diffusion barrier that faces toward a measured gas located outside the sensor element. The cover layer is ablated in order to adjust the diffusion resistance of the diffusion barrier.
US07799190B2
A multi-chamber processing system is described for depositing materials on multiple workpieces (wafers, display panels, or any other workpieces) at a time in a vacuum chamber. Multiple magnets (one for each target) in the magnetron assembly in the sputtering chamber oscillate over their respective targets for uniform target erosion and uniform deposition on the wafers. An electrically insulated target backing plate between each magnet and a target has a liquid channel running through it for controlling temperature, where the liquid channel has a wider cross-sectional area around the middle portion of the target backing plate to increase cooling of the middle portion of the target. The distance between the magnets and the targets is made very small by a thin aluminum plate fixed to the bottom segment of the target backing plate by a dip brazing process.
US07799188B2
The present invention pertains to an electrolytic copper plating method characterized in employing pure copper as the anode upon performing electrolytic copper plating, and performing electrolytic copper plating with the pure copper anode having a crystal grain diameter of 10 μm or less or 60 μm or more. Provided are an electrolytic copper plating method and a pure copper anode for electrolytic copper plating used in such electrolytic copper plating method capable of suppressing the generation of particles such as sludge produced on the anode side within the plating bath upon performing electrolytic copper plating, and capable of preventing the adhesion of particles to a semiconductor wafer, as well as a semiconductor wafer plated with the foregoing method and anode having low particle adhesion.
US07799187B2
A composite anode assembly is provided, the assembly including a permeation resistant portion and a porous conductive portion circumscribing at least the bottom of the permeation resistant portion. The composite anode assembly reduces corrosion and restricts thermal expansion stresses.
US07799186B2
The present invention provides a technology for enabling a diaphragm to be arranged in a more facilitated manner in a plating tank of a plating apparatus having a diaphragm for separating an object to be plated from an anode. The plating apparatus having a plating tank, which plating tank comprising: an opening on which an object to be plated is placed; a solution-supply tube for supplying a plating solution toward the object to be plated; an anode positioned opposed to the object to be plated; and a diaphragm for separating the object to be plated from the anode, wherein an inner wall of the plating tank is provided with a diaphragm-periphery fixing part for fixing a peripheral end of the diaphragm, the solution-supply tube is composed of a dual tube consisting of an inner tube and an outer tube, the inner tube has an inner tube part allowed to pass through a through-hole formed at a center of the diaphragm and a diaphragm through-hole fixing part for fixing the through-hole, and the outer tube has an engaging part for fixing the inner tube with the inner tube part accommodated and further has a tank-fixing part to be fixed in the plating tank.
US07799183B2
An electropolishing apparatus and method are provided for polishing stents and other medical implants. The apparatus includes a motor that rotates a roller. The roller continuously rotates the medical implant to be electropolished. One of the advantages of the apparatus and method is that marks generated around the electrical contact between the anode and the medical implant are minimized. In addition, the medical implant is polished more evenly than conventional electropolishing systems.
US07799174B2
A foil for paper production systems has a carrier strip and mutually adjoining plates of ceramic material. The plates are fixed to the carrier strip by way of a plurality of clips, whose free ends are latched to the plates. On their side facing the carrier strip, the plates of a ceramic material are formed with strips projecting from the latter and extending in the longitudinal direction of the carrier strip, which are formed with undercuts along their side edges, the free ends of the clips, which are oriented toward one another, projecting into the lateral undercuts of the strips projecting from the plates.
US07799159B2
The manufacturing device comprises a rotary distributor 6 in rotation about a rotation axis R, the rotary distributor comprising at least one elbowed tube 61, the elbowed tube having a corridor for receiving the wire on the radially internal side and forming output guidance on the externally radial side. The device comprises a member for conveying to the distributor comprising a tubular portion 53 substantially perpendicular to the rotation axis R, a space in the radial direction being provided between the tubular portion 53 and the elbowed tube 61. A knife 7 is disposed in the space between the rotary distributor and the conveying member. The conveying member and the distributor are coupled and both rotary, the knife 7 being mounted on a knife holder 70 for purposes of adjustment and whose rotation is locked during cutting. The rotary distributor comprises a central tube 51, and inlet orifice 52 of which is disposed substantially on the rotation axis R of the rotary distributor, the tubular portion 53 coming in line with the central tube 51.
US07799150B2
Methods of passivating a metal surface are described, the methods comprising the steps of i) exposing the metal surface to a silicon-containing passivation material; ii) evacuating the metal surface; iii) exposing the treated surface to a gas composition having a concentration of reactive gas that is greater than an intended reactive gas concentration of gas to be transported by the metal surface; iv) evacuating the metal surface to remove substantially all of the gas composition to enable maintenance of an increased shelf-life, low concentration reactive gas at an intended concentration; and v) exposing the metal surface to the reactive gas at the intended reactive gas concentration. Manufactured products, high stability fluids, and methods of making same are also described.
US07799148B2
Iron-carbon-manganese austenitic steel sheet, the chemical composition of which comprises, the contents being expressed by weight: 0.45%≦C≦0.75%; 15%≦Mn≦26%; Si≦3%; Al≦0.050%; S≦0.030%; P≦0.080%; N≦0.1%; at least one metal element chosen from vanadium, titanium, niobium, chromium and molybdenum, where 0.050%≦V≦0.50%; 0.040%≦Ti≦0.50; 0.070%≦Nb≦0.50%; 0.070%≦Cr≦2%; 0.14%≦Mo≦2%; and, optionally, one or more elements chosen from 0.0005%≦B≦0.003%; Ni≦1%; Cu≦5%, the balance of the composition consisting of iron and inevitable impurities resulting from the smelting, the amounts of said at least one metal element in the form of precipitated carbides, nitrides or carbonitrides being: 0.030%≦Vp≦0.150%; 0.030%≦Tip≦0.130%; 0.040%≦Nbp≦0.220%; 0.070%≦Crp≦0.6%; 0.14%≦Mop≦0.44%.
US07799144B2
A method of cleaning a filter component comprises subjecting the component to an atmosphere of superheated steam at a pressure of a least 0.5 bar in a vessel and subsequently decompressing the vessel to achieve a pressure reduction of at least 0.5 bar in at most 5 seconds. The method is particularly useful for the cleaning of filter components that have been used for the filtration of molten polymer (e.g. polyester) and which are at least partially blocked by solidified polymer.
US07799120B2
A carbon dioxide storage system includes a container and a conduit attached to the container for introducing or removing a carbon dioxide-containing composition from the container. A carbon dioxide storage material is positioned within the container. The carbon dioxide-storage material includes a metal-organic framework, which has a sufficient surface area to store at least 10 carbon dioxide molecules per formula unit of the metal-organic framework at a temperature of about 25° C.
US07799117B1
A thermal sink is used to recover heat from a product gas leaving an adsorption vessel in a thermal swing adsorption process. Heat that is recovered from the product gas is used to heat a regeneration gas during the subsequent regeneration of the adsorbent material within the adsorption vessel. The step in which the regenerated bed of adsorbent material is cooled prior to returning to adsorption mode is eliminated.
US07799106B2
The invention relates to a gas intake zone of a separable gas filter housing which removably accommodates a filter element. The gas intake zone is used as a prefilter and comprises a plurality of axially adjacent, axially impinged cyclone collectors that are provided with respective spin generators in the inlet zones thereof and gas-discharging immersion tubes at the discharge end within annular ducts which are located between the immersion tubes and the respectively associated outer cyclone walls while being used for pre-separating dirt particles separated in an outer radial direction in the individual cyclones by means of centrifugal forces, the immersion tubes being axially dipped into the interior of the cyclone collectors.
US07799098B2
The present invention relates to a shading process characterized by using a composition comprising a phthalocyanine to which at least one dyestuff is attached through a covalent bonding, to shading compositions, to new compounds used in these shading compositions as well as to the production of these new compounds.
US07799088B2
A porous weave of bioabsorbable filaments having an open mesh configuration is formed into an oblate shape having dimensions greater than the esophageal opening and gastric outlet of a stomach. The resulting prosthesis is deployed in the stomach and is of a size to be retained in the proximate portion thereof for exerting pressure on the upper fundus. The prosthesis limits the amount of food that may be held within the stomach, and exerts pressure on the fundus to create a sensation of being full, resulting in weight loss.
US07799086B2
Modular bone implants, means of assembly, and their method of use are presented.
US07799080B2
Spinal disc prosthetic devices are provided having up to six-degrees-of-freedom with three rotational and three translational degrees-of-freedom within the entire workspace of a Functional Spinal Unit (FSU). Certain embodiments of the prosthetic disc mechanisms attach to upper and lower plates anchored between vertebrae of an FSU allowing modularity of the devices. Scaling, conjoined mechanical programmability allow the devices to realize almost any nominal required spinal articulation, from the cervical to lumbar regions.
US07799072B2
An apparatus for repairing the function of a diseased valve includes an annular first support member expandable to a first diameter. An annular second support member is spaced axially apart from the first support member and is expandable to a second diameter that is independent of the first diameter. A tubular graft section interconnects the first and second support members. The graft section defines an annulus having a third diameter that is independent of each of the first and second diameters. A prosthetic valve is secured within the annulus of the graft section. The bioprosthetic valve has at least two valve leaflets that are coaptable to permit the unidirectional flow of blood. Methods for repairing the function of a diseased valve and for making the apparatus are also provided.
US07799071B2
A thread for forming a vascular stent implanted in vessels is provided. This thread is formed by melt-spinning a biodegradable polymer. On the surface of the thread, there is formed a layer of a drug-containing biodegradable polymer of the same sort as the biodegradable polymer constituting the thread.
US07799059B2
The invention relates to an orthopedic fixation device with an at least partly shaft-like fixation member, a shaft-like mounting body, and a transverse support securing the fixation member and the mounting body in a position in which they are laterally offset from one another. In order to adjust the transverse support without having to change the position of the fixation member, the fixation member can be rotated about its longitudinal axis in the transverse support and can be secured in a defined angular position.
US07799058B2
A spacer for maintaining separation between adjacent spinous processes having a first and second end support, a connecting member, and a central member positioned between the first and second end supports. The spacer is adjustable between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration such that when the connection member is pulled to bring the first and second end supports closer together, the central member expands into the expanded configuration to contact and support adjacent spinous processes.
US07799055B2
Stabilization systems for stabilizing one or more vertebral levels are provided. The systems include anchors engageable to the vertebrae and at least one connecting member that includes a window to receive the anchors and mounting portions extending from opposite ends of the connecting member into the window for engagement with the anchors. The connecting member can flex in response to spinal loading to provide dynamic stabilization, although rigid engagement relationships are also contemplated.
US07799052B2
A medical device for placing an embolic device at a predetermined site within a vessel of the body including a delivery catheter and a flexible pusher member slidably disposed within the lumen of the catheter. An embolic device is retained within the delivery catheter by a mechanical interlocking mechanism which includes an engagement member attached to the distal end of the pusher member and extends through a retaining ring at the proximal end of the embolic device. A detachment member extends through an aperture at the distal end of the engagement member thereby locking the embolic device onto the pusher member. A kicker tongue which is formed as an extension of a portion of the wall of the pusher member extends distally from the distal end of the pusher member and is biased so as to lift the retaining ring off of the engagement member to ensure the release of the embolic device when the detachment member is withdrawn from the aperture of the engagement member.
US07799039B2
A hydraulically actuated surgical instrument. The instrument may comprise a handle portion and a shaft. The shaft is mechanically coupled to the handle. The instrument may also include an end effector mechanically coupled to the shaft along its longitudinal axis. The end effector may comprise a surgical implement and a hydraulic device. At least a portion of the surgical implement may be translatable along a transverse axis, wherein the transverse axis is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the shaft. Also, the hydraulic device may be positioned to be expandable toward the surgical instrument in a direction substantially parallel to the transverse axis of the shaft.
US07799034B2
An apparatus and method for distracting, in a given direction, and supporting two tissue surfaces. An expandable implant includes a plurality of elements are consecutively inserted between the two tissue surfaces to create a column of elements. The column of elements is oriented between the tissue surfaces so as to expand in the given direction as the elements are consecutively added to the column. The expandable implant includes a constraint including a cooperative engagement structure between adjacent elements.
US07799016B2
A magnetically controlled pump is implanted into the brain of a patient and delivers a plurality of medicating agents at a controlled rate corresponding to the specific needs of the patient. The current invention comprises a flexible double walled pouch that is formed from two layers of polymer. The pouch is alternately expanded and contracting by magnetic solenoid. When contracted, a medicating agent is pushed out of the pouch through a plurality of needles. When the pouch is expanded, surrounding cerebral fluid is drawn into the space between the double walls of the pouch from which it is drawn through a catheter to an analyzer. Cerebral fluid drawn from the patient is analyzed. The operation of the apparatus and hence the treatment is remotely controlled based on these measurements and displayed through an external controller.
US07799015B2
A method for retaining a first conduit (210) to a second conduit (230) by attaching a clip (100) to the first conduit and the second conduit, the first conduit including a first connector (220) and the second conduit including a second connector (240). The first connector is releasably connected to the second connector. The clip (100) has a base portion (110) and a first clip portion (120) extending away from the base portion. The first clip portion (120) has a first opening (140) that is sized to frictionally retain the first connector (220). The clip further has a second clip portion (150) disposed on the base portion (110) away from the first clip portion (120). The second clip portion (150) includes a second opening (170) that is sized to frictionally retain the second connector (240).
US07799010B2
An intravascular port access device includes a first component having a chamber configured to attach reversibly to an intravenous line port. A second component reversibly attaches to the first component and contains a disinfecting agent and an applicator material. The second component is configured to be reversibly received over external surfaces of the intravenous line port. A method of cleansing an intravenous line port includes providing a port cleaning device having a first component with a chamber containing a first cleaning agent. A second component includes a second cleaning agent. A third component has a microbiocidal agent and is reversibly attached to the first component. The second component is removed from the device, the external surfaces of the port are contacted with the second cleaning agent, the first cleaning agent is ejected from the chamber into the port, and the third component is used to cap the port.
US07799009B2
A vial enshrouded or contained in a protective covering which prevents emission of radiation form the vial contents, shielding the environment and personnel from irradiation. The vial optionally has a V-shaped bottom to allow withdrawal of a maximal amount of the fluid without inverting the vial. The vial is equipped with a vial access adapter having a fluid withdrawal spike which extends in to the V-shaped bottom. The vial access adapter may be vented or non-vented.
US07798997B2
A disposable cassette for mixing a drug in a vial includes a liquid inlet for connection to a liquid supply, a first vial spike, a second vial spike, a chamber and a valve mechanism. The chamber, the first and second vial spikes, and the liquid inlet are in fluid communication with each other. The valve mechanism may be actuated to control flow between the chamber, the vial receptacles and the liquid inlet.
US07798995B2
The invention in at least one embodiment includes a device having a hub, a housing, a cannula, and a needle where the relative positions of the hub and the housing controls the relative positions of the cannula and the needle. In at least one embodiment, the housing includes a pathway in which a pin on the hub travels through to allow for selection of the insertion depth of the needle relative to the cannula.
US07798993B2
A syringe including a plunger rod assembly including a proximal portion a distal portion with a stopper for expelling fluids from the syringe and a breakable connection between the proximal portion and the distal portion is disclosed. An impulse reduction system, which may be an elastic element or braking surfaces, reduces the contact impulse imparted by the proximal portion upon the distal portion when the connection between the distal portion and proximal portion breaks is also disclosed.
US07798992B2
Various exemplary methods and devices are provided for traversing a lumen, such as the gastrointestinal tract. The devices can include an elongate body having distally positioned tubing elements and proximally positioned control elements. The tubing elements are adapted for selective and independent radial expansion and contraction and longitudinal movement, such that movement of the tubing elements can drive the device through a lumen. In addition, the tubing elements can include a traction surface to reduce slippage.
US07798990B2
A disposable mouthwash container for use at a location such as a restaurant or preparatory to a meeting, for quick and easy rinsing of the user's mouth and to receive the used mouthwash back into the same container and be re-sealed for disposal. Each embodiment of the invention seals the mouthwash liquid in a reservoir in the container and has an easily openable top and spout providing access to the mouthwash, and a return opening for directing the used mouthwash back into the container, which is reclosable for disposal. A quick-release split ring connection is provided for mounting the container on a key ring for ready availability, and a reflective tape mirror is provided on some embodiments to facilitate inspection after use.
US07798989B2
The invention relates to needleless syringe for injecting an active liquid principle. The inventive syringe comprises a container (3) closed by a movable shutter and containing the injectable liquid. Said container is initially insulated from an injector-receptacle provided with a cylinder bore (10) in which a downstream shutter is arranged and which comprises at least one protuberance reducing the section with respect to the upstream opening of the bore. The aim of said invention is to damp and prevent the downstream shutter bounce when it is disposed in the bore (10) of the receptacle.
US07798986B2
A tampon applicator barrel including a cardboard tube having a first end and a second end and at least one gripping structure defined from the cardboard tube proximate the second end is provided. The cardboard tube has a wall thickness of between about 0.015 and about 0.020 inches, while the gripping structure has a height of up to about 0.035 inches.
US07798984B2
A cushioning boot for bed-ridden patients. The boot includes a thickly-padded leg engaging portion and foot engaging portion with a front opening for easy insertion of a patient foot and leg. A series of stretchable, adjustable closure panels are removably secured to the boot for positioning and inserted leg in the proper orientation and retaining it in place.
US07798966B2
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus including: an ultrasonic observation device that transmits and receives an ultrasonic wave by an ultrasonic transducer arranged on a tip end of a probe, and that acquires a plurality of two-dimensional ultrasonic tomographic images for a subject in a living body; a position data calculator that detects information indicating a reference position of each of the two-dimensional ultrasonic tomographic images and an orientation of a tomographic plane of the each two-dimensional ultrasonic tomographic image; and an image processor is provided. The image processor generates a band-shaped longitudinal image including a curved plane along a moving path of the ultrasonic transducer.
US07798959B2
An endoscope light source unit for making illumination light incident on an incident end face of a light guide connected thereto, includes an aperture device having aperture openings of different opening ratios, for selectively positioning one of the aperture openings between the incident end face of the light guide and the light source; a reading device for reading information on an illumination light quantity limit from a memory provided in a scope connected to the endoscope light source unit; and a controller for selecting an opening ratio of the aperture device in accordance with the information on the illumination light quantity limit read by the reading device, wherein the controller controls the aperture device so as not to position any of the aperture openings, which have an opening ratio higher than the selected opening ratio, between the incident end face of the light guide and the light source.
US07798957B2
A guide and method for tilting a colonoscope in the rectum during a colonoscopy to attain a favorable direction for advancement of the scope through the colon. The guide comprises an at least partially rigid, elongated body member that, preferably, is attached to a handle at its proximal end. The body member can have a flat or curved cross-section. One or more ring members can be provided along the length of the body member to receive the scope and maintain the guide in close abutting relation therewith. The ring members can be slotted to allow side-loading of the guide onto the scope. Alternatively, a rigid or graduated rigid tubular member can be part of the guide member. An injection port allows injection of a lubricant. By tilting the colonoscope at various difficult stages of a colonoscopy, sigmoid looping is minimized to facilitate advancing the scope through the colon.
US07798953B1
In a method for improving cardiac performance, a compressive cardiac implant is passed through an anterior intraventricular vein of a patient's heart to a position proximate an apex or lower end of a left ventricle of the patient's heart. A distal end portion of the compressive cardiac implant is moved from the anterior intraventricular vein into the patient's left ventricle and thereafter passed through a septum of the patient's heart and into a right ventricle thereof. The distal end portion of the compressive cardiac implant is then engaged with the septum, and the compressive cardiac implant is operated to compress the apex or lower end of the patient's left ventricle so as to reduce the effective volume of the left ventricle.
US07798952B2
An axial flow rotary blood pump including an impeller (5) adapted to be magnetically rotated within a housing by the interaction of magnets disposed on or in the impeller and stators disposed on or in the housing. The impeller includes at least one support ring (2) supporting a plurality of blades (4), and a hydrodynamic bearing (3) that operates at least axially and radially in respect of an axis of rotation of the impeller (5).
US07798948B2
To provide an electrophotographic developing member which can both be kept from the sticking of a developer and be kept from being deformed by its contacting members, and can form stable images over a long period of time. An electrophotographic developing member characterized in that its surface layer satisfies the following expressions (1) to (3) where the average crosslinking density in each region of up to 100 nm in depth, from 100 nm to 200 nm in depth and from 200 nm to 300 nm in depth from the surface of the surface layer is represented by C1, C2 and C3 (mol/cm3), respectively: C3
US07798943B1
An exercising device has two rails, two feet, two sliding footrests, an articulated assembly, at least one resilient member and two handles. The rails are parallel. The feet are mounted on the rails. The sliding footrests are mounted slidably on the rails. The articulated assembly is mounted on the rails and is connected pivotally to the sliding footrests. The handles are mounted detachably on the articulated assembly. The exercising device allows conditioning of a neck, arms, thighs, abdomen and back, especially vastus lateralis and vastus medialis muscles of the thighs.
US07798942B2
The present invention allows users to monitor their workouts using a small, portable device which provides feedback regarding speed of exercise repetition and range of motion, enabling the user to use pneumatic or cable driven workout structures safely, efficiently, and effectively. In a typical embodiment, the present invention allows a user to define pre-set requirements, attach the device to a cable-driven exercise structure, and complete the exercise while using the device to monitor the exercise. The device signals to the user if the user's execution of exercise repetitions falls outside the user's pre-set requirements for speed and range of motion. The results of the user's exercise repetitions are displayed on a display screen and are stored in the device's memory, and may then be uploaded onto the user's personal computer to further monitor progress.
US07798937B2
In a utility vehicle transmission having an input shaft, a main shaft and an output shaft, a countershaft is provided which can be decoupled in direct gear, a high number of gears wherein power is transmitted from the input shaft to the output shaft directly via the main shaft while providing for a high number of gears by two shiftable input constants with different transmission ratios which are selectively engageable with either of the various forward transmission stages and the reverse transmission stage but which also permit the return flow of power from the input shaft to the main shaft via the input constants.
US07798921B2
A basketball rim mounting assembly permitting multi-directional deflection in response to extraordinary forces imposed on the rim has a fixed portion coupled to a back board and a movable portion fixed to a basketball rim. The fixed portion can include a back plate secured to a front face of the back board, a pair of bracket plates fixed to extend forward from the back plate, and a base plate fixed between the bracket plates. The movable portion can include a top plate overlying the base plate and a pair of side plates extending downward from the top plate outside the bracket plates. A pair of downwardly extending members is fixed to the top plate in spaced relation to each other. Tilt regulating structure is coupled between the pair of downwardly extending members and to the fixed portion for controlling the extent of deflection of the rim relative to the backboard such that the extraordinary force necessary to cause the rim to break-away from its normal position is the same in any direction.
US07798917B2
This invention provides a golf club head having a groove formed on a face of the golf club head. Each of a pair of side surfaces of the groove has a first surface leading to the face and a second surface leading to the first surface in the depth direction of the groove. A first angle between the first surfaces of each of the pair of the side surfaces is larger than a second angle between the second surfaces of each of the pair of the side surfaces.
US07798912B2
The present disclosure relates to a multicompound weight balanced hand grip for an implement, like a golf club grip, that has varying hardness and specific gravities in selected sections of the grip for providing an adjustable fulcrum position for the grip.
US07798901B2
In an embodiment of a gaming method, a gaming tournament time of a gaming tournament may be designated, the gaming tournament time having a start time and an end time. Enrollment data may be received from a plurality of players at respective gaming computers, wherein enrollment data corresponding to a first player of the plurality of players indicates the first player wishes to play in the gaming tournament for a first subset of the gaming tournament time. Each of the gaming computers may be enabled for playing at least one game in the gaming tournament during the gaming tournament time, wherein the gaming computer corresponding to the first player is enabled for the first subset of the gaming tournament time. A first winning player may be determined, if any, from the plurality of players based on outcomes of the games played by the plurality of players. If the first winning player is determined, data indicative of a first value payout to be awarded to the first winning player may be generated.
US07798897B2
A gaming system comprises: a slot machine having a signal transmitted for switching the game to a roulette game; a second gaming apparatus which has a function of executing the roulette game; second gaming terminals each of which is used as a dedicated terminal for the roulette game; and a central controller. The central controller has a function of communicating with the slot machine, the second gaming apparatus, and the second gaming terminals. In the case of receipt of the switching signal from the slot machine, the central controller transmits a start signal for starting the roulette game, which instructs the second gaming apparatus to start the roulette game. In the case that a particular condition has been satisfied in the roulette game, the central controller provides the payout to the slot machine and the second gaming terminals according to a predetermined ratio.
US07798884B2
A toy construction system includes a block component and a connector component. The connector component has a connector-to-block coupling section for releasable coupling to the block component and a connector-to-connector coupling section for releasable coupling to a substantially similar connecting component. The connector-to-block coupling section defines a connector block contacting surface for contacting the block component. The coupling aperture defines a peripheral edge retaining section made out of a substantially resiliently deformable material. The peripheral edge retaining section is configured, sized and positioned so that when the block and connector components are in a component assembled configuration, the connector block contacting surface substantially deforms the peripheral edge retaining section to a retaining configuration for positively retaining the latter; and when the connector block contacting surface is spaced from the peripheral retaining section, the latter resiliently springs back to a non-retaining configuration.
US07798882B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing an electron emission device. The method includes: forming electron emission sources including a carbon-based material; and emitting electrons from the electron emission sources in a chamber containing a gas. Accordingly, an electron emission display device employing the electron emission device can improve uniformity between pixels and increase device lifespan.
US07798878B1
A personal windscreen apparatus is mounted on a boater's body to protect a boater's face during boating. The apparatus has a windscreen secured to a flotation device. The flotation device is secured to a boater's body utilizing a series of straps.
US07798866B2
The invention relates to an electrical plug-in connector (1) comprising a housing, a printed circuit board (6), and at least one electrical contact which is electrically connected to the printed circuit board. The printed circuit board (6) is spring-mounted.
US07798864B2
An implantable connector, implantable lead assemblies, and implantable lead assembly kits are provided. The connector comprises an electrically insulative receptacle having a port configured for receiving an electrical lead body portion that carries an electrical terminal, and an electrical spring clip contact mounted within the receptacle. The electrical contact includes a collar and opposing lever arms. The collar is configured for being placed between an expanded state for receiving the terminal therein when the lead body portion is received within the port, and a collapsed state to firmly engage the terminal. The opposing lever arms are configured for being displaced using a tool to correspondingly place the collar between the expanded state and the collapsed state. The implantable connector can be incorporated into a lead and used to receive another lead to form the lead assembly. A tool can be provided with the connector to provide the lead assembly kit.
US07798860B2
An electrical connector (1) includes an insulative housing (2) and at least one contact (3) received in the housing. The housing defines a receiving cavity (23) therein, at least one receiving groove (216) communicating with the receiving cavity, a recessing groove (219) recessing outwards from an inner face (2161) of the at least one receiving groove and a locking hole (218) recessing outwards from an inner face (2190) of the recessing groove. The at least one contact defines a base portion (31) received in the receiving groove and an elastic arm (32) extending from the base portion and projecting into the receiving cavity, and the base portion defines an elastic locking portion (312) passing through the recessing groove and projecting into the locking hole in an elastic deformation manner to lock with the locking hole.
US07798859B1
An electrical terminal integrated with an insulating housing by means of insert molding includes a base plate embedded in the insulating housing, a soldering portion and a contact portion oppositely extended from two opposite ends of the base plate. A portion of the base plate is perpendicularly punched to divide the base plate into three parts designated as two first fastening plates and a second fastening plate which is connected between the two first fastening plates by two connecting portions. A bend is accordingly formed between the second fastening plate and the first fastening plates. During insert molding, the fluent plastic material flows around the base plate to make the first fastening plates, the second fastening plate and the connecting portions fully and firmly wrapped with the fluent plastic material due to the bend so as to form a firm integration between the electrical terminal and the insulating housing.
US07798856B2
An IC socket (1) for receiving an IC package includes a socket body (2), a plurality of contacts (3) received in the socket body (2), and a pick-up cap (4) mounted upon the socket body (2). The socket body (2) has a base section (20) and a plurality of side walls (21) extending upward from the base section (20). At least one side wall (21) defines a top surface (212), an inner surface (210), an outer surface (211) and a pair of datum projections (2100) extending inwardly from the inner surface (210). The side wall (21) with the datum projections (2100) includes a carrying surface (213) and an inclined surface (214) which are formed by excavating the top surface (212). The carrying surface (213) is lower than the top surface (212) for engaging with a carrying portion (400) formed on the pick-up cap (4). The inclined surface (214) is away from the datum projection (2100) with a selected distance therebetween.
US07798848B2
An insulator supporting an inner contact coaxial within a connector body bore of a connector for coaxial cable with a solid outer conductor is formed as a monolithic body with an inner contact bore extending between a connector end and a cable end. The inner contact bore is dimensioned to receive the inner contact. An outer diameter of the insulator at the connector end is configured to mate with the connector body bore of the coaxial cable connector. A plurality of spring fingers extends from the cable end of the insulator. A distal end of the spring fingers each is provided with a ramp surface, whereby during connector to cable assembly, the solid outer conductor contacts the spring fingers along the ramp surface(s), deflecting the spring fingers inward to increase inward bias upon a spring basket of the inner contact.
US07798847B2
An insulator for supporting an inner contact within a coaxial cable connector; the coaxial cable connector for coupling with a coaxial cable having an outer conductor and an inner conductor. The insulator formed as a monolithic dielectric body provided with a mounting portion proximate a connector end, the mounting portion dimensioned to seat within a connector body of the coaxial cable connector. A bore through the dielectric body dimensioned to seat the inner contact therein provided with an annular first seal groove in an inner diameter of the bore proximate a cable end, an inner conductor seal disposed in the first seal groove. The inner conductor seal dimensioned to seal between the insulator and the inner conductor when the inner conductor is coupled to the inner contact.
US07798840B2
An expandable and collapsible peripheral device is disclosed, along with methods of manufacturing same. When in an expanded state, the peripheral device may have a length which conforms to the ExpressCard standard, and when in a collapsed state, the peripheral device may have a form factor approximating that of a CompactFlash card. Peripheral devices of the present invention may operate according to standards other than the ExpressCard standard, and may have sizes in the expanded and collapsed positions unrelated to ExpressCards and/or CompactFlash cards.
US07798834B2
A cable assembly (100) includes a first insulated housing (1) having at least a first mounting slot (101) and a corresponding second mounting slot (102) defined therein, a fastening member for fastening the first insulated housing and a panel together, the fastening member including a latching member (5) accommodated in the first mounting slot and anchoring plate (6) accommodated in the second mounting slot, the screw having a base portion and a shrinkable post portion integrated with the base portion, the anchoring plate defining a first through hole and a second through hole communicated with the first through hole, the post portion being larger than the second through hole and smaller than the first through hole; and the post portion of the latching member inserted into the first mounting hole and locked into the second through hole of the anchoring plate.
US07798833B2
A busbar assembly for electrically coupling first and second busbars to first and second contacts, respectively, on a power module is provided. The assembly comprises a first terminal integrally formed with the first busbar, a second terminal integrally formed with the second busbar and overlapping the first terminal, a first bridge electrode having a first tab electrically coupled to the first terminal and overlapping the first and second terminals, and a second tab electrically coupled to the first contact, a second bridge electrode having a third tab electrically coupled to the second terminal, and overlapping the first and second terminals and the first tab, and a fourth tab electrically coupled to the second contact, and a fastener configured to couple the first tab to the first terminal, and the third tab to the second terminal.
US07798831B2
A headset connector assembly that includes a connector plate, a casing, and electrical contact members is provided. The connector plate can have a first mating surface, a second mating surface, and at least two apertures existing between the first and the second mating surfaces. The casing can have a first side in contact with the first mating surface and a second side. The casing can include a protruding cavity member for each of the at least two apertures. Each protruding cavity member can extend from the first side and be constructed to fit within one of the at least two apertures. Each protruding cavity member can house an electrical contact member.
US07798826B2
The combination of an electronic device and a security system for monitoring the electronic device with the security system in an operative state with respect to the electronic device. The electronic device has a port with a connector assembly through which an electrical path to the electronic device can be established and at least a first threaded opening. The security system has a housing and at least a first fastener that can be directed into the at least first threaded opening and changed from a pre-assembly position into a secured position to thereby maintain the housing in an operative position on the electronic device. At least one component is directed into the housing to block access to the at least first fastener as might allow changing of the at least first fastener from the secured position into the pre-assembly position. The housing is securable relative to a support to confine movement of the electronic device relative to the support.
US07798821B2
A cable assembly comprises an insulative housing defining a main body portion with a front face, an upper and a lower tongue portion respectively extending forwardly from a top and bottom side of the front face, and the main body portion defining a base section and an organizer angled with the base section, and the insulative housing defined by an upper cover and a lower cover engaged with the upper cover; a printed circuit board disposed in the insulative housing and defining a mating portion extending forwardly from the front face of the insulative housing and disposed between the upper and lower tongue portion and a rear portion opposite to the mating portion thereof; and a cable terminated to the rear portion of the printed circuit board and extending out of the insulative housing along the organizer of the insulative housing.
US07798820B2
An edge connector design for use with a printed circuit board included in a communications module is disclosed. In one embodiment, the edge connector comprises a planar surface defining a terminal end of the printed circuit board, and a plurality of conductive contact pads arranged on the planar surface. The contact pads include first and second ground contact pads disposed adjacent opposite side portions of the planar surface and first and second power contact pads disposed proximate a central portion of the planar surface. First and second pairs of differential transmit data signal contact pads, as well as first and second pairs of differential receive data signal contact pads are also included, the pairs being disposed between one of the ground contact pads and one of the power contact pads. The edge connector is received by a female connector of a host device to connect the module to the host.
US07798817B2
High performance interconnect devices, structures, and fabrication methods are provided herein. According to some embodiments of the present invention, an interconnect device used to connect components or route signals in an integrated circuit can comprise multiple conductors. A first conductor of the interconnect device can define a first conductor axis, and a second conductor of the interconnect device can define a second conductor axis. The second conductor can be proximate the first conduct such that first conductor axis is substantially coaxially situated relative to the second conductor axis to provide a high performance interconnect having a coaxial alignment. The first conductor and the second conductor can define a gap disposed between and separating the conductors. Other embodiments are also claimed and described.
US07798815B2
The present invention is directed to an electromechanical pumping system for simulating the beating of heart in a cardiac surgery training environment. A computer-controllable linear actuator is used to control the electromechanical pumping system.In a preferred embodiment, the electromechanical pumping system is linked to a porcine heart. The heart is made to beat by inserting intra-ventricular balloons placed inside the heart and connected to the pumping system. When controlled by the electromechanical pumping system, the porcine heart is able to display normal and abnormal beating rhythms, as well as ventricular fibrillation.In addition, an electronic pressure sensor incorporated into the pumping system can be used to trigger a ventricular fibrillation mode when the porcine heart attached to the pumping system is handled by a trainee surgeon.
US07798806B2
A bottom insert for an injection mold, which insert is of a two-part configuration having a hot part which has a recess of the hot side and a cold part which has a recess of the cold side, wherein the cold part is arranged at least partially within the hot part so that the hot part at least portion-wise surrounds the cold part. The two parts of the bottom insert are preferably separable and the. hot part preferably has an opening in opposite relationship to the recess of the hot side for receiving the cold part. Further, the cold part and the hot part are desirably sealed off relative to each other, desirably by O-rings. In general, all surfaces which are provided for contact with the molding to be produced are arranged at the cold part. An insulating coating, an insulating membrane and/or a spacing element is desirably provided at the contact surface between the hot part and the cold part.
US07798805B2
Disclosed are: (i) a platen of a molding system, (ii) a molding system having a platen, (iii) a clamp of a molding system having platens, and (iv) a molded article.
US07798801B2
The present invention is directed towards a chucking system, including, inter alia, a body having a surface with a pin extending therefrom having a throughway defined therein, and a land surrounding the protrusions defining a channel between the pin and the land. In a further embodiment, the body comprises a plurality of protrusions.
US07798796B2
The pipe molding system includes a separable cooling plug and an automatic procedure to alleviate problems associated with excess plastic continuing to extrude after a sudden shutdown of the extrusion system. The separable cooling plug and shutdown procedure includes accommodating any excess plastic in a created void between the cooling plug and the extruder. This arrangement simplifies removal of the excess plastic and reduces the time required to return the equipment to normal production. Preferably, a controller monitors operating conditions of the system and automatically releases the cooling plug based on the monitored operating conditions.
US07798792B2
A pump assembly includes a pump housing, a stator ring supported within the pump housing, and a pump ring also rotatably supported within the pump housing. The pump ring interfaces with the stator ring to define a plurality of variable volume pressure chambers. A cover plate covers the stator ring and pumping ring within the pump housing. The cover plate is axially displaceable relative to the pump housing and defines a wall of each of the pressure chambers. Pressure within the pressure chambers induces linear movement of the cover plate away from the stator ring and the pump ring.
US07798785B2
An automatic pressure-relieving apparatus for a suction pump comprises a pipework provided at the cap. A first rod positioned in the pipework has an upper sealing ring arranged around the top periphery thereof, whereby the first rod can detachably seal the upper opening of the pipework. Moreover, the first rod is coupled with a second rod, which is pierced through the lower opening of the pipework and extending into the oil reservoir of the cylinder. The second rod further has a sealing component arranged at the periphery thereof for moving. upward and detachably sealing the lower opening of the pipework. Also, a control device is fastened to the bottom of the second rod so that when the raising oil surface lifts a float of the control device, the float can in turn drive the first and second rods to move upward. Thereby, the upper and lower openings of the pipework are opened and closed respectively, and the pressure in the pump can be automatically released through the opened upper opening.
US07798783B2
Valveless piston pumps are disclosed that are magnetically driven, thereby eliminating a troublesome dynamic seal used on conventional valveless piston pumps. An exemplary embodiment includes a housing defining a bore having a bore axis. A piston is situated in the bore so as to be movable in the bore in a reciprocating manner along the bore axis and in a rotational manner about the bore axis. A magnet is situated in the bore and is coupled to the piston. The magnet is engageable magnetically with a magnet-driving device configured to cause the magnet, and thus the piston, to move in the reciprocating manner and in the rotational manner. An exemplary magnet-driving device is a stator assembly.
US07798782B2
An apparatus and method for controlling an operation of a reciprocating compressor are disclosed. The apparatus for controlling an operation of a reciprocating compressor includes: a TDC/BDC detecting unit for detecting a TDC and a BDC of the reciprocating compressor; and a controller for independently controlling the TDC and the BDC so as to fit each reference position based on the detected TDC and BDC. Efficiency of the reciprocating compressor can be enhanced by independently controlling a top dead center and a bottom dead center.
US07798774B2
A turbine housing (13) for a radial flow turbine, particularly a turbine used in an exhaust gas turbocharger. The housing has a general volute shape with a substantially annular part extending around the turbine axis and an inlet duct (20) extending therefrom. The inlet duct (20) has a first wall facing part of the outer surface of the annular part of the housing, a pair of spaced webs (44) extending from the outer surface of the circular part of the housing to the first wall, the webs defining a valley (45) therebetween. The arrangement renders the housing stiffer and less prone to fatigue cracking.
US07798769B2
A ceramic seal element (200) for use in a turbo-machine comprises a first, rigid portion (210) comprising ceramic fibers (212) bound within a ceramic matrix binder (214), a second, flexible portion (220) comprising ceramic fibers (222), and a third, rigid portion (230) comprising ceramic fibers (232) bound within a ceramic matrix binder (234). Ceramic fibers (222) retain a desired flexibility because they are not bound in ceramic matrix binder. In some embodiments the ceramic fibers (212, 222, 232) are stacked as horizontally disposed layers (225). Also, the fibers (212, 222, 232) of any layer (225) comprise bundles of fibers wherein some of the bundles extend continuously across portions (210, 220, 230). An alternative sealing element (300) comprises a first, rigid portion (310) comprising ceramic fibers (312) that are bound within a ceramic matrix binder (314), and a second, flexible portion (320) that comprises ceramic fibers (313) that retain a desired flexibility. Methods of manufacture are disclosed.
US07798764B2
A method and apparatus for processing substrates using a cluster tool that has an increased system throughput, increased system reliability, improved device yield performance, and a reduced footprint. The various embodiments of the cluster tool may utilize two or more robot assemblies that are configured in a parallel processing configuration and adapted to move in a vertical and a horizontal direction to transfer substrates between the various processing chambers retained in the processing racks so that a desired processing sequence can be performed on the substrates. Generally, the various embodiments described herein are advantageous since each row or group of substrate processing chambers are serviced by two or more robots to allow for increased throughput and increased system reliability. Also, the various embodiments described herein are generally configured to minimize and control the particles generated by the substrate transferring mechanisms.
US07798758B2
A semiconductor workpiece processing system having at least one processing apparatus for processing workpieces, a primary transport system, a secondary transport system and one or more interfaces between first transport system and second transport system. The primary and secondary transport systems each have one or more sections of substantially constant velocity and in queue sections communicating with the constant velocity sections.
US07798754B2
A unitary void filling apparatus for use as a lengthwise void spacer which is capable of preventing movement of a load disposed on a pallet, protecting the load from end-to-end forces, and acting as a dust cover. The apparatus consists of a frame folded to make a central area, which fits on top of the load, and two vertical sides, which hangs over opposite ends of the load. Attached to each vertical side are covered void fillers, each adapted to substantially fill any lengthwise underhang and protect the load from end-to-end forces. The central area of the frame supports the vertical sides to which the void fillers are attached, thereby holding the void fillers in the proper position and also preventing dust from accumulating on the cargo.
US07798746B2
An ornamental planting landscape irrigation distribution and reservoir product and method ecosystem employing a substantially continuous panel on the soil surface on which ornamental landscape plantings are placed or produced, the panel having a primary, lateral water distribution structure which distributes water from a water charging inlet through the lateral area to the panel periphery, where it is restrained, the primary water distribution structure being such that when filled with water or completely submerged in water, air is trapped by the gaps and spaces of the material for ornamental landscape plant usage.
US07798743B2
A composition and method for use of a soy-based material binder is provided. One example method for increasing road stabilization with a soy-based material binder may include determining road base attributes of the road base for application. The method may further include creating a soy-based material binder comprising at least one of a soy protein isolate with a concentration in the range of 1 to 20% of soy protein isolate based on road base attributes. The method may further include determining an amount of soy-based material binder for a volume of application based on the concentration of soy protein isolate in the soy-based material binder and the road base attributes. Further still, the method may include combining the soy-based material binder and the road base wherein the resultant mixture includes soy-based material binder in a range of 0.0001-5 gallons per pound of road base.
US07798731B2
A diaphragm driving device is provided in a camera body of a digital camera to which an interchangeable lens is detachably attached, the interchangeable lens including a diaphragm mechanism having a diaphragm control bar for changing an aperture size by a rotation of the diaphragm control bar about an optical axis. The camera body includes a diaphragm-driving slide plate which engages with the diaphragm control bar when the interchangeable lens is attached to the camera body; a diaphragm drive motor which rotates in both forward and reverse directions for moving the diaphragm-driving slide plate step wise in accordance with object brightness information of an object image formed through the interchangeable lens; and a converting mechanism for converting the rotation of the diaphragm drive motor in the both directions into a force for moving the diaphragm-driving slide plate.
US07798724B2
A bearing includes an inner bearing ring on which a raceway is formed. The ring includes at least a first component of light metal material and at least a second component of fully dense ceramic material, where the first component and the second component are separate entities joined together, and where the second component forms at least part of the raceway. The first component includes two lightweight metal parts interconnected by a screw thread which can be tightened to induce compressive pre-stress in the second component to compensate for low tensile strength of the ceramic material.
US07798716B2
A linear device has an essentially rod-shaped functional unit and a functional unit that at least partially encompasses the rod-shaped functional unit and includes a main body and at least one end plate unit that rests with a contact surface against the main body in which a lubrication groove is provided, which is open toward the contact surface and extends at least partially in the circumference direction around the rod-shaped functional unit, and it is possible to fasten the end plate unit to the main body by only two fastening elements, and a region of the contact surface adjacent to the lubrication groove and encompassing this lubrication groove is raised in relation to the rest of the contact surface.
US07798709B2
A computed tomography unit and a method are disclosed, for a computed tomography unit having at least one marking device for the positionally accurate marking of an intervention position by way of a laser beam on an object to be examined. The at least one marking device is assigned to a rotary frame of the computed tomography unit and is arranged directly in a recording plane of a recording system. As such, a positionally accurate marking of an intervention position with the aid of simple devices/methods is possible without a large numerical outlay, particularly even during operation of the computed tomography unit, that is say during a rotational movement of the rotary frame.
US07798704B2
In general, a sensor for measuring a temperature of an air stream includes a sensing element for detecting temperature. The sensor also includes connection lines connected to the sensing element. The connection lines are configured to allow the air stream to circulate through the connection lines, capture heat of the air stream, and provide the heat to the sensing element.
US07798700B2
A light guide plate includes: a light emitting surface; a bottom surface opposite to the light emitting surface; a light incident surface perpendicularly connected with the light emitting surface; a first side surface perpendicularly connected with both the light incident surface and the light emitting surface; a second side surface opposite to the first side surface; two protrusions outwardly extending from the first side surface; and two protrusions outwardly extending from the second side surface. A thickness of each protrusion of the first side surface decreases with increasing distance away from the light incident surface, and a thickness of each protrusion of the second side surface also decreases with increasing distance away from the light incident surface.
US07798685B2
The invention is a motorcycle shock mounted illumination device. The invention features a base mount with metal strap for primary attachment to a motorcycle shock, an angled pair of light strips created from circuit boards and LEDs and attached to the base mount, and a tubular housing that also attaches to the base mount. The tubular housing is translucent and encloses the light strips. The generally rearward facing light strip is designed to flash in red when the motorcycle brakes are applied and the generally sideward facing light strip is designed to be generally on all the time in yellow or amber except when the motorcycle brakes are applied in which case the LEDs of the side facing strip turn off and on in a grouped sequence.
US07798684B2
A luminaire system having an elongated throughway utilizing a thermal chimney effect. The thermal chimney effect within the throughway circulates air to remove heat generated from the electrical components of the system. Dissipating heat into the throughway from the electrical components can increase the life expectancy of the lamp and the output of the lamp. The electrical components of the system being entirely sealed and isolated from the throughway results in a permanent air, dust, and water tight seal. The permanent seal can minimize damage to the electrical components of the system as well as prevent the build up of moisture and dust within these sealed components.
US07798681B2
A backlight module (300) includes a plurality of illumination devices (100). Each of the illumination devices includes a light guide block (120) and a point light source (140) optically coupled with the light guide block. The light guide block includes a light exit surface (121), a bottom surface (123) opposite to the light exit surface, and a tapered portion (122) located between the light exit surface and the bottom surface. The bottom surface has a receiving hole (1232) formed therein. The tapered portion includes an outside surface (1221) and a prism array (1224) formed on the outside surface. The point light source is secured in the receiving hole. The plurality of illumination devices are joined with one another and the light exit surfaces of light guide blocks are substantially coplanar and whereby cooperatively constitute a light output surface of the backlight module.
US07798672B2
An illumination apparatus includes a lamp housing defining a cavity, a plurality of light emitting diodes disposed within the cavity, a first inner glass sheet for sealing the cavity, a second outer glass sheet, and a resilient layer formed between the glass sheets.
US07798669B2
A remotely adjustable lighting device configured to an operational mode customized for the geographic location of the device. The lighting device is powered by a battery provided with solar charging. The lighting device, under control of an integral controller, is turned off and on for an illumination period as a function of both local sunrise and sunset times determined by a combination of time and date information and GPS positioning. The luminosity of the lighting device is autonomously controlled as a function of battery charge and the determined required illumination period. The solar charging system is oriented by the controller to optimize its energy collection by periodical adjustments.
US07798664B2
A fixing apparatus, applied to a diffuser plate of a backlight unit (BLU), includes a fixing groove and a positioning piece. The fixing groove is formed at the frame and symmetrically related to one end of a centrosymmetric line of a diffuser plate. A first pair of edges are set at two sides of the centrosymmetric line. A third edge connects the first pair of edges cutting across the centrosymmetric line. The positioning piece is located within the fixing groove. The positioning piece is separated from the first pair of edges of the fixing groove at a first distance, and separated from the third edge of the fixing groove at a second distance, wherein the first distance is smaller than the second distance.
US07798660B2
A surface illumination apparatus includes: a light source; an end-surface light-guide portion which guides light emitted from the light source in a long-side direction thereof and generates emitted light in a short-side direction thereof; and a light guide plate which allows the emitted light to be incident upon an end-surface portion thereof and emits the incident light from one main-surface portion thereof. The end-surface light-guide portion includes a plurality of polarization control portions arranged in the long-side direction; the plurality of polarization control portions each has a half-wave plate and a polarizing prism; the end-surface light-guide portion emits the emitted light in the form of either of S-polarized light and P-polarized light, using the plurality of polarization control portions; and the light guide plate emits, as output light, either of S-polarized light and P-polarized light from the one main-surface portion.
US07798659B2
A vehicle mirror comprises a lens, a reflective member disposed so as to receive light from the lens, and a support disposed so as to support the lens and the reflective member. A control system is connected to the reflective member and is effective to control the reflection of the reflective member. Various techniques are disclosed to control the reflection including the use of photochromic coatings, LCDs, and motor control assemblies.
US07798639B2
The present invention provides a medical device, preferably an ophthalmic device, more preferably a contact lens, which comprises a lubricious coating including a capping layer of polyvinylpyrrolidone and/or at least one layer of a lubricious coating material and one layer of a polyionic material having charges opposite of the charges of the lubricious coating material. The lubricious coating on the medical device of the invention has increased lubricity, preferably characterized by an averaged CoF of about 3.0 or less, increased hydrophilicity characterized by an averaged contact angle of about 80 degree or less, and increased bacterial adhesion resistance, while maintaining the desired bulk properties such as oxygen permeability and ion permeability of lens material. Such lenses are useful as extended-wear contact lenses. In addition, the invention provides a method for making a medical device, preferably a contact lens, having a lubricious coating thereon.
US07798637B2
An elastic hinge member (10) for spectacles rims, includes a guiding area (22), a slide (30) having a guided part (32) cooperating with the guiding area (22) and a knuckle (31) and a return spring (40). The spring (40) has a compressibility that is sufficient for allowing the guided part (32) to come out of the guiding area (22), and the slide (30) can pivot about the longitudinal axis thereof in order to remain blocked in an “out-blocked” position that facilitates the assembling or disassembling operations of the knuckle with a spigot.
US07798629B2
The present invention provides a pigment dispersion that contains a carbon black, a dispersing agent and water, wherein the carbon black is any one of a channel black and a gas black, the dispersing agent is a sodium naphthalenesulfonate formalin condensate, and the total content of a dimer, a trimer and a tetramer of naphthalenesulfonate in the sodium naphthalenesulfonate formalin condensate is 20% by weight to 80% by weight. The present invention also provides an inkjet ink using the pigment dispersion.
US07798605B2
A printer assembly for a pagewidth printer includes a support frame having a fluid channel member and a clipping arrangement configured so that a printed circuit board can be clipped to the support frame. A printhead arrangement has printhead tiles arranged in the fluid channel member. The support frame is configured so that a positional relationship between individual tile members is substantially retained during environmental changes.
US07798596B2
An ink non-ejection detecting circuit device for an inkjet recording apparatus is disclosed which comprises a bridge circuit including a piezoelectric head having a piezoelectric element, a first resistor connected in series to the piezoelectric head, a capacitor provided outside the piezoelectric head, and a second resistor connected in series to the capacitor. A differential voltage that appears between the piezoelectric head and the first resistor and between the capacitor and the second resistor is amplified, so that the acoustic-system admittance of the piezoelectric head can be detected with a high SN ratio.
US07798589B2
In performing multi-pass printing by using a printhead having a plurality of nozzles, a scan duty setting unit sets a printing amount for each nozzle for each main scan of the printhead based on the scan duty setting LUT. A scan duty setting LUT changing unit updates an initial scan duty setting LUT based on the faulty nozzle information detected by a faulty nozzle detection unit. At this time, the scan duty setting LUT is updated such that the scan duty which should be distributed to a faulty nozzle is distributed to a plurality of other nozzles and neighboring nozzles which print the same main scanning line as that printed by the faulty nozzle.
US07798580B2
A mobile computer security cart that includes a cabinet, a platform and an upright, The cabinet includes at least one shelf. The platform is coupled to the cabinet and has a top surface including an uncovered substantially planar surface. The upright is coupled to the platform and is configured to accommodate at least one display. The cart has an assembled configuration in which the platform rests on the top of the cabinet and the upright is coupled to the platform. The cart has a disassembled configuration wherein the upright is positioned adjacent to the front, rear or sides of the cabinet while the platform is positioned adjacent to the top or bottom of the cabinet.
US07798574B2
A vehicle seat reclining apparatus is provided in which the strength of a connecting portion positioned directly or nearly directly below a receiving wall face of a guide portion of a fixed-side housing is higher than in a conventional reclining apparatus. A protruding guide portion is provided in a fixed-side housing used to configure a reclining apparatus. A receiving wall face that makes contact with a locking gear used to configure the reclining apparatus and which thus guides movement of the locking gear, and a top face that is continuous with that receiving wall face, are formed in the guide portion. A tapered chamfer portion is present at an edge of the receiving wall face where the receiving wall face and the top face of the guide portion intersect. A thick portion with a tapered face that corresponds to the chamfer portion is provided directly or nearly directly below a base end portion of the receiving wall face. A connecting portion that connects the guide portion with other parts of the fixed-side housing is thickened at this thick portion.
US07798569B2
A storage and advertising bag for a seat. In one embodiment, the bag includes a top pocket that slips over the top of a seat. On the other side of the bag is a top pocket that holds advertising material, and beneath that is a storage pocket for holding personal items of a user.
US07798563B2
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a locating pin and a retention clip. The locating pin and the retention clip allow alignment of the front end module with the body structure and the retention clip secures the two assemblies in place which allows alignment of fastener holes. This conserves time in the assembly line and allows more accurate and rapid assembly of the front end module on the body structure reducing the time necessary for assembly.
US07798557B2
A vehicle rear door articulating and sliding mechanism including an articulating hinge assembly having a hinge arm pivotally mounted to a vehicle C-pillar at one end thereof, and a vehicle rear door pivotally and slidably mounted to the hinge arm at an opposite end of the hinge arm. A guide track may be mounted to the rear door, and a slide block may be pivotally mounted to the hinge arm and slidably attached to the guide track. The hinge arm may be disposed at first and second angular positions relative to the guide track when the rear door is respectively disposed in closed and opened positions, and the slide block may be disposed at first and second positions along a length of the guide track when the rear door is respectively disposed in the closed and opened positions, to thus provide articulating and sliding movement of the rear door.
US07798553B2
The invention consists of an automatic lock and tension of a tarpaulin system in a safe manner and does not require the intervention of the operator when the system is being engaged, disengaged, opened or closed.This invented automatic mechanism tensions the tarpaulin system exerting always a parallel force with the direction of opening and closing of the tarpaulin system eliminating the internal stresses exerted to the tarpaulin system components.Any misalignment produced due to tolerances is removed from the guide wheels or an edge established under the track of the sliding tarpaulin system.
US07798550B2
Removable vehicle seats operable for use outside of vehicles include a latching mechanism and a plurality of legs. The plurality of legs can be configured to extend when the latching mechanism is released from the vehicle and to support the removable vehicle seat when the removable vehicle seat is placed on a surface outside of the vehicle.
US07798549B2
A trunk compartment may include a trunk lining having a trunk top coat member and a trunk spacer member. The trunk coat top member may have an inner surface that may define a portion of the trunk lining and an outer surface. A trunk spacer member may be operatively connected to the trunk coat top member and the vehicle frame. The trunk coat top member and the trunk spacer member may be formed in the same mold.
US07798544B1
A latch assembly for securing a gate or door to a doorframe or post that comprises a keeper and a latch. The latch comprises a base member, first and second extension guides, first and second extension locks, a sliding bolt and a handle member. The handle member has a handle base having a first portion with one side attached to the sliding bolt and a wide tapering portion extending away from the opposite side of the handle base and defining an elongated slot, and a horseshoe shaped grip member having one end attached to the wide tapering portion and an opposite grip portion. The handle base and the wide tapering portion are sized and shaped so as to provide the grip portion closed to the sliding bolt to assure a smooth sliding movement of the sliding bolt.
US07798538B2
A latch mechanism comprises a housing (11), a plunger (12) mounted for reciprocation in the housing, a pawl (17) mounted with the housing for movement into and out of engagement with the plunger (12) and means for moving the pawl, wherein the means for moving the pawl comprises an electrically controlled piezo ceramic actuator (30) located within the plunger (12) and the pawl (17) is provided with a part (24) projecting into the plunger (12) and arranged to be contacted by the actuator (30) in order to control operation of the mechanism.
US07798530B1
A bookmark and stand, comprising first and second flaps and a bridge assembly. The first and second flaps each comprise a wall section, a base section, and a hook section. The bridge assembly comprises a top edge, a bottom edge, and a bridge. The bridge assembly connects to rear edges. The first and second flaps have a sheet configuration and are made of a substantially rigid material to support a book when in a bookstand configuration, and also may lay flat within the book when in a bookmark configuration, whereby the first and second flaps and the bridge assembly conform to a shape of the book and are thin enough so as to not damage the book.
US07798528B2
A transport caddy preferably includes at least a wheel supporting a base portion, an alpine snow ski detachably secured between the base and cover portions, and a ski pole disposed within the cover portion and secured adjacent the alpine snow ski by an accessories support portion detachably attached to the alpine snow ski is provided. Preferably, the ski pole is secured to the transport caddy by steps that include at least: positioning a tip of the ski pole within a pole tip confinement aperture provided by the cover; rotating a ski pole confinement member of the accessories support portion into non-adjacency with a ski pole retention portion of the accessories support portion; disposing a shaft portion of said ski pole within the ski pole retention portion; and re-rotating said ski pole confinement member into pressing contact with the shaft portion.
US07798515B2
A baby stroller for transporting an infant at speeds faster than normal walking is disclosed. This baby stroller can be folded to make it easier to stow and transport. The folding mechanism, a unique feature of the design is directed toward compactness, ease of use, reliability, and reduction in manufacturing costs.
US07798509B2
The light unit includes a lamp body and a lens having engagement members. The engagement members engage directly with the body of a vehicle (for example, a motorcycle). The engagement members preferably engage with a vehicle body exterior component such as a side cover. By engaging directly with the body, the alignment accuracy between the light unit and the side cover is improved.
US07798507B2
A vehicle suspension apparatus 10 includes a plurality of arms 14, 27 to 29 respectively extending from the side of a vehicle body, and a knuckle 13 swingably supported on the leading ends of these arms 14, 27 to 29 for swingably mounting a wheel 12 thereon. The arm 27 includes a straight arm portion 31, a first rubber bush 32 provided on one end of the arm portion 31 and a second rubber bush 34 provided on the other end of the arm portion 31. And, the center lines C1 and C2 of the first and second rubber bushes 32 and 34, when they are viewed from the axial direction of the arm portion 31, are set to have a predetermined angle of inclination between them.
US07798496B2
A rotary shaft sealing assembly in which a first fluid is partitioned from a second fluid in a housing assembly having a rotary shaft located at least partially within. In one embodiment a lip seal is lubricated and flushed with a pressure-generating seal ring preferably having an angled diverting feature. The pressure-generating seal ring and a hydrodynamic seal may be used to define a lubricant-filled region with each of the seals having hydrodynamic inlets facing the lubricant-filled region. Another aspect of the sealing assembly is having a seal to contain pressurized lubricant while withstanding high rotary speeds. Another rotary shaft sealing assembly embodiment includes a lubricant supply providing a lubricant at an elevated pressure to a region between a lip seal and a hydrodynamic seal with a flow control regulating the flow of lubricant past the lip seal. The hydrodynamic seal may include an energizer element having a modulus of elasticity greater than the modulus of elasticity of a sealing lip of the hydrodynamic seal.
US07798492B2
To provide a sheet conveying apparatus capable of preventing meandering of a belt. A flange roller arranged at an entrance of sheets is used for a conveying roller immediately before a flange roller for feeding conveying rollers to a first conveying path for conveying the sheets. Namely, the flange roller is arranged just closely to an upstream side of the conveying belts arranged on the flange roller in a rotational direction. Further, a flange roller arranged at an exit of the sheets is used for a conveying roller immediately after a flange roller for feeding the conveying rollers finishing conveyance of the sheets on a second conveying path for discharging the sheets. Namely, the flange roller is arranged just closely to a downstream side of the conveying belts arranged on the flange roller in the rotational direction.
US07798489B2
A media handling system for an image forming machine includes a stationary frame, a platform supporting a stack of media sheets thereon, a bin supporting the platform and in turn supported on the stationary frame for undergoing movement relative thereto between a first position in which the bin locates the platform below and aligned with a pick mechanism and movable relative to the bin toward and away from the pick mechanism and a second position in which the bin displaces the platform away from and out of alignment with the pick mechanism, and a motion transmitting assembly coupled between the stationary frame, platform and bin and operable to convert movement of the bin between first and second positions relative to the stationary frame into movement of the platform relative to the bin toward and away from the pick mechanism.
US07798483B2
When a sheet reaches a sheet separator, an operation mechanism rocks a pick arm, thereby separating a paper feed roller from the sheet. At that time, a roller presses another roller and a separation pad holder through a separation roller and a sheet which is separated by the separation pad, and a pressure welding pressure between the separation roller and the separation pad is reduced. With this, the separation roller and the separation pad can be separated from each other with a small and simple mechanism, and a back tension when a sheet is fed can be reduced inexpensively.
US07798479B1
A method for horizontal assembly of a high-voltage feed-through bushing includes vertically-assembling a field shaper assembly of a high-voltage feed-through bushing on a field shaper fixture. The field shaper assembly is then rotated within the field shaper fixture such that the field shaper assembly is oriented on a horizontal axis. Next, an insulator tube fixture supporting an insulator tube assembly is positioned adjacent to the field shaper fixture. The insulator tube assembly, being oriented on the same horizontal axis as the field shaper assembly, is then affixed to field shaper assembly.
US07798468B2
A valve closure assembly (50) for remotely and automatically closing a railway tank car valve (V1, V2, V3, V4), characterized by improved convenience in mounting on a tank car dome (160) and adaptability to various dome geometries, valve configurations, and car-to-car dimensional variations. A clamp assembly (52) mounts assembly (50) on dome (160). An adapter (180) operated by a motor (58) turns a valve handle (A1, A2, A3, A4) when motor (58) runs. A positioning mechanism (54) selectively positions adapter (180) relative to clamp assembly (52) to establish a spatial relationship between them for enabling clamp assembly (52) to be placed at a desired location on the dome wall (162) and adapter (180) to engage a valve handle. Positioning mechanism (54) comprises three degrees of freedom of motion for establishing the spatial relationship of adapter (180) to clamp assembly (52), two of which are in the horizontal plane.
US07798467B2
The high vacuum valve includes a valve housing having a valve flow channel provided in an interior thereof, two ports connected to the valve housing so as to be arranged perpendicular relative to each other, and capable of being communicated with each other through the valve flow channel, a valve member housed in the valve flow channel for opening and closing the valve flow channel, a valve shaft received in the valve flow channel for causing the valve member to perform opening/closing operations, and an assembly comprising a tubular member and a welded bellows and hermetically surrounding a periphery of the valve shaft, the assembly being fixed at one end portion thereof to a rear face of the valve member and fixed at the other end portion thereof to a portion of the interior of the valve housing which is opposed to the rear face of the valve member.
US07798465B1
A reversible heat pump stand for securely supporting heat pumps and allowing drainage of water without ice buildup. The reversible heat pump stand includes a first support frame for securely supporting a heat pump; and also includes a second support frame being interconnected to the first support frame for also securely supporting the heat pump; and further includes support members interconnecting the first and second support frames.
US07798458B2
A double-mounted electrical box mounting bracket for mounting to a wall stud that includes: a substantially flat center section having a top surface, a bottom surface, a pair of opposing sides and one or more center mounting holes for securing the bracket to a structure; a pair of substantially flat base plates, each having a first end and a second end, an opening having a periphery for receiving an electrical box, and a bendable member extending into the opening from the periphery; a pair of offsets connecting the opposing sides of the center section and the first ends of the base plates; and a pair of substantially flat flanged ends connected to the second sides of the base plates by a pair of flange necks, wherein the base plates are offset and recessed from the center section and flanged ends.
US07798456B2
A patient care equipment support is transferable between a first device having a first coupling member and a second device having a second coupling member. The equipment support comprises an equipment supporting portion configured to support patient care equipment and a coupler coupled to the equipment supporting portion and having first and second clamps. The first clamp is configured to grip the first coupling member and the second clamp is configured to grip the second coupling member.
US07798453B2
This invention relates to an apparatus for boresighting a device with respect to a fixed position and/or a boresight of another device. Typical devices include various types of cameras, firearms and/or antennas. The apparatus includes a first plate and a second plate movable with respect to each other and a fixed location by a pivot rod. The first plate and the second plate are locked with respect to each other by at least one fastener. The apparatus includes adjustment of the pitch angle and the yaw angle of the device. This invention also relates to a method of boresighting a device with respect to the boresight of a second device.
US07798452B1
A multiuse platform and system having a flexible shape-retaining shaft for engaging, holding and pointing devices (e.g., imaging devices like cameras or video recorders). It includes a respositionable mounting system having a flexible assembly having a first end and a second end, the assembly adapted to be repetitively positioned into a plurality of orientations by moving the assembly into a first particular orientation wherein the assembly retains the particular orientation until the assembly is moved into a second particular orientation; and a first mounting head, coupled to the first end, for engaging a first mating structure.
US07798450B2
The invention relates to a support structure for a retractable and extendable flap (12) associated with an object (14), surrounded by a flowing fluid, comprising a shell profile (16) that has a fluid/aerodynamic low-drag form on the outer side and on the inner side forms a chamber (18) for at least partially receiving a device (20) for retracting and extending the flap (12).
US07798447B2
Non-protruding seat track apparatus and methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a track includes an elongated support having a support surface and an engagement surface. The support surface is adapted to engage a lower surface of a floor panel, and the engagement surface is adapted to be coupled to a payload assembly. The engagement surface is at least one of flush with and recessed below the lower surface of the floor panel when the support surface is engaged with the lower surface. The engagement surface may have at least one of an engagement slot and an attachment aperture disposed therein.
US07798446B2
A seat (20) for a commercial aircraft capable of conversion to a sleeping configuration, comprises a seat back (26), a seat base (22) and a leg rest mounted within a seat shell, comprising side members (12, 14) and a back shell part (10) the rear surface of the back shell (10) defining a recess (34) for the head, and a moulding (32) defining a second recess for the feet of the passenger behind. The seat back (26) is foldable over the seat base (22) to form the main supporting surface (31) of the bed configuration. The second recess in the seat (20) requires the passenger to lie in a diagonal sleeping position, maximising the available bed length within a minimum seat pitch.
US07798443B2
An airfoil member and an airfoil member altering system are provided for significantly modifying the shape and size of the airfoil member while simultaneously providing an airfoil member with increased adaptability to various flight conditions throughout a flight envelope. The airfoil member comprises at least one motor or actuator, a system controller, a plurality of vehicle performance sensors, at least one temperature controller and airfoil member comprising at least one geometric morphing device that is adjustable in both size and shape and one or more rigid members.
US07798432B2
The present invention provides a deicing device for spraying anti-icing agents over a transport surface, such as paved road or bridge, to protect the transport surface from snow deposition and ice formation. The deicing device that is surface mounted to the transport surface has a pavement sensor to determine when the deicing device is turned on and off to spray the anti-icing agents. The deicing device comprises a supporting housing, a spray puck having a plurality of nozzles and jet channels connected to the nozzles for spraying anti-icing agents, a lock ring to immobilize the spray buck within the supporting housing, and an O-ring for sealing the anti-icing agents from leaking. The spray puck can be rotated within the supporting housing to change a spray direction. The jet channels have round corners, such as parabolic shape cross-section, to prevent from collection of dirt or debris. The supporting housing is configured for dual stacking such that a second supporting housing is stacked on a first supporting housing to extend the top of the deicing device to be flush with the transport surface when the road is repaved.
US07798430B2
A fuel injection nozzle is formed with a nozzle hole group including at least two individual nozzle holes, which are disposed close to each other. Fuel is injected through the nozzle hole group. In at least one combination of two adjacent individual nozzle holes included in the same nozzle hole group, at least one of the two adjacent individual nozzle holes is configured such that each of the at least one of the two adjacent individual nozzle holes has a diameter, the diameter increasing only toward a corresponding adjacent one of the two adjacent individual nozzle holes along a direction from an inside to an outside of the each of the at least one of the two adjacent individual nozzle holes, and the diameter being maximized at an outer opening of the each of the at least one of the two adjacent individual nozzle holes.
US07798428B1
A spray head with improved distributor body for a high pressure spray cleaning apparatus is provided. The spray head is carried on the end of a hand held wand with control valves to separately regulate flow through a pair of fluid circuits, the spray head having a nozzle that sprays heated water in a fan-like pattern against a deflecting edge of a distributor body. Cleaning chemicals are forced through an aperture into the fan-like pattern prior to its striking the deflecting edge to be intimately mixed with the heated water to produce a mixture that strikes the deflecting edge and is deflected therefrom in a highly concentrated form at a high velocity. An elbow guard provides improved protection for the chemical cleaning fluid flow line where it connects to the spray head. Also disclosed is a spray head that allows for the separate application of fluids delivered from separate supply sources.
US07798425B2
A spray gun (1) has a fluid reservoir (11) which contains a removable liner (13). The liner (13), which may be thermo/vacuum-formed from a plastic material, is a close fit within the interior of the reservoir and collapses as fluid is withdrawn from within the liner during operation of the gun. Preferably, the liner has a comparatively-rigid base and is capable of standing, unsupported, outside the reservoir. The side walls of the liner are preferably thin in comparison to the base and can be collapsed for disposal of the liner. The reservoir (11) has a removable lid (15) and is capable of standing, inverted, on its own so that it can be filled with fluid. The lid (15) also functions to secure the liner (13) in the reservoir and, at the end of a spraying operation, the lid (15) and the liner (13) are removed together from the reservoir (11) and discarded, thereby simplifying the cleaning of the spray gun.
US07798424B2
An automatic air freshener spraying device includes a front cover, a base, two air freshener bottles and a press driving device, and a motor of the press driving device is pivotally coupled to the driving gear, such that when the driving gear rotates clockwise or anti-clockwise at the motor, the driving gear with the transmission of the gear set pushes a protruding member at the bottom of one of the left and right sides of a large fan-shaped gear to obtain a larger instant pressing force, and a set of press driving devices are used for controlling the motor to rotate clockwise or anti-clockwise, and either the left or right air freshener bottles is pressed to spray an air freshener from an air freshener nozzle of the left air freshener bottle or the right air freshener bottle, so as to provide a uniform misty spray.
US07798422B2
A cedar oil evaporator includes: a housing having openings therein for ventilation of air; a reservoir within the housing containing cedar oil; and a carrier for wicking away the cedar oil from the reservoir for dispersing cedar oil via air that passes through the housing. Each carrier is a length of cotton twine having a diameter of one-sixteenth of an inch or smaller and a length of twelve and one-half feet or longer. The housing includes a door movable about a hinge between a first position, wherein the reservoir is accessible for removal from the housing; and a second position, wherein the reservoir is inaccessible for removal. An extent of the carrier that is received within the reservoir for immersion in the cedar oil preferably represents 10% or less of the overall length of the carrier, the remainder being randomly exposed within the interior space of the housing.
US07798420B2
A method for delivering an aerosol, especially an aromatic aerosol, comprising the steps of contacting a capillary wick, comprising an EHD comminution site, with a liquid source, whereby at least a portion of the liquid transports to the EHD comminution site; applying a voltage to the liquid within the capillary wick at a location spaced apart from the liquid source and proximate the EHD comminution site; and applying a ground reference at a location external to the EHD comminution site, wherein at least a portion of the liquid EHD comminutes to form a spray having a generally-consistent flowrate and a device therefor.
US07798415B1
The invention relates to transaction tokens (“fobs”) having wireless functionality and methods of using the same. More specifically, fobs having radio frequency functionality such that information, such as payment information, identification information, or other like information, may be wirelessly transmitted from a memory within the fob to a receiver are disclosed. The fobs of this invention may comprise a microchip or other memory component, and/or antenna disposed on or within an insert and encased within an enclosure in an interior compartment. The fobs may have a quick-release mechanism for easily attaching to and detaching from a securing device, such as a keychain or the like. Moreover, the interior compartments of the fobs may be easily accessible for replacing the enclosed insert.
US07798414B2
The present invention is a reactive bar-code element which is unreadable prior to irradiation and readable after irradiation.
US07798410B2
An imaging module is supported by a housing of a reader for electro-optically reading indicia. The imaging module includes a solid-state imager having an array of image sensors for capturing return light from the indicia during reading. A laser scanning module is also supported by the housing and includes a scanner for scanning at least one of a laser beam from a laser and a field of view of a light detector in a scan pattern across the indicia during reading. A controller is operatively connected to the modules, and is operative for preventing reading interference between the modules during reading.
US07798406B2
In an exemplary embodiment, a graphical code reader is disclosed that includes an image capture component that is configured to capture images at different resolutions. The graphical code reader also includes a processor, and memory in electronic communication with the processor. Instructions are stored in the memory. The instructions are executable to implement a method that involves providing a sequence that defines how resolutions of the captured images are varied. The method also involves capturing the images. The method also involves varying the resolutions of the captured images according to the sequence. The method also involves attempting to decode graphical codes within the captured images.
US07798405B2
The invention relates to an optical imagery device comprising: a light source, an optical medium in which the light coming from the source can be propagated; a detection surface defined by a frontier of the optical medium; an image sensor towards which the light coming from the light source and undergoing reflection onto the detection surface is reflected. The inventive device is characterized in that it is arranged in such a way that from the sensor the source appears to be sufficiently pointed to enable an image to be formed directly on the sensor.
US07798403B2
An item according to the invention comprises at least two data storage elements such as e.g. an RFID transponder 2 and a barcode 5, wherein the latter is non-visible for the unaided human eye and comprises coded information. The invention allows for a backup of information between the two data storage elements, in order to prevent inadvertent or malicious data loss. Further aspects of the invention are related to the interdependent or the cooperative use of both storage elements in the framework of a product security tracking and tracing scheme.
US07798395B2
A cash dispensing automated banking machine includes a card reader associated with a card slot. An anti-fraud sensing device is able to sense ambient light or generated radiation that passes to the sensing device through the card reader slot. The installation of an unauthorized card reading device on the machine changes at least one property sensed by the sensing device. A controller in the machine receives signals from the sensing device, and determines if an unauthorized card reading device has been installed.
US07798390B2
An openable packaging for enclosing objects. A one-piece blank is folded into a packaging for enclosing objects, the packaging having two covers, each cover having at least one corner made of three wall elements joined to form a respective corner, the two corners overlapping when in the closed position to completely enclose the space in the package and lend stability to the package, and the two corners essentially retaining their shape when the package is opened. The three dimensional corner is formed via glued flaps.
US07798377B2
A device for dispensing a substance, including a receptacle for the product, a piston plug axially moveable in the receptacle, an output member associated with the device for causing the piston plug to move axially, and a connecting mechanism for detachably connecting the output member to the piston plug by axially displacement of the output member and the piston plug relative to each other, wherein, after being connected, the output member and piston plug may be separated by relative twisting.
US07798374B2
In a process for producing crosslinkable organopolysiloxane compositions, in particular organopolysiloxane compositions which can be crosslinked at room temperature, the organopolysiloxane compositions are stored in a storage unit before being packed in moisture-proof containers, the storage having a storage capacity of at least 15 minutes of production capacity of the mixture, the essentially dead-space-free storage unit continually having an internal pressure of more than 1200 hPa during filling.
US07798368B2
A fluid dispenser (5, 105)is disclosed having a housing (9, 109)and a pump action fluid discharge device (8, 108). The pump action fluid discharge device (8, 108) is arranged to be actuated by a pair of opposing levers (20, 21); (120, 121) which are pivotally connected to part of the housing (9, 109). When the levers (20, 21); (120, 121) are squeezed together the fluid discharge device (8, 108) is urged towards a nozzle (11, 111) causing a single dose of fluid to be dispensed from the nozzle (11, 111).
US07798360B2
A seal system usable to seal containers and other fluid components to allow fluid flow through the seal system in a first direction yet prevent fluid flow through the seal system in an opposite direction. The seal system is particularly useful for facilitating insertion of a tube, such as a straw, into a container to withdraw fluids yet prevent fluids from leaking from a container once the straw has been withdrawn. The seal system may be formed from a flange having an opening and attached to the opening of the container, and a tubular body extending from the flange into the container. The tubular body may be formed from a transition section attached to the flange and extending generally away from the flange, and a collapsed seal section attached to the transition section and extending from the transition section away from the flange.
US07798358B2
A waste disposal receptacle (1) including a body (20) and a lid (30). Wherein the body (20) is defined by a base (21), at least one side (22) and an open top (23); and the lid (30) is defined by at least one side (31), a top (32) and an open base and includes an aperture (35) in the at least one side (31) through which material can be deposited into the receptacle (1); Wherein the at least one side (31) of the lid (30) is adapted to be received within the body (20) and is reversibly movable between an open and closed position such that when the lid (30) is in the closed position, the aperture (35) is covered by the at least one side (22) of the body (20) and when the lid (30) is in the open position, the aperture (35) is exposed.
US07798357B2
An effective thread number in the thread section which is disposed on the mouth section of the bottle is formed to be 2.2. That is, the thread section is formed such that the thread section 13 should serve effectively in the mouth section such that an interval between a start position and an end position should be 2.0 to 2.5. In the bottle can member 11 which has such a thread section, an outer diameter of the thread section which is formed on the mouth section is 28 to 38 mm. Also, the thickness of the mouth section is 0.25 to 0.4 mm. The thread section which has the effective thread number 2.0 to 2.5 is formed by eight-thread per inch pitch. By doing this, it is possible to put the cap desirably.
US07798352B2
A packaging device includes a bottom plate and a mounting plate arranged above the bottom plate at a specific distance form the bottom plate. An article to be transported is placed on the mounting plate. A cushioning member is arranged in a space between the bottom plate and the mounting plate. The cushioning member protects the article from shocks. A reinforcing unit is arranged on the bottom plate in the space between the bottom plate and the mounting plate so that support members of the article rest on the reinforcing unit.
US07798348B2
A child-resistant closure is provided for connection to a container. The closure includes a base and a cap. The cap is secured to the base of the closure by use of a hinge.
US07798344B2
An apparatus is provided for tarping a cargo loaded on a flat bed vehicle which includes a pair of ruggedly constructed double scissors linkages carried by an overhead horizontal traveling trolley and connectable at their lower ends to the tarpaulin. A vertically adjustable horizontal roller is provided, over which the tarpaulin is pulled during its installation in covering relation to the loaded cargo.
US07798341B2
The present assembly provides a suspended shelving system. The shelving system includes a shelving panel supported by a plurality of hanger members. The shelving panel includes a plurality of longitudinal members constructed of wire or plastic. A plurality of cross members are arranged substantially transverse with respect to the longitudinal members and generally parallel with respect to each other. At least a portion of the longitudinal members and the cross members are bonded together at crossing points to comprise the shelving panel. A plurality of hanger members are rotatably secured to the cross members positioned at the distal ends of the shelving member so that they may be rotated between a storage position that is generally parallel to the underside surface of the shelving member for shipment and storage, and a support position that is substantially perpendicular to the upper surface of the shelf for suspending the shelf from an overhead member.
US07798340B2
A rack apparatus (100) includes a frame (10), a plurality of supporting members (106), and a plurality of retaining members (12). The supporting members are arranged/mounted on/to the frame. The retaining members are mounted on the supporting members. Each retaining member includes a fixing piece (120) and two supporting pieces (122, 124). The fixing piece has a notched mounting portion. The two supporting pieces are respectively positioned at an opposite side of the fixing piece. Each supporting piece forms a retaining portion (i.e., a through hole therein). The notched mounting portion and the retaining portions together help retain a workpiece within a given retaining member.
US07798325B2
A wedge-shaped receptacle (9) is provided for packaging felting needles (8). The wedge shape is configured in such a manner that the felting needles lie in the receptacle in a mutual lateral engagement, that is, they are held approximately parallel to one another and they firmly clamp one another without their tips abutting against the receptacle body. This, on the one hand, results in a particular protection of the felting needles (8) during transportation and, on the other hand, results in a simple handling with the lowest danger of injuries.
US07798315B2
A modular assembly comprises a fixing seat formed with a slot for receiving a positioning member of a moving seat, and a plurality of fastening elements for pressing the positioning member against an inner wall of the slot so that the moving seat is positioned in the fixing seat.
US07798314B2
A sealing strip comprising a part of a configuration for fastening to a guide wall of a conveyor, the fastening configuration allowing for interlocking via elastic deformation of one of two parts of the fastening configuration.
US07798313B2
A tensioning assembly for use in an aero-mechanical conveyor for moving bulk materials. The conveyor includes upper and lower housings having head and tail pulley assemblies mounted therein. The tensioning assembly includes first and second extendable tubes that define sections of inflow and outflow conveyor tubes that interconnect the upper and lower housings. An endless rope assembly is disposed within the conveyor tubes and around the head and tail pulleys. An adjustable actuator is positioned in cooperative engagement with the first and second extendable tubes. When the actuator is in a first position, the extendable tubes have a first length and when the actuator is in a second position, the extendable tubes have a second length. The actuator is configured to move between the first position and the second position in response to changes in tension within the endless rope assembly as indicated by a signal from a tension measuring device.
US07798308B2
An assembly for rotating a selected article in a stream of like articles without rotating an adjacent article, each of the articles moving along a conveying surface of a conveyor belt with a speed of forward travel and comprising an axis which is normal to the conveying surface. The assembly comprises a mechanism for revolving the selected article around the axis without changing between the axis of the revolving selected article and the axis of the non-revolving adjacent article.
US07798306B2
A diverter assembly for a positive displacement sorter apparatus having a plurality of interconnected slats that define a conveying surface adapted to convey articles in a longitudinal direction and having a plurality of pusher shoes adapted to move along at least one of the plurality of slats to laterally displace articles on the conveying surface. The diverter assembly includes a diverting track extending diagonally under the conveying surface and an actuator is provided for selectively diverting at least one of the pusher shoes toward the diverting track. A diverter nose is adapted to guide the pusher shoe to the diverting track when diverted by the actuator or to guide the pusher shoe away from said diverting track when not diverted by said actuator. At least a portion of said diverter nose is adapted to move laterally and longitudinally when struck generally head-on by a portion of a pusher shoe.
US07798296B2
A damper device having a casing with a cylindrical inner circumferential surface, a shaft body located in the cylindrical space of the casing and supported in a freely turnable manner, a cover which seals the casing, and viscous fluid stored in a sealed space formed between the shaft body and the casing. The casing is provided with a first engagement part and a second engagement part which engage with the cover, and the cover is welded with the first engagement part by ultrasonic welding and positioned by the second engagement part which is used as a positioning part in an axial direction for the cover.
US07798292B2
An engine noise engine noise baffle for a tractor brake shaft that extends laterally through openings in an engine compartment wall. The engine noise engine noise baffle has a cup-shaped portion pressed against the interior surface of the engine compartment wall, and a sleeve portion around the tractor brake shaft. The engine noise engine noise baffle has freedom of rotation with respect to the engine compartment wall. The engine noise engine noise baffle helps block and shield the operator cab from high engine temperatures, engine noise, dirt and dust, and engine fumes.
US07798288B2
The invention relates to a climbing aid for ladders or the like, comprising an endless traction means running between guide pulleys, from which a person may optionally hang by means of a suspension device, with a drive device (20) comprising a drive motor (21), by means of which one of the guide pulleys may be driven as the drive disc (12) for the drive means (13), with a traction force limitation device and with a device for switching the drive device on/off, which can be actuated by the endless traction means (13). According to the invention, the traction force limitation device consists of a slip clutch (30) with torque limitation interposed between the drive disc (12) and the drive motor (21), and the device for switching the drive device on/off comprises sensor means (70) with which a movement of the traction means (13) can be detected, whereby the sensor means (70) are formed in such a manner that a detection of a sensor pulse switches the drive motor (21) on and an absence of sensor pulses within a time span switches the drive motor (21) off.
US07798281B2
A method and system for improving steering performance of a vehicle is disclosed. The method and system resides in increasing the flow size of the hydraulic oil flow path from a pump (3) to a steering unit (5). This can be done by modifying the size of a conduit (4) between the pump (3) and unit (5) or by modifying the bore diameter of hose fittings (36, 37).
US07798269B2
The motorcycle is provided with a pipeline 84 for supplying at least hydrogen and oxygen. A fuel cell 12 is disposed below a seat 22 on which a driver sits. A connection port 80 between the fuel cell 12 and the pipe line 84 is disposed rearward of a foot step 82 on which the driver can set his foot. Accordingly, a space A necessary and sufficient for the foot step 82 is guaranteed, thereby improving a foot setting property at the time of traveling and a foot setting property at the time of stop.
US07798265B2
For operation of a motor vehicle with at least one first drive motor, at least one electrical consumer of the first drive motor is operated in an energy-saving mode after autonomous switching-off of said first drive motor. The autonomous switching-off of the first drive motor is independent of any intentional switching-off of the first drive motor by a driver of the motor vehicle.
US07798262B2
A vehicle has at least three drive axles each with a pair of drive wheels, a steering system that directly controls the steering angle between at least two of the drive axles. The vehicle is arranged so that all drive wheels on its right hand side and left hand side, respectively, essentially follow the same wheel tracks when it is driven. The frequency of rotation is individually controllable for each drive wheel. The vehicle includes differential compensating elements arranged to register the relative steering angle for each consecutive pair of drive axles, respectively, and the mutual frequency of rotation for the drive wheels of each drive axle is controlled by the registered relative steering angle associated with the axle. A drive axle arrangement for such a vehicle is also disclosed.
US07798261B1
An electrically driven wheel for a tracked vehicle which includes a driving track wheel with built in cogs and a brushless DC motor having a mounting shaft to connect the wheels to the tracked vehicle. The brushless DC motor is coupled within the driving track wheel to develop rotational torque for rotating the driving track wheel and includes a drum, a bank of pole assemblies connected between the drum and the stationary mounting shaft, and electrical wiring for energizing the bank of pole assemblies. In an embodiment, the brushless DC motor includes permanent magnet high multiple pole motors. The electrically driven wheels are part of a drive system for the tracked vehicle. The drive system includes a track module frame, at least two flexible tracks coupled with the electrically driven track wheels, and a controller for controlling the electrically driven track wheels in response to a driver command.
US07798254B2
An earth bit includes a cone rotatably mounted to a shaft with a hub unit and thrust roller bearings. The hub unit is moveable between mounted and unmounted positions on the shaft, as a single unit, in a repeatable manner. The hub unit includes a pair of roller bearings positioned between inner and outer races. The outer race includes a recess extending around its outer periphery. A sealing structure is slidingly engaged with the recess to provide a seal between the cone and shaft.
US07798253B2
Drilling apparatuses and methods for limiting precession are provided. According to one embodiment, a drilling apparatus includes a non-rotating stabilizer. The non-rotating stabilizer includes a first blade and a second blade, the first blade being arranged opposite the second blade. The first blade is biased radially outwardly by a force of a first value. The second blade is not biased radially outwardly by a force corresponding to the first value. The second blade may be a blade which is slidable along the non-rotating stabilizer in an axial direction and allow free sliding axial contact with the formation.
US07798252B2
An auger boring machine provides a continuous stroke drive assembly for driving a pilot tube to form an underground pilot hole used for guiding an auger in boring an underground pipe installation hole. The drive assembly preferably drives the pilot tube a distance at least the length of one of the pilot tube segments making up the pilot tube to substantially expedite the process. One embodiment includes a hydraulic piston-cylinder combination with a cylinder at least the length of the pilot tube segment. Alternately, a rack and a pinion drive mechanism may be used with a rack at least the length of the pilot tube segment or even more than twice that length to allow for a pair of pilot tube segments to be added simultaneously to the pilot tube. A lubricant feed system allows water to be pumped through passages formed in the pilot tube and steering head.
US07798250B2
A well drilling head comprises a housing having a sidewall structure defining a central bore and a bearing assembly removably seated within the central bore of the housing. The bearing assembly includes an outer barrel having a central bore, an inner barrel at least partially disposed within the central bore of the outer barrel and bearing units coupled between the barrels for providing concentric alignment of the barrels and allowing rotation therebetween. The inner barrel includes a central bore and a plurality of cooling structures protruding from a surface thereof within the central bore.
US07798245B2
A drill includes a housing with a motor coupled to an output spindle via a transmission. A mode collar can be rotatably mounted on the housing for movement that corresponds to different modes of operation. The mode collar can be coupled to an electronic switch to operate a movable member thereof. The coupling can include a switch housing including a slide member, an actuation spring member and a return spring member. The mode collar can have a cam surface and a cam follower in the form of a shift pin that moves the slide member, causing actuation of the switch. The actuation spring member provides a biasing force that is sufficient to overcome a biasing force of a switch spring member to move the movable member into the actuated position. The mode collar can also enable and disable contact between a fixed hammer member and a movable hammer member mounted around the output spindle.
US07798241B2
A mechanical hitch control system for a vehicle includes a draft force sensing member, a mechanical hitch control unit, a hitch valve actuator, and a cable transmitting a draft force signal to the hitch control unit. A draft cam is coupled to the draft force sensing and setting members. A position cam is coupled to the position setting member and to a hitch position sensing member. A draft pickup cam is coupled to the draft cam and pivotally mounted on the hitch position setting member. At least one of the cams is operatively engagable with the hitch valve actuator. The cams are enclosed by housing with an opening covered by a removable side plate. The cams and levers are coupled to input members which are inserted through the side plate. The assembled cams, levers and input members are then installed into the housing through the opening.
US07798237B2
An enclosed coiled tubing apparatus which includes a mobile trailer and a coiled tubing unit releasable coupled thereto, and a enclosure to maintain an adequate temperature, where the coiled tubing unit includes a coiled tubing injector postionally fixed relative to a coiled tubing reel so as to move together relative to the trailer as an integral unit. The coiled tubing reel and injector may travel laterally on the trailer on a track. Also included are methods of extending a wellbore in a subterranean formation by: translating a coiled tubing unit within an enclosure to a first position and then inserting a bottom hole assembly (BHA) into the wellbore using a lifting system, and wherein the coiled tubing unit includes coiled tubing; and translating the coiled tubing unit to a second position and then coupling the coiled tubing to the BHA and operating the BHA to extend the wellbore.
US07798235B2
A safety valve assembly comprises a valve body, a flapper mount, flapper and a hinge used to rotate the flapper in an opened or closed position. Torsional pins are mounted adjacent the flapper mount, each having ends which extend into the hinge and terminating adjacent each other at a location along the hinge. Torsional springs are circumferentially mounted around the torsional pins. Tabs extend from the torsional springs and contact an actuation member extending over the top of the flapper. As such, the torque created by the torsional springs is transferred to the actuation member via the tabs, thereby reducing the stress on the torsional springs.
US07798232B2
A technique facilitates formation of connections between compliant tubular members and subsea facilities. A compliant tubular member is deployed to a subsea location in a manner that arranges the compliant tubular member in a curvilinear shape. The distal end of the compliant tubular member is drawn down into proximity with the subsea facility and then moved horizontally into alignment with the subsea facility. Subsequently, the distal end is lowered into engagement with the subsea facility without being detrimentally affected by motion of an upper end of the compliant tubular member.
US07798230B2
A downhole tool for use within a well has a body with a first downhole fluid passage provided in the body. The first downhole fluid passage has an upper inlet and a lower outlet. A first sleeve member is slidably mounted to the body such that the first sleeve member is movable between a first position in which the first sleeve member extends from the body and a second position in which the first sleeve member is substantially retracted into the first downhole fluid passage of the body. A guide adapted to guide an object travelling within the first downhole fluid passage to the first sleeve member is provided.
US07798224B2
A method of treating a subterranean formation penetrated by a wellbore includes preparing a treatment fluid with shear thinning, non-monotonic rheological properties, injecting the treatment fluid into the subterranean formation, and inducing shear rate softening phase transition in the treatment fluid. The non-monotonic rheology properties can be such that in the relationship between shear stress (σ) versus strain rate ({dot over (γ)}), where {dot over (γ)}1<{dot over (γ)}2<{dot over (γ)}3<{dot over (γ)}4, the shear stress values are σ1<σ2σ3≦σ4, and σ3<σ2 The method can heterogeneously deposit proppant or solid acid in a fracture. A system to fracture a subterranean formation includes the fracturing fluid, a wellbore to inject the fracturing fluid to propagate a fracture in the formation, and a rate controller to inject the fracturing fluid into the subterranean formation at a minimum volumetric rate to provide a shear stress at an inlet to the fracture that exceeds σ2. The method and system can achieve heterogeneous particle placement with either proppant or solid acid.
US07798222B2
A system for preventing the migration of unconsolidated and/or loosely consolidated material into a wellbore. Such prevention is accomplished by introducing a well treatment medium comprising an expandable fluid and a bonding agent into an unconsolidated zone proximate the wellbore. The expandable fluid is allowed to expand and flow through the unconsolidated zone while the bonding agent cures, thereby forming a consolidated zone having sufficient porosity to allow fluid flow therethrough.
US07798204B2
A centrifugal condenser in an engine has a stacked arrangement of interleaved plates surrounding a central core. Exhaust steam from the engine is directed through interior cavities of the plates while external cooling air from intake blowers circulates over outer surfaces of the plates to cool the plates and condense the steam on the opposite inner side of the plates. The water condensation is returned to a collection pan or sump for subsequent use in the engine.
US07798202B2
A broadside (100) for the broadside of a funnel mold for the casting of metal. Known broadsides of this kind have at least one groove-shaped cooling channel (110) in the backside (R) of the broadside. Adjacent the cooling channel (110) on the backside of the broadside, recesses (A1, . . . , A5) are provided as well as filler elements (140-1, . . . , -5) for the at least partial sealing of the recesses. In order to constructively simplify the broadside in view of the adjustment of a generally constant flow rate of a cooling medium through the cooling channel, it is proposed to design the recesses (A1, . . . , A5) in such a way, that they cross the cooling channel (110) diagonally to its longitudinal direction. Moreover, the recesses (A1, . . . , A5) are in their expansion in longitudinal direction of the cooling channel confined to a section of the cooling channel, and in this direction they have a rectangular-shaped and/or wedge-shaped cross-section, so that the depth of the cooling channel (110) in the broadside (100) in the area of the crossing recesses (A1, . . . , A5) changes step-like and/or linearly and is filled with corresponding filler elements.
US07798199B2
A nucleated casting apparatus including an atomizing nozzle configured to produce a droplet spray of a metallic material, a mold configured to receive the droplet spray and form a preform therein, and a gas injector which can limit, and possibly prevent, overspray from accumulating on the mold. The gas injector can be configured to produce a gas flow which can impinge on the droplet spray to redirect at least a portion of the droplet spray away from a side wall of the mold. In various embodiments, the droplet spray may be directed by the atomizing nozzle in a generally downward direction and the gas flow may be directed in a generally upward direction such that the gas flow circumscribes the perimeter of the mold.
US07798186B2
A high speed planer head. Disclosed according to one aspect of the invention is a hub and a threaded member. The hub is axially disposed for rotation about an axis, and has a pocket for receiving a first knife against a supporting wall of the pocket. The threaded member has a frustoconical ramping portion for producing a wedging force against the knife when the threaded member is threaded into a threaded hole in the hub. According to another aspect of the invention, a second hub for carrying a second knife is provided, the second hub preferably being bolted to the first hub to that the hubs can be disassembled. The second knife preferably has two linear cutting edges and the second knife preferably has at least two curvilinear cutting edges and more preferably has four concave, semi-circular cutting edges that are spaced apart from one another with 90 degree rotational symmetry.
US07798182B2
The invention relates to a dispensing system and method for on-demand dispensing of spoonable or drinkable food products in a container. Single servings or larger portions of these products can be dispensed. The system and method achieve dispensing of the product with a visual differentiation of the components in the container. The container may be translucent or transparent so that the consumer can view the visually differentiated product therein. The products form yet another embodiment of the invention.
US07798173B2
Disclosed is an electrically controllable valve accommodating in its valve housing (4) a second valve member (6) that is operable by the first valve member (2) in order to be able to variably adjust a second valve opening cross-section (A2) that is arranged in series to the first valve opening cross-section (A1), and a third valve opening cross-section (A3) that is releasable by means of the first valve member (2) is positioned in series arrangement to the first valve opening cross-section (A1) in order to limit the hydraulic pressure to a mechanically preset value.
US07798168B2
Apparatus and method for dispensing a gas using a gas source coupled in selective flow relationship with a gas manifold. The gas manifold includes flow circuitry for discharging gas to a gas-using zone, and the gas source includes a pressure-regulated gas source vessel containing the gas at superatmospheric pressure. The pressure-regulated gas source vessel can be arranged with a pressure regulator at or within the vessel and a flow control valve coupled in flow relationship to the vessel, so that gas dispensed from the vessel flows through the regulator prior to flow through the flow control valve, and into the gas manifold. The apparatus and method permit an enhancement of the safety of storage and dispensing of toxic or otherwise hazardous gases used in semiconductor processes.
US07798166B1
A lawn fertilizing system includes a connecting pipe that has a primary inlet and a primary outlet and a perimeter wall extending therebetween. The perimeter wall has a secondary outlet therein and a secondary inlet therein. A portion of liquid flowing through the connecting pipe bypasses the secondary outlet and flows directly from the primary inlet to the primary outlet. Another portion of liquid flowing through the connecting pipe flows outwardly of the connecting pipe through the secondary outlet. A housing has a peripheral wall enclosing an inner space. An outlet tube fluidly couples the inner space to the secondary inlet and an inlet tube fluidly couples the inner space to the secondary outlet. Fertilizer placed in the housing is mixed with water from the secondary outlet and flows outwardly of the housing through the outlet tube and into the connecting pipe through the secondary inlet.
US07798161B2
This invention is concerned with shade structures, such as umbrellas, particularly large free-standing umbrellas, which have variable geometry. In preferred embodiments, the invention provides umbrellas that comprise multiple sets of ribs supporting a canopy structure and having a mechanism associated with each set of ribs for influencing the angle or elevation of the rib sets.
US07798160B2
A safely operable handle device includes a grip shell coupled to a telescopic central shaft unit, a retained block releasably blocked so as to hold the umbrella in an opened state, a reel member rotatably mounted in the grip shell and biased by a coil spring, a cord reelable on the reel member and coupled to one of a top notch and the retained block, an actuator, and a unidirectional retaining mechanism. Upon application of a pressing force to telescopically fold the central shaft unit, and upon movement of the actuator in response to a stroke movement of a push button, the reel member turns in a counterclockwise direction to reel in the cord, and is prevented from turning in a clockwise direction so as to hold the central shaft unit in position to thereby avoid undesirable extension of the central shaft unit.
US07798156B2
Brushcards are provided. The brushcards include a planar member having a plurality of sections, each separated by lines of weakness, each section having a handle region and a bristle region. The planar member includes at least one recess, and the member is configured to fold into a toothbrush.
US07798143B1
One aspect of the invention relates to a patient treatment system that delivers a pressurized flow of breathable gas to a patient. The system comprises a baseline module, a treatment measurement module, and a report module. The baseline module determines a baseline amount of treatment the patient should receive from the patient treatment system during a first time interval. The treatment measurement module measures an amount of treatment received by the patient during a second time interval. The report module generates a treatment report based upon the measured amount of treatment received by the patient during the second time interval and the baseline amount of treatment the patient should receive during the first time interval.
US07798139B2
A modular portable gas grill including an energy management system for even temperature control, enhanced flavor devices, and electronic, electro-mechanical, or mechanical controls is provided. The grill includes a touch control system including sliders or knobs providing efficient, precise and accurate control. Heat and flame deflecting shields provide an improved air draft, heat, and flavoring system and can be removed for cleaning. Modular design construction and a quick-connect gas manifold permit the addition of additional components at a later date such as a rotisserie, and a smoke chute for flavoring. Burner shields protect the burner and flame from greases and liquids. The grill also features the ability to easily convert between propane and natural gas fuel and an electronic reigniting system providing individualized control to the burners. The grill also features a dual fuel mode giving a user the ability to use propane or natural gas along with charcoal or other solid fuel.
US07798135B2
The invention relates to an exhaust gas recirculation device (1) for an internal combustion engine, in particular in a motor vehicle, having an exhaust gas recirculation line (2) for introducing exhaust gas into a primary intake line (4), with an exhaust gas recirculation valve (3) for controlling the exhaust gas recirculation line (2). The exhaust gas recirculation line (2) has an end section (7) which runs into the primary intake line (4) with an orifice opening (8). In order to improve the reliability of the exhaust gas recirculation device (1), the exhaust gas recirculation valve (3) has a sleeve (10) arranged in the fresh air line (4), said sleeve (10) enclosing the exhaust gas recirculation line (2) in the region of the orifice opening (8), being mounted in the fresh air line (4) so as to be axially adjustable, and presenting a radial internal nozzle contour (11) with a flow cross section which first decreases and then increases in size in the flow direction, the exhaust gas recirculation valve (3) having an actuating device (12) for axially adjusting the sleeve (10) relative to the primary intake line.
US07798129B2
A fuel injection system for a combustion engine is disclosed. The fuel injection system may have a fuel injector configured to inject fuel in one of a first shot mode and a second shot mode. Additionally, the fuel injection system may have a sensor configured to sense a parameter indicative of a desired rate of change of a supplied fuel quantity and generate a corresponding signal. The fuel injection system may also have a controller in communication with the fuel injector and the sensor. The controller may be configured to operate the fuel injector in one of the first shot mode and the second shot mode during an injection event, based on a count and the signal.
US07798125B2
A system and method for controlling knock in a lean burn internal combustion (IC) engine includes a spark plug having an electrode, and an electrical circuit configured to provide a first voltage to the electrode and detect an ion current during a thermal-ionization phase of the combustion process, and provide a second voltage to the electrode to create a spark and initiate a combustion process within a combustion chamber. The engine includes a controller configured to monitor the ion current for a knock condition that includes at least an incipient knock condition, determine a spark crank angle timing of the IC engine where the incipient knock occurs, and adjust the spark timing of the IC engine to operate at a crank angle that does not exceed a threshold level beyond an incipient knock set point.
US07798118B2
A method and apparatus for installation and functioning of a flame front type ignition system in a throughbore through the wall of the head of an internal combustion engine. The flame front ignition system employs a flame cone which is thread ably inserted within the throughbore. The inboard end of the flame cone is provided with a plurality of exit ports opening from a central channel and into the combustion chamber. The flame cone is provided with indicia on its outboard face and a marker is provided on the outer rim of the throughbore. When an indicia letter on the flame cone is aligned with the marker, the flame cone is properly installed. The depth of insertion of the flame cone is adjustable by means of spacer washers adapted to selectively adjust the dept as well as seal the flame cone in the throughbore.
US07798116B2
A piston/connecting rod arrangement for an internal combustion engine has a piston upper part with hub supports which lie opposite one another and have hubs and hub holes which delimit a recess, in which the small connecting-rod eye of a connecting rod is arranged. A piston pin is mounted in the small connecting-rod eye and the hub holes. There is at least one oil-guiding face to be provided on that face of the hub support which faces the recess. At least one oil-guiding face opens into at least one oil-collecting space which is arranged in the hub hole, in such a way that the oil-guiding face guides oil into the oil-collecting space.
US07798108B2
A water-jacket structure, for a water-cooled internal combustion engine, forms a cylinder block water jacket in a cylinder block so as to surround cylinder bores formed in the cylinder block to make cooling water flow through the cylinder block water jacket into a cylinder head water jacket formed in a cylinder head joined to the cylinder block. An upper connecting opening is formed in an upper part of the cylinder block water jacket so as to open into the cylinder head water jacket. In the cylinder block is formed a lower connecting passage opening into a lower part of the cylinder block water jacket, extending upward, and connecting to the cylinder head water jacket.
US07798106B1
A flipping pet toy is provided having a first bore and a second bore parallelly disposed to the first bore. A series of ribs interstitial spaces there between are concentrically disposed about a central axis of the bores. A thin and laterally elongated body member forms a resilient, thin walled body circumscribing the bores such that said thin wall is capable of generating a resilient, springing action.
US07798104B2
A footbath system for livestock includes a water and/or chemical containment tank, a footbath pan with a drainage exit door, non-turbulent flow, and a multiple branch system.
US07798102B2
The invention provides for an apparatus (1) for growing aquatic animals comprising at least two securing members (3, 6) adapted to be removably fixed together such that a feed substrate (7) can be reversibly sandwiched between the securing members. The invention also provides for modular assemblies of the apparatus, and further provides methods of culturing aquatic animals and methods of increasing roe content of aquatic animals.
US07798094B2
Coating installation, specifically for painting automobile body parts, having at least two application robots (3, 5) for applying a coating means to a target, at least two handling robots (4. 6) for handling the target and two linear guides (1, 2) along which the handling robots (4. 6) and the application robots (3, 5) can be driven. It is proposed that each of the two linear guides (1, 2) carries at least one of the application robots (3, 5) and at least one of the handling robots (4. 6).
US07798092B2
A process for treating a particulate material is described, comprising the steps of filling the material into a container, the container having a base, an upright wall widening from bottom to top, and a deflection element adjoining the wall in an upper region of the container, moving the material in the container in a continuous circulatory movement along the base to the wall and along the wall upward by rotating the wall about a vertical axis of rotation, and moving the material along the deflection element by an air stream, which is introduced substantially from bottom to top through at least one air gap in a transition region from the wall to the deflection element and, in a region adjacent to the air gap, substantially tangentially with respect to the course of at least one of the wall and the deflection element. Further an apparatus for carrying out the process is described.
US07798088B2
An improved water tight, chambered planing pontoon assembly incorporates a hollow shell with a cross sectional shape in the form of an upper portion and lower portion. The upper portion of the shape is generally semi-cylindrical extending downward and terminates with opposing chines extending the full length of the tube. The lower portion of the shape is formed by equal and opposing planing surfaces which extend upward at acute angles from a vertical center line, then turn outward, perpendicular to the vertical center line, meeting at the chines. The tube terminates on the bow end with an elongate semi-cone and on the opposite end with a water tight bulkhead. The upper and lower portions of the tube are formed of one homogeneous sheet of metal. The semi-cone with opposing chine portions is formed of one homogeneous sheet of metal.
US07798086B2
An apparatus for deployment and recovery of an underwater vehicle can be introduced into a recovery tube of an underwater recovery vehicle. The apparatus has a moveable tube provided with an insertion/extraction device at one of its ends. The device is in the form of a tube or of a ring in a retracted state and in the form of a funnel in an extended state. There is also disclosed a method for deployment and a method for recovery of an underwater vehicle by way of the above-mentioned apparatus that is introduced into a recovery tube of an underwater recovery vehicle. Additionally, there is disclosed a method for docking an underwater vehicle at a recovery tube of an underwater recovery vehicle provided with the above-mentioned apparatus.
US07798077B2
A pyrolysis oven configured for vertical conveyance of material for incineration. The oven makes use of gravity and multiple plates to control the movement of material through the oven chamber. The plates and oven interior are heated in a low oxygen, pressurized environment to effect the decomposition of material as it freefalls down the chamber and makes contact with heated plates. The configuration and angle of declination of plates determines the freefall rate and retention time within the incinerating environment. The decomposition produces char and gas resultants, each of which are carried off through separate exits configured in the oven. The oven may be used as part of a waste management system in connection with a thermal oxidation chamber for the treatment of volatile organic compound gases that are a by-product of the pyrolytic process.
US07798076B1
A modular furniture system that includes a base cabinet having a drawer used for storage and able to be opened and closed; a plurality of shelf members; means for support the plurality of shelf members in at least one stacked array over said base cabinet; and a plurality of modular leg members that are interengageable by screwing together and that are adapted for placement in said drawer.
US07798068B2
A friction drive trolley conveyor has a conveying traveling body provided with a friction drive load bar having traction purpose engaging means at both ends thereof and allows traction drive to be easily conducted without fail even at the time of conveying a heavy object. The traction purpose engaging means is composed of an engaged shaft arranged in the horizontal direction within a vertical notched portion formed at one end of the load bar, a hook member vertically swingably pivotally supported at an intermediate position in vertical height of the load bar at the other end of the load bar and a holding means holding the hook member in an engaged posture or a disengaged posture, and on a traveling route side, a first switching means switching the hook member from the engaged posture to the disengaged posture and a second switching means switching the hook member from the disengaged posture to the engaged posture.
US07798065B2
A connector block for retaining at least one shock tube in signal transfer relationship with a detonator. The connector block comprises a housing (2, 21) having a bore (4, 23) formed therein for receiving a detonator (6, 36) provided with a percussion-actuation end (7, 25), a shock tube retention means (8, 28) defining with the housing a slot (9, 29) for receiving therein at least one shock tube (10, 30) and holding the at least one shock tube in signal transfer relationship with the percussion-actuation end of the detonator present in the bore, the slot having an entrance (12, 32) for allowing insertion of the at least one shock tube into the slot, and a flexible and resilient closure member (11, 31) or an inflexible closure member (50) pivotable on a sprung hinge (51) extending partially or fully into the entrance. The closure member and the shock tube retention means resiliently flex to allow entry of the at least one shock tube through the entrance and into the slot, the closure member flexing through a distance at least 30% the diameter of the shock tube.
US07798064B1
A command to arm apparatus includes a housing having a hollow interior. A pivotally-mounted rotor is disposed in the hollow interior. The rotor has a first, safe position of rotational adjustment that prevents detonation of an explosive and a second, armed position of rotational adjustment that enables detonation of an explosive. A locking cam is pivotally mounted to the rotor and has a rotor-locking position of repose. The rotor is free to rotate from its safe position to its armed position when the locking cam is rotated out of the rotor-locking position by a piston that extends from a piston actuator. The rotor abuts a flat formed in a sidewall of the housing and can rotate no further when the device is in the armed configuration.
US07798063B2
A method includes exposing a plate on a support surface of an imager using one or more laser beams, the exposing while there is a metallic screen structure located on the support surface between the plate and the support surface such that the amount of back-reflected radiation is reduced compared to the plate being placed directly on the support structure with no screen between the plate and support surface. An apparatus includes the combination of a base material having the support surface and the metallic screen structure thereon.
US07798062B2
A printing apparatus includes a feed-out unit for feeding out an elongated base material which is wound up in a roll, a printing unit for printing a liquid resist onto the elongated base material that is fed out of the feed-out unit, a wind-up unit for winding up the elongated base material on which the liquid resist is printed by the printing unit into a roll, and a suction unit positioned between the printing unit and the wind-up unit in a transport direction of the elongated base material for sucking up a solvent in the liquid resist.
US07798054B2
The invention proposes to dispense a substance from a container (1) filled with a single portion of a substance. The container comprises a preformed deformable body, preferably made of sheet material, defining a filling cavity which body has an opening (6) and an integral planar circumferential rim (5) surrounding said opening, which opening is closed by a cover sheet (7) which is sealed to the circumferential rim (5) by means of a circumferential sealing seam (10). The container with the substance is opened by making use of the deformability of the cover sheet (7). A support surface supports the cover sheet (7) except at the position of a recess (10b). The recess (10b) is positioned at least over a part of the circumferential sealing seam. Upon compression of the container body the substance is pressurized and the cover sheet (7) bulges out into the recess (10b) such that the sealing seam (10) is broken at the location where the bulge is formed resulting in the container being open.
US07798052B2
First and second cushion rings are arranged respectively on both end surfaces of a piston constituting part of a fluid pressure cylinder, through fitting grooves. The first and second cushion rings are formed with substantially hollow cylindrical shapes by press working a metal material, wherein the cushion rings effectuate a cushioning action, which decelerates the displacement speed of the piston, as a result of being displaced in the axial direction together with the piston and being received and accommodated within a recess of the head cover and a rod hole of the rod cover.
US07798050B2
An improved drive mechanism (100) adapted to be mounted on a support for controllably moving a first output shaft (16) about either or both of two orthogonal axes (T, E). The drive mechanism has a stationary lower portion adapted to be mounted on the support and having a movable upper portion mounted for movement relative to the stationary portion. The improved drive mechanism broadly includes: a first power train (10, 12, 2, 4, 14) for controllably rotating a first gear (6); a second power train (9, 11, 1, 3,13) for controllably rotating a second gear (5); and a third gear (7) connected to the first output shaft and meshing with at least one of the first and second gears. The first, second and third gears form a portion of a differential-like mechanism (18) mechanically coupling the first and second power trains to the first output shaft. The first and second power trains may be selectively operated to controllably and cooperatively move the first output shaft to a desired position relative to the support.
US07798037B2
A steering column assembly includes a column jacket coupled to a mounting bracket, with the column jacket pivotably movable about a pivot axis relative to the mounting bracket. A wedge arm is pivotably mounted to one of the column jacket and the mounting bracket and wedges against the other of the column jacket and the mounting bracket. The wedge arm prohibits the pivotable movement of the column jacket relative to the mounting bracket in response to an impact event. The wedge arm includes an arcuate shape having a variable radial distance between a pivot attachment point and a contact edge. The variable radial distance permits the wedge arm to fit between components of the column jacket and the mounting bracket when the column jacket is positioned in different positions relative to the mounting bracket.
US07798029B2
Disclosed is a vibration apparatus for generating a spheroid wavelength by eccentrically rotating a rotation shaft using an eccentric weight. The vibration apparatus includes: an electric motor for generating rotation force; a bracket coupled to a coupling member on the upper portion of the electric motor and having a thru-hole formed at the center portion of the bracket, through which the rotation shaft of the electric motor extends; a cylindrical support member coupled to the edge of the bracket at a lower surface of the cylindrical support member; an eccentric weight coupled to the rotation shaft extending through the bracket and eccentrically rotating on the bracket so that the rotation movement of the rotation shaft is converted into three-dimensional movement generating the spheroid wavelength; and a vibration plate coupled to the upper portion of the cylindrical support member and receiving through the rotation shaft the three-dimensional movement caused by the eccentric rotation of the eccentric weight, for generating the spheroid wavelength. The vibration apparatus can restrain the shaking of the vibration apparatus caused by the three-dimensional movement due to the eccentric rotation of the eccentric weight, and maintain the stability of the rotation shaft so that a vibration plate generates the spheroid wavelength effectively when the eccentric weight rotates.
US07798028B2
A transmission system made of gears and bearings. The system improves the efficiency of force transfer between rotational motion and rectilinear motion. To accomplish this, the gears and bearings are assembled to allow maximum torque output during force input and reproduced cyclically. Bearings of the transmission system allow a crank to rotate to a position to increase the torque applied on gears to output shaft.
US07798024B2
A modular system used to visually inspect the interior of storage tanks and to simultaneously collect samples to analyze the products stored. The modular internal inspection system includes an assembly made up by a pneumatic controller (2), a pneumatic module (3), an interface module (4), a control module (5), an operation module (6), and several connection cables (7a, 7b, 7c). The system may be remotely operated and allows recording the images and the data collected during inspection. The modular internal tank inspection system is used in storage tanks (1) of any geometric configuration, normally found in industrial installations. Furthermore, because it is an intrinsically secure system, it may be used on tanks that store different types of liquid fuels, with no risk of explosion.
US07798003B2
The invention relates to an ultrasound probe arrangement (14, 16) for coupling ultrasonic signals toward a component (12), which is to be inspected, by using the water open jet method, with a probe (24; 124), which is placed inside a jet nozzle (26; 126) and having a multitude of ultrasonic transmitting and/or receiving elements (25; 125) and at least one liquid inlet (28; 128) as well as at least one liquid outlet (30; 130). In order to improve the flow of water inside the jet nozzle, the invention provides that: one or more preliminary or filter chambers (FK1, FK2, FK3) are situated upstream from a flow space (36, 136); each preliminary or filter chamber (FK1, FK2, FK3) comprises a dividing wall (TW1, TW2, TW3) having flow channels (SK1, SK2, SK3) running perpendicular to the direction of flow; the number of flow channels (SK1, SK2, SK3) in each dividing wall (TW1, TW2, TW3) increases in the direction of flow, and; the diameter of the flow channels (SK1, SK2, SK3) in each dividing wall (TW1, TW2, TW3) decreases in the direction of flow.
US07798001B2
A high spatial resolution phase-sensitive technique employs a scanning near field ultrasound holography (SNFUH) methodology for imaging elastic as well as viscoelastic variations across a sample surface. SNFUH uses a near-field approach to measure time-resolved variations in ultrasonic oscillations at a sample surface. As such, it overcomes the spatial resolution limitations of conventional phase-resolved acoustic microscopy (i.e. holography) by eliminating the need for far-field acoustic lenses.
US07797999B2
A marker detection apparatus detects a marker attached to a target sample from samples flowing in a sample flow, wherein the sample flow carries a low ionization-tendency metal fine particle selected from a group of Au to Ag and the target sample labeled by the marker that is a particle of a unique vibration frequency, the marker detection apparatus including: an electromagnetic wave applying section that applies an electromagnetic wave to a path of the sample flow under a condition that the radius of the metal fine particle is smaller than the wavelength of the electromagnetic wave; and a detection section that detects vibration of the particle attached to the target sample, the vibration arising from a quasi-electrostatic field generated on the surface of the metal fine particle when the electromagnetic wave is applied to the metal fine particle around the target sample in the sample flow.
US07797994B2
The invention relates to a method for determining fuel consumption in a motor vehicle with an internal combustion engine and a generator which is driven by the internal combustion engine, characterized in that additional fuel consumption produced by an electric consumer which is connected to the generator is determined. In order to determine fuel consumption, at least one current value of the generator drive capacity is taken into account. The invention also relates to a method for displaying fuel consumption, characterized in that the excess fuel consumption caused by an electric consumer on board the motor vehicle is displayed in a separate manner.
US07797985B2
Provided are a methods and systems for determining a topography of an object. In an embodiment, a system includes a reference probe configured to measure a surface of a reference surface and to generate a reference signal, a measuring probe configured to measure a surface of an object and to generate a measurement signal, a sensor configured to sense a position of the measuring probe and to generate a sensor signal, and a combiner configured to receive the sensor signal and the measurement signal and to generate a combination signal therefrom. A desired distance between the measuring probe and the object is substantially maintained by adjusting the position of the measuring probe based on the measurement signal. A topography of the object is determined based at least on a comparison of the reference signal and the combination signal.
US07797974B2
A method and device for measuring and adjusting the evenness and/or tension of a stainless steel strip (1) during cold rolling in a 4-roll stand (2) provided with at least one control loop (4) comprising several actuators (3), resulting in more precise measurement and adjustment due to the fact that an evenness defect (10) is determined by comparing a tension vector (8) with a predefined reference curve (9), whereupon the characteristic of the evenness defect (10) along the width of the strip is broken down into proportional tension vectors (8) in an analysis building block (11) in a mathematically approximated manner and the evenness defect proportions (C1 . . . Cx) determined by real numerical values are supplied to respectively associated control modules (12a; 12b) for actuation of the respective actuator (3).
US07797973B2
A hierarchical lock system includes a first cylinder lock having a cylindrical plug, rotatable, reciprocating tumbler pins, a slider disposed within the plug and a side bar that cooperates with the cylinder plug, the slider, and the tumbler pins to control rotation of the lock. A second cylindrical lock includes a cylindrical plug, reciprocating tumbler pins, a slider, and a side bar that cooperates with the cylindrical plug and the slider. A first key is configured to open both the first and second locks by elevating and rotating the tumbler pins, and moving the slider to an unlocked position with respect to the side bar. A second key is able to open only the second cylindrical locks by elevating but not rotating the tumbler pins and by moving the slider to an unlocked position with respect to the side bar.
US07797969B2
A washing machine using steam and a method for controlling the same is disclosed. The washing machine with a steam generator (100) selectively supplying steam inot a drum (30) according to the present invention includes a course select part (420) for a user to select a wash course, a steam select part (430) for a user to select whether steam washing is operated and a controller (440) for controlling the steam generator (100) based on a wash course selected from the course select part (420) (an inputted wash vourse) and a signal selected from the steam select part (430). The present invention has an advantageous effect thtat convenience is improved for a user to use the washing machine using steam as well as washing performance is improved, because disadvantages due to malfunctions of a steam generator are prevented.
US07797967B2
A warp knitting fabric, excellent in a dimension stability and a shape stability or the like and preferably used for underpants or panty, or a shirt or the like, including: tube-shaped fabric parts that form articles in a predetermined pattern; marginal fabric portions that are knitted simultaneously with said fabric parts, and to be eventually cut therefrom; and bridging portions formed by knitting at a predetermined interval in wale direction, each of which connects a fringe of said fabric part onto the marginal fabric portion contiguous to the fringe; and wherein the bridging portions are formed by knitting to have a dimension of 2-20 courses in the wale direction, at an interval of 2-50 courses.
US07797962B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of operating an aircraft system, in particular for the purpose of fresh air supply, air-conditioning and pressurization of an aircraft cabin, having a first compressed air source formed by a first compressor charged with ambient air, ram air and/or precompressed air and driven by means of at least one motor and/or of at least one turbine and whose outlet is in direct or indirect communication with an aircraft cabin, said aircraft system having at least one second compressed air source whose outlet can be connected directly or indirectly to the aircraft cabin, wherein only the first compressed air source is in communication with the aircraft cabin in a first operating mode, wherein both the first and the second compressed air sources are in communication with the aircraft cabin in a second operating mode, and wherein the selection of the operating mode depends on the pressure of the ambient air such that the first operating mode is set at a high pressure of the ambient air and the second operating mode is set at a pressure of the ambient air lower in comparison.
US07797958B2
An HVAC system for a vehicle. The HVAC system includes a battery management controller, which can be used to run the components of the HVAC system when the engine of the vehicle is not running.
US07797944B2
A nacelle assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a nacelle, a variable area fan nozzle, a sensor that detects a windmilling condition and a controller that communicates with the sensor. The variable area fan nozzle is moveable between a first position having a first discharge airflow area and a second position having a second discharge airflow area greater than the first discharge airflow area in response to detecting the windmilling condition.
