US07842198B2
The new fluorocarbon-functionalized and/or heterocycle-modified polythiophenes, in particular, α,ω-diperfluorohexylsexithiophene DFH-6T can be straightforwardly prepared in high yield and purity. Introduction of such modifications to a thiophene core affords enhanced thermal stability and volatility, and increased electron affinity versus the unmodified compositions of the prior art. Evaporated films behave as n-type semiconductors, and can be used to fabricate thin film transistors with FET mobilities ˜0.01 cm2/Vs—some of the highest reported to date for n-type organic semiconductors.
US07842191B2
A CMP slurry for metallic film is provided, which includes water, 0.01 to 0.3 wt %, based on a total quantity of the slurry, of polyvinylpyrrolidone having a weight average molecular weight of not less than 20,000, an oxidizing agent, a protective film-forming agent containing a first complexing agent for forming a water-insoluble complex and a second complexing agent for forming a water-soluble complex, and colloidal silica having a primary particle diameter ranging from 5 to 50 nm.
US07842168B2
The invention provides a method for producing a silicon oxide film, whereby a film having uniform optical constants such as refractive index, absorption coefficient, etc. can be formed continuously at a high deposition rate.A method for producing a silicon oxide film, which comprises depositing a silicon oxide film on a substrate by carrying out AC sputtering by using a sputtering target comprising silicon carbide and silicon with a ratio in number of atoms of C to Si being from 0.5 to 0.95, in an atmosphere containing an oxidizing gas, with an alternating current having a frequency of from 1 to 1,000 kHz.
US07842167B2
A sputter apparatus with a pipe cathode is arranged such that the supply of power, cooling fluid and other media to the pipe cathode takes place via flexible lines or tubes which can be wound about a receptor. If the pipe cathode completes a pendulum movement, the lines and/or tubes are wound onto the receptor or wound from it. The pendulum movement of the pipe cathode is preferably such that the pipe cathode is rotated by a certain first angle in a first direction and subsequently by a certain second angle in a second direction, the second angle differing from the first angle. Methods for operating the sputter apparatus are also disclosed.
US07842164B2
Paper is made by providing an anionic aqueous emulsion of a size, usually a reactive anhydride size, and mixing it into a cellulosic suspension prior to drainage of the suspension to form a sheet which is then dried to provide paper (including paper board). The emulsion is preferably stabilised wholly or mainly by 0.5 to 30 parts by weight (per part by weight size) of water soluble, anionic, polymeric stabiliser, which is preferably anionic starch. Alternatively, the emulsion may be added to the cellulosic suspension while it is anionic, before mixing retention into it. The emulsion may be added to the cellulosic suspension after cationic retention aid has been added to it, the emulsion being added with, before or after mixing anionic microparticulate material or other anionic bridging aid, prior to drainage of the suspension.
US07842163B2
Tissue products are disclosed containing an additive composition. The additive composition, for instance, comprises an aqueous dispersion containing an olefin polymer, an ethylene-carboxylic acid copolymer, or mixtures thereof. The olefin polymer may comprise an interpolymer of ethylene and octene, while the ethylene-carboxylic acid copolymer may comprise ethylene-acrylic acid copolymer. The additive composition may also contain a dispersing agent, such as a fatty acid. The additive composition may be incorporated into the tissue web by being combined with the fibers that are used to form the web. Alternatively, the additive composition may be topically applied to the web after the web has been formed. After the additive composition is applied to the web or otherwise incorporated into the tissue web, the tissue web is embossed. During embossing, the additive composition forms well defined embossments in the web that are water resistant. In one embodiment, the additive composition may also be used to bond multiple tissue webs together to form a multiple ply product during the embossing operation.
US07842158B2
A carrier head for chemical mechanical polishing of a substrate includes a base and a flexible membrane extending beneath the base. The flexible membrane includes a central portion with an outer surface providing a substrate receiving surface, a perimeter portion connecting the central portion to the base, and at least one flap extending from an inner surface of the central portion. The flap divides a volume between the flexible membrane and the base into a plurality of chambers, and the flap includes a laterally extending first section and an angled second section extending beneath the first section and connecting the laterally extending first section to the central portion.
US07842152B2
A method of making RFID tags includes printing individualized information to a printable facestock on which an RFID device is attached. Generic information may be preprinted on the facestock before the RFID device is attached. The facestock may be folded over, putting the generic information and individualized information on different sides of the tag. The individualized information may be a function of information obtained by reading or interrogating the RFID device.
US07842147B2
A method for making a composite panel, wherein the composite panel has a honeycomb core sandwiched between a pair of facing sheets, includes the steps of (a) coating the interior walls of the cells with a unexpanded thermo-expandable material; (b) bonding a pair of facing sheets to the opposite sides of the honeycomb core; and (c) heating the honeycomb core while the honeycomb core is sandwiched between the pair of facing sheets with sufficient heat to cause the thermo-expandable material to expand and to substantially fill the cells.
US07842146B2
An adhesive is contacted with a surface of a substrate and ultrasonic energy is applied to the adhesive to enhance the bonding of the adhesive to the surface of the substrate. The ultrasonic energy, particularly ultrasonic vibrations, can assist the adhesive in wetting the substrate surface, curing, polymerization or the like to enhance bonding.
US07842145B2
A composite member and an associated method for forming the composite member are provided. The composite member is formed of a plurality of elongate tapes. Each tape is disposed a path defined by a plurality of natural path segments, each of which defines a non-natural offset angle relative to the adjacent segments.
US07842143B2
Shape-setting methods for fabricating devices made of single crystal shape memory alloys. The method include drawing a single crystal of a shape memory alloy from a melt of the alloy. This is followed by heating and quenching the crystal sufficiently rapid to limit the formation of alloy precipitates to an amount which retains hyperelastic composition and properties of the crystal.
US07842135B2
Nano-technology is an emerging and intensely competitive field. There are a number of companies that work mainly in the development of various Nano-technology areas. One area that has not received too much emphasis is that of specialized equipment for Nano-technology. Nanoinstruments is a company working to rectify this deficiency in the field of nano-material deposition, especially in Carbon Nanotube and Nanowire growth. A number of innovations disclosed include the use of a low thermal mass heating unit that allows fast changes in temperature of the growth sample while providing sufficient thermal stability, uniformity and electrical isolation, a novel shower head design for providing uniform gas flow while eliminating thermal and plasma decomposition of feed stock at the nozzle, a pulsed voltage waveform that eliminates charging of substrate on which the growth has to take place, and the use of a conductive grid over insulating substrates to achieve uniform plasma over the growth surface.
US07842134B2
The invention relates to a method of manufacture of a substrate for fabrication of semiconductor layers or devices, comprising the steps of providing a wafer of silicon including at least one first surface suitable for use as a substrate for CVD diamond synthesis, growing a layer of CVD diamond of predetermined thickness and having a growth face onto the first surface of the silicon wafer, reducing the thickness of the silicon wafer to a predetermined level, and providing a second surface on the silicon wafer that is suitable for further synthesis of at least one semiconductor layer suitable for use in electronic devices or synthesis of electronic devices on the second surface itself and to a substrate suitable for GaN device growth consisting of a CVD diamond layer intimately attached to a silicon surface.
US07842132B2
The present invention relates to an optical element for converting light of prescribed wavelength emitted from a light source into light of wavelength different from the prescribed wavelength for outputting. A first crystal part (20) and a second crystal part (21) having respective surfaces opposed to each other whose coefficients of linear expansion are different by 5 ppm or more are optically polished so that the surfaces opposed to each other include crystallographic axes. An acrylic adhesive whose glass transition point is 75° C. or lower is applied to the adhesive surface of the first crystal part (20) or the second crystal part (21) to stick the first crystal part (20) and the second crystal part (21) to each other. The adhesive is irradiated with light to cure the adhesive and form an adhesive layer (22) having a refractive index of 1.52 or lower. Then, the first crystal part and the second crystal part stuck to each other are cut into a desired size to form the optical element. In the optical element, the separation of the adhesive layer (22) for connecting the first crystal element to the second crystal element and the damage of the crystal parts are suppressed.
US07842122B2
A gas remover apparatus suitable for electrical substation high-voltage transformer load tap changers and similar oil-filled equipment removes potentially hazardous and destructive gases from the air-filled volume above the insulating oil bath in which the load tap changer electrical contacts are immersed. The apparatus applies a continuous supply of nitrogen to the load tap changer, and has an orifice to maintain a slight overpressure over an extreme range of climatic conditions. The substantially continuous venting of nitrogen entrains and expels contaminants such as oxygen, water, and potentially explosive breakdown products from the oil, all of which can degrade the performance of the load tap changer.
US07842121B2
A system and method are disclosed for providing aqueous stream purification services. The system includes at least one separation unit. Each separation unit may include a mechanical vapor recompression separator, a steam stripper, and a secondary recovery heat exchanger. The system for wastewater purification may receive water from a waste water storage, purify the water, and return the purified water to a purified water storage. The system may include a controller. The controller may include an operating conditions module configured to interpret at least one operating condition. Operating conditions may be waste fluid stream impurity concentrations, waste fluid stream flow rates, steam inlet temperatures, recirculation stream flow rates corresponding to the at least one separation unit, recirculation stream temperatures corresponding to the at least one separation unit, purified product stream flow rates, purified product stream impurity concentrations, and/or purge stream concentrations corresponding to the at least one separation unit.
US07842119B2
A solidified product (B) is produced by charging a dust (11) generated in a steel making process and containing iron and an oxide thereof as a principal component into a mold (7) and by subjecting it to a pressure molding. A raw material charged to the mold is a mixed granulated product (11p) prepared by mixing the dust and a powder containing carbon as a principal component and by granulating the resultant mixture.
US07842112B2
Cyclone collector including a primary cyclone (1) having a first inlet (14) for drawing external air, and a first outlet (14) for discharging air, a secondary cyclone (3) connected to the primary cyclone (1), and flow guide means (200) over the first outlet for preventing a flow direction of the air discharged from the first outlet (14) from turning sharply.
US07842106B2
The present invention provides an economic process which utilizes biodiesel and other high boiling esters containing short alkyl groups to produce liquid fuels from polymeric materials such as, for example, used tires. In a first embodiment, polymeric material is dissolved/suspended/dispersed in biodiesel upon heating to form a product containing between about 10% and about 35% by weight of polymeric material. At least some of the biodiesel is recovered and reused to dissolve/suspend/disperse additional polymeric material to form additional product. After a predetermined number of cycles, the accumulated product is used as a fuel. In a second embodiment, polymeric material is dissolved/suspended/dispersed upon heating in biodiesel to form a mixture containing between about 30% and about 90% by weight of the polymeric material to be used as heavy fuel oil to be burned as is or bulk refined. The present invention also encompasses the fuel formed by the processes described.
US07842093B2
A prosthesis for replacing an articulating portion of bone is provided. The prosthesis can include an adaptor operable to replace a portion of the bone. The prosthesis can further include a sleeve coupled to the adaptor. The sleeve can define an offset coupling axis. The prosthesis can also include an articulating portion operable to replace the articulating portion of the bone. The sleeve can be positionable to couple the articulating portion to the offset coupling axis at a predetermined orientation.
US07842090B2
An article including a spinal prosthesis having a unitary body with at least three attachment points attachable to spinal structure, the unitary body including a flexure assembly positioned between first and second attachment members, wherein flexure of the flexure assembly permits movement of the first attachment member relative to the second attachment member.
US07842087B2
The present invention pertains to accommodating intraocular lens (AIOL) assemblies including a haptics system for self-anchoring implantation in a human eye's annular ciliary sulcus for retaining an AIOL at a desired position along the human eye's visual axis, and an accommodation measurement implant (AMI) for determining accommodation and accommodation forces in an experimental set-up including an animal's eye.
US07842086B2
An intraocular implant including a plurality of mirrors, including mirrors having optical power, being operative, when the implant is implanted, for receiving light from a scene and focusing the light onto a retina, the mirrors containing bio-incompatible materials and at least one hermetically sealed enclosure, enclosing the plurality of mirrors, and being operative, when the implant is implanted, to seal the bio-incompatible materials from the interior of the eye, without interfering with the passage of light therethrough from the scene to the plurality of mirrors and from the plurality of mirrors to the retina.
US07842079B2
The present invention provides a stent comprising a tubular flexible body having a wall with a web structure that is expandable from a contracted delivery configuration to deployed configuration. The web structure comprises a plurality of neighboring web patterns, where each web patterns is composed of adjoining webs, and the web patterns are interconnected by transition sections. Each adjoining web comprises a central section interposed between two lateral sections to form concave or convex configurations. A delivery system for the stent is also provided.
US07842078B2
The present invention provides a stent comprising a tubular flexible body having a wall with a web structure that is expandable from a contracted delivery configuration to deployed configuration. The web structure comprises a plurality of neighboring web patterns, where each web patterns is composed of adjoining webs, and the web patterns are interconnected by connection elements. Each adjoining web comprises a central section interposed between two lateral sections to form concave or convex configurations. A delivery system for the stent is also provided.
US07842077B2
A stent with axial flexibility, in a preferred embodiment, has a longitudinal axis and comprises a plurality of longitudinally disposed bands, wherein each band defines a generally continuous wave along a line segment parallel to the longitudinal axis. A plurality of links maintains the bands in a tubular structure. In a further embodiment of the invention, each longitudinally disposed band of the stent is connected, at a plurality of periodic locations, by a short circumferential link to an adjacent band. Further, a pair of bifurcated stents is disclosed.
US07842070B2
A sheath introducer is inserted through the skin and into a body lumen, e.g., the femoral artery, for a medical procedure. Upon completion of the medical procedure, the sheath introducer is partially withdrawn from the body lumen so that at least one through-wall hole in a body region of the sheath introducer is positioned outside the body lumen, but under the skin. An opening in a distal end tip of the sheath introducer is sealed so that no blood is flowing into the sheath introducer the after sheath introducer is partially withdrawn. A surgical sealant is injected into the sheath introducer and flows out of the at least one through-wall hole and surrounds the access site. After injection of the surgical sealant, the sheath introducer is removed. The surgical sealant seals the puncture and minimizes any blood flow from the body lumen through the puncture.
US07842060B2
A lancet device for generating a puncture wound in a skin surface, comprising a housing, in which a lancet can be moved on a puncturing path, a lancet drive with a drive rotor that can be driven by a drive spring, a lancet coupling mechanism that transforms a rotational motion of the drive rotor into a puncturing and returning motion of the lancet during a working cycle of the lancet drive, a reference element that is mobile relative to the lancet and relative to the housing and is fixed in a defined position relative to the lancet drive during the puncturing and rests against the surface of the skin with a contact surface thereof such that a puncture wound with a reproducible puncturing depth is generated by the puncturing motion, and a reference element coupling mechanism that is coupled to the lancet drive in order to move the reference element. The invention further relates to a suitable lancet drive assembly for a lancet device of this type.
US07842046B1
A hollow suture needle and related suturing assembly to be used in conjunction with flexible or rigid endoscopy, or on the external surface of the body. The invention relates to performing suturing on internal body tissue as part of a surgical procedure, or on external body tissues. The suturing assembly includes a hollow suture needle which in one preferred embodiment is temperature biased, with associated suturing assembly and an associated method for performing the suturing function.
US07842040B2
Systems and methods for repairing a weakened or fractured bone are disclosed herein. A system for repairing a fractured bone includes a delivery catheter having an elongated shaft with a proximal end, a distal end, and a longitudinal axis therebetween, wherein the delivery catheter has an inner void for passage of bone cement components and an inner lumen for passage of a mixing element; an internal bone fixation device releasably engaging the distal end of the delivery catheter, wherein the internal bone fixation device moves from a first compact state to a second expanded state when the bone cement components are delivered to the internal bone fixation device and mixed within the internal bone fixation device; and a spinning mechanism engaged to a rotatable shaft, wherein the spinning mechanism is inserted into the internal bone fixation device.
US07842036B2
An intramedullary nail (20) and related method for fixing a fracture in a long bone. The nail (20) comprises an elongate member (22) having a longitudinal axis (54), a proximal end section (32), a distal end section (34) and a solid central section (24) extending between the proximal and distal end sections (32, 34). The proximal and distal end sections (32, 34) respectively include proximal and distal fastener receiving areas (28, 30) of greater cross sectional dimensions than the central section (24). Each fastener receiving area (28, 30) includes at least one hole (50, 52) extending transverse to the longitudinal axis for receiving a cross fastener (110) adapted to secure to the bone on opposite sides of the elongate member (22). The proximal and distal end sections (32, 34) thereby provide rigid anchoring locations relative to the central section (24) and the central section provides flexibility to promote healing of the fracture.
US07842034B2
Methods and devices for cutting or coagulating. A device comprises a) an elongate member having a distal end, b) at least one foot member extending from the distal end of the elongate member, said foot member having a upper surface and a lower surface, c) an electrically and thermally insulating covering formed on at least the lower surface of the foot member and d) at least one electrode on the upper surface of the foot member. In operation, the at least one electrode is energized so as to cause cutting or coagulation of tissue located above the upper surface(s) of the foot member(s) while not causing substantial damage to tissue located below the lower surface(s) of the foot member(s).
US07842028B2
An instrument guide device comprises an elongated guide shaft having proximal and distal ends and including an instrument lumen for receiving therethrough a manually operated instrument having an instrument shaft. A distal bendable member is disposed at the distal end of the guide shaft and a proximal bendable member is disposed at the proximal end of the guide shaft. Actuation means extends between the distal and proximal bendable members and provides a bending of the distal bendable member controlled from the proximal bendable member. The proximal bendable member is controlled from the manually operated instrument to cause a corresponding bending of said distal bendable member.
US07842023B2
A container for a vial of radiopharmaceutical, made of polymethyl methacrylate consists of a receptacle, with a cavity capable of containing the vial of radiopharmaceutical, and of a lid screwed onto the receptacle for closing the container, said lid presenting a central through-hole. A set, in combination with this container with the vial of radiopharmaceutical, consisting of a bottle of saline solution and two infusion catheters, enhances the radioprotection during the infusion of a radiopharmaceutical in an infusion operation.
US07842015B2
A catheter for injecting a therapeutic or diagnostic agent into an organ, in particular the heart, including a flexible exterior tube having a proximal end and a distal end, inside which a needle is mounted to slide axially between retracted and deployed positions in which a tip of the needle, adapted to be inserted into the organ, is withdrawn inside the exterior tube and projects from the distal end thereof, respectively. Actuation elements are adapted to slide the needle between the retracted and deployed positions. The catheter includes elements for fixing the catheter to the organ, the needle being decoupled from the fixing elements so that the needle is able to slide relative to the fixing elements, at least in an unfolded position of the fixing elements. The fixing elements include a suction cup mounted so that it may be retracted into a lumen of the exterior tube.
US07842012B2
A guidewire with a sensor which can detect NO and/or superoxide levels is disclosed. This invention can be useful for in vivo analysis of vascular health.
US07842010B2
A pneumatically-operated thrombectomy catheter deployment system having a plurality of components collectively acting as a drive unit, including a double-acting air cylinder, a reciprocating assembly including a positionable four-way valve, a high pressure pump, an effluent pump, a compressed air tank, and other closely related components. The double-acting air cylinder is reciprocatingly driven by the complement of the drive unit components to provide high pressure saline for use in the thrombectomy catheter and to exhaust effluent from the system. A plurality of preconnected components are connected to the drive unit including a thrombectomy catheter, a saline supply bag, an effluent collection bag, connection tubes, and other closely related components.
US07842006B2
The present invention is an ultrasonic thrombectomy catheter that produces physical forces (shear rates) strong enough to emulsify obstructions such as thrombi and emboli without causing damage to arterial walls. This is accomplished by properly arranging piezoelectric transducers within a catheter and a tubular catheter head separated by a gap to generate acoustic streaming that simultaneously emulsifies the obstruction and sweeps resulting debris into a catheter lumen for removal. The open gap may be formed by supporting struts that connect the catheter to the catheter head. The design of the catheter tip allows the fabrication of catheters capable of removing partial or complete blockages from arteries and other vessels having diameters as small as 2 mm.
US07841998B2
The present invention relates to a non-invasive external fixator particularly suitable for fracture fixation. In particular, the fixator of the invention includes proximal and distal portions for mounting on a limb either side of a fracture. Each of the proximal and distal portions includes a rigid member. An articulation member connects the proximal and distal portions. The articulation member includes a universal joint for allowing relative movement between the proximal and distal portions, wherein the articulation member connects the rigid members.
US07841996B2
A positioning device for use in apparatus for treating sudden cardiac arrest in a patient in supine position by providing chest compressions at the lower end of the sternum prevents the apparatus from moving in a caudal direction. The apparatus includes a frame enclosing the patient at a sternal transversal plane and a pneumatic compression/decompression unit mounted on the frame. The device includes a flexible strap having a first end, a second end and a tensioning component disposed between the first and second ends. First and second end portions of the strap include a mechanism for attachment to the apparatus. The flexible strap has a mounted tensioned length sufficient to extend around the patient's neck. At least one of the end portions is releasably attached.
US07841995B2
The method of stimulating a substance is disclosed. The method has the steps of activating an acoustic shock wave generator or source to emit acoustic shock waves; and subjecting the substance to the acoustic shock waves stimulating said substance wherein the substance is positioned within a path of the emitted shock waves and away from a geometric focal volume or point of the emitted shock waves. In one embodiment the emitted shock waves are divergent or near planar. In another embodiment the emitted shock waves are convergent having a geometric focal volume of point at a distance of at least X from the source, the method further comprising positioning the substance at a distance less than the distance X from the source. The substance is a tissue having cells. The tissue can be an organ of a mammal. The mammal may be a human or an animal. The organ may be a heart, a brain, skin, a liver or a kidney or any other organ. The tissue may be muscle, cartilage, tendon, bone, teeth or gums. The tissue may be a part of the vascular system, a part of the nervous system, a part of the urinary or reproductive system, a part of the lymph node or pituitary systems, a part of the ocular system or a part of a skeletal system.
US07841990B2
A biopsy device includes a flexible distal portion for obtaining a biopsy sample. The device includes a coring cannula defining a coring relief notch adjacent its distal end having a length longer than a diameter of the cannula. A wire is slidably disposable within the lumen of the coring cannula and defines a sampling cavity adjacent its distal end. A wire relief notch is positioned adjacent the sampling cavity that has a length longer than its width. A firing mechanism engaged to the proximal ends of the coring cannula and the wire is operable to move the coring cannula relative to the wire between a first position retracted within the lumen so that the coring cannula covers the sampling cavity and a second position wherein the distal end of the wire is extended away from the coring cannula to trap tissue from the biopsy site in the cavity.
US07841988B2
A nasal mask is adapted to attached on a face of a subject so as to cover a nose of the subject. A shell has a contact edge adapted to be brought into close contact with the face of the subject, thereby forming a sealed space therein. An attachment portion is disposed in the shell and has an inner space. The attachment portion is configured to detachably engage with a sensor disposed outside the shell and operable to measure concentration of carbon dioxide gas expired from the nostrils. A guide member is disposed inside the shell and forming a passage adapted to introduce expired gas from the nostrils into the inner space. The shell is formed with an inlet adapted to introduce external gas into the sealed space. The expired gas is guarded by the guide member from the external gas introduced through the inlet. The attachment portion is formed with an outlet adapted to discharge the expired gas from the inner space to the sealed space.
US07841987B2
A method for improved visualization of information related to the physiology of a sleeping patient is disclosed. Physiological information from the patient is obtained by a device, converted to digital format, and transformed into physiological data of two or more types. Physiological data of two or more types are combined into a compact graphical display representing data from all physiological data types.
US07841986B2
Generating a three-dimensional representation of cardiac electrical activity within a subject's heart includes collecting, from a catheter having a distal portion that includes sensors that sense electrical activity and which catheter distal portion is positioned within a cardiac chamber of a subject, data for electrical activity sensed by the catheter distal portion while positioned within the chamber of the heart. The method also includes executing an imaging algorithm on the collected electrical activity data to generate a three-dimensional representation of cardiac electrical activity within a volume of the subject including all or a portion of the subject's heart. The method further includes displaying the imaged three-dimensional cardiac electrical activity.
US07841966B2
Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for monitoring athletic performance. Information is acquired that indicates a device is in movement. The movement is differentiated from transportation. When the movement indicates transportation, then the movement is excluded as unrelated to the athletic performance.
US07841952B1
A golf club with a golf club head having compressible v-shaped grooves is presented. The club head may include a plurality of grooves formed in a striking face. In some arrangements, the grooves have a rectangular cross section. The grooves may also include a compressible insert having a v-shaped end and being formed of a material softer than that of the grooves. As the club head strikes a golf ball, the insert may compress, thereby allowing additional contact between the groove and the ball to impart spin on the ball. In an alternate arrangement, the groove may include a compressible support arranged between the insert and an end of the groove. The compressible insert may be formed of a material softer than the groove and/or the insert and is configured to compress when the club head strikes a golf ball.
US07841944B2
A wagering gaming device having a three-dimensional display device which includes a plurality display screens. The display screens display three dimensional images having an height, actual width and depth.
US07841942B2
A gaming system may include a first gaming unit, a second gaming unit, and a monitoring apparatus operatively coupled to the first and second gaming unit. The monitoring apparatus may include a display terminal and a monitoring apparatus controller operatively coupled to the display terminal. The monitoring apparatus controller may comprise a processor and a memory having encrypted license data representing a license parameter and a corresponding license parameter value stored therein, and may be programed to determine if the encrypted license data is authentic and may be programmed to determine if a configuration of the gaming system is in compliance with the license parameter value of the license parameter.
US07841926B2
A method of polishing a substrate includes holding the substrate on a polishing pad with a polishing head, wherein the polishing pad is supported by a platen, creating relative motion between the substrate and the polishing pad to polish a side of the substrate, generating a light beam and directing the light beam towards the substrate to cause the light beam to impinge on the side of the substrate being polished. Light reflected from the substrate is at a detector to generate an interference signal. A measure of uniformity is computed from the interference signal.
US07841908B2
An electrical connector (1) for electrically connecting with a modular plug (2) includes an insulative housing (10) having a receiving cavity (100) and a resisting block (126) formed in the receiving cavity and having a curved surface (122). A number of contacts (20) is mounted in the receiving cavity. Each contact has a mating portion (21) extending into the receiving cavity and cantilevered above the resisting block. The modular plug is engaged with the mating portion and presses the mating portion to the resisting block when the modular plug is inserted into the receiving cavity. When the plug connector is inserted into the receiving cavity, the mating potion abuts against the curved surface.
US07841901B2
An electrical connector assembly (100) with an integrated circuit module (4) comprises: an insulative housing (1) having a base portion (11) and a tongue portion (12) extending from the base portion (11); a number of contacts (2) assembled in a number of recesses (10) of the housing (1), each contact (2) having a contact portion (21) at the front end, a middle connecting portion (22), and a soldering tail (23) at the rear end; a shield case (3) enclosing the housing (1); and an integrated circuit module (4). The integrated circuit module (4) is soldered to the connecting portions of the contacts and therefore fastened by the electrical connector.
US07841895B2
A card edge connector assembly includes a first connector comprising a first insulative housing defining a first central slot expanding along a transverse direction and a pair of first side arms disposed at opposite ends thereof. A plurality of first terminals are arranged at opposite sides of the first central slot. A second connector stacked with the first connector includes a second insulative housing defining a second central slot expanding along the transverse direction and a pair of second side arms disposed at opposite ends thereof. A plurality of second terminals are arranged at opposite sides of the second central slot. An ejecting device has a first and a second ejecting portions thereon for respectively projecting into the first and second central slots, therefore the ejecting device can release two cards at one time.
US07841891B2
A method and apparatus are provided for monitoring and reporting cable connectivity such as patch panel port-level connectivity on a real-time basis. For patch panel systems, the approach is based upon a distributed architecture that may be modularly scalable and may reduce, if not eliminate, the need for a centralized signal processor and complex cabling between patch panels and the centralized signal processor. Each patch panel may determine port level connectivity independently. Polling delays and polling-related overhead processing may be reduced or eliminated by supporting real-time monitoring of port connectivity at the port level. The approach provides improved real-time reporting of patch panel connectivity with reduced cabling complexity, increased reliability, and decreased maintenance costs. In addition, the approach is compatible with (i.e., may communicate with and be controlled by) a multipurpose network management system (NMS). In addition, a compatible revision system is provided.
US07841890B2
A cable assembly, comprises a housing with a plurality of terminal receiving passages extending from a front surface to a rear surface thereof and arranged into an upper row and a lower row. A plurality of insulation displacement terminals are received into the corresponding terminal receiving passages; each insulation displacement terminal defines a connecting portion beyond the rear surface of the housing. A flat cable is defined by a plurality of conductors arranged side by side in a transverse direction and an insulative layer surrounding the conductors, and is pressed to the rear surface of the housing and insulation displacement connected with the insulation displacement terminals, each conductor of the flat cable electrically connects with two insulation displacement terminals in a vertical direction. And a cover is assembled to the housing and hold the flat cable to the housing.
US07841888B2
A connector assembly includes a connector having a housing portion, first terminals mounted therein for supplying electrical power, and a resilient locking member moveable between an outwardly disposed locked position and an inwardly disposed unlocked position, and biased towards the locked position. The assembly includes an appliance inlet having a cavity portion to receive the connector, second terminals to contact and receive electrical power from the first terminals when the connector is received in the cavity portion, and a recess disposed in the cavity. The locking member engages the recess thereby preventing the connector's removal from the appliance inlet when the connector is received therein, and disengageable from the recess thereby allowing the connector's removal from the appliance inlet by forcing to the locking member in a direction inwardly of the connector. The locking projection includes stepped portions arranged to cooperate with the appliance inlet to provide multiple locking positions.
US07841886B2
It is proposed a connection system for connecting a contact receptacle of a connector and a contact header of a counterpart connector. The connection system includes locking means for maintaining the contact receptacle in an intermediate position into a frame of the connector, and unlocking means for releasing the contact receptacle from its intermediate position.
US07841885B2
This connector has snap-fit lock including a partially deformable locking member which is mounted on the housing so as to be axially slideable between an extended locking position and a retracted position; and a biasing spring which axially bias said locking member to its locking position. The locking member has a flexible beam including a tooth member adapted to engage a complementary locking projection of the counterpart connector, and to provide an axial stop therewith. The flexible beam is elastically deflectable on the axial path of the locking member, whereby the snap-fit effect is provided by elastic load, both axial and in flexion, of the flexible beam.
US07841875B1
An audio jack connector for receiving a mating audio plug has an insulating housing having a rectangular base. The base defines a front end and a top surface. A passageway is formed at the front end of the base and extends into the base for receiving the audio plug. The top surface of the base has a receiving recess adjacent to the front end. A plurality of terminals is received in the insulating housing and projects into the passageway. A protecting plate is swingably mounted in the receiving recess of the insulating housing. The protecting plate has a base plate, with a shape substantially same as a cross-section of the passageway. The base plate stands across a front end of the passageway for shutting the passageway, and is pushed by the inserted audio plug to swing upwards and received in the receiving recess. A shielding shell covers the insulating housing.
US07841860B1
A compensating circuit board connector for connecting two adjacent circuit boards includes two sockets and a jumper. Each socket includes at least one receiving terminal having a conducting portion with two opposite sidewalls. The sockets are disposed on the circuit boards, respectively, so the conducting portions of the receiving terminals of the sockets jointly form an accommodating space. The jumper is mated with the sockets and includes at least one jumper terminal. The jumper terminal, configured for being received in the accommodating space, includes a frame and two resilient portions. The frame, narrower than a spacing between the opposite sidewalls of each receiving terminal, extends through the conducting portions of the receiving terminals of the sockets. The resilient portions, provided respectively at two ends of the frame, extend outward to each press against the opposite sidewalls of the corresponding receiving terminal, thereby electrically connecting the receiving terminals of the sockets.
US07841828B2
A turbine airfoil usable in a turbine engine and having at least one cooling system. At least a portion of the cooling system may be positioned in an endwall attached to the turbine airfoil. The endwall may include a submerged endwall cooling channel at the intersection between the generally elongated airfoil and the first endwall. The second endwall attached to the endwall on an end generally opposite to the first endwall may have a submerged endwall cooling channel as well. The submerged endwall cooling channels may include film cooling orifices to form vortices of cooling fluids to enhance cooling capacity of the cooling system of the turbine airfoil.
US07841821B2
The present invention relates to a light-weight tiltable hauling device for transporting smaller, auxiliary vehicles, where such device mounts to the hitch of an automobile, truck, van, SUV, RV, or other similar motor vehicles, the device can be mounted and removed by a single individual, the auxiliary vehicle can be easily loaded and unloaded by a single individual, and the device can transport auxiliary vehicles weighing up to 700 pounds.
US07841809B2
A milling cutter comprises a shank section joined to a cutting section. The cutting section includes a plurality of peripheral blades separated by a plurality of flutes to form cutting edges extending around the cutting section in a helix direction. The helix angle is relatively large such that an axial cutting force acting on the cutting edge is greater than other cutting forces acting on the same cutting edge and on a plane normal to the axial cutting force.
US07841792B2
A peripheral, such as a printer, includes a peripheral body, a first tray arcuately moveable about the body, and a second tray arcuately moveable about the body allowing for various media feed path arrangements between the first and second trays.
US07841785B2
An imaging lens (LN) includes at least one lens block (BK), and an aperture stop (ape). The lens block (BK) includes parallel flat lens substrates (LS) formed of different materials, and a lens (L). In the imaging lens (LN), a first lens block (BK1) positioned closest to an object includes a first lens substrate (LS1) and a lens (L[LS1o], and a prescribed conditional expression is satisfied.
US07841781B2
In an optical transceiver module, the bottom surface of the lid is temporarily attached to the top surface of the submount assembly in a pre-alignment position prior to performing the solder flowing process in order to prevent the lid from shifting position during the solder flowing process. The solder flowing process is then performed to melt the solder. When the solder melts, the surface tension of the melted solder pulls the lid into its ultimate, or permanent, aligned position. The solder is then cooled, causing it to harden, thereby securing the lid to the submount assembly in its ultimate, permanently aligned position. The hardened solder between the top surface of the submount assembly and the bottom surface of the lid forms a hermetic seal that encloses components on the transmit side of the transceiver module in a hermetically-sealed environment.
US07841771B2
Self-Validating Thermocouple (SVT) Systems capable of detecting sensor probe open circuits, short circuits, and unnoticeable faults such as a probe debonding and probe degradation are useful in the measurement of temperatures. SVT Systems provide such capabilities by incorporating a heating or excitation element into the measuring junction of the thermocouple. By heating the measuring junction and observing the decay time for the detected DC voltage signal, it is possible to indicate whether the thermocouple is bonded or debonded. A change in the thermal transfer function of the thermocouple system causes a change in the rise and decay times of the thermocouple output. Incorporation of the excitation element does not interfere with normal thermocouple operation, thus further allowing traditional validation procedures as well.
US07841770B2
A temperature measuring system and a measuring method using the same are disclosed. The method for measuring an integrated circuit temperature includes the steps of: detecting a first difference in output voltage values between a first transistor and a second transistor by providing a first current through the first transistor and a second current through the second transistor; detecting a second difference in output voltage values between the first transistor and the second transistor by providing the second current through the first transistor and the first current through the second transistor; obtaining an average value by averaging the first difference and the second difference; and determining the temperature by multiplying the average value with a predetermined value.
US07841766B2
A metal surface temperature measuring device includes: a container to contain a coolant; a measurement target; a heater to heat the measurement target; a moving mechanism for moving the measurement target; and a thermometer to measure the surface temperature of the measurement target. A main body of the measurement target is formed of silver or copper, and a surface of the main body is coated with a thin film of pure iron or an iron alloy at a thickness of 1 to 100 μm. Further, at least the container, the heater, and the measurement target are disposed in a chamber of an inert gas atmosphere.
US07841763B2
The invention relates to a relatively simple, low cost and effective apparatus for mixing and discharging bone cement into a discharging device such as a syringe, while also providing an improved mixing action and producing minimal fumes. The syringe may be connected to an exit port located between the first and second end of the apparatus. The apparatus is able to both prevent and enable communication between a mixing region of the apparatus and the exit port due to presence of a valve and may further comprise a base which may be integral with the valve so that movement of the base creates movement of the valve within the apparatus.
US07841758B2
An illuminating device (90a) includes a plurality of LEDs (91) and a light guiding plate (93a). The light guiding plate includes a light incident surface (931) and a light output surface (932). A fluorescent material (938) is distributed in an inside of the light guiding plate. The LEDs are used to emit first light of a first wavelength to excite the fluorescent material thereby producing second light of a second wavelength. The LEDs and the fluorescent material are arranged in a manner that the combined first and second light emitted from the light output surface appears to be white light.
US07841757B1
A fishing rod illumination system for fishing lures that utilize fiber-optics to attract fish. The fishing rod illumination system includes a fishing reel, a light source within the fishing reel, a control pad in communication with the light source to control the light source, and a length of fiber optic fishing line connected to the fishing reel. The light source and control pad may also be encased within an auxiliary casing separate than the fishing reel, wherein the light source is directed via a supply cord toward the fiber optic fishing line while in use.
US07841750B2
A light-directing lensing member for off-axial preferential-side distribution of light from a light emitter having an emitter axis, including a base end with a perimeter-loop line defining a main plane transverse the emitter axis, and an outer surface configured for refracting light from the emitter in a predominantly off-axis direction toward the preferential side. The outer surface includes a major lens-portion and an axially-located minor lens-portion. The major lens portion outer surface has a front region centered on the front side, a back region centered on the back side, and a middle region around the emitter axis and contiguous with the front and back regions. The minor lens-portion has a surrounding-loop surface extending from the middle region transverse the main plane and terminating at an end surface configured to direct substantially axially-parallel light from the emitter in off-axis direction toward the preferential side.
US07841746B2
A light source device includes: a light source which emits light; an optical member through which light emitted from the light source enters; a base on which the light source is mounted; a first holding member which fixes the optical member; and a second holding member which holds the first holding member and stands on the base in the emission direction of the light emitted from the light source.
US07841743B2
A lighting apparatus includes a reflector, a light source, and a lens unit. The reflector has an open side, and a reflective surface that extends from a periphery of the open side and that defines a compartment. The light source is disposed in the compartment and emits light toward the reflective surface. The reflective surface reflects the light from the light source towards the open side. The lens unit is disposed to close the open side and permits passage of the light reflected by the reflective surface therethrough. The lens unit includes a central lens portion, and first and second side lens portions respectively disposed on two sides of the central lens portion. The central lens portion and the first and second side lens portions are Fresnel lenses, and are configured to redirect the light passing therethrough to result in rectangularly-distributed illumination outwardly of the lighting apparatus.
US07841739B2
The present invention discloses a coupling lens system, which comprises a collimation lens for collimating light from light source to a first direction; a first lens surface for total internal reflecting light from light source to the first direction; and a second lens surface for total internal reflecting light from the first direction to a second direction. Wherein an angle between the first direction and the second direction can be larger than, smaller than or equal to 90 degrees, and preferably between 70 to 100 degrees. Additionally, the system further comprises at least one extra surface parallel to the second lens surface, wherein at least one extra surface has a length L and is parallel to each other. At the same time, each surface and another surface has a distance D in between, and the length L can be equaled to or larger than the distance D according to purposes and further modifies a shape of the coupling lens system.
US07841738B2
A luminaire is described having a pot-shaped housing for the reception of electrical components and for the releasable mounting of a functional unit having at least one main lighting surface and whose special features consist of the facts that the preferably planar main lighting surface of the functional unit extends parallel to the base wall of the housing or its mounting surface and is bounded at the marginal side by a peripheral flat frame made of heat conducting material; and that the flat frame is connected in a heat conducting manner to at least one LED carrier which is located in the functional unit in the region of the rear side of the flat frame and its surface carrying the LEDs is directed to a reflector arranged between the base wall of the housing and the main lighting surface such that the main lighting surface is illuminated substantially uniformly by diffuse light.
US07841732B2
A shower lamp assembly is formed with a water driven electric generator to power an LED light source. The assembly includes a first channel directing water to drive the generator. The generator is supported on a movable portion of a bypass valve that opens on a high water flow condition to direct a portion of the water to a second channel way from the generator. The generator is otherwise tuned to provide sufficient electricity under low water flow conditions to properly power the lamp. The lamp generator is then protected by the bypass valve from damage during high water flow conditions.
US07841722B2
A projection system includes an image processing apparatus, a projector having an optical modulation element and a projection optical apparatus, and a digital communication unit. The image processing apparatus performs a projector correction process to generate first correction processed image data and an original display correction process to generate a second correction processed image data and generates difference data for a difference between the first correction processed image data and the second correction processed image data, and transmits the difference data to the projector through the digital communication unit. The projector performs the projector correction process on the image data to generate the first correction processed image data and a correction process based on the difference data on the first correction processed image data to generate the second correction processed image data, and controls the optical modulation element based on the second correction processed image data.
US07841721B2
A projector includes: an optical component; a sealed structure within which the optical component casing is disposed, the sealed structure including: a loop air-circulation path in which air is circulated; an optical component casing having an inlet for the air to flow into the optical component casing and an outlet for the air to flow out of the optical component casing; a plurality of ducts that introduces the air into the optical component casing through the inlet and re-introduces the air flowing out of the optical component casing through the outlet into the optical component casing through the inlet; and a heat radiator having a heat-receiving member disposed inside the sealed structure to receive the heat of the air within the sealed structure and a heat-conducting member that penetrates an inside and an outside of the sealed structure, the heat-conducting member having a first end disposed inside the sealed structure and coupled to the heat-receiving member in a heat-transferable manner to transfer the heat of the heat-receiving member to a second end of the heat-conducting member disposed outside the sealed structure; and a circulation fan that circulates the air within the loop air-circulation path.
US07841703B2
A printhead is provided which has a plurality of rows of print nozzles. Each row has first and second drive circuitry for each nozzle respectively positioned at opposite sides of each nozzle with respect to the row. The respective positions of the first and second circuitry of each nozzle of each row are rotated 180 degrees relative to the respective positions of the first and second circuitry of each nozzle in each adjacent row.
US07841701B2
Disclosed is an inkjet printer including an inkjet head containing electrically conductive ink and having a nozzle for spraying the ink and a mask positioned on a side of the inkjet head, the mask having a number of slits formed so that the electrically conductive ink passes through the slits and an electromagnetic field is established. The electromagnetic field is used to control the direction of movement of sprayed ink for uniform ink spraying.
US07841692B2
A head maintenance method for a printing head having ink nozzles capable of ejecting an ink liquid, the method includes: performing a cleaning operation by sucking the ink liquid from the ink nozzles; measuring an elapsed time from when the last cleaning operation is performed; and performing the next cleaning operation in response to a cutting operation for automatically cutting a paper which is printed by the printing head during a printing operation, if the elapsed time extends over a predetermined judgment time.
US07841689B2
Provided is an air supply arrangement for a print engine having a pagewidth printhead and a driving assembly for feeding print media past the printhead. The print engine has a chassis molding for receiving the air supply arrangement. The air supply arrangement includes a receptacle cover molding defining an air supply channel leading to the printhead when the cover molding is operatively received by the chassis molding, the cover molding further defining air inlet and outlet openings. The air supply arrangement also includes an air pump attached to the cover molding and arranged to pump air from the air inlet opening to the air outlet opening, the outlet opening arranged in fluid communication with the air supply channel. Also included is an air filter assembly operatively fitted to the receptacle cover so that air is able to be pumped through the filter to the air inlet opening to facilitate cleaning of the printhead.
US07841688B2
A liquid ejecting apparatus including a liquid ejecting head, a liquid supply passage, a gas discharge passage, a gas-permeable film, a switching device, and a differential pressure valve. The gas-permeable film allows only gases to pass therethrough and provides a partition separating the gas discharge passage and the liquid supply passage. The switching device selectively connects a sucking device with one of the gas discharge passage and a liquid suction cap. The differential pressure valve is disposed in a portion of the gas discharge passage between the gas permeable film and the switching device and opens by a suction pressure from the sucking device to communicate the gas permeable film with the switching device when the sucking device is operating, and prevents communication between the gas permeable film and the switching device when the sucking device is not operating.
US07841687B2
A system for identifying a prescribed inkjet ink includes a controlled substrate, a quantity of ink dispensed from a printhead of an ink cartridge onto the controlled substrate which supports the dispensed ink in a freestanding form, a light emitter configured and positioned to transmit light in a first preselected wavelength bandwidth onto the freestanding dispensed ink, a light sensor configured and positioned to detect light m a second preselected wavelength bandwidth different from the first preselected wavelength bandwidth by a fluorescent additive contained in the freestanding dispensed ink, and a signal analyzer electrically connected to the light sensor and operable to produce an electrical output signal corresponding to such light emissions such that an electrical output signal above a given level is indicative of the presence of the prescribed ink in the ink cartridge.
US07841682B2
An image forming apparatus includes a carriage carrying a recording head configured to discharge a droplet. A landing position error detecting pattern is formed on a pattern forming member. Based on a result of reading the landing position error detecting pattern, a landing position error of the droplet discharged by the recording head is corrected. Either a first pattern or a second pattern is selected as the landing position error detecting pattern, depending on a surface condition of the pattern forming member. The first pattern produces a relatively small amount of specular reflection compared with diffused reflection, while the second pattern produces a relatively large amount of specular reflection compared with diffused reflection, upon irradiation with light.
US07841676B2
A merchandising display system has modular sections that have removable display pallets. Cabinet modules, spacer modules, fixed modules, and slat-wall modules assemble together in a multitude of various combinations to create different merchandising displays. Cabinets may include merchandising displays on the inside and outside of the cabinet. Removable display pallets facilitate stocking and reconfiguring product displays. Fiber-optic lighting illuminates the pallets.
US07841674B2
An electronic brake control device for a wheeled vehicle that operates in a off-road driving mode. The device including one or more inputs for receiving sensor signals to determine wheel speed, wheel retardation, and wheel acceleration, a primary control logic for modulating brake pressure during time periods under normal vehicle operating conditions, a secondary control logic for modulating brake pressure under off-road vehicle operating conditions when the off-road mode is activated, and a processing unit that calculates a vehicle reference speed and a wheel slip of each sensed and antilock brake system controlled wheel, compares the actual vehicle speed to the vehicle reference speed, and calculates at least one of a variable wheel slip threshold and a variable time period for an extended wheel slippage for controlling at least one of the individual wheel slip and the time period for an extended wheel slip.
US07841666B2
A tiltable chair including a base, a fulcrum member having a curved support surface, a back support pivotally connected to the base at a pivot axis and pivotable between at least an upright position and a rearward tilt position, and at least one leaf spring having first and second ends, with the first end being restrained by the base. The at least one leaf spring engages the curved support surface of the fulcrum member at a first contact point when the back support is in the upright position and at a second contact point when the back support is in the rearward tilt position, wherein the second contact point is positioned rearwardly on the at least one leaf spring relative to the first contact point. A link member is pivotally connected to the back support at a first pivot location and is pivotally connected to the at least one leaf spring at a second pivot location. The link member defines a vector between the first and second pivot locations and the first pivot location and the pivot axis define a plane. The vector and the plane define a first angle when the back support is in the upright position and a second angle when the back support is in the rearward tilt position, wherein the second angle is closer to ninety degrees than the first angle. A method of using a chair is also provided.
US07841659B2
A seating arrangement for a vehicle, especially an aircraft, in which seats are arranged in a plurality of generally parallel ranks, each rank extending in a fore-and-aft direction, and in a plurality of rows, each row extending at an angle other than a right angle with respect to said fore-and-aft direction and wherein adjacent seats in a row overlap in a transverse direction. In the preferred embodiment, the seats of a row also overlap in said fore-and-aft direction and include a truncated armrest at one side of the seat arranged to fit behind an adjacent seat. The seats further include an armrest at the other side of the seat, the armrest comprising a bar which extends from the rear of the seat so that a portion of one seat is located beneath the armrest provided at said other side of an adjacent seat.
US07841656B2
A vehicle seat assembly with a frame, a seat pad, and an air bag assembly housing an inflator and a folded air bag that is inflated by the inflator to unfold and project outwardly from the seat through the air bag release seam when the air bag seam is in an opened position. The vehicle seat assembly has an improvement comprising a tear strap secured to the frame and a second end portion secured to the release seam, a guide member through which the tear strap may slidingly pass; and a tether having a first stationary end secured to the frame and a second end that engages the guide member so that movement of the guide member is constrained thereby. The tear strap is movable in response to inflation of the air bag with sufficient force to rupture the release seam, thereby allowing the tear seam to open and allowing the air bag to pass therethrough.
US07841652B2
A wheelhouse reinforcement bracket provides increased torsional rigidity for the rear wheelhouses of an automotive vehicle. The wheelhouse bracket is positioned in alignment with the location on the vehicle body where the shock absorber is located, and in alignment with the rear suspension cross frame member to create a structural ring formed by the wheelhouse bracket, the C-pillar and the rear suspension cross frame member. The wheelhouse bracket is formed with a mounting flange positionable within the inside of the U-shaped rear side frame rail to facilitate welding thereto instead of being welded to the top of the underbody floor structure. The mounting flange has a first portion configured to be mated against a first generally vertically extending wall of the rear side frame rail and a second portion configured to be mated against a generally horizontally extending wall of the rear side frame rail.
US07841650B2
A striker reinforcement plate is configured for installation into the interior of a closed section, hydroformed tubular automotive frame member. The striker reinforcement plate is formed with an enlarged mounting tab at one end and a weld tab at the opposing end. The striker reinforcement plate is inserted through a slot formed into the wall of the tubular frame member, against which the enlarged mounting tab prevents the striker reinforcement plate from falling through the slot, and the weld tab is inserted through a special formed opening to receive the weld tab. The weld tab can then be welded to the exterior surface of the tubular frame member, which combined with the enlarged mounting tab secured against the slot holds the striker reinforcement plate in place for final assembly of the striker. The striker can then be bolted to the reinforcement plate and be positionally adjusted in a conventional manner.
US07841648B2
The invention relates to a support crossbeam for an instrument panel to be assembled between two side elements of a frame of an automotive vehicle next to a front part of an interior. The crossbeam integrates several anchoring and supporting configurations for the steering column, several airbags, fuse boxes, ventilation system elements, sound equipment, among others, and is obtained by pressure die-casting of a light metal alloy, such a magnesium alloy, in an elongated single part extending between first and second ends. This single part has an open cross-section general profile, adapted to be demolded in a transverse direction of the crossbeam, with at least one tubular portion with a cross-section closed in at least one of said first or second ends, adapted to be demolded in the longitudinal direction of the crossbeam.
US07841642B2
A retractable tarping system including an end support surface, a shaft, a tarp, a spool, an end plate assembly, and a cable. The tarp and the spool are operably attached to the shaft. The end plate assembly is attached to the shaft for movement with respect to the first end support surface. The cable is attached to the end support surface and extends at least one time around the first spool.
US07841638B2
An improved vehicle cargo tailgate enclosure particularly adapted for ease of installation and removal. The tailgate enclosure comprises two side walls and a rear wall. The rear wall is configured to slope upwardly and rearwardly to provide additional storage space to a cargo bed of a vehicle. The cargo tailgate enclosure further comprises tubular members which comprise a non-circular cross section which provide exceptional strength a structural stability to the cargo tailgate enclosure. The cargo tailgate enclosure further comprises a plurality of upright members. Some of the upright members are configured to attach the cargo tailgate enclosure to a vehicle and to cap the tubular members. Other upright members are configured to support the tailgate enclosure against the surface cargo bed or a tailgate of a vehicle.
US07841636B2
An assembly for a vehicle includes a garnish including a base section, an outer wall projecting away from the base section, and a tab projecting away from at least one of the base section and the outer wall. The tab includes a seal attachment section spaced from the outer wall. The assembly further includes a seal including a base portion, having an interior section, an exterior section and an interconnecting section connecting the interior section and the exterior section. The seal mounts to the garnish by receiving the seal attachment section between the interior section and the exterior section of the base.
US07841632B2
An electronic device comprising a latch mechanism configured to securely fasten a first member to a second member and a dampening system configured to reduce acoustical noise generated in response to actuation of the latch mechanism.
US07841631B2
A shoelace tying apparatus allows individuals with limited or no use of one hand to tightly tie footwear with standard shoelaces. The apparatus is lightweight and portable. The apparatus alleviates the need for special shoelaces or shoes, such as those equipped with hook-and-loop fasteners.
US07841612B2
A combination bicycle fork and steering tube assembly is formed with a pair of downwardly directed, mutually converging end closure tabs that are bent over into abutment and welded together to define peripherally enclosed fork openings at the ends of the steerer tube. The upper ends of the hollow fork legs are configured to follow the surface contours of the lower end of the steerer tube and are welded to the end closure tabs about the circumferences of the enclosed fork openings at the lower end of the steering tube. The front wheel axle dropouts are formed directly in the lower ends of the fork legs, which include internal dropout support inserts. The dropout support inserts are sandwiched in between a pair of flat, mutually parallel dropout tabs defined directly in the lower ends of the fork legs.
US07841607B2
A spring beam suspension system includes a hanger; a flexible spring beam extending between the hanger and an axle; and a generally U-shaped pivot bracket secured to the spring beam, the pivot bracket including opposing legs which are pivotably attached to the hanger. Another spring beam suspension system includes a lift actuator which lifts the axle by applying a biasing force to a portion of the spring beam which extends forward from the hanger. Yet another suspension system has a bushing secured in the hanger, whereby the beam pivots relative to the bushing.
US07841595B2
A first embodiment of the present invention provides a method for transferring printed products and comprises the steps of pulling a printed product from a stack using a feed device running at a first preselected speed, accelerating the feed device after pulling the printed product from the stack and releasing the printed product from the feed device at a second preselected speed greater than the first speed.
US07841585B2
A separation tray, suitable for mounting in a vertical column, for separating liquid/gas mixtures. The separation tray has horizontal upper and lower walls and a plurality of primary separation devices for separating a fluid into a primary gas and a liquid-enriched secondary gas. The invention is characterized by a secondary separation zone located in the inner free space between the upper and lower walls and the primary separation devices. Liquid-enriched secondary gas is removed through outlets in the primary separation devices and guided downwardly by return skirts into the inner free space, whereupon the entrained liquid in the liquid-enriched secondary gas is substantially removed from the secondary gas.
US07841573B1
A door guard is disclosed having a protector plate which protects a door and a support which protects a door jam and a door hinge. The protector plate is hingedly connected to the support. The protector plate rotates in response to the door opening when force is applied to the door. The present invention may further include a slide mount assembly which slideably couples the protector plate to a door. Other embodiments of a door guard also protect an overhead door and an overhead door track.
US07841572B2
Supporting pipes for hanging toys pivotally connect to each opening formed around a seat of a toy supporting frame with first ends and mount on a playard or a mattress with second ends. A rotary cover is further rotatably mounted on the seat and has openings corresponding to the openings of the seat. When the rotary cover rotates to a first position, the openings of the rotary cover align with the openings of the seat such that each supporting pipe is rotatable relative to the seat between an opening status and a folding status. When the rotary cover rotates to a second position, the openings of the rotary cover misalign with the openings of the seat such that each supporting pipe is retained in an opening status.
US07841566B2
Devices and methods are provided for suspending and retaining telecommunication cables, power cables, and other items within or outside of a building. The devices generally include a support tray having a bottom plane and top plane, with the tray being adapted to support the article. The tray will include at least one corner area, but may include many separate corner areas. The devices will further include a retention device, which is affixed to or integrally formed with the corner area. The retention device will include at least one protrusion that extends from the corner area into an interior portion of the tray. The retention device and, more specifically, the at least one protrusion will be effective to prevent articles, such as telecommunication cables, power cables, and other items, from being pulled over the corner area of the tray during installation of the cables.
US07841559B1
Embodiments of the present invention relate a wing arrangement for an aerial vehicle configured to adjust the vehicles aspect ratio in response to flight mission parameters. The wing arrangement may include a pair of wing assemblies capable of deploying to a first winged position defining a first aspect ratio. Each wing assembly may have a forward inboard wing pivotally connected to the fuselage and an aft inboard wing pivotally connected to the carriage. The forward inboard wing and aft inboard wing of each assembly may be connected, forming a bi-plane configuration. Additionally, the each assembly may include a set of outboard wings configured to telescope from the inboard wings to an extended winged position defining a second aspect ratio greater than the first aspect ratio.
US07841551B2
The present invention provides an impact crushing apparatus that includes a housing, a chamber defined within the housing, a rotor assembly for receiving material and throwing the material radially outward, a lid for closing the chamber, and a plurality of anvils positioned around the rotor assembly and configured to break apart the material. The lid includes a plurality of openings positioned about its perimeter and the plurality of anvils are slidably receivable in the plurality of openings, wherein the anvils include a top portion and a bottom portion having an impact surface configured to break apart the material, the top portion being supported by the top surface of the lid and the bottom portion positioned within the chamber such that the material collides with the impact surface of the plurality of anvils and breaks apart.
US07841550B1
A cutting assembly for positioning at the intake end of a centrifugal pump used for pumping liquids and slurries containing solid matter, including various types of refuse, and for chopping the solid matter which may thereafter be processed for disposal is disclosed. The cutting assembly includes an intake end plate having a body defining the opening to allow the passage of material, such as waste water and the like, therethrough. The intake end plate attaches at the intake end of the chopper pump. The assembly also includes at least one, and preferably a plurality of cutter bars projecting from the body of the intake end plate into the opening, and a nut positioned at the intake end and attached to the chopper pump within the opening of the intake end plate. Preferably, the nut comprises at least one raised cutting projection having a cutting edge formed at a junction between a first surface and an adjacent second surface, the cutting edge of the raised cutting projection providing aggressive cutting action in coordination with the cutter bars.
US07841537B2
A system for interacting with a coded substrate. The system comprises a substrate having human-readable information and machine-readable coded data disposed thereon and a sensing device for reading the machine-readable coded data. The coded data comprises an IR-absorbing phthalocyanine dye having sulfonate groups. A counterion of each sulfonate group is a phosphonium cation.
US07841532B2
The invention relates to a bar code reading device of the type having an imaging assembly including a two dimensional image sensor and which may be moved between varying positions, orientations and angles relative to a substrate. In one embodiment a bar code reading device can be used to obtain an area electronic representation of a substrate including bar code indicia and a signature, and can output an area representation including a representation of a signature. In another embodiment, the bar code reading device can process and output a processed area electronic representation to an output destination. In one embodiment an output destination to which a bar code reading device outputs a processed area electronic representation is a display.
US07841530B2
A read head includes a light emitting member outputting a predetermined laser beam to a data recording portion, a light receiving member receiving a return beam reflected by the data recording portion and detecting data included in the return beam, a movable section mounted with the light emitting member and the light receiving member, a support mechanism swingably supporting the movable section, and a driving mechanism swinging the movable section. Here, the driving mechanism includes a magnetic field generator disposed in one of the movable section and a fixed section and a magnetic driver disposed in the other and the magnetic field generator includes a first yoke, a second yoke, and a magnet disposed between the first yoke and the second yoke, the first yoke and the second yoke are opposed to each other, and the magnetic driver includes a plurality of coils. In addition, arm portions protruding in multiple directions from one of the yokes are disposed in the coils with a movement margin, respectively.
US07841529B2
A method for imaging an article, the method includes: (i) providing short duration light pulses; (ii) directing the light pulses, by multiple optical heads, to illuminate multiple spaced apart areas of an article; and (iii) directing light from the multiple areas towards multiple two-dimensional light sensors; whereas (iv) imparting motion between the article and the multiple optical heads during the stages of providing and directing. An apparatus for inspecting an article that includes: (i) at least one pulsating source for providing short duration light pulses; (ii) multiple optical heads, adapted to direct the light pulses to illuminate multiple spaced apart areas of an article and to collect light from the multiple areas towards multiple two-dimensional light sensors; and (iii) a positioning device which is adapted to impart motion between the article and the multiple optical heads.
US07841528B2
The invention relates to contactless communication systems between a moving object and a reader, in particular systems in which the moving object is a chip card or an identification tag. To enhance communication security, the card reader transmits, from a radiofrequency transmission antenna separate from the main communication antenna, a disturbance signal having the same frequency and modulation type characteristics as the response signal expected from the card to the reader; the electromagnetic coupling between this separate antenna and the antenna of the reader is, however, such that the latter does not “see” the transmitted disturbance but detects only the response from the card; on the other hand, the environment between the card and the reader sees the response from the card only mixed with the disturbance signal.
US07841520B2
A method of providing and processing a plurality of stored-value cards includes providing a stored-value card assembly including the plurality of stored-value cards in a housing. The plurality of stored-value cards includes a first stored-value card and a last stored-value card. Each of the plurality of stored-value cards is associated with a different account identifier linking each one of the plurality of stored-value cards to a different financial record or account. The different account identifiers collectively define a series of account identifiers. The method further includes scanning the different account identifier associated with the first stored-value card using a point-of-sale terminal, and scanning the different account identifier associated with the last stored-value card using the point-of-sale terminal. The housing indicates which of the different account identifier associated with the first stored-value card and the last stored-value card should be scanned first. Other card assemblies and associated methods are also disclosed.
US07841503B2
The invention is an endoscopic device comprising an elongated flexible insertion tube, either one or two linear staplers permanently fixed to the distal tip of the flexible insertion tube, and a video camera on the distal tip to provide real time viewing of the stapling site. Each of the linear staplers is adapted to insert one or more rows of staples into tissue held between the stapler jaws. At least one of said staplers comprises a knife blade that is movable parallel to the rows of staples to cut the tissue after staples have been fired. The endoscopic device of the invention can be used in a variety of surgical procedures.
US07841502B2
An apparatus for placement into an opening formed in a wall of a body lumen to deploy a closure element. The apparatus comprising a housing having a handle portion formed at a distal end, the handle portion configured to be engaged by a user when advancing the housing to deploy the closure element. A triggering element deploys the closure device and can at least be partially formed in the housing. A throw reducing mechanism can slide relative to the housing and reduce the distance a user must stretch a hand to move a triggering system within the housing. The housing can include, or be connected to, a handle member having one or more expansion members which expand to provide a stable base for manipulating the apparatus.
US07841500B2
A gas can mounting structure installed in a gas nail gun having a vertically movable safety rod is disclosed to include a gas can holder for accommodating a gas can, a positioning mechanism mounted in the gas can holder and having two side plate members for guiding insertion of a gas can into the inside of the gas can holder into position, and a spring-supported roller rotatably and slidably coupled between the two side plate members for stopping against the gas can being loaded in the gas can holder to prevent gas leakage during installation of the gas can.
US07841499B2
A gas can mounting structure includes a holder frame formed of a part of a gas-operated nail gun and defining an accommodation chamber for accommodating a gas can, a cover pivoted to the holder frame and turnable relative to the holder frame to close/open the accommodation chamber, and a control switch mounted in the holder frame and movable between a first position where a stop block of the button of the control switch is stopped at a stop block at the cover to lock the cover in the close position and a second position where the stop block of the button is released from the stop block of the cover for allowing the cover to be biased from the close position to the open position for easy loading/unloading of a gas can.
US07841496B1
A plastic clip attaches to a gun sling, and assists in the carrying of a gun over the shoulder. The gun sling is an ordinary strap that attaches to the gun and loops over the shoulder. The clip attaches to the strap, and hooks into the waist belt. The clip allows the waist belt to support much of the weight of the gun, and keeps the gun from flopping around. The gun is further stabilized by a bungee cord that connects the clip to a belt loop.
US07841495B2
A metal wire hanger hook and indicator in combination, the metal wire hook having a curved top portion and a fixture secured to the metal wire hook, the fixture having a web for displaying indicia, the web including at least one abutment for engaging the indicator, and an indicator having an open cavity therein for receiving the web of the fixture, and means for engaging the abutment. More preferably the indicator is both removable and child-proof as defined by industry standards.
US07841478B2
The disclosed self-cleaning filtration system and self-cleaning filter solves various problems by replacing a standard filter cartridge with an adapter screwed in place of the cartridge, a filter of limited size with a motor for rotating an inlet cover plate and an outlet cover plate over a body with a plurality of longitudinal channels inside of a circumferential filtration media where the different parts of the media are used alternately in forward and backward flow. As the cover plates rotate, each longitudinal channel comes in successive fluidic communication with either an entry opening where oil is pushed in the longitudinal channel through the filtration media and into an external cavity where filtered oil is reintroduced in the engine, or the longitudinal channel comes in fluidic communication with a drain opening where the flow through the filtration media is reversed and oil from the external cavity is pushed back into the longitudinal channel to transport stored debris into a decanter for storage, elimination, decantation and reuse. In another embodiment, instead of entry and drain openings, the oil is placed directly in contact with each longitudinal channel with the exception of the channel in fluidic communication with the drain opening. The self-filtration system includes a self-cleaning filter used in tandem with an adapter, a decanter, and a series of hoses.
US07841475B2
A continuously operating magnetic particle separating machine includes an inlet for receiving a material having magnetic particles mixed therein, an outlet for discharging the material after the magnetic particles have been separated therefrom, a first flow path extending between the inlet and the outlet, a first magnetic element positionable in the first flow path, a second flow path extending between the inlet and the outlet, and a second magnetic element positionable in the second flow path. The separating machine includes a control system including a diverter valve switchable between a first position for directing the material through the first flow path and a second position for directing the material through the second flow path, whereby the switching frequency of the diverter valve is responsive to a concentration of the magnetic particles in the material.
US07841471B2
The structure comprises two saddles (15) connected to each other, each of which is shaped in such a way as to form, at one side, two seats, on which two flanked barriques rest, and to form at the opposite side at least an-intermediate seat for resting on a barrique. The saddles form two housings (20) for the forks of a lifting means.
US07841469B2
A corner post (10) for protecting a packaged article (50) having a curved vertical edge is provided. The corner post (10) comprises an outer wall (12) having first and second substantially planar outer wall members (14, 16) joined at a right angle along an outer corner (18), and a curvilinear inner wall (20) that conforms to the shape of the vertical edge.
US07841464B2
A packaged assembly includes a container with a chamber and an orthodontic appliance received in the chamber. The assembly also includes a quantity of orthodontic adhesive material that is received on a release surface in the chamber. The appliance is detachably mounted on a support and is relatively movable when desired in order to bring a base of the appliance into contact with the adhesive material for transfer of the adhesive material to the appliance.
US07841457B2
A transmission having a shaft driven by a prime mover such as an engine or motor is provided. The transmission includes a first stationary element for supporting the shaft for rotation, and a torque transmitting device connectable to the shaft and rotatable about an axis. The torque transmitting device is actuated by a hydraulic fluid. A first passage is connected to the torque transmitting device and is in communication with the hydraulic fluid. The first passage extends radially inward from the torque transmitting device. A vent passage is located within the first stationary element and is in communication with the first passage. Rotation of the torque transmitting device about the axis separates entrained air from the fluid and urges air radially inward through the first passage and into the vent passage, thereby removing air from the hydraulic fluid and circuit.
US07841453B2
The invention provides an apparatus for constraining an object against an article of luggage and related luggage systems. In one embodiment, the invention includes an elongate member; a first loop member located at a first end of the elongate member; and a second loop member located at a second end of the elongate member, wherein the first loop member is adapted for non-fixed attachment to a rigid, elongated handle of an article of luggage and the second loop member is adapted for non-fixed attachment to a handle of the article of luggage, such that when the first loop member is attached to the rigid, elongated handle and the second loop member is attached to the handle, the elongate member is operable to constrain an object against the article of luggage and the rigid, elongated handle.
US07841450B2
An elevator system comprises at least two independently operable elevator cars in each of a plurality of elevator shafts within a building. The elevator system comprises at least one first elevator shaft having a lower first and a lower second region, where a first elevator car moves within the lower first region of the first elevator shaft and a second elevator car moves within the lower second region. The first and second elevators are moveably controlled independently of each other within the first shaft. The system also includes at least one second elevator shaft having an upper first and an upper second region, where a third elevator car moves within the upper first region of the second elevator shaft and a fourth elevator car moving within the upper second region. The third and fourth elevator cars also are moveably controlled independently of each other.
US07841444B2
One example of a seismic vibrator system includes a baseplate having a bottom surface and a coupling mechanism, the coupling mechanism being operable to a deployed position; a hold-down mass connected to the baseplate; a lifting mechanism in operational connection with the hold-down mass and the baseplate to apply a selected hold-down weight to the baseplate; and a driving mechanism functionally connected to the baseplate to transmit seismic energy through the baseplate into a ground surface to which the baseplate is coupled, wherein the coupling mechanism is urged outward from the bottom surface and into physical contact with the ground surface when operated to the deployed position.
US07841443B2
There is provided a steering apparatus including a pinion communicating with an operation of a steering member, a rack shaft having a rack meshed with the pinion, and a support yoke resiliently coming into contact with the rack shaft, and being configured to convert rotation of the pinion into movement of the rack shaft in an axial direction in a meshing portion in which the pinion and rack mesh to each other. The steering apparatus comprises a detection unit for detecting a force applied to the support yoke to which a force acting on the meshing portion being transmitted from the rack shaft and a calculation unit for calculating a steering torque applied to the steering member based on the force detected by the detection unit, wherein the pinion and the rack are formed in helical gears.
US07841436B2
The driven front wheel drive assembly includes a drive assembly with a drive frame. The drive frame has a vertical plate that pivots about a steering axis. A gear case with a plate portion and a skirt is clamped to the vertical plate to form a sealed gear case. A helical pinion gear is on a driven motor shaft. A compound gear with a helical gear is in mesh with the helical pinion gear. A first drive pinion gear fixed to the helical pinion gear is in mesh with the first spur gear. A second spur gear is fixed to the drive axle shaft and in mesh with first drive pinion gear. All of the gears are in the gear case rotate about parallel axes. The helical pinion gear and the first drive pinion gear have small pitch diameters to increase torque. The driven axle drives a wheel.
US07841433B2
A hybrid propulsion system for a passenger vehicle is provided. The system comprises a first and second electric motor in the drivetrain, in addition to a transmission. When each of the motors are providing braking torque, the transmission state is adjusted in response to the amounts of braking torque provided by the first and second motors.
US07841427B2
A drill bit, insert and method useful for subterranean drilling, or forming boreholes in subterranean formations is provided. More particularly, a more efficient cutting structure and method is provided in the central portion of a PDC drill bit. The present invention provides a drill bit, insert and method having a central cutting portion with a more normalized angle of attack. The drill bit of the present invention provides for various attack angles much closer to the optimum side rake.
US07841425B2
A system for forming a wellbore includes a drill tubular. A drill bit is coupled to the drill tubular. One or more cutting structures are coupled to the drill tubular above the drill bit. The cutting structures remove at least a portion of formation that extends into the wellbore formed by the drill bit.
US07841421B2
A fire protection device has a panel having a plurality of channels formed there through. A plurality of containers is used for holding a fire suppression material. Each container is placed in one of the plurality of channels. An attachment device is used for removably coupling the fire protection device to a structure to be protected.
US07841413B1
For use with a top drive power unit supported for connection with a well string in a well bore to selectively impart longitudinal and/or rotational movement to the well string, a feeder for supplying a pumpable substance such as cement and the like from an external supply source to the interior of the well string in the well bore without first discharging it through the top drive power unit including a body having flow passages for communicating the pumpable substance from an external source to discharge through the sub and into the interior of the well string below the top drive power unit, and a brace which reduces and/or eliminates the transfer of forces from the chicksan line to the valve and inlet of the side entry sub.
US07841411B2
A method of treating a subterranean formation penetrated by a wellbore is carried out by forming a treatment fluid comprising an aqueous carrier fluid and a solid-form polyimide homopolymer or copolymer capable of hydrolyzing to form polycarboxylates and/or polycarboxylic acids. The treatment fluid is introduced into the formation through the wellbore. In another method, a treatment fluid comprising an aqueous carrier fluid, a solid-form polysuccinimide homopolymer or copolymer and at least one of a viscosifying agent, proppant and an acid capable of dissolving materials of the formation is formed. This is introduced into the formation through the wellbore. A method of treating a sandstone-containing formation penetrated by a wellbore may also be carried out by forming a treatment fluid comprising an aqueous solution containing a hydrogen fluoride source, ammonium hydroxide and at least one of a polyimide and a polycarboxylate, which is introduced into the formation through the wellbore.
US07841404B2
A modified method for in situ recovery of hydrocarbon from an underground hydrocarbon-containing formation. An “L” shaped production well, having a vertical section, and a lower horizontal leg positioned low in the formation, is provided. The horizontal leg connects to the vertical section at a heel portion, and has a toe portion at an opposite end thereof. Oxidizing gas is injected into the formation in or proximate the vertical section. A combustion front sweeps outwardly from the vertical section and laterally within the formation above the horizontal leg, from the heel to the toe, causing hydrocarbons in the formation above the horizontal leg to drain downwardly into the horizontal leg, which are then delivered to surface via production tubing. A non-oxidizing gas is injected into at least the heel portion and preferably additional portions of the horizontal leg via injection tubing contained within the vertical section of the production well.
US07841403B2
An apparatus for rotating an instrument in a wellbore includes a non magnetic housing configured to traverse the interior of the wellbore. The housing has an external diameter smaller than an internal diameter of a casing disposed in the wellbore. A plurality of electromagnets is arranged circumferentially about the interior of the housing and is configured to induce magnetic flux through a wall of the housing when actuated. A controller configured to sequentially rotationally actuate the electromagnets. A method for rotating a wellbore instrument in a wellbore includes causing parts of an instrument housing to be sequentially rotationally magnetically attracted to a casing disposed in the wellbore. The housing has a smaller external diameter than an internal diameter of the casing. The sequential rotational magnetic attraction is continued as needed.
US07841394B2
A method of communicating between a central location and multiple well locations is disclosed that includes the steps of stimulating a first well from the central location using a first stimulation fluid through a first fluid line; and simultaneously stimulating a second well from the central location using a second stimulation fluid through a second fluid line. An apparatus for centralized well operations is disclosed that includes a well treatment operations factory which manufactures and pumps a well stimulation fluid; a first connection between a first well location and the well operations factory; a second connection between a second well location and the well operations factory; and means for simultaneously flowing a first stimulation fluid to the first well location and a second stimulation fluid to a second well location. Manifolds for centralized well stimulation are disclosed.
US07841392B1
A phased array antenna apparatus has a plurality of circuit portions which are each coupled to a respective antenna element. Capillary pressure of a cooling fluid within a wick in a loop is utilized to urge the fluid to travel around the loop, the wick being disposed in the region of the circuitry. In a variation, there are plural wicks in respective evaporators, and cooling fluid is distributed among the evaporators through a series of T-junctions. In another variation, cooling fluid is distributed to a plurality of evaporators in a sequence corresponding to a progressive increase in the respective amounts of heat accepted by the evaporators from structure being cooled.
US07841390B1
Powder coated heat exchange elements for a heat exchanger. Powder coating provides improved protective coating on surfaces of heat exchange elements. In many applications, the heat exchange elements are subjected to harsh operating conditions that promote corrosion. Traditional enamel coating tends to fracture when subjected to mechanical stresses thereby allowing corrosion inducing agents to penetrate and corrode the underlying surfaces. Powder coating reduces breaches in the protective layer. Powder coating may be adapted to withstand high temperatures so as to make them suitable for use in harsh operating environments. One such environment can be found in the processing of flue gas from fossil burning power generators, where the flue gas has a relatively high temperature and high sulfur content.
US07841379B1
Method and apparatus for pumping molten metal from a reservoir into a preferably bottom-filled mold includes a pair of graphite pump crucibles partially submerged in a reservoir of molten metal. Check valves in the bottom of each crucible enable them to be filled to the same level as the reservoir. A high pressure inert gas supply operating through a pressure regulator, forces the molten metal from one of the crucibles up a riser tube to a horizontally extending runner and through a fill port into the mold. The pressure supply is then connected to the other crucible while the first refills.
US07841372B2
An apparatus for hardening the hitting head area of a wooden baseball bat by compressing of the wooden fibers on the surface thereof which includes a base housing assembly with a track and a carriage assembly with a rail member. The rail member and the track are engageable together to facilitate movement of the carriage assembly with respect to the base housing assembly. A compression roller is mounted to the housing and a bat is retained to the carriage adjacent the roller. The roller is biased into abutment with the bat for compressing the wooden fibers of hitting surface to increase the hitting power thereof as the carriage with the bat mounted thereof is manually powered for abutting movement along the adjacent compressing roller. The bat can be selectively mounted in a bat receiving zone defined by a plurality of U-shaped retaining brackets mounted to the carriage assembly.
US07841370B2
The present invention is directed to a method of reducing noise transmission in a pneumatic tire and wheel assembly comprising an inflation cavity, the method comprising the step of adding to the inflation cavity from about 0.1 to about 1 volume percent, based on the volume of the inflation cavity, of a repeatably foamable liquid.
US07841367B2
A tube (1) of fabric reinforced PVC for suspension from a ceiling of a tunnel or the like comprises a tube shaped fabric with an internal and an external coating of PVC. The internal coating is of black, electrically conducting PVC and the external coating is of white, electrically isolating PVC. The tube (1) is provided with an external, longitudinal strip (2) of black, electrically conducting PVC in contact with the internal coating. The strip (2) is earthed by a suspension arrangement (3-5) for the tube (1) to the ceiling.
US07841366B2
Embodiments of methods for pipeline rehabilitation include deploying a tubular liner along an inside of a pipeline, deflating the tubular liner to form a trough, and injecting grout into the pipeline by injecting grout into the trough. Other embodiments include deploying a tubular liner along an inside of a pipeline, inserting a first swab into the front end of the pipeline, the first swab having a core hole, placing the tubular liner through the core hole, injecting grout into the pipeline between the tubular liner and the inside of the pipeline, and advancing a second swab through the tubular liner to distribute the grout between the tubular liner and the pipeline and to advance the first swab ahead of the second swab from the front end to the back end of the pipeline.
US07841365B2
A conduit apparatus includes a slide plate between faces of flanges connecting a first and second conduit portions. Upper and lower fasteners extend through bolt holes in the flanges above and below the slide plate. Right aid left fasteners extend through bolt holes in the flanges and through bolt holes in the slide plate. The slide plate can be located in a first position where the right and left fasteners extend through a first set of bolt holes in the slide plate and where a first portion of the slide plate is between the faces of the flanges, and in a second position where the right and left fasteners extend through a second set of bolt holes in the slide plate and where a second portion of the slide plate is between the faces of the flanges. The slide plate can be configured to allow or block or restrict flow.
US07841360B2
A proportional pressure control valve includes a valve housing (38) with at least three fluid connections (1, 2, 3). The valve can be connected to a hydraulic drive system with a pre-determinable consumer pressure. The valve can perform reliable valve switching functions even for low-viscous fluid media, and can reduce its susceptibility to disturbance variables. A valve piston (56) actively connected to a pilot seat (5) by an energy accumulator (62) can be controlled by a control device (40). The consumer pressure on a fluid connection (1) acts on the valve piston (56) such that, according to the consumer pressure and the actuating force of the control device (40), a fluid can flow between the two other fluid connections (2 and 3) in both directions inside the valve housing (38).
US07841359B2
A check valve assembly with an extended operational life. The check valve assembly includes a poppet with conically shaped arms and planar seating surfaces. The planar seating surfaces conform to seating surfaces in the valve assembly. The poppet moves back and forth between two operative positions. In each operative position, a planar seating surface on the poppet sealingly conforms to another planar sealing surface in the check valve assembly. The use of planar seating surfaces extends the operational life of the check valve assembly. The aerodynamic shape of the conically shaped arms facilitates fluid flow over the poppet and, when fluid flows over the poppet, generates forces that function to minimize movement of the poppet and to maintain the poppet in a desired orientation when the poppet moves from one operative position to another operative position.
US07841358B2
A modular valve system includes at least one valve housing (40) having standard rate quantities on its opposite ends (38, 42), both on the inner peripheral side and on the outer peripheral side and inside the housing (52). Modular valve components, such as a valve piston (46), at least one energy accumulator (26), a pilot-controlled element, and at least one fluidic connection are mounted in the housing. The housing provides for fixing the valve embodied in the form of a screw-in cartridge for connection to other components.
US07841346B2
An orthotic device (100) for retaining a patient's mandible in an advanced or protrusive position comprises an intraoral anterior mandibular abutment surface (125) for resisting mandibular retraction by abutting the gingiva covering the mandible and an extramaxillary anterior maxillary abutment surface (115) against which the intraoral anterior mandibular abutment surface (125) is braced. In order to resist rotation of the dental orthotic produced by the interaction of the intraoral anterior mandibular abutment surface and the extramaxillary anterior maxillary abutment surface, the orthotic device is provided with an intraoral posterior maxillary abutment surface (140). The relative positions of the maxillary and/or mandibular abutment surfaces may be adjusted to suit the requirements of the user.
US07841343B2
A system for delivering therapeutic breathing gas to patients is provided to deliver a variable bolus volume in response to the patient's breathing pattern. The system includes a gas source, a conserver between the gas source and the patient, a sensor which detects breaths by the patient and a controller which receives signals from the sensor and triggers delivery of gas boluses in accordance with predefined triggering parameters, with the controller determining the time elapsed since the last bolus was triggered and altering the triggering parameters as a function of the elapsed time.
US07841329B2
A manually and electrically actuating toy gun structure includes a gun shell, a trigger, a gun machine core tube, and a piston. The control structure includes a first interlocking rod, a first push member, a second interlocking rod, a transmission set, a triggering device, a gun shell, and a push-and-propping-up block. One end of the first interlocking rod has a connecting pin interlocking with the first push member. The other end of the first interlocking rod has a connecting hole connecting to the trigger and being driven to slide along the x-direction. The hole of the first push member is connected to a connecting end of the first interlocking rod and is contacted with the push-and-pluck rod of the switch. The power supply of the electric motor is switched on when the first push member is driven by the first interlocking rod to push the push-and-pluck rod. The arcuate surface of the draw bar on the second interlocking rod performs action in corresponding with the interlocking salient pin of the first compound gear. When the power supply of the electric motor is switched on, the interlocking salient pin at the resilient cantilever of the first compound gear in the transmission set performs action making the piston of the triggering device to be driven backward and the gun machine core tube on the triggering device to be driven by the interlocking salient pin to displace backward that makes the bullets contained in the cartridge drop at the pre-determined position.
US07841327B2
The present invention is a toy projectile launcher in the form of a role play accessory such as a belt. The belt assembly includes a strap, a launcher housing, and projectiles stored on the belt strap. The belt strap feeds through the launcher housing so that projectiles may be launched from the strap. In one embodiment the launcher is hand-held, and includes a handle which serves both for holding the launcher during operation and as a power switch for the launcher. Projectiles may be discharged singly from the launcher or continuously in a rapid-fire mode.
US07841326B2
A method for operating an internal combustion engine working according to the Otto principle, in which fuel, particularly gasoline, is injected directly into a combustion chamber and is inflamed by self-ignition. A characteristic quantity characterizing the stability of combustion of an air/fuel mixture located in the combustion chamber is ascertained, and, as a function of the characteristic quantity, a residual gas proportion in the cylinder associated with the combustion chamber is set, in particular minimized, the residual gas proportion being reduced, preferably iteratively, as long as the characteristic quantity does not fall below a specifiable stability boundary.
US07841324B2
In one aspect of the disclosure an internal combustion engine may be provided that may include a combustion chamber and a piston reciprocally moveable in the combustion chamber. The combustion chamber may have an intake port and a dual function port. The dual function port may be connected to an exhaust system and to an intake system. A method may be provided including opening a fluid connection between the intake system and the combustion chamber via the intake port as well as the dual function port during at least a part of an intake stroke of the piston. Instead of, or in addition, the method may include opening a fluid connection between the exhaust system and the combustion chamber via the dual function port during at least a part of the intake stroke of the piston.
US07841312B2
An adjustment device for a camshaft includes a brake system and a superposition gear system connected on a drive output side to the camshaft and on the drive input side to the crankshaft, such that to adjust the camshaft the superposition gear system dissipates part of the energy from the drive side into the brake system. The brake system is a frictional brake system, such that the necessary braking force is produced by a friction lining that operates in a slipping condition.
US07841301B2
A low impedance probe for delivery of a corrective stimulus to an animal. The low impedance probe includes an electrode for directing an electrical stimulus from an electrical source toward the skin of an animal. A conductive gel source is configured to provide conductive gel to a region between the electrode and the animal upon positioning of the electrode proximate the skin of the animal. The conductive gel establishes improved electrical connectivity between the electrode and the animal.
US07841289B1
A lightweight towed submersible water transporter and storage system for liquids and solids, which employs a streamlined towable hull with exterior ballast/buoyancy cells and optional air and liquid storage bladders used not only to adjust buoyancy, but to allow the simultaneous transport and storage of different solids and liquids.
US07841287B2
An apparatus for docking and/or mooring vehicles, particularly watercraft and for restraining loads in truck beds or trailers. The apparatus utilizes ropes or cables in housing unit that provides for the extension and retraction of the rope or cables preferably without the need of electrical or manual cranks. The housings are adaptable to be mounted on the vehicle or at an attachment or docking location and are biased to retract but may contain stops or cleats for manually tying off and thus stopping the extension or retraction of the rope or cable. The housings may be further adapted to be flush mounted in relation to surrounding surfaces or to contain lights.
US07841279B2
A high pressure cartridge case is provided for firearms with blowback operating systems. The cartridge case is provided with a primer support member that supports a primer in a rearward end of a cartridge case. The support member is slideable rearwardly in the cartridge case when the cartridge is fired. The components expand to seal with the cartridge case to prevent the escape of gas around the support member when the propellant is ignited.
US07841276B2
A product section is produced in a printing machine that has at least one former. A web or a partial web of material is guided over the former. At least one web or one partial web is initially guided over a plow fold device and then over one, or another odd number of turning bars. This at least one web or partial web is then united, without passing through the former, and on a side that has been folded in by the plow fold device, over at least one guide roller as a partial strand with a partial strand that was guided over the former as a strand bundle before this partial strand is cut transversely in a transverse cutting direction into product sections.
US07841275B2
A printing for printing a web of paper is provided. The printing unit includes a frame and at least an upper printing group and a lower printing group. The printing unit has at least a throw-on configuration, an idle throw-off configuration and a blanket-changing throw-off configuration. In the blanket-changing throw-off configuration, the blanket cylinder of the upper printing group has been moved upwards relative to the position which it occupies in the throw-on configuration and in which the blanket cylinder of the lower printing group has been moved downwards relative to the position which it occupies in the throw-on configuration, so that an adequate space is provided between the blanket cylinders to allow a web of paper printed by another printing unit to pass between them.
US07841273B2
The aim of the invention is to simplify and to improve mounting of roller bearings in double roller machines, for example, roller presses for interparticle comminution of granular goods. The rollers and the bearing housing thereof are formed by means of slanting rollers and/or thermal roller longitudinal changes. The rollers are guided in a secure manner on the slide guides thereof. The invention is characterized in that the fixed bearing housing and the moveable bearing housing are connected together via a guide rod in each roller.
US07841270B2
An accessory for a barbecue grill which automatically flips food over 180 degrees at desired intervals, and which allows the food to rest essentially on the existing grill rack surface when cooking. The system includes a food support rack, rack mounts, linkage, motor control and motor mount with a motor and an L-shaped drive shaft. The food support rack includes lower and upper racks of open mesh, with the food to be cooked placed therebetween. The rack mounts provide for rotatable movement of the food support rack and are located on an axis essentially coincident with one of the longitudinal edges of the food support rack. The linkage attaches the drive shaft to the food support rack. The linkage attaches the drive shaft to the food support rack and is adjustable to accommodate grills having a varying dimension from the grill rack surface to the top edge of the grill lateral wall.
US07841260B2
A pliers-type insulation stripping tool includes a pair of blade holders that are removably connected with the pull rod that longitudinally displaces the blades relative to the handle shell when a severed length of insulation is stripped from the insulated conductor. A resilient ejector arrangement in provided for ejecting from the handle shell the length of stripped insulation. In order to permit use of the insulation stripping tool with insulated conductors of various sizes and diameters, a blade depth adjusting device is provided for adjusting the distance between at least one of the blade holders and the associated clamping jaw.
US07841251B2
In a preferred embodiment, an apparatus, including: a first nut half (40) and a second nut half (42) each having internal threads (50, 52) complementary with threads on a screw inserted therein; the first nut half (40) and the second nut half (42) having first and second tapers (60, 62), respectively, defined therearound in adjacent surfaces thereof on proximal portions of the first nut half (40) and the second nut half (42); an annular retaining ring (80, 200, 220) having complementary third (92) and fourth (94) tapers defined therearound, with the first taper (60) engaging the third taper (92) and the second taper (62) engaging the fourth taper (94); and biasing apparatus (110, 180, 266) forcing the annular retaining ring (80, 200, 220) inwardly, thus eliminating backlash.
US07841239B2
In an electrostatic capacitance diaphragm vacuum gauge, a diaphragm and a detection electrode opposing the diaphragm are arranged in a vacuum. The electrostatic capacitance diaphragm vacuum gauge measures pressure by measuring the change degree of an electrostatic capacitance between the diaphragm and detection electrode. The electrostatic capacitance diaphragm vacuum gauge includes atmospheric pressure variation factor detection units which detect atmospheric pressure variation factors as external factors that varies the pressure of the vacuum. The pressure of the vacuum is measured by subtracting information detected by the atmospheric pressure variation factor detection units.
US07841227B2
A device for passing through a gas mixture comprises a capillary apparatus with one or more capillaries connecting a first side of the capillary apparatus to a second side of the capillary apparatus, wherein each capillary tapers from one side towards the other side of the capillary apparatus at least in sections.
US07841222B2
Thread lug forming systems form thread lugs (36) on container necks or necked end domes. A continuously rotating cam system (100) has multiple sets of thread lug forming tools (135) which are driven to recirculate about stationary cams (130). The cams actuate inner and outer forming tools (150, 152) of the tool sets as they progress around the cams to form the thread lugs. A second system uses generally the same tool sets in a multiple-station reciprocating press (203), and the container bodies are indexed through the tool stations (252) in which the thread lugs are formed.
US07841221B2
A lock assembly is provided which includes a lock mechanism with cover, and a pair of vertically movable locking rods. The lock mechanism is readily mountable to a liner of a cabinet door by a clamp member which permits initial clamping of the mechanism on an inner liner of the door, after which the inner liner is mounted to an outer finish panel. After assembly of the inner liner to the outer panel, the lock assembly is clamped in an aligned position in alignment with a corresponding lock aperture in the outer panel. The lock assembly further includes a fastener-free connector arrangement between a lock rack of the lock mechanism and the locking rods which is slidably driven thereby. A cover is snap fittingly mounted on the inner liner to guide the locking rod and prevent disengagement from the lock rack.
US07841220B2
A drum-type washing machine is disclosed, in which bearings are received in the bearing housing assembly. The bearing housing assembly may include a support portion coupled to a motor, and a coupling portion connected to a damper bracket.
US07841218B2
A washing machine clutch to rotate or oscillate an agitator or propeller and selectively rotate a basket, comprising a support member that contains a cover and a second cover, an actuator that contains a piston, a bracket that contains a lever joined to arms, terminals and a protuberance, wherein the terminals and the protuberance are in said arms, a first spring connected between said support member and said bracket, a hollow shaft and a shaft configured to rotate, a mobile clutch containing an upper wall, a groove an internal part and a lower wall, wherein said terminals rest in the groove and in said upper wall, wherein the lower wall contains a plurality of alternating teeth and grooves and wherein the mobile clutch is coupled to the hollow shaft by its internal part, a pulley-clutch containing a plurality of alternating teeth and grooves, and an internal part, wherein the pulley-clutch is coupled to the shaft by means of said pulley-clutch internal part, wherein the mobile clutch couples with the pulley-clutch by means of the activation of said actuator, allowing the arm, terminal, protuberance and mobile clutch movement.
US07841214B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing a knitted neck collar, and more particularly to a knitted neck collar prevented from drooping, wherein, when producing a neck collar using a knitted material, a narrow band having excellent elasticity and return force is inserted in the neck collar to prevent the neck collar from drooping, a method for producing the same, and a garment having the same. By the method for producing a knitted neck collar according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a knitted neck collar prevented from drooping even when a garment having the knitted neck collar is repeatedly put on and taken off and washed, thereby maintaining the original shape of the knitted neck collar, due to the fact that an elastic member having the same circumference as a distal end of the knitted neck collar is inserted in the neck collar and can be reliably positioned in the neck collar along the distal end of the neck collar.
US07841213B2
A method for manufacturing a photonic crystal fiber including arranging a spacer formed of two or more spacer parts in a support tube such that the inner wall surface of the support tube has a substantially regular polygonal cross-sectional shape which allows closest packing of a core rod and a plurality of capillaries or the capillaries only; and forming a preform by packing in a support tube the core rod for forming a solid core and the capillaries for forming a cladding, or by providing a core space for forming a hollow core in a support tube and packing in the support tube a plurality of capillaries for forming the cladding; and drawing the preform into a fiber under heating.
US07841211B2
First of all, there is provided a production process of a synthetic quartz glass which has less impurity, has a high-temperature viscosity characteristic equal to or more than that of a natural quartz glass, and hardly deforms even in a high-temperature environment, and especially a production process of a highly heat resistant synthetic quartz glass which is free from the generation of bubbles and is dense. Secondly, there is provided a highly heat resistant synthetic quartz glass body which is easily obtained by the production process of the present invention, and especially a transparent or black quartz glass body which is free from the generation of bubbles, is dense, has high infrared absorption rate and emission rate, and has an extremely high effect for preventing diffusion of alkali metal. The process is a process of producing a highly heat resistant quartz glass body having an absorption coefficient at 245 nm of 0.05 cm−1 or more, and the silica porous body was subjected to a reduction treatment, followed by baking, thereby forming a dense glass body.
US07841209B2
A bracelet includes at least one electronic display unit. Each display unit has a display having a plurality of display elements arranged in a sequence lying along the length of the bracelet and/or arranged in a sequence lying substantially around the perimeter of the display. The bracelet has a control circuit to control the display elements so that the characters displayed by the display elements appear to move along the sequence of display elements with time. In the alternative, the characters appear to move along a discrete face which is provided -along the bracelet.
US07841201B2
A heat pump including an evaporator for evaporating water as a working liquid so as to produce a working vapor, the evaporation taking place at an evaporation pressure of less than 20 hPa. The working vapor is compressed to a working pressure of at least 25 hPa by a dynamic-type compressor so as to then be liquefied within a liquefier by direct contact with liquefier water. The heat pump is preferably an open system, where water present in the environment in the form of ground water, sea water, river water, lake water or brine is evaporated, and where water which has been liquefied again is fed to the evaporator, to the soil or to a water treatment plant.
US07841200B1
A direct expansion geothermal heat exchange system with spacer fins attached to at least one of a sub-surface refrigerant transport tubing containment pipe and to sub-surface refrigerant transport tubing, so as to ensure the sub-surface pipe/tubing does not come into direct contact with the ground and is surrounded/encased by a thermally conductive grout that is resistant to corrosive sub-surface elements.
US07841196B2
A variable-capacity air conditioner includes a compressor for compressing refrigerant, an indoor heat-exchanger coupled to the compressor, an outdoor heat-exchanger coupled to the compressor, a piping for coupling the compressor, the indoor heat-exchanger, and the outdoor heat-exchanger, a first capillary tube provided in the piping, a second capillary tube provided in the piping in series with the first capillary tube, a by-pass pipe connected in parallel to the second capillary tube, a valve for opening and closing the by-pass pipe, and a controller for controlling the compressor and the valve. The compressor is operable at a first capacity and a second capacity less than the first capacity to compress the refrigerant. The air conditioner prevents the compressor from overload and allows the refrigerant to circulating at an optimal flow amount rate through a refrigeration cycle.
US07841195B2
A refrigeration apparatus includes a condensing unit, a flow distributor, and an evaporator connected to the condensing unit via the flow distributor. A pressure detector is configured to detect condensation pressure of the refrigerant. A calculation unit is configured to calculate a target condensation pressure of refrigerant necessary for the refrigerant to be an evaporation temperature in the evaporator. A controller is configured to control the condensing unit so that the condensation pressure of the refrigerant becomes equal to or more than the target condensation pressure.
US07841193B2
A refrigerant flow-amount controlling device for an ejector refrigerant cycle system includes an ejector having a nozzle for decompressing refrigerant of a first stream of a branch portion, a first evaporator for evaporating refrigerant flowing out of the ejector, a throttle member for decompressing refrigerant of a second stream of the branch portion, a second evaporator disposed downstream of the throttle member and upstream of a refrigerant suction portion of the ejector, and an adjusting mechanism having a temperature-sensitive deformation member that is deformed in accordance with a variation in a refrigerant temperature of the cycle system to adjust one refrigerant passage area of the nozzle portion and the throttle means. The adjusting mechanism can be provided to adjust a flow ratio of a refrigerant amount decompressed by the nozzle portion of the ejector and a refrigerant amount drawn into the refrigerant suction port of the ejector.
US07841188B2
A super cooler device including a thermo electric cooler on a digital micro mirror device.
US07841184B2
A method and apparatus for measuring a start fuel flow to a pilot nozzle of a fuel system of a gas turbine engine using pressure differential between fuel passages leading to fuel nozzles.
US07841182B2
An improved gas turbine combustor (20) including a basket (26) and a multiplicity of micro openings (29) arrayed across an inlet wall (27) for passage of a fuel/air mixture for ignition within the combustor. The openings preferably have a diameter on the order of the quenching diameter; i.e. the port diameter for which the flame is self-extinguishing, which is a function of the fuel mixture, temperature and pressure. The basket may have a curved rectangular shape that approximates the shape of the curved rectangular shape of the intake manifolds of the turbine.
US07841173B2
A marine engine control system comprising a water jacket, an outlet sensor, and a control module. The water jacket directs a flow of water across a catalytic converter to cool the catalytic converter. The outlet sensor module measures an actual temperature of the water. The control module determines an expected temperature of the water when the catalytic converter is functional.
US07841172B2
A method is provided for compensating for variability in ash accumulation rates within an aftertreatment element of an engine exhaust system. The method includes determining flow resistance values through the aftertreatment element and tracking minimum flow resistance values over time. The method also includes correlating the tracked minimum flow resistance values over time, with a model of engine oil consumption rate that is based on predetermined values for model engine oil consumption. The method further includes adjusting the predetermined values based on the tracked minimum flow resistance values over time.
US07841171B2
A method is disclosed for estimating an amount of deposited particulates (PM) in a collector of an internal combustion engine. The method includes estimating the amount of inflow of PM into the collector and estimating a basic amount of decreased PM that flows into the collector and is burned and decreased. The method also includes estimating the amount of ash deposited on the collector. The method further includes correcting the basic amount of decreased PM based on the estimated amount of ash. Moreover, the method includes estimating an amount of deposited PM by a history expression based on the estimated amount of inflow of PM and the corrected amount of decreased PM. A related device is also disclosed.
US07841170B2
Porous ceramic diesel particulate filters are regenerated to combust accumulated carbon particulates trapped therein through a controlled regeneration process wherein heat is input to the filter at a ramped or staged heating rate below that rate at which the particulate combustion process would proceed so rapidly and extensively that filter temperatures would be raised to filter-damaging levels.
US07841167B2
An engine contains at least one pulse detonation combustor which is surrounded by a bypass flow air duct, through which bypass air flow is directed. The bypass air duct contains at least one converging-diverging structure to dampen or choke the upstream propagation of shock waves from the pulse detonation combustor through the bypass flow air duct. The bypass air also serves to cool the outer surfaces of the pulse detonation combustor. The bypass air flow is controlled in tandem with the heat release from the PDC to provide the appropriate amount of thermal energy to a downstream energy conversion device, such as a turbine. A mixing plenum is positioned downstream of the pulse detonation combustor and bypass flow air duct.
US07841149B2
A flexible ceiling panel is preferably formed from sheet metal, such as aluminum sheet. Each ceiling panel has a generally rectangular shape (corresponding in width to the spacing between the main runners) and is formed with a hem on all four edges. A series of bendable tabs are formed integrally with the hem of the panel. To secure the panel to the associated grid system, the tabs are folded upwardly and outwardly from the panel along two axes to secure the panel to the grid system. Alternatively, a plurality of separate spring clips is used to secure the panel to the grid system. Each clip includes a first leg adapted to have at least a portion thereof received in the hem of the ceiling panel. A second leg extends generally perpendicularly from the first leg and includes a detent extending toward the first leg, the detent being adapted to secure the clip to the flange of the runner.
US07841145B2
Floor panels are provided with a mechanical locking system including a flexible locking element in a locking groove, which during a horizontal motion is displaced vertically.
US07841144B2
Floor panels (1, 1′) are provided with a mechanical locking system including a flexible locking element 15 in a locking groove 14 which during a horizontal motion is displaced vertically.
US07841136B2
The proposed invention relates to a portable housing/shelter unit assembled in a manufacturing building, loaded on a trailer truck and delivered to a site. Once on the site it is lifted off the trailer and lowered onto a leveled ground location or a foundation. Then the unit is un-folded from its central frame (container) and secured to the foundation and final extrusions and screws are applied; thus, the unit is setting in final set up position, structurally and weather tight. If required, additional exterior fenestration can be added to the basic shell, and the exterior customized per client needs and directives.
US07841134B2
An insulating construction. The construction is formed from a blank construction having a square or rectangular central portion and a side section attached to each side of the central portion. Two wing sections are attached to each of two opposing side sections. The wing sections are attachable to an adjacent side section free of a wing section. Then the blank construction is folded in a three dimensional configuration, it supported by a rod construction.
US07841133B2
A passage barrier (10) with two barrier elements (24, 26) and two mutually aligned shafts (16, 20) which are separate from each other and can be driven by separate motors (14, 22), whereby one barrier element (24, 26) is retained on each shaft (16, 20), and can be swivelled independent of the other barrier element (26, 24) by driving the corresponding shaft (16, 20).
US07841132B1
A watering jug reliably delivers water to a hanging plant, or the like. A manually operable pump sits atop an intake tube; a valve positioned at a juncture between the intake tube and a discharge tube controls the redirecting of the measured amount of water to the distal end of the discharge tube. An optional sprinkling head may be used. A second embodiment features an extension sleeve which measures out a desired amount of water to the plant.
US07841131B2
Several embodiments of an insect trap using attractant light displayed on a projection surface are disclosed. The insect trap can be mounted on a vertical surface such as a wall or on a horizontal surface such as a ceiling. The trap has a light source configured to direct substantially all light from the source to the projection surface. Insects attracted by the light pattern on the projection surface are immobilized on an adhesive surface. A method of trapping insects is also disclosed.
US07841130B2
There is described an improved one-way door for a humane animal trap of the type comprising a box-shaped enclosure having an opening at one end, and a hinged one-way door adapted to close said opening and also to swing freely upward into the enclosure to permit entry into the enclosure by an animal, then to fall back under the force of gravity to a closed position that traps the animal within the enclosure. The improved trap door has an upper portion comprising apertures sufficient to enable ample airflow into the trap and a weighted lower portion that speeds the drop of the door and that also lowers the center of gravity of the door, and that of the trap as a whole, and thereby functions to enhance the stability of the trap to reduce trap overturns and animal escapes. The apertures in the upper portion of the door provide the animal with an ample supply of air to reduce the stress it is subjected to prior to release. The metal and/or hard plastic composition of the door ensures that the animal will not gnaw a hole in the door to facilitate its escape.
US07841127B1
The present invention is a fishing hook rig where a connector is formed with a spiral wire surrounding a portion of a straight wire pin and the connector is fixed at one end to a top end of a fishing hook. A soft bait is first fixed to the connector and then to a barbed end of the hook to provide a secure, snag resistant rig for fishing.
US07841123B2
A waterfowl feeding decoy having a body mounted to a motor, and a box member that includes a pivotally attached top member such that opening the top member allows access to a chamber disposed within the box member, and closing the top member forms a watertight seal between the top member and the box member. A power source is disposed in the chamber, and electrical wires extend from the power source up through an aperture and are electrically connected to the motor. The box member serves as a watertight storage means for the power source and further serves as an anchor for anchoring the decoy at a selected location.
US07841117B2
A kit for suspending a sign is disclosed herein. The kit includes first and second column anchors operable to be mounted in the ground. Each column anchor has a plurality of fins facing in different directions from one another and a conical tip. The kit also includes first and second columns individually receivable in one of the first and second column anchors and selectively removable. Each of the columns has a plurality of through-apertures. The kit also includes a plurality of sets of eye-bolts and nuts, each individually receivable in one of the plurality of through-apertures. The kit also includes a plurality of cable members having latches or S-hooks at both ends and a stretchable member extending between the latches or S-hooks.
US07841112B2
Soil is captured into a bowl attached to a frame of a scraper machine by maneuvering the machine while a cutting bit attached to the bowl slices through the underlying soil. The bowl is supported on the frame, and the soil cutting is accomplished via a spade bit attached to the bowl at a cut opening. The spade bit has a cutting edge with a forward protrusion flanked by swept back segments. A top surface of the spade bit may be contoured with a central ridge flanked by a twist contour surface to urge soil towards opposite sides of the bowl.
US07841104B2
The present invention provides a washer for washing articles. A housing of the washer defines a chamber. A partition divides the chamber into an upper compartment and a lower compartment. An outer peripheral edge of the partition generally conforms to side walls of the housing such that a gap is formed between the edge of the partition and the side walls of the housing. A blower assembly disposed in the upper compartment has a first air inlet, a second air inlet and an air outlet. The first air inlet fluidly communicates with the lower compartment. The second air inlet fluidly communicates with an external air inlet line. The air outlet fluidly communicates with the upper compartment. An impeller is provided to circulate air from the lower compartment and from the air inlet line into the upper compartment. A heating means heats the air in the upper compartment.
US07841098B2
A linear measurement device for measuring a wheelchair user for fitting a wheelchair, with a measuring bar having with a scale and a fixed locater attached at a first end. A second locator opposing the first locater moves on the measuring bar to a selected position for determining a distance measurement relative to the fixed locator for fitting the wheelchair user to the wheelchair. A method of measuring for wheelchair fitting with a linear measurement apparatus is disclosed.
US07841097B2
Position measurement apparatus, such as hexapod co-ordinate measuring machine, is described that comprises a thrust frame and a metrology frame. The thrust frame comprises a load carrying base connected to a moveable platform by a plurality of powered extendable legs. The metrology frame comprising a metrology base attached to the load carrying base by a base attachment mechanism such as kinematic mounts. The base attachment mechanism is arranged to prevent any distortions of the load carrying base being transmitted to the metrology base.
US07841092B2
A hand-held circular saw designed for making square cuts on workpieces. The saw is equipped with a pair of retractable guide pins located near the rear of the blade; when both pins touch the front edge of the workpiece the saw's blade is automatically perpendicular to it. The saw is also equipped with at least one torsion spring that temporarily holds the saw's blade above the workpiece. Without moving the saw's base, the user turns on the saw, and pressing downwardly on its handle, lowers the blade into the workpiece, making a square cut with the accuracy of a cut-off saw. The guide pins can also be automatically or manually retracted to convert the improved saw back to a conventional saw.
US07841078B2
Disclosed is a method, system, and computer program storage product for optimizing land grid array site geometry on an electronic assembly mounting. A first member including at least one convex region is aligned with a first portion of an electronic assembly mounting. A second member is aligned with a second portion of the electronic assembly mounting. The second portion includes at least one concave region corresponding to the convex region of the first portion. The second member includes a dome-shaped region having a predefined geometry. Heat is applied to at least one of the electronic assembly mounting, the first member, and the second member. Pressure is applied to at least one of the first member and the second member to reshape the convex region into a substantially flat surface. Applying pressure also reshapes the concave region into a geometry corresponding to the predefined geometry of the dome-shaped region.
US07841074B2
A method of fabricating a paste bump for a printed circuit board, provides preparing a base plate; printing a conductive paste on the base plate and drying the conductive paste on the base plate, thus forming a first paste bump; flattening an upper surface of the first paste bump through coining; and printing a conductive paste on the first paste bump and drying the conductive paste on the first bump, thus forming a second paste bump, wherein the printing a conductive paste on the base plate and drying the conductive paste on the base plate includes placing a first mask having a hole having a first size on the base plate; applying a conductive paste on the first mask, and pressing the conductive paste using a squeegee; filling the hole having a first size in the first mask with the conductive paste, and sticking a bottom of the conductive paste to the base plate; and removing the first mask and drying the conductive paste, thus forming the first paste bump.
US07841070B2
A planar transformer or balun device, having small trace spacing and high mutual coupling coefficient, and a method of fabricating the same is disclosed. The method may comprise providing a first and a second inductor on a primary and a second substrate respectively, interleaving at least partially the first inductor with the second inductor, coupling the primary and the secondary substrates to form a unitary structure, and providing electrical contacts to couple the first and second inductors with another device or circuit.
US07841065B1
A load beam having a bent rail, a suspension that includes the load beam, and a related method for manufacturing a load beam. The method includes providing the load beam before the bent rail is formed, and coining the load beam at a location where the bend will occur in the rail.
US07841064B2
A method of manufacturing an acoustic wave device includes forming a first sealing portion on a substrate having an acoustic wave element thereon so that a functional region, in which an acoustic wave oscillates, of the acoustic wave element acts as a first non-covered portion and a cutting region for individuating acts as a second non-covered portion, forming a second sealing portion on the first sealing portion so as to cover the first non-covered portion and the second non-covered portion, and cutting off the substrate and the second sealing portion so that the second non-covered portion is divided.
US07841056B2
A method of manufacturing a piezoelectric element includes: forming a first base substrate having an element to be transferred; forming a second base substrate; and transferring the element to the second base substrate. The forming of the element includes forming a first electrode above a first substrate, forming a piezoelectric layer above the first electrode, forming a second electrode above the piezoelectric layer, crystallizing the piezoelectric layer, forming a dielectric layer above the second electrode, and etching the dielectric layer such that part of the second electrode is exposed and the dielectric layer has a protrusion upwardly protruding relative to the second electrode. Forming the second base substrate includes forming a third electrode above a second substrate. The transferring includes bonding the element and the second base substrate such that the second substrate is in contact with the protrusion and the second electrode is in contact with the third electrode.
US07841055B2
An apparatus including vertically separated acoustic resonators are disclosed. The apparatus includes a first acoustic resonator on a substrate and a second acoustic resonator vertically separated above the first acoustic resonator. Because the resonators are vertically separated above another, total area required to implement the resonators is reduced thereby savings in die size and cost are realized. The vertically separated resonators are supported by standoffs that are fabricated on the substrate, or on a resonator.
US07841054B2
This invention aims at developing a sanitary body cavity sealing device which prevents leakage of substances in the rectum of a corpse due to anal muscle relax after die, simplifies the postmortem treatment work for persons working on it or nurses and prevents infection to the persons, nurses or those around due to leakage of body internal substances. The body cavity sealing member (10) is made of porous fiber elements that absorb water on contact with body fluids in a body cavity to expand up to approximately 2.5 or more times its diameter, its end part (15) is cut into a tapered shape and the cut surface (15) is processed, for example, by heat treatment, to form a smooth surface. By inserting the body cavity sealing member (10) with the end part first into the anus, it can be inserted into the rectum without being interfered with by the inner walls of the anus and rectum.
US07841053B1
Slip resistant cordage is presented including: a length of cordage; a knot keeper configured for providing a more secure knot tied in the length of cordage, the knot keeper including: a number of branches radiating from a portion of the length of cordage, and a number of branch keepers, where each of the number of branch keepers is disposed along each of the number of branches for use in retaining the number of branches with the length of cordage. In some embodiments, slip resistant cordage is presented where the number of branches includes: a flat tip, a rounded tip, a pointed tip, a hooked tip, a barbed tip, a bull-nose tip, a bull-nose barb tip, a rectangular tip, and a rectangular barb tip.
US07841051B2
A dual swing hinge structure includes two fixed base frames each having a receiving groove and a pivot hole extending across the receiving groove, a first bracket, which has two coupling arms respectively inserted into the receiving grooves of the base frame and pivotally coupled to the pivot holes of the base frames with pivot pins and a mounting plate fastened to a first movable member, a second bracket, which has two coupling arms respectively pivotally coupled to the pivot pins that pivotally secure the first bracket to the base frames and a mounting plate fastened to a second movable member, and two first retaining members and two second retaining members respectively affixed to the coupling arms of the first bracket and the coupling arms of the second bracket and respectively coupled to the pivot pins for imparting a different torque force to the pivot pins such that the first bracket is immovable when the second bracket is biased relative to the base frames, and the second bracket is moved with the first bracket relative to the base frames when the first bracket is biased relative to the base frames.
US07841029B1
A restroom sanitation apparatus that can be used to store and sanitize a toilet plunger within a restroom. The apparatus has a cylindrical lid that is mounted on a round base after a toilet plunger is placed on top of the round base. Within the base is located a scent drawer that includes a volume of material with an incorporated scent, and furthermore, an electric-powered fan which continuously blows air over the volume of material in an effort to disperse the scent throughout the air within a bathroom. The apparatus further includes a hook to mount the toilet plunger once it is within the outer casing and also includes an electric-powered ultraviolet light that acts to kill germs and bacteria once the cylindrical lid has been placed into contact with the round base.
US07841021B2
A safety vest is sized to be worn by a human, wherein the vest has a front and back and left and right sides each having a shoulder portion. An EL strip is provided on each side of the vest extending from the bottom of the vest upwards toward the shoulder portion. A power source is supported by the vest and connected to the EL lamp strips to supply electrical energy to the strips so that they emit EL light, wherein the EL light emitted by the EL strip is a safety yellow color, and wherein other portions of the vest are a safety orange color. Further safety articles of clothing and devices are also described.
US07845012B2
A system and method of intelligent agent identification for a vehicle is provided. The method including the steps of a host computer system selecting an intelligent agent and determining a slave system to receive the intelligent agent. The host system encrypts a work activity to be performed by the agent, and predetermined host identification information, and programs the encrypted work activity and predetermined host information into the selected agent. The methodology randomly generates an identification code for the selected agent and programs the code into the selected agent. The selected agent is transmitted to the selected slave system via a communication network. The slave computer system decodes the host information and agent identification code carried by the agent, and determines if the decoded host information matches corresponding host identification information stored in memory of the slave computer system. The agent is denying access to the slave computer system if the decoded host information does not correspond. The methodology continues to check the agent identity by determining if the decoded agent identification code matches a predetermined identification code stored in the memory of the slave computer system. The agent is denied access to the slave computer system if there is no match, and is allow access to the slave computer system if the decoded agent identification information matches the predetermined identification code stored in the memory of the slave computer system.
US07844993B2
A plurality of image processing apparatuses and a management server are connected to an IP network. Upon receiving the IP address of an image processing apparatus, the management server assigns identification information corresponding to its IP address, for a predetermined limited period. If a user inputs identification information of a destination apparatus during the predetermined limited period, the image processing apparatus transmits processed image information to the destination apparatus that is connected to the IP network.
US07844981B2
An optical disc drive is fitted with a pickup, a non-contacting cooling plate, and a resinous movable spacer. The cooling plate adjacently faces and is fixed to the under, right, or left side of the pickup. The movable spacer is fitted to one of the facing sides of the pickup and cooling plate and prevents direct contact between the pickup and the plate. This drive structure prevents pickup movement interference due to collision between the pickup and the cooling plate, contamination production, needless electric conduction, etc., so that the clearance between the facing sides of the metallic pickup and metallic non-contacting cooling plate is narrow. The narrow clearance results in an improved heat conduction and radiation characteristic, improving the cooling of the whole pickup.
US07844978B2
A solution for managing a set of artifacts for a runtime environment is provided, which enables improved tooling that supports runtime extensions to a runtime environment. In one embodiment, an extension handler is obtained for a runtime extension to the runtime environment. The runtime extension comprises a program code that can be included in the runtime environment to extend the default capabilities of a runtime engine/framework. The extension handler provides tooling support for extension artifacts that use/require the runtime extension. When a tooling request for an extension artifact is obtained, the tooling request is processed using the extension handler. In this manner, a tooling solution is shielded from needing to know the specifics of the extension artifact or corresponding runtime extension. Similarly, the developer of the extension handler for the runtime extension is shielded from needing to know any specifics of the tooling environment. As a result, the invention provides a tooling solution that is extensible to support the tooling requirements of an extensible runtime engine.
US07844958B2
A system and method for converting byte code of a first type into byte code of a second type. Byte code of a first type and markup language code are received as inputs. The first byte code is converted into constituent byte code data elements that can comprise any logical unit or grouping of at least a portion of a software application. The markup language code is converted into constituent markup language data elements that can comprise individual markup language tags and references to data or functionality in the first byte code. The first byte code data elements and markup language data elements are mapped to data elements of a second byte code type. The second byte code data elements are assembled into a resulting second byte code.
US07844943B2
An electronic device with a graphical language environment that includes a method which examines a graphical model to identify textual items having intrinsic executable computational meaning within the graphical model is discussed. The method identifies at least one textual item with intrinsic executable computational meaning. The method further provides an indicator for the at least one identified textual item with intrinsic executable computational meaning in a display of the graphical model. The indicator may be based upon a characteristic of the identified textual item.
US07844935B2
A wiring design system for semiconductor integrated circuit which realizes a low power consumption in a grid-shaped clock wiring within a semiconductor integrated circuit is provided. A wiring design system 10 for semiconductor integrated circuit which designs the gird-shaped clock wiring for uniformly distributing the clock signals to the flip flop circuits arranged within the semiconductor integrated circuit, wherein, of the clock wiring lines forming the grid-shaped clock wiring, a clock wiring line having a smaller effect on the distribution operation of the clock signals in the grid-shaped clock wiring is selected and thinned out as a less necessary clock wiring line.
US07844929B2
A method of optimizing test code generation is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) reading from a database (i) a plurality of assertions, (ii) a testbench and (iii) a target code coverage all of a design under test, (B) generating together (i) a plurality of first test vectors to test the assertions and (ii) a plurality of second test vectors applicable to the testbench, (C) identifying one or more redundant test vector sets between the first test vectors and the second test vectors and (D) generating the test code to test the design under test on the testbench using a subset of the first test vectors and the second test vectors, the subset comprising single instances of the redundant test vector sets.
US07844928B2
A test system or simulator includes an IC benchmark software program that executes application software on a semiconductor die IC design model. The benchmark software includes trace, simulation point, clustering and other programs. IC designers utilize the benchmark software to evaluate the performance characteristics of IC designs with customer user software applications. The benchmark software generates basic block vectors BBVs from instruction traces of application software. The benchmark software analyzes data dependent information that it appends to BBVs to create enhanced BBVs or EBBVs. The benchmark software may graph the EBBV information in a cluster diagram and selects a subset of EBBVs as a representative sample for each program phase. Benchmarking software generates a reduced application software program from the representative EBBV samples. Designers use the test system with benchmarking software to evaluate IC design model modifications by using the representative reduced application software program.
US07844924B2
A device for logic synthesis that can be used to synthesize LUT logic circuit having intermediate outputs for multiple-output logic functions. The device includes means to store node table 8 storing Binary Decision Diagram for Characteristic Function (BDD_for_CF) of the characteristic function χ(X, Y) of the multiple-output logic function f(X), means to store LUTs 16, means to reduce by shorting 11 partitioning BDD_for_CF into the subgraphs B0 and B1 at the partition line in the height lev of the partition and executing shorten-processing, means to measure the width W of BDDs 12 calculating the width W at the partition line, means to compute the intermediate variables 13 calculating the number of the intermediate variables u according to the width W, means to generate an LUT 14 generating the LUT for the sub-graph B0, and means to reconstruct BDDs 15 generating a binary tree that has the same number of control inputs as that of the intermediate variables u, replacing the sub-graph B0 with the binary tree and reconstructing the BDD_for_CF.
US07844921B2
An apparatus for a user to interface with a control object apparatus by a posture or a motion of the user's physical part. An image input unit inputs an image including the user's physical part. A gesture recognition unit recognizes the posture or the motion of the user's physical part from the image. A control unit controls the control object apparatus based on an indication corresponding to the posture or the motion. A gesture information display unit displays an exemplary image of the posture or the motion recognized for the user's reference to indicate the control object apparatus.
US07844918B1
A method, apparatus and computer program product for displaying a graphical element within a graphical user interface is presented. A registration is made with an operating system (OS) to be sent a notification when a predetermined file type is being displayed in a user's desktop. At some time an event notification is received regarding the graphical element. A file to display as a graphical element is determined, as is a location to position the graphical element in the user's desktop. The graphical element representing the file is displayed, as is a segment controller with the graphical element, the segment controller operable to permit a user to select which segment of the file to be displayed in the graphical element.
US07844913B2
An information processing apparatus is provided including a first display control unit for controlling display of an area to which to paste an image representing a content and selected to start reproduction of the content. A second display control unit displays a list of images when a display instruction to display the list of the images is given. Under control of the first display control unit, one screen including a different number of layers according to a category of data created in the area to which to paste the image is displayed in the area.
US07844912B2
Methods and systems to include transformation nodes in a business system are provided. A transformation node may provide controlled redundancy of data within the business object hierarchy. Transformation nodes may store data from core nodes without persistency, and permit different data presentation modes than for the core nodes. When a service call is placed to a transformation node, the transformation node may call corresponding services from associated core nodes.
US07844903B2
An information management system is disclosed and includes a bootstrap server and at least one additional component. Further, the system includes an animated installation manual file stored within the bootstrap server. The animated installation manual is configured to be presented to a user upon an initial boot of the bootstrap server. Additionally, the animated installation manual can be automatically generated based on configuration information received from the user.
US07844902B2
An apparatus and method for handling special windows in a display comprises a window manager in an operating system that is called by application programs to create special windows. The window manager embeds static key signals including encoded special window information, such as the coordinates of a window area to be specially processed, into a video RAM. An existing video interface scans the video RAM and transmits display information, including the key signals, to the display. The present invention further comprises a window decoder in the display, that detects the key signals, extracts the encoded special window information, and controls display circuitry performing the desired special processing. The key signal encoding scheme does not create visually discernible display aberrations that could distract the user or interfere with normal window management.
US07844897B1
Blog template generation is described, including sending test data to a target, calling the target, receiving a response from the target, wherein the response comprises stylized data associated with the target, identifying the test data in the response, the test data in the response being used to determine a separation between the test data and the stylized data, and generating a template based on the separation and the stylized data, the template being associated with the target.
US07844896B2
The invention provides a layout-rule generation system suitable for reflecting the layout of an existing document to the result of automatic layout. A layout unit can generate a layout rule on the basis of the positional relationship of at least two of multiple split regions in an electronic document and generate a layout template on the basis of the electronic document and register the generated template in a template registration DB in association with the generated layout rule. The layout unit can select layout elements from a layout-element registration DB and arranges the selected layout elements in the layout region according to the layout rule and the layout template generated for the same electronic document.
US07844895B2
A method is provided for improving functionality of a binary representation of an XML-based content description, wherein a structure of any instance of an XML document corresponds to a tree-like data structure. The method includes providing that each tree node represents an element of the content description and has a structure defined in a schema; providing the tree nodes in the binary representation with tree branch codes; providing that the respective tree branch code has a schema branch code and, when appropriate, a position code; forming first and second tables for the schema branch codes when each node is being coded, the first table including complex elements containing child elements and the second table including complex elements as well as attributes and simple elements which represent leaves of the tree-like data structure; and forming a complete path by chaining together tree nodes in the binary representation.
US07844894B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products for defining landing pages to test different landing page designs. User input specifies a landing page having sections, each section having an original version of content. User input also specifies one or more additional versions of content, the original and the additional versions together constituting alternative versions, and the landing page with the alternative versions together constituting an experiment. Page fragments are determined. The fragments are added to the landing page and are operable, when interpreted by a client-side browser, to choose one of the alternative versions of each identified section and make each chosen alternative version the content of the corresponding section before the landing page is displayed by the browser. A designer can insert the page fragments into the landing page to produce an instrumented landing page.
US07844890B2
Document links may be efficiently managed by providing automated techniques for organizing them. In particular implementations, a system and process for automated management of document links may include the ability to determine that a link is to be established for a document and identify at least one descriptor for the document. The system and process may also include the ability to correlate the identified document descriptor(s) with at least one document descriptors in a pre-existing taxonomy of document descriptors and associate the correlated taxonomy document descriptor(s) with a link for the document.
US07844888B2
The present invention relates to a method of operating an electronic device and an electronic device. The electronic device comprises a signal path for transmitting data, an input/output interface connected with the signal path, a masking circuit and an error calculation circuit. The masking circuit is connected with the signal path and the error calculation circuit. The error calculation circuit is connected with the signal path. The signal path is connected with the masking circuit to deliver masking information to the masking circuit. The masking circuit considers the received masking information for masking the data and delivers the masked and non-masked data to the error detection circuit.
US07844881B2
A transmitting apparatus and a transmitting method wherein the systematic bit reception quality can be improved and the throughput performance can be improved. An IR parameter control part (101) controls, based on the number of retransmissions, the ratio of systematic bits to parity bits in mapping them to packets, and controls to map a parity bit to an initially transmitted packet, while mapping a systematic bit to a retransmitted packet. An encoding part (102) generates the systematic bits and parity bits and maps them to the packets in accordance with the IR parameters. A transmission power calculating part (105) calculates, based on reception quality information of the initially transmitted packet fed back from a receiving end, the transmission power of the transmitted packet to which the systematic bit is mapped. A transmission power control part (106) controls the transmission power of the retransmitted packet such that it is equal to the transmission power as calculated by the transmission power calculating part (105).
US07844878B2
Unrecoverable electronic correction code (ECC) errors in memory storage devices are usually preceded by recoverable ECC errors. A memory storage device controller is provided notice of the recoverable errors and associated information. The memory storage device controller can cause the data having the recoverable information to be rewritten on the memory storage device. Rewriting the data on the memory storage device (often in a different location) normally reduces the probability of encountering data with unrecoverable data errors.
US07844876B2
In some embodiments the continuous measuring of temperature in remote memory devices operating within an electrically noisy environment is facilitated by coordinating the progressive approximation of temperature within quiescent periods of non-activity as known by a memory controller.
US07844871B2
A method for testing memory elements of an integrated circuit with an array built in self test (ABIST) comprises providing an ABIST interface to interface between an ABIST engine and a plurality of latches of a memory element under test, providing a multiplex (MUX) stage adjacent a scan input port of each latch, providing functional signal inputs to a data input port of the latches, setting the latches to an ABIST mode by activating an ABIST enable signal and delivering the ABIST enable signal to each of the latches, generating a plurality of ABIST test signals with the ABIST engine, applying the ABIST test signals in parallel to the scan input ports of the latches, determining whether one or more test patterns have been executed, and setting the latches to a normal run mode by deactivating the ABIST enable signal.
US07844867B1
A hierarchical memory includes a plurality of memory blocks, a common access bus coupled to the plurality of memory blocks, and a host bus interface coupled to the common access bus and configured to provide communication between an external host and the plurality of memory blocks over the common access bus. The memory further includes a Built-In Self Test (BIST) module coupled to the common access bus and configured to communicate with the plurality of memory blocks over the common access bus, and a test access interface coupled to the BIST main module and configured to receive test instructions and test data, to provide the test data to the BIST main module, and to configure the BIST main module in response to the test instructions. BIST operations are carried out in the memory blocks in response to BIST control signals and test data transmitted by the BIST module over the common access bus.
US07844860B2
An apparatus and computer program product are disclosed for performing in-memory hardware tracing in a processor using an existing system bus. The processor includes multiple processing units that are coupled together utilizing the system bus. The processing units include a memory controller that controls a system memory. Information is transmitted among the processing units utilizing the system bus. The information is formatted according to a standard system bus protocol. Hardware trace data is captured utilizing a hardware trace facility that is coupled directly to the system bus. The system bus is utilized for transmitting the hardware trace data to the memory controller for storage in the system memory. The memory controller is coupled directly to the system bus. The hardware trace data is formatted according to the standard system bus protocol for transmission via the system bus.
US07844847B2
The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for tuning power consumption and group delay in circuits such as radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs). In one example, a system includes first and second gating blocks configured to reduce a first clock signal operating at a first clock rate to a second clock rate and a third clock rate, respectively. A first processing block coupled to the first gating block operates at the second clock rate. A second processing block is coupled to the first processing block and the second gating block, and operates at the third clock rate. The first processing block changes a flag state from a first state to a second state when transmitting a first data sample to the second processing block, and changes the flag state from the second state to the first state when transmitting a second data sample to the second processing block.
US07844838B2
Devices and methods for managing power on a module are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a module comprises a first die; a second die; and a power manager. The power manager monitors the power requirements of the first die and the second die and allocates power to the first die and the second die based on the power requirements.
US07844837B2
An electronic timer may include a clock reference signal generator and a real time clock (RTC) circuit for generating real time data based upon the clock reference signal. The RTC circuit may include a plurality of registers each for storing a respective bit of the real time data. Further, each register may include a master latch for initially storing the real time data bit, a slave latch for subsequently storing the real time data bit, and a user latch for storing the real time data bit from the slave latch. The RTC circuit may further include a controller for causing at least some of the registers to increment based upon the clock reference signal. Additionally, the electronic timer may also advantageously include a tamper circuit for receiving a tamper event signal and causing each of the user latches to hold a time stamp therein.
US07844836B1
A method and apparatus for using an integrated circuit card to facilitate downloading reusable content from a server into a terminal. Specifically, the method comprises the steps of verifying that an entitlement contained in the integrated circuit card is correct for receiving the reusable content from the server and downloading the reusable content from the server into a memory of the terminal. The apparatus comprises a terminal, coupled to a remote server and an integrated circuit card, coupled to the terminal via the interface circuit, for enabling the server to download the reusable content in the terminal. The terminal comprises a processor for processing the download of the content from the server, a memory for receiving the downloaded content and an integrated circuit card interface circuit.
US07844835B2
The present invention provides systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection. Electronic appliances such as computers equipped in accordance with the present invention help to ensure that information is accessed and used only in authorized ways, and maintain the integrity, availability, and/or confidentiality of the information. Such electronic appliances provide a distributed virtual distribution environment (VDE) that may enforce a secure chain of handling and control, for example, to control and/or meter or otherwise monitor use of electronically stored or disseminated information. Such a virtual distribution environment may be used to protect rights of various participants in electronic commerce and other electronic or electronic-facilitated transactions. Distributed and other operating systems, environments and architectures, such as, for example, those using tamper-resistant hardware-based processors, may establish security at each node. These techniques may be used to support an all-electronic information distribution, for example, utilizing the “electronic highway.”
US07844834B2
A method for securely storing at least one user's private information item, such as a private key for cipher processing, includes the steps of providing a communication network wherein the user is allotted a respective subscriber identity module and the subscriber identity module stores at least one security algorithm; producing a cipher key via the at least one security algorithm; and providing a remote storing location accessible by the user via the communication network wherein the user's private information items are stored as files encrypted via the cipher key.
US07844827B1
A system and method for generating an encryption key using physical characteristics of a biometric sample is described. In one embodiment, the biometric feature(s) from a sample are analyzed to generate a feature vector. After discretizing the feature(s), the resultant feature vector is translated into a bit vector. The bit vector is the secure biometric key that results from the biometric(s). The secure biometric key is used to generate at least one cryptographic key. A similar process is used to access the cryptographic key secured by the secure biometric key. If the access biometric key matches the secure biometric key, the cryptographic key is revealed and access is allowed. In another embodiment, if the access biometric key does not match the secure biometric key a camouflaging process is used to provide an unauthorized user a bogus secure biometric key indistinguishable from the correct secure biometric key.
US07844822B2
Disclosed is a temporally threaded copyright management information watermark where fragile watermarks containing CMI are spread throughout a digital work temporally. In one embodiment of this invention, the copyright management information is divided into a multitude of copyright management information subparts; the copyright management subparts are applied to fragile sub-watermarks; and fragile watermarks are applied to temporally separated portions of the digital work.
US07844814B2
Methods and apparatus detecting attempts to obtain IP addresses by faking a MAC address in a data portion of an IP address request message are described. In accordance with the present invention, rather than use standard address allocation protocols, e.g., ARP, the DNS DCHP contacts the requesting edge router via a private secure network. The MAC address received in the address request is compared to the MAC addresses stored in the edge routers port/MAC address resolution table. If the MAC address received in the request message cannot be found in the edge router's table which was created from the MAC address included in the message's header, a fraudulent attempt to obtain a MAC address is declared. The fraudulent attempt to obtain an IP address can be reported and steps taken to identify the perpetrator of the fraud.
US07844809B2
A trusted system management interrupt handler may be verified by first locating a signed system management interrupt handler image in system memory. The digital signature of the signed system management interrupt handler image is verified. An existing basic input/output system management interrupt handler is erased and replaced with a new system management interrupt handler image. Then an analysis is done of the system management interrupt handler message is to determine whether to continue to launch.
US07844806B2
A system and method are provided for updating a global history prediction record in a microprocessor system using pipelined instruction processing. The method accepts a microprocessor instruction of consecutive operations, including a conditional branch operation with an associated branch address, at a first stage in a pipelined microprocessor execution process. A global history record (GHR) of conditional branch resolutions and predictions is accessed and hashed with the branch address, creating a first hash result. The first hash result is used to access an indexed branch history table (BHT) of branch direction counts and the BHT is used to make a branch prediction. If the branch prediction being “taken”, the current GHR value is left-shifted and hashed with the branch address, creating a second hash result which is used in creating an updated GHR.
US07844805B2
A processor for a portable electronic device. The processor includes a RISC (reduced instruction set computing) core a CISC (complex instruction set computing) core, a video accelerator circuit and an audio accelerator circuit. Each of the video and audio accelerator circuits are coupled to both the RISC and CISC cores, with both cores and both accelerator circuit being incorporated into a single integrated circuit. In a first plurality of operational modes, the RISC core is active, while the CISC core is in one of a sleep state or a power off state. In a second plurality of modes, both the RISC and CISC cores are active.
US07844800B2
A processor 2 utilising register renaming executes program instructions requiring a large number of architectural register specifiers to be renamed by dividing the renaming tasks into an initial set and a remaining set. The initial set are performed first and the results passed via a main channel 32 for further processing. The remaining set are performed in sequence with the results being passed via a background channel 34 for further processing. This technique is particularly useful for performing renaming operations for load/store multiple LDM instructions.
US07844798B2
A method of operating an integrated circuit involves supplying an instruction portion of a command to the integrated circuit to specify an operation to be performed by the integrated circuit. At least some types of commands also include an attributes portion that provides additional information about the operation to be performed. The attributes portion of the command is supplied to the integrated circuit with a delay relative to the instruction portion of the command. The integrated circuit selectively enables circuitry for processing the attributes portion if the integrated circuit determines from the received instruction portion that the command also includes an attributes portion. The delay between the two portions of the command provides sufficient time for the integrated circuit to enable the attributes processing circuitry, which, in a default state, can be disabled during an active mode of the integrated circuit to save power.
US07844797B2
The present invention provides a system and method for managing load and store operations necessary for reading from and writing to memory or I/O in a superscalar RISC architecture environment. To perform this task, a load store unit is provided whose main purpose is to make load requests out of order whenever possible to get the load data back for use by an instruction execution unit as quickly as possible. A load operation can only be performed out of order if there are no address collisions and no write pendings. An address collision occurs when a read is requested at a memory location where an older instruction will be writing. Write pending refers to the case where an older instruction requests a store operation, but the store address has not yet been calculated. The data cache unit returns 8 bytes of unaligned data. The load/store unit aligns this data properly before it is returned to the instruction execution unit. Thus, the three main tasks of the load store unit are: (1) handling out of order cache requests; (2) detecting address collisions; and (3) alignment of data.
US07844773B2
A refresh method for a semiconductor memory device having more than one bank group is provided. The refresh method may include applying an all-refresh command to one the bank groups, determining if one of the bank groups includes a bank undergoing a refresh operation when the all-refresh command is received, and performing an all-refresh operation based on the determination.
US07844766B1
A system and method to provide location-specific computer enabled services/monitoring, having minimally invasive reconfiguration/replacement comprises a relationship provider enabling a first relationship between a location and electronic configuration information and a second relationship between the location and an electronic identifier, an electronic service connecting/monitoring component at the location including an electronic component having the electronic identifier embodied therein, and a readable component providing the electronic identifier in an electronically readable format, an accessor accessing the electronic identifier from the readable component, accessing the location associated with the accessed said electronic identifier according to the second relationship, and accessing the electronic configuration information associated with the associated location according to the first relationship, and a server location the associated said electronic configuration information onto the service connecting/monitoring component and enabling modification of the associated the electronic configuration information to reconfigure based on the location.
US07844756B2
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture wherein a set of communication paths between a plurality of data movers and a plurality of storage devices is maintained. A request to transfer data from a source storage device to a target storage device is received, wherein the source storage device and the target storage device are included in the plurality of storage devices. At least one data mover from the plurality of data movers is selected based on the set of communication paths, wherein the selected at least one data mover can transfer the data from the source storage device to the target storage device.
US07844755B2
A disclosed image forming apparatus includes an image processing device including plural image processing units; a control device configured to control the plural image processing units; and a connection unit configured to connect the image processing device to the control device. Each of the plural image processing units is connected to the control device by one of plural channels; the image processing device is connected to the control device by a first bus including the channels; and the connection unit is provided on the first bus so that the image processing device is connected to the control device by a single connection unit.
US07844750B2
A computer system is capable of operating with various types of fans from the same manufacturer or from different manufacturers and is capable identifying the type of fan which is presently installed in the system. The system includes a fan of the type which includes an integral optical sensor and detectable indicia such as, by way of example, a bar code label or imprint. Fan identification has a variety of uses including, for instance, adjusting system parameters to properly execute the computer system's cooling functions based on the type of fan presently installed, and reporting fan type and/or serial number to an administrator or central inventory server for quality control purposes. Particular embodiments include the derivation of tachometric information from the detectable indicia. The computer system may include an inventory program which maintains fan ID data for a plurality of fans.
US07844746B2
A heterogeneous processing element model is provided where I/O devices look and act like processors. In order to be treated like a processor, an I/O processing element, or other special purpose processing element, must follow some rules and have some characteristics of a processor, such as address translation, security, interrupt handling, and exception processing, for example. The heterogeneous processing element model abstracts an I/O device such that communication intended for the I/O device may be packetized and sent over a network. Thus, a virtualization platform may packetize communication intended for a remotely located I/O device and transmit the packetized communication over a distance, rather than having to make a call to a library, call a device driver, pin memory, and so forth.
US07844743B2
A host CPU runs a network protocol processing stack that provides instructions not only to process network messages but also to allocate processing of certain network messages to a specialized network communication device, offloading some of the most time consuming protocol processing from the host CPU to the network communication device. By allocating common and time consuming network processes to the device, while retaining the ability to handle less time intensive and more varied processing on the host stack, the network communication device can be relatively simple and cost effective. The host CPU, operating according to instructions from the stack, and the network communication device together determine whether and to what extent a given message is processed by the host CPU or by the network communication device.
US07844742B2
A communication interface for providing an interface between a data link and a data processor, the data processor being capable of supporting an operating system and a user application, the communication interface being arranged to: support a first queue of data received over the link and addressed to a logical data port associated with a user application; support a second queue of data received over the link and identified as being directed to the operating system; and analyse data received over the link and identified as being directed to the operating system or the data port to determine whether that data meets one or more predefined criteria, and if it does meet the criteria transmit an interrupt to the operating system.
US07844741B2
A work flow manager (1) of a gateway comprises a process automation component (2), a policy engine (3), and a traffic gateway (4). The work flow manager (1) communicates via the internet (5) over IP with content providers (6) and content aggregators (7). On the other side it communicates over the Internet or over a private IP network, using diverse proprietary and known protocols with service enabler resources (20) including mobile network SMSCs, MMSCs and IMSs (IP Multi-Media Sub-systems). The process automation component (2) presents a GUI to generate a work flow definition in a high level business process execution language (BPEL), with interaction with the service enabler resources (20) which implement the process. The policy engine (3) interprets the BPEL to provide lower-level policy enforcement work, flows in a policy enforcement execution language (PEEL). The traffic gateway (4) interprets the PEEL to provide a low level language (traffic policy execution language, TPEL) for high performance implementation of steps of the work flow process. PRP means Policy Request Protocol, a lightweight protocol for AAA request/responses within the gateway 1.
US07844733B2
A carrier grade content router, includes a distinct management plane for housing externally visible management applications, and coordinating and relaying external management requests to appropriate underlying application code in the router; a distinct control plane for running control protocols required within an XML routed network; and a distinct data plane for receiving and forwarding customer data. Some functions can be implemented in software or via a hardware accelerator.
US07844728B2
A method of supporting access to a selected Internet Protocol (IP) multimedia application via an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is provided for a roaming mobile node (MN)—i.e., user equipment (UE)served by a wireless telecommunications system. The method includes: includes establishing a first IP tunnel between the UE and a local access gateway of a visited network, the first tunnel being anchored at the local access gateway; establishing a second IP tunnel between the UE and a home gateway of a home network, the second tunnel being anchored at the home gateway; receiving data packets at the local access gateway for the UE; filtering the packets received at the local access gateway to suitably classify corresponding traffic into one of a plurality of data flows supported within the first tunnel at varying Quality of Service (QoS) levels; and filtering the received packets.
US07844722B2
Collecting user preference information related to a playing media recording is accomplished by gathering descriptive information related to the playing media recording from a media player program presenting the playing media recording and determining if tags are embedded in the media recording and gathering descriptive information related to the playing media recording from the tags embedded in the playing media recording, if the tags exist. Further, determining if a table of contents exists on the media recording and gathering a table of contents for a collection containing the playing media recording by identifying the collection using a concatenation of track lengths identifier generation technique, the table of contents exists. Then assembling the descriptive information into a media recording information packet and sending the media recording information packet to a server computer, resulting in a collection of user preference information related to the playing media recording.
US07844721B2
Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate providing software upgrade notifications to user devices that utilize unicast and multicast communication techniques in a wireless communication environment. Bandwidth and power consumption is minimized by permitting determination to be made regarding whether a given software update is relevant to the user device prior to attempting a download or receiving a notification thereof. Additionally, evaluation of version number and software identity facilitates determining whether to employ a unicast software check-up protocol or a multicast software check-up protocol. Software upgrade information may also be transmitted over a multicast channel for a predetermined time period, after which a user device may initiate a unicast check-up protocol to receive software upgrade information.
US07844716B2
A computer network system establishes an instant messaging (IM) session between a first user registered with a first ISP (ISP) and at least one user registered with a second ISP when the two ISPs operate using different IM protocols. The ISPs each contain a Local IM server connected to each registered user. Each ISP also contains a Universal IM server that is connected to the distributed network. The Universal IM server includes a database that stores routing information and Presence information for each user registered with the second ISPs and facilitates communications between the first and second user using a universal format, such as XML.
US07844715B2
A computer system that includes a plurality of servers, and a shared I/O subsystem coupled to each of the servers and to one or more I/O interfaces. The shared I/O subsystem services I/O requests made by two or more of the servers. Each I/O interface may couple to a network, appliance, or other device. The I/O requests serviced by the shared I/O subsystem may alternatively include software initiated or hardware initiated I/O requests. Different servers coupled to the shared I/O subsystem may use different operating systems, and each I/O interface may be used by two or more servers.
US07844713B2
A load balancing method for continuation requests transmitted from client moves session information to continuation request to another business server and embeds a character string for making a request transmission apparatus identify the business server of destination in to a response to the continuation request to return the response to the client, so that the business server of destination to which subsequent requests transmitted from the client are transferred is switched.
US07844707B2
The present invention provides a method and computer system for limiting a number of web service programming calls including intercepting a web request for web service programming from a client and extracting call specific data from the web request. The method and computing system further includes transmitting call specific data to a plurality of rate limiter servers and on the rate limiter servers, calculating a total number of web requests, where the web requests are identified by the call specific data. The method and computing system further includes receiving web request totals from the rate limiter servers and thereby determining accessibility of the client to the web request based on a comparison of the number of web requests for the web service programming relative to a predetermined access limit.
US07844697B1
A system measures traffic in a device. The system tracks an amount of data and the data units and predicts the amount of padding associated with the data units. The system determines the amount of traffic in the device based on the predicted padding, the amount of data, and the number of data units.
US07844690B1
Systems and methods are provided for facilitating analysis of a communications system through the use of a multi-protocol communications analyzer. A graphical user interface employed in connection with the multi-protocol communications analyzer enables a user to create a new domain, or modify an existing domain, that includes a list of ports selected by the user, where each port is associated with a particular communication link of the communications system. The ports are selected from a list of available ports displayed by the graphical user interface. The ports selected for inclusion in the domain can then be configured, by way of the graphical user interface, as desired. After the domain has been defined, the domain can then be used to analyze one or more of the links associated with the ports included in the domain.
US07844684B2
A subscription-based system provides transcribed audio information to one or more mobile devices. Some techniques feature a system for providing subscription services for currently-generated (e.g., not stored) information (e.g., caption information, transcribed audio) for one or more mobile devices for a live/current audio event. There can be a communication network for communicating to the one or more mobile devices, a transcriber configured for transcribing the event to generate information (e.g., caption information, transcribed audio). Caption data includes transcribed data and control code data. The system includes a subscription gateway configured for live/current transfer of the transcribed data to the one or more mobile devices. The subscription gateway is configured to provide access for the transcribed data to the one or more mobile devices. User preferences for subscribers can be set and/or updated by mobile device users and/or GPS-capable mobile devices to receive feeds for the live/current audio event.
US07844679B2
An arrangement and a device comprises a mobile data and communication network within a predetermined geographical area. The device operates with first and second functions that can consist of, for example, company and/or customers functions and communication and/or slave functions respectively. Two or more units in the first function are synchronized with each other as regards time and frequency in order to act, from the point of view of connection and disconnection functions, as a common first unit for second units that carry out the second function. Time consuming handshaking procedures are then avoided for the second units when these one's are moving and shifting between part areas of said predetermined area and the total system will operate rapidly in this respect.
US07844673B2
A user is notified of activity in an instant messaging session by receiving a selection input signal from a selection device. When the selection input signal is received, a minimized chat window is detached from a task bar and moved to a position on a display indicated by the selection input signal. A slot is displayed in the detached chat window for each open instant messaging session.
US07844670B2
A system, method, and computer program product is provided for establishing real-time communications between computer users connected by a communications network. An invitation is created by a first computer. An invitation is data that proposes a communication session. An invitation can indicate the status or availability of the sending user or of some other resource. Creation of the invitation is followed by the transfer of the invitation from the first computer to at least one second computer. The invitation can be transferred electronically through the network, or physically, by the transfer of a magnetic medium bearing the invitation. The invitation contains parameters to configure an invitation communicator application for communications between the first and second computers. The second computer accepts the invitation and invokes an invitation communicator application to allow communication.
US07844667B2
A presentity service client has a presentity that issues presence information to a presence service and a watcher which observes presence information for other presentities; a presence change rule holding part holds a presence change rule; and a presence calculating part changes the presence information for the presentity, using as a trigger a change in presence information of other presentities, based on the presence information of other presentity acquired by the watcher and in accordance with the presence change rule held by a presence change rules holding part.
US07844664B2
The present invention discloses a group based communication method, including: initiating, by a communication initiating client, a connection request containing a recipient identifier to a backstage server; forwarding, by the backstage server, the connection request to a communication recipient client corresponding to the recipient identifier; and establishing, by the communication recipient client, a short connection channel or long connection channel to the communication initiating client according to a type of the connection request and performing a communication supported by the short connection channel or the long connection channel with the communication initiating client. The present invention also discloses a group based communication system and client. The method, system and client provided by the present invention brings out much richer communication and interaction between communicating users, who not only can transmit text data, but also can transmit file and audio/video data.
US07844661B2
A media server in a home entertainment network coordinates with a media player connected with the network to provide a media presentation with a combined user interface (UI) on an attached display device. Media content is sourced locally on a networked media player. The media player extracts metadata related to the media content and transmits the metadata to the media server. The media server creates the UI to include components related to the media content rendered by the media player. The media server then transmits the UI to the media player for combination with the rendered media content for a composite output to a presentation device. The media server may further develop and transmit compositing instructions and additional media content to the media player for inclusion in the composite output.
US07844638B2
The present invention relates to the description of a data stream having data stream subdomains, which can be referenced and classified, and a data stream syntax. According to the present invention, the data stream subdomains are referenced and classified by division into at least one respective class of a classification, whereby the classification is at least partially independent of the syntax of the data stream.
US07844635B2
A method, computer program product, and a data processing system that facilitates navigation through a directed graph for selection of sub-processes of a modified business process derived from a business process is provided. A bounding box is used for evaluating and selecting sequences of nodes representative of business sub-processes or services. The bounding box has a predefined depth for limiting the scope of the evaluation. The bounding box is shifted during the evaluation as sequences of nodes are selected. Additionally, state data is maintained such that a sense response model may be employed to detect and account for changes to the environment in previously evaluated services. By maintaining state data, a transition to a previously evaluated sub-process may be implemented to account for significant changes in the environment.
US07844627B2
This invention is to present specific information necessary for maintenance of programs in an information system. This program analysis method includes: storing an entity that is an information unit as an object of a processing in a program into a relation table in association with an event affecting a processing for the entity; calculating importance degrees of the events by using data stored in the relation table; and identifying an event affecting a processing for a specific entity by using the data stored in the relation table, and calculating an influence degree of the specific entity by using the importance degree of the identified event. Because the user can grasp the influence degree of the entity, it becomes easy to grasp how much the update of the entity affects other portion in the information system.
US07844624B2
The information delivery system is configured with a media database 1009 which stores media data, a sequence information database 1008 which stores sequence information for specifying the address of media data to deliver, a scene searcher 1005 which verifies the sequence information according to a request of the controlling media received from client terminal 1000 and retrieves appropriate media data from the media database 1009 starting from a prescribed point based on a result of the verification, and an output unit 1006 which delivers the retrieved media data to the client terminal 1000.
US07844621B2
A method of enabling users to perform a search by providing a search request form. The search request form is generated by a computer system which determines search information indicative of a visible representation of a search request form including at least one interactive element, and an identity which is at least partially indicative of the interactive element. Coded data is generated which is indicative of the identity and of a plurality of reference points, and a page description determined which is indicative of a layout of the coded data and the search information. The computer system records an association between the identity with the page description and then causes the search request form to be printed by printing the coded data and the search information using the layout, at least some of the coded data being printed coincident with the at least one interactive element.
US07844620B2
Embodiments of the invention may be used to increase query processing parallelism of an in-memory database stored on a parallel computing system. A group of compute nodes each store a portion of data as part of the in-memory database. Further, a pool of compute nodes may be reserved to create copies of data from the compute nodes of the in-memory database as part of query processing. When a query is received for execution, the query may be evaluated to determine whether portions of in-memory should be duplicated to allow multiple elements of the query (e.g., multiple query predicates) to be evaluated in parallel.
US07844616B2
The invention provides a method, system, and program product for discovering relevant information in a dynamic information system (DIS). An illustrative method according to the invention includes comparing information provided by the user to information in a network, determining whether the network contains information relevant to the information provided by the user, and displaying to the user an object containing the relevant information.
US07844614B2
In some embodiments, a method and apparatus for enhanced revocation of direct proof and direct anonymous attestation are described. In one embodiment a trusted hardware device verifies that membership of the device within a trusted membership group is not revoked according to a revocation list received with a challenge request from a verifier. Once such verification is performed, the device convinces the verifier of possessing cryptographic information without revealing unique, device identification information of the trusted hardware device or the cryptographic information. In one embodiment, the trusted hardware device computes a digital signature on a message received with the challenge request to the verifier if membership of the anonymous hardware device within a trusted membership group is verified. In one embodiment, the verifier authenticates the digital signature according to a public key of the trusted membership group to enable a trusted member device to remain anonymous to the verifier. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07844607B2
Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture that may be used to create and share annotations for query components, such as query conditions, in an effort to share domain knowledge, are provided. The annotations may be created by users with particular domain knowledge and may contain information useful to other users when building queries including the annotated query components. An annotation may indicate a particular format or syntax for an associated query component. In some cases, a replacement to the associated query component is suggested.
US07844605B2
A method is described for augmenting sponsored search results in a search engine, which includes extracting attribute data from a plurality of natural searches for a search term linked to a plurality of uniform resource locators (URLs), analyzing the attribute data of one or more attributes for clickers and non-clickers to determine at least one greatest distinguishing factor between the clickers and non-clickers, and integrating the at least one greatest distinguishing factor into a matching algorithm used by the search engine to rank order and display a plurality of the most relevant ads corresponding to the plurality of URLs in response to a search for the term. The method may also integrate the at least one greatest distinguishing factor into a marketer algorithm to enable a marketer of a URL to strategically choose a search term, along with the at least one greatest distinguishing factor, on which to bid.
US07844596B2
A system, method, and computer-implementable method for aiding file searching within a file service by indexing historical filenames and locations. In response to receiving a request to alter a first name corresponding to a file within the file system to a second name, a file system manager associates the second name to the first name and to the file within the file system data structure. When receiving a request for a file, wherein the request includes the first name, the file system manager searches the file system for the file based on the first name. When determining the search based on the first name is not successful, the file system manager searches the file system data structure for the file based on the second name. When the second name is located within the file system data structure, the file system manager returns the file to fulfill the request.
US07844595B2
A device, computer program product and a method for computing the similarity of a set of documents that avoids the large, wasted computational effort involved in calculating very small similarity scores by using thresholds to stop a similarity calculation between documents, thus ensuring that, with high probability, all document pairs with higher similarity than the thresholds have been found.
US07844591B1
A method for displaying an image with search results is described, including detecting a trigger related to a search request, selecting an image and retrieving the image in response to detecting the trigger, determining a search result in response to detecting the trigger, presenting the search result and the image with the search result.
US07844590B1
A tracking system passively tracks and records searches conducted by actual search engine users. The recorded data for each search event preferably includes the search query submitted, the search engine used, the search result item (e.g., web page) selected, the position (e.g., page number) of this item, and the user's IP address. The collected data is aggregated and analyzed to generate data regarding the search queries used to locate and access particular destinations (e.g., web pages and sites). This data may be used for various purposes, such as (1) to generate reports showing, e.g., how users reach a particular destination from different search engines and geographic locations, (2) to select content to display on a destination page, such that the content is relevant to search queries commonly used to locate that page, and (3) to update the database of one search engine to reflect searches conducted on other search engines.
US07844589B2
A method and apparatus for generating search results with higher relevancy. More specifically, the present invention provides a listing of narrowing or related search terms based upon the search term submitted by the user. The present invention effectively guides users to narrow their search by guiding users to select or click on highly related search terms. In one embodiment, the listing of the highly related search terms is generated in accordance with sales and/or click information, e.g., via scoring of search terms that is premised on sales and/or click information.
US07844580B2
Methods and systems for efficient file replication are provided. In some embodiments, one or more coarse signatures for blocks in a base file are compared with those coarse signatures for blocks of a revised file, until a match is found. A fine signature is then generated for the matching block of the revised file and compared to a fine signature of the base file. Thus, fine signatures are not computed unless a coarse signature match has been found, thereby minimizing unneeded time-consuming fine signature calculations. Methods are also provided for determining whether to initiate a delta file generation algorithm, or whether to utilize a more efficient replication method, based upon system and/or file parameters. In accordance with additional embodiments, the lengths of valid data on physical blocks are obtained from physical block mappings for the files, and these lengths and mappings are utilized for delta file generation, to minimize unnecessary signature computations.
US07844579B2
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide an archive management application that operates within a host application to provide access to an archive and/or allow access to and/or modification of files in an archive using the host application's interface, instead of operating as a separate standalone archive management application. In an embodiment of the present invention, a file archiving system may include a user interface component, a file management component and a compression/extraction engine component. The user interface component may include an enhanced user interface of a host application that provides an interface for a user. The file management component may include a central directory that provides a representation of the contents of an archive. The compression/extraction engine component may include a file size module and/or a security module. The file size module may be used to compress and/or decompress a file in an archive. The security module may be used to encrypt, decrypt, digitally sign and/or authenticate a file in an archive.
US07844575B2
A data migration method is provided which can provide a user at a low cost with a function of migrating data from an existing storage when an additional storage is installed. A business application is operated by using a business server and a first storage. When the capacity and performance of data used by a business application become insufficient, a second storage is installed to compensate for insufficiency. In this case, the management server collectively copies data and configuration information of the first storage to the second storage, the data and configuration information are deleted at a later time in accordance with migration command information selected from a GUI screen. It is therefore possible to migrate necessary data and configuration information of the first storage to the second storage, without making a user be conscious of the details of the configuration information of logical devices of a storage.
US07844574B2
Systems, methods and computer program products for automatic network-based persistent XML storage and management. Exemplary embodiments include a method including loading an XDM widget having internal XML, sending an XCAP GET request via an XCAP URI parameter, retrieving an existing XML document at a location associated with the XCAP URI parameter, invoking an initializer callback function via the XDM widget to populate the internal XML with default values associated with an etag, wherein the etag is null, sending an XCAP PUT request via the XCAP URI to store the existing XML document, executing etag header scenarios, providing XML management functions to automatically publish changes to the server, and trigger a timer function to poll for updates from the server and display the resulting updates to the user's screen via a render callback function.
US07844569B2
A method and system for creation of customized documents over a network as well as for negotiation of contents for documents over a network (e.g., Internet) is disclosed. In one aspect, professional documents can be created in an automated manner. In another aspect, negotiation of documents (or their contents) can be performed in an automated manner. In either case, the customization and/or negotiation is efficient, cost-effective and useful.
US07844563B2
Described is a system and method for determining relationships between a plurality of existing rules in a rule set, wherein the relationships include cause interactions and effect interactions among the existing rules, creating a representation of the relationships including the cause interactions and effect interactions, receiving a new rule to be inserted into the rule set and determining if a conflict is created by insertion of the new rule in the rule set.
US07844560B2
Automated treatment planning is provided with individual specific consideration. One or more prognosis models indicate survivability as a function of patient specific information for a given dose. By determining survivability for a plurality of doses, the biological model represented by survivability as a function of dose is determined from the specific patient. Similarly, the chances of complications or side effects are determined. The chance of survivability and chance of complication are used as or instead of the tumor control probability and normal tissue complications probability, respectively. The desired tumor dosage and tolerance dosage are selected as a function of the patient specific dose distributions. The selected dosages are input to an inverse treatment planning system for establishing radiation treatment parameters.
US07844559B2
A method for constructing a process performance prediction model for a material processing system, the method including the steps of: recording tool data for a plurality of observations during a process in a process tool, the tool data comprises a plurality of tool data parameters; recording process performance data for the plurality of observations during the process in the process tool, the process performance data comprises one or more process performance parameters; performing a partial least squares analysis using the tool data and the process performance data; and computing correlation data from the partial least squares analysis.
US07844553B2
The systems and methods described herein relate generally to the integration of a shipping label with a customs form to provide a single label having postage, addressing, customs and other information for international shipping. In one embodiment, a method for generating an international shipping a package comprises the steps of providing shipping information associated with the package, the information comprising address information of the origin, address information of the destination, postage information including a postage amount due to a post service and a customs form number unique within the post service; processing a shipping label having the shipping information displayed thereon; and affixing the shipping label to the package.
US07844548B2
Methods and systems for submitting media to a media distribution site are disclosed. The submission of media to the media distribution site is able to be performed by numerous submitters in a uniform and computer-assisted manner. The submitted media can then be encoded in a largely automated manner at the media distribution site into a suitable digital form and then made available for online purchase and distribution.
US07844547B2
The Universal Automatic Instant Money, Data and Gold Transfer Machine, Uncle GEM II, system is a multiplicity of devices on a communications network available 24 hours a day, used interchangeably as sender, receiver and dispenser of funds and data. The sender accepts standard currency and includes removable medium storage devices to transfer to another such device acting as a receiver/dispenser. Remitted amounts are inserted or deducted from credit/debit accounts or currency and who pays the fees charged is indicated by an initiator of the transaction. Transfer transaction information includes: the type of transfer (money/funds or data); which device deducts the fee; how much money or what data to transfer; and to who and where the transfer transaction is to be made available. A receipt is generated by the sender via the system and a receiver becomes a dispenser when the recipient retrieves a pending transaction using the appropriate password or identification. The cash, data, or financial instrument is then dispensed. The Uncle GEMs also feature acceptance of alternate payment options, such as, precious metal coins, i.e., gold, silver and platinum, and precious stones, i.e. diamonds, sapphires, and rubies. In essence, virtually anything can be bought, purchased, bartered, traded or sold. Smartcards, phonecards and store specific cards can be used to buy goods and services, can be bought, or can be reloaded using the Uncle GEM II system.
US07844545B2
A method of confirming the validity of an identification presented by an individual in a financial transaction includes receiving transaction information at a transaction device that is usable to perform the financial transaction. The method also includes determining the need for identification information based at least in part on the transaction information. The method further includes receiving identification information at the transaction device. The identification information is obtained from an identification of the individual and the identification information has a format. The method also includes transmitting the identification information to a host computer system. At the host computer system and based at least in part on the format of the identification information, the validity of the identification from which the identification information was obtained is accessed.
US07844537B2
In transactions between a consumer and a merchant where a merchant requires a deposit for participation, a method and system are provided for intermediating the transaction (10). The system enables a consumer to secure the required deposit amount for the transaction with funds deposited in one of a bank account (14) or a special deposit account (16). Fees are generated based on a percentage of the deposit amount secured with the deposited funds and/or by providing an interest rate on funds deposited in the special deposit account (16) with a fixed spread from a bank interest rate. The system assures merchants that deposit funds have been reserved for a particular transaction, and enables consumers to participate in such transactions without requiring an actual transfer of funds.
US07844531B1
Market depth information pertaining to the hedging side is utilized to intelligently break a non-hedging order into multiple orders, such that the orders rest at cascading price levels. This way, the trader can benefit from sweeps in the book and still properly accound for the market depth on the hedging side. Further, there is a greater probability of receiving “partials” on the spread order. In addition, hedge orders may be sent at multiple price levels, or sent to the market in pieces over time. By applying a more intelligent process to hedge orders (as opposed to “fire and forget”) an alternative beyond limit orders that can be leged or market orders is provided.
US07844523B2
The present invention relates to analysis of trusts that have multiple beneficiaries whose interests mature in different time periods or under different conditions. In particular, we disclose automatic mapping of interests in one or more trusts, optionally subject to user confirmation, to long and short positions in financial or derivative interests that have expected payouts and costs that can be offset against underlying trust assets. The underlying assets and long and short positions in the mapped instruments can be attributed to various beneficiaries and subjected to various risk and investment analyses.
US07844521B1
A method and system for identifying business managing consumers includes a process for identifying business managing consumers whereby financial transaction data for various consumers is obtained from one or more sources using a computing system implemented financial management system. The consumers' financial transaction data is then analyzed to identify financial transactions typically associated with ownership and/or management of a business, i.e., business management related transactions. If more than a defined threshold number of business management related transactions associated with a given consumer are identified, that consumer is categorized as a business managing consumer. Sellers of business related products and/or service are then given access to the identified business managing consumers for promoting their various business related products and services.
US07844519B2
A system for transferring a customer's account information from one account to a new account is described. The system utilizes a switch kit application and associated system that can determine services at the old account and facilitate the transfer of these services to the new account.
US07844509B2
A computer implemented method, apparatus, system, and computer usable program code for monitoring a real-time depletion of an item in a storage unit. A controller identifies an item placed in the storage unit to form an identified item. The controller detects a change in mass sensor data from a mass sensor shelf in a set of mass sensor shelves associated with the storage unit. The controller associates the change in mass sensor data with the identified item to form a current mass for the identified item. The controller determines a depletion of the identified item based a difference between the current mass and a previous mass for the identified item.
US07844506B2
Under the present invention an identifier for a computer system undergoing an IT migration is extracted from a pertinent field the record. Thereafter, a mapping table is consulted. The mapping table generally contains entries that associate computer system identifiers with identifiers of hardware components that have been installed (or are to be installed) in the computer systems. Using the computer system identifier extracted from the record, an associated hardware component identifier is determined from the mapping table, and automatically populated into a corresponding field (e.g., a hardware component field) of the record. Thus, the present invention avoids having to manually populate the hardware component identifier into the record.
US07844497B2
An integrated shipping scheme enables users of a third-party payment service to facilitate shipment of packages via a shipping vendor. Web pages corresponding to a web site hosted by the third-party payment service enable a sender to enter ship to: information, while ship from: information may be automatically gathered or manually entered by the sender. The sender is also enabled to enter shipment options, such as package size and weight. Corresponding shipping information is generated and sent “behind the scenes” to a selected shipping vendor. The shipping vendor processes the shipping information, and returns shipment data, including data to generate a shipping label. A web page containing the shipping label is then generated and served to a client operated by the sender, enabling the shipping label to be printed out. At the same time, electronic payment transfer operations are performed to effectively transfer payment from the sender directly to the shipping vendor via the third-party payment service in a manner that is transparent to both the sender and the shipping vendor.
US07844494B2
A method for tracking status of an inventory shipment sent to a recipient includes monitoring whether the recipient has transmitted an electronic acknowledgment of the status of the shipment; and automatically transmitting a message to the recipient requesting acknowledgment of receipt of inventory if the electronic acknowledgment is not transmitted by the recipient within a first predetermined amount of time.
US07844490B2
A method for using promotional programs and merchant values is disclosed. In one example, the method includes receiving an authorization request message including a merchant verification value through a payment processing network, where the authorization request message is associated with a purchase by a consumer. A merchant-specific promotional program is then determined using the merchant verification value, and the merchant specific promotional program is performed. For example, the promotional program can be a sweepstakes and the task may be determining of the consumer is an instant winner.
US07844484B2
A system and method for collecting and analyzing electronic discussion messages to categorize the message communications and to identify trends and patterns in pre-determined markets. The system comprises an electronic data discussion system wherein electronic messages are collected and analyzed according to characteristics and data inherent in the messages. Objective data is collected by the system for use in analyzing the electronic discussion data against real-world events to facilitate trend analysis and event forecasting based on the volume, nature and content of messages posted to electronic discussion forums. The message posting activity of a plurality of posters can be tracked to determine the tendency of individual posters to initiate or moderate discussions, accurately predict events external to the discussion forums, accelerate or decelerate a buzz level in a forum, or precede a rising market or a falling market.
US07844481B2
A system and methods for shipping a package (12) from a package sender (16) to an intended recipient (18), utilizing Internet communications (30) to place shipping orders, request on demand package pickup, maintain and utilize prestored profile information, view shipping history, track orders, etc. A package sender (16) with an Internet-accessible computer (20) accesses an Internet site and associated shipping system (10) operated by a shipping service provider (14). The package sender (16) enters information required for shipping the package (12), including shipping options and methods for payment. The options and payment for the shipment transaction are validated. If the transaction is validated, printer indicia are communicated to the customer's computer (20), which is enabled to locally print a prepaid label (25) containing special machine-readable (876) as well as human-readable indicia (904). The shipping service provider (14) acquires the package by drop-off, standard pickup or on call pickup, scans the machine readable indicia, verifies other indicia of authenticity, and processes the package (12) in accordance with information encoded on the label.
US07844480B2
Disclosed are a method, system and computer program for managing multiple projects. The method comprises the steps of defining a plurality of projects requiring resources, each of said projects having a project manager; and managing said resources with resource buffers and replenishment times. Said replenishment times are incorporated by said project manager, into resource view plans for said plurality of projects. The preferred embodiment of the invention employs a technique called Replenishment to manage resources when Critical Chain (CC) is used on diverse projects. This embodiment of the invention overcomes problems with the Strategic Resource approach by (1) not requiring identification of a common strategic resource, (2) providing heuristics to determine how much spare capacity to provide for each resource type, and (3) allowing projects to be started or completed on demand.
US07844479B2
Timely projections of product sales for a reporting time period are obtained by combining actual sales data received from reporting stores and estimated sales data for non-reporting stores. The projections are adjusted to account for trailing data, which may be reported after the end of the subject time period.
US07844475B1
The present invention includes a new system and method for the construction of agricultural marketing plans for agricultural producers. The present invention further includes a system and method for mass customization and delivery of the plans to producers and other interested parties, including electronic delivery of the plans and associated marketing information on an individualized basis. One aspect of the present invention involves calculating an optimized crop insurance revenue plan. Another aspect of the present invention relates to the quantification of price risk and the quantification of financial risk and the combination of these different types of risks to determine an overall risk for an agricultural operation.
US07844470B2
A system links a standardized coded diagnosis associated with a medication order with information in a pharmacy information system to supplement medication utilization data. A pharmacy user interface system includes a user interface processor for providing data representing at least one display image supporting user entry of a coded diagnosis identifier for association with an order identifier identifying a medication order record indicating an order for a particular medication to be administered to a particular patient during an inpatient stay in a medical facility. A repository stores information associating multiple order identifiers and associated multiple coded diagnosis identifiers A utilization processor uses the stored repository information and processing data associating multiple order identifiers and associated multiple coded diagnosis identifiers to determine utilization information indicating usage characteristics of a particular medication for treatment of a condition indicated by a particular coded diagnosis.
US07844453B2
An enhancement system improves the estimate of noise from a received signal. The system includes a spectrum monitor that divides a portion of the signal at more than one frequency resolution. Adaptation logic derives a noise adaptation factor of the received signal. A plurality of devices tracks the characteristics of an estimated noise in the received signal and modifies multiple noise adaptation rates. Weighting logic applies the modified noise adaptation rates derived from the signal divided at a first frequency resolution to the signal divided at a second frequency resolution.
US07844450B2
The invention provides a method for analysing an input signal having an input frequency bandwidth. The method comprises providing at least one frequency-bandwidth limited portion of the input signal. For each frequency-bandwidth limited portion of the input signal the durations of half-periods and signal excursions during respective half-periods are determined. Based on the signal excursions and corresponding half-periods a quality of the input signal is determined. The determined signal quality can be a vowel in a 10 speech signal or a quality related to a condition of an industrial product. The method provides speaker independent vowel recognition, and even whispered vowels can be recognised.
US07844447B2
The present invention provides method and apparatus for bilingual word alignment, method and apparatus for training bilingual word alignment model. The method for training bilingual word alignment model, comprising: training a bilingual word alignment model for a first language and a second language, using a bilingual corpus of the first and second languages; training a bilingual word alignment model for the second language and a third language, using a bilingual corpus of the second and third languages; and estimating a bilingual word alignment model for the first language and the third language, based on said bilingual word alignment model for the first and second languages and said bilingual word alignment model for the second and third languages.
US07844437B1
A system and method for matching the hardware resource requirements of a user module with the available resources of an underlying integrated circuit is shown. Databases are utilized to describe the requirements of a particular user module and the resources of a particular chip. A graphical interface is utilized to relate a selected user module with potentially appropriate resources, and to illustrate alternative placements. This graphical interface utilizes highlights of both the module and the associated resource in patterns, grayscales, or colors to graphically illustrate the relationship between the module and the associated resource.
US07844433B2
A system for designing a utility facility includes a state analyzer analyzing operational states of tools included in a production line, an extraction module extracting an operational period and a standby period of each of the tools, a calculator calculating changes in a quantity of utilities consumed by the tools in operation and in standby, based on the operational periods and the standby periods, and a facility design module designing at least any of a utility facility for supplying utilities to the tools and a utility facility for disposing of utilities discharged from the tools.
US07844431B2
An integrated system for modeling, simulating and analyzing chemical and biochemical reactions includes a modeling environment for constructing a model of a chemical or biochemical reaction. The system also includes a simulation engine accepting as input the constructed model of the chemical or biochemical reaction and generating as output an expected result. An analysis environment communicates with the simulation engine and displays the expected result.
US07844430B2
Disclosed are various reservoir model generation methods. At least one of the methods includes providing a first framework having a plurality of cells, wherein the first framework is a reservoir framework and providing a second framework having a plurality of cells, wherein the volume of the first framework is greater than the volume of the second framework.
US07844429B2
A system and method for modeling of complete tooth, including root and crown, of a patient to facilitate orthodontic treatment are provided, wherein a generic tooth modeling is combined with a tooth crown modeling for a patient to yield a complete tooth modeling. A generic tooth three-dimensional model for a particular tooth is morphed with a three-dimensional model of a patient's crown for the corresponding tooth to yield a complete three-dimensional model for that tooth. Modeling techniques can be conducted with computer-based systems, such as systems configured for storing patient data and generic tooth data, morphing such data and/or facilitating additional orthodontic treatment applications, through the use of one or more algorithms. Adjustment of the complete tooth model for the tooth can be provided through additional patient information, such as X-ray imaging, to address variations in root shape between a generic root and an actual root shape for a patient.
US07844427B1
A computer-implemented method of predicting an output of a model includes receiving output data from a first run of a target predictive model. One or more additional sets of output data is received from runs of one or more alternate predictive model. The alternate predictive models predict parameters that relate to the output data of the first predictive model. A future output of a second run of the target predictive model is predicted based on the output data from the first run of the target predictive model and one or more sets of additional output data from runs of the alternate prediction model.
US07844424B2
A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for simulating human behavior. Source code, written in a language for predicting human behavior, is located on a storage system in a network data processing system. An interpreter executing on hardware has a language interpreter and a communications module. The language interpreter executes a simulation with the source code using artificial intelligence to generate a new definition and interpreted source code. A graphical user interface processor receives the interpreted source code from the language interpreter and generates device dependent output. Devices display the device dependent output, receive user input, and send received user input to the graphical user interface processor. The communications module receives the received user input from the graphical user interface processor and the new definition from the language interpreter and modifies the source code to form modified source code that is executed by the language interpreter.
US07844423B2
Channel access delays and reception uncertainty are modeled as protocol-independent generic processes that are optimized for improved simulation performance. The generic process components are designed such that each different protocol can be modeled using an arrangement of these components that is specific to the protocol. In this way, speed and/or accuracy improvements to the generic process components are reflected in each of such protocol models. If an accurate analytic model is not available for the generic process component, a prediction engine, such as a neural network, is preferably used. The prediction engine is trained using the existing detailed models of network devices. Once trained, the prediction engine is used to model the generic process, and the protocol model that includes the generic component is used in lieu of the detailed models, thereby saving substantial processing time.
US07844421B2
The present invention is a process for simulating a SAW device, while taking into account the thickness of the substrate. An aspect of the present invention is simulating a traveling surface acoustic wave in a periodic waveguide. The surface acoustic wave is simulated by analyzing an upper portion of the waveguide including a periodic array of electrodes using a periodic finite element method. The simulation further involves analyzing a lower portion of the waveguide including a bottom of the waveguide with an analytic method.
US07844418B2
Methods for distributing a random variable by spatial interpolation with statistical corrections. The method includes assigning a numerical value of the random variable at each vertex of an array of equilateral triangles formed in a planar coordinate frame and defining a plurality of test points at respective spatial locations in the planar coordinate frame that are bounded by the array of equilateral triangles. A numerical value of the random variable is distributed at each of the test points by spatial interpolation from one or more of the numerical values of the random variable assigned at each vertex of the array of equilateral triangles. The method further includes adjusting the numerical value of the random variable distributed at each of the test points with a respective correction factor.
US07844417B2
Method of assessing population with a spatially-stratified random sample comprising creating a grid on a study area, the grid being defined by target grid points to form grid cell, dividing each grid cell into a series of sub-grid cells, each of the series of sub-grid cells being identified from left to right and bottom to top within each of the grid cells, identifying and listing each sub-grid cell that intersects the study area, the list of sub-grid cells being sequences in the same order as the grid cells and the sub-grid cells, dividing the sub-grid list into sections, each of the sections being configured to have substantially equal numbers of sub-grid cells, and the number of sections being equal to the number of targeted grid points, and selecting a random sub-grid cell from each section of sub-grid cells to obtain the spatially-stratified random sample.
US07844414B2
A method of calibrating an individual sensor of a particular sensor type whose output varies non-linearly with at least one measured quantity and at least one operating condition. The first step includes producing a set of calibration curves for each sample sensor of the particular sensor type. The resulting sets of calibration curves are then averaged and the results used to produce a generic calibration surface for the particular sensor type showing its variation. Individual calibration measurements are then taken for a number of different values of the measured quantity at a small number of discrete values. The individual calibration readings are then used to map the generic calibration surface to the individual calibration measurements of the individual sensor.
US07844410B2
The field-device electronics includes an electric current adjuster, through which a supply current flows, driven by a supply voltage provided by the external energy supply and adjusted by the current adjuster. Additionally, the field-device electronics includes an internal operating and evaluating circuit for controlling the field device, as well as an internal supply circuit feeding the internal operating and evaluating circuit. Provided in the supply circuit is a first useful-voltage controller flowed-through by a first component of the supply current, and a second useful-voltage controller flowed through, at least at times, by a second current component of the supply current, and providing in the field-device electronics a second internal, useful voltage. Further, the two useful-voltage controllers are galvanically separated from one another.
US07844408B2
A time domain reflectometry (“TDR”) testing method that includes storing test data resulted from a TDR test applied on an electronic component, displaying the test data, identifying a distinctive portion of the test data corresponding to a defective location in the electronic component, modifying the distinctive portion of the test data, and computing the modified test data to verify whether a predetermined requirement is satisfied.
US07844389B2
A dual injection type internal combustion engine including an injector for in-cylinder injection and an injector for intake manifold injection includes a learning device for learning a background noise level based on an output signal of a knock sensor, and a knocking suppression control device for performing, while learning the background noise level, knocking suppression control by controlling fuel injection of the injector for in-cylinder injection or the injector for intake manifold injection. Alternatively, the engine includes a fixing device for fixing, while learning the background noise level, a start timing or end timing of fuel injection by the injector for in-cylinder injection at a basic timing determined by an operating state of the engine.
US07844386B2
A reference signal generator generating a reference signal for high-resolution measurement/control in real time includes a means for calculating the rotational trend, e.g. increase/decrease in the r.p.m., of an engine when a first tooth is detected by an angle sensor at the (n−1)-th cycle according to the mutual relation between the time interval between the first tooth and a second tooth just before the first tooth at the (n−1)-th cycle of the engine rotation and the time interval between the first tooth and a third tooth just after the first tooth, a rotation time predicting means for predicting the time interval between the first tooth and the third tooth at the n-th cycle by reflecting the rotational trend on the time interval between the first tooth and the second tooth at the n-th cycle, and a means for generating a reference signal by dividing a predicted time interval in correspondence with a predetermined angle resolution during the time after the first tooth is detected by the angle sensor at the n-th cycle till the third tooth is detected by the same.
US07844380B2
A system and method of guiding a vehicle comprises establishing elevation data and corresponding location data for a work area. A particular location of a vehicle within the work area is determined. Roll data and pitch data are estimated corresponding to the particular location. The vehicle is guided based upon the estimated roll data and the pitch data such that the vehicle follows a desired path.
US07844371B2
A remote data concentrator receives signals from a plurality of sensors. The plurality of sensors are for use on an aircraft. Each of the sensors have their signals split between at least two flow paths, such that each of the sensors are provided with redundancy. The remote data concentrator is also utilized as part of an aircraft electrical control system.
US07844367B2
Described herein are several embodiments relating to modular irrigation controllers. In many implementations, methods of implementing irrigation control are provided that detect a presence of a first module coupled with a control unit of an irrigation controller, the control unit operating in accordance with a bootloader set of code and a first set of code to implement irrigation control, identify that the first module stores a second set of code, and activate the bootloader set of code to replace the first set of code with the second set of code. Also described are various different types of modular controllers, expansion modules that may be coupled to the modular controller, having as variety of functions and features, as well as related methods of use and configuration of the controller and these modules in the controller.
US07844362B2
The invention relates to a medicament dispensing container for dispensing medicaments contained therein and further including electronic circuitry for performing various functions such as, for example, determining an operating mode of the container, determining if the data stored in the memory device is up to date, determining if a new container needs to be ordered, determining if the medicament units have been recalled, determining if the container is to be returned for credit, determining if the medicament units may cause adverse side effects to a specified patient, and determining if the container is to be discarded.
US07844361B2
The drug compliance monitoring system provides a patient with a portable medication dispenser programmed with medication-taking data. The dispenser alerts the patient to take a dose of medication and gathers compliance data relating to the medication-taking data. The compliance data is accessible to a physician, or other caregiver, etc., via a network database.
US07844358B2
The invention relates to a method for materials handling via a number of materials handling cells by passing on materials handling containers, in which each materials handling cell includes a first electric motor and a first control unit, in which each materials handling container is assigned at least one data element including at least information about the way or the destination of the materials handling container, in which the data element is passed on to the next materials handling cell and stored there in the control unit, when the materials handling container is passed on there, and where the evaluation of the data element and the control of its passing on is performed in the first control unit contained in the first electric motor, as well as to a materials handling cell and to an electric motor therefor.
US07844357B2
A target value that serves as a control value with feed forward control is optimized. A TL performs a feed forward and a feedback control of a PM. A storage unit stores a plurality of recipes indicating different processing sequences, and a target value that serves as a control value when performing an etching process. A communication unit causes an IMM to measure a processing state of the wafer and receives measurement information. A computation unit computes a feedback value for the current wafer processed in the current cycle, based on pre-processing and post-processing measurement information for the wafer. An update unit updates the target value using the feedback value. A recipe adjustment unit changes the recipe to change the process performed in the same PM. When the process is performed after changing, the updated target value is used to perform feed forward control of the wafer in the same PM.
US07844355B2
A stream playback device for playing back an audio stream including audio frames which are each made up of base data and extension data is provided. The stream playback device includes a decoder and an interface unit operable to receive the audio stream supplied from a stream supply device. The stream playback device notifies the stream supply device whether only the base data or both the base data and the extension data are usable in decoding of the audio stream by the decoder, through the interface unit.
US07844347B2
Unique electrodes and/or electrical lead assemblies are provided for stimulating cardiac tissue, muscle tissue, neurological tissue, brain tissue and/or organ tissue; to electrophysiology mapping and ablation catheters for monitoring and selectively altering physiologic conduction pathways. The electrodes, lead assemblies and catheters optionally include fluid irrigation conduit(s) for providing therapeutic and/or performance enhancing materials to adjacent biological tissue. Each device is coupled to or incorporates nanotube structures or materials therein. Methods for fabricating, deploying, and operating such medical devices are also provided.
US07844343B2
A medical lead is provided for use in a pulse stimulation system of the type which includes a pulse generator for producing electrical stimulation therapy. The lead comprises an elongate insulating body and at least one electrical conductor within the insulating body. The conductor has a proximal end configured to be electrically coupled to the pulse generator and has a DC resistance in the range of 375-2000 ohms. At least one distal electrode is coupled to the conductor.
US07844342B2
Various powering devices are provided for transferring and/or generating energy from numerous sources to a communicating member implanted in a patient. The energy transferred to or generated by the communicating member can be used to provide power to an implantable restriction system configured to form a restriction in a pathway.
US07844339B2
A procedure and machine promotes healing by causing muscle fasciculation and contraction relaxation cycles that effectively pump blood through the microcirculation, draining the venous beds and raising the tissue oxygen levels. A high phase charged system is electronically pulsed and adjusted to induce deep-layered muscle contractions, causing greatly increased flow rates of both blood and lymphatics, patency of vessels permitting, and forcing blood into the microcirculation of the treated tissue. The machine electrical waveform stimulates angiogenesis, facilitating new tissue growth and repair in the healing process and raises the metabolic rate in the treated tissues.
US07844337B2
A system comprising an implantable medical device that comprises at least one electrical input to receive sensed electrical activity of a heart of a patient, a memory, and a controller circuit. The controller circuit is coupled to the electrical input and memory and is operable to enter a memory scrubbing mode that increases a rate of detecting and correcting single bit errors in the memory when the controller circuit determines the implantable device is in a high-energy radiation environment.
US07844329B2
An implantable connector for connecting components of implantable medical devices. The connector comprises first and second connector halves electrically coupled to the implantable components. A sealing membrane is provided to seal the electrical connection between the first and second connector halves. The sealing membrane is configured to be ruptured with a minimal amount of force so that the connector halves may be readily disconnected from each other.
US07844319B2
Herein is disclosed a probe, including a first electrode disposed at least partially on the probe surface, a second electrode disposed at least partially on the probe surface, a first conductor electrically coupled to the first electrode, a second conductor electrically coupled to the second electrode, and a reactive element electrically coupling the first conductor and the second conductor.
US07844310B2
An improved PDA-like portable electronic communication device includes a housing having a display screen on the front and a mounting surface that is contoured to generally conform to the shape of a user's forearm. In this way, the communication device can be comfortably and securely worn on a user's forearm so that it is constantly or immediately available for use. In example embodiments, the mounting surface is formed by the back side of the housing and is cylindrically concave or frustoconically concave. In other example embodiments, the device includes a mount to which the housing attaches in multiple positions, with the mount having a frustoconically concave back surface in one embodiment and with another embodiment additionally including mating cylindrically convex and concave surfaces of the mount and the housing.
US07844305B2
An apparatus and a method of manufacturing an apparatus that creates power for a mobile communication device is disclosed. The apparatus may include a roller integrated into the mobile communication device configured to rotate in a counterclockwise direction when the roller contacts a surface and is moved in a first direction, and rotate in a clockwise direction when the roller contacts a surface and is moved in second direction, gearing connected to the roller, wherein the gearing rotates when the roller is moved, and one or more generator that creates power in the mobile communication device upon rotation of the roller and the gearing.
US07844303B2
Several of the components used to implement a wireless transmitter, such as a DC-powered FM transmitter usable for playing media content from a personal media player over a vehicle's FM radio, are organized using an arrangement by which a controller that includes a user interface is removably couplable to a charger plug that interfaces with a power source. An arrangement for removably coupling a device connector in the transmitter to the charger plug is also provided. In an illustrative example, the controller and charger plug are configured with magnetic elements which are used to retain the controller against an end of the charger plug using magnetic force. A portion of the device connector is removably insertable into an elastically deformable connector cap that is configured to removably slide over the charger plug end.
US07844302B2
A mobile communication terminal obtains analysis result from analysis of various information included in a received e-mail. The mobile communication terminal determines whether the received e-mail satisfies a notification condition based on the analysis result, and analyzes the importance degree of the received e-mail. If the received e-mail is an important e-mail satisfying the notification condition, the mobile communication terminal notifies the user that the e-mail is received irrespective of whether its cover is opened or closed. If the received e-mail is a non-important e-mail not satisfying the notification condition, the mobile communication terminal limits notifying the user that the e-mail is received until the cover is opened, i.e., the content of the e-mail is checkable by the user. This makes it possible to restrict notifying the reception of the e-mail depending on the e-mail's importance degree, while preventing the user from missing any e-mail of high importance.
US07844296B2
A mobile terminal includes a camera configured to obtain first image information, and a receiving unit configured to receive second image information from outside. A display unit is configured to display at least one of a first image and a second image. A display control unit is configured to receive a first request for displaying the first image after the first image information is obtained by the camera, and to receive a second request for displaying the second image after the second image information is received from outside. The display control unit is configured to perform control to update a display on the display unit if the first request or the second request is received, at a predetermined updating time, which occurs at a predetermined interval.
US07844293B2
Provided are a system for establishing and managing a Push To Talk (PTT) over Cellular (PoC) session between PoC clients supporting various media types, a method thereof, and a User Equipment (UE) therefor. When a PoC client performing an Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) PoC multimedia call service supports a plurality of media types, and media types supported by PoC clients are not common, a PoC session can be established to support only media types set to be transmitted in a first response message after the session is established. In addition, a method of efficiently managing a session by updating the session when a newly supported media type is provided or when a recipient of an existing media type is changed is suggested.
US07844285B2
A message exchange network is disclosed in which at least two different methods of storing messages in memories of message storage entities, e.g., a mobile handset, an SMSC, an e-mail client, or an e-mail server, are utilized based on the type and the content of the information contained within the message. An information service message containing information that is supercedingly updateable, e.g., stock quote, weather or traffic information, is stored using a replacement method by which an older message previously stored is replaced by a newly received message. All other types of messages are stored using an append method by which the newly received message is stored in an unoccupied available memory location. In a disclosed embodiment, message identifier included in the message itself provides information necessary to distinguish between the aforementioned two types of messages. In a disclosed embodiment, a block of message identifiers is reserved for storage of information service messages. The architectures and methods for receipt, delivery and storage of messages disclosed herein replaceable and/or on demand update of information service messages while providing efficient use of memory in which the messages are stored, avoiding the annoyance and inconvenience to the subscriber in having to scroll through numerous stale and/or obsolete messages in order to view the most current up to date message and having to manually selecting and deleting obsolete and stale messages, and avoiding unnecessary deliveries of the obsolete and stale messages by message centers.
US07844282B1
A wireless device-based system provides location-based services by determining the location of the wireless device and arranges for the service and the payment therefor.
US07844279B2
The present invention relates to a method for measuring radio channel quality in a radio communication system. In the method a modulated signal is received over a communication channel. The modulated signal has been modulated by using modulation parameters. A decoder decodes (305) the modulated signal and forms decoded data. The decoder creates (306) a decoder performance indicator (PS) that depends on the decoded data. Then a radio channel quality indicator (RCQI) is created, the radio channel quality indicator being essentially independent of the modulation parameters.
US07844278B1
Methods and apparatus for congestion mitigation in wireless communication networks are provided. The congestion mitigation can include assignment of a new user class, a mobile station identifier, a mobile station identifier and a reserved traffic channel and/or an alternative access channel in another wireless communication network. These congestion mitigation techniques can be employed for selected mobile stations when an activity on an access channel is above a threshold level.
US07844273B2
The present invention comprises systems for and methods of providing dedicated capacity in a wireless cellular network. In an embodiment, a system for providing dedicated capacity in a cellular network comprises: a first base station positioned at a first location and being communicatively coupled to a telephone network, the first base station having an outdoor cellular antenna for forming a local coverage area, a second base station positioned at the first location and being communicatively coupled to the telephone network; and an indoor cellular antenna for forming a coverage area at a second location. The second location is geographically remote from the first location and the indoor cellular antenna is communicatively coupled to the second base station such that mobile communications equipment located within the coverage area at the second location are communicatively coupled to the telephone network via the indoor cellular antenna and the second base station.
US07844265B2
Disclosed is a method for mobile assisted sleep mode to reduce current drain in packet based mobile systems. The method comprising the step of receiving (102) from a network a channel condition threshold. Then, monitoring (104) a channel condition while in sleep mode. Then exiting (110) sleep mode in response to the determination (108) that the monitored channel condition is greater than the channel condition threshold.
US07844261B2
Number portability is a service where a subscriber can keep his old telephone number within a portability cluster and thus retain easy contactibility. Because of number portability, a called address, i.e. B-number, no longer refers to the subscription network/number range owner and the old rule “the number range of the called party reveals the tariff level” is no longer valid. To overcome this defect all intelligent network-like service invocation requests are routed (3-2) via a network node performing a number portability function to the network node controlling the service. The node performing the number portability function performs (3-3) a mapping of the B-number and relays (3-4) the service invocation requests indicating the subscription network/number range owner.
US07844253B2
A method and apparatus to use a shielded enclosure for exchanging secure data. One embodiment comprises an enclosure formed of electromagnetically shielding material that prevents an electromagnetic field from entering an interior of the enclosure or emitting from the interior of the enclosure, the enclosure sized to house a mobile electronic device; a receiver within an interior of the enclosure to receive data transferred wirelessly from a mobile electronic device placed within the enclosure; and a hardware interface having a first end external to the enclosure and a second end within the interior of the enclosure and coupled to the antenna, the hardware interface to transfer data wirelessly received by the receiver to a separate device exterior to the enclosure.
US07844252B2
A secure telephone call management system is provided for authenticating users of a telephone system in an institutional facility. Authentication of the users of the telephone call management system is accomplished by using a personal identification number, biometric means, and/or radio frequency means. The secure telephone call management system includes accounting software capable of limiting access to the system based on funds in a user's account or other related limitations. The system includes management software capable of implementing widespread or local changes to the system and is further capable of modifying or setting any number of user account parameters.
US07844249B2
An incoming call waiting date and time is specified to exceed a time when a predetermined period passes after an ACC switch of an in-vehicle emergency call apparatus is switched from ON to OFF. In this case, a low power operation is continued in the in-vehicle emergency call apparatus until the incoming call waiting date and time, even after the predetermined period passes from when the ACC switch is switched from ON to OFF. Even after the predetermined period passes from when the ACC switch is switched from ON to OFF, a position information signal can be thereby transmitted to a service center based on a reception of a positional information request signal from the service center. Thus, a stolen vehicle search can be executed appropriately.
US07844245B1
Quick wireless access for data network communication is provided to a data device by provision of an access management unit incorporated in the data device. A default network access identifier (NAI), unique to the data device, permits limited access to a wireless network provider's provisioning platform so that the device can be authenticated and access to a data network authorized for a preset service period. Replenishment for a new service period may be provided.
US07844243B1
In one embodiment of the invention, a receiver has two mux circuits, two receiver circuits, and a mixer. The muxes select first and second input signals for the receiver circuits. A p-type transistor in a transmission gate in each mux is connected (i) at its channel nodes between a pad and the mux output and (ii) to receive a control signal at its gate node. Control circuitry for the p-type transistor implements a threshold reduction filter that ensures that a maximum voltage level at the mux output is at least a threshold below the mux's power supply voltage. Based on first and second input signals, the first receiver circuit generates first and second intermediate signals, and the second receiver circuit generates third and fourth intermediate signals. The mixer circuit combines the intermediate signals to generate first and second output signals, wherein the first and second receiver circuits effectively operate over different ranges of common-mode voltages.
US07844232B2
A wireless communications device may include at least one virtual antenna, and a space-time filter circuit for filtering a communications signal received by the at least one virtual antenna by jointly estimating space-time filter weights and at least one channel impulse response (CIR). The wireless communications device may further include a matched filter circuit downstream from the space-time filter circuit and having a filter response that is provided by a channel impulse response estimation from the space-time filter circuit.
US07844231B2
An apparatus and method in a Time Division Duplex (TDD) wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes two 90° hybrid couplers and a phase converter block. The two 90° hybrid couplers each separate a signal into two signals and output the two signals, and each couple two signals and output the coupled signal. The phase converter block connects between the two 90° hybrid couplers. In a transmission mode, the phase converter block identically varies phases of two signals and outputs the varied two signals to the second 90° hybrid coupler. In a reception mode, the phase converter block varies phases of two signals and outputs the varied two signals to the first 90° hybrid coupler.
US07844229B2
A method and apparatus for messaging within a mobile virtual and augmented reality system is provided herein. During operation a user can create “virtual graffiti” that will be left for a particular device to view as part of an augmented reality scene. The virtual graffiti will be assigned to a particular physical location or a part of an object that can be mobile. The virtual graffiti is then uploaded to a network server, along with the location and individuals who are able to view the graffiti as part of an augmented reality scene. When a device that is allowed to view the graffiti is near the location, the graffiti will be downloaded to the device and displayed as part of an augmented reality scene.
US07844223B2
In order to solve a problem of an accumulation on the transmission side, a delay on the reception side, and the like at the time of transmission in a communication system such as a wireless LAN system, each communication station in a network transmits a beacon in which information with respect to the network is written and sets a state in which a reception operation is performed during periods of time before and after the transmission of the beacon signal when performing access control not to make communication timing of a packet collide with that of another station by detecting a signal transmitted from another station. With performing such processing, a system can be formed based on minimum level of transmission and reception operation when transmission and reception data does not exist in each communication station in the network, and also a data transfer can be performed with latency as small as possible in a minimum necessary level of transmission and reception operation by making a transition of a transmission and reception state in accordance with a fluctuating volume of transmission and reception data.
US07844221B2
The present invention relates to a reflective communication system that allows information from wireless communication devices, such as radio-frequency identification devices (RFID), to be reflectively communicated to a receiver in lieu of using a separate communication system. A transmitter transmits a communication signal, having a carrier frequency, to the wireless communication device to provide power. The wireless communication device modulates a data signal onto the communication signal to form a reflected data signal. The wireless communication device reflects the reflected data signal directly to the receiver. In this manner, the process of communicating information from a wireless communication device is accomplished in one communication system rather than two. If the receiver also directly receives the communication signal from the transmitter, the receiver can determine the location of the wireless communication device relative to the transmitters.
US07844213B2
Systems for delivering a plurality of broadcast programs where the transmitter and receiver roll-off factors are mismatched. A system in accordance with the present invention comprises a transmitter comprising a modulator, and a plurality of receivers, each receiver in the plurality of receivers receiving the plurality of broadcast programs, each receiver in the plurality of receivers further comprising a demodulator; wherein the modulator has a first root-raised cosine filter having a first roll-off factor and each receiver has a second root-raised cosine filter having a second roll-off factor, the first roll-off factor being smaller than the second roll-off factor.
US07844204B2
A liquid separator is a device for separating and extracting a dispersoid and a dispersion medium from a liquid sample containing the dispersoid and the dispersion medium. The liquid separator is provided with a liquid storage container capable of storing the liquid sample; an electrode roller including a rotary shaft, arranged to touch the liquid sample in the liquid storage container, capable of conveying the liquid sample along the outer circumferential surface thereof and rotatable about the rotary shaft; and a separating member held in contact with the electrode roller for separating the dispersion medium from the liquid sample being conveyed along the outer circumferential surface of the electrode roller. The liquid storage container includes a first container positioned at a specified distance to the electrode roller and a second container detachably attachable to the first container.
US07844197B2
A process cartridge includes a developer frame portion and a photosensitive member frame portion, wherein when the photosensitive member frame portion is attached to the developer frame portion, a first extension portion and a second extension portion are positioned in a substantially overlapping configuration and the first extension portion engages the second extension portion so as to urge a developer carrying member toward a photosensitive member.
US07844193B2
A multifunctional machine includes a first component section that starts up taking a first time period, and a second component section that starts up taking a second time period shorter than the first time period. An operation start prediction information obtaining section is provided to obtain operation start prediction information predicting a time when a user starts the multifunctional machine. A start up control section is provided to start up the first component section in advance of the second component section. A power supply control section is provided to supply power from at least one external power source and drive the start up control section in accordance with the operation start prediction information.
US07844191B2
An image forming apparatus, in which an image forming method is performed, includes an image carrier, an optical writing unit, a developing unit developing a toner image including an output image and a forcible toner consumption image, a transfer unit including an endless moving member to transfer the toner image onto the endless moving member directly or a recording medium carried on the endless moving member, a first remover to remove residual toner from the image carrier after transfer, a toner recycling unit to convey the residual toner to the developing unit, a controller to form the forcible toner consumption image and transfer the forcible toner consumption image onto the surface of the endless moving member, and a second remover to remove the forcible toner consumption image from the endless moving member.
US07844180B2
The invention relates to a device and a method for converting WDM signals into an OTDM signal. The device comprises shifting means (102, 103, 104) adapted to introduce a time shift between the pulses of the WDM signals carried by the optical carriers, modulation means (112, 113, 114) adapted to modify the optical power of the WDM signals, an optical temporal multiplexer/demultiplexer (120), a birefringent propagation medium (130) into which the WDM signals are injected in such a manner as to achieve a soliton trapping phenomenon, and absorption means (140) adapted to introduce optical losses into the components of the OTDM signal. This device performs WDM/OTDM conversion at very high bit rates. It also performs OTDM/WDM conversion. It is intended to be installed in long-haul telecommunication networks.
US07844166B2
In a random access reproduction of a stream in which video and audio are multiplexed, it is difficult to reproduce the video and audio in synchronization. A demultiplexer (110) separate a video packet, an audio packet, and a subtitle packet from the inputted multiplexed stream and supplies them to a video decoder (130), an audio decoder (140), and a subtitle decoder (150), respectively. The video decoder (130) decodes the inputted video packets and calculates PTS of the display head picture according to the PTS of the decoded head picture acquired from the video stream. A clock control unit (120) supplies the PTS of the display head picture as a synchronization signal to the audio decoder (140) and the subtitle decoder (150). The audio decoder (140) and the subtitle decoder (150) decode an audio and a subtitle access unit having the PTS value identical to the display head PTS.
US07844160B2
The present disclosure relates to a drop terminal mounting system for use in a fiber optic network. The drop terminal mounting system includes a drop terminal having a drop terminal housing to which a plurality of fiber optic adapters are mounted. The fiber optic adapters have exterior ports that are accessible from an exterior of the drop terminal housing. The drop terminal mounting system also includes a bracket having a cradle for receiving the drop terminal. The bracket has features that facilitate mounting the bracket to different types of structures such as poles, strands, or to hand-holes.
US07844157B2
An optical waveguide for a luminescent device capable of efficiently leading light beams propagating through a core outwardly to cause light emission, and a manufacturing method thereof. The optical waveguide for a luminescent device includes an under cladding layer 2, a core 3 formed in a predetermined portion of a surface of the under cladding layer 2, and an over cladding layer 4 formed on the surface of the under cladding layer 2 so as to cover the core 3. The over cladding layer 4 includes holes 41 formed in a predetermined portion thereof and extending to the core 3. The holes 41 are filled with a coating material 5 having a refractive index not less than that of the above-mentioned core 3.
US07844155B2
Disclosed is an optical fiber having a silica-based core comprising an alkali metal oxide a silica-based core, said core comprising an alkali metal oxide selected from the group consisting of K2O, Na2O, Li2O, Rb2O, Cs2O and mixtures thereof in an average concentration in said core between about 10 and 10000 ppm by weight, and a silica-based cladding surrounding and directly adjacent the core, the cladding including a region having a lower index of refraction than the remainder of such cladding. By appropriately selecting the concentration of alkali metal oxide dopant in the core and the cladding, a low loss optical fiber may be obtained which exhibits a cable cutoff less than 1400 nm chromatic dispersion at 1550 nm between about 13 and 19 ps/nm/km, and a zero dispersion wavelength less than about 1324 nm.
US07844154B2
An optical fiber adapted to carry optical power for powering an electrical device and also optionally adapted to carry optical data for signal processing. The optical fiber capable of carrying both optical data and optical power includes a central data waveguide region that carries data light and an annular power waveguide region concentrically surrounding the data waveguide region and adapted to carry relatively large amounts of optical power. A first annular isolation region between the data and power waveguide regions and that includes microstructures serves to optically isolate the waveguide regions. An outer annular isolation region serves to confine power light to the power waveguide region and contributes to the bend-resistance of the optical fiber. An optical power and optical data distribution system that utilizes the optical fiber is also described.
US07844151B2
The invention discloses an in-line polarization-state converter. In the polarization converter, a laser beam is radiated onto the side of a photosensitive optical fiber. The laser beam causes the refractive index of an optical fiber core to asymmetrically vary. Birefringence is induced in a core mode of the optical fiber by the variation in the asymmetrical refractive index. An optical fiber segment having the birefringence is generally disposed on a waveguide path of the optical fiber to change the polarization state of an optical signal passing through the optical fiber segment. That is, the phase of the optical signal passing through the optical fiber is changed by radiation of laser beams, which results in a variation in polarization state. The polarization converter disposed on the waveguide path is covered with a metal tube in order to prevent the polarization converter from being bent or broken. In addition, optical fiber connectors are provided at both ends of the polarization converter for easy connection.
US07844150B2
Optical connector assemblies suitable for use in harsh environments such as down hole oil and gas well applications and methods for fabricating the same are provided. In one embodiment, an optical connector assembly suitable for down hole oil field applications comprises a first and second optical waveguide urged by a biasing member against a bracket. Each of the waveguides has at least one base surface formed on the exterior of the waveguide that is disposed against at least one of a plurality of reference surfaces of the bracket. In another embodiment, flats comprise two of the base surfaces on each optical waveguide. In another embodiment, a method of fabricating an optical connector assembly suitable for down hole oil field applications includes the steps of forming a first flat on a first optical waveguide, forming a second flat on the first optical waveguide, forming a first flat on a second optical waveguide, forming a second flat on the second optical waveguide, and biasing the first flats of the first and second optical waveguides against a first seating surface and second flats of the first and second optical waveguides against a second seating surface.
US07844145B1
A system includes a first Fabry-Perot interferometry channel and a second Fabry-Perot interferometry channel serially and optically coupled to the first Fabry-Perot interferometry channel. One channel of the first and second Fabry-Perot interferometry channels has a greater tuning range than the other channel of the first and second Fabry-Perot interferometry channels. The Fabry-Perot interferometry channel having the lesser tuning range has a greater tuning precision than the Fabry-Perot interferometry channel having the greater tuning range. The system may be included in a MEMS-based system, such as a MEMS spectrometer.
US07844141B2
Digital image data including discrete photographic images of a variety of different subjects, times, and so forth, are collected and analyzed to identify specific features in the photographs. In an embodiment of the invention, distinctive markers are distributed to aid in the identification of particular subject matter. Facial recognition may also be employed. The digital image data is maintained in a database and quarried in response to search requests. The search requests include criteria specifying any feature category or other identifying information, such as date, time, and location that each photograph was taken, associated with each photograph. Candidate images are provided for review by requesters, who may select desired images for purchase or downloading.
US07844136B2
A class configuration generation unit generates (n−1) number of class configurations each of which is comprised of i number of the already selected features plus a feature selected from the remaining (n−i) number of the features (both of n and i are integers). A class configuration selection unit selects an optimal class configuration from the (n−i) number of the class configurations using an arbitrary evaluation value. The features used in the class configuration selected by the selection unit are used as the already selected features in the generation unit. The operations by the generation unit and the selection unit are repeated with values of i sequentially varying from 0 to r−1, thereby generating a class configuration comprised of r number of the features.
US07844126B2
A method for enhancing objects of interest represented on a moving background in a sequence of noisy images, and for displaying the sequence of enhanced images, the method comprising the steps of acquiring the sequence of images, extracting features related to an object of interest on a background in images from the sequence of acquired images or processed images, said features comprising at least two separately identified parts, registering separately each identified part with respect to an image from the sequence of acquired images, while not registering the background around said identified parts, to generate registered images of said identified parts, assembling together all registered identified parts from said object of interest using a weighted combination of said registered identified parts, to generate assembled images, integrating both said object of interest and said background over at least one assembled image and one acquired image, and displaying the processed images of the enhanced object of interest on faded background.
US07844125B2
Systems and methods for image pattern recognition comprise digital image capture and encoding using vector quantization (“VQ”) of the image. A vocabulary of vectors is built by segmenting images into kernels and creating vectors corresponding to each kernel. Images are encoded by creating a vector index file having indices that point to the vectors stored in the vocabulary. The vector index file can be used to reconstruct an image by looking up vectors stored in the vocabulary. Pattern recognition of candidate regions of images can be accomplished by correlating image vectors to a pre-trained vocabulary of vector sets comprising vectors that correlate with particular image characteristics. In virtual microscopy, the systems and methods are suitable for rare-event finding, such as detection of micrometastasis clusters, tissue identification, such as locating regions of analysis for immunohistochemical assays, and rapid screening of tissue samples, such as histology sections arranged as tissue microarrays (“TMAs”).
US07844124B2
A method of estimating a quantization parameter is provided. The method is applied to a de-blocking filter. The de-blocking filter de-blocks a decoded block-based image according to the quantization parameter, and the block-based image is coded and decoded in units of macroblocks. The method comprises calculating blocking degrees of a number of block edges corresponding to the macroblocks; and estimating the quantization parameter according to a sum of the blocking degrees.
US07844114B2
A method and system for implementing character recognition is described herein. An input character is received. The input character is composed of one or more logical structures in a particular layout. The layout of the one or more logical structures is identified. One or more of a plurality of classifiers are selected based on the layout of the one or more logical structures in the input character. The entire character is input into the selected classifiers. The selected classifiers classify the logical structures. The outputs from the selected classifiers are then combined to form an output character vector.
US07844113B2
A region-based push-relabel formulation is disclosed that removes the requirement that the entire graph should fit into the computer memory and yields an implementation that can reduce the required size and redundancy of accesses to the data memory, thus improving speed performance, while allowing for an efficient parallel processing implementation. The algorithm assigns all vertices that are not part of the sources or sinks with a value of 1. Sinks are assigned with zeros and sources are assigned a label equal to the number of their vertices. The preflow is then pushed from the sources to their neighbors, if any. When the preflow has all reached the boundaries, an adjacent region of the neighboring set is selected and preflow is pushed within this region. When the values of the preflow have been exhausted, region relabeling is done to update the label values. This is repeated within the region until all preflow has exited to the boundary of this region. The operation is then repeated for the neighboring regions that now contain the preflow. Regions which have no preflow may be skipped, thereby realizing a savings in processing resources.
US07844111B2
An image processing method for carrying out predetermined correction processing with respect to one or more items regarding the quality of color images and the image processing method comprises a judgment step for judging the necessity/nonnecessity of correction with respect to each of the above-mentioned items and a correction processing step for carrying out the predetermined correction processing with respect to the item judged as required to be corrected at the above-mentioned judgment step.
US07844108B2
An information processing apparatus includes a higher node having a plurality of weak discriminators that have learned a learning sample of a first label and a learning sample of a second label that has a predetermined coordinate relationship with the learning sample of the first label, a first lower node having a plurality of weak discriminators that have learned the learning sample of the first label based on the discrimination result of the higher node and a second lower node that has no weak discriminator.
US07844106B2
A method for determining a pose of an object from a range image is presented. A distribution of poses for an object is determined from a model of the object. A set of reference poses is selected according to the distribution, such that more reference poses are selected for more probable poses than less probable poses. A reference image for each reference pose is generated, and the reference pose used to generate the reference image that best matches a range image including the object is assigned as the pose of the object.
US07844105B2
A method and system determines a pose of an object by comparing an input range image acquired of a scene including the input object to each of a set of reference range image of a reference object, such that each reference range images has an associated different pose, and the reference object is similar to the input object. Then, the pose associated with the reference range image which best matches the input range image is selected as the pose of the input object.
US07844103B2
An automated optical inspection system includes a pulsed light source illuminating an article to be inspected thereby to generate at least one image thereof, at least one camera having a field of view, and a relative motion provider operative to provide relative motion between the camera and at least one image of at least a portion of the article. The relative motion provider may include a first continuous motion provider and a second, velocity-during-imaging-lessening motion provider. The relative motion is a superposition of a first continuous component of motion provided by the first motion provider and a second, smaller component of motion provided by the second motion provider which lessens the velocity of the at least one image relative to the camera, during imaging.
US07844083B2
The present invention provides a method for acquiring personal identification data by extracting a ridge-and-recess pattern corresponding to a fingerprint or a knuckle joint and lines on a palm by utilizing characteristics by which subcutaneous bloodstream distribution is spatially modulated by the ridge-and-recess pattern on the surface when measuring a subcutaneous bloodstream distribution based on a bloodstream measuring technology utilizing laser scattering, and by acquiring the same as personal identification data based on living body information, and the same method for acquiring personal identification data includes the steps of: irradiating a laser beam onto at least a part of a fingertip surface or a palm; imaging reflection light from subcutaneous blood vessel layers at an irradiation spot to which a laser beam is irradiated by receiving the same on an image sensor as laser speckles; calculating a change ratio of a light-receiving amount at respective pixels of the laser speckles; preparing a two-dimensional bloodstream map of the irradiation spot based on the numerical values obtained in the step of calculating a change ratio of a light-receiving amount; and storing a ridge-and-recess pattern of the irradiation spot appearing in the two-dimensional bloodstream map as personal identification data.
US07844079B2
A technique, associated system and program code, for retrieving depth information about at least one surface of an object, such as an anatomical feature. Core features include: projecting a composite image comprising a plurality of modulated structured light patterns, at the anatomical feature; capturing an image reflected from the surface; and recovering pattern information from the reflected image, for each of the modulated structured light patterns. Pattern information is preferably recovered for each modulated structured light pattern used to create the composite, by performing a demodulation of the reflected image. Reconstruction of the surface can be accomplished by using depth information from the recovered patterns to produce a depth map/mapping thereof. Each signal waveform used for the modulation of a respective structured light pattern, is distinct from each of the other signal waveforms used for the modulation of other structured light patterns of a composite image; these signal waveforms may be selected from suitable types in any combination of distinct signal waveforms, provided the waveforms used are uncorrelated with respect to each other. The depth map/mapping to be utilized in a host of applications, for example: displaying a 3-D view of the object; virtual reality user-interaction interface with a computerized device; face—or other animal feature or inanimate object—recognition and comparison techniques for security or identification purposes; and 3-D video teleconferencing/telecollaboration.
US07844076B2
A technique for processing a digital image uses face detection to achieve one or more desired image processing parameters. A group of pixels is identified that corresponds to a face image within the digital image. A skin tone is detected for the face image by determining one or more default color or tonal values, or combinations thereof, for the group of pixels. Values of one or more parameters are adjusted for the group of pixels that correspond to the face image based on the detected skin tone.
US07844067B2
A universal speaker horn assembly includes a speaker horn sized and shaped to fit into a four inch deep space and connectors which are adjustable to such an extent to permit the speaker horn to be mounted to substantially any site, regardless of desired speaker position and building construction material. A grille press-fits to the front of the horn and a trim ring hides connectors from an optional trim plate to an optional back box. Speaker controls can be accessed from the rear or front of the system.
US07844066B2
An in-the-ear hearing aid is to have a more compact design. For this purpose there is inserted into a housing shell an electronics module having all the electronic components of the hearing aid, the electronic components being secured to a flexible supporting structure. As a result of the open construction of the electronics module, the individual electronic components can be compactly inserted with short stranded wires, thus also increasing electromagnetic compatibility. The flexibility of the supporting structure enables allowance to be made for individually differing auditory canal shapes.
US07844057B2
A method and system for handling roaming mobile nodes in a wireless network. The system uses a Subnet Context Manager to store current Network session keys, security policy and duration of the session (e.g. session timeout) for mobile nodes, which is established when the mobile node is initially authenticated. Pairwise transit keys are derived from the network session key. The Subnet Context Manager handles subsequent reassociation requests. When a mobile node roams to a new access point, the access point obtains the network session key from the Subnet Context Manager and validates the mobile node by computing a new pairwise transient key from the network session key.
US07844050B2
A biaxial hinge device and a mounting mechanism thereof for a mobile terminal is provided. The biaxial hinge device includes a first hinge module for rotatably connecting the folder to the body around a first hinge axis, and a second hinge module for rotatably connecting the folder to the body around a second hinge axis, which is spaced apart form the first hinge axis and disposed in a direction substantially perpendicular to the first hinge axis. A portion of a second hinge module is inserted in the first hinge module, thereby allowing the second hinge module to move both independently of and in cooperation with the first hinge module.
US07844049B2
An assembly (10) of three telecommunications modules (12, 14, 16) each having an equal number of contacts for connecting wires (18, 20, 28) therewith, comprises splitter circuits (30′, 30″), the number of splitter circuits (30′, 30″) being equal to half of the number of contacts of each module (12, 14, 16), one third of the contacts (24, 74) of the assembly (10) being adapted to transmit a line signal, one third of the contacts (22, 72) of the assembly (10) being adapted to transmit a POTS signal, and one third of the contacts (26) of the assembly (10) being adapted to transmit a DSLAM-signal. A module, particularly for use within an assembly, is open at a side other than a front side, at which contacts are exposed, so as to allow at least one splitter circuit (30′, 30″) to be at least partially inserted into the module.
US07844044B2
A control server of an apparatus in one example receives an offer message from a resource server. The offer message indicates an availability of the resource server to handle one or more tasks for the control server. The control server employs the offer message to determine whether to add an indication of the resource server to a resource server mapping table that comprises indications of a plurality of available resource servers. The resource server mapping table is employable to determine a selected resource server of the plurality of available resource servers to use for a task of the one or more tasks.
US07844038B2
A first electronic device engages in a voice communication with another electronic device. The voice communication is associated with data stored by the first electronic device. In some instances, the data is generated the first electronic device or received by the first electronic device from the second electronic device in response to, or as a consequence of the voice of the voice communication. During the voice communication, or sometime after the voice communication is terminated, the first electronic device determines that the data is associated with the voice communication. The data is then made available to an application program, so that the data can be associated with other data. Thus, a human user of the first electronic device is relieved of identifying data within a context, and relieved of the task associating the data with other data.
US07844028B2
An X-ray diffraction method for the analysis of polycrystalline materials, the method comprising: (a) providing a polycrystalline material for analysis; (b) providing a polychromatic X-ray source, wherein the source produces X-rays by accelerating charged particles to energies of no more than 1 MeV; (c) collimating X-rays from the polychromatic X-ray source into a beam having a divergence in the range of from 10−4 to 10−2 radians; (d) exposing at least a portion of the polycrystalline material to the collimated X-ray beam, whereby the beam is diffracted; (e) collecting at least some of the diffracted X-rays in an energy dispersive X-ray detector or array; and (f) analysing the collected, diffracted X-rays.
US07844020B2
There is provided a transmission system in which a data sequence is transmitted. The transmission system includes a transmitter that generates a transmission signal by converting pieces of data included in the data sequence into data waveforms each of which has (i) a level signal whose signal level is determined by a value of a corresponding one of the pieces of data and (ii) a timing edge indicating a timing to obtain the level signal, and transmits the generated transmission signal, and a receiver that detects the signal level of each of the data waveforms of the received transmission signal at the timing designated by the timing edge of the each data waveform, and outputs a data value corresponding to the detected signal level.
US07844013B2
A link adaptation method and others wherein feedback information amount can be reduced. According to this method, a receiving apparatus (100) calculates, based on a channel matrix, a capacity (C) and a stream ratio (r) that is a ratio of the reception qualities of streams, and then transmits, as feedback information, the calculated capacity (C) and stream ratio (r) to a transmitting apparatus. In the transmitting apparatus (200), the number of transmittable streams, the modulation scheme and the fed-back capacity (C) are used to calculate the encoding ratio (R) and sequence length (S) of spatial multiplexed symbols. Then, the modulation scheme (M1-Mn) of each stream is decided based on the fed-back stream ratio (r) and the sequence length (S) of spatial multiplexed symbols.
US07844006B2
Described is a method for compensation of an OFDM signal propagating through Doppler-distorted, time-varying multipath channels. The method is based on low-complexity post-FFT signal processing. Minimum mean square error combining of signals is performed for signals received at spatially-distributed receiver elements using adaptive channel estimation and phase tracking. Doppler shifts are modeled as a consequence of motion-induced time compression and dilation. The Doppler rate is assumed constant over one OFDM block but can vary between OFDM blocks. Thus a non-constant Doppler shift is accommodated by the method. Non-uniform Doppler compensation across subchannels is based on adaptive estimation and prediction of the Doppler rate. A single adaptively estimated parameter is used to track the phases of all the carriers and channel estimates are updated on a block by block basis.
US07843991B2
Methods and apparatus for providing monitoring of voice quality and diagnostic data related to voice quality on a wireless device. Monitoring thresholds can be implemented that allow for additional precautionary measures and/or further monitoring to occur if a threshold level of voice quality performance is experienced. The results of the voice and diagnostic monitoring can be communicated to the service provider who can then collect, analyze and generate reports to assess and determine quality-related problems experienced by the communication network.
US07843988B1
A system for pre-processing transmission sequences in a jammed environment. System a transmitter suitable for transmitting the synchronization preamble further comprising a pseudo noise generator suitable for running a non predictable pseudo random algorithm. Pseudo random algorithm is suitable for generating a codeword operable as a pointer indexed into a table of gold sequences. Pointer is suitable for selecting a pseudo random selection of gold sequences from the table of gold sequences. Pseudo random selection of gold sequences forms a synchronization preamble. Gold sequences are concatenated together to form the synchronization preamble. System further comprises a receiver configured to receive the transmitted synchronization preamble further comprising of a decryption key suitable for decrypting received synchronization preamble.
US07843987B2
Laser equipment for outputting output lights having different wavelengths includes: a substrate; an excitation light generation element for emitting excitation lights including surface emitting laser elements and disposed on the substrate; and a light converter having a pair of second reflection layers and a solid laser medium layer, both of which provide a resonator. The solid laser medium layer is capable of generating lights having different peak wavelengths by receiving the excitation lights. The light converter is disposed on an output surface of the excitation light generation element.
US07843981B2
A quantum cascade laser is composed of a semiconductor substrate, and an active layer provided on the semiconductor substrate and having a cascade structure formed by multistage-laminating unit laminate structures 16 each of which includes a quantum well light emitting layer 17 and an injection layer 18. The unit laminate structure 16 has, in its subband level structure, an emission upper level 3, an emission lower level 2, and an injection level 4 as an energy level higher than the emission upper level 3, and light hν is generated by means of intersubband transition of electrons from the level 3 to the level 2 in the light emitting layer 17, and electrons through the intersubband transition are injected into the injection level in a unit laminate structure of the subsequent stage via the injection layer 18, and from this injection level, electrons are supplied to the emission upper level. Thereby, a quantum cascade laser which realizes operation with a high output at a high temperature is realized.
US07843980B2
An inventive semiconductor laser diode includes a Group III nitride semiconductor layered structure having a major crystal growth plane defined by a non-polar or semi-polar-plane. The Group III nitride semiconductor layered structure includes: a p-type cladding layer and an n-type cladding layer; an In-containing p-type guide layer and an In-containing n-type guide layer held between the p-type cladding layer and the n-type cladding layer; and an In-containing light emitting layer held between the p-type guide layer and the n-type guide layer.
US07843976B2
In accordance with the present invention, a compact laser system with nearly continuous wavelength scanning is presented. In some embodiments, the compact laser system can be scanned over a broad range. In some embodiments, the compact laser system can be scanned at high scan rates. In some embodiments, the compact laser system can have a variable coherence length. In particular, embodiments with wavelength scanning over 140 nm with continuously variable scan rates of up to about 1 nm/μs, and discrete increase in scan rates up to about 10 nm/μs, and variable coherence lengths of from 1 mm to about 30 mm can be achieved.
US07843975B2
The invention relates to a high-power fiberoptic laser device comprising at least one laser diode (1) capable of transmitting a pump wave, a triggered optical resonator (22) consisting of a first double-sheathed optical fiber (6), an optical amplifier consisting of a second double-sheathed optical fiber (10), first (33) and second (35) optical coupling means capable of coupling said pump wave onto at least one of the two optical fibers (6) and (10). According to the invention, at least one of the two fibers has a configuration according to which the pump wave coupled to this optical fiber (6) or (10) is partially absorbed, generating a residual pump wave which is coupled to the other optical fiber (6) or (10) by second optical coupling means, and said second optical fiber (10) has a length greater than that of the first optical fiber (6).
US07843961B2
A solution for emulating a hardware device is provided. In particular, a communication device that includes a standard mode of operation and a mapping mode of operation is used together with a control program to emulate communication with the hardware device. The mapping mode of operation is used to implement communication functionality that requires hardware, while the control program emulates other communication functionality previously provided by the hardware device. As a result, a protocol, such as a channel protocol, that requires hardware functionality can be successfully emulated using both the control program and the communication device.
US07843957B2
The invention concerns a method for managing resets in a communication network comprising wireless devices connecting busses over a wireless link, comprising the steps of: electing a parent wireless device among the wireless devices of the network, other wireless devices being labeled child wireless devices; having a first child wireless device send a bus reset message to the parent wireless device further to a reset on the child wireless device's local bus; having the parent wireless device spread the bus reset to other child wireless devices; having the other child wireless devices perform a bus reset on their local wired bus.
US07843954B2
A telephone subscriber line device for providing an interface between a legacy telephone circuit based on circuit-switched technology and a packet network has a legacy interface for connection to telephone circuit; a packet interface for connection to a packet network, processing circuitry for converting between legacy telephone signals and packet signals, and a cascadable expansion bus permitting multiple said devices to be connected to a common port on a packet network. Such a device is highly scalable.
US07843944B2
A system and method are supplied to provide multiple private networks. The system can include an Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) interface configured to receive a plurality of data stream types from a packet switched network. A plurality of local area network ports can be configured to communicate data to local area networks. A switching process can be provided between the MPLS interface and the local area network ports. The switching process can be configured to map individual data stream types from the MPLS interface to each of the respective local area network ports. In addition, the switching process can communicate packets between the MPLS interface and the mapped local area network ports.
US07843934B2
For purposes of servicing emergency calls, such as 911 calls, a telephone number is associated with each edge router port used to provide IP service to a customer premise location. A telephone number is associated with the edge router port and the corresponding customer location. The telephone number and location information are stored in a database used for providing emergency calling party location information. When a switch used for routing IP calls detects a telephone call to an emergency call center it determines the edge router port from which the call was placed and the telephone number associated with the port for emergency call purposes. The call is then forwarded to the emergency call service center with the determined telephone number being supplied as the calling party number. Performing a lookup operation using the supplied telephone number the emergency service operator determines the location from which the call was placed.
US07843928B2
An egress traffic management system for a data communication system is disclosed. The egress traffic management system makes use of a hierarchical queue ID header paradigm that enables data packets to be directed for egress traffic management to either one of a plurality of assignable queues in a main egress queue module or to one of a plurality of distributed queue modules via a common queue of the main egress queue module. This behavior enables egress traffic management functionality and scale to be varied independently and in a cost-effective manner to meet evolving requirements of a data communications system.
US07843923B2
Methods and apparatus for providing location and other customer information corresponding to an IP addresses, including dynamically assigned IP address, are described. A port of an edge router is assigned to serve as a customer's point of access to an IP based network. Customer information including the location of the customer premises from which the IP network is accessed through the assigned edge router port is stored in a database associating edge router and port information with customer information. When information about a customer using an IP address is desired a database associating IP addresses with edge routers, e.g., edge which acted as proxies to facilitate IP address leasing is consulted. The edge router corresponding to the IP address of interest is then contacted to determine the port number associated with the IP address. Recovered edge router and port number information is then used to access the customer information database.
US07843912B2
A method for intercepting communication of a client to a destination on a virtual private network includes an agent executing on the client that intercepts a network communication of the client. The agent provides a virtual private network connection from a first network to a second network. The decision to intercept is based on a network destination description or an identification of an application authorized to be accessed via the virtual private network. In one case, the agent determines that a destination specified by the intercepted communication corresponds to a network identifier and a port of a network destination description of an application on the second network authorized for access via the virtual private network. In response to this determination, the agent transmits the intercepted communication.
US07843910B2
Deciphering and verification of the checksum of enciphered and encapsulated UDP datagrams, particularly those which enclose a tunneling protocol such as L2TP, are achieved by the provision of a checksum verifier in parallel with a decipher block. Checksum logic creates a pseudo UDP header needed for checksum verification using fields that would occur at the start of the packet that encapsulates the UDP datagram. The first part of the packet to be deciphered is the UDP header; checksum logic can latch the checksum field into a local register. As the rest of the packet is deciphered the checksum verifier processes the data at the same time. Eventually the checksum logic will acquire a complete checksum which can be compared with the checksum that had been previously latched, so as to verify the checksum.
US07843906B1
Storage gateway remote and local access to storage devices is provided in part via an initiator implementing bandwidth-controlled access to the devices. The initiator may be iSCSI-compatible, and may also optionally implement protection, security, and performance features. The protection and security features include any combination of VLANs, zoning, Logical Unit Number (LUN) masking, and encryption. The performance features include any combination of HW-accelerated Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA), prioritized I/O operations, and service priority (such as strict priority and straight or weighted round-robin priorities). An initiator may be implemented in a Processor Memory Module (PMM) coupled to a switch fabric that is in turn coupled to a target implemented in a Fibre Channel Module (FCM). Storage traffic may be communicated as Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)- and SCSI over Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (iSCSI)-compatible information (data and commands) on the switch fabric via cellifying input/output interface devices.
US07843905B2
A modular optical switch includes a set of optical switch modules connected in a mesh, a master controller for the whole optical node and a switch-module controller for each of the optical switch modules. The optical switch modules receive optical signals from, and transmit optical signals to, edge nodes based on connection requests received from the edge nodes. The master controller acts to select a path, using a simple or compound time-slot matching process, through the mesh of switch modules for each optical signal related to a connection request. Advantageously, the optical switch modules are fast switching, enabling the use of time-sharing schemes such as TDM, and the modular optical core node is made practical by efficient path selection at the master controller. A hybrid modular switch may include both optical and electronic switch modules, a master controller, and a switch-module controller for each of the switch modules.
US07843902B2
A method in a telecommunication system for monitoring a communication by a Law Enforcement Monitoring Facility (LEMF). The LEMF sends a request for monitoring of a first party to a Call Session Control Function (CSCF) in a service domain of the telecommunication system. When the CSCF detects a SIP session event due to a setup of a media-flow connection between the monitored party and a second party, the CSCF sends Interception Related Information (IRI) toward the LEMF, and sends a resource setup message to a Multimedia Resource Function (MRF), also in the service domain. A Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN) routes the Communication Content (CC) to the MRF. The MRF copies the CC and routes one copy back to the GGSN and routes the other copy to the LEMF via a Delivery Function utilizing a SIP session with the LEMF.
US07843898B1
Public communication networks increasingly need to provide customers with a range of communication services, from baseband voice service, to computer data communications, to high speed digital data communications for multimedia and the like. Many such services would be blocked by existing telephone network line cards, which provide coding and decoding (CODEC) between analog and digital signals and process digital signals only at a relatively low, fixed bit rate. In accord with the invention, intelligent signal detection and control added to a line card selectively bypasses the CODEC and the associated connection to a time slot limited telephone exchange. The selective bypass connection provides a connection to an alternative network functionality capable of providing higher bandwidth digital services. In the preferred embodiment, the bypass provides a connection through an adaptive digital signal processor with a programmed controller. The digital signal processor provides coding and decoding functions, adapted to the particular communication service requested and the physical level signal protocol used over the customer's line. The digital signal processor also provides a two-way digital communication link to a relatively fast data switch, such as an edge device of an asynchronous transport mode (ATM) network. The data switch and associated data network provide a full range of digital communication services of various bandwidths or bit rates as may be requested by individual.
US07843892B2
This description describes examples of performing reverse link power control in a mobile network having a plurality of first modem devices that receive and transmit signals to wireless access terminals (ATs) and a second device in communication with the plurality of first devices. One of the first devices derives a first power control threshold (PCT) value for reverse link power of one of the access terminals (ATs) and the second device derives a second power control threshold (PCT) value for reverse link power of the one of the ATs. The second power control threshold (PCT) value is transmitted using a data traffic path and either the first PCT value or the second PCT value is selected.
US07843887B2
It is possible to surely improve the throughput in a handover area in the MIMO communication and increase the cell coverage. Channel estimation units (104-1, 104-2) perform a channel estimation by using a common pilot signal transmitted from each base station device and acquire a channel matrix for each cell. Singular value decomposition processing units (105-1, 105-2) perform singular value decomposition processing by using a channel matrix corresponding to each cell. Channel capacity calculation units (106-1, 106-2) compare a singular value for each path to a threshold value and calculate the number of singular values above a predetermined threshold value as the channel capacity. A cell selection unit (107) compares the channel capacity sizes and selects a base station device corresponding to a greater channel capacity.
US07843885B2
A wireless packet data system efficiently manages a location of a packet call in a radio environment. A mobile station transmits a location registration message to a target BSC when moving to the target BSC adjacent to a source BSC. Upon receipt of the location registration message, the target BSC transmits a location update message for updating a location of the mobile station to a centralized database. Upon receipt of the location update message, the centralized database updates dormant state information for the mobile station to connect the target BSC to the source BSC. The centralized database transmits a location update result message indicating complete update of the dormant state information to the target BSC.
US07843879B2
In a method for configuration of a compressed mode in a mobile radiocommunication system, a configuration of a compressed mode defined using the parameters for the compressed mode. The parameters include a transmission gap length (TBVL) and a transmission gap pattern length (TGPL). The transmission gaps are defined in a first transmission time structure specific to a first system and determined relative to a second transmission time structure specific to a second system to permit measures for the second system to be taken in the first system. For each reference configuration, if the duration of the TPGL is such that the transmission gaps occur periodically with fixed position in said second structure, then the TGL is selected to be sufficiently large so that two transmission gaps occur in two of the positions, the closest of which overlap each other with an overlap duration long enough to carry out a measure.
US07843872B2
Methods and arrangements for wireless communications are described. Embodiments include transformations, code, state machines or other logic to receive from a transmitter a signal representing a known sequence of symbols. The signal may be transmitted over a plurality of sub channels. The embodiments may also include determining channel responses at the sub channels and determining a reception of the known sequence. The determining may include treating the channel responses at the sub channels in a differential manner to cancel out channel phase responses and obtain channel amplitudes. In some embodiments, the cancelling may be performed by multiplying frequency domain values representing reception of a sub channel by the complex conjugate of frequency domain values of a neighboring sub channel. Many embodiments may also include calculating a carrier to interference and noise ratio (CINR) of the signal. In several embodiments, the signal may represent the preamble of a wireless frame.
US07843864B2
Plural service providers each provide services to one or more multicast service systems, which forward service sets formed by bundling received services to a respective multicast operator. The service sets are then multicast in IP datacasting bursts, and can be received by a mobile terminal. Each service includes one or more service components, which have different media formats, e.g. audio, video, game, software, chat, offline web page, etc. The service components include content data and service identification data. A service set schedule giving timing information relating to the transmission of the IP datacasting burst and the transmission frequency is created. An IP burst begins with ESG data. The service set schedule may be part of the ESG data or it may be transmitted separately. The mobile terminal can use the timing information to tune the appropriate channel at the appropriate time to receive and then to decode service identification data relating to a required service, and subsequently obtain required service components thereof. The service components are stored in portions of the memory. Service selection is enabled by a user interface.
US07843858B2
A method is provided for reducing crosstalk problems in digital subscriber loop systems. The problems are associated with a second receiver on a second loop responding to a signal from a first transmitter on a first loop. The signal is actually destined for a first receiver and is coupled between the first transmitter and the second receiver as a crosstalk signal. The method includes the step of transmitting a masking signal from a second transmitter to the second receiver for masking said crosstalk signal.
US07843856B2
A capacity aware system that facilitates activation of a new service in a dynamic network is provided. The system calculates the available capacity of the network, at a given time, and determines if sufficient capacity is available for new service activation as per the SLA (Service Level Agreement) requirements. If SLA conditions are satisfied, the system can active a new service and update the network capacity, else, if the conditions are not satisfied the system can provide means to extend network capacity or reject the service. Thus, the system activates a new service only if the specified bandwidth is available and ensures that the SLA being promised to a customer is met.
US07843855B2
A system and method is provided for broadcasting content in two streams to a plurality of nodes using two tree networks. The two tree networks have a plurality of nodes where each node is a repeater node or a leaf node. The first data stream is retransmitted down the first tree network by each repeater node in the first tree network. The second data stream is retransmitted down the second tree network by each repeater node in the second tree network. At least one of the nodes acting as a repeater in the first tree network acts as a leaf node in the second tree network, and at least one of the nodes acting as a leaf in the first tree network acts as a repeater node in the second tree network.
US07843838B1
A method for tracing a communication route through a network coupling a first device with a second device is provided. A first signal is transferred from the first device to the second device to cause a plurality of intermediate devices to report first information concerning the first signal. The first information is processed to identify the intermediate devices as defining the communication route. The intermediate devices are configured so that a second signal, when transferred from the first device toward the second device, causes a subset of the intermediate devices to report second information concerning the second signal. The second signal is transferred from the first device toward the second device. The second information is processed to identify the subset of the intermediate devices as a portion of a sequence of the intermediate devices defining the communication route.
US07843831B2
A system and method for routing non-real-time content over a packet network. A call request to communicate data packets including non-real-time content over a packet network may be received. A determination of at least one network node over which a call path for a call to be established for the call request is to be routed may be made. Network performance information associated with communications over the network node(s) may be established. A determination as to whether the network node(s) are impaired or congested may be made and, if the network node(s) are determined to be impaired or congested, communications of the data packets including non-real-time content over the network node(s) may be altered. Otherwise, if the network node(s) are not determined to be impaired or congested, the call may be established on the network node(s). In one embodiment, a call control manager may manage the call.
US07843826B2
A technique for ensuring that a node that carries high-priority protocol data units and low-priority protocol data units is properly configured to accord the high-level protocol data units priority treatment is described. In accordance with the illustrative embodiment, two streams of protocol data units are transmitted through a node to be tested. One stream comprises high-priority protocol data units, and the second stream comprises low-priority protocol data units. The processing capabilities of the node are then burdened by increasing the frequency of protocol data units transmitted to it, so that the node is compelled to treat the two streams differently, if, in fact, it is properly configured to treat them differently. If the node treats the two streams differently and accords the high-priority stream higher priority, then the node is properly configured. Otherwise, the node is re-configured to accord the high-priority stream higher priority.
US07843819B1
A method and apparatus for providing channel access coordination in a BSS or a wireless mesh is presented. A control channel is assigned to a control radio. At least one data channel is assigned to at least one data radio. Control signals are transmitted and received on the control channel, and data is transmitted and received on the at least one data channel. Acknowledgements for the data are received on the control channel. A node having a plurality of radios can transmit and receive traffic on different data channels simultaneously.
US07843818B2
In order to minimize the delay of the video images viewed by a network conference attendee, an intelligent buffering process (IB process) selectively discards video frames from at least one point, and in an embodiment, many network points, such as at “in” and/or “out” buffers of clients, servers, routers, etc. Packets of video frame data arrive at a buffer, which can fill to a predetermined limit if the packets cannot be forwarded due to delays or slow connections. To forward the most current video images, old frames in the buffer are discarded rather than forwarded. In a particular embodiment, when the buffer is full, the next arriving delta frame packet is discarded. To avoid distortion, each subsequent delta frame is discarded until a new key frame eventually arrives. If the buffer is still full when the key frame arrives, the buffer is purged and the new key frame is added.
US07843808B2
A method and an apparatus for rapidly resuming, at times of failures, network traffic in a connection-oriented network by using an alternative route pre-computed and stored locally in nodes along an initial route without requiring signaling of upstream nodes or a master server.
US07843806B2
An apparatus for sampling clock recovery (SCO) and methods for estimating and compensating SCO are provided. The apparatus comprises a symbol timing adjustment module for shifting forward or backward symbol timing of the transmitted OFDM symbols; a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) processor for performing DFT to an output from the symbol timing adjustment module; a channel estimator for undertaking a channel frequency response estimation based on a channel estimation sequence; a SCO phase rotator for receiving and performing phase shift on the transmitted OFDM symbols of a frame header and a frame payload; an SCO estimation stage for undertaking an SCO estimation based on a pilot-subcarrier-related output of the SCO phase rotator and the CFR estimation; and an SCO compensation distributor for dividing the SCO estimation into integer and fractional portions and then distributing them into the symbol timing adjustment module and the SCO phase rotator, respectively.
US07843795B2
A method of operating a storage device includes storing data in the form of marks in a storage medium; scanning the storage medium with at least one probe operating in a scanning mode; and utilizing a control unit to provide a pulsed reading signal for data detecting in the scanning mode, and providing the probe with oversampling reading pulses in a clock mark scanning mode, wherein the control unit further comprises an input for a response signal to the oversampling reading pulses, and a determination unit for determining the clock dependent on the response signal; wherein the storage medium comprises marks for determining a clock of the pulsed reading signal.
US07843793B2
An optical pickup apparatus according to the present invention includes: a first light source for emitting a first light flux; a second light source for emitting a second light flux; a third light source for emitting a third light flux; and an objective optical element. The objective optical element has an optical surface including at least two areas provided with optical path difference providing structures. The objective optical element converges the first to third light fluxes each passing through the predetermined areas on the objective optical element onto respective information recording surfaces of the first to third optical disks. The optical pickup apparatus provides a wavelength dependency of a spherical aberration so as to correct a change in a spherical aberration due to a refractive index change with a temperature change of the objective optical element.
US07843789B2
Multilayer optical disk is recordable or partly recordable. Parallel reading of information data from the group of layers by the same focused laser beam is possible. Only one layer of said group has the guide grooves for tracking. Alignment of the information data disposition on the layers of the group is provided. The signals reflected from the different layers of the group have different tilts and are directed onto the different photodetectors. Optical disk management for preventing its illegal use is proposed.
US07843777B2
A method for assembling an optical pickup apparatus for recording/reproducing a high density DVD, DVD and CD including two objective lens and three laser light sources, the objective lenses being provided on the lens holder having an actuator base for supporting the actuator, the method for assembling the optical pickup apparatus comprises the steps of adjusting a first tilt angle of the actuator base so that a coma aberration of a spot formed by the first light beams decreases when the first light beams are converged onto the first recording medium via the first objective lens, and adjusting a second tilt angle formed between the second objective lens and the lens holder so that a coma aberration of a beam spot formed by the second light beams decreases when the second light beams are converged onto the second recording medium via the second objective lens.
US07843774B2
An optical information recording and reproducing apparatus for performing, using a light beam, recording of information or reproducing of recorded information with respect to a plurality of recording layers of an information recording medium. An objective lens condenses a light beam onto the recording layers. A light beam expander corrects spherical aberration caused by a difference in substrate thickness by changing one of a divergent angle and a convergent angle of a light beam entering the objective lens. A coma aberration correcting device corrects coma aberration caused by tilt of the recording medium. A drive circuit drives the coma aberration correcting device with a drive signal having a value varied depending on an amount of coma aberration caused in accordance with one of a divergent angle and a convergent angle of the light beam expander, which varies for each recording layer, and an amount of coma aberration caused in each recording layer due to a transmission thickness from a light incidence surface of the recording medium to the recording layers.
US07843762B2
In a RAM control device, an arbiter circuit is means for generating BUSY1 and BUSY2 of exclusive logic with CLK1 and CLK2 so as to give a right to access RAM3 to a host which has transmitted the first access clock and requesting a one-shot circuit to generate RAMCLK for deciding the timing to access the RAM3. The one-shot circuit is means for generating one pulse of RAMCLK with CLKRQ from the arbiter circuit and transmitting it to the RAM3. This configuration suppresses increase of the device size and cost and enables appropriate control of access to the RAM according to the access clocks of two systems inputted asynchronously.
US07843753B2
An integrated circuit includes an array of memory cells and a first circuit. The array includes word lines. Each word line is coupled to a plurality of memory cells. The first circuit is configured to refresh memory cells along a first number of word lines in response to a refresh command. The first number of word lines is based on a sensed temperature.
US07843749B2
A multi-port memory device includes a plurality of serial I/O data pads; a plurality of parallel I/O data pads; a plurality of first ports for performing a serial I/O data communication with external devices through the serial I/O data pads; a plurality of banks for performing a parallel I/O data communication with the first ports via a plurality of first data buses; and a second port for performing a parallel I/O data communication with the external devices through the parallel I/O data pads and a serial I/O data communication with the first ports via a plurality of second data buses, during a test mode.
US07843732B2
Methods of operating a non-volatile multi-bit memory device can include programming multi-bit memory cells included in one page of the device with page data including an error detection code based on the page data and determining the validity of the page data using the error detection code read from the multi-bit memory cells in response to an error during programming of the multi-bit memory cells, wherein the multi-bit memory cells in the one page are configured to store a single bit of the page data.
US07843727B2
A memory device and a memory data reading method are provided. The memory device may include: a multi-bit cell array; a programming unit that stores N data pages in a memory page in the multi-bit cell array; and a control unit that divides the N data pages into a first group and second group, reads data of the first group from the memory page, and determines a scheme of reading data of the second group from the memory page based on the read data of the first group.
US07843725B2
A memory device and programming and/or reading process is described that programs a row of non-volatile multi-level memory cells (MLC) in a single program operation to minimize disturb within the pages of the row, while verifying each memory cell page of the row separately. In one embodiment of the present invention, the memory device utilizes data latches to program M-bits of data into each cell of the row and then repurposes the data latches during the subsequent page verify operations to read M+L bits from each cell of the selected page at a higher threshold voltage resolution than required. In sensing, the increased threshold voltage resolution/granularity allows interpretations of the actual programmed state of the memory cell and enables more effective use of data encoding and decoding techniques such as convolutional codes where additional granularity of information is used to make soft decisions reducing the overall memory error rate.
US07843723B2
A control unit reads data from a plurality of memory cells connected to one of the word lines in a read operation at a first level CR generated by a voltage generator circuit and in a read operation at a second level CR−x and finds the number of cells included between the first level and the second level from the data and, if the number is equal to or smaller than a specified value, determines the result of the read operation at the first level to be read data.
US07843722B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device and a programming method thereof are provided. The programming method includes first programming a cell among a plurality of adjacent memory cells to the highest threshold voltage distribution corresponding to a data state, and subsequently programming the other adjacent cells to the lower threshold voltage distributions corresponding to second and third data states. The second data state and the third data state may have the second highest threshold voltage distribution and the third highest threshold voltage distribution, respectively, or the third highest threshold voltage distribution and the second highest threshold voltage distribution, respectively.
US07843717B2
A semiconductor storage device includes a memory array compartmentalized into first and second regions alternately arranged. The second regions are formed by odd and even columns alternately arranged. The semiconductor storage device includes: a memory mat array arranged in each first region; a sense amp array arranged in each second region; local IO lines arranged in each second region and connected to the sense amp array; main IO lines crossing the first and second regions; and a read/write amplifier arranged in each second region and at an intersection region where the local IO lines cross the main IO lines. The read/write amplifier in an odd column is connected to a local IO line therein and to a local IO line in the next odd column. The read/write amplifier in an even column is connected to a local IO line therein and to a local IO line in the next even column.
US07843715B2
A memory cell of a resistive semiconductor memory device, a resistive semiconductor memory device having a three-dimensional stack structure, and related methods are provided. The memory cell of a resistive semiconductor memory device includes a twin cell, wherein the twin cell stores data values representing one bit of data. The twin cell includes a main unit cell connected to a main bit line and a word line, and a sub unit cell connected to a sub bit line and the word line. Also, the main unit cell includes a first variable resistor and a first diode, and the sub unit cell includes a second variable resistor and a second diode.
US07843712B2
A miniaturized system on a chip that incorporates a positive high voltage charge pump and a negative high voltage charge pump into one pump circuit and shares components. A voltage control apparatus in a semiconductor device may include at least one of the following: First and second input/output units capable of inputting or outputting voltage. A voltage booster that receives and boosts a voltage from one of the first and second input/output unit and outputs the boosted voltage from the other input/output unit. An output selector that receives the boosted voltage from the voltage booster and selects one of the positive or the negative voltage to output. An output controller that receives the boosted voltage from the voltage booster and controls and/or regulates the output voltage. An output unit that outputs the generated output voltage.
US07843705B2
An EMI shielding device is set in an electronic device. The electronic device includes a shell, a circuit board set in the shell, and an electrical component set on the circuit board. The shielding device includes a middle board and a shielding cover. The middle board is set inside the electronic device. The shielding cover is set on the middle board and covers an outside of the electrical component. Thus, the EMI shielding device is structured. The material of the shielding cover is widely used, so the cost of the material is markedly reduced. After the shielding cover is opened, it is easy to restore the shielding state. The shielding cover is set inside the electronic device via the middle board, so assembly is easy and it is not limited by changes in the shape or the structure of the shell, so applicability is improved.
US07843704B2
A pluggable guiding apparatus is used for an opening of a case and there are two guiding elements arranged at two sides of the opening. The pluggable guiding apparatus includes: a main frame, wherein the size of the main frame is corresponding to the opening of the case and the main frame is divided into a plurality of sub-slot openings; and a plurality of sub-guiding elements arranged on the main frame, wherein the sub-guiding elements are arranged on two sides of the sub-slot openings, and the sub-guiding elements and guiding elements are set face to face for guiding a plurality of pluggable sub-modules to be inserted into the case.
US07843701B2
An electronic component and an electronic-component production method in which the magnitude of a stray capacitance produced between adjacent outer electrodes is controllable. The electronic component includes a chip body and first to fourth outer electrodes. In the chip body, first and second coil block are sandwiched between magnetic substrates. Dielectric layers are interposed between the outer electrodes and the chip body such as to be away from exposed portions of coil patterns in the coil blocks. The dielectric layers have a width larger than a width of the outer electrodes, and a dielectric constant of the dielectric layers is set to be lower than the dielectric constant of the magnetic substrates.
US07843700B2
An electric device includes: a first electric element; a second electric element capable of flowing large current therethrough so that heat is generated in the second electric element; a heat sink; and a first wiring board and a second wiring board, which are disposed on one side of the heat sink. The large current in the second electric element is larger than that in the first electric element. The first wiring board and the second wiring board are separated each other. The first electric element is disposed on the first wiring board, and the second electric element is disposed on the second wiring board.
US07843692B2
A mobile, modular communications device, featuring a multiple-slot base chassis designed to support a plurality of individual user-configurable and interchangeable personality modules, capable of providing the ability to accept secure/classified user communications, including voice, data and video, the means to encrypt or secure such user communications through either internal or external encryption capabilities, the means to optimize the secure voice, data and video communications for transmission across a remote reachback communications link and the ability to provide multiple network/uplink reachback transmission alternatives, such as local area networks, satellites, cellular, ISDN or other forms of fixed or wireless communications. The invention is intended to provide a standardized, structured and modular approach to the provisioning of different technologies within the overall system and to be capable of being deployed as a man-carry or rack-embedded unit.
US07843687B2
An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device may include a first side and a second side. The electronic device may also include a lid configured to cover an opening on the first side. The lid may include an interior side. The interior side may be invisible from outside of the electronic device when the lid covers the opening. The electronic device may also include a latching mechanism including a slider configured to slide along at least one of the lid and the first side for latching the lid at the interior side. The electronic device may also include a control unit disposed on the second side and configured to actuate movement of the slider.
US07843682B2
An electrical component may include a vent located in a mounting portion of a case to vent a blast from within the case. A chassis may have a mounting site for an electrical component, wherein the mounting site includes a passage to receive a blast from the electrical component. A system may include a chassis having a mounting site to engage a mounting portion of a case for an electrical component, wherein the mounting portion of the case includes a vent, and the chassis forms at least a portion of a blast chamber to receive a blast from the vent.
US07843681B2
A solid electrolytic capacitor element includes an anode foil, a solid electrolytic layer, a cathode foil, and a connection portion. The anode foil is composed of valve metal and has at least one through hole passing therethrough in thickness direction thereof. The solid electrolytic layer is made of conductive polymer and is provided on a surface of the anode foil. The cathode foil is provided on a surface of the solid electrolytic layer. The connection portion is provided in the through hole and electrically connects a first solid electrolytic layer and a second solid electrolytic layer, the first solid electrolytic layer being a region of the solid electrolytic layer on one face of the anode foil, the second solid electrolytic layer being another region of the solid electrolytic layer on the other face of the anode foil.
US07843676B2
An uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system includes an AC power input configured to receive AC power from a single-phase AC power source or a multi-phase AC power source, a DC power source, an output circuit including a power output, a controllable switch configured to selectively couple at least one of the AC power input and the DC power source to the output circuit, and a processor coupled and configured to affect operation of the output circuit depending upon which of single-phase and multi-phase operation of the UPS is indicated.
US07843673B2
An antenna diode circuit for discharging static charge accumulated during wafer processing is described. The antenna diode circuit includes first and second junctions coupled to a circuit element and substrate. Between the first and second junctions is a diode circuit path with an antenna diode and at least one diode protection circuit coupled in series. The diode protection circuit reduces or prevents EOS current from flowing through the diode circuit path during an EOS event.
US07843659B2
A head IC adjusts an amplitude level of a read signal of a head and outputs the adjusted signal to a read channel having an AGC amplifier. A head IC includes: a differential amplifier; an AGC circuit; external gain setting sections; and a switch. The AGC amplifier is disposed in the head IC, and the amplitude from the head is automatically adjusted in the head IC. The signal level can be adjusted within the input dynamic range of the AGC amplifier of the read channel. An estimated gain value converted from a result of measuring a resistance value of the head is used as an initial value for the adjustment of the AGC amplifier. It becomes possible attempting to prevent an increase in the lock-in times of the AGC, to guarantee stability, and to prevent judgment errors of the AGC.
US07843655B2
An objective optical system includes, a first group having positive refractive power, a second group having positive refractive power, the first group having a first parallel flat plate, a diaphragm, a second parallel flat plate and a first plano-convex lens with its convex surface facing the image side in the above mentioned order as viewed from the object side, the first parallel flat plate, the second flat parallel plate and the first plano-convex lens forming a cemented lens, the second parallel flat plate being formed by an infrared absorption filter, the second group having a second plano-convex lens with its convex surface facing the object side.
US07843654B2
A system and method for collimating light emitted from a light source, such as a light-emitting diode (LED), is provided. The system and method includes two lenses, both lenses having a positive power for converging the light rays. In one example, the first lens is a hemispherical ball lens and the second lens is configured such that one surface conforms to the exiting surface of the first lens. The exiting surface of the second lens may be, for example, a Fresnel lens or an aspherical lens. In another example, the first lens may be a hemispherical or a hyperhemispherical ball lens. The second lens has an outer circumference having two aspherical surfaces. The inner portion of the second lens is in direct contact with the first lens. This configuration creates a dual-channel collimator.
US07843652B2
A wide-angle imaging lens is provided and includes: a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens in this order from the object side. The first lens is a negative meniscus and has a convex surface on the object side; the second lens, at least one surface of which is an aspherical surface; and the third lens is a positive lens and has a convex surface on the image side and at least one surface of the third lens is an aspherical surface. The first len is made of a material having an Abbe number of 40 or more and the third lens is made of a material having an Abbe number of 50 or more. An aperture stop is disposed between the second lens and the third lens.
US07843649B2
A method of fabricating a microlens that serves to prevent damage thereto in the fabrication process is provided. First, a lens body of which the maximum height housed within a recess is lower than the height of the side wall of the recess is formed in the lens formation region by performing patterning that transfers the shape of a first resist pattern to a substrate by using the first resist pattern as an etching mask. Thereafter, a partial region of the substrate which is outside the lens formation region is removed to form an outline by using a second resist pattern as a mask.
US07843644B1
Techniques for designing compact free-space optical device with all input/output ports on one side are disclosed. Instead of folding a fiber, a beam folding means is provided to turn a light beam to significantly reduce the size of the device. In one embodiment, there are a first collimator, a second collimator, and a beam folding means to turn a light beam from the first collimator back to the second collimator by two turns so that a first light path from the first collimator to the beam folding means and a second light path from the second collimator to the beam folding means are parallel. A substrate is provided to which the first and second collimators and filters are boned thereto.
