US07845831B2
A light fixture (10) is provided having a wall housing (11) and lighting arms (12). The light fixture includes a heating source (17) mounted within the wall housing. The wall housing includes an external wall (19) adapted to be mounted to a vertical wall of a structure. The external wall has a top (19a), bottom (19b), two oppositely disposed sides (19c), and a front face (19d). The housing top has an air intake opening (20). The housing bottom has an air exhaust outlet (21) which directs air in a downwardly direction. The wall housing also includes an air channel (23) which commences at air intake opening and ends at air exhaust outlet. The heat source includes a heating element (25) mounted within the airflow channel and a motorized fan (26) to create an air flow through the channel which exits through the air exhaust outlet.
US07845829B2
An enclosure for an LED circuit board is manufactured from a flame resistant material and includes LED apertures through which LEDs mounted on an LED circuit board may pass. The enclosure is designed to be positioned on the LED circuit board so that, when so positioned, the LEDs extend at least partially through the LED apertures in the enclosure. When the enclosure is positioned on the board, portions of its lower surface contact the upper surface of the board. Various fixation/retention methods may be used to retain the enclosure in position relative to the circuit board. It is preferable that such methods allow for the separation of the enclosure from the board.
US07845824B2
A lamp that allows a user to adjust parameters to control emitted white light, specifically quality, intensity and color temperature. Under such control, the lamp can match, complement, or augment ambient or available natural or artificial light. In specific embodiments, the lamp uses high power, high CRI, white LED sources; integral thermal management that also functions as LED structural support; integral optics (secondary lenses) with accommodation for diffusing elements; and manually responsive controls.
US07845816B2
A helmet including a lighting system integrated into said helmet, the lighting system comprising a first layer; light emitting means mounted to said first layer; controller means mounted to said first layer for controlling said light emitting means; wiring means for linking said light emitting means to said controller means; a second layer fixably attached to said first layer thereby providing an area between said first and second layer for said light emitting means, controller means, and wiring means; power means fixably attached to said second layer for powering said controller and light emitting means; and operating means functionally linked to said controller means for operating said controller means. The application also discloses lighting system contained in a shell that that can be attached to an existing helmet.
US07845814B2
A method and apparatus of lighting a marine habitat for growth utilizing an LED light system. The light system includes an LED light source, a power supply for such light source and a controller for controlling the activation status and the intensity of the LED light source.
US07845811B2
An exemplary prism sheet (20) includes a light input surface (201), a light output surface (202) opposite to the light input surface, and a plurality of micro-depressions (205). The plurality of micro-depressions are defined in the light output surface and arranged in a skewed matrix. Each micro-depression has four side surfaces connected to each other, and a transverse width of each side surface decreases along a direction away from the light output surface and close to the light input surface. The present invention also provides a liquid crystal display device (200) using the above-described prism sheet.
US07845809B2
A domestic appliance includes an operation indicator having an illumination element for emitting a light beam by means of which a gap between the domestic appliance and a surface adjacent to the domestic appliance can be illuminated, and a reflection element in the gap for directing or bundling light emitted by the illumination element.
US07845808B2
An exemplary illuminating device includes a light guide member and a light source. The light guide member includes an annular main body and at least one light incident portion extending from and optically coupled to the annular main body. The light source is optically coupled to the at least one light incident portion. The annular main body has a light emitting surface. The annular main body has a plurality of micro protrusions formed on the light emitting surface.
US07845806B2
Discharge lamp control device controlling lighting of a discharge lamp, and projector using the same
A discharge lamp control device includes: a discharge lamp driver section which drives a lamp; and a discharge lamp drive control section which performs constant current control so that a discharge lamp current that flows between electrodes of the lamp becomes constant when a discharge lamp voltage applied between the electrodes of the lamp is lower than a first voltage, and performs constant power control so that an amount of power supplied to the lamp becomes constant when the discharge lamp voltage is equal to or higher than the first voltage after the lamp has been lighted. The discharge lamp drive control section includes a discharge lamp drive frequency control section which causes the drive frequency when the discharge lamp voltage is lower than a second voltage which is equal to or lower than the first voltage to be lower than the drive frequency when the discharge lamp voltage is higher than the second voltage.
US07845796B2
A spectacle lens includes a multi-contact diffractive optical element formed on at least one surface of a overall lens system that is arranged from an object to a pupil, in which an apparent Abbe number Vd when the overall lens system including the multi-contact diffractive optical element is regarded as a single lens satisfies Vd>60 . . . (1).
US07845794B1
A plug device for coupling a frame of a pair of glasses to one of a temple or a head strap buckle includes a socket member having a receptacle. The receptacle includes an outer lateral wall having an opening in communication with the receptacle. A button is moveably received in the opening. A resilient member is received in the receptacle and biases the button into the opening. A plug member includes a resilient hook releasably engaged in the receptacle. A distal end of the resilient hook is releasably received in the opening and abuts a peripheral wall of the opening. An outer end of the resilient hook abuts the inner end of the button. The button is pressable in the direction to disengage the distal end of the resilient hook from the opening, allowing the resilient hook to be removed from the receptacle of the socket member.
US07845790B2
An ink jet printing system includes an ink jet print head configured to deliver ink drops to a substrate, a support member having a plurality of protrusions configured to carry the substrate by being in contact with the lower surface of the substrate, and a substrate conveying mechanism configured to cause relative movement between the ink jet print head and the support member.
US07845787B2
A print system senses the type of a recording medium. The print system modifies the amount of marking material on an imaging drum when the sensed the recording medium type requires a modification to the amount of marking material on the imaging drum. Moreover, the print system changes a transfix parameter when the sensed the recording medium type requires a modification to the transfix parameter.
US07845783B2
A printing apparatus having a) a printing station including at least one printhead for applying phase-change ink to a print substrate in a phase-change ink image, and b) an ink spreading station including an ink spreading member and a back-up pressure member in pressure contact with the ink spreading member forming a nip between the ink spreading member and pressure member for spreading the phase-change ink image on the print substrate, wherein the print substrate is passed through the nip, and wherein the pressure member includes i) a pressure member substrate, and having thereon ii) an intermediate coating comprising a polyurethane material, and having thereon, iii) an outer coating comprising a nitrile butadiene and a conductive filler.
US07845782B2
Disclosed is a cradle for holding an ink cartridge within an inkjet printer. The cradle comprises a recess for receiving and releasably retaining the ink cartridge; an interface corresponding to an ink storage compartment of the ink cartridge; a pair of arms for receiving and retaining a PCB assembly containing a print engine, each of the arms adapted to engage with a first end of a corresponding tension spring; and a cover assembly pivotally attached to the cradle, the cover adapted to engage with a second end of the tension springs. The interface is provided on the cover assembly. The tension springs are engaged with the cover assembly and the PCB assembly such that movement of the cover assembly to an open position relieves a tension in the tension springs with respect to the PCB assembly, whereby the PCB assembly pivots away from corresponding electrical contacts of the inkjet printer.
US07845779B2
The present invention relates to an ink cartridge with a handle for inkjet printers. The ink cartridge includes a cartridge housing (1) having hook-avoidance grooves (2) with a proper depth and corresponding to the pulling hooks (11) of the locking cover (10) of the printhead, and a handle (3) disposed on an upper surface of the ink cartridge body (1). The structure of the handle (3) is in a form of double-folding type. Alternatively, the handle can also be in a form of single straight flip-down type construction. Because of the handle structure, the present invention is not only able to relieve the installation and removal of the ink cartridge from excessive reliance on the locking cover of the print head, but also to make the ink cartridge installation and removal more natural, positive and user controlled.
US07845773B2
A printer includes a printhead and a source of liquid. The printhead includes a nozzle bore. The liquid is under pressure sufficient to eject a column of the liquid through the nozzle bore. The liquid has a temperature. A thermal modulator is associated with the nozzle bore. The thermal modulator is operable to transiently lower the temperature of the liquid as the liquid is ejected through the nozzle bore.
US07845763B2
A laminated film for attachment of printhead integrated circuits to an ink supply manifold. The film has a plurality of ink supply holes defined therein and film comprises: a central polymeric web; a first adhesive layer for bonding a first surface of the film to the ink supply manifold; and a second adhesive layer for bonding a second surface of the film to the printhead integrated circuits. The central polymeric web is sandwiched between the first and second adhesive layers. A first melt temperature of the first adhesive layer is at least 20° C. less than a second melt temperature of the second adhesive layer.
US07845758B2
Provided herein is a suction device having a plurality of head caps capable of closely contacting with and moving away from corresponding nozzle surfaces of a plurality of inkjet functional liquid droplet ejection heads. The suction device includes: a plurality of cap units having one or more of the head caps, a contacting/separating mechanism which makes the head caps contact and move away, a plurality of suction units which suck functional liquid from the head caps, a plurality of sets of suction channels each of which having a main channel and individual channels, and a plurality of channel switching units which selectively switch the suction channels to any one of the suction units.
US07845757B2
A printing apparatus including printheads arranged along a transport path of a printing medium and which are transported in a transporting direction. The printheads have a plurality of nozzles arranged in an arrangement which intersects the transporting direction. The apparatus also includes a printhead control unit configured to print an image on the printing medium by discharging ink from part of the plurality of nozzles on the basis of given image data, and a discharge inspection unit configured to detect any defectively discharging nozzles present in the plurality of nozzles, the printhead control unit specifying specific nozzles which discharge ink for printing the image, determining whether any discharge-defective nozzle is included in the specific nozzles or not, and starting printing of the image when it is determined that no discharge-defective nozzle is included in the specific nozzles.
US07845751B2
A method for reducing banding artifacts in a printed image, including irregularly advancing a media that will be printed upon while employing an entire single mask for marking elements of a printhead; and calculating a difference between an irregular advance amount of the media versus a nominal advance amount of the media. Finally, the single mask is nonuniformly circulated by the difference calculated in order to compensate for the media being irregularly advanced.
US07845750B2
Ink type information is read by a read and write system (62) from a semiconductor storage system mounted on ink cartridges (9a to 9d) attached to a cartridge holder (8). A decision control system (61) decides whether or not ink type information has already been stored in ink type storage system (63), and stores the ink type information thus read when the ink type information is not stored. In the case in which the ink cartridge is exchanged, the ink type information is similarly read and it is decided whether or not the same ink type information is identical to the ink type information stored in the ink type storage system (63). If they are not identical to each other, the operation of the recording apparatus is inhibited and a display system (68) is caused to display an error message thereon.
US07845741B2
A stud mount for detachably mounting a traction stud to a snowmobile track assembly including an endless drive belt having at least one laterally extending reinforcing rod embedded in the drive belt. At least one stud mount is secured about the reinforcing rod by way of a mounting head and is opened to the ground-engaging side of the track to receive a traction stud. One or more stabilizing arms project laterally from the mounting head and are adapted embedded in the endless drive belt to provide lateral stability to the stud mounts under torque load.
US07845735B2
A method and system for performing the method of controlling vehicle braking where the wheel slip of individual vehicle wheels is calculated and the load upon individual vehicle wheels is determined. A first brake line correction factor is calculated based on the determined loads upon the vehicle wheels. A second brake line correction factor is calculated based on the calculated wheel slip and the first and second load brake line correction factors are used to modulate a pressure supplied to individual wheel calipers during braking of the vehicle.
US07845725B1
An apparatus for use in accommodating public seating needs is disclosed. Preferably, the apparatus includes at least a pair of parallel backbone members, a support leg in sliding engagement with the pair of parallel backbone members, a combination seating surface and backrest portion in sliding engagement with the pair of parallel backbone members, and adjacent the support leg, and an end cap secured to the pair of parallel backbone members, and restricting lateral motion of the support leg and the combination seating surface and backrest portion along the pair of parallel backbone members. Preferably the apparatus further accommodates lateral motion of the support leg and the combination seating surface and backrest portion along the pair of parallel backbone members, upon removal of the end cap from the pair of parallel backbone members.
US07845720B2
A portable platform that allows for independent assembly and disassembly of SCUBA diving equipment comprised of a folding seating implement with a pair of front, rear and side crossed legs, a seating means, a backrest and armrests. An additional plurality of seating implement legs is pivotally connected to the posterior portions of the back crossed legs and connected at their lower portions. A concave vertical recess is located along the midline of the seating implement backrest that extends from the concave recess located at the midline rear portion of the seating implement seating means to the top edge of the seating implement backrest. At least one linear nylon support strip is connected at each lateral side of the seating implement backrest and extends laterally across a back portion of the seating implement backrest. A plurality of pouch pockets is connected to each lateral side of the seating means.
US07845708B2
An aerodynamic drag reducing apparatus for use with vehicles having surfaces that are not streamlined. The apparatus including an exterior cover supported by moveable frames which in turn are supported by sets of supporting linkages. The moveable frames extend rearward and together with the exterior cover form a drag reducing shape for use in a drag reducing configuration and collapse for use in a space saving configuration.
US07845707B2
A closure assembly with a shape memory polymer seal is provided for use with a vehicle. The closure assembly includes a frame member configured for attachment to the vehicle body to selectively transition from a closed position to an open position. The seal structure includes a base portion elongated along and attached to a peripheral edge of the frame member or the vehicle body, and a flexible contact portion extending integrally from the base portion and configured for sealing communication with an opposing surface. A thermally-activated smart material (TASM), namely a shape memory polymer member, is disposed inside a cavity within the contact portion. A thermoelectric device is in thermal communication with the TASM, and is characterized by a thermal differential when current flows therethrough. The TASM is activated in response to the thermal differential of the thermoelectric device, thereby altering at least one physical property of the TASM.
US07845703B2
Embodiments of seating systems for motor vehicles facilitate two-dimensional movement of a seat in a horizontal plane. The seating systems can also facilitate vertical movement of the seat. The seating systems are motorized, and can be automatically controlled so that minimal movement and effort are required on the part of the user to enter and exit the vehicle.
US07845698B2
A gripper assembly including at least one gripper jaw and an actuator operative for moving the at least one gripper jaw. A support is fixed relative to the actuator for supporting the at least one gripper jaw. A stop member is removably affixable between the at least one gripper jaw and the support for limiting movement of the at least one gripper jaw.
US07845695B2
The disclosure describes a waste collection device that includes a sweep that includes a plate and a first handle, and a scoop that includes a receptacle and a second handle. The first handle is attached to the plate and the second handle is attached to the receptacle. The disclosure also describes a method of picking up animal waste that includes contacting the waste with the plate of a sweep and sweeping the waste into a receptacle of a scoop through an opening of the receptacle.
US07845694B1
A waste handling and bagging unit (10) that is comprised of a mitt (12) having an upper layer (14), a lower layer (36) and a hand opening (64). Either a single bag (70) or a plurality of nested bags (70) encompass the mitt (12) and are attached to the mitt by at least one grommet assembly (112,128) that is located adjacent to the hand opening (64) on the mitt (12). The waste handling and bagging unit (10) allows a person to quickly, easily and hygienically grasp waste material, such as fecal matter from a pet, and then to enclose the waste material within one of the bags (70) for disposal. When a single bag (70) is utilized, a person will manually place a new bag on the mitt (12) for each instance of waste removal. The nested bags (70) allow a person to repeatably gasp and dispose multiple instances of waste material without having to manually put a new replacement bag (70) on the mitt (12).
US07845686B2
A restrained pipe joining system is shown comprising male and female ends each having aligned circumferential grooves which form a canal for passage of a locking key strap. During manufacture, the female belled end is sequentially formed over a Rieber style gasket and then over a ring shaped casing member having an inner circumferential groove formed on its inner circumferential surface. Preferably, the ring shaped casing has circumferentially spaced teeth that act as a pipe stop in cooperation with an outer circumferential groove on the male spigot to index the pipes to be coupled.
US07845677B2
A triggering device for a safety device in an automotive vehicle, in particular for an airbag, has an electrical component that has at least one force sensor and that is attached to the body of the automotive vehicle in such a way that a measurement signal that is dependent on the deformation of the body can be applied at a measurement signal output of the force sensor. An evaluation device for processing the measurement signal is connected to the measurement signal output. The force sensor has at least one piezo element, which is integrated into a CMOS chip together with the evaluation device.
US07845673B2
An occupant leg part restraint apparatus including a cover cloth for preventing an air bag inflated and developed under a steering column (steering column cover) from interfering with an auxiliary key, in which the cover cloth can be rapidly projected to the upper side of the air bag. A key device (4) is installed on the right side face of the steering column cover (2). The auxiliary key (6) is fitted in a suspended state to a key (5) inserted into the key device (4). The air bag (12) is provided with a cover cloth (14) which is projected from the right side upper end of the air bag (12) upward and interposed between the air bag (12) and the key device (4) when the air bag (12) is inflated. The cover cloth (14) includes an extension part (14a) extended laterally from the vertical intermediate part on the side of the cover cloth. The vertical intermediate part of the cover cloth (14) is connected to the upper end of the air bag (12) through the extension part (14a).
US07845671B2
A folding chair includes handle frames, and front legs and rear legs configured to support the chair in an upright position. The front legs are pivotally attached to respective rear legs. A chair portion, includes a back rest, a seat and a leg rest pivotally attached to the seat. Pivot frames are pivotally attached to respective handle frames, the back rest and the rear legs. Sliders are pivotally attached to respective pivot frames, the back rest, respective arm rests and the seat and are configured to slide along the front legs.
US07845670B2
In some embodiments, a trailer dolly may include one or more of the following features: (a) a main body having a proximal and distal end, (b) an adjustable hitch operably coupled to the distal end of the main body, (c) at least one wheel operably coupled to the distal end of the main body, (d) an operator's handle coupled to the main body at the proximal end, (e) at least one grip coupled to the operator's handle, (f) a V-shaped support coupled to a lower side of the main body, (g) a hitch receiving aperture coupled to the distal end of the main body, (h) a support beam operably coupled to the main body at one end and the hitch receiving aperture at an opposite end, and (i) an axle coupled to the main body at the distal end and operably coupled to the at least one wheel.
US07845664B2
Embodiments of the present invention comprise a single-wheeled recumbent bicycle trailer which may be attached to a bicycle, for transport of a passenger or passengers, wherein the passengers may contribute to propulsion of the combined cycle. The embodiments include a recumbent seat position and other accommodations for the safety and comfort of passenger(s) and ease of use. Such accommodations may include single or multi-passenger configuration, passenger pedals, hands-free operation for passengers, supportive seats with backrests, extendable leg rests, and safety restraints.
US07845657B2
A load wheel assembly for a materials handling vehicle includes first and second spaced side members, at least one rotatable roller extending between the first and second side members and a retainer for holding the roller in the side members. An interface structure provides a substantially rigid connection between the load wheel assembly and a mounting structure on the materials handling vehicle. The load wheel assembly can be moved vertically or horizontally into a mounted position within the outrigger and at least a portion of the interface structure mates with the mounting structure.
US07845653B2
A container assembly is provided that includes a base container that has an upper opening and an upper container mounted in covering relation over the upper opening of the base container. A linkage connects the upper container to the base container in a manner that allows the upper container to be displaced from the covering relation over the upper opening of the base container, so as to permit access into the base container through the upper opening. A support assembly is spaced from the base container when the upper container is displaced from the covering relation over the upper opening of the base container and wheels are disposed toward a lower portion of the container assembly. A handle is provided for rollingly transporting the container assembly on the wheels in a tilted configuration.
US07845643B2
Each of fifty-two playing cards has upper and lower portions when the card is in a selected orientation. Each card has a first face side with two numbers visible on its upper portion and the same two numbers visible on its lower portion. The two numbers are vertically oriented with respect to one another, are arranged in an identical order on the card's upper and lower portions, and are right side up on the card's upper portion and upside down on the card's lower portion. Each the two numbers is between 1 and 13, and is red or black.
US07845638B2
An imaging apparatus including a media source having a plurality of sheets of photothermographic imaging media contained therein, an exposure unit including an input engagement point, an output engagement point, and a laser module positioned therebetween, and a driven roller pair forming a nip. A driven roller pair is configured to receive a leading edge of a sheet from a media source and is configured to begin extracting the sheet from the media source and driving the sheet along a transport path extending from the media source to at least the output engagement point of the exposure unit. Upon the leading edge being engaged by the input engagement point, the nip is configured to open while the trailing edge of sheet is still within the media source such that a remaining portion of the sheet is extracted from the media source by the exposure unit while the laser module exposes a desired image on the sheet.
US07845637B2
Provided is a double feed detecting device, including: a first detecting unit which is disposed in a conveyance path of a sheet member, and detects overlapping of the sheet members which pass along the conveyance path; a second detecting unit having a light emitting unit and a light receiving unit which are opposed each other and disposed across the conveyance path, and detecting light which is irradiated from the light emitting unit and transmitted through the sheet member by the light receiving unit, and outputting a signal corresponding to a received light quantity; and a discriminating unit which discriminates the double feed when the first detecting unit detects the overlapping of the sheet members and an output signal of the second detecting unit is equal to or lower than a set double feed determination threshold value.
US07845633B2
An abnormal sheet delivery detection device includes a convey device, first pile device, noncontact-type detection unit, and first releasing unit. The convey device includes a sheet holding unit for holding a sheet, and conveys the sheet held by the sheet holding unit. The sheet released from the sheet holding unit is piled on the first pile device at a predetermined sheet release position. The noncontact-type detection unit arranged downstream of the sheet release position in a sheet convey direction detects a presence/absence of the sheet. The first releasing unit selectively switches between a first state wherein the sheet held by the sheet holding unit is released and piled on the first pile device, and a second state wherein the sheet held by the sheet holding unit is conveyed downstream in the sheet convey direction by the first convey device without releasing the sheet.
US07845632B2
Systems and methods for feeding media into a printing system in which a movable media guide is used to register media on a tray with a potentiometer and an opto-interrupt sensor are mounted in a fixed position relative to the tray with the slidable potentiometer member being moved by translation of the media guide. An obstruction structure is coupled to move relative to the opto-interrupt sensor when the media guide is translated and provides one or more fins to selectively block or open the optical signal path of the opto-interrupt sensor, with the sensed media width being determined according to the output signals of the opto-interrupt sensor and the potentiometer.
US07845631B2
A transporting device moves sheet-like objects. The transporting device has an elevator plate mounted to be liftable and lowerable on a loading surface to load an object to be moved; a drive part to lift and to lower the elevator plate via gears; and a controller to execute a preparatory operation to operate the drive part in a direction only by a drive amount corresponding to the gear backlash during the time after the drive part has completed an elevator plate drive operation in one direction until the start of an elevator plate drive operation in another direction.
US07845624B2
A cylindrical fluid-filled elastic mount which has a structure that avoids or mitigates a deterioration of damping effect, when an outer cylindrical member is subjected to a diameter-reducing operation. A cylindrical fluid-filled elastic mount including; a communication groove connecting a pair of pockets in the circumferential direction formed in an elastic body; fluid chambers provided by the corresponding pockets; an orifice member having a trough-form protrusion in which both-side wall portions provided at an end of the orifice groove are formed by an elastic material. The trough-form protrusion is inserted in the communication groove. At least one hollow groove is provided along the communication groove where the trough-form protrusion is inserted, and the hollow groove is formed longer in the circumferential direction than a length of a protrusion part of the trough-form protrusion.
US07845622B1
A hoist device adaptable to lift or pull load material of various types. The hoist device is attachable to the trailer hitch of a vehicle and comprises a telescopic boom of a pair of rectangular tubular members attachable slidably to a base support member. In adjacent position on the base support is a control post member to which other components are attached, including a motor-driven winch positionable on the upright end thereof. A lifting component is attachable to the end of the boom member to be able to rotate easily, in any direction, since the angular movement of the boom member is always only one direction in regard to the axis of the boom member. A cable is used to operate the movement of the boom member, and has one end attached to the winch and a second end attached to a rigid component on the boom member after engaging pulley means on the boom member or control post member as chosen to provide suitable angular orientation of the boom member and telescopic extension of the boom member.
US07845615B2
The invention is concerned with the problem that with known plastic casting moulds, especially those of polypropylene, the lenses produced with these moulds have a slippery surface. The invention solves this problem through the use of polymers which are notable for their very low oxygen permeability.
US07845612B2
This invention is to provide the stand for the electronic device with the capacity to hole the headset in a handy manner. The stand comprises the main body capable of holding cords, the attaching section positioned on the main body for the electronic device to be mounted and secured thereon, stand cover capable of temporary fitting over the main body and having the section for preventing the cords from unraveling, and the connecting section which joints the main body and the stand cover and allows the stand cover to spread apart from the main body with the hinge section as the fulcrum.
US07845598B2
A method of installing a piping system, including applying mark(s) to a surface along a line parallel to a desired center line of the piping system; selecting a plurality of pipe mounting brackets, each pipe mounting bracket including a mounting portion and a pipe supporting portion projecting from said mounting portion and including an arm portion having a generally arched surface sized and extending to support at least a portion of an outer circumferential surface of a pipe and thereby defining a pipe receiving receptacle. Each mounting portion includes a predetermined, indicator part disposed at a predetermined lateral and vertical position with respect to a radial center of a circular part of the arched surface of the respective bracket. The indicator part of each selected bracket is aligned with the mark(s) and the mounting portion of the bracket is fastened to the surface with the fastener.
US07845597B2
A conduit carrier system for securing a storage pipe to a ladder rack including a support member having a slot extending the length thereof is disclosed. The carrier system of the present invention includes a holder portion having a cradle surface configured and arranged to cradle the storage pipe. A base portion depends from the holder portion and a pair of feet depends from the base portion. The pair of feet are configured and arranged to cooperate with the slot of the tubular support member of the ladder rack to secure the base portion to the ladder rack. The pair of feet is selectively adjustable to clamp a portion of the tubular support member between the base portion and the pair of feet. Further included is a means for securing said storage pipe to said holder portion.
US07845594B2
A helicopter collapsible deck having at least one longitudinal member and at least one cross member, which extend respectively in a first and second direction intersecting at a point; the cross member is interrupted at the point of intersection; the deck also has an anchoring device for connecting the longitudinal member and the cross member at the point of intersection; and the anchoring device has at least one local permanent deformation section lying in a plane crosswise to the deck and for dissipating the energy transmitted to the deck in the event of impact.
US07845582B2
A spray gun reservoir has an oversize central opening 130 at one end allowing liquid to be added to the reservoir for fast filling with reduced risk of spillage. A cap member 132 is connectable to the reservoir and has a spout 115 providing a fluid outlet of reduced size relative to the opening 130 for connection to the spray gun. The reservoir can be disconnected from the cap member 132 when it is desired to add liquid to the reservoir. In this way, the reservoir can be re-filled in use.
US07845578B2
A substantially M-shaped rail clip is substantially flat when in its non-operative configuration, and, when the clip is in an operative configuration, the toe of the clip lies substantially in a second plane and the legs of the clip lie substantially in a third plane, the second and third planes being non-parallel to one another.
US07845572B2
A latent image is incorporated into an apparent solid-color background for representing a desired solid-color background having a target color. An underlying solid-color background is printed on a print medium using a first color composition that differs from the target color. Line-screen patterns embedding a latent image in a visually integrated setting are printed over the solid-color background using a second color composition that differs from both the first color composition and the target color. The visual characteristics of the line-screen patterns forming the latent image and the visually integrated setting are matched for rendering the latent image practically indistinguishable from the visually integrated setting without a visual aid. The print densities of the line-screen patterns and the first and second color compositions are interrelated so that the line-screen patterns in combination with the underlying solid-color background produce the apparent solid-color background in the target color.
US07845562B2
A decoding system is provided having decoder configured to determine a clock indicator from alignment data sensed by a sensor used to interact with coded data in a sensing region, update, from the determined clock indicator, a phase-locked loop (PLL), determine, from the updated PLL, a relative position between the sensing region and a data portion of the coded data sensed by the sensor, and decode, from the determined relative position, the sensed data portion.
US07845560B2
A method and apparatus for determining position and rotational orientation of an object within a predetermined area is disclosed. Position markers, encoded with their identity, are viewed with a camera, images are captured and processed, and the position and rotational orientation of the object are calculated. Three embodiments are disclosed; the first having a camera mounted on the movable object while position markers bearing linear bar codes are fixed in location, the second having a camera mounted on the movable object while position markers bearing two-dimensional bar codes are fixed in location, and the third having a position marker of either type affixed to the object while the camera is fixed in location.
US07845539B1
There is provided a bump printing apparatus that can improve the printability of solder bumps printed on a board. The bump printing apparatus may include a printing table onto which a board is mounted; a mask making close contact with the board and printing solder bumps on the board by separating the mask from the board after a printing operation; and mask tables extending from the printing table to edges of the mask and sucking the edges of the mask to bring the edges of the mask into close contact with the board under vacuum.
US07845535B2
A surgical instrument including a handle portion, a body portion, a movable handle, a tool assembly, a drive beam and a closure apparatus is disclosed. At least one of the closure apparatus and a contact surface of the tool assembly include a plastic surface. The body portion extends distally from the handle portion. The movable handle is located on the handle portion and is in mechanical cooperation with a drive member. The tool assembly includes an anvil, a cartridge assembly and a contact surface. The drive beam includes a proximal engagement portion and is configured to engage a portion of the drive member. The closure apparatus is configured to engage the contact surface of the tool assembly. At least a partial actuation of the movable handle moves the closure apparatus distally into engagement with the contact surface to approximate the anvil and the cartridge assembly.
US07845531B2
A multi-function peripheral includes a main body and a stapler module for stapling papers. The stapler module includes a fixed structure disposed in the main body, a motor fixed to the fixed structure, a driving set, two staplers, and two anvils fixed to the fixed structure. The driving set includes a transmitting structure coupled to the motor and two connecting parts coupled to two ends of the transmitting structure, respectively. The staplers connect the connecting parts, respectively. The motor drives the connecting parts to move toward or away from the anvils through the transmitting structure and, therefore, a first distance or a second distance is between the staplers and the anvils. When the first distance is between the staplers and the anvils, the staplers staple the papers. When the second distance is between the staplers and the anvils, a paper feeding path is defined between the staplers and the anvils.
US07845529B2
A method and an apparatus process a substrate to divide a mother substrate into unit substrates. The apparatus is provided with a scribing portion for drawing a scribe line on a mother substrate, a breaking portion for breaking a mother substrate along the formed scribe line, and a portion for conveying a substrate for conveying a mother substrate or a unit substrate at least between the above described respective portions, wherein portion for conveying a substrate has a number of rotational supports and with a suction surface for sucking and holding each substrate from a main surface, rotational supports and have rotational axes, as well as suction members for respectively sucking and rotating a substrate which rotates substrates around rotational axes approximately simultaneously in such a manner that at least two main surfaces of each substrate are turned over in the upward and downward direction.
US07845528B2
Disclosed is a load carrier made up of a flat tray like body which attaches to a vehicle by load bars. A cargo container attaches to the flat tray-like load carrier body, and is locked in one of several possible positions on the flat tray-like body. The load container may also be removed and the load carrier used without the cargo container. Devices for holding objects such as bicycles, canoes, kayaks, may also be attached to the load carrier.
US07845526B2
A machine, and a related method, for automatically transferring tubular items for manufacturing men's socks, comprising a station (S1) for loading automatically the tubular items (1) arranged on a longitudinal axis thereof, a station (S2) for positioning the items in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis thereof, a station (S3) for orienting angularly the items with respect to a rotation axis parallel to the longitudinal axis thereof, and a station (S4) for transferring along a transfer line (T) the oriented items, the transfer station comprising a first and a second leader for aligning a portion of the tubular items (1), in which the leaders are arranged one after the other along the transfer line (T) and are separated by a non-controlled section of said line, for correcting in the second leader possible errors of insertion of the item into said first leader.
US07845523B1
An aerosol system for dispensing sprayable material in a desired spray pattern.
US07845522B2
Integrated and disposable dispenser assemblies that initially are contained entirely or at least substantially entirely within a beverage container, but which may be removed therefrom and placed in an operative position, pressurizing the contents of the container, avoiding prolonged contact between the contents of the container and air, providing a dispensing force for control by a simple dispensing valve and in those instances where it is desired, maintaining carbonation on the beverage. Two representative embodiments are disclosed, one of which may be contained in a single enclosure within a beverage container, and the other of which may be contained in two enclosures within a beverage container.
US07845514B2
The invention relates to tear-back thermoformed high impact polystyrene lids having from at least 10% to about 15% of filler and the specified configuration of the tear-back portion. In particular, the tear back lid comprises a tear back portion defined by two sets of tear back indentations and a left and a right notch cut into a skirt defined by the outer diameter of the lid. The combination of the filler amount and tear-back configuration allows an improved tearability for the filled polystyrene lids.
US07845512B2
A thin-walled cup is formed of a single piece of polymeric material having a uniform thickness throughout the extent of the single piece of polymeric material. The cup has an outer chamber which extends around an inner chamber. The outer chamber holds a first liquid and the inner chamber holds a second liquid. The liquid in the inner chamber is mixed with the liquid in the outer chamber during drinking from the cup.
US07845507B2
A collapsible container according to the present invention comprises a plurality of side panels and a floor panel forming an enclosure having an open top. Each side panel comprises a flexible frame, a web of material, and an edging material. At least one of the panel frames comprises a discontinuous loop. The edging envelops the frame and is coupled to the periphery of the web. One or more handles may be attached to the container or formed within one or more of the side panels. A method of making and collapsing the container is also disclosed.
US07845499B2
An apparatus that allows for separating and collecting a fraction of a sample. The apparatus, when used with a centrifuge, allows for the creation of at various fractions in the apparatus. A buoy system that may include a first buoy portion and a second buoy member operably interconnected may be used to form at least three fractions from a sample during a substantially single centrifugation process. Therefore, the separation of various fractions may be substantially quick and efficient. Also selected fractions from the sample can be applied to a patient, either alone or as part of a mixture.
US07845496B2
A package includes a slide card that is received in an outer sleeve having a false end wall. The false end wall extends between a top wall and a bottom wall to enhance the structural integrity of the outer sleeve. The false end wall provides child resistance in that it prevents a user from manipulating the outer sleeve to inadvertently disengage a locking feature that lockably retains a slide card in the outer sleeve. The false end wall also prevents a user from accessing the slide card through an opening that is created by removing an end wall.
US07845494B2
The invention relates to a secondary package for gathering a plurality of primary packages, comprising an envelope that surrounds the plurality of primary packages so as to tightly hold the latter together. The secondary package also includes a base supporting the primary packages, lateral sides, and a top side, characterized in that: (i) said base comprises a medium folding line that pivotally connects two halves of the base supporting the primary packages, and the envelope further comprises a carrying handle that is disposed vertically along the medium folding line, and (ii) the lateral sides and the top side of the envelope comprise a transversal precut in the region of the medium folding line, and so that when the envelope is open along said precut, it still holds tightly the primary packages disposed on each of the two base halves and said halves can be pivoted around the medium folding line to allow complete access to the carrying handle.
US07845487B1
A tripper car adapted to transfer particulate material such as coal while maintaining a reduced level of dust proximate the area in which said tripper car moves. The tripper car continuously receives coal from a moving conveyor belt and transfers the coal from a first to a second location. At the second location, the tripper car discharges the coal to a silo that stores the coal for subsequent use by boilers. The tripper car sprays liquid, such as water, to reduce the accumulation of coal dust within a structure in which the tripper car operates as well as to wash the inner walls, ceiling and other proximate surfaces to reduce accumulation of coal dust. The spray pattern is oriented to reduce the spraying of liquid on the coal.
US07845476B2
A roll stabilizer for a vehicle includes a resilient member operatively connected between a movable end and a fixed end, and structure for activating and deactivating operation of the stabilizer by affecting compression of the resilient member.
US07845474B2
A combined service brake and spring brake cylinder has a diaphragm arranged in a housing of the service brake cylinder. At one side, the diaphragm delimits a service brake chamber acted on with a service brake pressure, and at the other side delimits a chamber accommodating a return spring. A spring brake piston is arranged in a housing of the spring brake cylinder, which at one side delimits a spring brake chamber and at the other side delimits a spring chamber. A piston rod supports a ventilation valve which produces or blocks a flow connection between the spring chamber and the service brake chamber. The ventilation valve includes a piston interacting with a valve seat. At least one further piston interacts with a further valve seat and opens at least one further flow cross-section when in its position raised from the further valve seat. When the parking brake is applied and the service brake is simultaneously actuated with service brake pressures lower than a pressure threshold, one piston is raised from the valve seat and the further piston is sealed against the further valve seat.
US07845471B2
A work vehicle includes a frame and an axle assembly coupled to the frame, including a first axle shaft substantially disposed in an axle housing. A first wheel couples to the first axle shaft of the axle assembly. An axle lubricating fluid is disposed within the axle housing. A cooling circuit fluidly coupled to the axle assembly circulates cooling fluid therethrough. A hydraulic motor fluidly coupled to a fluid circuit includes a device disposed in parallel with the fluid circuit to discontinue operation of the motor in response to a predetermined pressure of at least one of the first and second circuit being exceeded.
US07845466B2
A sound generator for a vehicle is provided, including a hollow drum having a sound radiation panel structurally and acoustically coupled thereto. The drum has an aperture formed in an outer wall thereof. The drum is adapted to be in fluid communication with an air conduit of the vehicle. The sound radiation panel covers at least a portion of the aperture and is adapted to radiate sound energy to at least one of an engine compartment and an interior of the vehicle. A vehicle system including the sound generator and a method for manufacturing the sound generator are also provided.
US07845462B2
A middle to high frequency straight pathway horn with wide horizontal dispersion characteristics having extended terminus side walls which approach a perpendicular angle compared to the horn axis which are further extended by a rearwardly divergent angled or curved surface from the terminus frontal plane to reduce the deleterious effects of horn mouth, edge, and baffle diffraction, allowing for traditional front baffle mounting or free-standing use. Modular baffle elements allow the invention to be configured for the further reduction of diffraction effects in a variety of applications.
US07845456B1
An apparatus for arresting the advancement of an unauthorized vehicle comprises at least one discharge port, at least one storage vessel, at least one valve and a means for actuation, said storage vessel containing a volume of gas that does not support combustion, said discharge port directed toward a point in a path of said unauthorized vehicle wherein said means for actuation actuates said valve to deliver a quantity of said gas from said discharge port into said path of said unauthorized vehicle to stall an engine powering said unauthorized vehicle.
US07845449B2
A motorcycle includes a head pipe, a handlebar pipe that is rotatable relative to the head pipe, a main frame extending rearward from the head pipe, and a handlebar lock located on a topside of the main frame to prevent the handlebar pipe from rotating relative to the head pipe.
US07845444B2
A hybrid vehicle is provided with a first transmission passage for transmitting driving force of an engine to driving wheels and a second transmission passage for transmitting driving force of a driving motor to the driving wheels, and driven by selectively using or in combination of the first transmission passage and the second transmission passage. The hybrid vehicle includes: a first input gear for inputting the driving force of the engine; a second input gear for inputting the driving force of the driving motor; and an idle gear meshed with the first input gear and the second input gear, and transmitting at least one of the driving force of the engine and the driving force of the driving motor toward the driving wheels. The driving force to be input from at least one of the first input gear and the second input gear is transmitted to the driving wheels via the idle gear and the final differential gears.
US07845438B1
Embodiments relate to PDCs, methods of fabricating PDCs, and applications for such PDCs. In an embodiment, a PDC includes a substrate and a pre-sintered PCD table including an interfacial surface that is bonded to the substrate. The pre-sintered PCD table may be substantially free of leaching by-products in a region at least proximate to the interfacial surface. In an embodiment, a method of fabricating a PDC includes providing an at least partially leached PCD including an interfacial surface. The method includes removing at least some leaching by-products from the at least partially leached PCD table. After removing the at least some leaching by-products, the method includes bonding the interfacial surface of the at least partially leached PCD table to a substrate to form a PDC.
US07845437B2
An improved hole opener assembly for horizontal drilling is disclosed that is less prone to failure as a result of cone arm break out or pocket side wall fracture. The interface between the cone arm and the pocket employs a key and slot configuration with a tighter fit than between the arm and the pocket to reduce the stress on the pocket side wall during drilling.
US07845429B2
A solution for determining a neutral point of a drillstring in drilling a borehole is disclosed. The solution includes receiving depth-time log data for drilling the borehole with the drillstring, the depth-time log data including data related to a torque and drag factor and data related to a hydraulic factor; and determining the neutral point of the drillstring at a time point during the drilling based on the torque and drag factor and the hydraulic factor.
US07845424B1
A packaged residential fire pump system for sprinkler protection of one- and two-family dwellings. The system independently provides sufficient water pressure, and volume, for a two sprinkler flow for a period of time. An existing domestic water supply is supplemented with a dead water storage tank. The system can be combined with hydraulically sized, or scheduled, system piping and sprinkler heads.
US07845422B2
A method and apparatus for expanding a tubular member.
US07845419B2
The present invention provides systems and methods for injecting or retrieving tubewire into or out of coiled tubing. The system comprises an injector, coiled tubing coupled to the injector and a pumping mechanism. The injector is adapted to apply a force to inject or retrieve the tubewire into or out of the coiled tubing while the pump pumps fluid in the direction of the force to provide fluid drag on the tubewire. The tubewire may be bent or straightened, and may include a protuberance on its free end to assist in the injection and retrieval process. During injection, the coiled tubing may remain on a reel or may be stretched out along a surface.
US07845409B2
Composite proppant particles each of which comprises a plurality of microbubbles and a resin binder are disclosed. Also disclosed are a method of using such composite proppant particles to prop fractures in wells formed in underground formations.
US07845397B2
A humid compressed-gas dryer includes a plate-type heat-exchanger that includes a plurality of stacked plates (2) associated with each other in a gas-tight manner all along the perimeter of adjacent plates (2). The adjacent plates (2) define channels (3) therebetween for two or more fluids to be guided therethrough in a heat-exchange relation. The plates and have a plurality of apertures (4, 15-21) disposed in a mutually aligned arrangement, which defines fluid conduits that extend through the heat-exchanger in fluid communication with the channels (3). The plates (2) are each formed of an aluminium sheet having a smooth surface, and a corrugated aluminium fin (5) is provided between adjacent sheets defining the channels. The fin (5) has corrugations connected to the smooth surface of the plates by brazing or a similar method. The plurality of stacked plates defines a heat recovery section (12) and a cooling section (13).
US07845393B2
A thermal module includes a body press-forged from magnesium alloy that is heated to a softened status and having a peripheral wall and a recessed chamber surrounded by the peripheral wall, and a contact surface member prepared from a high thermal conductivity metal material and bonded to the recessed chamber of the body during press-forging of the body.
US07845388B2
Magnesium or magnesium alloy components having galvanic corrosion protection isolators secured in place by metallurgical bonding during casting of the magnesium or magnesium alloy component. The isolators are formed of materials that are characterized by an absolute potential difference that is between that of magnesium and a contacting metallic component.
US07845386B2
Movable partitions and various components for use with movable partitions are disclosed along with related systems and methods. In one embodiment, a track and trolley system for use with a movable partition is described. In one embodiment, the track and trolley system may include a track having three channels wherein a first partition is suspended from the first channel, a second partition is suspended from the second channel, and a trolley is partially disposed in the third channel and between the first and second channels. Seal components may be used to substantially provide a fluid seal between the partitions and a surface from which the partitions are suspended. The trolley is configured to be longitudinally displaceable along the third channel while maintaining its components within an envelope defined by the seal components. In other words, such seal components are not penetrated or otherwise breached by the displaced trolley.
US07845385B2
An apparatus and method of directionally controlling a movable partition includes providing at least one roller assembly and a steering actuator, coupled therewith, to a portion of the partition. A controller may be used to control the steering actuator and thereby select, or change, the orientation of the roller assembly with respect to the partition. In one embodiment, one or more sensors may be used to determine the vertical orientation of the partition including whether the partition, or a section thereof, is substantially plumb. If the partition is substantially out of plumb, for example, if a lower edge of the partition is laterally displaced relative to an upper edge of the partition, the controller and steering actuator may cause the at least one roller assembly to direct the partition, or section thereof, in a particular direction until the partition, or section thereof, becomes substantially plumb.
US07845384B2
A partition system is provided as well as an apparatus and method for securing movable partitions. In one embodiment, a movable partition, such as a folding door, includes a post member (e.g., a lead post) having a latching structure associated therewith. Another post member, such as associated with a wall or another movable partition, includes a latching structure configured to form a magnetic coupling with the first latching structure. One of the latching structures may be slidingly displaced relative to its associated post member so as to selectively bring the two latching members into or out of alignment with one another. When a magnetic coupling has been formed, relative displacement of the two latching structures results in the weakening, if not defeat, of the magnetic coupling so that the post members, and their associated partitions, may be displaced away from one another. Other latching structures are also disclosed.
US07845382B1
The present invention is a device for dispensing rolls of protective adhesive film having different widths. In one embodiment, the device comprises a central support assembly comprising first and second elongated members having a first longitudinal axis and a second longitudinal axis, respectively. The first longitudinal axis of the first elongated member is off-set from the second longitudinal axis of the second elongated member. The central support assembly further comprises first and second extension members each having a first portion telescopically engaged with the first and second elongated members, respectively, and a second portion. The device further comprises a right support assembly engaged with the second portion of the first extension member and comprising a film mounting roller adapted to support the first end portion of the roll of film. The device further comprises a left support assembly engaged with the second portion of the second extension member and comprising a film mounting roller adapted to support the second end portion of the roll of film. The device further comprises a handle engaged with the central support assembly. In use, the first and second extension members may be extended or retracted from the first and second elongated members, respectively, to accommodate film roll widths of 24 inches, 30 inches, 36 inches, or 48 inches. At any film width, the handle is centered between the right and left support assembly.
US07845373B2
An insulating apparatus for use with vacuum insulated tubing sting to reduce heat loss through the joints, where the apparatus includes an insulator adapted to surround the joint and a latching joint protector adapted to surround the insulator and hold the insulator against the joint, where the protector also includes a channel for receiving injection and/or control tubing. The insulator is capable of reducing heat loss through the joints of a vacuum insulated tubing string by as much as 95%.
US07845372B2
A lining apparatus and method is provided that obviates the need for a bladder to press the liner against the host pipe. The lining apparatus may include an extension tube sealed to the liner at one of its ends with an inversion mechanism attached to the other end of the liner for inverting the liner to its desired position within the pipe to be repaired. The lining apparatus can also avoid the use of an extension tube by temporarily closing the liner during the inversion process so that the liner can be inflated when pressurized by a fluid and then sealing an open end of the liner after it has been inverted into the pipe.
US07845369B2
A volumetric metering smart valve shuts down automatically when a certain amount of liquid has passed through the valve. This valve has a water wheel which is rotated by the liquid and which drives a disc via a gear train. If the flowing amount exceeds a preset limit, the disc operates a ratchet and spring acting on a column in a closing direction to shut down the valve.
US07845366B2
A vent apparatus is adapted to be mounted in an aperture formed in a fuel tank. The vent apparatus includes a vent controller sized to extend through the fuel tank aperture and an outer cover coupled to the vent controller and welded to the fuel tank to support the vent controller in the fuel tank aperture.
US07845354B2
A mask (10) for use with a system for supplying breathable gas pressurised above atmospheric pressure to a human or animal's airways. The mask (10) includes a mask shell (12) which is, in use, in fluid communication with a gas supply conduit and a gas washout vent assembly (20). The gas washout vent assembly (20) includes at least one gas washout orifice (22) extending from a first side of the vent assembly (20) positioned, in use, adjacent the human or animal's face and a second side positioned, in use, adjacent the atmosphere. The cross-sectional area of the orifice (22) at the first side is larger than the cross-sectional area of the orifice (22) at the second side.
US07845350B1
The present invention provides for a method and apparatus for providing continuous positive airway pressure for treating sleep apnea. The method comprising the steps of providing a breathing gas flow to a subject, measuring a respiratory characteristic of the subject, determining or estimating a preferable breathing gas flow for the subject based on wavelet analysis utilizing in part the respiratory characteristic of the subject; and preferably adjusting the breathing gas flow if the determined or estimated preferable breathing gas flow is different. This method and apparatus can be used in a number of applications including both clinical and home use in the form of CPAP for the treatment of sleep apnea or less preferably as a ventilator to assist in patient breathing.
US07845348B2
Apparatus, methods, and kits for treating symptoms associated with common ailments, such as headaches, rhinitis, asthma, epilepsy, nervous disorders and the like, are provided. The apparatus comprises dispensers for carbon dioxide and other therapeutic gases. The methods comprise delivering small volumes of these gases to patients in a manner where the gas infuses into a body region in order to bathe the mucous membranes therein. It has been found that even very short exposure of patients to small volumes and high concentrations of such gases can provide significant relief from symptoms.
US07845346B2
The present invention relates to a spray device (e.g., an inhaler) comprising an aerosol formulation administered to the respiratory or nasal tract in which the level of formulation remaining in the device can be readily inspected. The device comprises a glass vial (1) coated with a coating of polymeric material having at least one clear or translucent portion (4).
US07845335B2
An engine operating in a spark-assisted homogeneous charge compression ignition mode during warm-up cycle is controlled using settings determined by interpolating between cold engine temperature settings fully warmed-up engine temperature settings.
US07845334B2
An engine system and corresponding control method are described. As one example, the control method includes transferring one type of fuel from one fuel tank to a second fuel tank holding another type of fuel and adjusting an engine operating parameter based on the blended fuel mixture.
US07845333B2
When a condition for the prediction of the occurrence transient knocking has held, that is, when a cooling water temperature θw is not less than a threshold value θwref and an intake air flow Qa is not less than a threshold value Qaref and a deviation of the intake air flow ΔQa is not less than a threshold value ΔQaref (S550 to S570), ignition is performed with timing on the delay angle side compared to timing FT1 by a delay angle amount α that tends to decrease as an amount increase coefficient Kf increases (S600 to S680). Because of this, it is possible to suppress the occurrence of knocking without causing the ignition timing to be delayed more than necessary. As a result of this, it is also possible to suppress the worsening of drivability.
US07845329B2
The invention relates to a motorcycle engine arrangement which transmits a starting power to a crank shaft from a starter motor via a power transmission mechanism and a one-way clutch. The one-way clutch is installed at one end portion of the crank shaft, and a starter gear or a starter sprocket having a diameter smaller than an outer diameter of a clutch outer member is provided on the crank shaft portion further toward an outer side in an axial length direction of the crank shaft than the clutch outer member of the one-way clutch. Preferably, the clutch outer member is arranged further toward an outer side in the axial length direction of the crank shaft than a sprocket wheel for driving a cam or a gear for driving a cam provided at one end portion of the crank shaft.
US07845328B2
An optical distributor for the distribution of light, in particular laser light, between at least one optical input and at least one of several optical outputs includes at least one movably disposed light guide and a positioning member for moving the at least one light guide, the movably disposed light guide being movable by the positioning member such that at least one of the optical inputs is connectable via the light guide to at least one of the optical outputs.
US07845325B2
A valve actuating mechanism for an engine having a rocker arm movement restraining device which controls opening and closing an engine valve. The rocker arm movement restraining device includes a timing arm which engages left and right rocker arms for constraining the axial movement thereof, and a timing cam disposed on an intake-side camshaft. The rocker arm movement restraining device releases the engagement of the timing arm with the left and right rocker arms by activating the timing arm when the intake-side camshaft is rotated, and when the timing arm releases the engagement with the left and right rocker arms, the left and right rocker arms move to a predetermined operating position.
US07845322B2
The present invention relates to a cylinder head cover (4) for covering a cylinder crank case (14) of an internal combustion engine. It is essential to the invention here that at least one bearing upper part (3) for a camshaft (2) has at least one through-opening (5), which is in alignment on the one hand with a screw-in/through-opening (5a) in a bearing lower part (6) and/or with a screw-in opening (5b) in the cylinder crank case (14) and on the other hand with a through-opening (5c) in the cylinder head cover (4), so that it is possible to fasten the cylinder head cover (4) and the bearing upper part (3) on the cylinder crank case (14) by means of a shared fastening screw (7), in which the cylinder head cover (4) is produced from a material which has different material characteristics from the at least one bearing upper part (3).
US07845314B2
The present invention relates to a method of disposing of produced water and to a produced water disposal apparatus including a container for receiving and holding produced water; and a burner having a combustion chamber, wherein at least a portion of the combustion chamber is submerged in the water and the submerged portion of the combustion chamber comprises a sparger tube through which combustion gases emerge into, mix with and agitate the water. The present invention further relates to a mechanism for removing debris from the produced water disposal apparatus. In one embodiment, heat is supplied from an externally operated combustion system, rather than the submerged combustion. In one embodiment, the apparatus provides a concentrator, in which a solute can be removed and recovered from an aqueous medium containing the solute.
US07845310B2
An antenna array for a radio frequency plasma process chamber including, an array of electrodes, an array of dielectric tubes concentrically disposed about each electrode tube to define a chamber configured to be at atmospheric pressure between an outer surface of each electrode tube and an inner surface of the corresponding dielectric tube, and a hermetic seal between each dielectric tube and the plasma process chamber configured to allow a vacuum or low pressure in the plasma process chamber.
US07845302B2
A boat hull has at least one generally transverse ventilation step formed in at least a part of its bottom planing surface open to the water. The step has a forward edge portion and a water flow interrupter is positioned to project downwardly from the hull forward of the forward edge of the step.
US07845301B2
A boat hull has an aft swept ventilated area in at least a part of its bottom planing surface. An aft swept water flow interrupter is positioned to project downwardly from the hull forward of the ventilated area. The aft swept flow interrupter has two generally angularly related legs or sections defining a 30° to 70° included angle, increase lift on the hull, reduces wetted surface area and improves the turning characteristics of the hull.
US07845300B1
A modular floating marine dock includes a polyethylene float that defines a top surface. A plurality of parallel walers fixedly attaches to the top surface in longitudinal orientation and with a proximal end extending no further than halfway across the top surface. A splicer attaches to and extends beyond the distal end of each waler in parallel orientation and includes attachment points for another waler. A block fixedly attaches to each waler from below and in transverse orientation with a setback from the distal ends of the walers of a distance substantially equal to a width of half the length of the top surface.
US07845299B2
The present invention discloses a compliant banding system for use in a marine environment comprising a flexible compliant member and an abaxial relatively rigid strap, both constructed to extend circumferentially around an underlying structure such as a strake or fairing collar. The strap maintains a fixed circumference while the compliant member flexes intermediate the strap and an underlying.
US07845297B2
A ship and associated methods of formation with vessels having connectable hulls. In an example embodiment, a method of operating a ship includes providing a plurality of vessels over water, each comprising at least two spaced-apart hull sections defining a cavity when the vessel is afloat. Each hull section on each vessel is configurable as a portion of a coupling mechanism with fore and aft portions of each hull section reduced in width relative to intermediate hull section portions. Pairs of hull section fore portions may be lapped with and connected to pairs of hull section aft portions on different vessels to form complete coupling mechanisms which connect vessels to one another. Accordingly, the plurality of vessels can form a single assembly and power can be transferred between vessels to move the vessels through water in a tandem arrangement.
US07845291B2
A control method for operating a waste incineration plant with a auxiliary burner is disclosed. A steam power is regulated as a function of a burner power of the auxiliary burner. For this purpose, on the basis of the burner power, a burner steam power is determined, which represents the contribution generated by the auxiliary burner fire to the steam power of the waste incineration plant.
US07845283B2
A dispenser system provides a means to automatically deploy systems using a controlled dispense approach capable of providing desired operational flexibility. Components such as unattended ground sensors (UGS) are deployed according to a method which includes incorporating the components into an elongated ejection system to form a payload assembly, the ejection system including axially-displaced ejector bays each for holding respective components. Each ejector bay retains the respective components until a respective ejection event upon which the ejector bay ejects the components in a radial direction. The payload assembly includes a stabilizer such as a drogue parachute that substantially prevents the payload assembly from rotating about its elongated axis. A timing sequence for the ejection events is programmed into the ejection system to achieve a desired coverage pattern of the components after deployment. The timing sequence can be chosen to result in a coverage pattern along a continuum from maximum component density to maximum total area coverage. The payload assembly is subsequently released from an aerial vehicle above the area with activation of the timing sequence, such that the ejection events occur during flight of the payload assembly at respective times after its release.
US07845281B2
A gun firing method whereby multiple projectiles segments that are contained within a cartridge are fired simultaneously in a symmetrical pattern. Some of the multiple projectile segments are modified by moving the center of mass of the projectile segments away from the central longitudinal axis of the cartridge. This in combination with bring fired from a rifled gun barrel will impart velocity to the modified projectile segments upon exiting the gun barrel at right angles to the gun barrel. This velocity along with the higher muzzle velocity will cause the modified projectile segments to diverge away from the trajectory of a standard projectile segment and strike the target away from the bullseye. The magnitude of the divergence will vary with the distance the projectile segment's center of mass is away from the central longitudinal axis of the cartridge. The placement of the modified projectile segments strikes around the bull's-eye will be determined by the orientation of the centers of mass of the modified projectile segments prior to firing. Simultaneously firing a multiplicity of standard and modified projectile segments will produce a symmetrical pattern on a target, which will substantially increase the hit probability of a gun.
US07845274B2
A web-fed printing press, in particular a newspaper printing press having at least two printing press subsystems, is disclosed. Each printing press subsystem has a printing unit comprised of several printing mechanisms, a web guidance unit for conveying printed and unprinted substrate webs and a turning bar unit having several turning bars. The printing press subsystems guide the printed substrate webs over at least one shared folding unit. At least one printing press subsystem is designed differently in comparison with the other or each other printing press subsystem such that substrate webs are printable with a different number of print pages in the printing press subsystems.
US07845273B2
A transfer device (26) intended to move an object (8) between a support zone (28) and a cap (12), includes: a frame (30); at least one holding arm (32) which is able to carry the object (8) to be moved; and drive elements (36) which are carried by the frame (30), and able to move the holding arm (32). The drive elements (36) are able to move the holding arm (32) so that the opening (19) of the object is moved firstly along an initial trajectory portion which includes a component in accordance with a direction perpendicular to the support zone (28), then along a curve which extends through a point (119) of the trajectory (118) of the base (17) of the object, after the base (17) of the object has passed through that point.
US07845268B2
An asymmetric volume booster assembly includes an actuator movable in a first direction and a second direction, a first booster in fluid communication with the actuator, and a second booster in fluid communication with the actuator. The first booster includes a first supply passage and a first exhaust passage, wherein the first supply passage supplies fluid to the actuator and the first exhaust passage exhausts fluid from the actuator. The first exhaust passage is configured to produce a first fluid flow resistance. The second booster includes a second supply passage and a second exhaust passage, wherein the second supply passage supplies fluid to the actuator and the second exhaust passage exhausts fluid from the actuator. The second exhaust passage is configured to produce a second resistance to fluid flow. The first fluid flow resistance is greater than the second fluid flow resistance, such that the actuator moves substantially symmetrically in the first direction and the second direction.
US07845249B2
A single motor transmission shifting mechanism with exactly one electric motor for generating drive motions for selecting, and for generating drive motions for shifting gears of a motor vehicle transmission device, and with a threaded spindle for switching from a mode, in which selection motions can be effectuated, into a mode, in which shifting motions can be effectuated, and with a shifting shaft, which can be moved in axial direction for selecting, and which can be rotated around its longitudinal axis for shifting, wherein all components, transferring the drive load for shifting from the electric motor to the shifting shaft during shifting operation, maintain their axial position relative to the longitudinal axis of the threaded spindle during this shifting operation.
US07845241B2
A Coriolis flow meter is disclosed that uses the deflection of a torsion member (430) to balance the vibration of a single curved flow tube (308). The two ends of the torsion member are attached to, and vibrate with, a center section of the single flow tube (308). A balance member (432) is attached to a center section of the torsion member (430) and vibrates in the opposite phase of the single flow tube (308) causing the torsion member (430) to be deflected in torsion.
US07845237B2
Measuring instrument for gyratory crusher and method of indicating the functioning of such a crusher
A measuring instrument for indicating the load in a gyratory crusher includes a first measuring device for measuring at least one instantaneous load on the crusher, a second measuring device for measuring the gyrating position of the inner shell relative to the outer shell, and a correlating device adapted to match said at least one instantaneous load on the crusher with a corresponding measured gyrating position of the inner shell relative to the outer shell.
US07845236B2
A fluid dynamic polymer-based contact sensor measures ambient pressure based on the resistivity changes across the sensor under different ambient pressures. The pressure sensor may applied to airfoil structures such as wind turbine blades without impacting the blade structure and fluid dynamic characteristics. The sensor may also be applied to fluid measurements. The pressure measurements are used to measure blade performance with high fidelity. The pressure measurements are transmitted to processing to determine blade characteristics and environment including flow separation, stagnation point, angle of attack, lift and drag and wind speed. Further processing of the pressure distribution may identify wind shear, up-flow and yaw error.
US07845234B2
Provided are a tilted vibration sensor incorporating a plurality of electrodes and a conductive spherical body which is turned on and off by the moving displacement of the spherical body, and which may be remarkably reduced in size and may have high performance and high operating sensitivity, high durability, and high reliability; and a method of manufacturing the sensor. The case (1) of the sensor comprises a case body (5) formed of a non-conductive material having such excellent gas-barrier property and heat resistance that can stop the transmission of gases which affects on the on/off operation of the sensor due to the moving displacement of the conductive spherical body (4) and a cover body (7) sealing airtight the opening part (6) of the case body. In the method of manufacturing the vibration sensor, moisture and particulate impurities affecting the on/off operation are removed from the hollow part (2) of the case (1), and the hollow part is evacuated.
US07845231B2
A resonance shear measuring method capable of simple and rapid measurement by obtaining a resonance shear curve through Fourier transformation of a damping curve of an oscillation on one side surface of a sample during measurement of shear response from the sample is provided. The method is to measure shear response of the sample sandwiched between the solid surfaces of a resonance shear measurement unit along with a change in film thickness by applying an input signal Uin to a horizontal driving section of the shear resonance measurement unit, by detecting an oscillation on one side surface of the sample sandwiched between solid surfaces of the resonance shear measurement unit as an output signal Uout by means of a displacement gauge, and by applying the output signal Uout along with the input signal Uin to a resonance shear signal analyzer, wherein a damping curve of the oscillation on one side surface of the sample is Fourier transformed by a Fourier transformation section (5B) to obtain a resonance shear curve. Also provided is a twin-path type apparatus for shear stress measurement capable of precise measurement of shear stress by using a twin-path method by which a distance between opaque substrates can be measured.
US07845230B2
In a concentration sensor using a piezoelectric piece, for instance, a quartz piece in which the natural frequency is varied by adsorption of a sensing target, the object of the present invention is to make the concentration sensor applicable to various fluids to be measured different in viscosity while restricting consumption of the oscillation energy due to interelectrode capacitance, and to be able to cope with plural types of concentration sensors while using a common oscillation circuit.As a concrete means for solving the problem, an inductor is connected in parallel to the piezoelectric piece, and its inductance value is determined based on the relation between inductance values and oscillation loop gains in a gap between the inductance value Lmax canceling the interelectrode capacitance in a resonance frequency of the piezoelectric piece and the inductance value Lmin evaluated as the minimum value among the inductance values with which the piezoelectric piece can oscillate in a state of being immersed in a measuring fluid.
US07845228B2
An activity monitor is provided that reduces the amount of power consumed during a monitoring operation.
US07845224B2
A sensor for detecting a liquid level, including a measurement capacitor, a reference capacitor, an integrating capacitor, a calibration capacitor, a controller, an amplifier, a comparator, and a complementary calibration capacitor. The controller implements operations, over accumulation periods and for given target and discharge capacitors, of a target capacitor charging, a charge transfer, a decision, a conditional discharge, and a return. The target and discharge capacitors given at each period are taken from pairs of capacitors, including the measurement and calibration capacitors and the reference and complementary calibration capacitors. A method estimates the liquid level using the sensor in a vehicle.
US07845221B2
Systems and methods for detecting ice particle accumulation is disclosed herein. In one exemplary implementation, a method for detecting ice is described in which a parameter within an interior volume of a heated conduit is measured. The method also includes detecting the presence of an accumulation of ice particles based on the parameter measured within the interior volume of the heated conduit.
US07845220B2
The present invention is a device that allows the pressure inside an aircraft landing gear shock strut to be measured. A charging valve is modified by integrating a small pressure sensing device into the stem of the part such that the active diaphragm is subjected to the pressure within the charged vessel. The wires from the pressure sensing device are connected to a receptacle or connector in the bore of the stem such that a corresponding electrical receptacle may be mated for the purposes of making a measurement. The internal receptacle is designed such that the flow of air or oil is not excessively impeded and normal servicing tools do not interfere with the receptacle.
US07845217B2
A vehicle suspension includes a hub and a hub temperature indicating device visible from an exterior of the hub and exposed to a temperature within an interior of the hub, and including a material which changes color in response to a predetermined change in the hub interior temperature. A hub temperature indicating device includes one of a hub cap plug and a hub cap window, including a material which changes color in response to a predetermined change in temperature in the hub interior. Another hub temperature indicating device includes a material which is operative to change color in response to a temperature change in a hub interior, the material comprising an irreversible temperature change indicating material; another material adjacent the first material, and which is operative to transfer heat between the hub interior and the first material; and the device being configured to attach to a hub cap.
US07845214B2
This invention relates to a device and method for optical nanoindentation measurement, according to which respective measurement results are obtained by having an indenter tip apply load to a fixed portion of a thin film, having an indenter tip apply load to a non-fixed portion of a thin film, and having a vibrating component transmit the dynamic properties of the vibration to the thin film. By combining the above measurement results in calculations, the Young's modulus, the Poisson's ratio, and the density of the thin film can be obtained.
US07845209B2
An arrangement is disclosed for monitoring an installation for thermal loading, having at least one sensor and having evaluation electronics which are connected to the at least one sensor. An indicator substance is arranged at least one point or on at least one component in the installation. The amount of the indicator substances released into the environment is temperature-dependent. The indicator substance can be detected by the at least one sensor.
US07845189B2
A door for a refrigeration device having an internal wall and an external and a thermally insulting layer sandwiched between the walls. The external wall is divided into a first section that is covered with a decorative panel to match the surrounding furniture and an undecorated exposed second section. The first and second sections can be connected in two parts at the level of an undercut edge formed therebetween.
US07845188B2
A method and a system for the preparation of compressed air having a heat exchanger (system heat exchanger) which is in communication with a pressure source on the inlet side on the compressed air side and which is in communication with a system or unit on the outlet side on the compressed air side which is to be supplied with cooled compressed air and including at least one heat exchanger (air conditioning system heat exchanger) which is in communication with a pressure source on the inlet side on the compressed air side and which is in communication with additional components of an aircraft air conditioning system on the outlet side on the compressed air side. Provision is made for the system heat exchanger and the at least one air conditioning system heat exchanger to have a common inlet for supply with ram air or environmental air and for the system heat exchanger to be connected on its outlet side on the compressed air side via a closable line to the line system on the compressed air side in communication with the at least one air conditioning system heat exchanger or to the at least one air conditioning system heat exchanger itself.
US07845184B2
A refrigerator unit is configured for a container in which it is possible to know the quantity of air that is ventilated. The refrigerator unit is equipped with a ventilation mechanism, an opening degree detecting mechanism, and a recording unit. The ventilation mechanism ventilates the air inside the container. The opening degree detecting mechanism acquires ventilation data related to the quantity of air ventilated by the ventilation mechanism. The recording unit records the ventilation data acquired by the opening degree detecting mechanism.
US07845176B2
In one example, a gas turbine engine includes an exhaust nozzle. The exhaust nozzle includes a flap supported relative to a static structure by a strut. The flap includes a backbone providing a slot. A slider interconnects a strut end to the backbone. In one example, the slider includes a body that is slidingly received within the slot. A boss extends from the body and provides a first feature. The strut end includes a second feature that cooperates with the first feature to prevent relative rotation between the slider and a portion of the strut end.
US07845173B2
A method and a system for converting heat energy contained in fluids as noticeable or latent heat to mechanical energy, wherein a working fluid is evaporated by means of the heat energy, if necessary after transformation to a higher temperature level, by means of one or more series-connected heat pumps and expanded in an expansion device, and wherein the heat energy is at least partially converted to mechanical energy. The expansion occurs in a low-pressure expansion device and the energy contained in the expanded evaporated working fluid is recyclable into the evaporating device in an evaporating unit, which is usable for evaporating additional working fluid.
US07845172B2
A generating facility is provided for generating electricity from both solar and non-solar energy sources. The solar generating portion of the facility includes capability to directly generate electricity from solar insolation, or to store the solar energy in a tangible medium, including stored heat, or solar generating fuel. The generating facility is configured to generate electricity simultaneously from both solar and non-solar sources, as well a solely from immediate solar insolation and from solar energy stored in a tangible medium. Additionally, the solar generating capacity may be segregated; such that separate spectra of solar insolation are used to capture heat for steam turbine based electrical generation, capture light energy for photovoltaic based electrical generation, and to grow biomass to generate a solar fuel.
US07845169B2
A method of controlling a machine having a hydraulically actuated linkage includes lowering a load suspended by the leakage at least in part by leaking hydraulic fluid from a portion of a hydraulic actuation system, and generating a drift compensation control signal responsive to leaking hydraulic fluid. A machine includes an electronic controller in control communication with a valve, the electronic controller being configured to compensate for leakage induced drift of at least one hydraulic actuator of a machine hydraulic system by selectively commanding adjusting of the valve if drift criteria for the hydraulic system are satisfied.
US07845168B2
A method for controlling a powertrain is disclosed. The powertrain includes a work arrangement, an engine for providing power to the work arrangement, and a transmission for transmitting power from the engine to the work arrangement. The method includes determining an efficient speed range of the transmission, determining at least one parameter indicative of a speed of the transmission, determining if the speed corresponds to the efficient speed range of the transmission, and adjusting the engine output in response to determining if the speed corresponds to the efficient speed range of the transmission.
US07845166B2
An exhaust system for an engine with a plurality of combustion chambers. The exhaust system includes a first emission treatment device in fluid communication with at least one of the combustion chambers so as to receive exhaust therefrom. The exhaust system further includes a second emission treatment device in fluid communication with at least one other of the combustion chambers so as to receive exhaust therefrom. The second emission treatment device is also in fluid communication with a downstream end of the first emission treatment device so as to receive exhaust therefrom.
US07845163B2
A device for purifying exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine is provided, equipped with an HC catalyst having the ability to oxidize HC, as well as adsorb HC, and release HC which it has adsorbed, and there exists a specific condition where the amount to release HC becomes greater than the amount to oxidize HC, wherein the device for purifying exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine executes an HC feed control for feeding HC to the HC catalyst. The amount of HC fed to the HC catalyst is decreased by the HC feed control or the HC feed control is discontinued when the specific condition is established during execution of the HC feed control.
US07845161B2
An internal combustion engine includes a main catalyst disposed in a main passage and a bypass catalyst disposed in a bypass passage bypassing the main passage on an upstream side of the main catalyst. The bypass passage has a smaller transverse cross-sectional area than the main passage. The internal combustion engine further includes a passage open/close unit, a residual gas amount changing unit, and a controller. The passage open/close unit is disposed in a portion of the main passage bypassed by the bypass passage to switch between an open state and a closed state. The residual gas amount changing unit is configured to change an amount of residual gas inside a combustion chamber. The controller is configured to control the residual gas amount changing unit when a passage opening condition for switching the passage open/close unit from the closed state to the open state is satisfied.
US07845159B2
A cooling apparatus is provided for a turbine engine of the type including an cowling with an outer surface defined by a skin exposed to an external air flow. The cooling apparatus includes at least one heat pipe disposed in the cowling. The heat pipe has a first end thermally coupled with the outer surface of the casing and a second end thermally coupled to a heat source, such that heat from the heat source can be transferred through the heat pipe to the external air flow.
US07845156B2
A turbofan exhaust system includes at least one exhaust nozzle with a trailing edge having an upper edge, a lower edge, an inner lateral edge-and an outer lateral edge. The upper edge is upstream with respect to the lower edge. The outer lateral edge of the exhaust nozzle is also upstream of the inner lateral edge. This arrangement makes it possible to reduce the noise perceived in the cabin of the aircraft at the same time as the noise perceived on the ground.
US07845154B2
The invention relates to a supply belt, in particular for the supply of a soil working device. The supply belt has at least one supply line and at least one segmental chain. This segmental chain is formed of a plurality of segments. In addition, holders are fixed to the at least one segmental chain for holding the at least one supply line. Furthermore, a supporting rope is provided, which is guided along the segmental chain in receiving spaces of the segmental chain.
US07845148B2
In some embodiments, a method of insertion of uniquely shaped packaging elements may include one or more of the following steps: (a) transporting a container along a conveyor, (b) securing the container, (c) aligning a spray cap mechanism over a container opening with a transfer rake assembly, (d) grasping a diptube with a diptube assembly, (e) lowering the diptube assembly and the transfer rake assembly to insert the diptube into the container, (f) securing the container with a timing screw, (g) loading the spray cap mechanism into a sprayer magazine, (h) locking a retractable stop onto the spray cap mechanism, (i) transferring the spray cap mechanism from the sprayer magazine to the transfer rake, (j) locking a second spray cap mechanism with the retractable stop, and (k) retracting the diptube assembly after inserting the diptube into the container.
US07845137B2
A folded wall anchor and an anchoring system employing the same are disclosed. The anchor is a folded sheetmetal construct utilizable with various wire formative veneer ties. The folded wall tie enables the junctures of the legs and the base of the wall anchor to be located inboard from the periphery of the wall anchor and the legs to fully or partially sheath the mounting hardware. The sheathing function unifies the openings in the insulation required for installation and forms an anchoring system that is less intrusive. Upon installation with the surfaces of the enfolded leg and of the base coplanar, the leg and mounting hardware insertion point is sealed thereby. This sealing precludes penetration of air, moisture, and water vapor into the wall structure. Various embodiments show wall anchor configurations with suitable veneer ties and differing sheathing arrangements.
US07845135B2
The present invention relates to a window frame. According to the present invention, there is provided a window frame, which comprises: a frame unit having a pair of side jamb frames for defining both side ends of the frame unit, an upper jamb frame for defining an upper end thereof, and a sill frame for defining a lower end thereof coupled to each other to have a rectangular frame shape, the frame unit having at least one receiving groove formed in an outer wall surface thereof along a length direction thereof; and corner angles coupled to the frame unit to surround the outer wall surface of the frame unit at corners thereof, each of the corner angles having a concavo-convex portion to be received in the receiving groove, the corner angle having at least one rib protruding from an outer wall surface thereof along a length direction thereof.
US07845134B2
A structure and a method for producing the structure wherein the structure comprises a framework of purlins supported by clips and plates and upright cylindrical members to form a structure of a fence, wall or a structure and the method comprises supporting the purlins between cylindrical members by the use of clips and plates to produce a structure which may include a slanted or peaked roof and may include windows and doors.
US07845127B2
A power generating system is integrated within an exterior shell or facade of a building structure. The system components—energy generating devices (which can be photovoltaic), control units and associated power/signal wiring are incorporated and operated within individual unitized curtain wall units making up the facade including both in vision and spandrel areas.
US07845125B2
A profile for making frames for sliding windows or doors comprising, amongst other things, at least one fixed frame formed by two crosspieces and two stiles; a profile, forming at least a first lower crosspiece, comprises two sliding tracks, parallel with one another, and made from a lower base body; the profile forming the lower crosspiece is divided, transversally, into two halves substantially equal and associated, at respective ends, with a matching element for connecting and joining the halves; the connecting and joining element therefore forming the central portion of the lower crosspiece and having heat insulation properties; the present invention also relates to a method for making the profile and a sliding window or door obtained with the profile.
US07845123B2
To reduce the weight of a staircase block so as to be manually carried and installed, prevent adjacent blocks from being displaced from each other after installation, and prevent the blocks from being raised and separated from each other due to heating and cooling by conquering problems with the staircase blocks related to publicly known technologies. In this precast concrete block for building a staircase, large recesses (2) and (9) are formed in the rise surface (1) and the rear surface (8) of the block to reduce the weight, and displacement prevention grooves (7) for connecting the adjacent blocks to each other with mortar are formed in the side faces of the block, and round parts (partially cylindrical recessed surfaces) (10) with a specified radius are formed at the inner corner parts of the recess (9) in the rear surface so that an acute angle part preventing the adhesive mortar from being filled therein is not produced.
US07845111B2
A process for breeding plants which comprises growing plants of a species in an array of containers charged with growing medium of uniform characteristics in an environment of controlled climatic conditions with controlled supply of nutrients and feed water and changing the positions of the containers within the environment as required to ensure at least substantially uniform exposure of all plants in the containers to conditions in the environment. A process for the breeding of open pollinating plants in a greenhouse environment is also provided.
US07845110B2
A fitting consisting of a part made of injected plastic for connecting a water tank and a hollow cone made of porous ceramics, so as to produce a device for dispensing water individually to plants, in particular potted plants, proximate to their roots, and in predetermined amount, comprising three coaxial parts; a disc-shape intermediate part with a central hole; a part consisting of one or two cylinders, arranged on one side of the disc and designed to be permanently fixed to the cone; a part consisting of one or two cylinders bearing a thread on the inner surfaces, arranged on the other side of the disc and capable of receiving a bottle removably screwed.
US07845108B2
A storage platform for storing, watering and transporting plants, which is rectangular and has two mounting means on each of two parallel narrow sides for hanging in frame struts, where each mounting means has an insertion end portion running along the respective narrow side and ending freely in the direction of a first long side; and a watering device with at least two storage platforms arranged one on top of the other, with four vertical frame struts disposed on narrow sides of the storage platforms and provided with support recesses.
US07845100B2
The invention relates to a set of identification plates (10) with inscribable identification plates (16) lying in a plane. According to the invention, a central carrier (12) is provided and has at least one elongated side carrier (14) integrally formed on it with one of its narrow sides respectively on two sides facing away from each other, wherein at least one of the side carriers (14) carries at least one identification plate (16) on at least one of its longitudinal sides.
US07845095B2
An article of footwear intended for use with a left foot and a right foot is disclosed. The article of footwear includes an interior space configured to fit a left for and a right foot. Additionally, the article of footwear may be associated with an insert that deforms during use.
US07845094B1
An ice gripping footwear attachment includes a base having an upper surface for engaging the bottom of the footwear and a lower surface carrying a grit material that is frictionally engagable with an ice covered surface. Forward, intermediate and rearward fastening straps are secured to the base. The forward strap is wrapped across the footwear such that it extends rearwardly in a crisscrossed pattern. The intermediate strap is wrapped and fastened over the forward strap. The rearward strap is then secured across the wearer's ankle or heel to securely fasten the attachment to the footwear.
US07845091B2
A brake pad measuring device is designed to be small enough to fit through various suspension components or many vehicles' wheel aperture and still maintain the ability to move in three-dimensions. The device is compact enough so that it may take an accurate reading of the thickness of a brake pad while being between the caliper housing and the brake pad backing plate of a vehicle. The device also comprises a spring so that once it is correctly placed, it may be manipulated in order to automatically get a reading of the thickness of a brake pad to the closest millimeter or 32nd of an inch by releasing the spring to cause a measurement to be automatically taken. Using this device, any user can get quick, reliable measurements for all four sets of brake pads in a matter of minutes and all without having to remove a single wheel from the vehicle.
US07845090B2
It is extremely important that wall board form a tight seal between the top of wall board and when fluted deck is the roof that meets the wall board. The present invention relates to a template useful for preparing wall board or related building material to match the fluting pattern of fluted deck panels to form a seal between the decking panels and walls of a building.
US07845069B2
A method for forming an armored cable assembly includes: forming an armor sheath using an armor sheath forming apparatus, the armor sheath defining a sheath passage; forcibly feeding a transmission cable into the sheath passage upstream of an exit capstan to provide an excess length of the transmission cable in the armor sheath upstream of the exit capstan; and drawing the armor sheath downstream of the armor sheath forming apparatus using the exit capstan.
US07845047B2
A brush for dusting and cleaning includes a handle having a first end and a second end, an outer rail of bristles along an outer portion of the brush having a first row of outer bristles and a second row of outer bristles; an inner rail of bristles along an inner portion of the brush having a first row of inner bristles and a second row of inner bristles; at least one row of suction holes located between the first row of outer bristles and the second row of outer bristles to remove materials trapped within the brush; and a front row of bristles located along the second end of the handle.
US07845043B2
Embodiments of foot-worm scrubbing apparatus are disclosed. One embodiment of the apparatus includes a sole made of a suitable material and having a top surface and a bottom surface. A scrubbing surface of another suitable material is adhered to the bottom surface of the sole. The sole is also attached to a thong in order to secure the sole and the scrubbing surface to a bare foot or to a socked foot of a user.
US07845022B1
Fibers, such as textile fibers, having electrical components deposited thereon. More particularly, one or more electrical components are formed directly onto the surface of at least one fiber. The fiber having the electrical component formed thereon may then be interlaced with other fibers for form a larger piece of fabric, which can be employed to produce an article of clothing. A group of transistors and piezoelectric components forming an accelerometer may be woven onto one or more natural or synthetic fibers. The fibers may then be employed as the warp, weft, or both, of a woven piece of fabric, or used to form a knitted piece of fabric. The fabric piece can then be cut and sewn to form a wearable item, such as a shirt, a pair of pants, a hat, or the upper piece of a shoe that includes the accelerometer.
US07845019B2
This application relates to inflatable apparel. In particular, this application discusses systems and methods for providing apparel that is both selectively inflatable and adapted for use as a pillow. The inflatable apparel may include any clothing or object that is adapted to be worn by a person and is selectively inflatable so as to act a cushion for the person wearing the apparel or of another. The inflatable apparel comprises an apparel item, such as a necktie, and an inflatable bladder. In some cases, the necktie is made to receive and retain the bladder in an inflated position or a deflated position. The bladder extends through at least a portion of the necktie. Additionally, when inflated, the bladder provides a pillow or cushion for use by the individual wearing the inflated necktie, or for use by an individual other than the person wearing the necktie.
US07849515B2
A nanotweezer (1) according to the present invention includes: a supporting member (25); an observation probe (10) that projects out from the supporting member (25), and is used when observing a surface of a specimen; a movable arm (20) that is arranged next to the observation probe (10) projecting out from the supporting member (25), and makes closed or opened between the observation probe (10) and the movable arm (20) to hold or release the specimen held between the observation probe (10) and the movable arm (20); and a drive mechanism that drives the movable arm (20) so as to make closed or opened between the observation probe (10) and the movable arm (20), and the supporting member (25), the observation probe (10) and the movable arm (20) are each formed by processing a semiconductor wafer (30) through a photolithography process.
US07849505B2
The present disclosure is directed to a system and method of selecting a virtual private network access server. In a particular embodiment, the method includes receiving a request from a client device to access a network resource via a virtual private network (VPN). The method also includes sending operational data related to each of a plurality of VPN access servers to the client device. The method also includes receiving a selection of one of the plurality of VPN access servers from the client device and communicatively connecting the client device with the selected one of the VPN access servers.
US07849504B2
An OSI layer 2 network device on the edge of a network such as a SAN is configured to replace the original source address of traffic entering the network with a known identifier or address, which is used to signify that entry point as the traffic source to the other nodes of the network. Nodes of the network recognize the new source address as a valid source address. The network device also maintains state (e.g., association of original source address with new source address/identifier) so as to translate addresses to enable reply traffic to be sent back to the original sender.
US07849502B1
A data processing apparatus can perform HTTP traffic monitoring and filtering of HTTP requests from clients and responses from servers. Example apparatus comprises a processor, a first network interface to a protected network, a second network interface to an external network, and a traffic monitor having an address-domain name database, a firewall rules manager, and a DNS snooper. The traffic monitor accesses a blacklist and can perform receiving, from a client computer, a request to access a resource in the external network; blocking the request to the resource when a user agent of the client is in the blacklist as malicious software or when a file extension in a response to the request is in the blacklist; requesting, from a web reputation service, and receiving a reputation score indicating a reputation of the resource; blocking sending the request to the resource when the reputation is below a specified threshold.
US07849497B1
Described herein are a method and system for analyzing the security of a computer network. According to various implementations, there is a device adapter associated with each device that has a significant impact on the security of the network (e.g., routers, switches, gateways, or “significant hosts”). The device adapter, which may be implemented as a piece of software executing remotely from the device, queries the device to determine what its security settings are (e.g., its firewall rules). The device adapter conducts the query using whichever form of communication the device requires (e.g., telnet, HTTP) and using whichever command set the device requires. Each type of device on the network has a software model associated with it. For example, there may be a router model, a switch model, a firewall model, and a gateway model. The model is made up of a series of rule sets. Each rule set includes rules that are derived from the configuration of the device (obtained by the device adapter). The rules are expressed in a canonical rule set language. A global view of the security policy of the network is generated based on the modeled behaviors of the security devices (i.e., devices that have an impact on security) of the network, and is displayed on a user interface.
US07849496B2
A method of managing online communities within an online community management system can include declaratively specifying a taxonomy of online community types, declaratively specifying a plurality of roles for members of online communities, and declaratively specifying a security policy that associates permissions with roles and online community types. A plurality of online community profiles can be maintained. Each online community profile can represent an online community, specify an online community type from the taxonomy, and specify a list of members of that online community as well as an associated role for each member. Access can be provided to a selected online community according to the online community type of the selected online community, a role within the selected online community that is associated with a user attempting to access the selected online community, and the security policy.
US07849495B1
Techniques for passing security configuration information between a security policy server and a client includes the client forming a request for security configuration information that configures the client for secure communications. The client is separated by an untrusted network from a trusted network that includes the security policy sever. A tag is generated that indicates a generic security configuration attribute. An Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP) configuration mode request message is sent to a security gateway on an edge of the trusted network connected to the untrusted network. The message includes the request in association with the tag. The gateway sends the request associated with the tag to the security policy server on the trusted network and does not interpret the request. The techniques allow client configuration extensions to be added by modifying the policy server or security client, or both, without modifying the gateway.
US07849484B2
A digital television (DTV) receiver and a decoding method are discussed. According to an embodiment, the DTV receiver includes: a receiving unit for receiving a digital broadcasting signal including a plurality of extended text tables (ETTs) that appear in transport stream packets having common PID values, each ETT comprising a section header and a message body, wherein the section header contains a table identification extension field that serves to establish uniqueness of each ETT, and wherein the message body includes an extended text message (ETM) which provides detailed descriptions of a virtual channel or an event associated with each ETT; and a program and system information protocol (PSIP) decoder for detecting the table identification extension field to determine uniqueness of each ETT and detecting at least one pertinent ETT from the plurality of ETTs using the determined uniqueness of each ETT.
US07849482B2
A method and system for generating an electronic program guide includes a receiving unit 28 having a controller module 60. The controller module 60 receives television content and electronic programming guide data. The controller module 60 separates the program guide data from the television content and stores the program guide data. The controller 60 determines user preferences and changes a display of the electronic program guide in response to the user preferences.
US07849478B2
It is the objective of the present invention to easily change between an image display application and the viewing of a program for a digital television, and to improve the usability of the television for operating an image display application. The display change list for a (channel) Up/Down key of a remote controller is dynamically altered so that, during the execution of an image display application, an application screen is displayed by using the Up/Down key. Further, when a memory card is loaded immediately after the television is powered on, a display application can be automatically activated. Furthermore, while a user is watching the television, the contents of a memory card is displayed on a small window in one part of the screen, and execution of the image application controlled by the user. In addition, no icons are displayed while an important program is on displaying. Moreover, since the same color and the same arrangement are used for the four function icons as are used for the four color keys on the remote controller, various processes can be performed for the image application.
US07849472B1
An approach is provided in embodiments of the present invention for utilizing Java™ Management Extensions (JMX) as a back end to “instrument” (i.e. monitor and control) computer system resources, including servers, devices, and applications etc., within standard resource management model(s) that are external to Java™. For example, JMX can be used as a back end to instrument WS-Management resources—in particular, JMX MBeans can be used to implement Common Information Model (CIM) WS-Management resources.
US07849465B2
Method, apparatus, and system for a programmable event driven yield mechanism that may activate other threads. The yield mechanism may allow triggering of a service thread that may execute currently with a main thread upon occurrence of an architecturally-defined condition. The service thread may be activated, in response to the condition, with limited intervention of an operating system. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes execution resources to execute a plurality of instructions and a monitor to detect an architecturally-defined condition. The apparatus may include an event handler to handle a yield event generated when the architecturally-defined condition has been detected. An architectural mechanism, including processor instructions and channel registers, may be utilized to allow user-level code to enable the yield event mechanism. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US07849460B1
A framework for defining and performing installation prerequisite checking using a generic template includes identifying a candidate agent and a corresponding prerequisite check from among a plurality of predetermined prerequisite checks. The prerequisite checks are indicative of installability of the candidate agent on a host computer. An install engine generates a prerequisite script bundle based on a set of configuration parameters corresponding to the candidate agent and the identified prerequisite check. The configuration parameters are defined in a template format adapted to define a plurality of configuration parameter sets, enabling a single generic prerequisite check format to define the configuration parameters. The install engine invokes the script bundle inclusive of the script on the host computer for computing the installation status, (i.e. prerequisite check results) of the candidate agent based on the results.
US07849459B2
Methods, systems, and products are provided for deploying Java applications in resource constrained environments. Embodiments include identifying a resource constraint of a target system and filtering the Java application in dependence upon the identified resource constraint. In many embodiments, identifying a resource constraint of a target system includes identifying limited runtime processing capabilities of the target system and filtering the Java application in dependence upon the identified resource constraint includes preprocessing a tag library of the Java application. In some embodiments, preprocessing a tag library is carried out by identifying a tag library descriptor of the Java application and copying a listener from the tag library descriptor to a deployment descriptor for the Java application.
US07849457B1
A software/website system that allows a user to resolve software-related problems on a PC remotely via a web site. The system then uses a software package that automatically erases the contents of the computer's hard drive and then automatically reinstalls the Operating System and all requested applications in a fully unattended way. During the process, all programs needed for a complete and functional PC are automatically installed. As part of the process, the program updates and installs program patches. It then prompts a message to the user that it has finished. The result is a computer that performs at optimal speed and efficiency and with little to no effort on the user's part.
US07849452B2
The present invention discloses a modified computer architecture which enables an applications program to be run simultaneously on a plurality of computers. Shared memory at each computer is updated with amendments and/or overwrites so that all memory read requests are satisfied locally. During initial program loading, or similar, instructions which result in memory being re-written or manipulated are identified. Additional instructions are inserted to cause the equivalent memory locations at all computers to be updated.
US07849443B2
Method and apparatus for managing software configurations include a version history member representing changes between versions of artifacts forming different configurations of a subject software program. Indicated in version history member is any selective merge between artifact versions. Also indicated in the version history member is any subtractive merge between artifact versions. A selective merge arc and a subtractive merge arc are respective examples.
US07849442B2
A client receives an input of a new case, extracts a common framework corresponding to the new case from a common framework database, and extracts existing contents corresponding to the new case from an existing contents database. The client assigns the extracted existing contents to the extracted common framework to create an assignment by common framework table and then extracts application requirements regarding the new case according to the table.
US07849441B2
A method for specifying stateful, transaction-oriented systems is provided. The method initiates with designating a plurality of primitive FlowModules. The method includes defining at least one FlowGate within each of the plurality of FlowModules, wherein each FlowGate includes a non-interruptible sequence of procedure code, a single point of entry and is invoked by a named concurrent call. An Arc is designated from a calling FlowGate to a called FlowGate and a Signal is generated for each named invocation of the called FlowGate. A Channel is defined for carrying the Signal. Methods for synthesizing a semiconductor device and routing signals in the semiconductor device are provided.
US07849426B2
The embodiments of the invention provide a design structure for detection and compensation of negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) induced threshold degradation. A semiconductor device is provided comprising at least one stress device having a voltage applied to its gate node and at least one reference device having a zero gate-to-source voltage. A controller is also provided to configure node voltages of the device and/or the reference device to reflect different regions of device operations found in digital and analog circuit applications. Moreover, the controller measures a difference in current between the stress device and the reference device to determine whether NBTI induced threshold degradation has occurred in the stress device. The controller also adjusts an output power supply voltage of the stress device until a performance of the stress device matches a performance of the reference device to account for the NBTI induced threshold degradation.
US07849418B2
Segregation of redundant control bits in an ECC permuted, systematic modulation code. Appropriately encoding of user information via combined modulation and RS (Reed-Solomon) encoding ensures segregation of scrambled user information, modulation redundancy bits, and RS redundancy bits in such a way that each of the components thereof are segregated and stored within any desirable digital information memory storage device. By providing this segregated capability, when accessing a portion of a RS codeword from the memory, an entire RS codeword need not be read from the memory. In fact, only the particular field (or bits) needs to be accessed to perform correction thereon. This segregation provides for a reduction in the hardware complexity of translation between user information and a modulation codeword. Also, this segregation provides for the ability to perform correction of only one of the scrambled user information, the modulation redundancy bits, or the RS redundancy bits.
US07849408B1
A system containing a visualization application which enables the user or other user to obtain information about various types of transactions involving the respective activities of the components. The user selects filtering criteria that identify various types of transactions performed on each network component from the visualization application and the visualization application uses these criteria in compiling the appropriate records from the network information files. The visualization application then forms the data that represent the records that meet each selected criterion and stores the data in a local file. Thereafter, the user may view the network activity through the visualization application which displays a map of the network and overlays the map with graphical moving images that represent the data for each selected criterion. The graphical images change with time to reflect changes in the underlying data.
US07849407B2
This disclosure describes content distribution circuitry that supports content distribution between one or more users. The disclosure describes a system including circuitry for receiving a request for at least a specific instance of content from a user; circuitry for receiving a request to notify at least one remote user that said specific instance of said content has been selected by said user; and circuitry for transmitting said specific instance of said content to said user and said at least one remote user.
US07849406B2
The present invention is designed to display a matrix plane on which a time axis and an axis of applicable levels corresponding to a predetermined keyword cross each other, arrange and display identifiers indicating scenes obtained by dividing a moving image file into predetermined segments on the matrix plane and decide, when the positions of the identifiers arranged on the matrix plane are moved to desired positions, the applicable levels corresponding to the positions of the identifiers arranged on the matrix plane as the applicable levels of the scene corresponding to the identifiers. This makes it possible to improve the operability of assignment of keywords and applicable levels to a picture scene and visually check the situation of assignment of the keywords and applicable levels.
US07849392B2
Systems and methods are provided for generating technical documentation from content, such as enterprise SOA content. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided that comprises receiving an identifier of a service interface description that defines an interface for implementing a service and processing one or more packages associated with the service interface description by reading data from one or more files of enterprise SOA content stored in a database. In addition, the method generates the technical documentation using the data read from the one or more files.
US07849388B2
An LDPC unit decoder included in a signal decoding device is provided with a parity checking unit that is a multiplier for performing multiplication of a check matrix (parity check matrix) and temporary estimated values of an encoded signal, computed by a temporary estimated value computation unit. A check matrix holding unit holds the check matrix. If s and t are natural numbers, s≧t≧2, among s columns extracted from this check matrix, t columns or less have a linearly independent relationship. These s columns are multiplied at locations where error occurrence frequency is relatively high, with regard to the temporary estimated values. According to this mode, the matrix is composed to include t columns that are linearly independent, that is, t columns that are not linearly dependent.
US07849387B2
In one embodiment, a quantum detector is provided to detect a vulnerability measure for a processor based on a processor metrics each associated with operation of a processor structure during a quantum, along with a controller to control an error mitigation unit based on the vulnerability measure. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07849386B2
A decoder and method for decoding a tail-biting convolutional encoded signal using Viterbi decoding scheme performs a traceback operation for a first portion of a total code block, which includes a code block of the tail-biting convolutional encoded signal and a padded block. During the traceback operation for the first portion, a particular state at a predefined position within the first portion is stored as a circular state. The circular state is used as a traceback starting state for at least one subsequent portion of the total code block to produce a decoded signal of the code block.
US07849384B2
The present disclosure is directed to a system and method of correcting video data errors. In a particular embodiment, the method includes receiving a stream of data packets at a re-generator of an Internet Protocol (IP) video transport stream. The stream of data packets includes a plurality of IP media packets and a plurality of forward error correction (FEC) packets. The method also includes determining an error profile of an error within the plurality of IP media packets. The method includes identifying one of the plurality of FEC packets, where the identified FEC packet is associated with an error correction code corresponding to the error profile. The method also includes selecting an inverse FEC function from a plurality of inverse FEC functions. The selected inverse FEC function corresponds to the identified FEC packet.
US07849382B2
An address at which a writing error occurs is held, and after a completion of a series of writings, the data of the held address is read. Then, a faulty-block processing is performed only for the addresses, for which it is determined that retry of writing is required, thereby preventing an increase of faulty-blocks. This can suppress the problem that when a writing is performed in a particular flash memory, a writing error frequently occurs and a large number of faulty blocks occur.
US07849379B2
A device and method for determining a defective area on an optical media (disc) by counting the number of errors within ECC blocks of the data stored thereon. The defect detection is generally performed by Error Counters and Comparator circuits, for counting the number of occurrences of errors (e.g., parity errors) in an ECC block of the data and for comparing the counted number of occurrences of errors with a supplied threshold. The threshold may be preset at a maximum to distinguish between “correctable” and “uncorrectable” numbers of errors, or may be set lower to better secure the recorded data and to improve the resiliency of the media to subsequent scratches, fingerprints, etc. When the threshold is exceeded, the area is determined to be defective. A position-determining unit keeps track of the location of the ECC block under examination and flags the position of the defective area based on the position of the ECC block containing a number of errors exceeding the threshold.
US07849370B2
To facilitate measurement of the jitter tolerance of circuitry such as serializer/deserializer (SERDES) circuitry, test circuitry is provided that can add jitter to a data signal. The jitter added is preferably controllable and variable with respect to such parameters as jitter frequency (i.e., how rapid is the jitter) and/or amplitude (i.e., how large or great is the amount of the jitter).
US07849350B2
A technique responds to a storage processor failure. The technique involves performing write-back caching operations using a cache of a first storage processor, and mirroring data from the cache of the first storage processor to a cache of a second storage processor. The technique further involves, after of a failure of the second storage processor in which the second storage processor becomes unavailable, continuing to perform write-back caching operations using the cache of the first storage processor while the second storage processor remains unavailable. A cache controller is capable of being modified so that any write data in the cache of the first storage processor persists if the first storage processor encounters a failure thus preventing loss of the cached write data.
US07849348B1
A programmable delay clock buffer circuit, preferably implemented in a single IC, includes a clock circuit and a plurality of variable delay lines. The clock circuit receives an input clock and is clock feedback signal and generates an intermediate clock. Each of the delay lines is configured to receive the intermediate clock and to receive at least one delay control input. A first variable delay line of the plurality is configured to generate, based on a first delay control input, a first delay from the intermediate clock to produce a clock output signal. A second variable delay line of the plurality is configured to generate, based on a second delay control input, a second delay from the intermediate clock to produce a clock feedback signal. A method of distributing clock with through programmable delay lines is also presented.
US07849345B1
A computer system for writing data to a memory is disclosed. The memory controller in the computer system comprises a system clock, which is generated by the memory controller. A first register captures the lower data word based on the rising edge of the system clock. A second register, coupled to the first register, captures the output of the first register based on the rising edge of the system clock. A third register, captures the upper data word based on the falling edge of the system clock. A forth register, coupled to the third register, captures the output of the third register based on the falling edge of the system clock. A first multiplexer is coupled to a forth register and a second register. A delay element, coupled to the system clock and a first multiplexer, adjusts the phase of the system clock. A second multiplexer, coupled to the system clock, generates a data strobe.
US07849343B2
A method and apparatus for preventing harmful transients resulting from a probing routine for a valid powered device detection signature in a network, the method comprising: operating power sourcing equipment to provide via its output port a pre-detection output voltage; obtaining an indication of the pre-detection output voltage; comparing the indication of the pre-detection output voltage with a pre-determined value; and in the event that the indication of the pre-detection output voltage is less than the pre-determined value; initiating a probing routine for a valid powered device detection signature. The higher voltage of the probing routine is thus not present at the output port in the absence of pre-detection of a potentially valid powered device detection signature.
US07849342B2
A method and system for implementing a generalized system stutter are disclosed. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method, which includes the steps of blocking a first request received from a first of a plurality of bus masters during a low power state of a computing device for as long as permissible by the timing requirements of the computing device, wherein the first request is capable of triggering the computing device to transition out of the low power state, and during an active state of the computing device, servicing the first request along with other pending requests from the rest of the plurality of bus masters before the computing device transitions back to the low power state.
US07849337B2
The present invention is to provide a network system for transmitting various signals and power, which comprises at least a power sourcing equipment and at least a powered device over a network. Each of the power sourcing equipment and the powered device has at least a port, wherein a first isolated conductor is disposed at one side of the port while a second isolated conductor is disposed at the other side of the port and creates a power circuit for transmitting power in combination with the first isolated conductor. Four differential signal pairs of the port, each with two conductors, are disposed between the first isolated conductor and the second isolated conductor, wherein each of the power sourcing equipment and the powered device transmits Ethernet signals through two of the differential signal pairs of its port and transmits other network signals through the other two differential signal pairs.
US07849320B2
Methods and systems for establishing a consistent password policy. A plurality of password policies is described in a computer usable password policy data structure. The computer usable password policy data structure is accessed by a password policy enforcement agent. Optionally, the computer usable password policy data structure is validated for authenticity by the password policy enforcement agent. Optionally, the password policy enforcement agent can report back to a centralized configuration and aggregation point repository in order to provide a consistent view of policy enforcement.
US07849311B2
The present invention is a system that switches between non-secure and secure modes by making processes, applications and data for the non-active mode unavailable to the active mode. That is, non-secure processes, applications and data are not accessible when in the secure mode and visa versa. This is accomplished by creating dual hash tables where one table is used for secure processes and one for non-secure processes. A hash table pointer is changed to point to the table corresponding to the mode. The path-name look-up function that traverses the path name tree to obtain a device or file pointer is also restricted to allow traversal to only secure devices and file pointers when in the secure mode and only to non-secure devices and files in the non-secure mode. The process thread run queue is modified to include a state flag for each process that indicates whether the process is a secure or non-secure process. A process scheduler traverses the queue and only allocates time to processes that have a state flag that matches the current mode. Running processes are marked to be idled and are flagged as unrunnable, depending on the security mode, when the process reaches an intercept point. The switch operation validates the switch process and pauses the system for a period of time to allow all running processes to reach an intercept point and be marked as unrunnable. After all the processes are idled, the hash table pointer is changed, the look-up control is changed to allow traversal of the corresponding security mode branch of the file name path tree, and the scheduler is switched to allow only threads that have a flag that corresponds to the security mode to run. The switch process is then put to sleep and a master process, either secure or non-secure, depending on the mode, is then awakened.
US07849310B2
A data processing system including a processor operable in a plurality of modes and in either a secure domain or a non-secure domain. The system includes at least one secure mode being a mode in the secure domain, at least one non-secure mode being a mode in the non-secure domain, and a monitor mode. When the processor is executing a program in a secure mode the program has access to secure data which is not accessible when the processor is operating in a non-secure mode. Switching between the secure and non-secure modes takes place via the monitor mode and the processor is operable at least partially in the monitor mode to execute a monitor program managing switching between the secure and non-secure modes.
US07849306B2
The relay method for relaying an encryption communication in a gateway server between a client device and a content server includes the steps of receiving an encryption communication connection message to the content server from the device; producing a temporary encryption communication permit and a private key of its counterpart for the content server of a destination server name included in the connection message; sending the permit to the device; performing an End-End encryption communication with the device, receiving an encrypted access request message sent by the device, and decrypting and converting the request message to an access request message of a plain text; performing an End-End encryption communication with the content server, and acquiring content information instructed by the access request message; and performing value added processing for the acquired content information and its communication header, encrypting the information and the header, and sending them to the device.
US07849303B2
In a typical peer-to-peer network, any user of the peer-to-peer network may request a lookup of a key and its associated value. To limit access to a stored key-value pair, a user node may register a key-value pair in a peer-to-peer network associated with an access list listing those user nodes which are authorized to access the key-value pair. The access list may include one or more retrieval identifiers. To further secure the information, the retrieval identifiers and/or the payload may be encrypted. To allow the retrieving user to decrypt an encrypted payload, the payload may be encrypted using a group key associated with the stored key-value pair. The group key may be encrypted using a key known to the retrieving user.
US07849301B2
A processor-based system, including systems without keyboards, may receive user inputs prior to booting. This may done using the graphics controller to generate a window which allows the user to input information. The system firmware may then compare any user inputs, such as passwords, and may determine whether or not to actually initiate system booting.
US07849297B2
A multithreading microprocessor has a plurality of thread contexts (TCs) each including sufficient state, such as general purpose registers and program counter, to execute a separate thread of execution as one of a plurality of symmetric processors controlled by a multiprocessor operating system. However, the microprocessor hardware does not support the ability for one TC to direct an exception to another TC, i.e., to specify to which of the other TCs the exception is directed. A first thread running on a first TC of the operating system executes architected instructions to halt a second thread (either user or kernel thread) running on a second TC, save state of the second TC, write the second TC state to emulate an exception—including writing a restart register with the address of an exception handler, and unhalt the second TC to execute the exception hander.
US07849296B2
There is provided a method of controlling a monitoring function of a processor, the processor being operable in at least two domains, comprising a first domain and a second domain, the first and second domains each comprising at least one mode, the method comprising the steps of: setting at least one control value, the at least one control value relating to a condition and being indicative of whether the monitoring function is allowable in the first domain; and only allowing initiation of the monitoring function in the first domain when the condition is present if its related control value indicates that the monitoring function is allowable. In some embodiments the first domain is a secure domain and the monitoring function is a debug or trace function.
US07849292B1
A method and apparatus for optimizing a sequence of operations adapted for execution by a processor is disclosed to include locating an operation, if any, that is next within the sequence of operations and setting a current operation to be that operation. The current operation is processed as follows: a) de-activating, if not already de-activated, a consumed indicator associated with the current operation; and b) when the current operation is of the producer type, then activating, if not already activated, a producer indicator associated with the current operation, and locating a first set of operations, if any, that i) are earlier in the sequence of operations than the current operation, ii) have their associated producer indicator activated, and iii) have their associated consumed indicator de-activated, and then de-activating the producer indicator associated with each operation in the first set. When the current operation is of the consumer type, then locating a second set of operations, if any, that are earlier in the sequence of operations than the current operation, and then activating, if not already activated, the consumed indicator associated with each operation in the second set.
US07849284B2
A message memory (1) with a flexible association between the message-object memories of the message memory (2) and the segments of a physical memory (3). The association is made through configuration, wherein one or more memory segments form a cluster as a function of the length of the message content to be stored.
US07849281B2
The invention is for a method of mapping hierarchical volume permission to top level permissions in a layered volume graph of a virtual data storage system with hierarchy of storage volumes requiring permission at every volume level and the top level volume exposed to the hosts via intelligent switches comprising: applying volume level permissions on a volume of the volume graph and mapping condensed permission hierarchically for the entire volume graph to the top level volume from said individual volume level permission.
US07849273B2
Techniques for time-dependent storage management with a portable application programming interface are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for time-dependent storage management. The method may comprise interfacing with a host and a storage system having one or more storage devices. The method may also comprise intercepting all write commands that the host issues to the storage system. The method may additionally comprise performing a copy-on-write operation for each intercepted write command, wherein copy-on-write data and metadata associated with each intercepted write command are recorded, the metadata including at least a timestamp associated with each intercepted write command.
US07849260B2
Proposed is a storage controller and its control method for speeding up the processing time in response to a command in a simple manner while reducing the load of a controller that received a command targeting a non-associated logical volume. This storage controller includes a plurality of controllers for controlling the input and output of data to and from a corresponding logical unit based on a command retained in a local memory, and the local memory stores association information representing the correspondence of the logical units and the controllers and address information of the local memory in each of the controllers of a self-system and another-system. Upon receiving a command sent from a host computer, the controller determines whether the target logical unit is associated with the controller of a self-system or another-system based on the association information, and, when the logical unit is associated with the other-system controller, the controller transfers and stores the command to and in the corresponding other-system controller based on the address information.
US07849255B2
A memory comprises at least one array of memory elements, a partition of the at least one array into a plurality of sub-arrays of the memory elements, and an array configuration circuit for selectively putting the at least one array in one of two operating configurations. In a first operating configuration, the memory elements of the at least one array are coupled one to another to form a monodimensional sequentially-accessible memory, while in a second operating configuration the memory elements in each sub-array are coupled to one another so as to form an independent monodimensional sequentially-accessible memory block, a data content of any memory element of the sub-array being rotatable by shifts through the memory elements of the sub-array. A sub-array selector, responsive to a first memory address, selects one among the at least two sub-arrays according to the first memory address, and enables access to the selected sub-array. A memory element access circuit, responsive to a second memory address, enables access to a prescribed memory element in the selected sub-array after a prescribed number of shifts of the data content of the memory elements in the selected sub-array depending on the second memory address.
US07849248B2
At least one first numbered phy of a first SAS expander is grouped with at least one second numbered phy of a second SAS expander physically separate from the first SAS expander into at least one common SAS wide port. An identical SAS address is assigned to the first SAS expander and the second SAS expander for operating the first SAS expander and the second SAS expander to behave and respond as a single, cohesive SAS expander. The first SAS expander is directly connected to the second SAS expander for inter-expander communications.
US07849244B2
An apparatus for resolving conflicts happened between two I2C slave devices with the same addressed address is provided. The apparatus is composed by all cheap electronic devices, so as to achieve a purpose of lowering a cost for design. In addition, in the apparatus for resolving conflicts happened between two I2C slave devices with the same addressed address of the invention, all the I2C slave devices are addressed by an I2C master device to perform the data transmission subsequently before a basic input/output system (BIOS) completes a power-on self-test (POST), but all the I2C slave devices are addressed by a system chip (for example, a baseboard management controller (BMC)) to perform the data transmission subsequently after the BIOS completes the POST. Therefore, the purpose of performing the data transmission for all the I2C slave devices on real time is achieved.
US07849238B2
The present invention is a multiple-apparatus connection system; the multiple-apparatus connection system comprises a USB port, a controller, and a voltage determining device. The USB port connects to a peripheral device. The voltage determining device connects to the USB port to generate a detection voltage signal. The controller receives the detection voltage signal and determines the type of the connected peripheral device according to the detection voltage signal.
US07849237B2
An interconnect configuration technology of making an access from an IP mounted on a semiconductor chip to an IP mounted on another semiconductor chip by transmitting and receiving a packet transferred through an interconnect built in a semiconductor chip among the chips using the 3D coupling technology. The device according to the technology has an initiator for transmitting an access request, a target for receiving the access request and transmitting an access response, a router for relaying the access request and the access response, and a 3D coupling circuit (three-dimensional transceiver) for performing communication with the outside, wherein the 3D coupling circuit is disposed adjacent to the router.
US07849236B2
A control equipment with a built-in communication apparatus is provided which realizes a delay required for communication without a software intervention while at the same time reducing a load of the communication processing. The control equipment with a communication apparatus includes: a communication device to communicate with a plurality of destinations; and a decision device to determine a mode requiring a reception completion interrupt and a mode not requiring the reception completion interrupt. If the decision device decides that the reception completion interrupt is not necessary, the communication device transmits data to one or more destinations and also virtually transmits data to a second destination different from the first intended destination.
US07849230B2
A request control apparatus and a request control method are configured such that when an A type request that is an overtaking acceptable request allowed to overtake and to be overtaken among the other requests is turned to a retry matter on a pipeline, a request-order control unit performs an information renewal such that the A type request is rearranged to a place immediately preceding a B type request that is an overtaking inhibited request inhibited to overtake or to be overtaken among the other requests, and a request fetching unit fetches requests from ports by using the information renewed by the request-order control unit. Moreover, the request-order control unit is configured to perform request order control per request source.
US07849227B2
Provided is a stream data processing method that can effectively handle delay data. In the stream data processing method of processing data whose lifetime is defined by a window, an operation result excluding a delay tuple is immediately output along with an unconfirmed flag according to delay processing HBT while a midway processing result necessary for reproduction is retained along with the lifetime, and when the delay tuple arrives, a correct processing result is calculated from the delay tuple and the processing result restore tuple.
US07849226B2
A viewer of television programming is alerted to the availability of content related to the programming (e.g. an associated Internet web page) by an icon momentarily displayed on the screen. Using a remote control, the viewer can select the icon. A control panel then appears, superimposed over the television image, and provides additional detail about the related content. By further operating the remote control, the viewer can select the associated content for viewing, or return to watching the television. Various other features and variations are disclosed.
US07849222B2
A method of synchronizing a plurality of content-directory service (CDS) devices is provided. The method includes retrieving and discovering N CDS devices in a home network by a control point (CP), transmitting a StartSync message that requests the start of synchronization to a certain CDS device of the N CDS devices by the CP, forwarding a StartPeerSync message that informs remaining N-1 CDS devices of the fact that synchronization will be started by the CDS device that has received the StartSync message, and synchronizing each of the N CDS devices with the remaining N-1 CDS devices, in a home network that includes N CDS devices that provide metadata of multimedia content existing in the home network, and the CP that receives metadata from the N CDS devices and requests the media renderer to replay the multimedia data.
US07849215B2
Methods, edge routers and an edge-router-refresh network signalling message used to update state information in edge routers. A data session is established on a path from a source towards a destination connected from the source via a plurality of Autonomous Systems (AS). The edge-router-refresh network signalling message is created by an edge router acting an an ingress edge router. The edge-router-refresh network signalling message comprises an identifier of the data session, an identifier of the edge router, which issued the edge-router-refresh message and an indication that the edge-router-refresh message is meant to be used by the edge routers present on the modified path. Optionally, the edge-router-refresh network signalling message further comprises a list of the plurality of AS traversed by the path before the modification.
US07849213B1
A trusted network system includes a data center, a gateway, and a trusted sender registry that provide a secure network to allow one or more user clients to generate and send communications to one or more recipients. The data center, gateway and trusted sender registry act independently and/or conjunctively to increase the likelihood that only desirable communications enter the secure network formed by the data center and bounded by the gateway. The systems and methods of the present invention drastically reduce spam and network resources as well as provide enhanced messaging, document management, and tracking features that make communications more meaningful and more versatile to senders and recipients.
US07849205B2
A method and apparatus turns a typical home telephone system into a platform for delivery of web based content and services. The preferred embodiment of the invention comprises a broadband enabled telephone system for the home and a series of web servers that collect, package, and deliver personalized content and services to all of the telephone handsets throughout the home. With this end-to-end solution, any information or services available via the web can be delivered through a broadband enabled telephone system. Through the web, each member of a family can build a profile which defines what information and services they want available through the handset. In addition, each handset can be dynamically personalized for any family member. The color screens on the handsets become windows through which an individual can view and interact with a broad range of content and services. The audio channels thus become an extension of the voice based services, such as messaging and voice chat.
US07849199B2
A method, apparatus and system for routing changes to information between a plurality of content nodes and a command memory of a content router. Content nodes may be user devices (such as mobile phones) and user accounts (such as email accounts). Content nodes may hold one or more content types such as email, contacts, tasks, events and library items. A command memory centralizes conflict detection, resolution and error handling within a content routing system.
US07849194B2
Method, computer program product and server computer system for use in a client server computer architecture. The server sends media assets over computer network to client computer and maintains file system organized into plurality of asset groups, each asset group comprising plurality of media assets, wherein media assets share storage medium bandwidth and storage space on server computer that is reserved for asset group to which plurality of media assets belong. An asset group placement policy module is provided that evaluates attributes of asset group to determine optimal placement of asset group within the file system of server computer system, avoiding replication of assets and spreading asset group across multiple file systems wherever possible. A media asset placement policy module is provided that evaluates asset bandwidth to determine optimal placement for asset and available resources and use this evaluation to distribute media assets within asset groups.
US07849185B1
A method for correlating event information comprises receiving a query associated with an attribute value of a detected event. The method continues by identifying a rule for determining the attribute value, the rule associated with a rule identifier. The method continues by identifying in a first table a rule update time associated with the rule. The method continues by determining attribute values for a plurality of detected events stored in a second table, wherein the plurality of detected events occurred after the rule update time and are associated with event identifiers. The method continues by storing in a third table the determined attribute values and the event identifiers. The method concludes by identifying in the third table one or more event identifiers associated with one or more attribute values that satisfy the query.
US07849178B2
A method, apparatus, and program product that facilitates the implementation of grid or distributed network computing by automatically organizing a group of computers into a hierarchical, or tree networked system. The computer servers are selected into subgroups with each subgroup selecting a server to act as its leader. The leader is responsible for reporting performance characteristics of the servers in the subgroup to a master catalog server housed in a centralized management facility. The hierarchical system contemplated by embodiments of the invention reduces the number of messages that must be sent between the servers in the system necessary to monitor and manage the system. This reduction in the number of messages that must be sent between the servers in the system reduces the amount of server resources dedicated to overhead monitoring and managing, freeing these resources to be dedicated to performing the common processing task that grid or distributed network system was established to perform.
US07849177B2
A roaming company makes payments to an aggregator of independent WLAN operators in exchange for providing Internet access services to subscribers of the roaming company. Independent WLAN operator accounts are maintained at the aggregation company.
US07849173B1
A roaming company makes payments to an aggregator of independent WLAN operators in exchange for providing Internet access services to subscribers of the roaming company. Independent WLAN operator accounts are maintained at the aggregation company.
US07849168B2
A network switching apparatus, a server system and a server migration method for the server system are provided which can perform server migration easily. The server system has a physical server, a physical server having a server virtualization mechanism, a network switching apparatus having a plurality of ports and a management server connected to the network switching apparatus for managing a server migration process for using a migration destination virtual server as the physical server of a migration source, wherein the management server has a migration mechanism for transmitting setting information to be designated to the plurality of ports to the network switching apparatus during the server migration process, and the network switching apparatus changes settings of the plurality of ports in accordance with the transmitted setting information on the plurality of ports.
US07849163B1
A system and method for transferring Very Large Files (VLFs) from a content provider to a requesting node over a network via a proxy are provided. The content provider processes a VLF to provide a chunked VLF. The chunked VLF includes a number of chunks each including a portion of the VLF. A transfer is initiated when a request for the VLF is sent from the requesting node to the proxy. The proxy then determines if any of the chunks of the chunked VLF are stored in proxy cache associated with the proxy. If not, the proxy directs the request to the content provider. In response, the content provider sends the chunks of the chunked VLF to the proxy. Upon receiving each of the chunks, the proxy stores the chunk in the proxy cache and sends the chunk to the requesting node.
US07849161B2
A system and methods are provided for remotely recovering and purging data from a wireless device in a communications network. The system includes a wireless device capable of executing a data recovery/purge application program for receiving a message from a communications device in the network. The application program retrieves the data in the wireless device, purges the data from the wireless device, and sends a return message, including the data retrieved from the wireless device, to the communications device.
US07849147B2
The present invention discloses a pre-processing summarization technique that makes use of knowledge specific to the electronic mail domain to pre-process an electronic mail message so that commercially-available document summarization software can subsequently generate a more useful summary from the message. The summarization technique removes extraneous headers, quoted text, forward information, and electronic signatures, leaving more useful text to be summarized. If an enclosing electronic mail thread exists, the summarization technique uses the electronic mail message's ancestors to provide additional context for summarizing the electronic mail message. The disclosed system can be used with IBM Lotus Notes and Domino infrastructure, along with existing single-document summarizer software, to generate a summary of the discourse activity in an electronic mail thread dynamically. The summary may be further augmented to list any names, dates, and names of companies that are present in the electronic mail message being summarized.
US07849146B2
Detecting and blocking spam messages using statistical analysis on distributions of message sizes for a given IP address. Mail volumes are examined to model a distribution of volumes to cluster IP addresses. The messages sizes may distributed across ranges of message sizes, which is then used to determine an entropy of message sizes for the given IP address. The entropy of the given IP address may be compared to entropies of known good IP addresses, and if a difference between the entropies is statistically significant, then the given IP address may be determined to be an IP spammer. User feedback may also be employed to further characterize an IP address. For example, a number of messages from the IP address may be sent to intended recipients. User feedback may then be monitored to determine whether to the IP address should be reclassified.
US07849137B2
A system and a method for facilitating interactions between users such as social interactions across computer networks such as the Internet are disclosed. In one embodiment herein, a plurality of distributed user computers, each user computer capable of accessing a webpage is provided. An interactive contribution widget (ICW) is provided that comprises an ICW server application for providing social interactions, and an ICW player for allowing the users to interact with each other. As per the embodiments of the invention, the ICW player is executed on a small space on the webpage being accessed by the user computer, thereby facilitating the users to interact with each other while staying on the said webpage.
US07849135B2
Sharing content among users of mobile devices is facilitated by a system and method that employs a content sharing application to receive requests to share content with one or more users of mobile devices. Content providers provide some of the information in such requests to share content by including, in addition to the content, links or other user-selectable options to share the content. A provided application program interface makes it easy for content providers to participate. Users of devices such as personal computers or mobile devices browse content and select content to share with friends or other users of mobile devices using an intuitive interface. Recipients of shared content receive messages from the content sharing application indicating that they have been selected to receive shared content. Such messages may provide direct or indirect access to the shared content via the recipient mobile device.
US07849119B2
An integrated circuit for pattern detection including: an arithmetic logic unit coupled to a comparison circuit, where the arithmetic logic unit is programmed by an opcode; a selected pattern of a plurality of patterns selected by a first multiplexer, where the first multiplexer is coupled to the comparison circuit; and a register coupled to the comparison circuit for storing at least a partial comparison between an output of the arithmetic logic unit and the selected pattern.
US07849110B2
A database garbage collector that removes appropriate database entries accessed during a recent transaction.
US07849108B1
In one embodiment, a system for converting a flat-file containing pooled endowment fund data into a fund management database is provided. The system comprises a client computer, an import template, and a server. The server further comprises a database and an import utility, wherein data is moved from a previous source to the import template on the client computer and sent to the server. The import utility receives, parses and rationalizes import template data, converts balances, loads historical data and configures a relational database for use. The system allows a user to create a relational database from a flat-file, such as a spreadsheet.
US07849099B2
A check-out document cannot be updated by another operator unless an operator who checked out that document cancels the check-out status or checks in the document. To remove this inconvenience, document data is set in an exclusive state with respect to another user, and a password required to cancel the exclusive state is generated. The exclusive state of the document data is canceled based on an instruction of a user who instructed the exclusive state or an instruction of the other user with the password, thus updating the document data.
US07849095B2
A method for finding sets of data (SDDs) for presentation in two-dimensions, which are similar to a target SDD, is invented. The method leverages a new category of signatures, called equivalence signatures, to characterize the SDDs. The equivalence signature is computed as the action for the motion of a string which sweeps out a sheet specified by the values of the digital data. These signatures have the salient feature that, at worst, they change in a bounded manner when small changes are made to the SDDs and when used to find SDDs that are similar to a target SDDs, they allow for a significant reduction in the number of SDDs to be compared with the target. This is an improvement over the state of the art wherein the computational expensive process of performing a complete search against the entire corpus must be applied.
US07849079B2
An information dissemination system ranks the search results based on a temporal weight assigned to each search result. The temporal weight is an indication of the importance to a user that varies with time. For each search result, the information dissemination system calculates a temporal weight that is based on the temporal proximity of the event that is related to the search result. The temporal weight may be used to re-rank the search results.
US07849073B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for improving performance of parallel database query plans are described. An exchange operator is positioned in a query tree. A child operator of the exchange operator is parallelized into a plurality of parallel child operators, each of the parallel child operators coupled to the exchange operator in a respective branch of a plurality of parallel branches of the query tree. An output of each of the plurality of parallel child operators may be buffered at the exchange operator. Furthermore, child operators of the plurality of parallel child operators may also be parallelized. Query plans of any form and containing any number of operators may be parallelized in this manner. Any number of parallel branches may be used, independent of the number of operators in the original plan. The parallelized query plans achieve effective load balancing across all branches.
US07849065B2
Embodiments are provided to manage information associated with a number of disparate information sources. Metadata and/or other information can be extracted from a file, data stream, or other information source. The extracted metadata and/or other information can be used when performing indexing and searching operations. In one embodiment, a system includes a data structure having a uniform metadata representation and metadata handler for interacting with the data structure. The data structure can be associated with an underlying file or some other information source. The embodiments provide extensibility and can be tailored according to a desired implementation.
US07849059B2
Systems and methods for managing electronic data are disclosed. Various data management operations can be performed based on a metabase formed from metadata. Such metadata can be identified from an index of data interactions generated by a journaling module, and obtained from their associated data objects stored in one or more storage devices. In various embodiments, such processing of the index and storing of the metadata can facilitate, for example, enhanced data management operations, enhanced data identification operations, enhanced storage operations, data classification for organizing and storing the metadata, cataloging of metadata for the stored metadata, and/or user interfaces for managing data. In various embodiments, the metabase can be configured in different ways. For example, the metabase can be stored separately from the data objects so as to allow obtaining of information about the data objects without accessing the data objects or a data structure used by a file system.
US07849054B2
A method and system creates and maintains a version-specific attribute or property that is stored as part of a file in a file system, contains specific version information relating to how or when the attribute was created and is automatically invalidated when a predetermined “update” event occurs. Third party applications generally create and access these versions-specific attributes to thereby eliminate the need for external logs or databases to store persistent state information.
US07849047B2
Methods and systems to analyze domain rules based on domain coverage of the domain rules are provided. First, the system receives a first plurality of data items from a database utilized by an information storage and retrieval platform, respectively counting the first plurality of data items to determine a total quantity of data items. Next, the system applies a plurality of rules to the first plurality of data items to identify a second plurality of data items associated with a first domain based on the respective rule, respectively counting the first plurality of data items to determine a first quantity of data items. Next, the system determines a percentage of coverage for the first domain, the percentage of coverage based on the first quantity of data items and the total quantity of data items. Next, the system represents the percentage of coverage as a first interface element within an interface.
US07849046B2
The system includes at least one server, at least one query terminal and at least one answer terminal. The query terminal can utilize the online consultation apparatus of the invention, and transmit at least one query and a coordinate point of the query terminal to the server based on the position of the query terminal. The server then actively transmits the query to the potential answer terminals in the vicinity of the coordinate point of the query terminal. Accordingly, the query terminal could obtain at least one response/answer and a coordinate point of the answer terminal through the server.
US07849044B2
A system and method for automatic task prioritization comprises one or more task queues, a monitoring module, and a decision engine. The decision engine receives tasks and assigns a priority code to each task. Each task is inserted into one of the task queues according to its priority code and the priority codes of other tasks which may be present in the task queues. Agents select tasks to perform from the task queue according to priority guidelines established by a system user. The monitoring module may monitor the order of the tasks selected by the agents and each task's priority code. The monitoring module feeds this information back to the decision module. In one embodiment, the decision module is a learning system that updates stored data using feedback from the monitoring module to determine priority of each task.
US07849034B2
A method of emulating the human brain with its thought and rationalization processes is presented here, as well as a method of storing human-like thought. The invention provides for inclusion of psychological profiles, experience and societal position in an electronic emulation of the human brain. This permits a realistic human-like response by that emulation to the people and the interactive environment around it.
US07849032B1
A method, system, and computer program product provides automated determination of the size of the sample that is to be used in training a neural network data mining model that is large enough to properly train the neural network data mining model, yet is no larger than is necessary. A method of performing training of a neural network data mining model comprises the steps of: a) providing a training dataset for training an untrained neural network data mining model, the first training dataset comprising a plurality of rows of data, b) selecting a row of data from the training dataset for performing training processing on the neural network data mining model, c) computing an estimate of a gradient or cost function of the neural network data mining model, d) determining whether the gradient or cost function of the neural network data mining model has converged, based on the computed estimate of the gradient or cost function of the neural network data mining model, e) repeating steps b)-d), if the gradient or cost function of the neural network data mining model has not converged, and f) updating weights of the neural network data mining model, if the gradient or cost function of the neural network data mining model has converged.
US07849018B1
Recording information used in determining a licensing fee related payment is disclosed. An application is provided without a component associated with the application, where the component is associated with a licensing fee. Information associated with obtaining the component for use with the application is received. At least some of the received information is recorded, where the recorded information is used in determining licensing fee related payment to be paid for the component.
US07849015B2
Provided is an electronic postal money order system and method comprising the purchase and fulfillment of a money order, having the steps of inputting, through a computer, money order identifying data, comprising at least the amount of the money order and addressee data and inputting payment authorization data through a payment authorization terminal. The system also transmits the money order identifying data and payment authorization data to a central server, authenticates the payment authorization data and, upon such authentication, prints a money order corresponding to the inputted money order identifying data and mails the money order to the addressee.
US07849006B2
A method for paying for an auction item at least partially using an online payment system by a payor to compensate a payee includes receiving at a host computer system payment information relating to a transaction. The payment information includes comprising at least a payee identifier, a first payment amount, and an auction identifier. The auction identifier relates to an auction that was won by the payor that was for the auction item. The method also includes generating a transaction identifier at the host computer system and transmitting the transaction identifier to the payor. The method further includes receiving at a retail location a payment and using the transaction identifier to relate the payment to the transaction. The method further includes making a second payment amount available to the payee. The second payment amount may be based on the payment.
US07848995B2
The financial decision system provides for real-time calculation of buying pressure and selling pressure for any tradable instrument market. Additionally, it provides real-time visual simultaneous plots and charts of buying pressure and selling pressure. Further, the system automatically presents buy and sell indicators and expert commentary based on automatically detected market trend changes. The system automatically analyzes market trends and changes in multiple timeframes simultaneously to identify, in real time, multiple confirmations of suggested trading actions, such as buying or selling. The system also encompasses training materials and methods necessary for teaching concepts and methods of usage to improve the likelihood of success for new users.
US07848992B2
A method and system for managing and selling investments via electronic means. An investor can establish sell order criteria based upon a preset desired rate of return. The broker thereby monitors the investment and automatically sells it on behalf of the investor once the prescribed sell order criteria are met. The investor can effectively lock in a rate of return prior to its sale without monitoring. Also provided is a method and system for returning to the investor a portion of the initial investment. Once the investment reaches a predetermined value, three simultaneous events occur. A portion or all the initial invested capital is returned to the investor for purposes of reinvestment. The investment instrument is transferred to the broker as collateral, given that its value appreciated relative to the initial purchase amount. Yet the investor still owns the “rights” to the capital appreciation for the life of the investment.
US07848991B1
A system and method are provided for implementing an electronic exchange-based transaction message policy. One example method includes defining a message usage threshold to be used in relation to a client entity that utilizes one or more trading strategies and sends transaction messages to an electronic exchange. The method further includes dynamically monitoring the message usage at the client entity and comparing it to the defined message usage threshold. If the message usage exceeds the threshold limit, the method includes adjusting one or more trading strategies at the client entity in attempt to not violating the exchange-based transaction message policy.
US07848989B2
A computer implemented data processing system and method administers a deferred variable annuity contract during the accumulation phase for a relevant life. The annuity contract has a payment base value, a contract value, and a step-up provision. Administration of the product determines whether a step-up of the payment base value is applicable. If applicable, the product determines a step-up, wherein the step-up is guaranteed at a predetermined percentage. The investments of the deferred variable annuity contract are not limited to a specific asset allocation in order to qualify for the step-up provision.
US07848982B2
A method, apparatus and system of method and system of aggregating consideration associated with a request is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a request (e.g., may include a performance request, an article request, a mission and/or an altruistic request) of an entity based on a set of parameters provided by an initiating patron of the entity, allocating an initial consideration to the request from the initiating patron, generating a profile of the request having the initial consideration in a request aggregation environment and allocating, to the initial consideration, an additional consideration provided when a different patron contributes the additional consideration to the request. The method may include determining whether contact information of the entity provided by the initiating patron and the different patron references to a verified contact data and communicating the request to the entity based on the contact information and the verified contact data.
US07848980B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for allowing financial transactions to be conducted using mobile phones. A payer initiates a transaction by sending a payment request message from a mobile phone which specifies the payee and amount to be paid. Payees are identified by unique aliases, which are maintained in a database. Methods for assembling the enrollment and alias database are included.
US07848953B2
In one embodiment, an order pertaining to one or more items available at multiple inventory locations associated with an organization is received, and a preference order fulfillment list is created for the multiple inventory locations based on one or more criteria configurable by the organization.
US07848952B2
A system and method are described for increasing advance orders for goods or services. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving advance orders for a product with a specified release date from a plurality of buyers and moving up the release date if a goal is met, wherein the goal is based at least in part on the number of advance orders received.
US07848946B2
A statistical system and method for filters sales history to yield two demand series—one that is time insensitive (i.e. function of price and promotional activities only) and another that is price & promotional activities insensitive (i.e. function of temporal factors only). Once this task is completed, then specialized econometric techniques can be used to model the former and specialized time series techniques can be used to model the latter. In one embodiment, the present invention provides method and related system comprising the iterative steps of: mapping definitions of sales data; time slotting of the sales data; aggregating the sales data; initial estimating of a trend in the sales data; computing de-trended sales history using the trend estimate; regressing to remove price, seasonal, and marketing instruments effects; removing the estimated seasonal, price and marketing instrument effects from the sales data; re-estimating trend effects from the sales data having the removed estimated seasonal, price and marketing instrument effects; and computing a de-trended and de-seasonalized sales data.
US07848943B2
To support a purchase or a production of a product by accurately predicting a sold amount of the product. A system that supports a purchase or a production of a product, the system including an input section for accepting an input of a history of a supplied amount and a sold amount of the products, a function generating section for representing a conditional probability function showing probability distribution of a sold amount when the sold amount is restricted by the supplied amount by means of a potential demand probability function including a parameter showing probability distribution of the sold amount when it is supposed that the sold amount is not restricted by the supplied amount and computing a value of the parameter maximizing a value of a likelihood function of the conditional probability function using the input history as a sample to generate the potential demand probability function, and a supplied amount computing section for computing a supplied amount of the product maximizing a profit by a sale of the product, based on the generated potential demand probability function and a predetermined selling price and supplying price of the product, and outputting the amount as a quantity of the product to be purchased or produced.
US07848942B2
A process modeling tool provides a process designer with the ability to design an integrated business process model that includes a series of tasks for achieving a desired result. The process modeling tool allows the process designer to associate sub-sets of the tasks with entities who will perform the task sub-sets, and to extract distributed process models that each include one of the task sub-sets from the integrated process model for distribution to, and execution, by, the various entities. The distributed process models execute independently and in synchronization with one another, and transfer control therebetween as necessary to achieve the result of the integrated process model. Accordingly, the process designer is allowed to use established techniques for the design, verification, and monitoring of the integrated process model, while the entities are allowed to use local process enactment engines for implementing their portion of the overall process.
US07848940B1
A conditional purchase offer (CPO) management system, including bounce back capability, provides for receiving CPOs from one or more customers, such as airline passengers, and for evaluating the received CPOs against a number of CPO rules defined by a plurality of sellers, such as airlines, to determine whether a principal (any seller, agent or operator of the CPO management system) is willing to accept a given CPO. A customer whose CPO has been accepted may receive a bounce back offer from a vendor (supplier-partner) of other services or products—e.g., an automobile rental. The bounce back process determines whether a supplier-partner can participate in a bounce back transaction. For example, in the case of an airline passenger in need of an automobile rental, the bounce back process determines whether an automobile rental company is located in the flight destination area and has excess capacity. If an automobile rental company is located in the customer's destination area and has excess capacity, a bounce back offer may be made to the customer in accordance with a supplier-partner allocation process. If a bounce back transaction is effectuated between the customer and supplier-partner the partner notifies the principal of the transaction. In the case of automobile rentals, the bounce back process permits a traveler to recognize reduced automobile rental rates while enabling a rental agency to more effectively manage its excess capacity. The CPO management system employing bounce back capability can be utilized to acquire any underlying product and/or service and bounce back product and/or service.
US07848932B2
A stereo audio encoding apparatus capable of preventing degradation of the sound quality of a decoded signal, while reducing the encoding bit rate. A spatial information analyzer analyzes spatial information for each of a L channel signal and an R channel signal. A similarity raiser corrects, based on an analysis result of the spatial information analyzer, a difference between the spatial information of the L channel signal and that of the R channel signal, to raise a similarity between the L and R channel signals. A channel signal encoder uses a sound source common to the two channels to encode the L and R channel signals as raised in similarity and output the resultant single encoded information. A spatial information encoder encodes the analysis result of the spatial information analyzer to output the resultant encoded information.
US07848926B2
A speech recognition system is provided where a user may more efficiently and easily correct a recognition error resulting from speech recognition. The system compares multiple inputted words with multiple stored words and determines a most-competitive word candidate. The system selects one or more competitive words that have competitive probabilities close to the competitive probability of the most-competitive word candidate and displays the one or more competitive words adjacent to the most-competitive word candidate. The system selects an appropriate correction word from the one or more competitive words and replaces one of the most competitive word candidate with the correction word.
US07848924B2
An apparatus for providing voice conversion using temporal dynamic features includes a feature extractor and a transformation element. The feature extractor may be configured to extract dynamic feature vectors from source speech. The transformation element may be in communication with the feature extractor and configured to apply a first conversion function to a signal including the extracted dynamic feature vectors to produce converted dynamic feature vectors. The first conversion function may have been trained using at least dynamic feature data associated with training source speech and training target speech. The transformation element may be further configured to produce converted speech based on an output of applying the first conversion function.
US07848922B1
An apparatus and method for encoding and decoding a voice signal. The apparatus includes an encoder configured to generate an output bitstream signal from an input voice signal. The output bitstream signal is associated with at least a first standard of a first plurality of CELP voice compression standards. Additionally, the apparatus includes a decoder configured to generate an output voice signal from an input bitstream signal. The input bitstream signal is associated with at least a first standard of a second plurality of CELP voice compression standards. The CELP encoder includes a plurality of codec-specific encoder modules. Additionally, the CELP encoder includes a plurality of generic encoder modules. The CELP decoder includes a plurality of codec-specific decoder modules. Additionally, the CELP decoder includes a plurality of generic decoder modules.
US07848915B2
A concept-based back translation system includes a target language semantic parser module, a source language semantic parser module, a bi-directional machine translation module, a relevancy judging module, and a back translation display module.
US07848912B2
A computer simulation method is disclosed for simulating an electrical cable having a stranded conductor surrounded by a conductor shield encased in an insulation jacket and having an interstitial void volume in the region of the conductor injected with a fluid composition comprising at least one dielectric enhancement fluid component so as to at least partially fill the interstitial void volume at an initial time. The simulation method comprises for a selected length of the simulated cable, defining a plurality of radially arranged finite volumes extending the selected length of the simulated cable, and estimating the radial temperature of each finite volume. For a selected time period after the initial time, performing a series of steps at least once and outputting or otherwise using the value of the new concentration for the dielectric enhancement fluid component within each finite volume.
US07848895B2
Stress rotation due to depletion can be estimated in reservoirs having an impermeable reservoir boundary. More specifically, the isotropic change in stress due to depletion, and the uniaxial stress resulting from a change in pore pressure across an impermeable boundary are both modeled as perturbations to an initial stress state. These perturbations can result in a rotation of the principal stress directions. Estimates of the stress rotation are helpful for hydraulic fracturing operations, because fracture tends to occur in a plane perpendicular to the least principal stress.
US07848888B2
The present invention provides a method for screening for the effect of a test agent on a population of biological specimens, preferably insects, comprising the steps of providing a population of specimens, administering at least one test agent to the population, creating a digitized movie showing the movements of members of the population, measuring at least one trait of members of the population, and correlating the traits of the population with the effect of the test agent. The invention also provides a method for preparing a medicament useful for the treatment of a mammalian disease.
US07848886B2
A collision prediction ECU of a collision prediction apparatus estimates a state of presence of a detected front obstacle. At this time, the collision prediction ECU estimates the state of presence on the basis of road shape data supplied from a navigation ECU of a navigation apparatus. Further, the collision prediction ECU checks and corrects the calculated road gradient value. At this time, the collision prediction ECU corrects the gradient value on the basis of road gradient data supplied from the navigation ECU. Further, the collision prediction ECU changes a collision avoidance time on the basis of travel environment data supplied from the navigation ECU. Moreover, the collision prediction ECU obtains an ETC gate pass-through signal from the navigation ECU and determines whether the vehicle is passing through the gate. The collision prediction apparatus performs collation prediction on the basis of the corrected values.
US07848881B2
A system is provided for tracking and maintaining an inventory of location of containers that are stored on cargo ships or in a container yard. The system includes one or more sensors, such as GPS and INS sensors for obtaining real-time position information, as well as a processor configured to automatically provide post processing to recover lost data and to correct erroneous data, such as when real-time position signals are blocked or distorted, the post processing performed by estimating trajectories and correcting the location errors. Post-processed positioning techniques are continuously applied to the stored position data to iteratively determine calibrated position locations to provide calibrated second trajectory segments in a real-time fashion. The calibrated second trajectories are then used to identify the errors in the past real-time position data as soon as a segment of the second calibrated trajectory becomes statistically trustworthy. Corrections can be automatically made in inventory locations stored in a database to correct position errors for the containers.
US07848878B2
Provided is a geographic information transceiving system and method using a digital broadcasting network. The system and method segments new geographic and map data of a region, on which a geographic information service is provided, makes data segment files of different sizes, and multiplexes and transmits the files. A geographic information transmitting system includes: a geographic information collector for receiving real-time geographic information and real-time traffic information; a geographic information processor for extracting/processing local geographic information and local traffic information from the geographic information collecting means and outputting whole area information, geographic information and traffic information for a plurality of resolution levels; a digital broadcasting unit for converting and transmitting the geographic information/traffic information data in conformity to digital broadcast signals; a geographic information multiplexer for multiplexing the geographic information/traffic information data; and a transmitter for transmitting the multiplexed geographic information/traffic information data to a corresponding region.
US07848871B2
This apparatus equally divides an injection period TAU into three periods; i.e., front, intermediate, and rear periods, and assumes that first injection (mass Q(1)) corresponding to the “front period” is executed at one time at a fuel injection start timing, second injection (mass Q(2)) corresponding to the “intermediate period” is executed at one time when ⅓ TAU has elapsed after the first injection, and third injection (mass Q(3)) corresponding to the “rear period” is executed at one time when ⅓ TAU has elapsed after the second injection. A first gas mixture based on the first injection, a second gas mixture based on the second injection, and a third gas mixture based on the third injection are individually handled, and the excess air ratio of gas mixture, the state (temperature, etc.) of gas mixture, and the emission generation amounts in gas mixture are estimated for each gas mixture.
US07848862B2
An on-vehicle device with a storage unit that includes a transfer unit that transfers data stored in the storage unit to another on-vehicle device of equal capability that is also equipped with a storage unit. In the on-vehicle device, the transfer unit is configured by a data transfer jack provided to each of the on-vehicle device and the another on-vehicle device, and a data transfer cable for connecting the transfer jacks.
US07848859B2
A device and a method for evaluating a sensor signal indicating the position of an accelerator pedal of a motor vehicle. For this purpose, the device compares the sensor signal to a first comparison level, and an idle state is ascertained if the first comparison level is undershot. When a start of the motor vehicle from rest is detected, a departure from the idle state is inferred if a second comparison level, which is lower than the first comparison level, is exceeded.
US07848853B2
A system and method are provided to control hydronic systems having a plurality of on-demand sources, semi-on-demand sources, and intermittent sources that are fluidly or thermally coupled to a plurality of load zones. The hydronic system device obtains performance measurements for system components to provide system metrics, including failure diagnostics, energy capture, and usage optimization. The hydronic system device may also calculate British Thermal Units produced and used by the plurality of sources and loads to calculate incentives, including renewable energy credits.
US07848849B2
A controller of a leg type moving robot determines an action force to be input to an object dynamic model 2 such that a motion state amount (object model velocity) of the object dynamic model 2 follows a desired motion state amount based on a moving plan of an object, and also determines a manipulated variable of the motion state amount (object model velocity) of the object dynamic model 2 such that the difference between an actual object position and a desired object position approximates zero, and then inputs the determined action force and manipulated variable to the object dynamic model 2 to sequentially determine the desired object position. Further, a desired object reaction force to a robot from the object is determined from the determined reaction force. This arrangement causes the robot to perform an operation of moving an object while securing stability of the robot by determining the desired motion of the object and the desired value of an action force between the object and the robot while minimizing the difference between a motion state of the object on the object dynamic model and an actual motion state.
US07848844B2
A grinding method wherein the correlation between the amount of inertial grinding occurring in performing spark-out by a grinding unit and the maximum load current in a motor of the grinding unit is grasped, and a correction value for the amount of inertial grinding corresponding to the maximum load current is preliminarily obtained. When the wafer thickness measured by a thickness measuring gauge has reached the sum of a desired value and the correction value (=the amount of inertial grinding) corresponding to the maximum load current, the spark-out is started. Accordingly, the wafer thickness becomes the desired value after the inertial grinding in performing the spark-out.
US07848842B2
A sewing machine including a needle-swing mechanism that swings a needle bar; a cloth-feed mechanism that feeds a workpiece cloth by a feed dog; an imaging unit that captures an image of a baseline drawn on a surface of the workpiece cloth; a baseline-color detection portion that detects a baseline color of the baseline based on an image data of the baseline captured by the imaging unit; a first storage portion storing a mapping of a plurality of baseline colors to stitch data of a plurality of normal patterns; and a control portion that forms normal pattern stitches along the baseline by reading stitch data corresponding to the baseline color detected by the baseline-color detection portion from the first storage portion and controlling the needle-swing mechanism and the cloth-feed mechanism based on the stitch data read.
US07848841B2
Customers obtain customized textile materials by selecting style, shape, size, pattern and color for an undyed textile product. Based on a selection made by the customer, the textile product is transformed by a dyeing operation performed on a single item to yield a product, such as a shirt, pants, or jacket, which has a color and pattern of his or her own choosing, in the size and style he or she desires. The process can be performed in a retail setting using a dye machine which allows the process to be viewed by the customer. Preferably, the textile material is constructed from yarns which include cationic cotton alone or in combination with natural cotton or other natural or synthetic fibers, and using anionic dyes, such as a fiber reactive dye, such that the dye is exhausted during the process and effluent from the dye machine is environmentally friendly without excess dye, salts, and alkalis.
US07848840B2
Methods and systems for adaptively controlling process parameters in semiconductor manufacturing equipment. An embodiment provides for gain scheduling of PID controllers across recipe steps. One embodiment provides a method for controlling a chuck temperature during a semiconductor manufacturing process, the method employing a first set of proportional-integral-derivative (PID) values in a PID controller to control the chuck temperature at a first setpoint in a first step of a process recipe and employing a second set of PID values in the PID controller to control the chuck temperature at a second setpoint, different than the first setpoint, in a second step of the process recipe. The methods and systems provide reduced controller response times where process parameter setpoint between steps of a process recipe span a wide range.
US07848835B2
A pulsed DUV workpiece treatment apparatus and method for delivering light to irradiate the workpiece, for crystallization of a material on the workpiece, carried on a work stage, which may comprise a pulsed laser DUV light source and an optical train producing a very narrow width very elongated beam of light pulses with a set of parameters required to be maintained within a respective selected narrow range of values on a pulse to pulse basis is disclosed, which may comprise: a laser controller; a work stage controller; a system controller receiving process recipe control demands from a customer recipe control command generator and providing control signals to the laser controller and the workstage controller, which may comprise: a database driven process controller which may comprise: a database containing generic process command steps selectable by a user through an external process user interface.
US07848834B2
A computer system used for carrying out engineering tasks as a part of an engineering project. The system includes a plurality of client computers and one or more server computers accessible by the client computers via a communications network. Distributed across these computers is a multi-tiered software system that includes system programs, application programs, and database programs. The system programs include a system objects module, a job manager module, an event manager module, and a workbook module. The system objects module provides security and authentication services. The application programs carry out at least some of the engineering tasks. The job manager module manages use of the application programs. The event manager module receives and distributes notifications between at least some of the modules. The workbook module provides a user of the application programs with engineering information related to one or more of the engineering tasks.
US07848832B2
To be able to restrain a height of a machine even when the machine is large-sized and smoothly move a table in XYθ directions.An alignment apparatus includes two translational freedom degree guide portion (13), one rotational freedom degree guide portion (12), a translational drive/translational/rotational freedom degree mechanism module (6) including a linear motor provided at one of the translational freedom degree guide portion (13), a machine base portion (7), a reference generator portion (8), a two-dimensional position sensor (9), a calculating portion of compensation value (10). At least three of the translational drive/translational/rotational freedom degree mechanism modules (6) are uniformly arranged to a table (4).
US07848830B1
A system (10) for carrying out transactions between a customer at a customer station (14, 21, 202, 204) and a service provider at a service provider station (12, 194), includes transferring items through transaction devices such as pneumatic carrier delivery and receiving device (21, 200) and a deal drawer (20, 208). The customer at the customer station provides inputs corresponding to a financial account through input devices on the body which is stored in the memory (82, 158) on the body. After transfer to the service provider station, data in the memory is output to a charge device (56) which is operative to assess a charge to the customer's account responsive to data output from the memory. Vehicle sensors (230, 234) sense a vehicle adjacent the respective transaction device. At least one computer calculates at least one time value corresponding to each vehicle and stores the at least one time value and other data values concerning the respective transaction.
US07848823B2
Some embodiments of pacing systems employ wireless electrode assemblies to provide pacing therapy. The wireless electrode assemblies may wirelessly receive energy via an inductive coupling so as to provide electrical stimulation to the surrounding heart tissue. In certain embodiments, the wireless electrode assembly may be pivotable so that the proximal end of the wireless electrode assembly may be shifted to a position against the heart wall after the distal end has been secured to the heart wall.
US07848811B2
A system and method determines the posture of a body. The system is first calibrated by attaching it to, or implanted it into, a body, placing the body in particular postures, and generating spectral signatures for each of those postures. Thereafter, the system generates spectral signatures for particular instants in time, correlates these instant signatures with the stored signatures, from which the posture of the body at that instant in time is determined.
US07848798B2
Method and sensor assembly determining the condition of a structure, especially for confirming if a measured fingerprint is on a live finger, by measuring characteristics of close to the structure surface, the sensor comprising a first pair of current supply electrodes coupled to a current source, providing an electrical current to the skin, at least two pickup electrodes at chosen and different positions relative to the current supply electrodes, at least a first of said pickup electrodes being coupled to an instrument for measuring the voltage between said first pickup electrode and at least one of the pickup or current supply electrodes, storage means for a predetermined set of values characterizing a certain condition of the surface, and means for comparing the characteristics from each pickup electrode with the measurements of the other pickup electrodes and with the predetermined set of characteristics for determining the surface condition.
US07848795B2
The invention relates to a mechanism for determining the depth of sleep of a subject. In order to obtain information about the continuum of the depth of sleep in a user-friendly way without a need for high computational power, EEG signal data is obtained from a subject, REM sleep periods of the subject are detected, and a measure indicative of irregularity in the EEG signal data is derived. Based on the measure and the depicted REM sleep periods, a sleep depth index and state information are produced, where the index is indicative of the depth of sleep of the subject and the state information indicates whether or not the EEG signal data is obtained during a REM sleep period. The detection of the REM periods may be based on a bioimpedance measured from EEG electrodes simultaneously with the EEG measurement or on EOG signal data measured from the subject.
US07848791B2
In one aspect, the invention relates to an imaging probe. The imaging probe includes an elongate body having a proximal end and distal end, the elongate body adapted to enclose a portion of a slidable optical fiber, the optical fiber having a longitudinal axis; and a first optical assembly attached to a distal end of the fiber. The first optical assembly includes a beam director adapted to direct light emitted from the fiber to a plane at a predetermined angle to the longitudinal axis, a linear actuator disposed at the proximal portion of the elongated body, the actuator adapted to affect relative linear motion between the elongate body and the optical fiber; and a second optical assembly located at the distal portion of the elongate body and attached thereto, the second optical assembly comprising a reflector in optical communication with the first optical assembly, the reflector adapted to direct the light to a position distal to the elongate body.
US07848790B2
A system and method of medical imaging using a variable speed patient positioning table are provided. The patient positioning table is configured to operate at a plurality of table speeds during acquisition of data from a selected region, such as the thorax region baying predefined cardiac and non-cardiac regions. In a non-cardiac region, the table is controlled to move at one speed and when the cardiac region is detected, the table is controlled to move at another speed, preferably faster than in the cardiac region to speed data acquisition and eliminate motion artifacts.
US07848788B2
Herein is disclosed a magnetic resonance imaging probe, having a probe shaft including a magnetic resonance antenna, and a spring tip attached to a distal end of the antenna.
US07848784B2
An apparatus and method of saving power using location information, which can control power consumption of a mobile terminal in a sparse cell environment is provided. The power saving apparatus using location information comprises a transceiver for receiving a location information set from a base station having the stored location information set, a controller for receiving the location information set from the transceiver, and activating any one of a plurality of modes by using the location information set, where each of the plurality of modes utilizes a different power consumption level.
US07848761B2
A telecommunications system includes a plurality of network clients (150) including a positioning controller (504) and a communications controller (502); and a positioning server (152) including a coordinating controller (161) for maintaining a database of network clients to be tracked and provide updates of position-related information to a presence server (104). The plurality of network clients (150) are configured to transmit position information received via the positioning controller (504) to the positioning server (104) using the communications controller (502).
US07848759B2
A frequency planning method for use in an IEEE 802.11 wireless network is described. The frequency planning method obtains traffic load information associated with access points belonging to a multi-cell wireless network and assigns channels to the access points based on the traffic load information.
US07848758B1
Methods and systems are provided for dynamic allocation of carrier frequencies in wireless wide area networks (WWANs). A first base station among a plurality of base stations in a WWAN determines that a level of load in a wireless coverage area exceeds a load threshold, and responsively (i) obtains a first keycode from a keycode library, wherein the first keycode then becomes unavailable to the other base stations of the plurality of base stations, (ii) identifies a carrier frequency, and (iii) uses the first keycode to activate the identified carrier frequency in the wireless coverage area.
US07848755B2
In an Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) method for recovering ARQ data by a target base station when handover of a mobile terminal is performed from a serving base station to the target base station in a portable Internet system is provided. First ARQ data, which includes a first service data unit (SDU), a first ARQ block sequence number, and a first sub-ARQ block sequence number, that are buffered in the serving base station are received and second ARQ data, which includes a second SDU, are received from the serving base station. The received first SDU is divided into ARQ blocks and is transmitted to the mobile terminal; and the received second SDU is divided into the ARQ blocks and is transmitted to the mobile terminal.
US07848746B2
A first processing device, which may be, for example, a wireless authentication token or an RFID tag, comprises a memory, a processor coupled to the memory, and interface circuitry coupled to the processor. The processor is operative to control the output of authentication information via the interface circuitry, where the authentication information comprises a sequence of values corresponding to images of a hash chain. A given one of the values of the sequence is utilized by a second processing device to generate a modified value suitable for providing joint authentication of the first and second processing devices.
US07848741B2
One or more electromagnetic energy measurements are generated. Each of these measurements corresponds to an available communications bandwidth for a communications device and indicates a frequency of a radio frequency (RF) signal source. From these measurement(s), one or more interference sources are identified. These measurements may include a series of electromagnetic energy measurements over a predetermined time period. An interference source may be identified when each measurement in the series of electromagnetic energy measurements indicates an RF energy source at the same frequency. Each of these measurements may be stored. In addition, statistics regarding these measurements may be generated.
US07848733B2
A wireless location system may include geolocation of a wireless device connected to Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) adapter. The VoIP adapter may include a wireless transceiver or a wireless location determining receiver that facilitates the location of a wireless device connected to the VoIP adapter. The wireless transceiver or the location determining receiver may provide location information to an emergency dispatcher.
US07848728B2
A broadband balanced frequency converter (“BBFC”) in signal communication with a frequency source is disclosed. The BBFC may include a mixer and an active balancing element in signal communication with the mixer.
US07848724B2
An integrated communications system. Comprising a substrate having a receiver disposed on the substrate for converting a received signal to an IF signal. Coupled to a VGA for low voltage applications and coupled to the receiver for processing the IF signal. The VGA includes a bank pair having a first bank of differential pairs of transistors and a second bank of differential pairs of transistors. The bank pair is cross-coupled in parallel, the IF signal is applied to the bank pair decoupled from a control signal used to control transconductance output gain of the bank pair over a range of input voltages. A digital IF demodulator is disposed on the substrate and coupled to the VGA for low voltage applications, for converting the IF signal to a demodulated baseband signal. And a transmitter is disposed on the substrate operating in cooperation with the receiver to establish a two way communications path.
US07848723B2
An information processing apparatus executes processing based on received information conforming to IEEE 802.11n, and includes: an incident angle measuring unit acquiring a received signal and measuring an incident angle of the received signal's radio wave; a reliability estimating unit estimating reliability of a measurement result of the incident angle, by analyzing a state of occurrence of fading using a relationship between frequency and signal intensity of the received signal; and a processing unit executing or controlling processing utilizing the measurement result of the incident angle. The processing unit executes or controls the processing utilizing the measurement result of the incident angle if the estimating unit judges that the reliability of the measurement result of the incident angle is high, and prohibits the processing utilizing the measurement result of the incident angle if the estimating unit judges that the reliability of the measurement result of the incident angle is low.
US07848706B2
A receiver includes a receiving unit for scanning a dedicated signaling channel for the presence of an announcement signal. The announcement signal indicates a transmitter willing to access a transmission medium. The receiving unit is further operative to receive a data signal from a further transmitter on a dedicated traffic channel. Furthermore, the receiver includes an interference estimator for estimating, whether an interference caused by a new transmitter is allowable or not. A processor is provided for applying an interference counter-measure, when the interference is not allowable. A transmitter can, without any limitation, transmit the announcement signal. The transmitter will start transmitting, when it receives a ready-to-receive signal from the addressed receiver and when it does not receive an objection tone from another receiver in the network.
US07848697B2
A sheet processing apparatus including: a conveying unit, which conveys a sheet; a stacking unit on which the conveyed sheet is stacked; a processing unit, which processes the stacked sheet; a buffering unit, which allows the sheet conveyed to the stacking unit by the conveying unit to pass, and buffers a predetermined number of sheets to be passed during an operation of the processing unit; a transferring unit, which receives the buffer sheets and transfers the predetermined number of buffer sheets from the buffering unit to the stacking unit; and a controlling unit, which controls a sheet conveying speed to make a speed when the transferring unit transfers the buffer sheet lower than a speed when the transferring unit receives the buffer sheets to prevent the sheet conveyed by the conveying unit from interfering the transferring unit during an operation of transferring the sheet.
US07848694B2
An image forming device including toner image forming means that forms toner images on the surface of an image carrier, transfer means that transfers the toner images on the surface of the image carrier onto a transfer member, and a plate shaped cleaning blade. The cleaning blade is configured to contact the surface of the image carrier at a pressure of greater than 40 N/m and to scrape off residual toner remaining on the surface of the image carrier after the transfer process by the transfer means has been completed. The surface of the image carrier has a static coefficient of friction with a sheet as measured by the Euler belt type coefficient of friction measurement method of 0.5 or greater, and the cleaning blade has a static coefficient of friction with a polytetrafluoroethylene tape in the range 1.0 to 2.0.
US07848690B2
A color registration method of an image forming apparatus, including forming a plurality of front detection marks corresponding to a plurality of colors on a transfer belt, forming a first rear detection mark to at least one of the plurality of colors, except at least one of the plurality of colors, using a color registration reference, and performing auto color registration (ACR) to align the colors on the basis of the first rear detection mark.
US07848686B2
A developing device uses a two-component developer including at least carriers and toners. The toners are supplied to an image bearing member bearing an electrostatic latent image so that a toner image is developed from the electrostatic latent image. The developing device has a developing roller arranged to oppose the image bearing member; and a magnetic roller arranged to oppose the developing roller. The magnetic roller retains the two-component developer to supply toners to the developing roller. The developing roller and the magnetic roller are rotationally driven in directions to be opposite from one another at an opposed position, and a magnetic pole of the magnetic roller and a magnetic pole of the developing roller have magnetic polarities different from one another at the opposed position. A surface roughness of the magnetic roller is greater than a surface roughness of the developing roller.
US07848684B2
A developer supply cartridge supplies a developer into a process cartridge, and is detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus. The process cartridge includes a drum, a developing roller, a receiving-side shutter portion opening and closing a developer receiving opening, a receiving-side movable portion to move the receiving-side shutter portion, and a regulating member for regulating movement of the receiving-side movable portion. The developer supply cartridge includes a supplying-side developer accommodating portion, a developer supply opening supplying the developer from the supplying-side developer accommodating portion into the process cartridge through the developer receiving opening, a supplying-side shutter portion opening and closing the developer supply opening, and a supplying-side movable portion to open the supplying-side shutter portion when the developer supply cartridge enters the main assembly and the process cartridge is set in the main assembly, by engagement with the receiving-side movable portion.
US07848682B2
A powder supplier is provided. The supplier including: a non-cylindrical housing that stores a powder; a rotating member that is arranged rotatably inside the housing; a sheet-shaped conveying member that is fixed to the rotating member and has a free end side that differs from a fixed portion thereof, the sheet-shaped conveying member sweeping against inner walls of the housing due to rotation of the rotating member, and conveying the powder in an axial direction of the rotating member; a powder supply port provided in the housing at a downstream side of the direction in which the powder is conveyed; and an assisting member that is provided at a region of the conveying member opposite to the powder supply port and performs agitation of the powder and conveying of the powder to the powder supply port.
US07848681B2
According to an embodiment of the invention, a revolver unit is rotationally driven by using three stepping motors. The weight of developing cartridges loaded on the revolver unit is identified on the basis of the quantity of remaining toner in toner cartridges. At the time of rotationally driving the revolver unit, output timing of the stepping motor closer to the developing cartridge which has a large quantity of remaining toner and has a heavy weight is made earlier, and output timing of the stepping motor far from this developing cartridge is delayed.
US07848679B2
An image forming apparatus includes a standard exposure device (1) adjusted to emit light of a predetermined light quantity, and a control device configured to determine light quantity of the pre-charge exposure device in an image-forming period based on the first and the second charging current values, wherein first charging current value is detected when an area on a photosensitive member surface is recharged by the contact charging member, in a case where the photosensitive member is exposed by turning on the standard exposure device without turning on a pre-charge exposure device, and second charging current value is detected when an area on the photosensitive member surface is recharged by the contact charging member, in a case where the photosensitive member charged by applying a predetermined voltage by the contact charging member is exposed by turning on the pre-charge exposure device without turning on the standard exposure device.
US07848676B2
An image forming apparatus includes a main apparatus body, an image reading block located above the main apparatus body, a sheet output portion provided with a sheet output tray onto which each sheet is ejected upon completion of image forming operation, the sheet output portion being located between the main apparatus body and the image reading block and opening at least frontward to permit retrieval of sheets from the sheet output tray, and a front cover section provided on a front side of the main apparatus body, the front cover section including front openable covering members. The front cover section has a striped portion having a surface in which ridges and furrows are formed and a flat portion having a flat surface. The flat portion includes a first flat portion located in an area adjacent to the sheet output tray.
US07848666B2
A control unit separately drives an image carrier driving unit that drives an image carrier motor, a developing roller driving unit that drives a developing roller motor, a developer stirring member driving unit that drives a developer stirring member motor, and a fan driving unit that drives a fan motor. The control unit causes the fan driving unit to operate if the image carrier driving unit or the developer stirring member driving unit is operating.
US07848656B2
A method of operating a WDM transmission system with at least one transmitter and at least one receiver connected by means of a dispersive transmission line. The proposed method comprises the successive steps of successively: a) setting a tunable dispersion pre-compensation value at a transmitter-side Tunable Dispersion Compensation Module in operative connection with the transmitter to a first predetermined value (PRE°); b) setting or adjusting a tunable dispersion post-compensation value at a receiver-side Tunable Dispersion Compensation Module (7) in operative connection with the receiver to a second value (POST°) in order to optimize at least one characteristic (monitored performance like BER, eye opening, Q factor BER) of a transmitted signal at the receiver; and then c) simultaneously tuning the transmitter-side Tunable Dispersion Compensation Module and the receiver-side Tunable Dispersion Compensation Module with opposite respective dispersion shifts in order to further optimize said characteristic of the transmitted signal.
US07848645B2
The location or identification of a waveguide is determined, in particular where a disturbance is applied to the optical waveguide. This is achieved by: (a) monitoring the waveguide at a first location to sense a disturbance along the waveguide; (b) causing a disturbance to the waveguide at a second location; (c) transmitting a sensor signal to the second location; and (d) inferring, from the sensor signal, the presence or identity of the waveguide at the second location.
US07848642B1
A method and system provide capacity-efficient restoration within an optical fiber communication system. The system includes a plurality of nodes each interconnected by optical fibers. Each optical fiber connection between nodes includes at least three channel groups with different priority levels for restoration switching in response to a connection failure. The system maintains and restores full-capacity communication services by switching at least a portion of the channel groups from a first optical fiber connection to a second optical fiber connection system based on the priority levels assigned to the channel groups. Service reliability is effectively maintained without to incurring additional costs for dedicated spare optical fiber equipment by improving idle capacity utilization.
US07848641B2
A digital camera has a housing and an exposure circuit in the housing. The digital camera further includes a locating post fixed on the housing, a rotatable assembly, and a shutter button electronically connected to the exposure circuit. The rotatable assembly has a hole for passage of the locating post and can rotate round the locating post. The shutter button is disposed on a side of the rotatable assembly. The rotatable assembly may help users to select one of the left side and the right side of the digital camera as desired for left-handed or right-handed operation of the digital camera.
US07848636B2
A microscope digital camera includes a camera head unit and an operation display unit. A display portion of the operation display unit displays an observed image acquired by a microscope body. A CPU in an operated portion of the operation display unit detects a change of the observed image. By turning on an objective warning LED provided for the operated portion, notification information indicating a detection result of a change of the observed image by the CPU is output.
US07848629B2
An exemplary auto-focus method includes the following steps. An ambient brightness is measured before a pre-flash. Then, a pre-flash ambient brightness is also measured during the pre-flash is fired. A main flash ratio is subsequently calculated using the ambient brightness, the pre-flash ambient brightness, and a preset desired brightness. Next, an object distance is indexed using the calculated main flash ratio and a table. The table includes a collection of main flash ratios and a collection of object distances, where each flash ratio is associated with a corresponding object distance. Then an image distance corresponding to the indexed object distance is calculated using the imaging formula. The calculated image distance is converted into a number of focus steps of a focus lens. Finally, the focus lens is moved with a corresponding number of focus steps.
US07848613B2
Systems and methods for managing time-shift buffering in a digital media recording device are disclosed. One embodiment of a method comprises receiving media content through at least a first tuner of the digital media recording device, the media content comprising at least a first instance of media content received consecutive to a second instance of media content. The method further includes directing the first instance of media content into a first time-shift buffer, the first instance of the media content received through the first tuner of the digital media recording device. After directing the first instance of the media content into the first time-shift buffer, the second instance of media content is directed into one of the first time-shift buffer and a second time-shift buffer while continuing to direct media content received through the first tuner of the digital media recording device into the first time-shift buffer for at least a predetermined duration of time.
US07848606B1
A method is provided for eliminating crystals in non-oxide optical fiber preforms as well as optical fibers drawn therefrom. The optical-fiber-drawing axis of the preform is aligned with the force of gravity. A magnetic field is applied to the preform as it is heated to at least a melting temperature thereof. The magnetic field is applied in a direction that is parallel to the preform's optical-fiber-drawing axis. The preform is then cooled to a temperature that is less than a glass transition temperature of the preform while the preform is maintained in the magnetic field. When the processed preform is to have an optical fiber drawn therefrom, the preform's optical-fiber-drawing axis is again aligned with the force of gravity and a magnetic field is again applied along the axis as the optical fiber is drawn from the preform.
US07848600B2
A driving circuit of a semiconductor optical amplifier type gate switch constituting a matrix optical switch is provided with an operation amplifier into which a driving signal is input and from which a current corresponding to the driving signal is output, an inductance element provided at an output terminal of the operation amplifier, and a circuit composed of a diode element and a resistor element connected in parallel and provided between the inductance element and the semiconductor optical amplifier.
US07848598B2
Desired data can be easily retrieved from material image data associated with video data. For material image data associated with video data, character strings contained in relevant material images are extracted, and keywords input to keyword input parts of a user interface are matched with the extracted characters to retrieve data of the relevant material images. The retrieved material images are changed in size according to their importance before being displayed on a screen.
US07848596B2
In a computer implemented method of generating a collage of images, image saliency data is received for a plurality of images that are to be collaged within a templated viewing region. The templated viewing region is generated by scaling a template relative to the plurality of images that are to be collaged. An initial collage layout is generated within the templated viewing region from the plurality of images. The initial collage layout is optimized, where the optimizing comprises iteratively adjusting the initial collage layout by selecting a minimized layout occlusion cost.
US07848595B2
A method for processing data pixels in a holographic data storage system is disclosed. The method includes assigning predetermined reserved blocks throughout each data page, where each reserved block comprises known pixel patterns, determining position errors of the data page by computing the best match between regions of the data page and the predetermined reserved blocks, and compensating the data pixels at the detector in accordance with the corresponding position errors of the data page.
US07848593B2
In the method of obtaining captures images, there is overlaps in images in the flight direction and in a direction (cross direction) that crosses the flight direction. A predetermined number of the captured images containing overlapping sections that include a target point are selected out of the obtained images in the flight direction and/or the cross direction. From the overlap sections of these captured images, selected images are obtained by selecting image sections within a specific range that contains the target point. Using the flight direction and the cross direction as axes for a matrix, the selected images are arranged to create an aerial photograph data set.
US07848588B2
Without use of special hardware such as an angular rate sensor, a direction of blur can be judged with high accuracy. A parameter acquisition unit obtains weighting parameters for principal components representing directions of blur in a predetermined structure in an image by fitting to the structure a mathematical model generated by a method of Active Appearance Models (AAM) using a plurality of sample images representing the structure in different conditions of blur. A blur direction judgment unit judges the direction of blur based on the weighting parameters, and a blur width acquisition unit finds a width of blur based on an edge component found by an edge detection unit in the direction perpendicular to the direction of blur. A blur correction unit corrects the blur in the image based on the direction and the width of blur.
US07848579B2
An image coding device in which entropy coding is applied to binarized data. An image coding unit codes image data; an entropy coding unit binarizes the coded image data and applies entropy coding to the binarized data; and a coding amount prediction unit obtains a predictive value corresponding to a coding amount of the image data on a predetermined data unit basis prior to the actual binarizing. A coding amount comparing unit compares the predictive value to a predetermined threshold value; a I_PCM decision unit outputs a selection signal indicating the image data on a predetermined data unit basis or I_PCM data, which is selected based on a result of the comparing; and an output selection unit and an output unit output the selected data indicated by the selection signal.
US07848577B2
Image processing methods, image management systems, and articles of manufacture are described. According to one embodiment, an image processing method includes accessing image data of a plurality of images, defining a plurality of regions in individual ones of the images, wherein the regions individually comprise a plurality of image forming elements having a common characteristic, comparing a region of one of the images with respect to regions of a plurality of others of the images, and providing information indicative of similarities of the one image relative to the others of the images using results of the comparing.
US07848576B2
To provide an image matching method, an image matching apparatus, and a program able to perform a matching images at a high accuracy. A Hough transform unit 15 performs a Hough transform processing to a registered image AIM and an image to be matched RIM, in detail, an image processing by which points in each image are transformed to a curved pattern and linear components in each image are transformed to a plurality of the overlapped curved-patterns, based on a distance ρ from a reference position to a shortest point in a straight line L passing through a point in the image and an angle θ between a straight line n0 passing though the reference position and the shortest point and a x-axis as a reference axis including the reference position, and generating a transformed image S1621 and a transformed image S1622. A judgment unit 164 performs a matching of the registered image AIM and the image to be matched RIM based on a degree of an overlap of the patterns in the transformed image S1621 and the transformed image S1622 and a matching or mismatching of the patterns in the same.
US07848569B2
Pixels from an image are sampled for gray world statistics. To avoid the effect of saturated regions, the pixels are pruned. If a predetermined percentage of the pixels are included in the gray world statistics, color channel gain is calculated and applied to the image. As a result, color balance is achieved in a simple and efficient manner.
US07848565B2
A method for generating a saliency map for a robot device having sensor means, the saliency map indicating to the robot device patterns in the input space of the sensor means which are important for carrying out a task; wherein the saliency map comprises a weighted contribution from a disparity saliency selection carried out on the basis of depth information gathered from the sensor means, such that a weighted priority is allocated to patterns being within a defined peripersonal space in the environment of the sensor means.
US07848564B2
In one general aspect, a method is described. The method includes generating a positional relationship between one or more support structures having at least one motion capture mark and at least one virtual structure corresponding to geometry of an object to be tracked and positioning the support structures on the object to be tracked. The support structures has sufficient rigidity that, if there are multiple marks, the marks on each support structure maintain substantially fixed distances from each other in response to movement by the object. The method also includes determining an effective quantity of ray traces between one or more camera views and one or more marks on the support structures, and estimating an orientation of the virtual structure by aligning the determined effective quantity of ray traces with a known configuration of marks on the support structures.
US07848562B1
The time required to perform a passive voltage contrast test of an area of interest of a layer of interest is substantially reduced by digitizing a passive voltage contrast image to form contrast data that represents the image, and comparing the contrast data to computer aided design (CAD) data that defines the semiconductor device.
US07848556B2
A method and apparatus is disclosed for creating a single plane of reference, also referred to herein as a virtual image plane, as a function of image planes of individual segments of a reconstructed MRI image. In particular, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, such a virtual image plane is calculated by constraining the distance of all points in a reconstructed volume from a virtual image plane to be within a specific tolerance. More specifically, in accordance with another embodiment, a virtual image plane is calculated by minimizing the maximum distance of the plane from points in the composed volume, such as those points that are on the image planes of the individual segments. Calculating such a virtual image plane in this manner is advantageous in that it provides a single reference plane that is useful, for example, in making measurements associated with surgical procedures.
US07848552B2
The present invention relates to processing a material. The material lies on a carrier and is cut by irradiation with a laser beam, or an object of the material is catapulted from the carrier to a collection device by means of the laser beam. An image of the material on the carrier is generated. The image is evaluated automatically in order to identify structures in it. A region of the image is automatically selected on the basis of the identified structures. The selected region is then used for automatically cutting the material and/or catapulting the object, or serves as a working region in which the material is cut or from which the object is catapulted. Parallel sections through the material may in particular be employed.
US07848550B2
The invention relates to a sensor chip, especially for measuring structures in a finger surface, comprising an electronic chip of a per se known type being provided with a number of sensor electrodes for capacitance measurements, the chip being positioned on a substrate being provided with a number of openings or slots through which electrical conductors are provided, the ends of said conductors constituting a sensor array for capacitance measurements so that the sensor array is positioned on a first side of said substrate and the electronic chip is positioned on the other side of the substrate.
US07848546B2
This invention is directed to reduce the correction load on a user when a plurality of images are to be grouped. An information processing method of discriminating an object contained in a first image and grouping the first image to a plurality of grouping destinations for each object includes a discrimination step of discriminating an object from the first image, a grouping destination determination step of determining, on the basis of the discrimination result obtained in the discrimination step, to which one of the plurality of grouping destinations the first image is to be grouped, and a display control step of displaying, on a window, a process of moving the first image to a position of the second image corresponding to the grouping destination determined in the grouping destination determination step.
US07848545B2
A trimmed image is obtained by trimming for cutting out from a photographic image obtained by taking a photograph of an object including a reference part, and one or more other part which has a common centerline with the reference part and is arranged in a direction in which the centerline of the reference part extends, an image of an area including a part or the whole of the reference part and said other part along a trimming centerline. The centerline of the reference part is obtained and the degree and the direction of inclination of said other part are detected from the photographic image. The trimming centerline is inclined by a larger angle away from the centerline toward the direction of the inclination of said other part as the degree of inclination increases.
US07848541B2
Acceleration of a set of three frames of video with N movers may be determined by generating an inverse Fourier transformation of a differential phase correlation matrix of the three frames. The resultant acceleration estimate may be integrated with the velocity and offset estimates for the second frame so as to provide an offset estimate for the third frame. The third frame may then be co-registered with a reference frame. This process may be repeated for subsequent frames so that subsequent frames may also be registered to the reference frame so that video jitter that was caused by platform shake may be reduced or eliminated.
US07848538B2
A thread winding part or a reinforcing wire winding part is formed by winding a heat resistant fiber thread or a reinforcing wire around the voice coil bobbin in contact with both coil ends of the wire winding part or a coil end of the same on a magnetic-circuit side. A bent part bent outward is formed on the lower end of the voice coil bobbin on the magnetic circuit side. This prevents the wire winding part from shifting from its mounting position and from coming off to the lower side. In the resulting voice coil, the wire winding part hardly comes off the voice coil bobbin even if the wire binding of the wire winding part is loosened by Joule heat, speaker vibrations, etc.
US07848537B2
A voice coil bobbin is formed by skinpass rolling of pure titanium. A manufacturing method of a voice coil bobbin includes a process which manufactures a rolled pure titanium material, a process which executes skinpass rolling of the rolled material, and a process which forms the rolled material after the skinpass rolling to manufacture the voice coil bobbin. For example, the rolled pure titanium material is manufactured by a standard manufacturing process of a normal rolled material defined by JISH4600, and the cold rolling for the purpose of the strengthening is executed. The cold rolling is executed under a condition of a rolling ratio equal to or larger than 60%. Thereby, it becomes possible to obtain double hardness of JIS No. 1-kind titanium material (TR270C) and tensile strength larger than double of the JIS No. 1-kind titanium material (TR270C) and close to 6-4 titanium. By applying this thin voice coil bobbin with the high strength, the speaker device applicable for the high power input can be obtained.
US07848533B2
A loudspeaker includes a frame and a toroidal magnet that is affixed to the rear of the frame. The toroidal magnet has a central passageway that opens into the frame. A cap is affixed to the rear of the magnet and closes the central passageway. A guide rod is affixed to the cap and projects forwardly from the cap into the central passageway. A tubular former is slidably positioned upon the guide rod. A voice coil is wound about, and is affixed to, the tubular former. A forward cone has a narrow, rear end that is affixed to the tubular former and a wide, front end that is affixed to the front of the frame. A rearward cone has a narrow, forward end with a central opening that loosely receives the rear end of the forward cone. The rearward cone also has a wide, rearward end that is affixed to the frame rearwardly of the front end of the forward cone. A forward spider is affixed to the forward end of the rearward cone and is affixed to the rear of the frame. A rearward spider is affixed to the rear end of the forward cone and is affixed to the rearward end of the rearward cone.
US07848532B2
To operate from any of phantom power sources of 12 V, 24 V and 48 V and secure a maximum output level according to each of the power sources. A condenser microphone including a microphone unit MU containing a diaphragm and a fixed pole, an FET Q1 of a built-in bias circuit type for operating as an impedance converter of the microphone unit MU and an output transformer TRS connected to a phantom power source with a midpoint of a primary winding of the output transformer TRS connected to a drain of the FET Q1 via a constant current diode D2, and a transistor Q2 of an emitter follower for current amplification connected between a source of the FET Q1 and a secondary winding of the output transformer TRS, wherein a diode D3 is connected between the source of the FET Q1 and a base of the transistor Q2 to have an anode thereof on the source side of the FET Q1 so as to provide forward voltage generated by the diode D3 to the base of the transistor Q2.
US07848531B1
The overall loudness of an audio track is calculated by combining a number of weighted loudness measures for segments of the audio track, where the weight applied to each individual loudness measure is a function of the loudness measure. By comparing the original overall loudness measure to a desired overall loudness measure, a gain can be determined that will adjust the loudness level to the desired value. Also disclosed is a dynamic compression method that analyzes the dynamic characteristics of an audio track and determines appropriate compressor parameters. Additionally, the loudness of a post-compressor audio track can be estimated for any given compressor parameters, thus permitting post-compression loudness matching to be done even if the compression is performed in real-time.
US07848526B2
A method of receiving a session key in a home network and a method of reproducing content using the same. The method of receiving a session key from a home server in a home network, includes: (a) whenever one of members of the home network changes, receiving and storing the session key and a session version indicating a session key generation sequence; (b) receiving a license necessary for reproducing predetermined content; and (c) determining a session key necessary for reproducing the predetermined content based on an encoding session version (ESV), which is a session version extracted from the license, and the stored session version. A home server transmits a session key and a session version to a user device whenever a subscriber to a home network changes, and the user device determines a session key using the session version, thereby performing a variety of domain administration by freely transmitting content between user devices.
US07848525B2
A hybrid broadcast encryption method is provided. The hybrid broadcast encryption method includes setting initialization values, generating a node secret using the initialization values; generating a private secret using the node secret; sending the node secret and the private secret; generating a broadcast message based on a revoked group; encrypting a session key using a key encryption key (KEK) which is allocated to every user group and the broadcast message; and broadcasting to every user the encrypted session key and the broadcast message.
US07848522B2
The invention relates to a method for authenticating the user of a terminal (5), in which terminal a device (15) for verifying the rights to use is applied for running an authentication protocol. The device (15) for verifying the rights to use is connected to the terminal (5). In the device (15) for verifying the rights to use, an extensible authentication protocol interface is applied, via which at least some of the authentication functions are carried out.
US07848517B2
A secure, open-air communication system utilizes a plurality of “decoy” data signals to hide one or more true data signals. The true data signal(s) are channel hopped with the plurality of decoy data signals to form a multi-channel “scrambled” output signal that is thereafter transmitted in an open-air communication system. The greater the number of decoy signals, the greater the security provided to the open-air system. Further security may be provided by encrypting both the true and decoy signals prior to scrambling and/or by utilizing a spatially diverse set of transmitters and receivers. Without the knowledge of the channel assignment(s) for the true signal(s), an eavesdropper may be able to intercept (and, with time, perhaps descramble) the open-air transmitted signals, will not be able to distinguish the true data from the decoys without also knowing the channel assignment(s).
US07848516B2
This invention discloses a symmetric encryption/decryption method with asymmetric keys processed by diffusion algebra, and more particularly to a multiplication method using one-dimensional matrix displacement and addition to generate a ciphertext by multiplying a public (or private) key with a plaintext or obtain the plaintext by multiplying the private (or public) key with the ciphertext.
US07848510B2
A method for recording automatic call distributor calls includes receiving from a caller a call for distribution to one of a plurality of agents and distributing the call to a first agent of the plurality of agents for handling. The method includes creating a call signature associated with the call for recording verification and recording communications of the call to a recording file. The method also includes embedding the call signature in the recording file.
US07848506B1
A communications system is designed to present a number of options to a caller who is attempting to reach a call-waiting subscriber already busy on a first call. The options are presented to the caller via an announcement that offers the caller the alternative of either sending immediately a conventional call-waiting alert signal to the subscriber, or leaving a message that is automatically delivered to the subscriber immediately after the subscriber terminates the first call.
US07848504B2
A method is described of providing validation data associated with a subscriber line of a telecommunication network using a validation system. The method includes obtaining line data of the subscriber line wherein the line data is suitable for interrogating a line identification database (LIDB). The method interrogates the LIDB with the line data to obtain reference subscriber data associated with the line data, and processes the reference subscriber data to obtain validation data associated with the subscriber line. The method includes identifying a local exchange carrier (LEC) associated with the subscriber line to determine if a billing arrangement exists between the validation system and the LEC. The invention extends to a subscriber line validation system to validate a subscriber line of a communication network.
US07848499B2
A method of advertising a product, comprising assigning a respective telephone number to a plurality of advertising media elements is disclosed. Telephone numbers are assigned and calls are forwarded to be answered by a sales person or persons. The assignment of the telephone numbers to the sales person or persons is communicated to a computer based telephone services provider. The associated telephone number assignments are imprinted, audibly communicated or otherwise included in their respective advertising media elements. Response information such as the number of calls received by the telephone numbers in response to the advertising is recorded.
US07848495B2
A voice communication apparatus is interposed between a telephone set and a public switched telephone network (PSTN) or a broadband network which can provide a frequency bandwidth broader than a frequency bandwidth of the public switched telephone network. The apparatus selects one of the PSTN and the broadband network, from which a voice signal is input. The apparatus takes account of the selected network, frequency characteristics of the selected network and of the telephone set, and appropriately adjusts frequency characteristics of a voice signal transmitted between the telephone set and the selected network by means of transmitter and receiver band-pass filter units. As a result, both the telephone set and the counterpart communication terminal can receive a voice signal of better transmission quality.
US07848490B2
A method for obtaining an x-ray image stores an association between a digital radiology receiver panel, a label that is applied to one or more surfaces of the digital radiology receiver panel, and an x-ray imaging room. A response to an operator instruction designates the digital radiology receiver panel having the stored association as an active digital radiology receiver panel in the x-ray imaging room. Instructions are transmitted wirelessly to the active digital radiology receiver panel. Image data is obtained from the active digital radiology receiver panel following exposure to x-ray radiation.
US07848483B2
The present invention provides a multilayer structure including a substrate having formed on a surface thereof at least one period of individual layers, the period having at least two layers including a first layer which includes magnesium silicide and a second layer which includes at least one of tungsten, tantalum, cobalt, nickel, copper, iron, chromium, alloys, oxides, borides, silicides, and nitrides of these elements, silicon, carbon, silicon carbide, boron, and boron carbide. If the period includes three layers, the second layer includes one of silicon, carbon, silicon carbide, boron, and boron carbide and a third layer includes one of tungsten, tantalum, cobalt, nickel, copper, iron, chromium, and alloys, oxides, borides, silicides, and nitrides of these elements, the second layer being disposed between the first and the third layers. If the period includes four layers, a fourth layer includes one of silicon, carbon, silicon carbide, boron, and boron carbide, the third layer being disposed between the second and fourth layers, and the fourth layer being disposed between the third layer of multilayer period n and the first layer of multilayer period n−1.
US07848481B2
In an X-ray CT apparatus, an X-ray source and an X-ray detector mounted in a guide arm are freely movable in such a direction as to approach to and separate from a sample. With respect to this movement, the center of gravity of the whole containing respective constituent elements mounted in the guide arm is kept on the rotational axis by a weight balance adjusting mechanism. The weight balance adjusting mechanism contains a movable weight which is freely movable to the guide arm. The movement of the movable weight is controlled so that a difference between the rotational moment around the rotational axis is offset and substantially equal to zero. The moving passage of the movable weight is set on a straight line which is parallel to the moving direction of the X-ray source and the X-ray detector and does not pass through the rotational axis.
US07848465B2
Joint decoding of ISI (Inter-Symbol Interference) channel and modulation codes. A single, combined ISI and modulation decoding module is operable to process a signal received from an ISI communication channel and directly to generate a soft estimate of information encoded therein. A single module employs a decoding transfer function that is substantially matched to the communication channel that introduces the ISI and the modulation encoding performed on the information before being launched into the ISI communication channel. Such operations and functionality are adaptable to a variety of modulation coding systems that are tailored to deal with communication systems that introduce ISI. Moreover, such operations and functionality are extendable to communication systems employing an error correction code (ECC) such as Reed-Solomon (RS) coding as well as ECCs of an iterative nature such as LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) coding, turbo coding, and/or turbo trellis code modulation (TTCM) coding.
US07848460B2
A composite baseband signal includes a desired signal component modulated according to a first modulation scheme and an interfering signal component modulated according to a second modulation scheme. Information is recovered from the composite signal by applying a phase rotation associated with the second modulation scheme to the composite signal to generate a rotated signal. Based on the rotated signal, a channel model associated with the desired signal component and interference cancelling filter coefficients associated with the interfering signal component are generated. The rotated signal is filtered according to the interference cancelling filter coefficients to suppress the interfering signal component from the rotated signal. The filtered signal is equalized based on branch metrics derived from the channel model and symbol hypotheses rotated in accordance with a difference in phase rotations associated with the first and second modulations to recover information from the desired signal component.
US07848453B2
A transmitter includes a first amplifier to amplify an in-phase oscillator signal to produce an in-phase mixing signal and a second amplifier to amplify a quadrature-phase oscillator signal to produce a quadrature-phase mixing signal. A first mixer mixes the in-phase mixing signal with a first information signal to produce a first output signal. A second mixer mixes the quadrature-phase mixing signal with a second information signal to produce a second output signal. The first output signal and an inverted second output signal are summed to produce a transmitter output signal that includes an image signal caused by a phase imbalance between the in-phase and quadrature-phase mixing signals. An image monitor monitors the image signal and reduces or eliminates the phase imbalance by independently adjusting a phase of the in-phase mixing signal and/or a phase of the quadrature-phase mixing signal. Consequently, a power of the image signal is reduced or eliminated.
US07848449B2
In an electronic device having a circuit outputting a vector sum of two quadrature vector signals, an offset compensating device compensates the offset contained in the vector sum. The offset compensating device aims to flexibly adapt to deviation in characteristics and performances and various fluctuations, and to compensate offset stably and accurately. The offset compensating device includes a deviation monitor unit creating a vector signal by A/D-converting the aforementioned vector sum and by quadrature-demodulating it and monitoring the deviation of the DC components superposed on the vector signal, and an adaptive control unit updating the compensation vector determined in advance, based on adaptive algorithm minimizing expectation value of the product of the inner product between an increment vector and the compensation vector, and the latest deviation vector, and adding the compensation vector to an offset vector to be inputted, while being superposed on the input signal, to a circuit.
US07848440B2
A technique for estimating channel data probability in a multi-user or multiple-input multiple-output communication system is disclosed. The technique uses parallel Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation to select a plurality of hypothetical channel data patterns. Channel data bit probabilities are obtained by summing conditional bit probabilities, where the conditional bit probabilities are conditioned on an observation of the multi-channel signal and the hypothetical channel data patterns.
US07848438B2
A pilot (or reference) transmission scheme is utilized where different transmitters are assigned pilot sequences with possibly different cyclic time shifts. A pilot signal is transmitted concurrently by the transmitters in a plurality of pilot blocks, and a receiver processes the plurality of received pilot blocks to recover a channel estimate for at least one of the transmitters while suppressing the interference due to the pilot signals from the other transmitters.
US07848427B2
For each pixel in an operation block, an effective pixel determining unit sets a predetermined pixel difference (threshold value) on a time-base pixel difference. When the time-base pixel difference is less than the set predetermined pixel difference, it is determined that the pixel contributes to (or are effective in) motion vector detection, and uses the pixel in the gradient method in the case of performing motion vector detection. When the time-base pixel difference is not less than the set predetermined pixel difference, it is determined that the pixel is regarded as having a possibility to generate irregularity in movement, and the pixel is excluded from the gradient operation in the case of performing motion vector detection. The present invention is applicable to a signal processing apparatus for performing frame frequency conversion from a 24 P signal to a 60 P signal.
US07848418B2
A video encoding method includes selecting one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in accordance with the reference picture number and predictive parameter of the selected combination. A predictive error signal is generated representing an error between the input video signal and the prediction picture signal. Encoding the predictive error signal, information of the motion vector, and index information indicating the selected combination is included.
US07848416B2
A video signal encoding apparatus comprises a decoding unit for decoding each compression still image data into a frame image; a supplementary information, extracting unit for extracting supplementary information added to each compression frame image data; a motion prediction process adoption judging unit for judging, on the basis of the supplementary information, whether the frame image can be subjected to a motion prediction process; and a compression moving image generating unit for selecting the inter-frame prediction encoding method and the intra frame encoding method on the basis of a judgement result by the motion prediction process adoption judging unit to generate the moving image data.
US07848407B2
A method of processing H.264 compliant can include allocating a plurality of regions in a memory internal to an H.264 compliant syntax parser circuit for concurrent storage of a plurality of slice headers associated with respective H.264 slice data to be processed. Related circuits and computer program products are also disclosed.
US07848406B2
A DPWM (1) has a delay lock loop (4) which receives an input clock signal and provides an out-of-phase delayed clock at the output of each of eight delay cells (35). A multiplexer (5) selects one of the delay cell outputs at any one time. This allows the DPWM (1) to have eight times the resolution which would otherwise be achieved with the same input clock. A programmable module (2) has a control block (20) which interfaces with external CPU and DSP hosts and transmits programmed parameters to finite state machine controllers (15), each providing an independent output.
US07848405B2
Forward and backward equalization processes are effectively used in a communication system for equalizing a received signal of a frame including a known symbol part. The known symbol part is provided in a position other than both ends of the frame. An equalization filter unit acquires a signal of an equalization process result by performing an equalization filter process based on a signal serving as an equalization process target and a tap gain coefficient. An update unit updates the tap gain coefficient using a predefined algorithm. A first or second transmission unit transmits a received signal posterior or prior to the known symbol part to a first or second memory in a forward direction or reverse order. A first or second control unit performs a forward or backward equalization filter process with the equalization filter unit by receiving memory content transmitted from the first or second transmission unit in the forward direction or reverse order and employing a total or part of the known symbol part contained in the memory content as the equalization process target.
US07848403B1
A technique for enhanced reconditioning equalizer filter chain for multi-carrier signals is described. The input to a transmitter chain is modified by an enhanced reconditioning equalizer filter chain, prior to being applied to the transmitter. The enhanced reconditioning equalizer filter chain modifies and smoothen the amplitude of the signal. The modified and smoothen signal has its picks reduced which results to lower Crest Factor. The input to the enhanced reconditioning equalizer filter chain could be a baseband, an intermediate frequency (IF) or radio frequency (RF) signal. When the signal is an IF or RF signal it needs to be down converted to baseband before applied to enhanced reconditioning equalizer filter chain. The enhanced reconditioning equalizer filter chain could be implemented in digital or analog domain.
US07848400B2
A method having enhanced decoding operations associated with receiving multiple Radio Frequency (RF) Burst(s) is provided. Multiple RF burst(s) are received where the multiple RF Burst(s) include first RF bursts and second RF Burst(s). The second RF bursts may be transmitted in parallel or in response to a decoding error associated with the first RF burst. The received RF burst(s) are equalized and deinterleaved to yield extracted soft samples. Then the first estimated bit sequences and second estimated bit sequences are decoded from the extracted soft samples. A set of possible bit sequences may then be pruned based on based on combined knowledge of the first estimated bit sequence and the second estimated bit sequences. This pruned set may be compared using a sequence detector and the combined first estimated bit sequences and second estimated bit sequences to select a decoded bit sequence. This allows a sequence detector to use a combination of the original decoded data and the reordered decoded data as constraints when applying a turbo code technique to decode the data. The combination of the original coded data and reordered coded data results in a performance enhancement by providing further constraints.
US07848394B2
A first serial transceiver has a reference clock, a first transmitter, and a first receiver. The first receiver includes (i) a phase detector, and (ii) a phase rotator. The phase rotator is driven by the reference clock. A first multiplexer is coupled to the first receiver. The first multiplexer receives the phase detector output and a control signal. When the first serial transceiver is in a test configuration, the first multiplexer passes the control signal to the phase rotator, thereby varying the frequency of the phase rotator output. A second multiplexer is coupled to the first transmitter. The second multiplexer receives a reference clock signal and the phase rotator output. When the first serial transceiver is in a test configuration, the second multiplexer passes the phase rotator output to the first transmitter. The first transmitter thereby transmits a serial data stream that varies in frequency from said reference clock.
US07848390B2
RAKE-based receivers utilize lattice reduction for improving symbol estimation accuracy. Channel response estimates and received signal streams are transformed from a constellation lattice basis to an integer lattice basis to increase the orthogonality of symbol estimation decision regions. In one embodiment, received signal streams are processed by generating despread signal samples from received signal streams transmitted using different spreading codes. Channel response associated with the different received signal streams is estimated and transformed from a first lattice basis to a second lattice basis having greater orthogonality between decision regions than the first lattice basis. The despread signal samples are aligned to the second lattice and combining weights generated based on the transformed channel response estimate. Symbol estimation decision statistics are generated based on the combining weights and the aligned despread signal samples. Soft bit values are generated for decoding based on the symbol estimation decision statistics.
US07848387B2
A parametric form of G-Rake and chip equalization for closed-loop transmit diversity is provided, that accounts for impairment correlation between transmit antennas. In a closed-loop transmit diversity system, the base station transmits a signal from two or more antennas, using one of a predetermined set of relative phase offsets at one of the antennas. The parametric estimation of the impairment or data covariance is performed by summing terms, including a term for each possible phase offset. The terms are weighted by fitting parameters. The fitting parameters are jointly solved by fitting the impairment or data covariance estimate to a measured impairment or data covariance. In another aspect, a measured impairment covariance is formed by exploiting a special relationship between the pilot channels of the different transmit antennas.
US07848385B2
Provided is a radio communication device which can make ACK reception quality and NACK reception quality to be equal to each other. The device includes: a scrambling unit (214) which multiplies a response signal after modulated, by a scrambling code “1” or “e−j(p/2)” so as to rotate a constellation for each of response signals on a cyclic shift axis; a spread unit (215) which performs a primary spread of the response signal by using a ZAC sequence set by a control unit (209); and a spread unit (218) which performs a secondary spread of the response signal after subjected to the primary spread, by using a block-wise spread code sequence set by the control unit (209).
US07848382B2
A laser source (10) for emitting a set of sequential, different wavelength output beams (12) includes a gain medium (16), a feedback assembly (26) and a control system (30). The gain medium (16) includes a first facet (16A), and the gain medium (16) generates a beam (12A) that exits the first facet (16A). The feedback assembly (26) includes a feedback device (40) and a device mover (42). The feedback device (40) is positioned in the path of the beam (12A) that exits the first facet (16A) and the feedback device (40) redirects at least a portion of the beam (12A) back to the gain medium (16). The device mover (42) continuously adjusts an angle of incidence (θ) of the beam (12A) on the feedback device (40). The control system (30) selectively directs pulses of power to the gain medium (16) as the device mover (42) is continuously adjusting the angle of incidence (θ) of the beam (12A). Further, the laser source (10) can include a position detector (28) that generates a position signal that relates to the angle of incidence (θ) of the beam (12A) on the feedback device (40). In this embodiment, the control system (30) can selectively direct pulses of power to the gain medium (16) based on the position signal from the position detector (28). Further, the control system (30) can determine a center wavelength of the output beam (12) based on the position signal.
US07848377B2
A vertical-cavity, surface-emission-type laser diode includes an optical cavity formed of an active region sandwiched by upper and lower reflectors, wherein the lower reflector is formed of a distributed Bragg reflector and a non-optical recombination elimination layer is provided between an active layer in the active region and the lower reflector.
US07848369B1
A modulator drive circuit provides a modulator drive signal to modulate an optical signal for transport across a network infrastructure. The modulator drive circuit powered by an adjustable voltage source, such that the modulator drive signal is generated from a data signal and the adjustable voltage source, an AC component of the modulator drive signal being derived from the data signal while a DC component of the modulator drive signal being derived from the adjustable voltage source. An array of such modulator drive circuits are provided on a single substrate.
US07848361B2
A time-triggered communication system in a dual-channel network of singlechannel architecture, wherein in each case one communication controller (2, 6) is assigned to one channel, and two corresponding communication controllers (2, 6) communicate with one another via an inter-channel interface (1a, 1b). Said inter-channel communication contains information about limiting points (G1, G2 . . . G12) of a time path. A limiting point (G1, G2 . . . G12) is, for example, the point in time when a cycle starts. The interchange of limiting points enables the temporal offset of the two channels to be determined as well as a correction value. After every two cycles also the rate error of the local clocks can be ascertained and a suitable correction value determined. The reliability of safety-relevant networks is increased by the time-triggered communication system described hereinabove.
US07848359B2
A system for executing distributed software under hard real-time conditions comprises a plurality of nodes and a communication channel. Nodes are allowed to transmit data across the communication channel within time windows relative to repetitive communication time intervals of the communication channel, wherein a number of bytes transmitted within the communication time windows may vary from communication time window to communication time window. The data may be transmitted as a message comprising a representation of an identifying tag and a representation of the data. Also a number of bytes representing respective tags may vary from communication time interval to communication time interval.
US07848357B2
In a point to multi-point share-media network, method and apparatus of media access control (MAC) for a modem termination system (MTS) to communicate with a plurality of modems over a set of downstream and upstream channels comprising the steps of designating a MAC domain comprising the set of downstream and upstream channels, in which a primary downstream channel and a primary upstream channel being chosen from the set of channels for MAC message exchanges between the MTS and the modems; establishing synchronization with the modems; calibrating upstream transmission parameters and registering each of the modems; receiving without error a bandwidth request from the modem in one of the allocated contention transmission time slots; and transmitting a bandwidth grant to the modems to transmit a number of bytes, starting at a specified time and at a periodic time interval thereafter, with a specified burst profile, and in a specified upstream channel.
US07848341B2
Discloses a switching arrangement for packets of data, with several input ports and several output ports and which is determined for the transportation of incoming packets to one or more designated of the output ports and from there to a subsequent device. More particularly it relates to a switching arrangement and method wherein for each input port a set of output buffers is arranged, each set comprising an output buffer for each output port.
US07848340B2
A packet ring network system is disclosed which enables plurality of packet rings to perform packet transfer via a plurality of links while preventing multiple reception of packets and broadcast stream in a normal state where no failure has occurred. The packet ring network system includes a first packet ring and a second packet ring, each packet ring having a plurality of inter-ring connecting nodes, and each of the plurality of inter-ring connecting nodes in the first packet ring is connected with each of the plurality of inter-ring connecting nodes in the second packet ring in a one to one relationship so that the packet rings are connected with each other. When one of the inter-ring connecting nodes receives a packet to be broadcasted via a link connecting the first and second packet rings the node performs bidirectional flooding of the broadcast packet such that the packet arrives at a predetermined cleave point, and the node uses the source address of the other node so as to falsify the source.
US07848337B1
In one embodiment, a method for automatically probing endpoint in a network for performance and fault management is provided. The method may comprise receiving instructions to auto probe endpoints, the instructions comprising probe characteristics and endpoint indicators. The method may further comprise querying an information base to identify endpoints and to obtain information on the identified endpoints that conform to the endpoint indicators. Based on the instructions and the information obtained for the identified endpoints, one or more probe packets may be generating to be transmitted to the identified endpoints. The generated probe packets may further be scheduled for transmission to the identified endpoints. New endpoints may continue to get discovered based on a notification mechanism which exists. Likewise, endpoints leaving the discovery domain may be identified.
US07848334B2
A device is coupled to a first network and a second network and comprises a first storage element and a second storage element. The device stores data packets originating from the first network in the first storage element and stores data packets destined for the second network in the second storage element. In particular, the device slaves the writing of a data packet intended for the second network into the second storage element to the reading of the data packet from the first storage element so that the transfer time inside the device is constant for all the data packets.
US07848311B2
An internal terminal that connects to a DNS server, the server storing and managing a telephone number for communication and an external NAPTR record, the internal terminal including: a terminal communication controller that accesses the DNS server and notifies the DNS server of a telephone number for the communication; a terminal-side controller that obtains, when the DNS server is informed of the communication telephone number, an external NAPTR record being corresponding to the communication telephone number; an IP service presence determination unit that determines whether the external NAPTR record has function service information related to IP communication; and a display that displays the available IP communication service function of the destination corresponding to the communication telephone number, when it is determined that the external NAPTR record has the IP communication service function.
US07848308B2
A method for transmitting radio resources in a mobile communication system is disclosed. The method includes receiving a random access channel (RACH) preamble from a plurality of UEs and transmitting response information associated with the received preambles over a common channel wherein the plurality UEs can access the common channel and receive corresponding information. If a HARQ scheme is used when a UE transmits data to the eNode-B using uplink radio resources allocated over the RACH, the eNode-B does not pre-allocate uplink radio resources required for re-transmission and performs allocation of radio resources for a first transmission of HARQ. If the re-transmission is required, the eNode-B allocates the radio resources required for the re-transmission with the NACK signal. If re-transmission is not required, the present invention can reduce an amount of wasted radio resources.
US07848307B2
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for managing transmission airtime in a wireless network communication system transmitting at least one data flow in a plurality of data packets (210) in service intervals (215). The method comprises the steps of determining an accumulated time of data packet transmissions in the service interval (215) for each of the data flows, determining an estimated time of the next data packet transmission in the service interval (215) for each of the data flows, and allowing the transmission of the next data packet (330) when the combined accumulated time and the estimated time for a flow to which the data packet belongs is less than a predetermined value (320).
US07848305B2
To access a first communication system, a terminal determines a transmission time for an access probe, an expected response time from the system, and a protected time interval based on the transmission time and/or expected response time. The terminal determines a starting time for sending the access probe such that the protected time interval does not overlap a tune-away interval in which the terminal is to monitor anther frequency/air-interface. This starting time may be set initially to the end of a prior access probe plus a pseudo-random wait duration and may be advanced forward or moved backward in time, if needed, by a time duration selected such that the protected time interval does not overlap the tune-away interval.
US07848304B2
Multiple transport channels (405, 406, 407) are multiplexed and transmitted in a single physical channel. A code (TFCI) is added to the transport channel data flows to indicate which processing schemes, from a set of available schemes, are being employed and the resultant blocks are interleaved. The depth of the interleaving is set in dependence on the transmission time intervals associated with the schemes in the set of processing schemes.
US07848300B1
A method and apparatus in which multiple Internet Protocol (IP) based wireless data transmissions are simultaneously provided between a wireless device and a server, including providing multiple antennas, multiple T/R units, multiple processors and multiple I/O ports on the wireless device. The method includes receiving multiple IP data packets on the I/O ports at substantially the same time, and sending multiple data packets from the wireless device to the server, whereby the transmission rate between the wireless device and the server is increased.
US07848295B2
A method for allocating a band Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AMC) channel in a wireless communication system that divides a full frequency band into a plurality of subcarrier bands and includes subchannels, each of which is a set of a predetermined number of neighbor subcarrier bands. Upon recognizing a need for a band AMC channel, a subscriber station (SS) sends a request for allocation of the band AMC channel to a base station (BS). Upon receiving the band AMC channel allocation request, the BS determines if it can allocate the band AMC channel requested by the SS, considering a resource situation of the BS, and transmits information on the determination to the SS.
US07848289B2
According to the present invention, the bandwidth of a TDD channel is increased where multiple slave devices communicate with a master device over the channel. According to an aspect of the present invention, the master device can increase channel bandwidth by utilizing available transmit slots that occur during receipt of a multi-slot packet from a slave device. For example, the master device receives a first packet at a first frequency from a first slave via the channel. The master determines whether the first packet is a multi-slot packet, and if so, transmits a second packet to a second slave via the channel at a second frequency different from the first frequency. The second packet is transmitted after receipt of the first packet, but prior to the end of the first packet.
US07848285B2
In a data communication system capable of variable rate transmission, high rate packet data transmission improves utilization of the forward link and decreases the transmission delay. Data transmission on the forward link is time multiplexed and the base station transmits at the highest data rate supported by the forward link at each time slot to one mobile station. The data rate is determined by the largest C/I measurement of the forward link signals as measured at the mobile station. Upon determination of a data packet received in error, the mobile station transmits a NACK message back to the base station. The NACK message results in retransmission of the data packet received in error. The data packets can be transmitted out of sequence by the use of sequence number to identify each data unit within the data packets.
US07848279B2
The invention describes user equipment for communicating data in a communications system comprising a set of user equipment; comprising a transceiver arranged to receive a first data packet over a communications data channel and an associated second data packet over a communications control channel. The second data packet comprises a first identifier arranged to identify a subset of the set of user equipment and the first data packet comprises a second identifier arranged to identify at least one of the subset of user equipment. The user equipment further comprising a processor arranged to determine from the second data packet first identifier if the said user equipment is one of the said subset of user equipment and from the second identifier if the said user equipment is said the at least one of the subset of user equipment. Wherein the processor is further arranged to decode the first data packet if the processor determines the said user equipment is one of the said subset of user equipment and is the said at least one of the subset of user equipment.
US07848277B2
Power management methods and systems for a first station and a second station in an ad-hoc network. Each station enters the normal beacon interval (NBI) every certain number of beacon intervals (BIs) for data transmission, a Listen Interval (LI). When a station switches to a power-saving mode, it first determines the number of “beacon-window-only beacon intervals (BBIs)” within a LI. In addition, each station broadcasts a beacon frame comprising at least information about “the remaining number of BIs (RBI)” within a beacon window. Once the first station correctly receives the beacon frame from the second station, the first station predicts the NBI of the second station according to the RBI. At the NBI of the second station, the first station transmits data frames to the second station.
US07848276B2
Apparatus and method for transmitting and detecting subchannel constitution scheme information in a multihop relay Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) communication system. The method includes determining a subchannel constitution scheme for fixing a start zone of BW-RS link according to channel information (e.g., channel condition information, interference, and mobility), transmitting determined subchannel constitution scheme information of the start zone using a FCH preamble, detecting physical channel signals of subchannel constitution schemes from the received FCH preamble, checking preset codes, and detecting the subchannel constitution scheme of the start zone using the detected physical channel signals of the subchannel constitution schemes and the codes. The subchannel constitution scheme of the BS-RS link can be adaptively applied based on the channel information.
US07848269B2
A mobile communication system for relaying user data includes a plurality of base station apparatus and a core network apparatus. Each of the base station apparatus forms a cell for connecting to a terminal through a wireless link. The core network apparatus can be connected to the base station apparatus. Even when the terminal moves between the base station apparatus while the terminal is in an active mode in which the terminal is communicating, the core network apparatus which is connected to the terminal keeps itself connected to the terminal.
US07848266B2
Synthesizers are configured with first and second phase-locked loops (PLL's). The first PLL is arranged to include a digitally-controlled oscillator (DCO) and to respond to an input signal to provide a reference signal with a plurality of selectable reference frequencies. The second PLL is arranged to include a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) to thereby provide output signals in response to the reference signal. This synthesizer structure is particularly effective when responding to a noisy input signal as may be the case, for example, in wireless communication systems that provide a network clock to transceivers through lengthy optical links.
US07848265B2
In some embodiments, an automatic conference initiator system may include one or more of the following features: (a) a memory having, (i) an automatic conference initiator program that initiates a conference when conferees are determined available based upon presence information, and (b) a processor coupled to the memory that executes the automatic conference initiator program.
US07848263B2
An ad-hoc network approach for addressing ad-hoc network address assignment, name resolution, and service discovery in ad-hoc networks. The size of the ad-hoc network may be limited to a selected number of ad-hoc network stations. A first portion of the ad-hoc network address assigned to stations joining the ad-hoc network may be fixed and a second portion of the ad-hoc network address may be selected dynamically, as each new station joins the ad-hoc network. A station may generate an information element that may be included in ad-hoc network messages. An exemplary information element may include a last byte of the ad-hoc network address associated with the transmitting station, a 4-byte timestamp field which indicates a number of milliseconds since the station claimed the network address, a user-friendly name to identify the station, a universally unique identifier (UUID) for each service offered by the transmitting station, and a network-address-in-use bitmap.
US07848255B2
A controller apparatus of this invention includes a topology information managing unit configured to manage topology information showing a topology, a location information acquiring unit configured to acquire location information on a plurality of mobile terminals, a link information acquiring unit configured to acquire link information at the mobile terminals, a determining unit configured to determine a way to change the topology, based on the location information, the link information and the topology information, and a transmitting unit configured to generate instruction information for changing the topology, based on the determined way to change the topology, and to transmit the instruction information to a certain mobile terminal.
US07848247B2
Provided is a method for providing a service based on a subscriber level. The method includes the steps of: a) initializing a Data Back-off Start (DBS) value and a Data Back-off End (DBE) value; b) acquiring subscriber information from an external management system; c) acquiring service flow identifier (SFID) and service identifier (SID) information from an object model for quality of service (QoS) based on information on Service Class Name (SCN) of the subscriber acquired in the step b); d) creating manufacturing automation protocol (MAP) according to a priority by grasping the SID information based on the service level and controlling the DBS value and the DBE value of a cable modem (CM); and e) transmitting the created MAP to the cable modem.
US07848245B1
An improved mechanism for analysing connection establishment/teardown process or identifying failure points (i.e. nodes) in a PNNI network through the use of a novel debug IE (information element) that is propagated along the communication path for a given connection to activate diagnostic functions on targeted switching devices. The mechanism comprises a method that is initiated by embedding a debug information element (IE) in a data packet that is propagated to various switching devices (the nodes) along the communication path. The debug IE is encoded such that it will be recognized by selected switching devices along the path, but ignored by other non-selected switching devices. Further encoding identifies targeted switching devices that are suspected to be possible failure points to confirm that they are functioning properly. Upon receipt and extraction of the debug IE from the data packet, the targeted switching devices are instructed to automatically perform one or more analysis functions to verify their operation. The results of these tests are then forwarded to an operator of the targeted switching devices, such as a network operator or a vendor that supplies the targeted switching devices to the network.
US07848240B2
A method is disclosed of forwarding data in a data communications network comprising a plurality of nodes and links therebetween, each link having an associated usage cost and a load capacity. A forwarding node identifies a lowest cost route, comprising one or more links, to a destination node. If a plurality of lowest cost routes is identified, then the forwarding node allocates data for forwarding along each of the lowest cost routes dependent on a relative load capacity of that route.
US07848239B2
A network system capable of dynamically controlling a data flow is disclosed. The network system includes: a forwarding unit, for receiving a packet and for providing a QoS (quality of service) function; and a processor, for accessing data from the forwarding unit through an interface and setting at least one parameter of the forwarding unit. The interface is coupled between the forwarding unit and the processor, and the processor executes a software program to set the at least one parameter of the forwarding unit.In this way, the forwarding unit can classify received packets into different QoS levels according to their transmission properties, and can provide different forwarding methods and QoS services to reduce the amount of the output queues physically.
US07848230B2
In one embodiment, performance measurements may be obtained at a local domain from a set of one or more responding targets of a particular remote domain. The performance measurements may then be applied to prefix-specific policies of any corresponding destination address prefix within the particular remote domain, such that traffic destined to a particular prefix of the particular remote domain may be routed from the local domain based on the corresponding prefix-specific policies and applied performance measurements.
US07848228B2
A communication system that enhances the efficiency of network operations in response to a request for a transfer bandwidth increased locally. A physical links are installed at a span where a transfer bandwidth is locally increased in a network, and the physical links can cover the increased transfer bandwidth. A load sharing section regards the physical links as one virtual link called a link aggregation, and performs load sharing and outputs data to the plurality of physical links. A collecting section collects data transmitted through the plurality of physical links and outputs the data according to the destination of the data. Any nodes are connected by a link aggregation to configure an RPR ring network having non-uniform transfer bandwidth.
US07848220B2
A system samples data of a digital pulse. The system includes a processor, an integrator, and a converter. The processor computes a discrete Fourier transform of frequency data of the digital pulse. The discrete Fourier transform includes a first output. The integrator integrates the first output to produce phase data. The phase data includes a second output. The converter applies an inverse discrete Fourier transform to the second output to produce a continuous signal that may be sampled at a predetermined time instant.
US07848218B2
Provided are a virtual multi-antenna method for an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system and an OFDM-based cellular system. The virtual multi-antenna method includes grouping sub-carriers in a frequency domain of an OFDM symbol and generating at least one group including G sub-carriers; and regarding the G sub-carriers included in the at least one group as multiple channels used in a multi-antenna technique and virtually applying the multi-antenna technique to the transmission and reception of the OFDM symbol. The virtual multi-antenna method can effectively reduce an interference signal and obtain the effects of a spatial division multiple access (SDMA) technique without physically using multiple antennas.
US07848217B2
A software correlator comprising: a partitioning module adapted to divide a number of the received data samples into a first number of data blocks; a first correlation module adapted to correlate each of the data blocks with a respective local code replica segment to produce a first number of intermediate accumulation results; an aggregation module adapted to combine a number of consecutive results of the intermediate accumulation results into a target number of aggregated accumulation results, the target number expresses a number of discrete carrier values in a carrier vector that represents a Doppler shift of the at least one spread spectrum source signal relative to a downconverting frequency for this signal; and a second correlation module adapted to correlate the aggregated accumulation results with the carrier vector to produce the decoded signal, which is compensated for the Doppler shift relative to the downconverting frequency.
US07848216B2
An optical disc medium comprises a track groove, along which main information is recorded. The track groove is divided into a plurality of blocks. The plurality of blocks each include a plurality of frames. The plurality of frames each include one shape of wobbles indicating sub information, among a plurality of prescribed shapes of wobbles. The plurality of blocks each have address information. The address information is represented by a string of at least one piece of sub information represented by the shape of wobbles of at least one of the plurality of frames.
US07848215B2
An optical-recording medium is provided with at least a first recording layer for recording information optically; and a second recording layer for recording information optically by a light beam that passes through said first recording layer; wherein the track pitch of a recording track that is formed on said second recording layer is narrower than the track pitch of a recording track that is formed on said first recording layer.
US07848214B2
An information record medium contains a plurality of content informations and a plurality of play list sets each including a plurality of play list informations defining the reproduction sequence of the content informations. In addition, the information recording medium contains title information designating at least one play list set, which corresponds to the content informations to be reproduced, from among the plurality of play list sets to reproduce the plurality of content informations as a title, the title being a logical information unit of the plurality of content informations.
US07848211B2
An objective lens apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes: a first objective lens with a first numerical aperture, which is capable of focusing a laser light on a first optical record medium with a first cover layer of a first thickness; a second objective lens with a second numerical aperture smaller than the first numerical aperture, which is capable of focusing the laser light on a second optical record medium with a second cover layer of a second thickness larger than the first thickness; a third objective lens with a third numerical aperture smaller than the second numerical aperture, which is capable of focusing the laser light on a third optical record medium with a third cover layer of a third thickness larger than the second thickness; and a lens holder which holds the first objective lens, the second objective lens, and the third objective lens.
US07848201B2
In an information recording method and apparatus, when performing recording by using multiple pulses defined by erase powers Pe1 and Pe2 for forming a space part between mark parts, the set values of the erase powers Pe1 and Pe2 are updated at predetermined intervals in accordance with a recording linear velocity.
US07848200B2
A method of reproducing multilevel information using a light spot. The multilevel information is recorded by defining virtual cells at regular intervals on tracks of an optical information recording medium and varying sizes of information pits in the cells. The method includes the steps of obtaining cell boundary values, each of the cell boundary values being obtained by performing sampling when the center of the light spot reaches a boundary between adjacent cells, calculating cell boundary value metrics on the basis of the cell boundary values and prestored reference values for the cell boundary values, calculating path metrics on the basis of the cell boundary value metrics, selecting a path metric having a minimum value of the path metrics, and reproducing the multilevel information on the basis of the path metric having the minimum value of the path metrics.
US07848196B2
A power determining method is disclosed for determining the light emitting power of a light source upon recording information on an optical disk having plural rewritable recording layers, the method involving obtaining an optimum erasing power with respect to an optimum recording power by recording test data on the optical disk.
US07848191B2
An optical disk apparatus is provided with a recording/reading unit that records data and reads recorded data with respect to an optical disk. Further, the optical disk apparatus is provided with a control unit that judges whether an account name recorded on the optical disk matches an account name selected by the operation unit. The control unit permits the recording/reading unit to record data to the optical disk if the account names match. And the control unit prohibits the recording/reading unit from recording data to the optical disk if it is judged that the account names do not match.
US07848190B2
A focus jump technique enables focus control on recording layers of a disc in such a manner that its effect is not absorbed by disturbance or a variation in the movement speed of an objective lens. The technique involves monitoring level of a focus error signal and rejecting noise from the error signal. A speed sensor detects movement speed of an objective lens; and a speed control circuit generates a voltage for controlling the objective lens, based on the detected movement speed. Movement speed of the objective lens is detected during focus jump, a corresponding lens drive signal is generated, and an end position is determined from behavior of the error signal immediately before the end of the jump. A focus control is pulled, from a focus point corresponding to one recording layer, into a focus point corresponding to another recording layer forcibly in a stable manner.
US07848188B2
A signal-processing device (301) for controlling a focus actuator (309) in an optical disc system (30), wherein the signal processing device (309) generates a focus actuator control signal (CS) to be supplied to the focus actuator (309). The focus actuator control signal (CS) is based on a focus error signal (FE) and a central aperture signal (CA). If the central aperture signal (CA) is equal to or above a certain threshold value the focus actuator control signal will correspond to the focus error signal (FE). However, when the central aperture signal is below the threshold value the focus actuator control signal will have a predefined level. By providing a focus actuator control signal (CS) in accordance herewith it is possible to extend the regions of the focus error signal (FE) in which the relative distance between the focus point and the data layer of the record medium (304) is not correctly represented. The provision of the control signal (CS) enables improvements of the start-up and recovery performance of optical disc systems, especially under vibrating conditions.
US07848185B2
An optical pickup includes a blue laser source; a red laser source; an infrared laser source; a blue light objective lens focusing blue light emitted from the blue laser source onto an optical storage medium; and a red and infrared light objective lens focusing red light emitted from the red laser source and infrared light emitted from the infrared laser source onto the optical storage medium. The optical pickup contains a blue light startup mirror separating the blue light from the red and infrared light. The blue light startup mirror is disposed along optical paths extending from the blue laser source, the red laser source, and the infrared laser source to the blue light objective lens and the red and infrared light objective lens. The optical pickup also contains a low blue light transmittance plane and low blue light reflectance plane along an optical branch path extending from the blue light startup mirror to the red and infrared light objective lens. The configuration greatly restrains the spilling of the blue light into the red and infrared light objective lens, preventing degradation of the red and infrared light objective lens.
US07848176B2
A word control circuit activates word lines corresponding to a start row address and a next row address overlappingly in the continuous mode. Accordingly, even in the case where the start address indicates an end memory cell connected to a word line, the switching operation of the word line becomes unnecessary. Memory cells connected to different word lines can be thus accessed in a sequential manner. That is, a controller accessing a semiconductor memory device can access the memory without data interruption. This can prevent the data transfer rate from lowering. Furthermore, it is made unnecessary to form a signal and a control circuit for informing a controller of the fact that a word line is being switched so that the construction of a semiconductor memory device and a control circuit of the controller can be simplified. This results in reduction of the system cost.
US07848168B2
A semiconductor memory device can control the toggling of signals corresponding to internal addresses during an auto-refresh mode. The semiconductor memory device includes an internal address generator configured to generate a plurality of first word line driving information signals and a plurality of first to seventh address information signals, which are sequentially activated in response to a driving signal and a refresh signal, a toggle controller configured to generate first and second toggle control signals in response to the third to sixth address information signals during an auto-refresh mode or a self-refresh mode, and a driving controller configured to generate a plurality of bit line driving signals and a plurality of second word line driving information signals corresponding to the first to third and seventh address information signals in response to the first and second toggle control signals.
US07848167B2
A voltage regulator is provided. The voltage regulator provides an output voltage that is proportional to a digital multi-bit select signal. The voltage regulator includes a coarse voltage regulator and a fine voltage regulator. The coarse voltage regulator provides a coarse output voltage based on an output of a voltage divider selected based on the most significant bits of the select signal. The fine voltage regulator provides the output voltage from the coarse output voltage. The output of the fine voltage regulator is adjusted by adjusting the output of an adjustable current source that is provided to a resistor that is coupled between the output and one of the inputs of the fine voltage regulator.
US07848165B2
A phase-change random access memory (PRAM) device includes a plurality of banks, a plurality of column redundancy cell arrays, and a plurality of column redundancy write drivers. Each of the plurality of column redundancy cell arrays corresponds to at least one of the banks. Each of the plurality of column redundancy write drivers corresponds to at least one of the column redundancy cell arrays. The column redundancy write drivers are configured to transmit respective redundancy test data to the corresponding ones of the column redundancy cell arrays in response to a test control signal, which may be activated in response to each program pulse for writing data. Related test and access methods are also discussed.
US07848153B2
Memory devices and memory modules are disclosed. In one embodiment, a memory device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first edge and a second edge opposed to the first edge. A plurality of memory banks is disposed at a central portion of the semiconductor substrate, each memory bank including a plurality of memory cells. A plurality of input/output contacts is disposed between the first edge and the memory banks. Delay locked loop circuitry is disposed adjacent the first edge. A plurality of address and command contacts is disposed between the second edge and the memory banks.
US07848152B1
Method and system for adaptively finding reference voltages for reading data from a MLC flash memory
A method and system for adaptively finding reference voltages for reading data from a multi-level cell (MLC) flash memory is disclosed. According to one embodiment, information about an initial threshold voltage distribution is firstly provided. A first threshold voltage in the initial threshold voltage distribution is then associated with a second threshold voltage in a shifted threshold voltage distribution to be determined, such that the information corresponding to the first threshold voltage is approximate to the information corresponding to the second threshold voltage. Accordingly, initial reference voltage or voltages of the initial threshold voltage distribution are shifted with an amount approximate to difference between the first threshold voltage and the second threshold voltage, thereby resulting in new reference voltage or voltages for reading the data from the MLC flash memory.
US07848143B2
A memory controller controls a semiconductor storage device including nonvolatile memory cells. The controller includes a generating circuit, and a selection circuit. The generating circuit generates first data based on a second data. The selection circuit retains a cumulative value whose each digit is a cumulative result in each bit of data which is already written in the memory cells. The selection circuit selects one of the first data. A selected first data has a better average of digits in a sum of each bit of the selected first data and each digit of the cumulative value than an unselected first data. The selection circuit retains the sum concerning the selected first data as the new cumulative value.
US07848138B2
A phase change memory device includes a plurality of cells connected to bitlines and including respective phase change memory elements and cell select devices and an addressing circuit for selectively addressing at least one bitline and one cell connected thereto. A reading column bias circuit supplies a bitline voltage to the addressed bitline and cell. The bitline voltage includes the sum of a safe voltage and a reference select device voltage, wherein the reference voltage is equal to a select device voltage on the select device when a cell current flowing through the phase change memory element and the cell select device is equal to a safe current. The safe voltage and the safe current are such that phase transition of the phase change memory element is prevented in any bias condition including a cell voltage lower than the safe voltage and in any bias condition including the cell current lower than the safe current.
US07848137B2
An MRAM according to the present invention is provided with a magnetic recording layer being a ferromagnetic layer and a pinned layer connected to the magnetic recording layer through a nonmagnetic layer. The magnetic recording layer includes a magnetization switching region, a first magnetization fixed region and a second magnetization fixed region. The magnetization switching region has reversible magnetization and overlaps with the pinned layer. The first magnetization fixed region and the second magnetization fixed region are both connected to the same one end of the magnetization switching region. Also, the first magnetization fixed region and the second magnetization fixed region respectively have first fixed magnetization and second fixed magnetization whose directions are fixed. One of the first fixed magnetization and the second fixed magnetization is fixed in a direction toward the above-mentioned one end, and the other is fixed in a direction away from the above-mentioned one end.
US07848131B2
For realizing high speed ferroelectric random access memory, bit line is multi-divided for reducing parasitic capacitance, so that the bit line is quickly charged or discharged by a memory cell including a ferroelectric capacitor when reading. Particularly, a non-inverting local sense amp is devised for reducing area, such that the memory cell is read by the local sense amp through a lightly loaded local bit line, and the local sense amp is read by a global sense amp through a global bit line. By the sense amps, a voltage difference in the local bit line is converted to a time difference for differentiating data “1” and data “0”, and buffered data path is used for achieving fast data transfer. Additionally, various alternative circuits and memory cell structures for implanting the memory are described.
US07848126B2
Current regulators and related method for regulating a current through a load. The current regulator may include, for example, a first circuit configured to determine an amount of current that flows through the load; and a second circuit configured to cause a voltage to be applied across the load, the voltage having a duty cycle that depends on the amount of the current flowing through the load.
US07848120B2
A voltage-sourced High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) apparatus, which converts 3-phase AC voltage from a 3-phase AC power source into high voltage DC through a rectifier including switching elements, is provided. In the apparatus, a rectifier controller receives detected 3-phase currents, apparent power, and active power and generates D and Q-axis signals. A D/Q controller receives the signals and generates active power D-axis signal and apparent power Q-axis signal. A PWM unit generates PWM on/off signals for turning on/off the switching elements based on output signals from the D/Q controller. The D/Q controller includes a rotary converter to convert the D and Q-axis signals into AC signals and D and Q-axis order units coupled thereto, and generates the D and Q-axis signals through the order units. The PWM unit converts the D and Q-axis signals into 3-phase AC signals and compares them with 3-phase triangular waves to generate on/off signals for turning on/off the switching elements.
US07848118B2
A bi-directional DC-DC converter has a transformer for connecting a voltage type full bridge circuit connected to a first power source and a current type switching circuit connected to a second power source. A voltage clamping circuit constructed by switching elements and a clamping capacitor is connected to the current type switching circuit. The converter has a control circuit for cooperatively making switching elements operative so as to control a current flowing in a resonance reactor.
US07848113B2
According to one embodiment, a printed circuit board is provided with a printed wiring board and a circuit component mounted on the printed wiring board. The printed wiring board includes a first surface on which the circuit component is set, a second surface formed on the reverse side of the first surface, and a through hole formed penetrating the printed wiring board from the first surface to the second surface. The circuit component includes a projected portion to be inserted into the through hole. The projected portion is deformable between a first state in which a distal end of the projected portion projects to the outside of the printed wiring board beyond the second surface and a second state in which the distal end of the projected portion is situated in the through hole.
US07848112B2
On a case member of a semiconductor device, a screw block terminal or the like for connection to external equipment is attached. The screw block terminal or the like arranged on a region inside a base plate is attached to a terminal attachment member. Terminal attachment member has wall-like bodies, similar to wall-like bodies formed on a sidewall portion, formed along the direction of extension of terminal attachment member. On one end of terminal attachment member in the direction of extension, a side fitting portion is formed that corresponds to the wall-like body, and by fitting the side fitting portion to a space between sidewall portion and the wall-like body, terminal attachment member is fixed on case member. Thus, a semiconductor device is provided that allows high degree of freedom with simpler structure, as to the position of attaching a screw block terminal or a pin terminal to the case member.
US07848110B2
A slide rail structure disposed between a computer case and a rack is provided. The slide rail structure includes a first slide rail, a second slide rail, and a third slide rail. The first slide rail is fastened to the rack. The second slide rail has a first end, a second end, and a carrier. The second slide rail is fastened to the rack through the first end and is connected to the first slide rail through the second end. The carrier is in contact with a bottom panel of the computer case so that the computer case can slide on the carrier. The third slide rail is slidingly disposed to the second slide rail and has a locking portion. A locking component is fastened to the computer case and is locked with the locking portion so that the third slide rail can move along with the computer case.
US07848104B2
A power module includes a power device having a top electrode and a bottom electrode, an upper metal block connected to the top electrode, a lower metal block connected to the bottom electrode, a resin covering the power device, the upper metal block and the lower metal block so as to expose a upper surface of the upper metal block and a lower surface of the lower metal block, an upper terminal-cooling power-applying block connected to the upper metal block, a lower terminal-cooling power-applying block connected to the lower metal block, an upper terminal connected to the upper terminal-cooling power-applying block, a lower terminal connected to the lower terminal-cooling power-applying block, and a insulating case covering all elements so as to expose a part of the upper terminal and a part of the lower terminal.
US07848101B2
A cooling system for cooling a plurality of electronic components comprises a centralized source comprising at least one micro cooler configured to deliver a flow of a cooling medium and a plurality of baffles configured to redistribute the cooling medium over the electronic components. The electronic components are situated in an enclosure.
US07848097B2
A fixing device for fixing a hard disk includes a fixing bracket and a wire clip for fastening the hard disk to the fixing bracket. The fixing bracket includes a supporting body to which the hard disk is attached and two fixing arms respectively at two opposite sides of the supporting body for sandwiching the hard disk therebetween. The clip includes two pressing parts engaging with the fixing bracket and the hard disk, resting on a top surface of the hard disk and urging the hard disk towards the supporting body, and a locking part extending downwardly from two ends of the two pressing parts and spanning over an end of the fixing bracket to reach a bottom surface of the supporting body and engage with the fixing bracket, thereby fastening the hard disk to the fixing bracket firmly.
US07848092B2
A display unit includes a substrate supporting section having: a first supporting structure for supporting a first circuit substrate; and a second supporting structure for supporting a second circuit substrate is provided. The first circuit substrate has a relatively small area and is selected when a first display panel having a single light source for emitting backlight is selected, and the second circuit substrate has a relatively large area and is selected when a second display panel having two light sources for emitting backlight is selected. The first supporting structure has a supporting claw for supporting the first circuit substrate such that the front side of the first circuit substrate is directed upward and the second supporting structure has a stand on which the second circuit substrate is mounted to be supported thereby such that the front side of the second circuit substrate is directed downward.
US07848090B2
An information processing device has: a support stand having a base that lies flat and a pole that stands on the base; a processing unit that performs data processing; a display panel that displays an image; and a storage unit that stores information. The device further has an adaptor that supports the processing unit and the storage unit, when the adaptor is attached to the support stand. The adaptor also supports the display panel such that the processing unit and the storage unit are hidden behind the display panel.
US07848089B2
A keyboard assembly includes a main keyboard and a numeric keyboard. The main keyboard includes a first connector formed on a first end surface and a second connector formed on a second end surface. The numeric keyboard includes a third connector formed on a first side surface and a fourth connector form on a second side surface. When the numeric keyboard is located at the first end surface of the main keyboard, the fourth connector is connected to the first connector. When the numeric keyboard is located at the second end surface of the main keyboard, the third connector is connector is connected to the second connector.
US07848083B2
The invention relates to a substrate for solid electrolytic capacitor and a method for producing solid electrolytic capacitors using the substrate. By reducing at least part of the porous layer on the surface between the anode part region and the cathode part region of the substrate and preferably filling the dent generated by the reduction with a masking material, a structure ensuring insulation between the anode and the cathode can be obtained and solid electrolytic capacitors excellent in leakage current property and reliability can be obtained.
US07848082B2
A solid capacitor and the manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The solid capacitor consists of a dielectric layer and two electrodes. A plurality of holes formed by an opening process is disposed on surface of the dielectric layer. The two electrodes connect with the dielectric layer by the holes. By means of a plurality of high temperature volatile matters, the plurality of holes is formed on surface of the dielectric layer during sintered process. The holes are connected with the outside so as to increase surface area of the dielectric layer and further the capacity is increased. And the solid capacitor stores charge by physical means. Moreover, the solid capacitor can be stacked repeatedly to become a multilayer capacitor.
US07848076B2
Method and apparatus for providing an electrostatic chuck with reduced plasma penetration and arcing
A method and apparatus for providing a fluid distribution element for an electrostatic chuck that reduces plasma formation and arcing within heat transfer fluid passages. One embodiment comprises a plate and a dielectric component, where the dielectric component is inserted into the plate. The plate is adapted to be positioned within a channel to define a plenum, wherein the dielectric component provides at least a portion of a fluid passage coupled to the plenum. A porous dielectric layer, formed upon the dielectric component, provides at least another portion of a fluid passage coupled to the plenum. In other embodiments, the fluid distribution element comprises various arrangements of components to define a fluid passage that does not provide a line-of-sight path from the support surface for a substrate to a plenum.
US07848071B2
A power supply controller can include a switching element electrically connected between a power source and a load, an anomaly detecting circuit capable of outputting an abnormal signal, a power supply circuit which generates a constant voltage, a holding circuit which is activated by being supplied with the constant voltage generated by the power supply circuit, continuously outputs a shutoff signal to cause the switching element to perform a shutoff operation on the basis of the abnormal signal, an output circuit, such that if a first off signal is being inputted from an external source, the first off signal continues for a predetermined period of time after the start of the continuous output of the shutoff signal, outputs a second off signal, and an electrical conduction circuit structured to enable the power supply circuit into conduction in response to an on signal from an external source and enable the power supply circuit out of conduction if the second off signal is outputted.
US07848069B2
A protective circuit connected between a terminal of a semiconductor integrated circuit and ground (GND), comprises: a first diode having an anode connected to the terminal of the semiconductor integrated circuit; a second diode having an anode connected to GND and a cathode connected to the cathode of the first diode; a transistor having a collector or drain connected to the terminal of the semiconductor integrated circuit, and an emitter or source connected to GND; and at least one third diode connected in series in a forward direction from the cathode of the first diode toward the base or gate of the transistor.
US07848061B2
A current perpendicular to plane (CPP) magnetoresistive sensor having a free layer that is magnetically coupled with a magnetic shield, thereby providing the free layer with a large effective flux guide. Sensor performance is improved by virtually eliminating demagnetization fields at the back edge of the sensor. The free layer can be magnetically connected with the shield by a magnetic coupling layer or shunt structure that is disposed between the free layer and the shield behind the capping layer.
US07848057B1
Various air-actuated components of a disk drive are disclosed. For instance, an air-actuated load/unload ramp may be used by a disk drive and which is movable between a parked position and an operational position. An air-actuated ramp lock may be used by a disk drive to lock a movable load/unload ramp (e.g., one that may move between a parked position and an operational position). Finally, an air-actuated head positioner assembly may be used by a disk drive to lock a head positioner assembly in its parked position. In each of these cases, air currents generated by a rotation of one or more disks used by the disk drive provide the motive force for moving the noted air-actuated component at least generally from one position to another.
US07848050B2
There is provided with a positioning control system which includes: a head moving unit configured to move a head for recording or reproducing information with respect to a disk capable of recording information; a position detecting unit configured to detect a position of the head; an error detecting unit configured to detect a position error signal of a detected head position with respect to a predetermined target position; a compensation controller configured to generate control input by performing phase lead compensation and phase delay compensation for the position error signal and supply the control input to the head moving unit; and a gain controller configured to control at least one of gains the phase lead compensation and the phase delay compensation based on frequency components contained in the position error signal and an amplitude of the position error signal.
US07848049B2
A magnetic disk apparatus includes a magnetic disk, a magnetic head, a reverse-pulse detector, and a re-magnetizer. The magnetic disk includes a data recording area and a servo-pattern area. The magnetic regions of the servo-pattern area have been pre-magnetized in the same direction or pre-magnetizing direction. The magnetic head is arranged to reciprocate radially of the magnetic disk. The reverse-pulse detector is provided for reading the servo-pattern area with the magnetic head before data recording or reproducing with respect to the data recording area is performed. The reverse-pulse detector detects, from servo reproduction signal pulses, reverse pulses corresponding to the reversal of magnetization direction relative to the pre-magnetizing direction. The re-magnetizer causes the magnetic head to perform the re-magnetizing of the magnetic regions in the servo-pattern area when the count of reverse pulses is not smaller than a threshold number.
US07848046B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided a magnetic disk apparatus having a magnetic disk having magnetic dot lines each including magnetic dots arrayed at equal intervals in a down track direction, and a read/write head which uses a plurality of adjacent magnetic dot lines as one track and sequentially performs read and write on the magnetic dots included in the magnetic dot lines constituting the track, in which the magnetic dots included in each of the magnetic dot lines in each track of the magnetic disk are displaced in the down track direction from the magnetic dots included in the adjacent dot line in the track depending on a possible skew angle between the read/write head and the track so that the magnetic dots are sequentially accessed by the read/write head.
US07848029B2
A retractable zoom lens includes sequentially from an object side, a first lens group having positive refractive power, a second lens group having negative refractive power, a third lens group having positive refractive power, and a fourth lens group having positive refractive power. The third lens group includes sequentially from the object side, a first lens that is a positive lens, a second lens that is a positive lens, and a third lens that is a negative lens. The retractable zoom lens performs variable magnification by independently moving the respective lens groups along the optical axis. Further, the retractable zoom lens satisfies given conditions and maintains high optical performance while enabling a wider angle and a reduction of overall length.
US07848024B2
An optical beamsplitter comprises an optically-transparent material and a partially-reflective layer therein. The optically-transparent material has a cylindrically shaped exterior surface which provides advantages.
US07848021B2
An optical film is provided and includes: a transparent support; and a light diffusion layer containing light-transmitting particles and a binder. The light diffusion layer has an average thickness of from 7.5 to 30 μm, and the average thickness of the light diffusion layer is from 1.4 to 3.5 times as large as an average particle diameter of the light-transmitting particles.
US07848016B2
A catadioptric projection objective for imaging a pattern provided in an object surface onto an image surface of the projection objective has an object-side imaging subsystem for creating a final intermediate image closest to the image surface from radiation coming from the object surface and an image-side imaging subsystem for directly imaging the final intermediate image onto the image surface. The image-side imaging subsystem includes a last optical element closest to the image surface and is designed for creating a convergent beam having an aperture sin α≧0.8 in the last optical element. The image-side imaging subsystem includes, in this order along a propagation direction of radiation: a primary negative lens group having overall negative refractive power; an intermediate positive lens group having overall positive refractive power; a secondary negative lens group having overall negative refractive power; and a final positive lens group having overall positive refractive power and including the last optical element, where the last optical element has a convex entry surface having a radius RLOE of curvature with RLOE/NA<40 mm.
US07848014B2
An optical fiber amplifier apparatus and optical signal amplification method are provided. In one example, the amplifier apparatus comprises an optical combiner that is configured to receive an input optical signal to be amplified and a pump light beam. The optical combiner combines for output the input optical signal and the pump light beam. A first cladding pumped optical fiber in which Erbium is the only optically active dopant is coupled to the optical combiner to receive the pump light beam and the input optical signal. The first cladding pumped optical fiber pre-amplifies the input optical signal and passes the pre-amplified input optical signal and power of the pump light beam not absorbed by the first cladding pumped optical fiber. A second cladding pumped optical fiber is provided that is coupled to the first cladding pumped optical fiber. Erbium and Ytterbium are optically active dopants in the second cladding pumped optical fiber. The second cladding pumped optical fiber absorbs power of the pump light beam that was not absorbed by the first cladding pumped optical fiber to further amplify the pre-amplified input optical signal to produce an output amplified optical signal that is a desired amplified version of the input optical signal.
US07848010B2
A wavelength conversion laser light source includes: a non-linear optical crystal of an oxygen octahedral structure, having added thereto a metal ion in other components than a main component; a light source for projecting light into the non-linear optical crystal in an operation mode; and a refractive index recovery mechanism for carrying out a recovery operation for recovering a refractive index of said non-linear optical crystal as shifted overtime due to light projected into the non-linear optical crystal in the operation mode with an applied external energy into the non-linear optical crystal in a non-operation mode in which light is not injected to the non-linear optical crystal.
US07848003B2
In certain embodiments, a device is provided that utilizes both interferometrically reflected light and transmitted light. Light incident on the device is interferometrically reflected from a plurality of layers of the device to emit light in a first direction, the interferometrically reflected light having a first color. Light from a light source is transmitted through the plurality of layers of the device to emit from the device in the first direction, the transmitted light having a second color.
US07848000B2
A spectral filter is adapted for use in a receiver, for example in a short range submarine laser signal path, wherein the relative orientations of the receiver is such that the signal may appear diffusely or at an unknown point in a wide external field of view around an optical axis of the receiver. A narrow band spectral filter in the receiver has cascaded stages of tunable retarders with includes multi-conjugate stages that tolerate light that is oblique to normal, up to a diverging internal field of view angle up to about 10°. A fisheye lens assembly refracts incoming light from a wider external field of 170° or more and directs the light into the filter over the narrow internal field of view. Calibration and feedback control can be provided to stabilize the discriminated wavelength peak, which remains at the same center wavelength over the span of the internal field of view notwithstanding the difference in retarder thicknesses traversed along paths that are normal to the retarders versus oblique to the optical axis.
US07847996B2
An exemplary electro-wetting display (EWD) device (30) includes a first substrate (31), a second substrate (39) facing the first substrate, a hydrophobic insulator (36) provided between the first and second substrates, a first fluid (33), a second fluid (32) and colored layers (38). The first fluid and the second fluid are immiscible and disposed between the hydrophobic insulator and the first substrate. The second fluid is electro-conductive or polar. The first fluid is located between the hydrophobic insulator and the second fluid. Colored layers may be located between the hydrophobic insulator and the second substrate.
US07847984B2
A line sensor, includes a plurality of pixels which is arranged linearly, the number of the plurality of pixels including the number depending on a resolution, a first pixel group which is provided to a center portion of the plurality of pixels arranged linearly and has a pixel pitch shorter than a length corresponding to a pixel pitch calculated from the resolution, and a second pixel group which is provided to each of both side portions of the center portion, and has a pixel pitch longer than the length corresponding to the pixel pitch calculated from the resolution.
US07847976B2
Disclosed is an image output device color management system. The color management system includes a 2 dimensional principle component analysis (PCA) compensation method for reducing the number of measurement required for re-profiling a device, such as a printer.
US07847967B2
A system for partial brute force collation of a print job includes a printing device having ROPM capability and memory. The printing device receives at least a portion of the document from a source device. The memory stores at least a portion of the document. The printing device has a memory printing mode and a brute force collation mode. In the memory printing mode the portion of the document stored in memory is printed. In the brute force collation mode any portion of the document not stored in memory is printed. The system can also alternate between the memory printing mode and the brute force collation mode for each of the N copies of the electronic document of the print job such that the resulting printed output is collated.
US07847965B2
The calling image forming apparatus includes an image processing unit that encodes read image data, a communication controlling unit and modem that performs facsimile transmission for each page of encoded data that has been encoded, and an image memory that stores confidential data, which are data that should be confidential for the communication counterpart (callee). When the facsimile transmission is performed for each page of the encoded data, the image forming apparatus notifies the counterpart image forming apparatus that the confidential data are added and transmitted at the end of the page and performs the facsimile transmission of the confidential data added to the end of the page when a notification of transmission permission is received from the image forming apparatus.
US07847961B2
The printing system includes a printer 22 having: first input means 32 for receiving input of attribute data which indicate attributes pertaining to printing, second input means 32 for receiving input of fixation data which indicate whether or not to fix at least a portion of the print attributes corresponding to the attribute data, storage means 46 for storing the attribute data and the fixation data having been input by means of the first and second input means, and transmission means 50 for transmitting the attribute data and the fixation data stored in the storage means to the information processor upon request from the information processor; request means 91 for making a request to the transmission means of the printing apparatus for transmission of the attribute data and the fixation data; receiving means 96 for receiving the attribute data and the fixation data having been transmitted upon request from the request means; display means 98 for displaying the fixation data and the attribute data; and prohibition means for, when the fixation data indicate fixing of at least a portion of the print attributes, prohibiting changing of attribute data corresponding to the fixed print attributes.
US07847953B2
A low-cost homodyne laser interferometer probe of simple structure is provided which allows predetermined performance to be easily obtained by a simple adjustment, and a displacement measurement system using the same is also disclosed. The homodyne laser interferometer probe includes an optical fiber (1) for guiding light, a collimator lens (2) that receives the light from the optical fiber (1), a ¼ wavelength plate (3) that receives light from the collimator lens (2) and that converts the light from linearly polarized light into circularly polarized light, a beam splitter (4) for dividing light from the ¼ wavelength plate (3) into reference light and measurement light, a first focal lens (5) that receives the reference light from the beam splitter (4), a reflection mirror (6) for reflecting the reference light from the first focal lens (5), and a second focal lens (7) that receives the measurement light from the beam splitter (4). Here, the reference light from the reflection mirror (6) is returned to measurement means along the same route. The measurement light from the second focal lens (7) is applied to a measurement object (8), and the measurement light (signal light) from the measurement object (8) is returned to the measurement means along the same route.
US07847947B2
A lance assembly (10) for spectroscopically sampling bulk product (8) is disclosed. The assembly comprises: an elongate lance body (11) having a longitudinal axis (15), a proximal end (12) for maneuvering and a head (19) defining a cavity (18). Housed within the cavity (18) is a spectroscopic receiver (20) having a field of view and a radiant energy source (40) providing a beam of energy to be reflected from the bulk product (8) to the receiver 20 through a window (30). The window (30) has an external surface (31) which, in use, is in contact with the bulk product (8). The beam of energy and the field of view of the receiver (20) are both directed towards the external surface (31) so as to allow sampling adjacent the external surface (31).
US07847934B2
The present invention relates to a method for correcting spectral interference in a spectrum which is determined using an inductively coupled plasma spectrometer (ICP) for analysing element contents of a liquid or gaseous sample, comprising the following steps: recording the spectrum of a matrix solution containing all spectrally interfering components, which are also contained in the sample, in a first concentration; recording the spectrum of the matrix solution in at least one dilution of the first concentration; regressing the signal intensities obtained in steps a. and b. against the concentration for a number of wavelength positions; calibrating the spectrometer, background correction using the values determined from the regression in step c. and determining the calibration function c=f(I); recording the sample spectrum using at least one analyte which is contained therein; determining the concentration of the spectrally interfering components in the sample using the results obtained in step c. for wavelength positions at which no line of the analyte of the sample is present; and determining the sample signal which is characteristic of the analyte concentration by forming the difference between the spectrum from step e. and the calculated matrix spectrum in a dilution which was calculated in step f., wherein the calibration function c=f(I) is used.
US07847919B2
An optical component of the lithographic apparatus is moved. A substrate support is moved so as to be synchronous with the motion of the optical component. A momentary position of the optical component is measured. A momentary position of the substrate support is measured at a first sampling rate. The measured momentary position of the optical component is compared with a desired momentary position of the optical component to generate an optical component position error signal in accordance with a difference between the two optical component positions. The measured momentary position of the substrate support is compared with a desired momentary position of the substrate support to generate a substrate support position error signal in accordance with a difference between the two substrate support positions. The momentary position of the optical component is adjusted so as to compensate for the difference between the two substrate support positions.
US07847906B2
A liquid crystal display is provided, which includes: a first substrate; a first signal line formed on the first substrate and extending in a first direction; a second signal line formed on the first substrate, intersecting the first signal line, and including a curved portion and a rectilinear portion connected to the curved portion; a first thin film transistor connected to the first signal line and the second signal line; a pixel electrode connected to the first thin film transistor; a second substrate facing the second substrate; and a common electrode formed on the second substrate and having an opening facing the second signal line.
US07847899B2
An exemplary alignment apparatus (2) includes a light source (50) for emitting light (501), a polarized light generator (51) for receiving the light and generating polarized light (504), a polarized light separator (52) for receiving the polarized light and separating the polarized light into a reflection polarized light beam (521) and a transmission polarized light beam (522) having capability to interfere with each other, a light reflector for changing transmission directions of the reflection and transmission polarized light beams to make the reflection and transmission polarized light beams parallel to each other, and a convergent lens (53) for making the reflection and transmission polarized light beams converge and interferingly irradiate a photosensitive polymer layer (30) to obtain an alignment layer (60). Unlike with conventional alignment apparatuses, because the alignment apparatus is no-rubbing, no-contact alignment apparatuses, debris and electrostatic charge are avoided or even eliminated.
US07847890B2
An optical compensated bend (OCB) mode liquid crystal display (LCD) includes a pixel electrode, a color filter, a common electrode and a liquid crystal layer. The pixel electrode is formed on the first substrate of the OCB mode LCD. The color filter is formed on the second substrate of the OCB mode LCD. The common electrode is formed on the color filter. The liquid crystal layer is sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate. A step structure is formed on the second structure, so that the liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer are twisted into the bend state from the splay state uniformly and quickly.
US07847883B2
The invention is directed to the higher contrast in a liquid crystal display device (LCD) having a lighting portion as a front light. A lighting portion is formed by interposing an organic EL layer between a transparent substrate and a transparent substrate. A light shield layer is formed covering a cathode layer of the organic EL element layer. The lighting portion is disposed above the reflective LCD. The reflective LCD has a polarizing plate, a light scattering layer, an opposing substrate, a common electrode, a liquid crystal layer, and a TFT substrate. When the refractive indexes of seven layers of an anode layer, the transparent substrate, a resin layer, the polarizing plate, the light scattering layer, the opposing substrate, and the common electrode are defined as n(1), n(2), n(3), n(4), n(5), n(6), and n(7) respectively, the relation of 1.33>n(k)/n(k+1)>0.75(k=1−6) holds.
US07847880B2
A light guiding plate, a backlight assembly having the light guiding plate and a display device having the backlight assembly include a light guiding plate body, a polarization transformation layer on a surface of the light guiding plate body to transform a polarization component of light emitted through the light guiding plate, and a polarization extraction layer on the polarization transformation layer.
US07847874B2
A display panel includes n gate lines, a data line, a first pixel and a second pixel. The gate lines extend in a first direction. The data line extends in a second direction transverse to the first direction. The first pixel includes a first pixel electrode connected to one of the (n−1) gate lines to receive a data voltage through the data line. The second pixel includes a second pixel electrode and a light-blocking pattern. The second pixel electrode is connected to the (n)-th gate line to receive the data voltage through the data line. The first light-blocking pattern overlaps with the second pixel electrode to possibly reduce a luminance difference between the first and second pixels.
US07847873B2
Conventionally, photolithography and anisotropic etching are performed to form a plug between an electrode and a wiring, etc., thereby increasing the number of steps, getting the throughput worse, and producing unnecessary materials. To solve the problems, the present invention provides a method for manufacturing a display device, including the formation steps of a conductive layer or wirings, and a contact plug that can treat a larger substrate. In the case of forming a plug for electrically connecting conductive patterns comprising plural layers, a pillar made of a conductor is formed over a base conductive layer pattern, and then, after an insulating film is formed over the entire surface, the insulating film is etched back to expose the conductor pillar, and a conductive pattern in an upper layer is formed by ink jetting. In this case, when the conductor pillar is processed, a resist to be a mask can be formed in itself by ink jetting.
US07847871B2
An electro-optical device includes a plurality of storage capacitors each in a corresponding pixel. Each storage capacitor includes a first capacitor electrode and a second capacitor electrode with a dielectric film therebetween. The first capacitor electrode is made of the same film as one of the semiconductor films in pixel transistors. The second capacitor electrode is provided at a layer over the gate electrode of the pixel transistors. The second capacitor electrode has a first main portion opposite to the first capacitor electrode and an extending portion that extends from the first main portion to at least partially cover the second junction region. An interlayer insulation film insulates the extending portion from the pixel transistor.
US07847863B2
A method of selectively sharpening video data may include, for at least some pixels in the video data, generating a sharpened value for a pixel value in an image. The sharpened value may be disregarded if a combination of the pixel value and the sharpened value is in a coring region. The sharpened value also may be disregarded if a combination of the pixel value and the sharpened value is a clipping region. The combination of the pixel value and the sharpened value may be output if the combination is not in the coring region or in the clipping region.
